00:01Ghana is using music and diplomacy to push a powerful message at the UN.
00:06President John Mahama says the transatlantic slave trade must be recognized as the gravest crime against humanity rooted in the
00:14dehumanization of African lives.
00:16The atrocities that were committed against enslaved Africans, the myriads of injustice that were born of slavery
00:24and carried forward into successive social framework took place specifically because those persons were considered objects, not human beings.
00:40Ghana's foreign minister explains the importance of the resolution his country submitted at the UN.
00:48It has to be put in context. We are not ranking pain. We are not saying that our pain should
00:55be valued more than your pain.
00:58But when you hear some Western leaders say that this is a matter in the past, let's live it in
01:04the past.
01:05We are only looking forward. That, with all due respect, is a very insensitive thing to say.
01:13It means that you still do not value our dignity. You do not value our self-worth.
01:23How can you just look at us in the face and say, leave these matters in the past?
01:28Why have you not left other matters in the past? Why has the Holocaust not been left in the past?
01:35Ghana's foreign ministry is now ramping up efforts to document and preserve the historical evidence of slavery and the transatlantic
01:42slave trade.
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