African-American Assoc of Ghana Launches Black History Month Celebrations in Accra
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- Every year the African Association of Ghana celebrates Black History Month. This year, with Ghana's Year of Return, the celebrations are extra special.
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There's no best place like Africa, if believe give a like 👍
Wish they never sold us to whites
Welcome back to your land!! We love you 😘.
Fuck that. Welcome home. Lets check dna and go where they wanna go
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We love you all the more 👍🏿✊🏿
@@mariopuzzo5854 bastard, jealous and depress fella where you from?
@ eto effum no need for insults just because Ghana has taken these steps shouldn't mean that those who wish to return must all be located in Ghana 🇬🇭 or west Africa when we have a whole continent and if someone wants to trace their ancestral roots geographically so let it be
@@mariopuzzo5854 Yeah that's why the white American police are killing you Guy's for free
Welcome home we love you all, I can't hold my tears. This is God's appointed time, Lord thank you for bringing brothers and sisters back home
Off Show And we love you. Thank you.
I was so happy to be in Ghana this year. However I didn't know it was there year of return until I was there and the locals were welcoming me back home. It is amazing how it worked out for me.
I hope you enjoyed your time!
@@IvyProsper Yes I sure did and plan to go back before my visa expires.
Welcome my people stay safe Africa and Ghana is the answer
Great news
Africa is your home land and we welcome you all Back with happiness and joy
Love you all and may our ancesters richly bless you.
Thank you and god bless you
Where is the Ghanaian media and the bloggers?? This is a special event they should be showing on their platform not the unnecessary buffoonry
Yes other media are doing unnecessary programs ..they suppose to be here rather ...stupid median
You're right but they have their own interests
I agree with you..
Nana u know the answer it is becuz its african american sadly
I had no idea of this event. Like I will be there to vlog for my channel
Welcome home. African Americans should be offered citizenship.
They can apply through the Right of Abode program. It's a process where you need to become a resident first before citizenship. Contact Ghana Immigration for details.
Good question
@Ivy Prosper - thank you for that information. Many of us truly appreciate it.
@@IvyProsper strange man.just give them ghanaian citizenship onetime FUCK THAT ABODE FUCKING PROGRAM
Auchus Pauchus
Thank you !
Instant new Subby here!
Ghana reminds me of 🇯🇲🏝🇯🇲🏝🇯🇲🏝
Sis where are you in Ghana? I’m planning a visit so I can get a house and make proper arrangements.
Because Jamaican are Ghanaian
What a beautiful people their find they are Root back home,i hope year of return they would like to came more than this,welcome came
Home sweet home🇬🇭❤️👍
Pity, I was there in Accra the last weekend and week of February and had no idea about these events. I went to the center because it was on my agenda and just happened upon the weekend market. I had an awesome time in Ghana (visiting some 5 cities in less than two weeks) and look forward to visiting again soon (or even living for a while?).
You welcome Anthony..... GHANA 🇬🇭🇬🇭👌🏽👌🏿 our beautiful Homeland .
It's important that we never forget the plight of our ancestors sold and forced into slavery. We should never forget our migration and struggle.💕🇺🇸
As a Ghanaian living in Atlanta Ga, U.S.A . When i see a video like this, I become excited to continue in search of an African American woman as my future wife.😊
pope benson green card goals 😂😂😂
@@analyticshub9615 lol. I have my green card. I came to America through my dad as a permanent resident and don't need anyone to help me get that. I'm a few months away from becoming a citizen just to be clear.lol
Really!!!!
@@aggi7695 Yes
pope benson if you never found an American wife , I am available! 😃 but if so please excuse me ☝🏿
I Do love every black and really make me sad when I see African american history but I am glad that they are trying find their peaceful living witch could be only in Africa welcome to the Mather land I wish you the most I love you from Sudan
Mohammed Musa ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!
