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MIASA, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana and online via Zoom
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Public Lecture: "On the motivation and motives of people of African descent to follow the return campaign of the Ghanaian government"
In 2019, the Ghanaian government proclaimed the Year of Return, targeting people of African descent in the diaspora. According to the homepage, "2019 was declared “the year of return” and the start of a campaign to encourage descendants of enslaved Africans to re-connect with the land of their ancestors. Thousands of African-Americans made the trip to Ghana – and many have decided to stay. They're fed up with police brutality and systemic racism in the US, ready to build new lives in Africa – and their number is growing." The project is investigating the reasons why people of African descent and/or descendants of enslaved people followed the return campaign by the Ghanaian government and left their home countries. In order to find out more about their personal motivations, interviews were conducted with returnees, the initial results of which will be discussed during the lecture.
Speaker: Isabelle Ihring, Professor for Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Science in Freiburg, Germany.
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