Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Aleem Maqbool reports from Cape Coast, Ghana, as the country leads a global campaign for reparations from nations and institutions that profited from the transatlantic slave trade.

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00:00 Ghana's fight for slavery reparations
02:56 Archbishop of Canterbury: "We have to apologise."
03:42 Ghana Foreign Minister: "Ghana was the crime scene" for slavery.
04:44 Ghanaians who apologise for the "complicity" of their ancestors
07:10 The generational legacy of slavery

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