Ghana to champion motion to recognise slave trade as greatest crime against humanity - Mahama

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DotCom 2 months ago

This is a great step forward. It is not about reparations but a recognition that Africans have suffered and continue to suffer because of slavery. This is great and I believe Mahama will have support from many countries.

This is a great step forward. It is not about reparations but a recognition that Africans have suffered and continue to suffer because of slavery. This is great and I believe Mahama will have support from many countries.
Dr Mumbi Seraki 2 months ago

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.
Kwesi 2 months ago

Why is Ghana Web allowing such wicked posts???

Why is Ghana Web allowing such wicked posts???
Hmmm moment 2 months ago

When some fail to see what is right under their noses, they look far, even when they “can’t think far.” The slave trade was one of humanity’s darkest crimes — people packed into ships like sardines, stripped of dign ...
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When some fail to see what is right under their noses, they look far, even when they “can’t think far.” The slave trade was one of humanity’s darkest crimes — people packed into ships like sardines, stripped of dignity, and treated as less than human. We condemn it without hesitation.

But here’s the uncomfortable question: if we agree that was appalling, why do we allow our own prisons to mirror that same cruelty? Reports say Ghana’s prisons are overcrowded, with inmates crammed into cells the way our ancestors were packed into slave ships. Different time, same inhumanity.

If slavery was unthinkable, then so too should be the conditions we accept for our prisoners. Dignity is not a privilege — it is a human right.
Asem 2 months ago

@ Hmmm moment. Much as the conditions in our prisons are admittedly appalling, one must be extremely dumb - if not ill-informed or retarded to compare the conditions in our prisons to what some of our ancestors went through d ...
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@ Hmmm moment. Much as the conditions in our prisons are admittedly appalling, one must be extremely dumb - if not ill-informed or retarded to compare the conditions in our prisons to what some of our ancestors went through during the abhorrent period of the slave trade and colonialism.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

I think Asante people and some other Akan people are very guilty of that trade. They went to war against each other ethnic groups in the region and sold conquered people into slavery. Yes, Asante people’s ancestors were ext ...
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I think Asante people and some other Akan people are very guilty of that trade. They went to war against each other ethnic groups in the region and sold conquered people into slavery. Yes, Asante people’s ancestors were extremely guilty for that crime. Don’t talk about reparations because Africans decided to sell their own. Yes there was the Trans Saharan and East African Slave Trade. Our forefathers were just greedy and foolish to sell their own to the Greedy Europeans and Arabs.
Nana 2 months ago

President John Mahama was given monies and resources, to empower his fellow Northerners thru SAADA but he chopped the money.What is the guarantee that he can make good use of reparation monies?

President John Mahama was given monies and resources, to empower his fellow Northerners thru SAADA but he chopped the money.What is the guarantee that he can make good use of reparation monies?
Adu Asamoah 2 months ago

GREAT MAN - GREAT SPEECH

GREAT MAN - GREAT SPEECH
Asem 2 months ago

It appears that Ghana is back on track. President Mahama should immediately reorganize the national security apparatus to forestall any devious moves by the agents, moles and errand boys of global imperialism. That evil cabal ...
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It appears that Ghana is back on track. President Mahama should immediately reorganize the national security apparatus to forestall any devious moves by the agents, moles and errand boys of global imperialism. That evil cabal do not want Africans to look smart and intelligent. That is why they award their moles and assets who willfully undermine the progress of Africa with their blood-stained national awards.
Kwame Angel 2 months ago

Nonsense! That was why you flw to New York with your entourage? Is that the biggest problem in Ghana or the world today? Waste of taxpayers' money on flight, hotel, food, side chicks, shopping etc.

Nonsense! That was why you flw to New York with your entourage? Is that the biggest problem in Ghana or the world today? Waste of taxpayers' money on flight, hotel, food, side chicks, shopping etc.
Asem 2 months ago

You represent a classic example of why Africa continues to be backward and primitive. You can read and write but you are fundamentally ignorant and illiterate in your worldview.

You represent a classic example of why Africa continues to be backward and primitive. You can read and write but you are fundamentally ignorant and illiterate in your worldview.
Patrick 2 months ago

We should also blame some of our ancestors who participated in the slave trade by selling captives to the European slave traders. We are equally guilty of the slave trade.

