MAHAMA TAKES GHANA’S MORAL CRUSADE TO THE WORLD

2026-03-26 - 00:02

In a solemn chamber that has witnessed the convulsions of nations and the birth of resolutions that shaped the modern world, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama stepped to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and staked his country — and the African continent — on the right side of history. His mission was not ceremonial.It was surgical. Speaking on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, President Mahama formally presented a landmark draft resolution on behalf of the African Group, calling on the global community to declare the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialised chattel enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against humanity ever perpetrated. The resolution, if adopted, would be the most consequential moral reckoning the United Nations has attempted since the Holocaust resolutions of