President Mahama calls for honest teaching of slavery’s legacy

President John Mahama has called for African nations to confront the legacy of slavery and colonialism more honestly, urging that future generations be taught the full history of the transatlantic slave trade rather than a sanitised version of events." The president said growing international recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as one of history's gravest crimes is helping to deepen public understanding of its lasting consequences." President Mahama said his own education placed greater emphasis on the abolition movement than on the scale and brutality of the transatlantic slave trade.