https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/magazine/lacrosse-olympics-indigenous-haudenosaunee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.NY1G.SdF3iBUb0BVH&smid=nytcore-android-share
#Benin #slavetrade #Africa #reconcilliation #citizenship #BlackMastodon
Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade | AP News https://apnews.com/article/benin-citizenship-law-slavery-descendants-8b076652fbaac17761ff002992f2b604?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade. It’s part of efforts by the West African nation to face up to the role it played. The coastal town of Ouidah was one of Africa’s most active slave-trading ports, and at the “Tree of Forgetfulness,” enslaved people were said to be symbolically forced to forget their past lives. One French Caribbean woman now seeking citizenship in Benin says that “I am doing this for my ancestors.”
Could -and should- #Indigenous art be a tool in a process of #reconcilliation? With whom, and how?
I have been honored to lead an episode of the Dáiddadállu #podcast starring #Sámi politician and activist Aili Keskitalo, #Inuit artist Aqqalu Berthelsen, and Sámi activist and artist Petra Laiti - on #indigenousart and reconcilliation.
Spotify link: https://spotify.link/yis94b5HvDb
After #WorldWarII the #USA assisted #Japan 's efforts to recover remains in the Pacific, McKeague said, but the #Vietnam project is #unprecedented in the sense that Vietnam was an #undefeated former enemy.
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #WarHistorySEA #reconcilliation #ForeignAffairs #geopolitics #VietnamUS
Half a century after the last American combat troops left Vietnam, the U.S. has taken the first steps in a major but little-noticed policy shift to solidify relations with its former adversary.
Two absolutely #essential #ingredients in the #recipe towards true #reconcilliation - which are still missing⚡
- #Genuine #faceToFace #spoken #apology with zero justifications, zero excuses & nothing but genuinely WANT to work towards reconciliation.
- Proper #reparations for past damages/destruction done. Gifting that, without making victims beg or sue for #justice ✌