Ghana's President Mahama has received the African Union's backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic ...

A Maine-based historical fiction author has released a novel aimed at preserving the truth about the horrors African ...

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the ...

At the most recent African Union summit held in Addis Ababa, Ghana secured the inclusion on the agenda of an initiative calling on the United Nations ...

Move would formally acknowledge historical crimes and advance dialogue on reparatory justice, says John Mahama - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has rallied his colleague ministers across Africa to support Ghana’s effort to table a motion on slavery at the UN next month on behalf of the ...

President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana will table a landmark resolution before the United Nations General Assembly in March, ...

I. What is slavery? ---- II. A history of transatlantic slavery. 1. African pasts --- 2. Why Africans? --- 3. Why slavery? --- 4. Operation of the slave trade ---- III. Liverpool: Capital of the ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.

President John Dramani Mahama will table a landmark resolution before the United Nations General Assembly in March, seeking ...