Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of Ghana & NAACP President Derrick Johnson
NAACP President Johnson Travels to Ghana in Support of Upcoming ‘Year of Return Ghana 2019’
YEARLONG EVENT TO COMMEMORATE 400th YEAR OF AFRICAN ARRIVAL IN VIRGINIA
BALTIMORE/ACCRA
(December 13, 2018)– This week, NAACP President Derrick Johnson
traveled to Ghana to meet with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in
support of the upcoming ‘Year of Return Ghana 2019’ project, a year-long
journey to celebrate the reconnecting of Africans throughout the
Diaspora to their African heritage.
In
addition to meeting with officials and leaders, President Johnson is
also met with officials from the Ministries of Tourism, Tourism
Authority and the Diaspora Affairs Office to discuss ways to reconnect
greater numbers of African Americans to their roots in Ghana.
“Next
year symbolizes a moment in time where people of African descent
regardless of where they exist within our Diaspora can reconnect and map
out a future which establishes Africa and her descendants in their
rightful place on the world stage,” said NAACP President Johnson.
The
yearlong event will commemorate the 400th year of the first arrival of
enslaved Africans in Port Comfort/Hampton, Virginia. Launched in August
2018, by Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ‘Year of Return
Ghana 2019’will feature a number of activities, including a “Bra Fie
Concert” to be hosted by Damian Marley, son of Bob Marley; a Back to
Africa Festival to celebrate Black History Month, and a Homecoming and
Investment Summit.
Most
importantly, this event hopes to promote business, spiritual and
cultural reconnection between the African Diaspora and the Motherland,
which many considered damaged beyond repair due to the Maafa – a
Kiswahili term denoting great disaster or horrific occurrence and used
to describe the Atlantic Slave Trade where millions of Africans were
enslaved and transported across the ocean or died during the horrific
Middle Passage.
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