During his first two day working visit to Angola, US President, Joe Biden will not discuss slave trade reparations with Angola despite shared a history with the nation.
Having arrived on Tuesday, he will speak at the National Museum of Slavery in the Capital.
US outgoing president, Joe Biden on his two country tour of Africa made a stop on Tuesday in Angola for a two day visit. This is the first trip by a US president as the nation alongside the US marked a shared history in the Transatlantic slave trade.
Upon arrival, Biden will speak at the National Museum of Slavery in the capital Luanda, a site that resounds the 17th century chapel where enslaved people were forcibly been baptised before being sent to the Americas in chains.
Despite being a painful memory in the history of the country, Joe Biden will not discuss slave trade reparations during his trip as the focus will be on the railway project and the Lobito port which will transport minerals from DRC through Zambia to Angola and to the West.
Down memory lane, the first Africans who arrived the British Colony of Virginia in 1619 were captured in Angola. According to reports, overall 4 million Angolans were forcibly transported to the Americas, mostly Brazil but also to the now- United States.
In recent years, African leaders like Ghanaian outgoing President, Nana Dankwa Akufo Addo has been vocal on calling for slave trade reparations yet, no concrete resolution is yet to be taken.
The museum where he will speak was the former property of one of the largest enslavers on the African coast.
