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  "path": "/thought-leader/opinion/2026-04-22-beyond-africans-sold-africans-what-ghanas-un-slavery-motion-demands/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T11:52:10.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Opinion",
    "Thought Leader",
    "African Union",
    "Argentina",
    "Decade of Action on Reparations",
    "General Assembly",
    "GHANA",
    "Israel",
    "opinion",
    "President John Dramani Mahama",
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  "textContent": "Almost immediately after the vote, critics in Ghana and beyond have argued that Africans, having participated in the slave trade, cannot frame it as the gravest crime against humanity and seek reparations without first confronting their own complicity",
  "title": "Beyond “Africans sold Africans”: What Ghana’s UN slavery motion demands"
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