The Berlin Conference, which began on 15 November 1884 is understood as one of the key events in Europe’s colonial history, the culmination of the so-called scramble for Africa by European imperial powers. The negotiated artificial division of Africa among Europe’s colonial powers led to the supposed legitimisation and formalisation of violent colonial rule, expulsion and exploitation. To this day, the event has had massive political, economic and social consequences for the formerly colonised. An example of the harm of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference for the partition of Afrika is the European imperialist conquest, disempowerment and exploitative underdevelopment of the dismembered indigenous Gbetowo nation of Gbeduko, which is divided by the colonial borders of present-day Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria in West Afrika. Such examples abound throughout the entire continent and diaspora of Afrika today. 

Higher rising Pan-Afrikan internationalist consciousness within the grassroots of the indigenous and other communities of resistance throughout the continent and diaspora of Afrika, the dire necessity for reparatory solutions to the problems of neocolonialism, and more so the persisting coloniality still arising out of the divisive legacies of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference, encouraged putting forward the idea of the AEPPPRADIF: the Afrika and Europe People-to-Peoples’ Planet Repairs Action Dialogue Internationalist Forum. 

The conceptualisation of what has become the AEPPPRADIF was first mooted in September 2019 by Gbetowo Scholar-Activists during their Rematriation planning of building their own autonomous glocal Ablodenunyansa Communiversity as their own cross-border unifying Reparatory Justice initiative for the Decolonization of Education in pursuit of the Pan-Afrikan Internationalist promotion of what is now called the Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution (PRALER). 

The resounding of this call for organising the AEPPPRADIF received support from the October 2023 United Kingdom Afrikan Reparations Conference (UKARC2023) that was convened in London, under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR), led by its Co-Founder and Chairperson Bell Ribeiro-Addy, a Labour Party Member of the British Houses of Parliament, whose parents originated from Ghana.