President John Dramani Mahama will lead a high-level Ghanaian delegation to New York and Pennsylvania from Monday, March 23, 2026, for a visit focused on reparatory justice and commemorating victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
The President will departs Accra on Monday for the multi-day trip.
The announcement was made and signed by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Minister for Government Communications and Spokesperson to the President.
President Mahama will commence the visit with a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the African Burial Ground Memorial in New York to pay tribute to enslaved Africans.
He is scheduled to convene and deliver the keynote address at a High-Level Special Event on Reparatory Justice at UN Headquarters on Tuesday.
The event, themed “Reparatory Justice for the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans,” will gather world leaders and dignitaries to address the matter of historical injustice.
During the visit, President Mahama will address the UN General Assembly during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Wednesday, March 26, 2026.
He will present Ghana’s position, adopted by the African Union on a landmark resolution to announce “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.”
The President’s itinerary will also includes a visit to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where the President will deliver a keynote speech, followed by an engagement with the Ghanaian community at Temple University.
Source: Ernest Kelvin Okanta
