The upcoming CARICOM-Africa Summit is being framed by campaigners and historians as a historic moment for Pan-African unity, with renewed calls to place reparations for slavery and colonialism firmly on the agenda.

Advocacy groups in both the Caribbean and Africa argue that, more than 400 years after the transatlantic slave trade, the demand for reparative justice has gained momentum worldwide. From the Caribbean’s Caricom Reparations Commission to African voices in academia and civil society, the case is being made that the shared history of enslavement and exploitation must translate into a united political front.