Germany's recognition of its genocide in South-West Africa and Macron's recognition of French complicity in the genocide in Rwanda are very belated acknowledgements of guilt. This is the tip of a terrible iceberg, which includes comparable mass murder in Tasmania, the Congo, and all aspects of Atlantic enslavement.
Perhaps the Global North might come to recognise a little more urgently that the lives of living Africans matter. Vaccinate the Global South. Cancel debts. Ensure that Africans have a voice in the IMF and World Bank. That would be a start, but only a start.