Pay Africa reparations for slavery, colonialism

The continent's economy suffered a huge setback due to the loss of its productive manpower. [iStockphoto]

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has revived the subject of reparations to Africa for the monstrous injustice meted on the continent by the slave trade.

He is right. When the story of Africa's underdevelopment is told, sometimes derisively, no one mentions the debilitating impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on Africa, and the Arab slave trade before it.