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@DailyLoud Listen, i definitely dont like mosquitoes, but damn cant we be humane a little bit. For fuck sake give them a fighting chance. This is a crime

Hong Kong engineer built a mosquito defense system that uses LiDAR and lasers to vaporize 30 mosquitoes per second 👀

@west_bernard Thought Metro Mass is for inter city transport. How does this solve the transport situation within Accra and its environs🤔

About 300 pieces coming wai 😭😭😭😭

@LilithBlack25 Africa countries are allergic to the word unity

I don't see African countries collectively uniting against imperialism anytime soon

@SIKAOFFICIAL1 Is it a case that people don't cherish their freedom or its just crass stupidity. Cos, why will u threaten a judge

“Even Agradaa was released. If you don’t release Kwame I will shoot and kill you” —Seemingly agitated supporter of Abu Trica threatens to kill the judge overseeing the extradition case of Frederick Kumi. [🎥: datnews_]

@ghonetv But I thought the doctors said there was no space

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@RocksonSoul1 My direct ancestor on my father's side

Otumfoɔ Badu Bonsu II waged a war against gun trading and slave trade in his kingdom, he beheaded 2 Dutch officials and hanged their heads on his place walls. He used less than 100 men to defeat the Gold Coast Dutch Governor’s army at present day Takoradi within 30 minutes. NB: the image was made by a Dutch Lieutenant in 1838 before he was beheaded.

@exgtplus @barkervogues @Manasseh_Azure Says who. There were many upper-class families, especially along the coast that made a lot of money from the slave. Rev Philip Quarcoe's father was a wealthy slave merchant in Cape Coast in the early 1700s

@KojoKeelson @barkervogues @Manasseh_Azure No because on our side it was not a lucrative business, but it is to the buyer so they must be accountable….

Letter to my dear Bongo Brother! 1. This letter is addressed to my brother Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure). But in truth it is intended to be read by all interested in the conversations evoked by his recent writings. 2. Precisely because of that wider target audience, I apologize in advance. For my writing will be a little dense and perhaps too academic for how I usually write on social media. 3. For all who follow me; you know that I try to separate my academic work from how I engage here because I want to carry along the most amount of people when I write. Many say they appreciate how I make law accessible. 4. But issues at hand beget their own manner of responding. The issues are at once academic and dense, so forgive. 5. Manasseh is correct. Correct in that African merchant involvement as middlemen in this barbaric enterprise must be catalogued and be part of the broader reparations conversation. 6. Now in having that conversation we must do so to educate and enlighten so we can better acknowledge how we too repair. YES ! WE TOO MUST REPAIR! 7. My worry however, is that we must be careful that we do not tether too closely to the ever regressive argument which holds that the participation of African merchants and polities in the transatlantic slave trade somehow negates or dilutes the moral and legal case for holistic repair. 8. Still, this line of reasoning which many find in your writing, deserves serious engagement, because it touches on genuine historical complexity. Yet, I find that it ultimately rests on a conflation of complicity with causation; or worse, it conflates moral imperfection with an imposed forfeiture of justice. 8. Now, let us be precise about what the historical record shows. Yes, African rulers, merchants, and intermediaries participated in the capture and sale of enslaved persons. 9. This is neither new scholarship nor a suppressed truth. It has been extensively documented by historians from Walter Rodney to Toyin Falola. The question is not whether this happened. The question here is what follows from it, legally and morally. 10. This is what I feel you address inelegantly, if at all! 11. Consider an instructive parallel. During the Holocaust, some Jews run the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst, Jewish police units in the ghettos tasked with maintaining order and, in some cases, facilitating deportations to extermination camps. 12. The moral anguish of that role has been the subject of profound reflection, from Hannah Arendt’s controversial treatment of the Judenräte to more recent and more sympathetic scholarship recognising the impossible conditions under which these individuals operated. And yet no serious person has ever suggested that the existence of the Ordnungsdienst undermines the case for Holocaust reparations, restitution, or even the basic moral claim that what was done to the Jewish people constituted an unparalleled crime. 13. The reason is straightforward: the system was not designed, or imposed, by its victims, even where some among the victimised were drawn into its machinery as key players. 14. The same structural logic applies to the transatlantic trade. The system of racialised chattel slavery that defined the Atlantic world from the sixteenth century onward was conceived, financed, legislated, and enforced by European powers and their colonial successors. 15. The legal architecture of the Code Noir, the Slave Codes of the British Caribbean and the American South, the asientos, the joint-stock companies chartered by European crowns: none of this originated in Africa. African participation occurred within a system whose terms, prices, destinations, and ultimate purposes were determined by external demand. 16. To put it bluntly, treating the middleman as the architect is to confuse a distorted market response with the market’s creation.

