Why Accra slavery reparatory justice meeting matters
From apology to action: the renewed push for slavery reparations amid questions over delivery.
![Performers present a reenactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Christiansborg Castle, a former slave post, during a high-level consultative conference on the next steps to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, in Accra, Ghana [Francis Kokoroko/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-19T194555Z_291660089_RC2ZWLA37JWD_RTRMADP_3_GHANA-SLAVERY-1782305783.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
From apology to action: the renewed push for slavery reparations amid questions over delivery.
![Performers present a reenactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Christiansborg Castle, a former slave post, during a high-level consultative conference on the next steps to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, in Accra, Ghana [Francis Kokoroko/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-19T194555Z_291660089_RC2ZWLA37JWD_RTRMADP_3_GHANA-SLAVERY-1782305783.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)








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Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.