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Guest Commentator

Courtenay Barnett

Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett is a lawyer who has argued human rights and public interest cases. He lives and works in the Caribbean and can be reached via email at [email protected] or via his website at www.ar-africare.com.

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Guest Commentary

The West’s Debt to Africa: An Argument for Reparations

By Courtenay Barnett Guest Commentator

Africa is poor and destined to remain poor for quite some time because of bad governance, failure to develop natural resources, corruption, inadequate or non-existent primary educational, scientific and technical training. Western countries and Euro-America are rich, because they have good governance, have developed their natural resources, have credible legal systems that are able to…

Africa is poor and destined to remain poor for quite some time because of bad governance, failure to develop natural resources, corruption, inadequate or non-existent primary…

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