‘SUCCESS OF DECEMBER IN GHANA NOT OUT OF FANCY WORDS’ — M.anifest

M. Anifest, speaking at one of the sessions, emphasized how the said initiative is enriching black history and how black people acknowledge themselves in different ways.

“It’s beautiful that, now when you come to Ghana in December, majority of the people on the plane coming to Ghana are blacks, it’s incredibly and this didn’t happen out of fancy words but out openness, execution of the initiative by the government and a lot”

According to him, this initiative has proven that Africans, especially Ghanaians, acknowledge and value blackness, for example, through tourism, the arts, and culture.

He believes one of the biggest shining lights on the continent is the arts industry, which is doing so well both at home and overseas.

Since 2019, thousands of Africans from the diaspora retreat to the country after President Nana Akufo-Addo officially announced and launched the “Year of Return” campaign in late 2018, in hope of encouraging people of African descent to reconnect and unite on the very soil many of our ancestors were taken from hundreds of years ago.