Dentaa and Danny Glover
American actor Danny Glover arrived in Ghana on Tuesday to add to the number of Hollywood personalities who have visited Ghana since last year.
The actor is part of a delegation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for ‘Jamestown To Jamestown’.
‘Jamestown To Jamestown’ is part of activities to mark the ‘Year of Return’, a programme to commemorate 400 years since the first black slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia, US.
President Akufo-Addo launched the programme in September 2018 in Washington, D.C for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the quest to unite Africans on the continent with their brothers and sisters in the Diaspora.
Among African Americans who already visited Ghana as part of activities earmarked for the occasion included Boris Kodjoe, Michael Jai White, Anthony Anderson, Idris Elba, Samuel L Jackson, Deborah Cox, Steve Harvey and a host of others.
Danny Glover was photographed with UK-based Ghanaian TV personality Dentaa Amoateng, who interviewed him on arrival on Tuesday.
Danny Glover described coming to Ghana as a wonderful and significant moment.
“It is wonderful coming. We are a delegation of African Americans, African descendants, I think African descendants need to come to Ghana, from all over the hemisphere whether South America, North America, whether it is Canada or whether wherever it is, this is a significant moment. It is 400years, and there are a lot of questions we have to answer ourselves right now about the state of the African world including Africa. We’ll not separate just citizens of our respective countries where we live now as expatriates, we also have to talk about the Africa world and the rest of the world,” he indicated in a video Dentaa shared on her Instagram.
Danny Glover and his group started their trip to Ghana on August 18 in Washington, D.C., where they travelled on a bus to Jamestown, Virginia, for a prayer vigil and candle-lighting ceremony.
The ceremony, according to Myjoyonline, marked the African ‘Maafa’, a term that describes the suffering embedded in the past four centuries related to enslavement.
Participants then travelled back to D.C. for a special gathering at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, designed by Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye.
The team is expected to spend 10 days in Ghana, and they will enjoy rich cultural, spiritual and cathartic experiences.
By Francis Addo