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What happened to the indigenous people of the new world, all of this is part of the same conversation. the african part of it is a critical part of it, but it goes beyond the african experience. so, do you think that in the light of the killing of george floyd last year, and the blm protests, that there is a new awakening? i tell you what michelle bachelet, the un human rights commissioner, former president of chile, said after the killing of floyd. "behind today's racial violence, systemic racism "and confront the legacy of the slave trade and colonialism." absolutely. is she right? absolutel...

Working class people, the majority of british people do not know anything of significance about what they did to other people in other parts of the world in order to secure their enrichment. so, yes, we have this diversity of opinion, but this is why reparatoryjustice is much more than a conversation about the african people specifically. what you are talking about is the unravelling of modernity, the crumbling of the structures that supported modernity, the white supremacy, the racism, the colonisation... can you lay all that at the door...? all of that is breaking down to create a new fronti...

Regardless of which continent they live — the americas, where many enslaved africans ended up, countries like brazil, the caribbean here, europe, all over the world. we all know what we want, but there are different ways to conceptualise it, different ways to proceed. there are multiple roads leading to the roundabout. and we don't want necessarily to have everyone walking like sheep down a narrow path. we are a community of multiple experiences and diversities. in the us, for example, there's a very strong argument that says we want cash in hand as part of the repayment of the plunder of th...

On the cover of my recent book, britain's black debt, and it shows queen elizabeth visiting the bell sugar plantation in 1966, february, on the eve of independence, and what did the queen do? she came to barbados to visit a sugar plantation that was owned by her first cousin. and here is the earl and the queen on the sugar plantation in barbados in february 1966. a plantation that was bought by the family of the earl in 1782 with 300 slaves! so, it's the symbolism of that kind of act. it's a powerful symbolism! what about the commonwealth, though, because there are many who say that it... phil...

As a meal and exposed to that, and now we are all addicted to it, with the consequences. we have to repair that. so, you say every community has to go about the way that reparations are made in their own fashion that suits their community? let me tell you what the black entertainment billionaire robertjohnson in the united states says. he wants $14 trillion in reparations. he says, "we, as a country, the united states, "must atone by paying back black people of all stripes, "the rich ones, poor ones and the middle." i mean, even people like oprah winfrey or lebronjames could be paid under this...