Thank you for this video. We are pushing Ghana to the world. Ghana is home
My sister you doing a great work. Keep on and give us many amazing videos.
I appreciate the kind words!! Thanks for watching.
@@IvyProsper I am Ghanaian living UK. Adom TV in Accra is organizing FUfuo (Local food) party on 6th March 2019. Please if have time you can go there and interview people. Last year it was huge, This year it will be mega
Thank you so much for this sharing!
Good job. Nice and positive video. Great job done.
You guys are making history, you’re amazing and unstoppable, I appreciate y’all and pray you continue this journey so can actually capture and enjoy what most of us that was born in Africa but now live in USA and other part of the world, so here is the movement. Our hearts are in Africa, wherever we relocated , we always go back and forth , you also you can do the same because now , you’re privileged to do so , my brothers and sisters, live freely with respect and love , this is ‘African way’, with love. Watching from NYC, USA.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Thank you for this!! We are on the right path finally ✊🏿
As an Africa American that was a great show ,you did a fantastic job .
Thanks for the video 😍
Great video I love Ghana 🇬🇭
Hello Ivy, I am so proud of you all what you are doing. This is what Africa needs. Keep up the good job
ALL OF YOU ARE AFRICANS NOW. GLORY BE TO THE MOST HIGH. I AM HAPPY FOR ALL OF YOU TO BE IN ÁFRICAN LAND, MOTHER LAND. I'M A GHANAIAN AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW MUCH AM HAPPY FOR AFRICAN DIÁSPORA TO BE THERE.
THANK YOU, AND I SAY THANK ALL OF YOU.
YES, ISRAEL WILL GO HOME.
Hi ivy I really enjoyed your video. Its helping with my confidence to do business there. Much thanks
Thank you for bringing me this interview I love it when you do meaningful interviews Thanks
You're welcome.
So beautiful Madam I.am in Germany but just love your spiritMay God continue to bring His beautiful children home.
Wonderful hey sis hope you don’t mind me sharing this video many of our people need to see this. Thank you 🙏🏿
Please share!
@@IvyProsper love....we must keep connecting our historical life stories. Keep up the good work!
NEXT YEAR SENEGAL IS 2020. THEN. 2021 CAMEROUN AND ALL AFRICA. NOT ONLY GHANA
That's good to know! Share the knowledge.
@@IvyProsper you gotta instagram
@@IvyProsper where you located at odo
Good.. Don't ever come to Nigeria.. We don't need you guys there
Yes bro good idea I hope you have all the presidents telephone number? Call them and be their Embasadors
Some of African American history is Ghanaian history around the time when the transatlantic slave trade happened that's part of Ghana's history and African American history
If you read Ghanaian history and African American history, there’s a big connection, no question about that. So as a black American the chances of your ancestors originating from Ghana is very high, the evidence is there, you can see it with your own eyes
@@alexadjekum1543 I'm African-American I took a DNA test and it was 40% Ghanaian that's why I'm so passionate about Ghana
Jiquan, please quit talking all that Israelite shite. You sound like a nutcase!
God help you with that BS
@@alexadjekum1543 Ghana extended gesture of reconciliation with the diaspora. Return more spiritually based.
However almost 6 times the number of Afrikans were taken from Congo/Angola. The ratio becoming more apparent with more accurate pin pointing of DNA.
Far from a majority from Gold Coast. And most from Gold Coast did not land in North Amerkkka but to central south amerikkka and west Indies.
@JIQUAN TURNER If you are looking for Hebrews you have to look further to east Afrika. Unless you can tell us which of the tribes were Hebrew in West Afrika. Let alone Ghana.
Did you hear that White lady? She said "we are here to celebrate the painful and joyful experiences of your journey". What was so joyful about this journey? Over to you, African-Americans.
Osei Tutu Tawiah Most of whites their roots are from Africa so don't judge
Kwaku Yeboah most white peoples roots come from Europe. They aren’t identifying as African wtf are you talking about?
