Dr José Lingna Nafafé, Associate Professor of African and Atlantic History, visited Bogotá as a special guest of the Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, to take part in a forum on historical reparations.
The event, which ran from 19-22 March, was a high-level political, academic, spiritual, and social space aimed at deepening the global debate on historical reparations derived from colonisation, the transatlantic slave trade, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
The invitation was based on José's current research on Black Atlantic Abolitionist movement, which reveals the story of the highly organised, international legal court case presented before the Vatican, for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century, which called for the freedom and reparations of all enslaved African people and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World.
After briefing with Nathalia Andrea Escobar Molina, the Asesora Del Despacho De La Vicepresidenta De La República De Colombia, Tito Yepes, Vice-Ministro de Comercio, José presented his award-winning monograph “Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, CUP, 2022” to Francia Márquez at a special dinner in Márquez’s house, Vicepresidencia de la República (Cra. 8ª No. 7-57) on 20th March.