African, Caribbean states back slavery reparations plan at Ghana meeting
Leaders called for a formal apology, restitution and a reparations fund as they moved from symbolic recognition to implementation.
- On Friday, African and Caribbean leaders gathered in Accra, Ghana, urging former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations following a landmark U.N. resolution in March declaring slavery the gravest crime against humanity.
- The Next Steps conference in Accra issued a declaration calling on countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade to "offer full, formal and unconditional apologies" as a foundational step towards reconciliation and trust-building.
- Ghana President John Dramani Mahama told delegates from more than 80 countries that "recognition creates responsibility," noting about 12 million Africans were forcefully taken between the 16th and 19th centuries and enslaved on plantations.
- Organizers aim to shift the reparations debate from recognition to concrete measures, including potential requirements for compensation under international law, leveraging the moral authority of the recent international resolution.
- Global perspectives remain divided; a 2021 Pew Research Center survey found only three in 10 United States adults supported reparations for descendants of enslaved people.
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The call follows a UN resolution in which this trade was labeled "the gravest crime against humanity".
The BBC reported on the 20th that African and Caribbean nations demanded on the 19th (local time) official apologies and reparations from countries that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. These demands were made in Ghana's capital to advance efforts for reparative justice.
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