Ghana to seek UN recognition of slave trade as genocide - Okudzeto Ablakwa

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Henry D. 3 months ago

Slavery self we are always accusing the White man for, do we first accuse our forefathers for the act?
I believe things of the past should remain there and what we must think about is how Black man will make his life better ...
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Slavery self we are always accusing the White man for, do we first accuse our forefathers for the act?
I believe things of the past should remain there and what we must think about is how Black man will make his life better. Today, don't we die in the sea or desert just to look for better pastures right at the place we are accusing the people for causing genocide?
The Motherland 3 months ago

Reparations? Who exactly are those required to pay up? Does it include the Arabs for their gargantuan role in the slave trade? Can you imagine the Arabs paying cash today as reparation for slavery that took place centuries ag ...
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Reparations? Who exactly are those required to pay up? Does it include the Arabs for their gargantuan role in the slave trade? Can you imagine the Arabs paying cash today as reparation for slavery that took place centuries ago? Somebody please tell Okudzeto Ablakwa to cut out the shenanigans and stop wasting our ears with much ado about nothing!! Slavery in the past was indeed reprehensible, but moreso is this modern day surge to profit from the ordeals of our forefathers. What I believe is that nobody is ever going to pay a dime to nobody for the canker of slavery, which as we speak is still ongoing under various shades within our very own countries. Talk of wages of Nabco trainees and Zoomlion street sweepers, are both classic examples of modern day slavery.
TAKE OR PAY DEMON 3 months ago

Don't mind Ablakwa. He wants free money to chop.

Don't mind Ablakwa. He wants free money to chop.
Reap what you sown 3 months ago

Who is forcing ken Ofori Atta to stay away in the USA and that you are talking about reparation and recognition. Very soon Ghanaians would be blaming the the white man who forced Ken Ofori Atta to run away to the USA

Who is forcing ken Ofori Atta to stay away in the USA and that you are talking about reparation and recognition. Very soon Ghanaians would be blaming the the white man who forced Ken Ofori Atta to run away to the USA
Gaskia 3 months ago

I still wonder what we want out of this reparation move. Is it an apology or.money? Then from who - The whites who took is away, or our chiefs who kidnapped us and sold us to the whites for schnapps and gunpowder? Then to who ...
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I still wonder what we want out of this reparation move. Is it an apology or.money? Then from who - The whites who took is away, or our chiefs who kidnapped us and sold us to the whites for schnapps and gunpowder? Then to whom does the apologies or money go? To the black Americans who were uprooted from the "motherland" and got their lives messed up, or those of us left behind hustling daily to go there? Or to our governments who will find it another cheap source of money to squander only to go back to the "slave masters" for more later?
Diogenes 3 months ago

Good submission Gaskia

Good submission Gaskia
Robert 3 months ago

@Gaskia. Fantastic submission. I can not agree with you more. Well said!!!!!

@Gaskia. Fantastic submission. I can not agree with you more. Well said!!!!!
Opoku 3 months ago

Gaaskia,you have made my day.Okujato Ablakwa is just wasting our ears.

Gaaskia,you have made my day.Okujato Ablakwa is just wasting our ears.
K Tsin 3 months ago

Let's get serious and stop this reparation business. I remember an immigration officer years ago telling me he does not even know his great grandfather to know if he participated in the slave trade and for me to tell him some ...
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Let's get serious and stop this reparation business. I remember an immigration officer years ago telling me he does not even know his great grandfather to know if he participated in the slave trade and for me to tell him something better than your ancestors enslaved mine to let me go. No one is going to give us anything.
Capt Adabuga 3 months ago

JM is always looking for avenues to enrich himself

JM is always looking for avenues to enrich himself

Agbeli Kumordziì 3 months ago

To send them the ckear message blocked all resources from Africa to Europe and America
Is like European union and America sanction

To send them the ckear message blocked all resources from Africa to Europe and America
Is like European union and America sanction
GOLDEN 3 months ago

GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE,THE STIFF-NECKED REBELLIOUS PEOPLE,BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY,PERIOD!!!!!!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER,THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE,BUT DO YOU KNOW THIS ???????????
READ THE ...
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GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE,THE STIFF-NECKED REBELLIOUS PEOPLE,BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY,PERIOD!!!!!!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER,THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE,BUT DO YOU KNOW THIS ???????????
READ THE OLD TESTAMENT,AND LISTEN TO THE AMAZING SERMONS OF TRUSTWORTHY PASTOR OMAR THIBEUAX AND STOP BELIEVING IN TWISTED LIES TO HIDE THE TRUTH,ONLY THE TRUTH WILL SET PEOPLE FREE,SAYS THE HOLY BIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
CONVERTED PEOPLE FROM MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD CONVERTED TO THE FAITH AND NOTHING ELSE,GET KNOWLEDGE AND NOT REMAIN IGNORANT,THE DEVIL IS A LIAR!!!
Kweku 3 months ago

Well our chiefs and warlords were part of the genocide too. We handed over our prisoners of war (POW) to the whiteman in exchange for few manufactured products such as guns (musketeers) which were used to fight more wars.

