‘Home’ at last: Ghana grants citizenship to 150 members of African diaspora
Published: 10/Mar/2026
Source: AFP
Accra (AFP) – Tightly holding her citizenship certificate against her chest, Patrice Ann Robertson wiped away a tear; she’s now officially Ghanaian nearly a decade after she started living in the west African country.
“This is home,” the now Ghanaian-American, who lives in Ghana’s southeastern Volta region, told AFP at a ceremony in the oceanside capital Accra.
In nine years since she relocated to Ghana, she has only returned to her birthplace in the United States once.
Robertson was among 150 members of the African diaspora granted Ghanaian citizenship on Monday, the latest group in a growing initiative to reconnect descendants of Africans abroad with the continent of their ancestors.
More than 1,000 Africans in the diaspora have obtained Ghanaian citizenship in recent years, many of them Black Americans drawn by a mix of historical, cultural and personal motivations.
For some, the ceremony at which they waved miniature Ghana flags in jubilation, marked the culmination of years of identity search.
Nataki Kambon, who obtained Ghanaian citizenship in 2019 and attended Monday’s ceremony, said becoming a Ghanaian allowed her to reconnect with a part of her identity rooted in ancestry but long distant from her daily life.
“I grew up in a household where we always knew we were African,” she said. “But there’s still a disconnect because of how Africa is portrayed in the United States.”
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