Is Stevie Wonder Moving to Ghana?

The iconic, award-winning musician Stevie Wonder has opened up in an Oprah Winfrey interview about his future plans to live in Ghana indefinitely - as part of his efforts to shield his lineage of grandchildren and great-grandchildren from racial injustice in the U.S. This isn't the first time he has said he was considering moving there. In 1994, he said he felt there was "more of a sense of community" than in the U.S. In September 2018, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo declared 2019 as the Year of Return, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of African slaves in America. Ghana was a key transit point for transporting slaves and the president said his country felt a responsibility to welcome all those who could trace their ancestry to Africa.

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