Articles by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin

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Why Are White People Expats when the Rest of Us Are Immigrants?
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin – The Guardian, 16 Mar 2015

Surely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people. Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside for ‘inferior races’.

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14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2014

For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!

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