Back to the Roots: Black Americans Exploring their Heritage in Ghana

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Жыл бұрын

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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@letsgoghana1 Жыл бұрын

Let’s Go Ghana 🇬🇭 🌟💛

@foxygtv1328 Жыл бұрын

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

@pietrojenkins6901 Жыл бұрын

But they should explore other nations like South Africa ,Kenia ,Zimbabwe for "softer landings" as Ghana has harsh conditions.

@mylesmills9666 Жыл бұрын

@@pietrojenkins6901 stopped giving false information about Ghana. It has soft landing for all black disapora

@oseitututawiah2109 Жыл бұрын

@@pietrojenkins6901 What harsh conditions are you talking about?

@jeffreykofikarikari4334 Жыл бұрын

@@pietrojenkins6901 masa don't take your racist to come here, leave Ghana alone o.k.

@gilbertnaddy-7729 Жыл бұрын

@@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 .

@kwamek9 Жыл бұрын

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.

@majidrayamah9002 Жыл бұрын

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

@Thecyborg-97 Жыл бұрын

This African documentary soundtrack😂😂…used through centuries

@morrisonjonathan4313 Жыл бұрын

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.

@foxygtv1328 Жыл бұрын

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

@uchenna127 Жыл бұрын

@@foxygtv1328 Why Ghana, why not Liberia? A place that really needs the ADOS.

@lilacer6841 Жыл бұрын

@@foxygtv1328 not Just Ghana. Nigeria and Angola as well

@emmanuellatouche7436 Жыл бұрын

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

@emmanuellatouche7436 Жыл бұрын

😊

@shishibenterfa Жыл бұрын

Great doc...You guys are the BEST!

@DWTravel Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@NuhaSal Жыл бұрын

You are all welcome brothers and sisters ❤

@berndhofmann752 4 ай бұрын

Emotional! I'm German and i saw the forts in cape coast. It is terrible to see how africans were treated. 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

@samsonamarak Жыл бұрын

It's interesting.

@beatriceowusuachaw6210 2 ай бұрын

God bless you all

@kimberlycrossley6134 Жыл бұрын

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 👏

@carlin_agyei Жыл бұрын

Very soon ghana will lose its culture and become Americanised. Ridiculous

@abk6877 Жыл бұрын

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.

@briantravelman Жыл бұрын

Are you serious?

@abk6877 Жыл бұрын

@@briantravelman yes I'm serious

@kelugu3776 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Sub-saharan always sounds like a euphemism for sub-human to me. It's such a loaded term.

@kissphamous5451 Жыл бұрын

😔😔😔. ❤️ 🇬🇭

@paqbert5042 Жыл бұрын

Dark history

@Kusam369 Жыл бұрын

💞👌

@edwardjrobinson2 23 күн бұрын

Thank you Deutsche Welle 💛

@lilacer6841 Жыл бұрын

How is she European?

@lilacer6841 Жыл бұрын

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

@salieujallow9112 Жыл бұрын

Their ancestors came from west Africa

@salieujallow9112 Жыл бұрын

We are all africans

@Searchingtheworld7183 Жыл бұрын

This is how Afro Americans heritage is.

@carlin_agyei Жыл бұрын

They're not from ghana keep dreaming

@danieltaylor211 Жыл бұрын

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

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 11 ай бұрын

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.

@bluecafe509 Жыл бұрын

I thought African Americans came from Liberia? While people from Barbados were from Ghana.

@showtime1524 Жыл бұрын

What lol who told you that?

@ghanaboylou Жыл бұрын

nope!

@bluecafe509 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@bluecafe509 Жыл бұрын

@@ghanaboylou Yes. I'm pretty sure. Just like Slaves in Brazil were brought over from Angola.

@showtime1524 Жыл бұрын

@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

@lilacer6841 Жыл бұрын

There are over 15000 African Americans living in Ghana.

@jackdoe7933 Жыл бұрын

Can they take a few million more ? ❤

@user-wz5ud4mn4y Жыл бұрын

wow, we finally got them to go back! 👍

@DWTravel Жыл бұрын

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@user-wz5ud4mn4y Жыл бұрын

@@DWTravel I read your policy, and I don't understand how my comment constitutes hate speech. Please enlighten me.

@bonniec.ddisashi6686 Жыл бұрын

@@user-wz5ud4mn4y 🤣🤣🤣foolish

@de-sh109 Жыл бұрын

Remember they never took themselves to America, they were taken by force and know very well by who.

@tangym2 Жыл бұрын

Just make sure your ppl go back as well