#ReadWriteAfrican - Oxfam report (2025)  links  inequality today, and the history of colonialism and slavery.   Reading the Executive summary, some observations about the world today: 
"Today’s world remains colonial in many ways. The average Belgian has 180 times more voting power in the World Bank than the average Ethiopian. 

This system still extracts wealth from the Global South to the super-rich 1% in the Global North at a rate of US$30million an hour."

"Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned- 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power."

And then some staggering reminders, like:  "Following the abolition of slavery and its independence from France, Haiti was forced to borrow 150 million francs from France (the equivalent of US$21bn today) to reimburse slave owners, with 80% of this being paid to the richest enslavers."

Looking forward reading rest of report!
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