Geopolitics
Ghana's Year of Return: When Ancestral Belonging Becomes a Luxury Commodity
Ghana's Year of Return initiative commemorating the transatlantic slave trade successfully attracted diaspora investment and tourism but created a two-tier system favoring wealthy Black Americans through high visa fees and bureaucratic hurdles. This heartbreaking commodification of ancestral belonging betrays the pan-African solidarity Ghana once championed and replicates the very economic inequalities that forced our people into diaspora centuries ago.
