Ghana: Homecoming for African Americans
African Americans find new home in Ghana - gateway of the brutal African slave trade to the US that began 400 years ago.
The Cape Coast castle, built with local labour in the 17th century, is frequented by tourists [Edem Robby Abbeyquaye/Al Jazeera]
Accra, Ghana - Afia Khalia Tweneboa Kodua, then a resident of Los Angeles, still remembers the day she left Ghana in 2011 on her first trip there.
"I am not a public emotional person so I got to the airport and asked [myself]: 'what is this? Are those tears?"
"It was clear something had awoken in me and ignited in me and I have to come back. My ancestors are telling me; I have to come back," she told Al Jazeera.
And so in 2017, she left Los Angeles, California and moved permanently to Accra, Ghana's capital w...