Well our chiefs and warlords were part of the genocide too. We handed over our prisoners of war (POW) to the whiteman in exchange for few manufactured products such as guns (musketeers) which were used to fight more wars.
Thompson Kwakye Sintim 3 months ago

Stopped this recognition of slave trade,and concentrate solving the Bawku chieftancy dispute.

They have allocated 1 billion Ghana cedis to you,used that money for its purposes by rebuilding Bawku to ends the conflict.

Stopped this recognition of slave trade,and concentrate solving the Bawku chieftancy dispute.

They have allocated 1 billion Ghana cedis to you,used that money for its purposes by rebuilding Bawku to ends the conflict.
GPS 3 months ago

Ghana has so many problems to solve. UN does not care about Africa. Even Africa does not have permanent seat. I don't understand why African leaders go there for. America control the whole UN that is why the Palestinians can' ...
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Ghana has so many problems to solve. UN does not care about Africa. Even Africa does not have permanent seat. I don't understand why African leaders go there for. America control the whole UN that is why the Palestinians can't get their own state or country because they don't have support from only America. one vote is equal to 99% for Americans
Nsia 3 months ago

The sort of absolute piffle that gives me a fit of apoplexy. Reparations, from who?
Akufo Addo's own ancestor was exiled by the British to Lagos in the 1880s becuase of slavery.
Even when the British abolished tge slave ...
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The sort of absolute piffle that gives me a fit of apoplexy. Reparations, from who?
Akufo Addo's own ancestor was exiled by the British to Lagos in the 1880s becuase of slavery.
Even when the British abolished tge slave trade and human sacrifice in the 1830s in Gold Coast, our / my own greedy Ashsnti Kings who depended on slave raiding and trading were still at it until useless and utterly hopeless Prempeh 1 got his comeuppance in 1896.
Obrempong Kwadwo, the father of Philip Quarcoe was generously paid as a slave trader by the Brits. 7 pounds every two weeks in the 1700s was huge spamount.
Our/my own dreadful Ashanti Kings were also handsomely paid by their Dutch slave trafing partners.
Madam Tinubu, ignored the ban on slavery by the Brits and dealt illegally with the Americans, Brazilians,Portuguese etc.
Are their descendants such as Asantehene Tinubu's, Akufo Addo's ,Ofori Atta's etc liable for the sins of their ancestors too? The records are there.
Nsia 3 months ago

Pls, ignore typos. Thanks!

Pls, ignore typos. Thanks!
Lash 3 months ago

I suggest we pay reparations to the African Americans for the wrong done them

I suggest we pay reparations to the African Americans for the wrong done them
Papillon 3 months ago

Stop the nonsense and hypocrisy. The slave trade flourished due to the approval of our own greedy chiefs and even embarrassing trying to get compensation from the white. Currently, it is the blackman who has offered himself ...
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Stop the nonsense and hypocrisy. The slave trade flourished due to the approval of our own greedy chiefs and even embarrassing trying to get compensation from the white. Currently, it is the blackman who has offered himself to be used as a slave. Go to the embassies and see for yourself.
Truth 3 months ago

What will we get from it? Now put ship here and see if people won't go. I think we need to be a bit serious

What will we get from it? Now put ship here and see if people won't go. I think we need to be a bit serious

Gh 3 months ago

They have begun running out of ideas. So many countries were not colonise and are better off. But for slave trade Ghana would have no connections with these western worlds and our situation would be worse. Now Europe regrets ...
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They have begun running out of ideas. So many countries were not colonise and are better off. But for slave trade Ghana would have no connections with these western worlds and our situation would be worse. Now Europe regrets slave trade because they could have developed without that trade. All you need is technology
Opoku 3 months ago

This is Okudjeto Ablakwa, the propagandist at his best.Reparations?It's not going to work.Don't start something you cannot finish.

This is Okudjeto Ablakwa, the propagandist at his best.Reparations?It's not going to work.Don't start something you cannot finish.
Lash 3 months ago

Okudjeto use your office for better issues and this noise making. What will bring ro Ghana apart from noise in our ears

Okudjeto use your office for better issues and this noise making. What will bring ro Ghana apart from noise in our ears
JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

Reparatory justice will be meaningless unless African nations that actively engaged in the sale of their citizens to European slave traders are also held accountable for their involvement in that evil treatment of humans. But ...
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Reparatory justice will be meaningless unless African nations that actively engaged in the sale of their citizens to European slave traders are also held accountable for their involvement in that evil treatment of humans. But for the agreement to sell off their sell their citizens to European slave merchants, there certainly would have been the forced transportation of Africans to the Americas and elsewhere. You can't sell your citizens top European slave merchants and suddenly begin to talk about reparatory justice for African nations. The only ones entitled to reparatory justice would be the descendants of slaves in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean nations. African nations were complicit in that evil trade and should have no business demanding reparatory justice for any African nation.
Francis 3 months ago

