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This sculpture in the US by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the slave trade
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has demanded the payment of reparations to African nations for the historical injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. He said the world had for centuries been unwilling and unable to confront the consequences of slave trade.Quote Message: “It is time to acknowledge openly that much of Europe and the United States have been built from the vast wealth harvested from the sweat, tears, blood and horrors of the transatlantic slave trade."
He said “reparations must be paid" - adding that while no money would make up for the horrors of slave trade, it would make the point that millions of “productive” Africans were put to work without compensation.
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