The first African World Reparations and Repatriation Truth Commission Conference

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1999
Accra, Ghana

Organized by Dr Hamet Maulana and Mrs Debra Kofie, this conference calls for all international debt owed by Africa to the be 'unconditionally cancelled' and for the west to pay Africa $777 trillion for their role in enslaving Africans and colonizing the continent. Held on 12 August 1999, the Commission promises to set up an international team of lawyers from Africa and the Diaspora to pursue all legal means to collect the money, and issues a declaration entitled 'The Accra Declaration on Reparations and Repatriation'.