{"id":5608,"date":"2026-04-13T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:11:18","slug":"france-open-to-engaging-on-slavery-reparations-says-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5608\/","title":{"rendered":"France open to engaging on slavery reparations, says Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ghana said France was open to having \u2060discussions with a coalition \u2060of countries that are calling \u2060for reparations for transatlantic slavery, following a meeting last week with President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ghana\u2019s President John Dramani Mahama, accompanied by Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and other officials, held talks with Macron in Paris on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ablakwa said on X after the meeting that Macron had indicated France was open to discussions on reparations, including the return of looted artefacts, addressing global economic inequities and dismantling structural racism.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An official from \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace said on Sunday that both countries discussed France\u2019s efforts to return culturally significant objects and \u2060human remains, as well as the legal frameworks around these restitutions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, addresses the UN General Assembly during a March event marking the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Photo: via dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f16853e2-20ea-4a0b-a09f-3881cf19ef1f_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, addresses the UN General Assembly during a March event marking the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Photo: via dpa\"\/>John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, addresses the UN General Assembly during a March event marking the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Photo: via dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The official did not mention \u200cthe additional measures cited by Ablakwa.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The meeting followed the United Nations\u2019 adoption last month of a Ghana-led resolution recognising slavery as the \u201cgravest crime \u200cagainst humanity\u201d and calling for reparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana said France was open to having \u2060discussions with a coalition \u2060of countries that are calling \u2060for reparations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4880,4879,36,5,445,4882,4861,30,4883,4878,4881,2626,2636,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-5608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-africans","9":"tag-crime-against-humanity","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-ghana","13":"tag-haiti","14":"tag-john-dramani-mahama","15":"tag-paris","16":"tag-reparations","17":"tag-samuel-okudzeto-ablakwa","18":"tag-slave-voyages","19":"tag-slavery","20":"tag-transatlantic-slavery","21":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}