West Africa: Meet the African-Americans returning to the continent

Issued on: 06/02/2020 – 16:46Modified: 06/02/2020 – 16:48

By: Emmanuelle SODJI | Emmanuelle LANDAIS | Jahëna LOUISIN

Last year, to mark four centuries since the start of slavery, Ghana launched a project to encourage people of African descent from around the world to visit their motherland. As a result, some 750,000 people heeded the call and travelled to the country in 2019. But some African-Americans have gone even further and have answered the call to settle and invest on the continent, transforming their trauma into an entrepreneurial fRead More – Source

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