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Scholarship · July 5, 2026 · 9 min read

The Maafa Master Study, Part 1 — The Ships Set Sail

Why the United Nations named this the gravest crime in human history — and how Portugal and Spain built the machine: the world before 1441, the Papal Bulls, the Asiento, and the first century of the trade.

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Scholarship · July 5, 2026 · 12 min read

The Maafa Master Study, Part 2 — The Ledger of Nations

The full national accounting: the Netherlands, France and the Haitian extortion, Denmark, Sweden, Brandenburg, Great Britain's industrial trafficking machine, and the United States — with the banks, insurers, and universities named.

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Scholarship · July 5, 2026 · 15 min read

The Maafa Master Study, Part 3 — The Stolen and the Unbroken

Who was taken, from where, by whom, to where — region by region, people by people. The unvarnished record of African collaborators. The Middle Passage. And the resistance they tried to erase.

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Scholarship · July 5, 2026 · 12 min read

The Maafa Master Study, Part 4 — The Incomplete Freedom and the Living Wound

Abolition that compensated the enslavers; the contemporary beneficiaries by name; and the wound measured in 2026 — the wealth gap, the carceral continuum, the body's own testimony, Africa's stolen development, and Haiti's engineered poverty.

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Scholarship · July 5, 2026 · 16 min read

The Maafa Master Study, Part 5 — The Machinery of Repair

Resolution A/RES/80/250, the AU–CARICOM reparations machinery, the Accra nineteen-point plan, what reparations would look like — and the call to repair the soul of the Earth. With the master appendices and full chronology.

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Community · July 5, 2026 · 5 min read

The Invoice Is Presented

What the world finally said about the Maafa — and what we say back. The UN's 2026 declaration, the Accra nineteen-point plan, and the accounting that names the debt.

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Announcements · March 30, 2026 · 4 min read

Welcome to the African Heritage Foundation

We are building a new kind of institution, rooted in Ubuntu, guided by Ma'at, reaching forward with Sankofa. This is our opening statement to the world.

Coming soon, Welcome to the African Heritage Foundation
Scholarship · March 27, 2026 · 7 min read

The Maafa Series, Part 1, Naming the Wound

Before healing can begin, the wound must be named. We explore the scholarly framework behind the term 'Maafa' and why precision of language is an act of liberation.

Coming soon, The Maafa Series, Part 1, Naming the Wound
Reparations · March 19, 2026 · 6 min read

Reparations in 2026, Where We Stand

A comprehensive look at the current state of reparative justice movements across the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent.

Coming soon, Reparations in 2026, Where We Stand
Institutional Register

News

News · July 6, 2026

From Resolution to Machinery: A/RES/80/250, the Accra Nineteen-Point Plan, and the New Reparations Architecture

The UN's 2026 declaration has moved from resolution to standing machinery — the AU–CARICOM trilateral structure and the Accra nineteen-point plan now carry reparatory justice forward.

Read the full report on A/RES/80/250 and the Accra plan →
The Living Archive

Transatlantic Productions Playlist Library

Minister Clemson Brown, founder of Transatlantic Productions, spent thirty-five years traveling the world to film the great teachers of African history so their knowledge would never be lost. This library gathers that lifelong archive, the great teachers, in their own words, into one continuous playlist.

Open the full playlist on YouTube →

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