The West African nation was one of the main gateways for the transatlantic slave trade.

*The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” in a resolution proposed by Ghana. The measure urges member states to consider ...

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations passed a resolution that declared the trans atlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity. In the vote cast, 123 nations voted in favour, the USA, ...

We are not exactly sure how much of a victory the United Nations’ recognition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” really is, given that the General Assembly ...

AFA copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Ghana and the transatlantic slave trade / Rebecca Shumway -- "Tied up" : slave relics in traditional political leadership in Burugu, ...

Chenzira Kahina, former president at the Caribbean studies association, speaks at the Africa Union reparation conference held in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu) ACCRA, ...

The nation's first Black vice president said the "anguish that reeks from this place" must never be forgotten, slighting U.S. lawmakers who have worked to suppress discussions of race in classrooms ...

The UN has adopted a historic resolution declaring slavery "a grave human rights violation." DW unpacks what the measure means to Ghana, which put it forward, and the United States, among the three ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago ...

Ghana has welcomed Pope Leo XIV's apology for the Catholic Church's historic role in slavery, describing it as an act of moral ...