Ghana Homecoming 2019 Campaign Makes Stop in Bed Stuy

The Ghana Tourism Authority in collaboration with The Adinkra Group, a Washington DC based African Cultural Resource Company are visiting cities across the country to increase interest in African Americans visiting Ghana. On Tuesday night they stopped in Bedford Stuyvesant at the Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inn.

Their current campaign is called “Homecoming 2019,” which includes four festivals that take place in Ghana. “Homecoming 2019” has special significance. Next year marks 400 years since the first documented enslaved Africans came to Jamestown, VA.

Literature distributed by the Homecoming 2019 organizers stated that “Ghana, more than any other African nation has the greatest number of African Americans living in country who have chosen Ghana as their new home, business headquarters and/or favorite place to vacation.”

Speaking at the Akwaaba event were Diallo Sumbry, President & CEO of the Adinkra Group and Akwasi Agyeman, CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority. An informative short video called, “Long Wait for Hope,” was shown highlighting Ghana’s society, culture, countryside, urban centers, wildlife and beaches.

“As the first independent African nation, it’s wholly appropriate for Ghana to serve as the Gateway to Africa and the first African Nation to welcome Africans in the diaspora home,” say the organizers.

One of the four Homecoming 2019 festivals is the “Right to Return” from December 27-29, 2019. The event commemorates the first 34 Africans of the diaspora who were granted “the right to return” which included Ghana citizenship.

For more information visit: The Adinkra Group or The Ghana Tourism Authority.

*Photo courtesy of Yaw Aboagye