The agenda for the demand of reparations for colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade is expected to gain momentum as the new leadership of the Pan-African Parliament settle in office with a clear objective of making the body more effective through institutional reforms and the promotion of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) amongst others.
The new leadership’s emphasis is also the ratification of the Malabo Protocol (2014). Its adoption would transform the PAP from a consultative body into a genuine legislative institution with real powers.
Even though the PAP did not discuss reparations during its recent sitting in Midrand, South Africa, the new leadership elected in April with Fateh Boutbig ( of Algeria) as it’s President is expected to be inundated with submissions from member-states seeking clear resolutions on the issue of reparations which has already been declared top priority by the African Union.
That the PAP hasn’t
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