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In September 2018, in Washington, D.C., Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo launched the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019”, inviting Africans in the diaspora to visit, reconnect and invest in Ghana.
The date marked 400 years since the arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619. Events, visits and commemorations took place in Ghana throughout 2019.
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