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Stevie Wonder gets Ghanaian citizenship
Ghana Business News ^
| 5/13/2024
Posted on 05/14/2024 6:40:03 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted Ghanaian citizenship to the iconic American musician Stevie Wonder on Monday at a ceremony in Accra.
Mr Wonder had indicated in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, another prominent African American talk show host, that he intended to live indefinitely in Ghana to protect his grandchildren and great-grandchildren from racial discrimination in the United States of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at ghanabusinessnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; backtoafrica; celebrity; ghana; media; westafrica
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To: dfwgator
- I did not see that coming. -Probably picked it out because the sight-seeing tour was so enjoyable. /s
To: Recovering_Democrat
I’m confident that he must have left all the money he earned in the US behind, after all making money from all the racists over the last 50 years is surely tainted money and he would want nothing to do with it.
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posted on
05/14/2024 7:58:57 AM PDT
by
Flint
To: spankalib
At least he ‘spread it’ all around the country...
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:00:08 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
So, does this mean he’s a “homophobe?”
To: spankalib
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:02:53 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
To: Recovering_Democrat
In kind preference is real.
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:10:15 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
To: cymbeline
Well, yeah, NOW he is “Ghanan”!
To: dfwgator
I thought Tina went to Switzerland for privacy (like Shania Twain).
To: Leaning Right
That's
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrembon-Fried-Digger-Dingel-Dangel-Dongel-Dungel-Burstein von Knacker-Trasher-Apple-Banger-Horowitz-Ticolensic-Grander-Knotty-Spelltinkel-Grandlich-Grumbelmeyer-Spelterwasser- Kurstlich-Himbeleisen-Bahnwagen-Gutenabend-Please-Ein-Nürnberger-Bratwurscht’l-Gespurtn-Mitz-Weimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumberaber-Schönendanker-Veal-Mittler-Aucher from Hautkopf of von Ulm
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:24:56 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
I wish all of them would go back. Our lives would be safer.
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:31:26 AM PDT
by
Doulos1
(Bitter Clinger Forever!)
To: Racketeer
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:45:43 AM PDT
by
GMThrust
To: Recovering_Democrat
He’s free to see the world
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:47:48 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: dfwgator
The dirty little secret is that Africans don’t like ‘African-Americans’.
Depends on how much they add to the economy.
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posted on
05/14/2024 8:57:31 AM PDT
by
OSHA
(Dale Carnegie has a restraining order against me.)
To: dfwgator
I did not see that coming. Neither did Stevie Wonder...
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posted on
05/14/2024 9:07:46 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
To: dfwgator
The dirty little secret is that Africans don’t like ‘African-Americans’. Neither do African-Americans...
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posted on
05/14/2024 9:11:24 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
To: silverleaf
To: Recovering_Democrat
I hope he takes pictures.
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posted on
05/14/2024 9:39:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Switzerland isn’t a political statement, it is just a better neighborhood.
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posted on
05/14/2024 10:14:41 AM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: dfwgator
Tina Turner? Did not see that.
Same reason as Wonder? Then she is just as bad as Stevie.
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posted on
05/14/2024 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
BatGuano
(Dem's guilty of Election Fraud in 2020, stand by for 2024.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Ghanaian has a policy of giving citizenship to any African American.
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posted on
05/14/2024 10:29:08 AM PDT
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Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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