@Joy997FM This is the funniest shit I have seen on the internet today🤣

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@GeorgeAnagli How about it improving account balance

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@kwakuasanteb This is an exercise in futility. The US and Europe are never gonna pay reparations. It's not gonna happen today, and it's not gonna happen in a 100yrs' time. Let focus on harnessing our resources to the benefit of our people and generation unborn

The United States was built, structurally and economically, on the labour of enslaved Africans. The cotton that financed American industrialisation was picked by enslaved hands. Think about the audacity of that NO vote. A country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom and democracy and human rights looked at a resolution acknowledging one of the greatest crimes in human history and decided that acknowledging it was a step too far.

@scottbolshevik But everybody seems to pick on the Asantes, and no one else. And by the way, I am Fante, and some Fante states were deeply involved and benefited from the slave trafficking

@KojoKeelson Am not trying to defend any state. It’s right you stated it

If the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is recognised as one of the gravest crimes against humanity, then consistency demands that all key actors are held to account. The Ashanti Empire also played an indispensable role: 1. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated 12–12.5 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic, with roughly 10–20% originating from the Gold Coast region under strong Ashanti influence, including innocent people torn from their families 2. Acted as middlemen between European traders and inland populations, controlling vital trade routes 3. Integrated the slave trade into its political economy, much like Western powers did within the global system A complete conversation on reparations cannot ignore any side of this history

@TheDumbTechGuy It's also likely a great great great uncle or auntie was a victim

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.

@scottbolshevik Denkyira was involved in the slave trafficking in the 1600s. And so were many other kingdoms and tribes at the time

@KojoKeelson What if the Denkyira people weren’t interested in slave trade. Because the Ashanti have a footprint in slave trade

@JasperZiggle The funny thing about Cape Coast is that some people tried the trotro business and failed. No Cape Coaster will take a troto ride within the town, yet as soon as the pragia comes to town, everyone is patronising it

🚨🇬🇭Abura Cape coast 🇬🇭 - no taxis, pragia only 😁

@yaron__zango The FBA have repeatedly distanced themselves from the transatlantic slave trafficking. They claim to natives or Jews or something else and are not descendents of enslaved Africans. Wat the hell were they even doing at the burial grounds

ngl i’m surprised the administration didn’t do more working getting black america involved. it is not enough meeting the naacp (this is not the 60s or 70s) or al sharpton. there are contemporary thought leaders you should engage.

@ComfortLolaa Thank God am allergic to good women

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@i_am_nunya The Ashanti kingdom literally came into existence in the 1700s after they defeated the Denkyira kingdom. Who then was collaborating with the Europeans slave traders during the 1500s and the 1600s. We seem to cherry pick on the Asantes while leaving out others who were involved

Again, Ashanti’s weren’t the only people involved. Almost all coastal/southern tribes participated. The Ashanti are a good example because their influence is bigger and better documented. They conducted the business very intentionally and hoped it continued when it ended.

@S_OkudzetoAblak Can someone please explain or put it in the proper context . Are we gonna get the reparations we are seeking. And if we are, how much are we getting . And is it gonna be Africa and the diaspora or every person of African descent irrespective of where u are get a piece of the pie

We did it for Africa and all people of African descent.