If it is not reparation then it is membership in the United Nations Security Council. None will materialize because we are powerless as a race. So long as we continue to exist as small independent so called countries Africa w ...
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If it is not reparation then it is membership in the United Nations Security Council. None will materialize because we are powerless as a race. So long as we continue to exist as small independent so called countries Africa will never have a voice on the global stage. We can not resolve our own conflicts and we want to be a member of the Security Council to resolve global conflicts. The African Union is there but the Presidents of Rwanda and DRC Congo had to travel to Donald Trump in the United States to sign a peace treaty. What a shame to the African continent. Honestly, we have a long way to go as people.
Aretenego 3 months ago

The best reparatory justice for the slave trade is the castration of the current and future male occupants of the various chieftancy stools and skins in Africa whose ancestors stupidly engaged in primitive tribal wars with th ...
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The best reparatory justice for the slave trade is the castration of the current and future male occupants of the various chieftancy stools and skins in Africa whose ancestors stupidly engaged in primitive tribal wars with the sole purpose of acquiring men and women for sale to the Arab and European slave merchants.
Akwasi 3 months ago

Hypocrite, you sent your pregnant wife to the United States to have an American child and you are here doing this propaganda.

Hypocrite, you sent your pregnant wife to the United States to have an American child and you are here doing this propaganda.
Koppong 3 months ago

Ablakwah and Mahama are pushing Kwesi Pratt agenda hence his hatred for Bawumia and NPP

Ablakwah and Mahama are pushing Kwesi Pratt agenda hence his hatred for Bawumia and NPP
12345 3 months ago

you ppl and your thinking, its some way paaa. across civilizations, slavery has always existed so why asking the west for reparation is by itself and in itself racist.
By the way, who ended slavery?

you ppl and your thinking, its some way paaa. across civilizations, slavery has always existed so why asking the west for reparation is by itself and in itself racist.
By the way, who ended slavery?
snake eyes 3 months ago

Championing useless agendas to enriched themselves, slave trade is past and gone, seeking an organisation to approve an event everyone knows as evil and barbarian is in itself inferiority complex and slavery. We need jobs, be ...
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Championing useless agendas to enriched themselves, slave trade is past and gone, seeking an organisation to approve an event everyone knows as evil and barbarian is in itself inferiority complex and slavery. We need jobs, better condition of service, and better overhaul of the system.

Ghanaba100 3 months ago

Reparations for Trans Atlantic Slave Trade being pursued by Okudzeto Ablakwa and Mahama does not make economic sense. The government of Ghana received 4.2 Billion dollars of debt cancellation in 2006 from Western governments ...
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Reparations for Trans Atlantic Slave Trade being pursued by Okudzeto Ablakwa and Mahama does not make economic sense. The government of Ghana received 4.2 Billion dollars of debt cancellation in 2006 from Western governments and multilateral agencies. From 2000 to 2024, over this 25 year period, the government of Ghana received about 12 Billion Dollars worth of grants from Western countries. Further, under the 2023 2024 debt rescheduling programme almost 4 Billion dollars of government debts were forgiven to pave the way for Ghana to recover financially after the near economic collapse of the economy in 2022. So the government of Ghana got 20 Billion dollars free money since the beginning of this Century. How has this free money helped vulnerable people in Ghana including members of small tribes whose descendants were sold as slaves to Western countries? The national income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient for Ghana increased sharply from 1998 to 2025. Now that the economy is gradually recovering due to the Debt Exchange Programme, the new Government of Ghana is pursuing this Reparation Programme to try and get cheap money from Western countries to enrich State officials and elites without any programme for helping the descendants of Africans who were sold into slavery by bigger and more powerful groups. This was the same trick used by the previous government starting in 2017 under the programme Ghana Beyond Aid. Five years after the initiation of this programme, Ghana was bankrupt and rushed to IMF for a bailout in 2022.
Mr Apehtwe. 3 months ago

Please concentrate on diplomatic issues and stop this slave trade rubbish. It's been over 200 years since the end of slave trade, what do you want the present generation of white people to do?. . Massa, this will not fetc ...
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Please concentrate on diplomatic issues and stop this slave trade rubbish. It's been over 200 years since the end of slave trade, what do you want the present generation of white people to do?. . Massa, this will not fetch you recognition neither its the UN business to vote on something the UN wasn't even existing.
STOP GALAMSEY NOW 3 months ago

Meanwhile, an "environmental genocide" illegal mining is going on unabated, with more dire consequences, whiles Ghana looks on.

Meanwhile, an "environmental genocide" illegal mining is going on unabated, with more dire consequences, whiles Ghana looks on.
Shaka 3 months ago

I'm really surprised of how you guys don't take reparation serious at all.This proves how we black people havn't got rid of how we,ve been brainwashed by our colonial masters.To believe slavery benefitted us it did not n don ...
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I'm really surprised of how you guys don't take reparation serious at all.This proves how we black people havn't got rid of how we,ve been brainwashed by our colonial masters.To believe slavery benefitted us it did not n don't believe our forefathers didn't fight against slavery they did.
Do your research properly. U.S and Europe own us big time bcos Slavery helped them to develop their countries. Israel got reparation to developed their country after the holocaust so can't blacks get it.Our only problem is we're not united demanding reparation n the sad part of it is most you guys will willingly go back to be the whiteman,s Slave.
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