Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans. ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture.

Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, most of them Black Americans, as part of its “Year of the Return” initiative.