The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of enslaved Africans marked a sordid and sad period, when our kith and kin were forcefully taken away from Africa into years of deprivation, humiliation and torture. While August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans Atlantic slave Trade who were scattered and displaced through the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Year of Return Ghana to attract 500,000 Diasporan Africans
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Elena
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Allan martin
Hello to the MMG Foundation, Please accept the most cordial greetings on this most auspicious occasion of marking the 400 years anniversary with the year of Return to Ghana 2019 celebration. I am writing from the perspective as a member of the Jamaican Marcus Garvey Organization In view of your Cal lender of Events brochure magazine which I saw with the line up of activities that appears to be very impressive and engaging at this point of view.
At this present time we are overly satisfied with the visit of your President Nana Akufo-Addo’s declarartion that there will be no visa requirement for visitors to the festival in Ghana this year. This announcement marks an imp[important mile stone for one of our biggest objectives as Diasporas Pan-Africanist over the years.
This also brings us to the next challenging concern which we are facing about the availability of airline direct access to Ghana for this festivities, and how best can that be worked out given the situation whereby we understand that the national airline of Ghana has been out of service? To this end we are in the process of asking the Embassies of Cuba and Venezuela to consult with their governments to help in providing air lift accommodation into Ghana for this occasion. And even at this short notice we still hope to hear from them about what is possible to be in place to meet the middle of next month’s July departure dates.
On those objectives we would like to seek your participation in consulting with these two governments in back-up to our written request to them already, and lets see what can be achieved in such time frame.
Kindly keep in contact with me on this matter. Thank you / Yours sincerely, Allan martin//> director- Marcus Garvey Organization of Jamaica W.I.
Linda Lewis-Everett
Are you keeping a record of how many blacks throughout the diaspora actually visit Ghana during 2019?
Linda Lewis-Everett
I visited Ghana in 2018, and will visit again in July 2019. The Year of Return!!!!