Black American expats say they feel free in Ghana in a way they never could back in the U.S. They don’t worry about police traffic stops gone awry or being othered. I came here to learn more.
Ghana wants Black Americans to ‘come home.’ Many are accepting the invitation. I went to find out why.
The thought of watching Trump prepare to get sworn back into an office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol — the same building that his followers desecrated on Jan. 6, 2021 after Trump lost the 2020 election — sickened me. I thought that this was a perfect time to put the United States in my rearview mirror for a while.
Meanwhile, Ghana was calling my name. My trip here was an attempt to learn more about Americans who’ve already made the decision to move to Africa, and those who were still considering doing so.
My ancestors had been shipped into bondage from somewhere on this continent, never to return. I thought about my late parents, grandparents, and my paternal great-grandfather,I knew they would be proud that I had made this trip, but also curious. Like most Black Americans, we don’t know which nations our earliest ancestors called home — only that they were likely dragged through Ghana along with millions of others and held in one of its slave dungeons before being shipped to the Americas.
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