Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t | Kenneth Mohammed

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations The most revealing thing about Ghana’s UN resolution was not that it passed. It was who could not bring themselves to stand with it. On 25 March, the UN general assembly adopted the Ghana-led resolution by 123 votes to three, with 52 abstentions. It declared that the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans was “the gravest crime ...

By Kenneth Mohammed