On Saturday, 26 July 2025, Divine Kwadzodeh, Policy Advisor on Education Policy and Advocacy, represented the All-Africa Students UNION (AASU) at the 13th High-Level Dialogue – Continental Youth Consultations, organised by the African Union and held under the theme “Youth-Led Conversation on Reparations, Justice, and State Building in Africa.”
In his remarks, Divine asserted that reparative justice must go beyond financial compensation within the context of colonial accountability to include the active dismantling of the colonial economic and socio-political structures that continue to underpin underdevelopment and inequality across Africa. He called for a bold continental effort to confront extractive trade systems, discriminatory visa regimes, debt traps, and epistemic injustice in education and knowledge production.
Organised within the framework of the African Governance Architecture (AGA) of the African Union, the session brought together leading youth voices from across the African Continent and the diaspora to shape a forward-looking reparations agenda rooted in African unity, justice, and democratic leadership – in line with the AU Youth Charter and Agenda 2063.
Divine also reaffirmed AASU’s commitment to co-creating solutions that ensure young people are not only beneficiaries of justice but also architects of Africa’s political and economic transformation.
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