Visitors from the African diaspora, many of them African Americans, are taking part in a three-day ceremony in Ghana to remember ancestors lost to the transatlantic slave trade, Africanews reports. It is being held at the Nkyinkyim Museum in Nuhalenya, close to Ada.
The event, led by museum founder Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, includes libations, offerings, drumming and dance. Akoto-Bamfo said calling the names of ancestors was a way of restoring what had been taken, rather than a performance.
Participants described the trip as a search for identity and belonging. Subrina Starke and Efua Irene Agyeman Hin, co-founders of the Diasporan WelHouse, said it felt like a homecoming and that repair also happens through everyday acts such as teaching children and keeping traditions alive. The ceremony comes as Ghana continues to press internationally for reparatory justice for slavery.
Source: Africanews
