{"id":10754,"date":"2020-02-06T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/02\/06\/west-africa-meet-the-african-americans-returning-to-the-continent\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:02:19","slug":"west-africa-meet-the-african-americans-returning-to-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/02\/06\/west-africa-meet-the-african-americans-returning-to-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Meet the African-Americans returning to the continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, to mark four centuries\u00a0since the start of slavery, Ghana launched a project to encourage\u00a0people of African descent from around the world to visit their motherland. As a result, some\u00a0750,000 people heeded the call and travelled to the country\u00a0in 2019. But some African-Americans have gone even further and have answered the call to settle and invest on the continent, transforming their\u00a0trauma\u00a0into an entrepreneurial force. Our West Africa correspondents report from Togo and Benin.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, to mark four centuries\u00a0since the start of slavery, Ghana launched a project to encourage\u00a0people of African descent from around the world to visit their motherland. As a result, some\u00a0750,000 people heeded the call and travelled to the country\u00a0in 2019. But some African-Americans have gone even further and have answered the call to settle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-10754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}