For God and Man

@visegrad24 The reparations we are asking for is simple! Return the loot and artifacts! Ask France to revoke the France / Franco Africa agreement. Full independence to countries like Comoros. Isn’t that simple!

Ghana needs to pay reparations for its hideous role in the slave trade!

@chase_esach @Bossy___ You can’t pay 80% of the cost to travel from Accra to Kumasi or even Kasoa to Accra. It’s just not feasible. It’s not possible and it can’t be done without government subsidies.

@ForGodandMan233 @Bossy___ What are you comparing it to? It will definitely be cheaper than air. It will be a little pricier than road depending on the class but definitely faster and safer than it. And I dare say the cost would be affordable for the masses when they compare their options.

put a forken train here to make work efficient and for people to park their cars at home for christ sake

@chase_esach @Bossy___ What gives you all the funny idea that rail is cheap? Just use the Takoradi situation as a case study? What were the problems ? It wasn’t patronage, revenues simply doesn’t meet operating costs.

@chase_esach @Bossy___ We will go by bus from Accra to Kumasi, if you can afford to fly you would fly. We won’t burden the gov expenditure with more debt.

@chase_esach @Bossy___ Being bilingual means I keep up to date with news and happenings from Franco Africa and Anglo Africa, if you had that info you won’t think the TER was a good idea and remains a good investment. Senegalese themselves will disagree with you.

@ForGodandMan233 @Bossy___ Being bilingual means nothing. Ghana at at point struggled and is bouncing back. Senegal can do same. I didn’t want to talk about management because you could have the same resources but one would do better than the other when resources are managed well.

@chase_esach @Bossy___ So what do you think it would cost? Answer that?

@ForGodandMan233 @Bossy___ There’s no public info and data supporting your claim.

@chase_esach @Bossy___ Hahahahahaha! There’s plenty.

@scottbolshevik An estimate of what? The value of the looted, stolen artifacts ? Or an estimate of how much France milks from Africa? Which is which ?

@ForGodandMan233 It’s an estimate

The Brattle Group estimates that slavery reparations could reach $130 billion over twice the current GDP of Ghana. Perhaps it’s time Africans did their own estimates rather than relying solely on a Western institution. This United Nations General Assembly resolution is the first step in moving that number from academic theory to international policy.

@arthurwatkins We know what you’re doing! You’ll soon start asking for “fundraisers” lol 😂

The crazy part is they go into our Lives and X Spaces looking for validation.

@arthurwatkins Wait but what exactly is your problem? Ghana’s ask of reparations is simple, “Return all loots and artifacts”, “Revoke the France and Franco Africa system”, “Full independence for countries like Comoros”. What exactly has been taken from you in this ask? The artifacts ?

@bencobley Britain has made much more than that in less than half of a decade in Tax breaks, access to resources, mineral rights, maritime boundary access etc. Britain makes more in these negotiations than the aid they pass down.

Ghana received £2.8 billion in foreign aid from Britain just in the 20 years between 1997 and 2017. More recently, payments have fallen.

@i_am_nunya You people think the thing happened in a week eh! lol 😂

This! Someone you don’t know gave you guns and the first thing you thought of was attacking your fellow blacks and not the Europeans. Fact is, they started liking the idea of simply selling humans they didn’t like for gunpowder and clothes.

@manny157058 @blackdetta It doesn’t make the corruption fueled by western multinationals and legitimized by their governments any better. When Ghana sought to find a resolution to corruption using restrictive measures from the west in 2018, what happened ? Denied and ignored.

@ForGodandMan233 @blackdetta The corruption we need to be most worried about is the corruption that is allowing Chinese companies to continue to exploit our resources

Now get yall ghanaian enslaving and human trafficking asses back to your country and work on stopping the corruption Leave our Black American justice claim to us No more "distant relation" colonizing

@chase_esach @Bossy___ But wait, how much do you think if a train run from Kumasi to Accra would it cost. Without subsidies? How much do you think you’d pay?

@ForGodandMan233 @Bossy___ First of all, how did you arrive at that cost?

@chase_esach @Bossy___ Do you understand what’s going on? I’m a bilingual I’m on both Franco and English forums. It is clear, Senegal is struggling with it. Senegal and Franco Africa have a different finance system. It is everywhere in their media that revenues are nowhere close to operational costs.

