Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Ghana memorial for George Floyd (Sceenshot)
Ghana’s Minister of Tourism Barbara Oteng-Gyasi capitalized on America’s poor race relations, specifically the treatment of Black people, to recruit and nationalize African Americans.
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Because of the current season of civil unrest, the deaths of Ahmed Arbery, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Breonna Taylor, Ghana is seizing the opportunity to persuade people of the African diaspora living in America, to move.
“On the behalf of the Africa diaspora, and more specifically, the Ghana African diaspora, please accept our deepest condolences.”
Ghana has a history of strongly inviting Black Americans to move the West African country.
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In commemoration of settlers who landed in Jamestown, Virginia, who carried enslaved Africans 400 years ago, the country had named 2019 the “Year of Return,” theGrio previously reported.
