Tag Archives: SLAVERY

The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Rev. Mathew Gyamfi Akwasi, has said that there are still push factors fuelling slavery under different names in the world today. He mentioned economic slavery and brain drain where skilled people were leaving their countries in droves for greener pastures abroad as …

As the Dutch government is issuing apologies for their role in slavery which lasted for 250 years, we the natives of Ahanta in Ghana demand justice for Badu Bonso II and all Ahantas who were massacred upon instructions of Williams I of Netherlands in 1838. We demand that the head …

  Stories of slavery continue to come up at the top of the things that people want to know about the continent, its people, and its history. And with no specific numbers ever available to refer to, there is no doubt that many millions of Africans were sold into slavery …

Better late than never. That was the general reaction to Prince Charles’ opening speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali on Friday. The prince will succeed his mother as head of the organization — an association of independent states that emerged out of the ashes of the …

The Government of Ghana has protested a Cable News Network (CNN) documentary for its poor reflection of efforts by government to address the detestable practice of child labour on the Volta Lake. CNN, in the past week, has been airing a documentary which highlights the history and impact of the …