We should also blame some of our ancestors who participated in the slave trade by selling captives to the European slave traders. We are equally guilty of the slave trade.
Osei 2 months ago

Yes Fante Kings, they chilled with the British to enslave other tribes. Captured Ashanti Warriors were kept in Cape Coast castles and sent as slaves later on in the Americas

Yes Fante Kings, they chilled with the British to enslave other tribes. Captured Ashanti Warriors were kept in Cape Coast castles and sent as slaves later on in the Americas
Asem 2 months ago

In the same way that the imperialists tried to blackmail Kwame Nkrumah by refusing to buy Ghanas cocoa in order to sabotage his economy and stop him from further pursuing progressive policies to fast-track the development of ...
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In the same way that the imperialists tried to blackmail Kwame Nkrumah by refusing to buy Ghanas cocoa in order to sabotage his economy and stop him from further pursuing progressive policies to fast-track the development of the newly independent state of Ghana, the imperialists similarly blackmailed our local Chiefs a couple of centuries earlier with the option of either producing slaves on demand or being enslaved themselves or being immediately killed if the order or demand for slaves was refused. This fueled many inter-tribal wars through which Chiefs were able to catch prisoners and sell them off as slaves to save their own lives, their families and their tribesmen. The effects of some of these wars still linger among various tribes today. To cover their evil crimes, imperialist historians turned the facts upside down by claiming that it was the local African Chiefs that willingly sold their own people to the imperialist slave merchants. The question then arises that, how come native tribes had been living peacefully together for hundreds of years until the Whiteman showed up on our shores? Again, when dishing out this shameless lie to vulnerable Africans of today, they forget to consider the fundamental economic principle of demand and supply - in the sense that, if there is no demand then naturally, there would be no supply. This devious attitude of imperialists takes us back to just a couple of weeks ago when Trump issued a stern warning that any nation that joins the BRICS, will be blackmailed by huge crippling tariffs.
Mr Acheampong 2 months ago

Slavery amongst tribes had existed for hundreds of years before the Atlantic slave trade started. I believe the Arabian slave trade started before that as well. Slavery has been around for thousands of years, it wasn't a new ...
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Slavery amongst tribes had existed for hundreds of years before the Atlantic slave trade started. I believe the Arabian slave trade started before that as well. Slavery has been around for thousands of years, it wasn't a new thing!
Asem 2 months ago

@ Mr Acheampong. Here we go again. Another miseducated illiterate who happily sings the cover up songs of those who perpetrated slavery upon Africa. In the distant hope that you and others like you may learn something useful ...
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@ Mr Acheampong. Here we go again. Another miseducated illiterate who happily sings the cover up songs of those who perpetrated slavery upon Africa. In the distant hope that you and others like you may learn something useful about the African dilemma so that God will forgive you, when the word slavery is used or mentioned anywhere in the world, it immediately points to the Transatlantic Slave Trade including its inheritor - colonialism, which is simply put, slavery on the home grounds of the enslaved. Why this is so is because, all previously known instances of slavery in world history pale into irrelevant insignificance against the unparalleled horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the details of which would make even Satan blush with shame and disgust.

In their shameful attempt to cover their unparalleled crimes against humanity and assuage their mind-crippling guilt, the global imperialist lobby in cahoots with their local NGO frontmen, have gone to the ridiculous extent of even describing the practice of househelps in Africa as slavery, just to strengthen their argument as well as yours to indicate that since we also practice slavery, then what's the big deal.

As we speak, there are over 200 million people of African descent living in other parts of the world whose lineage and specific African origins were truncated by slavery and hence, have become biologically orphaned. They are the remnants of many more millions of Africans who were killed whilst trying to resist being captured as slaves. Others died in the terribly unhygienic dungeons of slave castles, ships, bad treatment on slave farms and as a consequence of detestable violent racism in white society. Many infinite, yet unknown numbers of slaves were methodically killed in the America's to cleanse their societies from black people after the use of slaves was no more necessary and had become more of an economic liability.

The terrible industry of slavery - and I mean the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its never-ending consequences will gnaw on the conscience of mankind till the end of time.

As for you "Mr" Acheampong and people of your ilk, I can only have sympathy for you but I'm not sure if the sympathies will be accorded to you when on the day of reckoning, you meet your maker.
STOP GALAMSEY NOW 2 months ago

Mr. President, you were at UN General Assembly, asking for reparation for a trade that Africans were not forced to take part in.
Who forced notable slave raiders such as Samori and Babatu, to hunt for their fellow Ghanaians ...
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Mr. President, you were at UN General Assembly, asking for reparation for a trade that Africans were not forced to take part in.
Who forced notable slave raiders such as Samori and Babatu, to hunt for their fellow Ghanaians, and sell them into slavery?
You have another disaster (galamsey) taking place, which will have a massive devastating effects on your country's men and women, the generation yet to be born, than the slave trade did or is alleged to have done. Eighty per cent (80%) of the proceeds from the galamsey is enriching people in Asia and other foreign countries outside Africa.
You have every opportunity to be decisive in stopping this crime against humanity, with higher magnitude of devastation than slave trade, yet your actions to stopping the galamsey seems like, you are dealing with just a regular environment challenge.
I suggest you and your colleagues presidents on the African continent stop asking for apologies and reparation, and focus on stopping galamsey which is actively going on in Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Mali.
#stopgalamsy
#bedecisive action
Kwamina 2 months ago