Visio Day lol that guy I swear
take your negativity somewhere else..always trying to find loopholes in peoples comment.
@@@visioday1814 . where are Europeans from? Do a DNA test on her and you will be surprised, she is 50 per cent African.
beautiful, everyone should get a chance to explore their ancestral lands
greeting fr0m Ghana! I recently moved here from the US I refused to become a member of this organization because they have integrated white people into their organization for "money" reason. I did not come home to interact with white people.. not after living in America and learning about who white people are....dr ben, dr.clark, garvey,, diop, dr. amos Wilson dr khallid etc...
they bought and celebrate thanks giving in ghana!! unbelievable ! shame on them that they cannot separate themselves from white people in america
@marty mart
YOU sir, are the kind of person that should be moving back and settling/helping rebuild Ghana and the rest of Africa. The others, I'm afraid are just a Trojan horse for the white man. I'm sorry to be blunt, but people have to learn from history and also the way power works and how it is perpetuated.
start over trucking in Ghana, you don’t need too much money to be happy in Ghana. food is less expensive and you can rent two bed room apartment $1335.88 (Ghc 7000.0) for 2yrs. then you start selling products you cannot easily get in Ghana or products that are made in Ghana which people use daily. brother/sister, you will good with this. if you wanna build too, you can do it one step at a time as your business grow.
Marty Mary if that mindset I don’t think you can live anywhere in africa with that mindset. These group of AA a successful because they accept every human being. They did not discriminate and they they have your racist baggage. If they were toxic like you, their association would fail because they would be bitter and blinded by hate. Accept your fellow human being , forgive the past and you will have inner peace. With that mindset you will always be bitter. Money reason or not I’m sure these white are bringing something good! They are investing. People like you should stay in the US to digest the hate a little bit and have positive attitude before moving anywhere in the planet. If you don’t join their association, your lost!!! Not theirs.
Hello Ivy. Looks like the program turned out great! Hope to come in May 2020
Keep up with the great work! Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching and you're welcome.
Yes best place to live , you look beautiful too
Great video
Great video Ivy keep inspiring the world Invest educate build Africa the Beautiful!
Thanks.
i wish to move my family to the motherland Asap!
It was so awesome that the black history month has been done in Ghana weldone
Very good initiative
We are not African Americans. We are Afrikans IN America!!! The AAAG organization is very difficult to contact. They do not respond to emails. I went to their website several times and left messages. I tried to join and pay the membership fee, but the site was inoperable for this transaction. I had planned a visit to Ghana during the Christmas/New Year holiday for the first time and have reached out to AAAG on many occasions, but to no avail. None the less, I had a great time in Ghana and am planning to repatriate and open a business the end of this year or early 2020 in Ghana. I understand most of the Afrikans in America have migrated to an area called Prampram and West Hills. I am excited about the upcoming community, Garvey Town, in Gasoa. They will be building a housing community, bank, schools, hospital, grocery store, mall, hotels, and a variety of businesses! Thank you Africa for the Africans!!!
You are welcome brother, I think you need to contact them thru their telephone number, I live in Accra, I have friends AA also coming to Ghana, one is called Heru lives in Georgia. He wanna do business too, welcome you are blessed.
