https://www.dw.com/en/back-to-roots-why-african-americans-are-flocking-to-ghana/a-64403580
01/16/2023. African Americans are returning to countries like Ghana more than 400 years after their ancestors left Africa as slaves. Many say they want either to reconnect to history, or resettle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ghana-to-black-americans-come-home-well-help-you-build-a-life-here/2020/07/03/1b11a914-b4e3-11ea-9a1d-d3db1cbe07ce_story.html
Today, roughly 3,000 American expatriates live in Ghana. Some view the arrivals as wealthy outsiders in a country where 30 percent of the population lives on less than $3.20 per day.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/black-americans-reconnect-roots-emotional-trips-ghanas-door/story?id=76122759
Kodjoe helped organize two trips back to Ghana in 2018 and 2019 for Black Hollywood stars, influencers and entrepreneurs to "reconnect with their ancestry," he said. Among those invited were

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-americans-leave-racism-in-us-to-reclaim-destiny-in-ghana/
Americans on a visit to Ghana. CBS. About 5,000 African Americans have made the trip back to Ghana and stayed. "Home is not a place. It's how you feel where you are," said Bennet. "The feeling of

https://andscape.com/features/americans-living-in-ghana-explain-why-they-made-the-move-to-africa/
American expatriate Jessy Bernard moved to Ghana from Miami to fulfill a lifelong desire to live in Africa. After residing in South Africa and traveling to small villages with the Peace Corps, she settled in Ghana. Bernard lives in the capital city of Accra. Her apartment occasionally loses power and water.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/going-ghana-black-americans-explore-identity-living-africa-n1225646
June 8, 2020, 9:25 AM PDT. By Janelle Richards. On West Africa's coast, Ghana is drawing black people from around the world. The region played a central role in the trans-Aatlantic slave trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement
The back-to-Africa movement was a political movement in the 19th and 20th centuries advocating for a return of the descendants of African American slaves to the African continent. The movement originated from a widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century United States that African Americans would want to return to the continent of Africa.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-53614694
In 2019, a number of African Americans were inspired by the recent "Year of Return" movement initiated by Ghana, 400 years after the first Africans were brought in chains to Jamestown in the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-is-your-home-come-here-and-make-it-yours-heres-how-ghanas-year-of-return-has-impacted-african-americans/
Ghana looks to capitalize on tourism with "Year of Return" 10:58 Ghana has attracted visitors from all over the world with its "Year of Return" campaign, an initiative that began in 2019 to mark

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/1/18/why-some-african-americans-are-moving-to-africa
It is estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 African Americans live in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. ... I tell people that Ghana is like Howard in real life. It felt like a microcosm of the world

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/for-black-americans-moving-abroad-has-a-different-appeal
Due to racism and injustices against Black Americans in the U.S., there's a push to move away and pursue a life abroad. In 1961, James Baldwin told a New York radio broadcaster: "To be a Negro

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/06/17/ghana-beyond-the-return-african-americans-george-floyd-busari-pkg-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn
Gazans search for loved ones buried deep in rubble after Israeli airstrikes. 02:48. Ghana has a message for African Americans in the wake of George Floyd's death: "Africa is your home

https://travelnoire.com/why-americans-moving-to-ghana
Leaders in Ghana said that travelers to the West African country have nearly doubled in 2019 compared to the previous year. Visa applications to Ghana went from about 1,000 per week to 10,000 and most visitors are America, as reported in the Independent. What's more surprising for tourism officials is the number of people who have decided to

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/african/journey-in-chains/
To the slave traders, these human beings were cargo, and slave ships were especially designed to transport as many captives as possible, with little regard for either their health or their humanity. Slave decks were often only a few feet high, and the African captives were shackled together lying down, side by side, head to foot, or even closer.

https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations
The migration of African Americans out of the South continued into the twentieth century and greatly increased during the time of both World Wars. An estimated six million Black people moved throughout the United States from the 1910s to the 1970s. They left behind Jim Crow, lynching and racial oppression, and flocked towards non-agricultural

https://libguides.northwestern.edu/AfricanDiaspora
Africana by Henry Louis Gates; Kwame Anthony Appiah Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board, Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah have created the first scholarly encyclopedia to take as its scope the entire history of Africa and the African Diaspora.Beautifully designed and richly

https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162/lecture-7
Overview. In this lecture, Professor Holloway documents the "Great Migration," beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century and continuing with increasing pace until the mid-1920s. During this time, black Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North. This general shift in the population marked a moment of self

https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/19-2-the-african-american-great-migration-and-new-european-immigration
While some moved west, the vast majority of this Great Migration, as the large exodus of African Americans leaving the South in the early twentieth century was called, traveled to the Northeast and Upper Midwest. The following cities were the primary destinations for these African Americans: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Detroit

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-changing-definition-of-african-american-4905887/
During the next four decades, forces set in motion by the Immigration and Nationality Act changed that. The number of immigrants entering the United States legally rose sharply, from some 3.3

https://www.history.com/news/african-diaspora-trans-atlantic-slave-trade
As a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, there are presently 51.5 million people of African descent living in North America (United States, Mexico and Canada), approximately 66 million in

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/changing-america
A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond explores contemporary black life through stories about the social, economic, political, and cultural experiences of African Americans.. From the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the second election of Barack Obama, the coverage is broad. Large-scale graphics and original artifacts lead visitors from the Black Arts Movement to Hip Hop, the Black Panthers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigration_to_the_United_States
African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. The term African in the scope of this article refers to geographical or national origins rather than racial affiliation. From the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 to 2017, Sub-Saharan African-born population in the United States grew to 2.1 million

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/reconstruction.html
African American population distribution and migration patterns can be traced using maps published in the statistical atlases prepared by the U. S. Census Bureau for each decennial census from 1870 to 1920. The atlas for the 1890 census includes this map showing the percentage of "colored" to the total population for each county.