‘We have paid the price in the blood of our ancestors’: Britain faces new UN push for slavery reparations worth trillions from African and Caribbean nations
Britain and other former colonial powers face a fresh demand from African and Caribbean states to atone and make reparations for the historic slave trade that could cost taxpayers trillions of pounds.
The president of Ghana used a speech at the United Nations in New York today to attack the ‘deafening silence’ from European states ‘enriched’ by the abduction and forced labour of more than 12 million Africans over four centuries.
John Dramani Mahama lashed out before he presents a new resolution, backed by the African Union and Caribbean states, seeking formal recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as a ‘grave crime against humanity’.
What about the wrongs of black people that were slavers and sold other blacks to Arab Muslims and Europeans? Arab and Black Muslims that enslaved whites decades after slavery was outlawed in western countries? pic.twitter.com/FYV2XyG1O5
— j newnam (@jnewnam2) March 22, 2026