Thank you for pointing that ish out. I just made a comment about that. We are Africans. Why are we attaching America to us as if we can't make up our mind
get a visa in america then when u get to ghana start the process it could be very easy then
Your videos are amazing 😍👍
Thanks my people
What will be will be. God bless motherland
I just want to say thank you for being so professional. Your video are not only informative but Educational.The lady that was sitting while you interviewed her she said “ They Don’t film a peaceful election.They didn’t filmed when the past president lost the election and he went to court , and the court decision went against him and he stepped a side and allowed a peaceful transfer of power.They don’t film positive things on the Continent.This action Ghana /Ghanaian took is a monumental Kwame Nkrumah spirits is a lives and well.. I am so proud it is said that some Jamaicans were taken from Ghana 🇬🇭 , Ethiopia 🇪🇹 , The Congo 🇨🇬 🇨🇩 Making me extremely Proud to have a connection. Loads of love and respect to all Ghanaian, Congolese and Ethiopian
Thank you for your comment and for watching the video!🙏🏽😁
Welcome to all black people in Africa back you guys our family you guys is from Africa we love all black peoples in the world
I need to go there
Black history is a wonderful thing to be celebrated
Fantastic work Ivy
Can i just say this in the most respectful way that I possibly can..... Can we please just have the year of return and programs like this be a sacred space for black people? Some things we should be able to experience for ourselves without an audience and without bringing everyone else along, especially when it comes to remembering painful moments in our history.
Awawaaatuu and special Akwaaba to our dear family and friends 👫
More exposure of such events need to be done with the support of local media stations and not just in Ghana but all over Africa.
I notice you tube has a lot of commercials on these types of videos......but imma make my way to Africa somehow, someway.
We love them we know that they are family members returning home
When you come to your own kingdom of Africa not only it will uplift you but reconnect you with your roots once again. Like Brother Malcolm said” in hating Africa, in hating Africans, then we end up hating ourselves”.
Beautiful
Well said. And you know the US media LOVES stories of tragedy; not so much peace.
This is such a wonderful thing that is happening! As a South American, I’d have to hit up a good eight countries (including Mali, Africa, I might add) to touch “home”. Especially since I’m not even home, currently living in the US!
Mr. Ababio is so polite and charming; classic African😊
I can't say that he US media loves stories of tragedy in Africa or not. If anything, Africa in general is not even considered relevant. One gets more reliable news from the BBC. I don't remember ever seeing story about Ghana in the news here, not even the kidnapped Canadian girls or the kidnapped girls from Takoradi..... Actually, I do remember the story about the gas station explosion a couple of years ago where 80 or so people were killed. That was horrible. As I recall, there were a lot of people trying to get out of the rain and flood water (due to the gutters being clogged with trash, of course).Years later and not much has changed. I do give President Akufo-Addo credit for making it a priority to clean up Accra. It will be a years-long project, however. In the mean time, people are still quite happy to toss their plastic bottles and other trash into the gutters and streams.
Xero Britt you are so right! Africa really is not relevant to the US; really, nothing is that does not benefit the corporations (notice I don’t say citizens), and yes, the BBC is a thousand times more on top of news of Africa. Now, with this horrific dis-administration, things like Al-Jazeera have disappeared from cable news and replaced with Russian news. Unsurprising. I live in the Bay Area which is better than many parts, but, in general, Americans are still pretty isolated and lack world culture (avoiding the word “ignorant” as I’m trying to be nice!)
Nice video, hope i can share it on my facebook page, i will give you credits
Feel free to share.
I am a Ghanian ,in ghana we have many tribes and races that live in harmony because we tend not to tolerate tribalism and racism. That's why every foreigner feels welcome in Ghana l know some of you may have experienced racism and would like to be racist please let's make Ghana neutral so Ghana won't change
@@ofosuhemaaturkson47 Well done 👑God bless you daaaaaa 👏
Son of Nok
IN GHANA ITS HUMAN FIRST
ITS NOT GHANAIAN FIRST OR BLACK FIRST ITS FRERDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
IF IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF THIS TRAIT WE WOULDNT BE OPENING OUR DOORS TO DIASPORAINS TO GIVE THEM AN OPTION OF MOVING OR
STAYING IN A POLARISED COUNTRY LIKE YOURS TO A NON
POLARISED COUNTRY LIKE OURS
WHICH WE CHERISH
HAVE YOU LISTENED TO YOURSELF
I WONT JUDGE YOU
I WILL LEAVE THE JUDGING TO GOD
THIS IS GOING TO BE MY LAST COMMENT
@@ofosuhemaaturkson47
Not so. I've been to Ghana before, and they worship white people and fair skin. So wake up from your slumber and smell the coffee of White Supremacy. You may not call it that (or may not even be aware of it) - BUT it is there.
