On Wednesday, Ghana will present a resolution to the UN General Assembly, requesting that transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans be officially recognized as crimes against humanity and that a process of reconciliation be undertaken.

On Tuesday, March 25, this year, as the UN observes the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, President John Dramani Mahama will lead a delegation from Ghana and other notable African figures to New York City to present the motion.

President Mahama clarified in a feature exclusively shared with the Daily Graphic that while the demand for reparatory justice was not new, it had taken institutional form in recent decades, with the 1993 Abuja Proclamation recognizing African enslavement and trafficking as an unprecedented crime.