On 11th October 2007, Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum is to host an event to debate on the reparations for the effects of the transatlantic slave trade, a highly controversial subject.
The person chairing the debate is no less than director of National Museums Liverpool, David Fleming. The debate is to discuss the damage that colonisation and slave trade have caused to Africa and the people of Africa.
The highlights of the event include presentations by Esther Stanford, a scholar active in jurisprudence and a community law educational practitioner consultant besides presentations by Dorothy Kuya, member of the International Slavery Museum council and trustee of National Museums Liverpool.
Presentation by Stanford will consist an overview of the International Movement for Afrikan Reparations exposing the nature and shape of a post-reparations world, in addition to exploring the various policy and legal approaches to reparations to educate the audience on the advancements in the area made in the UK and internationally.
Kuys is to talk on UK's African Reparation Movement besides the role of the first pan-African conference that took place in 1993 at Abuja, Nigeria.
She will also dwell on the evidences regarding the trade of kidnapped Africans even after the act of 1807 abolishing slave trade. As part of the Black History Month, the event is scheduled between 5.30 pm and 8pm. The free seats for the event must be registered in advance by calling Lizzy Rodgers on 0151 478 4543.
