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Mahama: Stories of enslaved women must no longer be ‘footnotes’ in history

By Deborah Okailey Quarcoo

President John Dramani Mahama has called for a fundamental shift in how the transatlantic slave trade is documented and remembered, insisting that the experiences of enslaved women and girls must no longer be treated as “footnotes in history” but placed at the centre of global discussions on reparatory justice.