Mahama calls the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity and demands justice.

The president of Ghana, His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, has described the transatlantic slave trade as one of the gravest crimes against humanity, calling for global recognition, justice, and reparations for victims and their descendants. Speaking at the United Nations, President Mahama emphasized that Africans who were taken across the Atlantic were not “slaves” by identity, but human beings who were forcibly trafficked and enslaved under brutal conditions. He stressed that the language u…