Reparatory Justice: Why Ghana must lead a more courageous conversation

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• JULOR CAESAR 12 hours ago

  Corrupt African leaders seeking reparatory compensation so they can lined the pockets of crooked politicians and their cronies. African nations have no business seeking reparations for slavery, given that African nations will ...
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  Corrupt African leaders seeking reparatory compensation so they can lined the pockets of crooked politicians and their cronies. African nations have no business seeking reparations for slavery, given that African nations willingly sold off their citizens to Europeans in exchange for European liquor, cheap guns, cloth and other supplies. Those deserving of reparations are the descendants of slaves who toiled for centuries in America, the Caribbean islands, Mexico, Central America, South America, and in some European countries. African countries that participated in the slave trade do not deserve any reparations, they rather owe those descendants of slaves mentioned above a huge apology.

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• JULOR CAESAR 12 hours ago

  "Corrupt African leaders seeking reparatory compensation so they can line the pockets of crooked politicians and their cronies."

  "Corrupt African leaders seeking reparatory compensation so they can line the pockets of crooked politicians and their cronies."

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• Okyeame kwame 7 minutes ago

  I agree with you 100 percent and also think that We Africans must change our corrupt ways beginning with telling ourselves the truth . However, we cannot fight ourselves in public over differences in ideologies and opinions . ...
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  I agree with you 100 percent and also think that We Africans must change our corrupt ways beginning with telling ourselves the truth . However, we cannot fight ourselves in public over differences in ideologies and opinions . Big Up Bro

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• Nsia 1 hour ago

  Massa , this one of the most candid and insightful piece I have ever read. Ohene, mo ne kasa!
  
  Meanwhile, we should also be bold enough to expose the past dealing of the past Asantehene from 1700 to 1896. The ancestors of ...
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  Massa , this one of the most candid and insightful piece I have ever read. Ohene, mo ne kasa!
  
  Meanwhile, we should also be bold enough to expose the past dealing of the past Asantehene from 1700 to 1896. The ancestors of Kwaku Dua were just as dreadful. Prempeh 1 was still at it untill he hot his comeuppance in 1896.Sadly, he goes to the Carribean and they fawn over him ,ignorant of the fact that his ancestors were the real Purveyors of the vile and despicable slave trade. Is the modern Asantehene liable for reparation?
  
  
  Between 1700 and 1896, the Asante Empire aggressively expanded its territory and regularly supplied enslaved captives to European powers on the Gold Coast, including the Dutch. The primary Asante kings (Asantehene) who reigned during this period of active slave raiding and trading were:Osei Tutu I (c. 1695–1717): The founder of the empire. He defeated the Denkyira in 1701, which gave the Asante direct access to the coast and initiated direct trading relations with the Dutch at Elmina Castle.
  
  Opoku Ware I (c. 1720–1750): Greatly expanded the empire, engaging in continuous warfare which yielded vast numbers of war captives to be traded with Europeans for firearms.
  
  Kusi Obodum (c. 1750–1764): Maintained the supply of slaves to coastal traders.
  
  
  Osei Kwadwo (c. 1764–1777): Enforced aggressive military campaigns inland and heavily engaged in slave exportation during the height of the Atlantic trade.Osei Kwame Panyin (1777–1801): Consolidated the empire and continued the trade of enslaved peoples and gold with European merchants.
  
  
  Osei Yaw Akoto (1824–1834): Fought the early Anglo-Ashanti wars and continued to supply slaves to the coast.
  
  Kwaku Dua I (1834–1867): Maintained the network of trade with the Dutch and British while seeking to export enslaved labor to local coastal plantations as the Transatlantic trade diminished.
  
  
  Kofi Karikari (1867–1874): Ruled during the 1873-1874 war with the British. The British abolished domestic slavery and slave dealing in the Gold Coast in 1874.
  
  
  
  Mensha Bonsu (1874–1883): Attempted to rebuild the shattered empire following the 1874 British invasion.Prempeh I (1888–1896): The final independent Asantehene before the British dissolved the empire and sent him into exile. While the trans-Atlantic trade had ended, the Asante state utilized war captives for its own domestic labor.

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