Publisher at the Africa Briefing, Jonathan Offei-Ansah, has advised Ghana and other African countries to give up on seeking restitution from their former colonial masters.

He asserted that the continent doesn't need leader who come to power for their personal gains, but those who will nurture the nation's natural and people riches to create opportunity for all of its citizens.

“The issue of reparation began long ago; even in America, they are talking about reparation to African Americans. But one has to be realistic. This is arguable, but I believe that it is a mirage to talk about reparations. I believe it is never going to happen.

“What we need today as Africans is good leadership, good governance, leadership that will serve the people, that will have the welfare of the whole nation at heart. Not leadership that comes in to serve themselves,” he said in a TV3 interview on Monday," he said in a TV3 interview on Monday, Septemeber 19.

He added that even if Africa gets reparations, it will be when it is united, and its demands come from a position of strength and not in its current state.

The publisher also said that African leaders must be wary of the presence of the Chinese on the continent. According to him, the Chinese are only in Africa to rob the continent of its natural resources.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of a four-day summit with diaspora participants in August 2022, President Akufo-Addo argued that Africa deserved compensation for the slave trade.

He said the effect of the slave trade was being felt today as a result of the drain it had on the population and development of the continent. He insisted that calls for reparation for the slave trade were long overdue.

“Reparations for Africa and the African Diaspora are long overdue. Predictably, the question of reparation becomes a debate only when it comes to Africa and Africans. We believe the calls for reparations for Africa are just,” President Akufo-Addo said.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has reopened the reparation debate in many African countries. Some have said the Britain monarchy must return all the historic artefacts they took from African countries and also repay the African Continent for the resources, both human and material, it used to develop the United Kingdom during the eras of slavery and colonialism.