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The Black Americans Gentrifying Ghana

On January 20, Christa Núñez, a 51-year-old Cornell Ph.D. student and mother of three, booked five one-way tickets to Ghana. “It just happened to be Inauguration Day,” Núñez told me. It was a humid ...
University of Dayton

A perspective on Juneteenth, from Ghana

Students last June traveled to Ghana, where they joined African American expatriates in a daylong celebration of Juneteenth. Associate professor Shannen Dee Williams shares the students’ journey and ...
Skift

Ghana’s Return Tours Tap Celebrity African Americans – And Overlook a Reality

Ghana’s push to attract more African Americans to visit and invest makes sense, but using celebrities to drive the campaign is problematic. Not least, two years of pandemic means residents will ...
Black Enterprise

These Black Celebs Are Now Ghanaian Citizens As Ghana’s ‘Year Of Return’ Program Expands

Black Americans have obtained Ghanaian citizenship through its 'Beyond The Return' program. Black celebrities are returning to ancestral lands in an official way. Many obtained Ghanaian citizenship as ...
Afro

Op-ed: Ghana’s Fight for Black America

Ghana has always been dubbed the “Gateway to Africa,” and rightly so. From its geographical location on the West Coast to its warm greetings from the people, even down to the relatively low instances ...