Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue says people who call for reparations “take a very ahistorical view” of colonialism.
It comes as a UK family is set to publicly apologise to the people of Grenada, an island in the Caribbean, for their ancestors enslaving people of the region in the 1800s.
“It completely misses the nuances that in that same vain there are so many people in Britain that could claim slavery reparations for the Norman Conquest,” Ms Krakue told Sky News Australia.
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