On June 9, 2020, synchronized global protests for George Floyd’s murder erupted across major cities in Europe and Africa, including London, Paris, Nairobi, Accra, and Cape Town. Demonstrators invoked local injustices—such as police violence in France and economic marginalization in Ghana—to connect with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. Statues of colonial figures were defaced or toppled, and governments were forced to address systemic racism beyond U.S. borders. The June 9 mobilizations marked the solidification of a transnational racial justice movement that fused African, Afro-European, and Afro-Caribbean struggles under one banner. It was a modern reminder that Black liberation is borderless.
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