We don't live in a color neutral world (even in Africa), and to pretend everyone is treated equal is to be disingenuous at best, and downright dangerous at worst.
Nice one
This is very important, because Most African don't know what African Americans been Through...It's amazing...Most have no idea of the slave trade..
Movies like ROOTS,,, UNCLE TOM... Should be shown around that time...On my first trip to Ghana we took a Pastor who was born in Ghana to Cape Coast...He had no idea of the slave dungeon...He didn't believe...That was kept from them...So yes This forum is VERY IMPORTANT..
Thanks for your comment! Appreciate your thoughts. Very important things you said.
I don't understand do you believe that Africans that were not enslaved didn't suffer at the hands of invaders. We also suffered we lost so much we have never been able to recover. My people lost the ability to build homes, During the raining season their homes fall and sometimes lives are lost, but we look at the few structures they didn't destroy that have been standing for hundreds of years still standing, we can't even weave our own clothes any more you have to see children walking around half naked in the harmattan months. Even thou we used to be known for cotton plantations. You shouldn't down play our suffering we all suffered and some of us are still suffering unable to recover form that bleak moment in our history. And some idiots are talking about repatriation if any Ines to repatriate anything it should be the invaders.
Ghana is best for us🇬🇭🇺🇸
Nice
Home is home. Home is sweet. Wellcome.
How do I get intourch with.An Afican..American? I just love them.you are us and we are you..love.ypu.all do much..WELLCOME BACK HOME.NO PLACE LIKE HOME..WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
I am an African American I would love to visit Ghana
Ghana is not your home north Africa is your home but God has not released it yet from your enemies.
THANK YOUUU FOR THIS VIDEO ITS 2020 AND IM PLANNING FROM AMERICA #SHATIMAR FROM #FOODNETWORK. I SUBSCRIBED
Tell that "WHITE " woman, that there was nothing "JOYFUL", in what her FOREPARENTS, did to ours; MOST HIGH'S JUDGEMENT ON THE HEATHENS, man !!!!!!
Justice will be served true isrealites are waking up go check out Stephen Darby
@kristof verbruggen Hers didnt ,so i guess it was your foreparents? I am fed up of seeing you pestilences every where melanated people are.
Waw!
I think it's great for my people African Americans getting involved in our real mother land
Go bring yo silly golden brown ass back to the your so called motherland and see just how African you are 😂
Good people
i wish i could go :( ....I need to get my paper passport for real ....
The whole block Americans have taken ghana as the only home they got in Africa.. Well that's very good..keep it up...
Maybe you should watch other videos and stop tracing Ghana 🇬🇭 because I've seen other clips with AA's in Nigeria and rather promoting it as better options as equally as I've seen some videos in The Gambia 🇬🇲 and Kenya 🇰🇪 and I personally know others who prefer South Africa 🇿🇦
@Billy Thorton Lol
How can i attend any of the activities
Year of return, are you kidding me? Black Américains have been coming to Africa for a long time, not just Ghana but other part of the continent. But because so much negative images is shown through out the world, lots of people in the diaspora are still sceptic
'Year of Return' doesn't mean people in the diaspora have not been coming before.
Year of Return is the full year 2019 marking 400 years since the first documented ship of enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. The Ghana government declared recognizing this year to celebrate the resilience of blacks in the diaspora and let them know they are welcome to return to their roots.
@King Attah Wallaaii- you're absolutely correct. Us of the Diaspora have been visiting/returning to the Continent for decades. Their probably would've been many more to have returned if it were not for the propoganda that has been pushed out over the years. Thankfully, many of us are waking up, doing our due diligence to see for ourselves the truth about the Continent and hopefully many more will consider if not pursuit re-connecting with our history and culture in the Continent.
