US EditionGrammy Winner Ciara Accepts Offer for Benin Citizenship, a New Way to Reckon with Its Slave Trade
BENIN, JUL 31 – Benin’s new diaspora law grants citizenship to descendants of enslaved people, with Ciara among the first, aiming to promote cultural unity and heritage tourism, officials said.
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Grammy Winner Ciara Accepts Offer for Benin Citizenship, a New Way to Reckon with its Slave Trade
American R&B singer Ciara has been awarded citizenship to the African country of Benin as part of a new law that aims to attract the African diaspora. Like similar initiatives in neighboring Ghana, the law is seen as a way of bringing tourism and investment, but unlike its neighbors, Benin believes it’s reckoning and atoning […] The post Grammy Winner Ciara Accepts Offer for Benin Citizenship, a New Way to Reckon with its Slave Trade appeared fi…
U.S singer Ciara gets Benin citizenship under new slave descendent law
"I feel incredibly proud to be a part of the importance of this moment. The significance of this moment and what it means is so special, so powerful, and I feel inspired", the singer said in her speech at the ceremony.
U.S Singer Ciara Gets Benin Citizenship
American singer Ciara was officially granted Beninese citizenship during a ceremony on Saturday, becoming one of the first public figures to benefit from a new law offering nationality to descendants of enslaved people. The Grammy-winning artist’s new citizenship is part of Benin’s wider effort to engage the global Black diaspora, recognise its historical role in the transatlantic slave trade, and promote tourism centred on slavery remembrance s…
The American rapper and actor Ludacris, by his real name Christopher Brian Bridges, is now a Gabonese citizen. The American singer obtained nationality thanks to his wife, Eudoxie Mbouguiengue, from Gabon. After CIARA, who obtained Beninese citizenship, it is the turn of Ludacris, the famous rapper and American actor, to obtain the citizenship of the Republic of Gabon. The rapper and his family visited Gabon several times to celebrate several im…
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