True climate justice demands a reckoning with colonialism

True climate justice demands a reckoning with colonialism

By Nciko wa Nciko and Samrawit Getaneh The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has an opportunity to make that more than just a slogan, as it considers the current request for an advisory opinion before it, on states’ human rights obligations in the context of climate change. It has an opportunity to issue a landmark…