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Ghanaian president urges reparations for Africa over slave trade

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. [Xinhua]

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday called for reparations for Africa over the effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the continent.

Akufo-Addo made the appeal at the opening of the Accra Reparations Conference in the Ghanaian capital of Accra, describing these reparations as long overdue.

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