PRESIDENT Christine Kangaloo said individuals in TT must do their part to heal this society from the scars slavery, even as otherwise redress is sought from former colonial powers, in her 2025 African Emancipation Day message issued on July 31.

She said the occasion provided an opportunity for reflection on the history of African enslavement plus those legacies which live on in our lives today.

"The enslavement of African people remains one of humanity’s gravest and most shameful injustices. For over four centuries, millions of men, women and children were forcibly taken from their homes, stripped of their identities, and transported, in the vilest of conditions, into lives of servitude and oppression.