Back to the Roots: Black Americans Exploring their Heritage in Ghana
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2023
- For some tourists, Ghana might be associated with warm temperatures, the open sea, and great food - but many African Americans have very different associations when they come to visit. Some US travelers come here to reconnect with the stories of their ancestors - particulary the violent rupture in history that was international slave trade.
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Report: Isaak Kaleedzi
Editing: Elisabeth Yorck
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Let’s Go Ghana 🇬🇭 🌟💛
Sir, it's over 10,000 of us move to ghana 🇬🇭 from the USA alone already since 2019 and there were over 5000 living there already we are still moving every day from Europe the Caribbean, and Asia back to ghana it's our home where we belong. Our ancestors were taken by force to the west. It's time to come home my Hebrew people, it's time and it's now. Shalom
But they should explore other nations like South Africa ,Kenia ,Zimbabwe for "softer landings" as Ghana has harsh conditions.
@@pietrojenkins6901 stopped giving false information about Ghana. It has soft landing for all black disapora
@@pietrojenkins6901 What harsh conditions are you talking about?
@@pietrojenkins6901 masa don't take your racist to come here, leave Ghana alone o.k.
@@pietrojenkins6901 Utter nonsense ! How are the countries you mention better than Ghana ? Are you saying so because they were European-settler countries ? African Americans have no historical or cultural connections with South Africa , Kenya and Zimbabwe anyway and therefore no emotional connection .
Out of the 72 European Forts and castles built in Africa Ghana alone has 42,they have to tour the rest of them in their next trip.
Plain wickedness was done to our ancestors, it is time to go home. Build ghana 🇬🇭 now as we are educated and have the money 💵 shalom
@@foxygtv1328 Why Ghana, why not Liberia? A place that really needs the ADOS.
@@foxygtv1328 not Just Ghana. Nigeria and Angola as well
Ghana served as a center for slaves from other nearby African countries because of its(Ghana)position or location which make it easier to transport the slaves to the other parts of the world. So out of the 60 castles (later became slave dungeons) built alone on the coast, 40 of them were in Ghana of which about six remain.
So to know more about slavery, Ghana tells a "visible" story showing the real places where the slaves were kept before their shipment. This, in addition to the peaceful environment in the country, makes Ghana 🇬🇭 a first point of contact for African American who wants to move to Africa. In fact this is not the first time Ghana is championing the return of African-Americans, Ghana started a long time ago, even in the 60s, and the early 90s with a program christened, "PANAFEST". Then the recent 2019 one dubbed, "A Year Of Return"
I am told, Liberians are also African slaves, who did not want to stay in the US and therefore were moved to the present location after the abolition of the slave trade.
True but not all librarians. And as a matter of fact it was the mass dumping of descendants of slaves back to Liberia . Without considering the friction it might cause with the indigenous people there. that eventually was a cause of the Liberian civil war
Great doc...You guys are the BEST!
Thank you so much!
This African documentary soundtrack😂😂…used through centuries
I hope one day in my life to go back to my roots
Africa, I want to study more about where my family is from on the Mainland. ❤❤❤❤❤
Many people talking about Benin
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Emotional!
I'm German and i saw the forts in cape coast. It is terrible to see how africans were treated. 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
You are all welcome brothers and sisters ❤
It's interesting.
God bless you all
Commentator get your Facts right! According to research, "One Million African Diaspora from around the World 🌎 returned back to the Motherland of GHANA 🇬🇭, during the "2019" " Year of Return Campaign in Ghana 🇬🇭. In addition, President of GHANA 🇬🇭 has also granted Ghana citizenships to (All) African Diaspora 👏
Very soon ghana will lose its culture and become Americanised. Ridiculous
😔😔😔. ❤️ 🇬🇭
I like you using the term South of the Sahara and not the derogatory term sub-saharan which was intentionally coined to decouple Egypt from rest of Greater Africa Region. I have recently heard people using Continental Africa instead of sub-saharan and I think it's in order.
Are you serious?
@@briantravelman yes I'm serious
I agree. Sub-saharan always sounds like a euphemism for sub-human to me. It's such a loaded term.
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Dark history
We are all africans
Their ancestors came from west Africa
How is she European?
It's not only African Americans who are going there. We are all going. Carubveabs British Canadians. Africa is our ancestral home and we are going back away from this toxic western life
This is how Afro Americans heritage is.
They're not from ghana keep dreaming
You are right we are not from Ghana, we were simply sold there. It's time for my people to turn to Yah, they have been stripped of their true heritage because slavery now they are like wandering children trying to find a home. Turn back to the Almighty Yah
Wonder how the locals feel when the american tourists come? I lived for a while in ireland and all the irish used to laugh at all the american tourists who turned up claiming to be irish due to their great great grandfather having been from there.
I thought African Americans came from Liberia? While people from Barbados were from Ghana.
What lol who told you that?
nope!
@@showtime1524Liberia is where they sent free slaves back in the day (they said that's where they mostly came from). The Liberian flag is still based on the American flag to this day. Plus, you can look at slave maps that show which parts of the world slaves were sent to. ... I think these people just go to Ghana because it's safer.
@@ghanaboylou Yes. I'm pretty sure. Just like Slaves in Brazil were brought over from Angola.
@Al Pacino im ghanaian but its false slave were taking all over west africa and a little bit in Central part of africa ghanaians were taking all over
There are over 15000 African Americans living in Ghana.
Can they take a few million more ? ❤
wow, we finally got them to go back! 👍
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@@user-wz5ud4mn4y 🤣🤣🤣foolish
Remember they never took themselves to America, they were taken by force and know very well by who.
Just make sure your ppl go back as well
cringe....