The Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) is convening an online conference on Reparative Justice and Colonial Accountability on 30 March 2026, bringing together voices from across Africa and the diaspora to translate a landmark United Nations resolution into concrete continental action.
The conference comes on the heels of the historic passage of UN General Assembly resolution A/80/L.48, formally declaring the trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against humanity. The resolution, championed by Ghana's President H.E. John Dramani Mahama at the 80th UN General Assembly in New York, has opened a new chapter in the global reparations struggle, and the PPF is wasting no time in responding.
The online gathering will serve as a preparatory engagement ahead of an upcoming Forum on Reparative Justice and Colonial Accountability, drawing together labour organisations, Youth movements, civil society representatives, academics, legal practitioners, and Pan-African organisations. The agenda is substantive and action-oriented, covering the legal, political, and historical foundations for reparative justice, practical approaches to submitting reparations claims, relevant legal frameworks and precedents, and an introduction to and upcoming Forum and its anticipated outcomes.
The PPF's convening of this conference reflects its position that diplomatic achievements at the UN level must be matched by organised, informed, and coordinated action on the ground. The resolution has opened the door. The work of walking through it now falls to movements, communities, and institutions across the continent and its diaspora.
For more information, contact the Pan-African Progressive Front at panafricanprogressivefront@gmail.com or +233 54 197 0070.