Colonialism and its machinations created physical, social and mental wounds, across Africa, that have lasted generations..
The question of reparations is a daunting one. My grandfather was born a colonial subject. Colonialism was, he recalls, more than anything, a social construction. He remembers a time when, using the bus to get home, it would terminate at a destination several kilometers from where he lived. When I asked him why this was so, and why he could not use another bus, he noted s
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