African and Caribbean nations formally demand slavery reparations and apologies

Approximately 12-15 million African men, women, and children were captured and trafficked to the Americas as slaves from the 15th-19th centuries, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls.

In Accra this week, African and Caribbean nations gave formal voice to a demand centuries in the making — for apologies, debt relief, cultural restitution, and a global reparations fund to address the transatlantic slave trade's enduring wounds. A 19-point plan emerged from a three-day conference, arriving in the wake of a UN resolution recognizing slavery as humanity's gravest crime, though neither document carries binding force. The wealthy nations most implicated — the United Kingdom, the United States — have declined to accept legal or financial responsibility, even as history records that

African and Caribbean nations formally demand slavery reparations and apologies

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