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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 ...
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What a Food Trip to Ghana Taught Me About My Black American Identity

The airplane shook hard as it maneuvered between slate gray storm clouds on our descent into Accra, Ghana. From my window seat, I scanned the ground below: Commercial buildings, homes, and sparse ...
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African American reactions to the restoration of Ghana's "slave castles"

Extracted from: Public archaeology (London) 3 (4) 2004, pages 195-204. Illustrations. Explores the contradictory positions of African Americans and Ghanaians vis-a-vis the restoration of Elmina Castle ...
Black Enterprise

Spike Lee Urges African Americans To ‘Come Back To The Motherland’ In Africa

Spike Lee wants African Americans to tap into their roots in the African motherland. Spike Lee is fully immersed in his ambassadorship role in Benin, where he’s urging African Americans to reconnect ...
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Monuments and the experience of historical reality : African Americans and Ghana's slave castles on a transnational landscape

Paper presented at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress in Washington, DC, June 21-26, 2003. The Ghanaian authorities planned to restore Cape Coast and Elmina Castles as memorials to the ...
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‘The waiting hurts’: Ghana’s citizenship pause tests country’s pan-African promise

When Ghana announced a temporary suspension of citizenship applications for people of African descent, officials framed it as a technical pause – a chance to fix bottlenecks, cut costs and simplify ...