This paper explores the motivations underlying the 2020’s destruction of statues in Martinique. It establishes that the subjugation of African-Martinican vernacular collective memory to a French colonial and slave-owning French European hegemony which is reflected in public space, plays a major role in the toppling of these statues. It characterizes this destruction as an action on the landscape that seeks to create new conditions for the self-definition of Martinicans of African descent. This reflection also shows that this action voices a demand for reparations for colonial and environmental crimes, a denunciation of coloniality in knowledge and power and claims for a new politics of knowledge as well as a turn in the political administration of the country. Our approach draws on, postcolonial ecocriticism, Critical Heritage theory, the postcolonial anthropology of Caribbean plantation societies on memory issues, Caribbean reparation thought, and participant observation of social movements as a member of the Martinican National Committee for Reparation. It combines Bill Ashcroft’s theorization of the postcolonial landscape as a palimpsest that defines it as a cultural horizon, to the notion of Authorised Heritage Discourse (Smith, 2012), to Curtius’ theorisation of damages to statues as acts of memory writing a counter-discourse to denounce the erasure of the people’s memory (2015 17), and to Chivallon’s analysis of Martinican memory as a collective memory maintained in a state of unfinished formulation (2002). Reparation thought federates these theoretical elements to reach an understanding of the stakes and perspectives of this destruction of statues.