Elmina fortress Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/elmina-fortress/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 28 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Elmina fortress Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/elmina-fortress/ 32 32 Nancy Pelosi to address Ghanaian Parliament https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/nancy-pelosi-to-address-ghanaian-parliament/ Sun, 28 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/nancy-pelosi-to-address-ghanaian-parliament/ United States House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi  will address Ghana’s Parliament in Accra this week. Her visit marks the 400 anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being sent to the United States. Nancy Pelosi says she’s particularly honored to be the first US  Speaker to address the Ghanaian parliament. She will have talks with […]

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]]> United States House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi  will address Ghana’s Parliament in Accra this week.

Her visit marks the 400 anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being sent to the United States.

Nancy Pelosi says she’s particularly honored to be the first US  Speaker to address the Ghanaian parliament.

She will have talks with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo.

Pelosi  will visit the Elmina fortress from where African slaves, at a rate of 30 000 a year,  began their one-way journey into servitude in America.

Pelosi is also visiting the US Army’s Africa Headquarters in Rome.

The delegation traveling her with includes Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar – one of the Democratic representatives urged by President Donald Trump last week to go back to where they came from

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