to happen overnight. but you have said you have been arguing for it for 100 years. absolutely. so what has the uk government, for instance, government, for instance, said on reparations to you? the uk government has always said that slavery was not a crime, that slavery was legal, we did nothing wrong, we are not going to apologise. you are not shifting minds, are you? well, we are trying, and we will always try. but here is the issue, zeinab, it took us all of the 19th century to uproot slavery from the world. the haitians first in 1804 through to the english, the french, the dutch, and ultimately the portuguese in brazil. it took 100 years of struggle to end slavery. now, then it took us another 100 years to convert freedom into civil rights. it took us all of the 20th century. you are saying patience. if it takes us all of the 21st century to have reparatory justice, generation by generation the struggle goes on. but let me ask you, while you re waiting for official recognition from