Africa: Ghana’s Reparations Moment Is the New Face of Pan-African Liberation

In Accra this June, the reparations debate moved from remembrance towards political architecture.

Over three days, Ghana hosted the High-Level Consultative Conference on the “Next Steps” to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans. The venues told their own story: technical deliberations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a high-level session at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, and a Juneteenth commemoration at Christiansborg Castle, also known as Osu…