Ghana hosted a global conference on Thursday aiming to turn growing political momentum into real action on slavery reparations, following a UN resolution backed by 123 member states, according to AFP via Punch Newspapers.
Ghana isn’t just talking reparations anymore — it’s pushing for action. At a landmark three-day conference in Accra, Foreign Minister Samuel Ablakwa declared the fight for reparatory justice unstoppable, comparing it to past wins over slavery, colonialism and apartheid, according to Punch.
The momentum’s been building since March, when the UN adopted a resolution calling the transatlantic slave trade humanity’s gravest crime. France’s Macron has since backed symbolically repealing old slavery decrees, and Pope Leo XIV apologized for the Church’s delayed condemnation.
Leaders from Barbados, Sierra Leone, Senegal and more joined in.
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