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Results following the vote in the General Assembly on the resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. Photo: UN Photo/Manuel Elías
AFRICAN UNION

Beyond “Africans sold Africans”: What Ghana’s UN slavery motion demands

Almost immediately after the vote, critics in Ghana and beyond have argued that Africans, having participated in the slave trade, cannot frame it as the gravest crime against…

  • Kofi Bediako
7 min read
Ghana’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, who died last month at the age of 77, was the matriarch of Ghanaian women’s empowerment. (Wikimedia Commons)
OPINION

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings: The First Lady Who Refused to Be Ceremonial

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings fought till the end. In refusing to be ceremonial, she left a nation forever altered by her determination to make women visible, vocal, and…

  • Kofi Bediako
5 min read