General News of Sunday, 5 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com‘Year of Return’ has demonstrated recognition and togetherness – Akufo-Addoplay videoPresident Akufo-Addo with American Journalist, Roland MartinPresident Akufo-Addo has described the outline of the ‘Year of Return’ initiative as one that has brought about togetherness and recognition as one people on the continent. President Akufo-Addo made this known during an interview with renowned American Journalist, Roland Martin at the Flagstaff House in Accra on December 28, 2019. In terms of investment and commerce, the President explained that once the acknowledgment, recognition and awareness has been centered around the ‘Year of Return’ initiative, a whole edifice for investments can be built around it. Year of Return initiativeEarlier in September 2018, President Akufo-Addo at the Washington Press Club, in Washington D.C-USA, proclaimed 2019 as the "Year of Return" with an aim to extend a hand of welcome back home to Africans in the diaspora. With 75 percent of the slave dungeons built on the West Coast of Africa, through which the slaves were transported, was located in Ghana.

Source: GhanaWeb January 05, 2020 11:26 UTC