The last American slave ship docked illegally in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, carrying about 160 West African captives.
Among them was Cudjo Lewis, who recognized how his birth culture might be erased while toiling in this new land.
So when he was freed, he purchased two acres and started a self-sufficient community of survivors of the last slave ship.
Known to outsiders as Africatown, Lewis' neighborhood was modeled on his West African home, where extended families lived together, members conversed in their regional languages, and partook in traditions that might otherwise be lost to them in America.
Today, Africatown still exists and houses the descendants of the nation's last slave ship community.
@BBSimons So no one sits and does these fianncial and economic analysis and the trends. Even within the ECG itself??
Looks like we need a lot of financial journalists in Ghana. Seriously
@JustNanaAma The behavior of some educated folks reminds me of slavery and colonialism. They will always do the bidding of the whiteman. Why not ask the West to tell Saudis and Arabs to accept LGBTQIA+. The simple dare not....
@KwamzDaBilf@talkyoshit_gh@nanakojoadu Why not going to a straight girl and vice versa but a lesbian. There is seriously a problem going on in the psyche of gays indeed!!
@talkyoshit_gh Interesting to hear about Lions used as examples of gay behavior.
Have you found out why those male lions were mating. What if they are making because they are abnormal. And is that their normal way of behavior??
@talkyoshit_gh What is the main goal of being gay? To just have sex with same sex? Bring heterosexual is not only about attraction or sex. It is about nature and natural course of creation.
And do you know that most guys disdain heterosexual behavior. So why do you want force them to love gays
@ODORTE We see government appointments into public office as rewards and time for distribution of the spoils of political campaigning. What else would the appointees think about or do - They see public service as a gift, reward and an entitlement instead of serving the people.
@EgyaAmakye@BBSimons Not only that, expecting that some benevolent CSO and activists like IMANI will do the bidding for them whilst everyone else sits aloof!
@SethTerkper JJ has played his part. He delivered to Ghana Tema Freezones, Airport City, built Sakumono, C.3, C.18, C.19, C.25, C.22, etc. plus the SSNIT flats. The quality of these townships is for all to see. The ring roads and major roads in Accra. His fails are lack of private sector devt
@senyohosi@SethTerkper Right, Right, Right!! For me,I have long realized that our best examples of solutions are from Ghana here. And that example resides in Nkrumah. Lets understudy his Agriculture; Housing; Industrialization; Education; Infrastructure Devt; Nationalism, etc. and just improve on it.
@BBSimons Mantle, actually they could have capitalized or merged one of them leaving EXIM. Then with such huge capital create separate development funds and attract these international partners into it. This way, the DBG can operate independently