Slavery reparations

Lots of absolute tosh being talked today about slavery and its long-term impact.
African countries want $777 trillion (yes, trillion) in compensation. 10 times the entire world's GDP. Why? BECAUSE WHEN THEY SOLD THEIR SURPLUS LABOUR INTO SLAVERY IN THE ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN WORLD THEY UNDERCHARGED.

Also total rubbish to suggest that Africa is poor because of a policy carried out 200 years ago. After Ghana became independent, it was richer per head than South Korea. Compare them now. one still produces cocoa beans and the other makes mobile phones, cars, ships and everything else.
They had the advantage of a coherent culture, a region that was broadly stable after the Korean war stopped, but the main thing was education and good government. Nothing that Ghana couldn't have done.
Looking to slvaery as an alibi for failure doesn't help anyone. It doesn't help the black kids at school in the UK, and it doesn't help the Africans trying to get ahead either.

Nothing diminishes the horror of the practice of slavery, but it would help no end if the descendants of slaves would respond by getting the chip off their shoulder.