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Benin's 2024 law grants citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans, raising issues of access inequality and genealogical governance in diaspora reconnection efforts.
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Benin: Ciara's Beninese Citizenship - Marketing Ploys Can't Heal the Past
Analysis - African American singer Ciara received citizenship from the Republic of Benin in 2025 as a descendant of enslaved Africans. The images of her ceremony at Ouidah's slave route memorial site, "Door of No Return", were broadcast worldwide. Surrounded by drummers and dignitaries, she held a new Beninese passport aloft, a gesture hailed as both homecoming and healing.
Ciara’s Beninese citizenship: marketing ploys can’t heal the past
African American singer Ciara received citizenship from the Republic of Benin in 2025 as a descendant of enslaved Africans. The images of her ceremony at Ouidah’s slave route memorial site, “Door of No Return”, were broadcast worldwide. Surrounded by drummers and dignitaries, she held a new Beninese passport aloft, a gesture hailed as both homecoming and healing. As a historian of Africa, the African diaspora and Ghana, I see Ciara’s citizenship…
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