In this week’s post, Dr. Patrick Toussaint, argues why Africa needs a Pan-African research agenda that tackles climate reparations and reparations for slavery, colonialism and racial exploitation in tandem. He explains why Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is not accidental but reflects deeper structural conditions shaped by centuries of colonial extraction and unequal development.

In this week’s post, Sandra Liebenberg unpacks her recent CCR article, which examines how the interpretation and adjudication of socio-economic rights can advance reparative justice in response to the deep patterns of socio-economic disadvantage and inequality produced by historical injustices such as colonialism and apartheid.