Following the adoption of the historic United Nations resolution recognizing African slavery as the gravest crime against humanity on March 25, 2026, Ghana invited “heads of state and government, ministers, representatives of civil society, historians, researchers and jurists representing more than eighty countries†to work on a common line intended to determine the different possible forms of repairs. A way to move from declarations to actions, explains The Guardian.
Presented under the title “The Next Step†, it is the first major conference on the issue since the UN resolution.
The summit also brings together representatives from non-African countries, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission (Caricom), the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The presidents of Senegal, Liberia, Namibia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and the African Union Commission are expected later in the Ghanaian capital, adds the German wave.
African countries in solidarity
This is not the first time that African countries have launched such an initiative. The Abuja Proclamation of 1993, for example, already demanded reparations for colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade, laying the groundwork for this campaign. But until now these initiatives had remained “largely fragmented†, remind him Guardian.
In a concept note, Ghana says the UN resolution constituted a fundamental break in the international community’s response to transatlantic trafficking. And that, this time, the “commemorative gestures†would be replaced by “the search for historical truth and dialogue, aiming for reconciliation and justice†.
More “the question we ask ourselves now is the following: will the lines move more after this summit?… request The Country. Because even after the adoption of the UN resolution, some “slave states plundering resources […] always refuse to take responsibility for history… A total of 123 states voted in favor of the proposal, while three – the United States, Israel and Argentina – voted against and 52, including the United Kingdom and all European Union member states, abstained.
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