On January 20, Christa Núñez, a 51-year-old Cornell Ph.D. student and mother of three, booked five one-way tickets to Ghana. “It just happened to be Inauguration Day,” Núñez told me. It was a humid ...

Tightly holding her citizenship certificate against her chest, Patrice Ann Robertson wiped away a tear; she's now officially ...

As diaspora curiosity about living and working in Africa grows, these entrepreneurs share what it actually takes to build a ...

US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America. "I wasn't prepared ...

With the rise of DNA tests, ancestral travel has been growing in recent years. That is especially true for African Americans, who for most of our history could not trace our lineage but can now ...

Spike Lee wants African Americans to tap into their roots in the African motherland. Spike Lee is fully immersed in his ambassadorship role in Benin, where he’s urging African Americans to reconnect ...

Paper presented at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress in Washington, DC, June 21-26, 2003. The Ghanaian authorities planned to restore Cape Coast and Elmina Castles as memorials to the ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Lawyers for four of 14 West African men deported by the U.S. to Ghana said Monday the men remained in that third country and had not been returned to their homes, contradicting an ...

CAPE COAST, GHANA (Reuters) - Halfway across the Atlantic Ocean, the plane carrying Tani Sanchez and her daughter Tani Sylvester on a heritage tour to Ghana crossed paths with a powerful storm. A ...