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James N. Kariuki's Articles in Slavery & Reparations

Apartheid cases and reparation
In the course of next year, the United States Supreme Court will make a crucial ruling. It will determine whether or not to hear an appeal against a New York court's recent ruling to reinstate a lawsuit to hold large multinational corporations (MNCs) liable for their racist actions in apartheid South Africa. The defendants include the world's giants: Barclays, Citicorp, Mercedes-Benz, IBM, Shell and General Motors, all Western-based.
Global reparations vs human exploitation
A decade ago, Africa threw its weight behind the cause of reparations for Blacks universally. Encouraged by the Japanese-Americans' victory of 1989 in the US, African-Americans revived their own crusade with renewed vigour. From the 1990s they have pushed the reparations crusade right up to Capital Hill in Washington, DC. The current demand is for compensating African-Americans as the most immediate responsibility of the United States.