Mahama welcomes UK openness to slavery apology, calls move ‘watershed moment’

President John Dramani Mahama has welcomed the United Kingdom’s openness to a formal apology for the transatlantic slave trade, describing the development as a watershed moment in the international campaign for reparatory justice.The development follows growing international calls for reparatory justice, particularly after the adoption of a Ghana-led United Nations resolution recognising the transatlantic slave trade and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.