Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- The Edo State Commissioner for Education, Washington Osifo, has criticised the leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, over her opposition to Britain formally apologising for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and paying reparations to its victims.

Mr Osifo accused Ms Badenoch of distorting history by placing responsibility for the slave trade on African kingdoms and merchants alongside European powers, arguing that this position fails to distinguish between African collaborators and the European powers that created and sustained the transatlantic system.

The commissioner made the criticism in a paper dated 10 November, titled The Victim Who Is Asked to Apologise to Her Rapist: A Critiq...