Wayne Lumbasi
Ghana is preparing to shake the foundations of the international community with a historic motion at the United Nations. The West African nation is demanding that the transatlantic slave trade be officially recognised as the greatest crime against humanity, a declaration that will force the world to confront a truth many have tried to bury.
For centuries millions of Africans were torn from their homes, chained, brutalized, and sold into a system that powered the rise of empires and built the wealth of nations across Europe and the Americas. Yet the full weight of this atrocity has never been given the recognition it deserves.
This move is more than symbolic. It is a call for moral clarity and historical justice. Ghana is insisting that the memory of the enslaved must no longer be diluted or overshadowed by selective narratives of world history. The slave trade was not a side note but a defining crime that shaped modern civilization while leaving deep wounds that are still visible today in systemic poverty, racial divisions, and cultural dislocation.
Ghana’s motion at the United Nations General Assembly will mark a turning point in global consciousness.
This motion will open the door to renewed conversations on reparations and accountability for the powers that built their prosperity through centuries of human suffering.
This motion will also challenge the world to confront the uncomfortable fact that the modern international order itself rests on the blood and sacrifice of enslaved Africans.
Ghana is not simply speaking for itself. It is speaking for an entire continent and for generations whose voices were silenced in chains. This motion dares the world to finally name slavery for what it was the greatest crime against humanity and to reckon with the consequences that continue to shape our present.
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