President Mahama to lead Ghana’s delegation to the UN special session on reparatory justice.

President John Dramani Mahama will leave Accra on Monday for New York and Pennsylvania for a historic visit centred on reparatory justice and the commemoration of victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

The President will convene and deliver the keynote address at a High-Level Special Event on Reparatory Justice at the United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday. The event, on the theme “Reparatory Justice for the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans,” will bring together world leaders and high-level dignitaries to address this critical matter of historical injustice.

On Wednesday, President Mahama will address the UN General Assembly during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

President Mahama will present Ghana’s position, which has been adopted by the African Union (AU) on a landmark resolution to declare “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.”

The visit will commence with a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the African Burial Grounds Memorial in New York on Tuesday, paying tribute to the memory of enslaved Africans.

President Mahama’s itinerary includes a visit to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he will deliver a keynote speech and engage the Ghanaian community at Temple University.