CAPE COAST, Ghana, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The sub-Saharan African nation of Ghana, from where millions left forever in slavery, is urging descendants to return.
For centuries, Africans walked through the infamous "door of no return" at Cape Coast castle directly into slave ships bound for the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, never to return.
Ghana has a new sign on that massive fort: "the door of return." Taking Israel as its model, Ghana hopes to persuade the descendants of enslaved Africans to think of Africa as their homeland, a place to return to.
"We want Africans everywhere, no matter where they live or how they got there, to see Ghana as their gateway home," J. Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, the tourism minister, told The New York Times.
Though still a very poor, struggling country, Ghana is doing well by West African standards. It has steady economic growth, a stable, democratic government and broad support from the West.
