News, Commentary & Social Media from African Perspective

RSS Feed for this topic.Topic:

Should Colonial Masters Pay for their Misdeeds in Africa?

Posted by Guest Author on September 8, 2008
Filed in: Africa, Discussion Lounge, Feature, Opinion
  • Print This Post Print This Post
  • Muti This Muti This

Last month Italy paid Libya the sum of $5billion dollars as settlement for mistakes of the colonial era. Should other colonial masters like Britain, Germany, France and Portugal be forced to follow suit? In the article “Time for colonial masters to pay up?” the author writes:
Not only was their presence far longer lasting, [...]