GHANA WELCOMES 500+ DIASPORA AS NEW CITIZENS

Ghana is leading the way in reconnecting diaspora Africans to the continent. It’s just welcomed 524 newly minted Ghanaian citizens from all over the world at a special ceremony in Accra. As this video shows, they were clearly delighted to be reconnecting to their ancestral roots.

President Akufo-Addo told them, “Your ancestors left these shores in circumstances that were tragic and inhumane. Today, we embrace you as our own - as fellow citizens of this nation and as part of the Ghanaian family."

The programme was first launched in the Year of Return in 2019, commemorating 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas through the so-called ‘door of no return.’