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Published on Jun 29, 2015
This OXPAF (http://oxpaf.com/) meeting explores the role of intersectionality in the struggle for Afrikan Heritage Community (AHC) repairs, otherwise known as reparations.
AHC repairs are about repairing the harm that slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism have done to people of Afrikan descent both on the continent and in the diaspora. As the famous Nigerian scholar Chinweizu argues, "reparation is not just about money: it is not even mostly about money... Reparation is mostly about making repairs...mental repairs, psychological repairs, cultural repairs, organisational repairs, social repairs, institutional repairs, technological repairs, economic repairs, political repairs, educational repairs, repairs of every type that we need in order to recreate and sustainable black societies."
To this end, pan-Afrikanists have for generations asserted that we are one people, with a common root who must renew ourselves as a global Afrikan community in pursuit of development and self-determination.
At the same time, this community-based process requires ensuring that all the injustices that we experience are taken into account in restoring our dignity. Therefore, the specifics of trauma and harm as they relate to Afrikan people on the basis of race, gender, class, ability, sexual orientation and so on must be central to the process so that we have a holistic approach which does not re-produce the same systems of oppression that have already done and continue to do damage to us.
This discussion will explore questions such as:
--What does intersectionality mean from a Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice Perspective?
--What practically should be done along lines of race, gender, and class to redress and repair the harm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXEdQAmG04Y
Guest speaker:
Esther Stanford-Xosei is a Reparationist, interdisciplinary scholar-activist and Jurisconsult specialising in the praxis of law as resistance. She is currently undertaking PhD research in history at the University of Chichester on the historiography of the UK wing of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) in the UK. Esther serves as Co-Vice Chair of PARCOE, (Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe) and Co-founder of the Global Afrikan Peoples Parliament (GAPP). She is also co-founder of the only Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice (ARTCoP); a network of community organisers, scholar-activists, researchers, academics and other interested stakeholders who share an interest or passion for Afrikan reparations advocacy or other forms of activism and are supported to share information, learn from and with each other as well as co-produce knowledge in order to strengthen or improve their reparations advocacy, campaigning or organising efforts as they interact regularly.
OXPAF Organizer: Brian Kwoba
Camera operators: Ben Pritchett and Richard Sleight
