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For nearly 150 years, Ghana was one of the key centres of the European slave trade on the West African coast. Anything between 10 million and 25 million Africans was sold, traded, and transported in the transatlantic slave trade. PHOTO | FILE
Last week, delegates from Ghana met in Kansas City with African-American leaders to formally apologise for the country's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
"It's time to say what needs to be said to all African Diaspora, and we must have the conversation and resolve our actions and inactions as rulers of our kingdoms during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which is deeply regretted," Nana Obokese Ampah I, the founder and president of the Obokese University of Excellence in Ghana, was quoted saying, according to Black Enterprise magazine.
