VOICES FROM BLACK AMERICA

OWNERSHIP, OBLIGATION AND THE END OF THE DONATION Two communities across one ocean, on the same seven questions. Sixty Years of Giving, and the First Year of Buying For most of the last six decades, the relationship between Black America and Africa ran through three channels: charity, culture and advocacy. Money moved as donation or remittance, never as equity. Recognition moved as heritage. Political engagement moved as solidarity with liberation movements — honourable, real, and almost always one-directional. That structure is being replaced, and the replacement is visible in three places. A refinery at Lekki opened its equity to the public at a minimum...