The Lancaster House Agreement signed in 1979 was the basis of Zimbabwe’s land policy from 1980- 1990. In that agreement, the black majority government had agreed to wait 10 years before beginning any land reform agenda. After 1990, the Zimbabwe government revised…
Land ownership is essential for creating wealth in any given community. Most Americans created wealth from land ownership. When white European immigrants came from Europe to settle in the Americas they were promised land. In England they had been landless but…
Zimbabwe's Roger Boka was a visionary and an economic freedom fighter. He broke the economic glass ceiling when he launched the first black owned Merchant Bank in Zimbabwe, United Merchant Bank. Prior to Boka's launch, Zimbabwean banking had been dominated by foreign…
The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan is leading a group of college and university scholars in an effort to examine possible avenues to provide reparations for African Americans and Indigenous people. Reparations refers to compensation, which may include…
Like many politicians before and after him, when Woodrow Wilson was desperate to win the vote during the 1912 election, he looked to black voters. Wilson said, I want to assure them (Negroes) that when I become President of the United States…
Burundi wants Belgium and Germany to pay $43 billion in reparations for harm done during decades of colonial rule over the nickel-producing East African nation.
The move follows similar calls for compensation by the Democratic Republic of Congo after Belgian King Philippe…
Tanzania Becomes Middle Income Country
When John Magufuli took the reigns of Tanzania no one could have imagined that in such a short space of time he would have turned the east African country into a middle income country. What a wonderful…
The formation of the National Party of Afrikaner (Boer) in
1948 marked a devastating turn in the life of black South Africans. The government
began passing laws that led to segregation in education, political and social
life. The Boers viewed the majority black population as…
It is not a secret that neocolonialism is real and Western
countries like France and the United Kingdom still view their former colonies
as extensions of themselves. This is why it was not shocking that AU executive
secretary Moussa Faki Mahamat, the former Chadian prime…
When Byron Allen first launched a legal rampage back in 2015, few
would have guessed he would get to the Supreme Court with a case that
could transform the way discrimination lawsuits are handled and
represents a coda on 19th century Reconstruction efforts…