Reparations

It is very difficult to estimate the damage that was caused by the slave trade that made the West so rich while destroying so many lives. Generations transferred, wiped out, dying out in slave ships – that is a wound to the Mother Continent that can't be stitched with a wave of a hand. But in this episode of Lumumba's Africa, the Professor looks into the matter of the reparations that the West may owe to the Africans – and if they'll ever be paid.