‘Recognition, responsibility, and restitution’: Ghana presents historic reparations push for Africans and Black Americans
For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been treated as history — a horrific chapter to be memorialized but not rectified. Last week at the United Nations General Assembly, Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, forced the world to confront that fiction, calling the trade “the greatest crime against humanity” and demanding reparations on behalf of Africans and their descendants worldwide. Mahama announced plans to submit the first formal motion calling for reparative justice through a global body. The proposal challenges […]
