Africa: Slavery, A Global Demand for Apology, Reparations

25 September 2000
African Church Information Service (Nairobi)

Nairobi — Former Secretary General of the Accra-based Organisation of African Trade Union Unity OATUU James Dennis Akumu has described a Pan-African conference held here last month as "a great contribution to the struggle for the liberation of Africa and a step toward unity of our Motherland".

In a paper entitled A Global Demand for Apology and Reparations, the veteran trade unionist paid tribute to key Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. DuBois and Kwame Nkrumah saying that it was "such modest but determined efforts which have sustained the African struggle in Africa and globally".

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