Nadia “Sparkle” Henry
A meaningful journey for many black travelers is a journey that connects with roots, heritage and personal experiences. When visiting a new destination, they often try to interact with local culture to find familiarity at an unfamiliar speed. The goal is to gain a deeper understanding and gratitude of the destination and its itself.
This is one of the reasons why many blacks in the United States want to visit Africa, especially Africa.
Kana is especially rising as an African -American destination and accelerated by the country’s “profit year” and “beyond return” by the celebration of December and December.
In the journey of two parts of these two parts, I will start with these initiatives and “Year of Profit” and look at the journey organized to experience them.
‘Year of profit’
The concept, which began in 2019, has been designed to mark 400 years since the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the first slave Africans arrived in the United States.
The Ghana government invited Africa Diaspora around the world to explore the roots and celebrate the African heritage. The project has attracted much attention from all over the world and has strengthened tourism and cultural exchanges with events, festivals and educational programs.R.
From December 26, 2019 to January 2, 2020, I was happy to experience the initiative by guiding 20 customers. For eight days, we learned about the ancestors’ endure in the village, deprived of deprivation, humiliation and torture for many years in the village. Between 1501 and 1867, 12.5 million Africans are believed to be withdrawn into slavery.
The original name of a slave man was one of the lost things, and while we stayed, we participated in the name designation that was named by the name of the birth of the birth. It is not just humiliation to replace a person’s name. Slave holders have changed our ancestors to remove the important sense of self and heritage, making it more difficult to maintain the connection with the original identity, community, national background, family history and cultural practices.
I looked around the Elmina Slave “Castle”, the first structure built to catch slaves waiting for cruel voyages throughout Atlantic. Visiting women and male dungeons gave us a sense of what our ancestors endured.
Ghana is known as a gold coast because it is rich in natural and mineral resources, including wood, ivory, spices, palm oil and diamonds. It became clear why Europeans came to Africa to enslave strong black men and women and plunder their wealth.
But our dark history is only part of what we have disappeared. We also enjoyed a vivid experience in the craft market and fell into Kana and attended Afrochella, a cultural festival with live entertainment and African craftsmen.
The program succeeded in welcoming millions of Africans in Diaspora and decided that many people would stay. During the “Return Year,” he began the policy of The Abode’s right to simplify Ghana’s residence and citizenship. As a result, about 1,500 African Americans moved there, and in November, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave 524 citizenship. In addition, 200 individuals became citizens in January.
