ACCRA – New citizens of Ghana took the oath of allegiance on Monday during a swearing-in ceremony held in Accra, marking another milestone in the country’s efforts to reconnect with the African diaspora. Once a central hub in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Ghana has increasingly positioned itself as a destination for people of African descent seeking to reclaim their heritage and establish deeper ties with the continent.

Descendants of Zimbabwean freedom fighters executed during colonial rule have renewed calls for British institutions to help locate and return the remains of their ancestors taken to the United Kingdom more than a century ago. The descendants, linked to leaders of the First Chimurenga uprising against colonial rule in the 1890s, have formally asked the Natural History Museum and the University of Cambridge to collaborate in finding skulls believed to have been taken after the