Delegates to the reparations summit in Ghana agreed to create a Global Reparations Fund to compensate Africans for the slave trade.
People of African descent around the world continue to be “victims of systematic racial discrimination and racial attacks,” says a recent report from a UN special forum that has endorsed the idea of reparations as “the cornerstone of justice in the 21st century.”
“It is time for Africa to get redress,” Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo told a conference attended by senior government officials from across Africa as well as members of the diaspora.
In addition to the fund, which will be overseen by a committee of experts established by the African Union Commission in cooperation with African countries, “a special envoy will be involved in campaigns as well as trials and trials,” the African Union said.
Delegates to the Accra conference did not say how the fund would function.