@ForGodandMan233 @Bossy___ If Senegal is struggling to afford it, how did they implement it? They even recently procured more trains to expand the service. I don’t think you know more than these people. They haven’t defaulted on their debt like Ghana.

@TheDumbTechGuy You think it was a jungle to don’t you? Through out history and pre-colonial history we’ve had a system of slavery, that was economic, that assimilated and re-educated people. Led by caboceers, who had a well elaborate system. It’s wasn’t haywire everyone trading!

If you a Ghanaian, you're quite likely to be the descendant of a slave trader. You're definitely not the descendant of a slave.

@DonkorST they could marry, their children were usually born free, and in certain circumstances they were assimilated into families or could change masters if mistreated. Bowdich and later writers noted that Ashanti society allowed greater social mobility and property right for some slaves

@DonkorST Bowdich observed that the institution of slavery in the Ashanti Empire was not the same as the plantation‑based chattel slavery known in the Atlantic world. Rather than being permanently excluded from society, many enslaved people in Ashanti households had recognized social roles

SLAVE TRADE, SLAVE DEALING AND SLAVERY: THE DISTINCTIONS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE 1. Over the last 48 hours, divergent commentary on slavery, slave dealing, and the slave trade has failed to draw a distinction that makes a difference. My focus here is on that. 2. At the outset, let me conduct a clarity of terms by attempting to define them. Slavery is the practice of owning another human in terms of property relations and reducing that person to chattel. The slave trade is a mercantile economy of exchange of slaves at a fee or barter. Slave dealing is the political, social, and legal relationships, including piracy, shipping, profiteering, merchantship, and licensing, that provide an economy for an effective and sustainable slave trade. 3. Often when the subject of slavaey is discussed, these distinctions are buried in the mix. The conflation has moral, legal, and economic effects on the attendant analyses. 4. No account of history can be made without appreciating forms of servitude and slavery among some ethno-cultural communities in Africa. The existence of such social, economic, and cultural practices is well documented as resulting from criminal punishment, wars, and conquest, and the practice of banishment & others. 5. It is thus not new to the student of history that slavery and slave trading were done in parts of Africa before Western contact. 6. However, a conversation on history cannot be reduced to a trade of abstract generic terms such as “slavery” without focus on nature, character, scope, and scale of activity itself. This is why the conversation is bereft of epistemic substance, if it reduces itself to: Society X engages in activity Y. Society B engages in activity Y. Therefore, societies X and B are both guilty of Y at the same level of moral culpability. 7. The nature of slavery and slave trading in parts of Africa before the Western trans-Atlantic slave trade & slave dealing was different both in character and scale. Generally, in terms of character, a slave was fundamentally considered a human person, with certain rights that were socially and culturally accepted. It was uncommon among these communities for a slave to be subject to a whip that broke bones, starved to death, raped, maimed, denied a fair trial, and justice. 8. The nature of slavery by the foreigner was different. Across the Americas and Europe, slaves were treated fundamentally as property. In the popular Antelope case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1825, slaves were deemed property of their owners and could be dealt with as their owners wished. They could be raped, sold as and when, tortured, subject to working conditions that devastated their health without any remedy before the courts or protection by the laws. 9. It is thus plainly wrong for the nature of slavery to be treated as one. The character of the surbodination varied in form and degree. And when we talk about foreign slavery, we must acknowledge these differing realities. 10. The industrial complex of the slave trade, what I call slave dealing, was entirely absent in Africa. Slave dealing was entirely an European invention. In America and across Europe, the slave trade became an investment. The shores of Havana and Florida were filled with ships, with complex financial entities issuing loans to slave dealers at interest. Ships dressed with canons were rented to slave dealers at a fee. Piracy became a common practice of hijacking ships at sea for the purpose of obtaining slaves on board and reselling them at a profit. This was slave dealing. 11. Through this, slaves were intentionally starved when being transported to reduce economic expense and make huge profits. On many occasions, slaves were thrown into the sea due to sickness and to reduce the risk of disease spreading as a means of making a profit. Slaves were forced to rape each other or were raped by merchants as a way of increasing the number of slaves through childbirth.