Good association to exist
The first time I went to Ghana was forty years ago. When I landed in Accra, I was meant to see Tarzan and our brothers and sisters starved and sleeping in the streets. Not only I didn’t see anything of that, but I knew it was the mythology of the West. In Accra, there were houses, hotels, schools, clinics, sports stadiums etc. I saw enough in Accra when I landed forty years ago. Apart from Accra, I have been Koforduia, Oda, Tafo and Kwahu.
Thanks for sharing your experience of your first trip.
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@ivey prosper how can i get in touch with this Organization on this video. i am a Diasporan coming to Ghana 🇬🇭
Hi, there's no 'e' in my name Ivy.
The African American Association of Ghana can be contacted through their website: aaaghana.org/
Hi ! I would like to reach out to you about moving to Ghana or some country in africa . How is you life ?
If this is about Africans and African-Americans coming together why allow these colonizers to come to these events and when I say colonizers I mean Europeans AKA Whites?
Right but as you know our history in America the USA 🇺🇸 will be keeping tabs on us as we move back to the continent they fear revenge all those white people are there to monitor trust me
Can't we just get along? Please, allow them to be observers for after all they had invented somethings that you love to use.
jackson davis get along? Africans have been trying to get along with non Africans for the past 500 years it’s clearly not us who don’t want to get along, the moment they stop hating and trying to oppress the african people wherever we are located the world will be a happier place
@@thebridge5483 We should judge people according to the content of their character and not the content of their skin. In other words not every white people on this earth hate black people. I understand your point of view but let the past go and instead look forward to resolve our differences.
jackson davis it’s not that we are not letting the past go but rather we are using history to keep our people from being victim as we have been for centuries. It’s natural for Africans to be welcoming to everyone, but we get rewarded with the invasions of Egypt, the fall of khemit, trans-Sahara slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, Jim Crow, segregation, apartheid, the breed out of black in Brazil, neocolonialism, etc my point is our people have been suffering at the hand of non Africans for a very long time and if you analyze why you will see it’s because we always welcome outsiders, black lives matter we are not animals I will stand our people being treated as doormats.
Africa is a home for black people no one will be discriminate here. No matter what the condition we have it's our home. Let's proud ourselves
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I have never met a black American in my life
I'm
From
Kenya
Really ? You are kidding right ? They are everywhere in Ghana.😂😂😂
@@bdnl4 Hello I’m African Spanish
Rabbi Kohain is the voice of the Diaspora ...
Wait a minute did the association do promotion so the locals would be present and equally imvolved after all it is there land. I did not see akua,ama,asantwah,kofi,
Kwesi etc present ....
BOGUS
Returning back to Africa is not a time for us to be hosting these Pale faces and serving them free meals. Its a time for to connect as black people. One Love
Racist
@@lifeinlife24 Thankyou
@@ancientinfo1935 welcome😊
African -american has different mentality than Ghana people. Ghana people are more peaceful , mentally stable, cheerful . That is why african-americans MUST come back to african roots if they want peace in their souls . But they must not preach Ghanaian to admit more aggressive american behaviour . PEOPLE OF GHANA ! SAVE MENTAL HERITAGE, your sincerity, open mind . , Don't admit hidden aggression. greediness of the obronies .
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Gotta go to Ghana and invest
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I'm in America, how do I join the association, do you have a representative in America?
This is a link to the contact page on their website: aaaghana.org/contact.php
2020 we just need our mothers the women in power politically to be free and unite and end money poverty in Ghana... Power to our mothers party 2020 that campaign is on
Very true they always film the bad stuff but ghana have great stuff they don’t say peaceful, happiness, great socialization, great food, great sense of humor. Etc,etc etc. every country have positive and negative side but in all Ghana is a blessed country. There’s no place like Africa especially Ghana. We’re all making plans to come home for good. Tired of living in this stressful and unhappy country.. 🇺🇸
Ivy if ur gonna provide assistance than do so but to charge is a bit to much
I do not believe black history month is necessary in Ghana. In fact Ghanaian school students know more about black history than most black Americans do, so instead why not have it taught in Ghana schools. from kindergarten on up. I also did not know that you are still a black American in Africa, I thought you are now African.
