Politics

Denmark’s tax office wants a signed instrument for a loan between parent and child; Nigeria’s credit circles run for years on no paper at all. One country tops the global trust rankings and the other sits near the bottom, because the instrument was built to recognize only one of them. What if the problem is not the index but who gets to build it?

Haiti paid France for its own freedom until 1947. Britain finished compensating slave owners in 2015. Germany retired its Versailles bonds in 2010. No court called those debts too old. Claims running the other way are always too late.

In 2022 Belgium handed the Kakuungu mask back to Congo as an indefinite loan, because its own law forbids giving anything away. The same three principles that keep it in Brussels are available to any African statute book willing to claim them. Stop asking; declare.