Nigeria, April 6 -- Finally, the recent United Nations' landmark resolution that the transatlantic slave trade, spanning over four centuries, was the "greatest crime against humanity," calls a spade squarely by its name, and with moral clarity. This declaration affirms the necessity of a common ethos across the globe, in speaking to all that's undesirable in the human experience, beyond unequal power relations and situations.

Sponsored by Ghana, with the support of the African Union (AU) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) States, the UN General Assembly set aside 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, to give impetus to the crusade for a formal apology from the perpetrators of this evil and reparations...