Ghana’s president calls for African control of its own resources [SOUND]

# The president of Ghana, John Mahama, has emphasised that Africa must reclaim sovereignty over its natural resources to secure the well-being of its people. Speaking at the 80th UN General Assembly, he linked today’s inequalities to slavery, colonialism, and centuries of extraction, calling the slave trade a crime against humanity. He urged an end to exploitative contracts urged Africans set the value of their resources and define their own economic future: