A PLAN TO MAKE RICH COUNTRIES ADDRESS THEIR PAST WRONGS - PART 2 - With Professor Verene Shepherd and Dr. Grieve Chelwa

How exactly can rich countries address their past wrongs of
slavery and colonialism? Well, there’s a plan. Jamaican scholar
and UN leader Verene Shepherd outline what Caribbean nations have
called for.


This EQUALS episode is the second of a two-part special on
reparations. In the first episode, we heard the case for
reparations – and went back to the 15th century to the moment
European men began an era of the slave trade of colonialism.


Now we ask “how”. Nabil and Nadia speak to Professor Shepherd
about the CARICOM reparations plan, and what it means for issues
like debt and aid. And then they ask Zambian scholar Dr. Grieve
Chelwa about what this means for Africa.


Professor Verene Shepherd is a social historian and the Director
of the Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the
West Indies. She is the Chair of the United Nations Committee for
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and was Vice Chair of
the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparation Commission.


Dr. Grieve Chelwa is the Director of Research at the Institute on
Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School, and
formerly a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at
the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Before
that, he was the Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for
African Studies at Harvard University.


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