‘A soul mission’: The African Americans moving to Ghana | Arts and Culture

Accra, Ghana – Ashley Haruna never intended to stay in Ghana. But everything changed for the 28-year-old health coach when she stood facing a dark cell inside the stone walls of Cape Coast Castle. As the tour guide explained that many of the enslaved people who’d once been held there had ended up in Haiti, Haruna says she “felt something”.

Having grown up in the United States to Haitian parents, she realised “my ancestors could’ve passed through here. This place. This ground.

“I…