Books by Mpho Tutu van Furth (1)
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey by Mpho Tutu van Furth EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey is about reparations. We think of reparations as a remunerative act and as a punitive one. The colonial powers must pay back a significant percentage of what they stole from the colonized. To arrive at what would be a meaningful amount, we must tally up the cost of the human lives lost, the opportunities denied, the mineral wealth ravaged, and the ecosystems destroyed. How can we even begin to calculate the worth of even one of those categories? How can we rightly price even one human life? Furthermore, this approach assumes there is only one sid... continue