@Stop Galamsey Now. My question is do we have leaders in Africa? I can not imagine Galamsey taking place in Europe or America with its effects on the environment and the politicians doing nothing to stop it. What is wrong wit ...
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@Stop Galamsey Now. My question is do we have leaders in Africa? I can not imagine Galamsey taking place in Europe or America with its effects on the environment and the politicians doing nothing to stop it. What is wrong with us Africans? Why are we so wicked to ourselves?
Osei 2 months ago

Very true, the fight against galamsey is failing and we should focus on that more

Very true, the fight against galamsey is failing and we should focus on that more
Hmmm moment 2 months ago

Our leader floats like a cork on water — drifting whichever way the wind blows. One day he parrots Kunta Kinte after watching Roots, the next day he forgets what he even said. Leadership is not a movie script; it demands co ...
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Our leader floats like a cork on water — drifting whichever way the wind blows. One day he parrots Kunta Kinte after watching Roots, the next day he forgets what he even said. Leadership is not a movie script; it demands conviction, not copy-paste quotes.

He is fast becoming like those prime ministers who say whatever the crowd wants to hear, until they end up confusing both themselves and the nation. Meanwhile, galamsey is chewing our rivers, poisoning our lands, and burying our children’s future. But instead of bold action, we get recycled speeches dressed up as wisdom.

Yes, Kunta Kinte’s story is powerful, and the slave trade will always command attention across the world. But here at home, the chains are different: illegal mining is shackling Ghana right now. A leader worth his salt should fight that battle, not drift in borrowed words.
CITIZEN 2 months ago

The greatest crime now is bad governance by the African leaders. We should wake up and librate ourselves from mental slavery. The West is truly not our downfall at the moment

The greatest crime now is bad governance by the African leaders. We should wake up and librate ourselves from mental slavery. The West is truly not our downfall at the moment
FunnyGhana 2 months ago

The poisoning of the whole population of Ghana with mercury and heavy metals from galamsay and the lack of urgency to start shooting at sight and bombing these murderers is too bad. We are watching this generation and future ...
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The poisoning of the whole population of Ghana with mercury and heavy metals from galamsay and the lack of urgency to start shooting at sight and bombing these murderers is too bad. We are watching this generation and future generations being poisoned silently with a future of painful and horrible diseases that will appears in the years to come. Ghana has become a very dangerous place to even eat or drink water.
JohnBroni 2 months ago

Who actually facilitated this slave trade? Was it not the tribal chiefs who waged tribal wars against themselves to prove their tribes superiority and get more slaves to the White and Arab slave merchants? Africans should o ...
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Who actually facilitated this slave trade? Was it not the tribal chiefs who waged tribal wars against themselves to prove their tribes superiority and get more slaves to the White and Arab slave merchants? Africans should off with this nonsense. Are Africans not backward idiots?
Koo Boire 2 months ago

Mr President bring Ofori Atta to come and account for our monies and stop wasting time on impossible issues. Those who benefited from slavery are the very people who give you loans.

Mr President bring Ofori Atta to come and account for our monies and stop wasting time on impossible issues. Those who benefited from slavery are the very people who give you loans.
FACT 2 months ago

"THE WHITE MAN CAME TO AFRICA BUTCTHE AFRICAN FOREST WAS STRONGER THAN THE WHITE MAN"--by Ward.

Was it not the African who went into the forest and captured his fellow African and sold his fellow African to the White man?
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"THE WHITE MAN CAME TO AFRICA BUTCTHE AFRICAN FOREST WAS STRONGER THAN THE WHITE MAN"--by Ward.

Was it not the African who went into the forest and captured his fellow African and sold his fellow African to the White man?

Talking about REPARATIONS.
●Do the African leaders intend to track the blood relatives in Africa of the slaves and compensate them for the pain and suffering? Of course not!
●This is the Fact: African leaders want the Colonizers to pay lumpsum for the renegotiated prices of the slaves that were taken from Africa. Who benefits? Guess!
FACT 2 months ago

"THE WHITE MAN CAME TO AFRICA BUT THE AFRICAN FOREST WAS STRONGER THAN THE WHITE MAN"--by Ward.

Was it not the African who went into the forest and captured his fellow African and sold his fellow African to the White man?
...
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"THE WHITE MAN CAME TO AFRICA BUT THE AFRICAN FOREST WAS STRONGER THAN THE WHITE MAN"--by Ward.

Was it not the African who went into the forest and captured his fellow African and sold his fellow African to the White man?

