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Nicolas Normand
Former French ambassador to Mali, the Republic of Congo/Congo-Brazzaville and Senegal, offering diplomatic perspective on apologies, reparations and the complexities of assessing colonial-era harms.
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Dec 2, 2025
• 25min
Can former colonial powers be held accountable for past atrocities?
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Join Abdelkader Abderrahmane, an expert on Algerian history, Liliane Umubyeyi, co-founder of the African Futures Lab, and Nicolas Normand, former French ambassador, as they tackle the complex web of colonial accountability. They discuss the challenges of defining colonialism as a crime and the need for reparations. Abderrahmane emphasizes the lasting scars of colonialism in Algeria, while Umubyeyi ties colonial extraction to current crises in Africa. Normand debates the moral imperatives of acknowledgment against the challenges of financial reparations.
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