Thanks for watching the video.
I don't have a problem with Black History Month being celebrated because it's an opportunity for the African-American community in Ghana to teach some of their history to Ghanaians who are not aware. I think most Ghanaians don't know much about the history of Black people in America, except for slavery. I have had several people I meet in Ghana have no clue who Rosa Parks or Harriet Tubman is. And they were major figures in the rights of black people. I met a few Ghanaians who didn't know anything about the Montgomery bus boycott in America which helped make changes to laws during the civil rights movement. These are basic knowledge.
I also think the schools could talk about the Africans who participated in the slave trade.
I also think they could teach about the American experience for black people. I have met so many Ghanaians who dream of moving to America and when I ask them if they are aware of the racism and the danger some blacks face they have no idea.
I also think that American schools should do a better job of teaching the truth about African history, because most still focus on turmoil, famine, conflict and the negative.
@@IvyProsper I really do agree with you on the Ghanaian mentality of going to America every chance they get and when they go there they come back and lie about how well they are doing over there when the opposite is the truth. That is why I always have issues with them, I even know some who have left their husband with stroke in Ghana just to go to America to chase Green Card. They are so uninformed that its unbelievable.They see nice houses, cars, etc etc in the movies and will not listen to anything you say because to them going abroad makes them look good in social status. You guys have to buckle down and in a respectful way to show those who cannot afford to go abroad a better way of improving their lives with what is already around them.
To me this is a way of empowering our people. Our people are at the bottom of the ladder as far as the rest of race is concerned. They need consistent reminder of their past history and the effect it has brought to them and their generation till this day. We need this as well as in our education system. Nothing wrong with this at all.
The low self esteem, the disrespect of our color and our race is a huge issue on the continent and only through some of these activities will our people be liberated.
@@gmog7857 I agree that many Ghanaians who move abroad and then come back home will lie or exaggerate about their circumstances. I know people who take loans to come back to Ghana and then show off as if they are rich when they are actually struggling. So I know what you're speaking about.
As for myself, I have always been truthful to people about living abroad and they never believe me. They always think I am lying.
Well, if ya what to get really technical about it. We are actually calling ourselves 2 white people names....How do you like that for IRONY!!!
MY SANKOFA; 1965 - 1976:
In 1965 I left for Ghana with less than $300 in my pocket; to answer the call from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to African-Americans, to come and help in the rebuilding of Africa. (Aka; FREEDOM FIGHTERS.)
“Five (5) months after my arrival Nkrumah’s government was overthrown which was a heartbreakers to many and caused many changes of plans… And a moment of panic for some.
As for me, I was adopted by an Ashanti-Paramount Chief, Nana kwaku Duah; Agogo-hene, (1966) and given the name “Kojo Acheampong.” and adoptive into one of his sub-chiefs clan, Nana Otteng, and spent the next eleven (11) years living in Ghana, often traveling to Togo and the Ivory Coast to market my jewelry. I earned a living by learning and making jewelry of traditional designs which I carved from cow-horns and ivory (a skill I was taught by traditional craftsmanship) after immersing myself in the customs culture. On my return to the United States in 1976, I was able to contribute to the growing interest in African art and culture.
Now in my senior years (86+) and on the suggestion (& insistence) of my adopted family, I’ve decide to take them up on their; “Uncle; you should come back to Ghana and enjoy with us, that which you’ve enable us make possible. “
IT WAS A BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE.”
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I would love to be there with my people I don't feel welcome in America the American system will never change for good for the black man here in America