Talking about REPARATIONS.
●Do the African leaders intend to track the blood relatives in Africa of the slaves and compensate them for the pain and suffering? Of course not!
●This is the Fact: African leaders want the Colonizers to pay lumpsum for the renegotiated prices of the slaves that were taken from Africa. Who benefits? Guess!
JULOR CAESAR 2 months ago

In as much as I deplore what the Jewish state of Israel is doing in Gaza with its genocide agenda, I believe the slave trade ranks on the same level as the gassing of six million Jews Jews by Hitler. Yes, African slaves toile ...
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In as much as I deplore what the Jewish state of Israel is doing in Gaza with its genocide agenda, I believe the slave trade ranks on the same level as the gassing of six million Jews Jews by Hitler. Yes, African slaves toiled in ships bound for the new world, without any clothes to keep them warm, hardly any food to eat, many beaten to serve as an example to others to not complain about the horrible conditions ion the ships, many stayed sick with no benefit of medications and others often dumped alive into the sea when the slave traders noticed that the sick would never fetch any good money upon docking due to their illness. However, nothing compares to Hitler's starving six million Jews and then sending them into gas chambers to burn alive. I will therefore argue that the slave trade and and enslavement of Africans in the new world for centuries should be viewed equally with Hitler's gassing of six million Jews as the two greatest crimes against humanity. One also needs to question the so-called Christians with their bibles, "How can you claim that all humans are children of God, yet side with slave trade for centuries?". Is the silence or even the participation of many Christians in the enslavement of Africans not a gross exhibition of religious hypocrisy? Sadly too, many of the slave ships had priests on board to pray for the safe transportation of the slave cargo. These priests were not praying for the Africans, but rather prayed that the slave traders would make it safely to their destination with the slaves they were transporting so that they would not lose their investment. So much for religious hypocrisy.
Asem 2 months ago

My friend, JULOR CAESAR, you yourself, in your futile and shocking attempt to equate Hitlers crimes against the Jews on an equal level with that of the slave trade, have asserted in your above post that Christianity colluded ...
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My friend, JULOR CAESAR, you yourself, in your futile and shocking attempt to equate Hitlers crimes against the Jews on an equal level with that of the slave trade, have asserted in your above post that Christianity colluded with the slave trade for centuries. That said, I beg to ask you, how long did Hitlers persecution of the Jews last? How can a historical event that lasted just a couple of years, be equal to another that you yourself claim, lasted for centuries?

As the saying goes, a little learning is dangerous. Some of you have been so hopelessly brainwashed and de-Africanized by your colonial oppressors that, you even shamelessly resort to belittle the multiple instances of horrific mass genocide and unspeakable crimes against humanity that the imperialists committed against hundreds of millions of African people. Take for example King Léopold of Belgium who singularly and randomly murdered and maimed over 15 million Congolese people for pleasure, fun and punishment in his time. And unless you think that one Jewish life is worth more than hundreds of African lives, King Léopolds relatively lesser known genocide alone - in terms of numerical comparison, is much much more barbaric than Hitlers genocide of the Jews which should be seen as what it is - a white on white genocide. Crossing the racial moral barriers to commit genocide gives it an even more egregious historical crime.

Added to this is the several hundred million more Africans like yourself who have been so mentally mutilated that you have completely lost your African self-respect, dignity and integrity to the extent that the right to qualify as, or, assert yourself as an African has been seriously compromised.
Tom Boy Jones 2 months ago

Mahama and his long English speeches! In the zero! Just loud and incompetent. Meanwhile people are demonstrating

Mahama and his long English speeches! In the zero! Just loud and incompetent. Meanwhile people are demonstrating
Kwadwo 2 months ago

@ Tom Boy Jones. Nonsense. You have just proudly exposed yourself as one of the overwhelming numbers of "distilled" illiterates who now control the Nkwasiafuor Peoples Party.

@ Tom Boy Jones. Nonsense. You have just proudly exposed yourself as one of the overwhelming numbers of "distilled" illiterates who now control the Nkwasiafuor Peoples Party.
Mr Acheampong 2 months ago

Will it identify the perpetrators as well?

Will it identify the perpetrators as well?
Koppong 2 months ago

Mahama, is this what you want to champion, for me is outdated
See our markets and fire everyday, see our roads with no pavements, see our single line railway, tap can not flowing to upper levels, see our police service shou ...
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Mahama, is this what you want to champion, for me is outdated
See our markets and fire everyday, see our roads with no pavements, see our single line railway, tap can not flowing to upper levels, see our police service should be reform into junior and senior appointments and abolished all the ranks
Lastly tackle the mosquitoes
Tom Boy Jones 2 months ago

Mahama and his long English speeches! In the zero! Just loud and incompetent. Meanwhile people are demonstrating incompetent Mahama like the duck is still incompetent

Mahama and his long English speeches! In the zero! Just loud and incompetent. Meanwhile people are demonstrating incompetent Mahama like the duck is still incompetent

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