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<KAParr@ship.edu> Reparation for slave trade not best approach -JAK Elmina, March 26, GNA - Genuine remorse should be the way forward to atone for the pain and heinous crimes of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, President John Agyekum Kufuor has advocated. It is estimated that about 10 million Africans were forcibly uprooted and shipped out of the Continent under the most barbaric and inhuman conditions across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americans and Caribbean during the trade. Speaking at a ceremony to both commemorate 200 years of its abolition and Ghana's 50 years of nationhood held at the Elmina Castle in the Central Region, President Kufuor said since some Africans played a facilitating role during the trade the question of payment of reparation was not the best approach. Full article available at: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=121462 Source: GNA [Ghana News Agency] _________________________________________________________________________________________ Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, Ph. D. Assoc. Prof. of African History & World History Dept of History Shippensburg University Shippensburg, PA 17257 U.S.A. Phone: 717 477 1286 Fax: 717 477 4062 Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, Ph. D. Assoc. Prof. of African History & World History Dept of History Shippensburg University Shippensburg, PA 17257 U.S.A. Phone: 717 477 1286 Fax: 717 477 4062
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