President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has underscored the need for Blacks to see themselves as one people from Africa.
He said this while speaking in an interview with Roland Martin on the essence of the ‘Year of Return’ initiative by his government.
‘Recognition that we’re all the same. We’re all from one family. We are now divided by the oceans; the Atlantic and of course by one tragic history but essentially we are still one family’, he said.
President Akufo-Addo also admitted that the impact of the ‘Year of Return’ has been overwhelming.
‘Let me say it is more than I expected. I hoped it will have a big resonance but I think it has had much bigger resonance than I anticipated. It is very welcomed shock and we are happy’, he added.
Cardi B, Steve Harvey, Naomi Campbell, rapper TI, Samuel L. Jackson, Ludcris, Tina Tina Knowles-Lawson and a host of other celebrities have been to Ghana for the ‘Year of Return’.
The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia.
The arrival of enslaved Africans marked a sordid and sad period, when some Africans suffered years of deprivation, humiliation and torture.
While August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade who were scattered and displaced through the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
