President John Dramani Mahama will depart Accra on Monday for New York and Pennsylvania as leader of Ghana’s delegation to a special session by the United Nations.
President Mahama is scheduled to convene and deliver the keynote address at a High-Level Special Event on Reparatory Justice themed: ‘Reparatory Justice for the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans’.
The event on Tuesday at the UN Headquarters aims to bring together world leaders and dignitaries to address 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.
He will also present Ghana’s position, adopted by the African Union (AU), on a landmark resolution declaring “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.”
This latest trip by Ghana’s leader is a historic one focused on reparatory justice and commemoration of victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a statement said on Sunday.
Signed by the Minister of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the statement noted that the visit will begin with a wreath-laying ceremony at the African Burial Grounds Memorial in New York, paying tribute to enslaved Africans.
President Mahama’s itinerary includes a visit to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he will deliver a keynote speech, and an engagement with the Ghanaian community at Temple University.