DNA home tests and Trump drive black Americans to Ghana

(translated from German via Google translate)
More and more black Americans are migrating to Ghana. Not only to find their roots on the continent of their ancestors, but also because of President Trump. They respond to a call from Ghana, which declared 2019 the Year of Return.

The government wants descendants of enslaved people to come to the West African country, as a visitor or as an immigrant. This month it is 400 years ago that the first group arrived in the current United States. That is why Ghana used this year for a return campaign. Millions of enslaved people from West Africa have been transported by Europeans to North and South America for centuries. For many, Ghana was the last African ground that they felt under their feet.

Elles van Gelder spoke with Americans who left for Ghana. The circle is now complete, one of them says:
The country has been trying for a long time to attract descendants of slaves and Ghanaians who live abroad. That is why there has even been a special department for five years that falls under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "We call on them to come home to the place where they belong," says Akwasi Awua Ababio, Director of Diaspora Affairs. The shared history is the most important, he says, but there is also the hope that returnees can help develop Ghana.

41-year-old Ephious Davis III is one of the African Americans who moved to Ghana. He exchanged his home at Philadelphia a few years ago for a life in the West African country. We meet him in the slave fort Cape Coast Castle, one of the many forts where the enslaved were imprisoned under horrific conditions. They were then shipped from America to America to work on plantations.
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