“Inalienable right of Africans and people of African descent to full reparations”, asserts Accra Declaration

Ghana’s president John Mahama unveiled a plan for visa-free travel between African countries in his keynote address to an international conference organized by the Pan-African Progressive Front to commemorate eighty years of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress.

November 23, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni

Asserting the “inalienable right of Africans and people of African descent to full reparations” for “slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and systemic exploitation”, an international Pan-African conference on November 18 and 19 adopted the Accra Declaration on Reparatory Justice.

Mandating the establishment of a “Pan-African Reparatory Justice Coordinating Committee” and laying out the next steps to be taken, the Accra declaration signalled “a new era of coordinated global action on reparatory justice,” said the Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF).

A global platform undertaking research, advocacy, and grassroots mobilization to strengthen the Pan-African movement, the PPF organized this event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress in October 1945 in Manchester, England.

Over 250 delegates from across Africa and African communities in the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe gathered for this conference at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Ghana’s capital, Accra.”