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Somewhat a bold move for Ghana. Only a few years ago a few of their MPs were terrified of highlighting anything to do with either the Trans-Saharan or Trans-Atlantic slave trade because of the heavy involvement from some local ethnic groups in capturing, transporting, and selling slaves. Which is not honestly actuate considering the lies and economic pressure from the Europeans. Probably just turned the corner after their Year of The Return stuff was so successful.
Yeah, there's more than a whiff of revisionism going on here. Not that they're wrong about the specific issue.
I wonder why a colonized country still suffering from neo-colonialism didn't want to accuse their colonizers.
Not the whole country, just a handful of MPs. But they were senior MPs and well-respected. These guys were genuinely worried about this.
And it was because they thought they'd be on the hook financially for reparations, which Ghana can't afford. Especially for the groups who were coastal and "let" the Europeans get a foothold there. Basically a financial penalty for not themselves dying to prevent the Portuguese lamdbin Elmina (In before the Brits).
Also, they worried, IMO rightfully, about the Western propensity towards making blanket decisions that affect the developing world and not caring. UN level reparations policy might very well penalize source countries in some zero-nuance fuck up. Look at us. We are a zero nuance fuck up place right now.
Any "senior MP" is guaranteed to have been installed quite a while ago by the West. Ghana certainly wouldn't be on the hook for reparations. In no way did (what's currently) Ghana gain any kind of generational wealth from slavery. A few warlord mercenaries backed by European powers certainly did but that's basically the same as a few corrupt people benefiting from neo-colonialism.
Wow, how positively denigrating. "Those poor Africans can't even manage their own elections," hm?
Educated in the US or UK, maybe. Installed? LOL. Local elections in Ghana are hotly contested at times and tied to ethic group, family, and age more than anything external. I've seen plenty in person. There are plenty of average, and even well-educated Ghanaians that think slave castles should be torn down, not out of abhorance for the practice of slavery, but rather out of shame for having been a part of it.
And it's been a pretty rapid turn since Ghana brought the issue of reparations to the UK parliament and didn't get immediately shut down. So they have momentum that has quieted the more hesitant MPs. 6 or 7 years to pivot? Now it's about the money.
Please don't forget, this is the same county that buried their only skate park because it might "introduce homosexuality to the youth." Don't assume anything about their politics until you've spent time there experiencing it.