Kwesi Pratt Jnr is an interesting author and a history-conscious son of Africa. The latter identity is particularly important because Pratt Jnr has chosen a struggle that is guaranteed to be lifelong, frustrating, sparsely rewarding, if at all, and largely unsung. His latest book, Reparations: History, Struggle, Politics and Law is a historical and ideological tour de force. Background In Reparations: History, Struggle, Politics and Law, Kwesi Pratt Jnr arrives with the weight of a particular intellectual inheritance, one rooted in radical politics and Pan-African thought and a refusal to treat the global order as though it were a neutral arrangement of accidents. Full disclosure: I have known Kwesi Pratt Jnr, or KP as he is fondly called by family and friends, for three decades. For th...