“Senegal joins in a series of African countries that have put the lives of sexual and gender minorities at the center of political theatre, to be debated, dehumanized and their freedoms taken away. We reject these measures and the narratives used to justify them”
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"The speech reflects the priorities of a European state, interests defined largely outside the African continent, rather than a reimagined framework of justice for Africa. It assumes that Africa’s future can be shaped through Italian & European benevolence”
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Critical questions must be asked: who defines harm, whose suffering continues to be minimised, what constitutes reparations, and who ultimately benefits?
Read the paper here 👉🏿 rewib.org/resources/to...
As Prof Toni Haastrup emphasises, reparations cannot be reduced to financial compensation or apologies. Rather, they must confront the structural systems produced by slavery. This includes redistributing power, addressing epistemic violence and prioritising community-led, processes of healing
The UN General Assembly has adopted Ghana’s resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Argentina, Israel, and USA voted against, while many Global North countries abstained. That is precisely where a decolonial Afro-feminist lens becomes non-negotiable.
“We are witnessing a resurgence of organised actions that, under the banner of “family or African values”, seek to codify hate and discrimination into law and policy, building on colonial laws that are still upheld in many parts of the continent.”
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Colonial gendered violence did not end with independence. It continues to mutate through neoliberal economic systems, through unpaid care work, climate injustice, and extractivism – Njoki Wamai
🎥 A Decolonial, Pan-African Feminist Approach to Reparations
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‘Reparations is not a plea for inclusion, it is not a plea to be recognized, it is about asserting the sovereignty of African being and personhood in the world. Because that is really what is at the core of the crime that has been done to us.’ - Panashe Chigumadzi
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Last week, we discussed women’s bodies and labour as sites of colonial violence, why reparations cannot be charity or symbolism, and how neoliberalism, extractivism and climate injustice continue colonial harm.
Reparations must repair lives, not just history.
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What the paper calls for is more of an inclusive, transformative understanding and agenda towards reparations, aligned with what we would consider to be a Pan-Africanist decolonial feminist vision of the world - Toni Haastrup
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Historically, reparations proposals have often excluded gendered harms and overlooked issues seen as local or grassroots. Yet patterns in international relations, along with the exploitative dynamics of neoliberalism and racial capitalism, show that these injustices remain structural - Toni Haastrup
The climate crisis is rooted in plantation logics that displaced polycultures and indigenous stewardship with monocultures and extractive industrial systems. Its origins lie not in the 18th-century Industrial Revolution alone, but as far back as the 15th century in 1444 - Panashe Chigumadzi
As Africans, we understand that harm travels across generations, through those who came before us and those who come after us. And that's the basis of how we think about this from an African feminist basis of reparations - Panashe Chigumadzi
Reparations must allow African women and their communities to live with dignity and justice, not survival. A feminist approach to reparations means:
Redistribution
Recognition
Restoration
And an ethics of care that centers people, communities, and the environment.
- Njoki Wamai
Colonial gendered violence was not incidental. Women’s bodies and labour were central sites of control, violence, and extraction across Africa. African women’s bodies were not only controlled under colonial rule, they were sites where colonial violence was enacted and normalized - Njoki Wamai
African womxn did not only survive colonialism, they carried its costs. And many still do.
Join the conversation on what real repair could look like for Africans, beyond apology and symbolism.
📅 26 Feb 2026
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Colonialism did not merely impose foreign rule, it systematically reinvented African social structures, identities and gender relations.
Join us to rethink justice, repair, and accountability on the continent.
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South Africa’s foreign policy is rooted in negotiation with all nations – a shifting global order makes this difficult
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Kenya's President Ruto proposes an African foreign policy for repositioning Africa at the 39th AU Assembly
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia focus on Eritrea as UAE bolsters ties to Ethiopia
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Care is extracted from the Global South to sustain the Global North. This didn’t happen by accident.
@rosebellk.bsky.social examines the global care divide and how power, borders, and economic systems determine who survives childbirth and who does not.
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Feminist foreign policy cannot claim to advance justice while remaining silent on global hierarchies that sustain inequality. And too often, FFP is framed is through Eurocentric lenses that overlook the histories of extraction, intervention, and structural disparities that shape African realities.
At the 4th Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in France, we’re calling for feminist policy rooted in anti-imperialism, reparations and redistribution of resources, and solidarity with global South movements.
You can’t separate migration from capitalism, racism, and patriarchy. If we want liberation, we need to tear them all down. Borders aren’t broken. They work exactly as designed, to exclude, to discipline, to profit. That’s why we fight for abolition, not reform - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
We can’t fight borders without fighting surveillance. Ethnic & racial categories are weaponized to control movement & citizenship. Tech makes it faster, not fairer - @rosebellk.bsky.social
Digital economies are the new imperial frontier. You stay trapped where you are, but your labor crosses borders to enrich the global north. This is digital colonization - @rosebellk.bsky.social
Trump’s Congo deal wasn’t about Congolese people. It was about US control over minerals. Imperial borders move for capital, never for people. They serve the imperial machine, displacing millions while leaders stay complicit - @rosebellk.bsky.social
