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A cargo plane unloads the royal treasures at Cotonou airport (Benin)
12 November 2021 by Rachida Houssou (our correspondent in Benin)
Benin celebrates return of stolen heritage 130 years on It is done! On November 10, Benin received 12 boxes containing 26 royal treasures stolen by colonial France. This was a historic day when Beninese people turned out to celebrate the return of these works after 130 years away from [...]
Banknote (dated 1920) of one Belgian Franc on which is written
2 November 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Colonial crimes: Experts recommend that Belgium compensate "Monetary payment of a colonial debt, in light of Belgium's moral responsibility". This is one of the strong recommendations in an expert report published on October 27. For a year, ten historians, jurists and political scientists [...]
Several people are sitting in a waiting room with 5 women in the front row.
18 October 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state Léa, Monique, Noëlle, Simone and Marie-José were victims of systematic segregation, as were 15,000 other mixed-race children, when Congo was a Belgian colony. The five women living in Belgium and France who were born in the Congo [...]
Exterior view of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin
11 October 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
A castle full of stolen goods Germany is the first country in Europe to announce the return of its share of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria by 2022. Thousands of these art pieces were looted by the British in the late 19th century. But while negotiations about the pr [...]
Statue représentant Rumben Um
13 September 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Cameroon: Um Nyobè, a hero and symbol of French colonial crimes Exactly 63 years ago, on September 13, 1958, Ruben Um Nyobè was shot by the French army. Perpetrated in the context of a "secret war" that Paris has never recognized, the assassination of this nationalist activist is now mobilizin [...]
Bronze of Oba, a king of Benin
31 August 2021 by The Conversation France
Restitution of the 'Benin Bronzes': "All of the global North are implicated" A few months ago, Germany announced that it would return hundreds of priceless art objects looted during the colonial era, commonly known as 'Benin bronzes', to Nigeria. Professor Jürgen Zimmerer, a specialist in German colonial h [...]
Indigenous ceremony near the graves of children who were victims of Canadian residential schools during the colonial era
29 July 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence Over the past few months, several mass and unmarked graves have been identified near former residential schools for indigenous children in Canada. Such institutions were created with the explicit objective of removing children fro [...]
Queen Beatrix parades in the Golden Carriage (Netherlands)
2 July 2021 by Janet H. Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
Between pride and apologies, the Dutch are not yet ready to repair Across the flat Dutch landscape there are mixed signals when it comes to dealing with colonial crimes. On one hand court cases, apologies from the King, and a national museum re-examining its own treasures in the light of slavery. [...]
The abolition of slavery in the French colonies
25 June 2021 by Myriam Cottias
How science can help thinking on colonial crimes reparation The database of the "Repairs" research project on reparations, compensation and indemnities for slavery (Europe, Americas, Africa) between the 19th and 21st centuries has just been made public. Its coordinator, Myriam Cottias, exp [...]
Amzat Boukari-Yabara
18 June 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “France, the United States and Brazil are the main bad guys on this issue of reparations” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Amzat Boukari-Yabara Historian specialised in the African continent French historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a specialist on the African continent as well as Brazil, explores the international dimens [...]
Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives
17 June 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives The colonial past is back in the spotlight in many countries, from New Zealand to France, Canada to Germany, or Sweden to the Netherlands. Official apologies, demands for reparations and restitution of cultural heritage, truth com [...]
Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember
1 June 2021 by Justice Info
Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes The colonial past has come back into the spotlight. Descendants of the colonized are demanding reparations. Former colonial powers, as if suddenly waking up, under pressure from changing power relations, are finally showing some w [...]