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Africans’ Reconciliation and Reconstruction: A Necessary Response to Emerging Neo-Enslavement and Its Threats to Human Dignity

The authors posit that Africans living on the continent of Africa and their counterparts in other parts of the world—especially the Americas and the Caribbean, need to rise together now and face the task of reconciliation and reconstruction that the continent needs so urgently. They see this task as the best antidote to emerging waves of colonialism that are fast avalanching on the African peoples living in Africa, particularly in the West African Sub-region. They call these waves new forms of colonialism or “neo-enslavement” and posit that they could be as cruel and dehumanizing as slave trad…