African Citizenship for African-Americans Presidents from 12 African nations and private sector African American leaders began considering a proposal to grant dual citizenship to African-Americans in hopes of increasing investment and interest in Africa at a summit in Abuja, Nigeria in 2006. Other countries have been more hesitant. “The most valuable possession that was taken away from us was our identity and our connection; it was like severing the umbilical cord,” Rabbi Kohain, who spoke on behalf of the new citizens said at Wednesday’s ceremony. Here is what no one will tell you about moving to Ghana as an African-American, a person of Caribbean heritage, or anyone else for that matter. Immigration Bill #573 is the “Right of Abode” to African Slave Descendants of the Diaspora to live in Ghana. Decades later in 2001, the West African country would pass the Right to Abode law giving Americans of African descent the right to gain citizenship in Ghana. But it has not been so simple for African-Americans and Caribbeans in Ghana. By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu. Ghanaian citizenship can be obtained by birth, naturalisation, registration and adoption.

Ghana granted citizenship to over 100 African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans as part of Year of Return . Currently, there are an estimated 5,000 African-Americans living in Ghana. Dual Citizenship Ghana Allowed. So far, Ghana is the only country that legally allows for dual citizenship for African-Americans. Currently almost 3,000 American blacks reside in the capital, Accra, the major hub of Ghana. The government of Ghana launched the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019", in a quest to encourage African Americans and the black diaspora to return to the country, and so in commemoration, the government of Ghana is giving citizenship to 200 African-Americans.. A person born in or outside Ghana after the coming into force of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution, shall become a citizen of Ghana at the date of his birth if either of his/her parents or grandparents is or was a citizen of Ghana. To this end we are encouraged by the to the recent pledge of free land and full citizenship rights by the Senegalese President Comrade Abdoulaye Wade to any Haitian who wishes to repatriate to Africa. According to recent reports, about 10,000 African-Americans visit Ghana yearly. We therefore call upon all African governments to consider granting land and full citizenship rights to all Africans in the diaspora who wish to return home. Then in September 2018, The President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, traveled to Washington, D.C. to declare and launch the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019”. For those Black Americans who want out right citizenship to an Africa country without the hassle of obtaining dual citizenship, worry about possibly losing their USA citizenship or their African citizenship being revoke by the African country they choose later on, needs to support the African Americans Emigrating to Africa petition at Emigrating to Africa Accra, Ghana November 28, 2019. This was to encourage African-Americans to return and reconnect with their roots after their ancestors were forced from their homeland some 400 years ago.

It was an occasion worth celebrating as over 100 Africans-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans made it official by becoming Ghana's newest citizens in a special

1. Ghana has taken a Bold Initiative on the African Continent by passing Immigration Bill #573, which recognizes her sons and daughters who were taken illegally from Africa into bondage to the America. Beware the Anansi-Style Tricksters