Welcome to the tale of why so many people are moving back home.
Once upon a time, millions of people.
As if by divine order started to move back home.
To Africa. But why?
The laws of nature suggest that legacy is ingrained into the souls of everything with breath.
And this is how the heart travels, trusting that all it has left lives on
to be found again in a shared smile or a similar walk.
Our genes are very interesting. The science of epigenetics explores
how events that happened generations ago that inform our genes
are expressed in generations to come.
For example, if a people went through years of trauma like slavery,
their great great grandchildren can find
themselves more susceptible to mental illnesses.
So imagine how much our bodies still respond to our past.
Is that where black resilience today comes from?
If our scientific bodies are still products of the past,
maybe that's why everyone is craving home.
My daughter, she went to Ghana.
She didn't want to come back. She really enjoyed it.
And I think it's because of the freedom that they had.
She had the plane outside.
When you are home, nobody is looking at you differently
because you've all got the same color scheme back home.
If you were to be back home, I'll have no fear at all going to school.
I would have no fear that he will be picked on or discriminated against.
I want you to treat everybody the same, no matter what their color is.
Even us see separate our ankles and the land breaks between the sauce,
our binds, our flesh is still yours.
I guess we are giving them a great sense of belonging as great
the black people represented how they feel they should be represented back in America.
Billboards full of black people, everything black CEOs,
black owned businesses everywhere, 80% of the.
So it's great to create a sense of belonging
and also connecting them back to their culture.
I'm glad to be one of the reasons create one of the reasons
people are coming to Ghana. A photo of the concept.
One of the co-founders, Abdul Abdou, is to come to Ghana all the time.
So you come to Ghana and you have all these other events and they weren't really connecting.
So I had the idea for the festival to really tap into our culture,
to make it cool because growing up African culture was left
that it wasn't cool in classrooms to say You are African,
but I want us to create a space where everyone, every African and any part
of the world can call Ghana.
Home in Chroma brought Martin Luther King.
Here to Ghana to try and help win the fight for civil rights in America.
Shows how far ahead he was in Kumawood have picked the wrong guy and nothing
would have happened but increment even everything he was doing.
Fighting for Ghana's independence, he was still thinking
about the bigger picture and that okay, 1957.
We are Ghanaians, we are Africans.
We can vote by the Africans I was just living with in America, still couldn't.
And his family tree stretched into many gardens,
seeds carried in the wind like music or stolen from so it was used.
He buried
the go. What became of you?
1000,001 find wrapped around the spine of the new flagpole,
but may think just like you mind improving the light in the strangest sky
into a time felt just right enough to light the eyes wide back I.
Our parents had to build for us a new world,
but they built it with enough power for us to choose it or change it.
We kept moving. And if there's one thing
these ankles have always done well is find the music to move to.
The heart is a very interesting thing
because it's one of our purest places of communication.
The heart is the first organ to appear in the womb
when a child is being formed before the brain, heart comes into existence.
You come here, drumming, come here on rhythm and
everything else fashions itself. After that.
The song that really transformed my life was Lumbee,
because most of West Africa was underneath military governments
at the time, and all of a sudden this song came along,
which totally dismantled our fear of soldiers.
Music changed the world.
Who is the one always creating the music? It's us.
We find the resonance amongst ourselves.
And then, slowly but surely, the rest of the world catches up.
But this is the first time that African music is becoming
or has become the dominant music force
amongst a certain section of the population.
And I think it's just exciting. It's something that unites us all.
Always going to bring about huge changes.
Say it's homecoming. We all felt the drumming.
We all miss the loving that was coming from the motherland.
A million flights into the palms of my mother's hands.
A million miles on requires one sky a million hearts, a million minds,
a million chances to roll back time.
We've begun a new chapter in the story of our soul.
We're planting new seeds in our old hail,
adding colour to a shadow, kissing the sun back into our skin,
waking up Grandma who rests on the hammock of our ribs
We visiting the home of our heart, trusting the pulse of that palms
to carry us back safely back to us.