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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