AFRICAN and Caribbean leaders in Ghana have urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans after a landmark UN resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity.”The Next Steps conference in the Ghanaian capital of Accra issued a declaration at the weekend calling on countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade to “offer full, formal and unconditional apologies as a foundational step towards reconciliation, trust-building and reparatory justice.”

AFRICAN and Caribbean leaders in Ghana have urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans after a landmark UN resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity.”

The Next Steps conference in the Ghanaian capital of Accra issued a declaration at the weekend calling on countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade to “offer full, formal and unconditional apologies as a foundational step towards reconciliation, trust-building and reparatory justice.”

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