After Two Decades of Travel to Africa She Bought a Home in Ghana
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Candace Mickens is an African American woman who has been travelling to the African continent over two decades. She fell in love with the warmth and hospitality of Ghana and decided to purchase a home in the country.
I met with her to talk about her experiences in Ghana and other parts of Africa and why she chose to buy a home in Ghana.
If you're looking for a home, there are still properties available at Pokuase Heights which offer a lower priced alternative to some of the property values across greater Accra. There are 2-3 bedroom options available.
Pokuase Heights: Bernard +233 24 389 6338
Email: info@pokuaseheights.com
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Ivy Prosper is an experienced TV Host, Producer, Writer, Speaker and Digital Creator. She is a published author with her book, 'Your Essential Guide on Moving to Ghana'.
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Candace Mickens is an African American woman who has been travelling to the African continent over two decades. She fell in love with the warmth and hospitality of Ghana and decided to purchase a home in the country.
I met with her to talk about her experiences in Ghana and other parts of Africa and why she chose to buy a home in Ghana.
If you're looking for a home, there are still properties available at Pokuase Heights which offer a lower priced alternative to some of the property values across greater Accra. There are 2-3 bedroom options available.
Pokuase Heights: Bernard +233 24 389 6338
Email: info@pokuaseheights.com
I met Candace a couple of weeks (November 2024) ago in Accra. She is a amazing woman with a unique awareness of African culture and the connectivity between and among African people wherever we are in the world. I was particularly sensitized to her preference for the word "repatriate" as opposed to "expatriate' when talking about Africans from the diaspora returning home. Like Candace, I have been traveling all over Africa (14 countries: Ghana and South Africa multiple times) for about a decade and a half, and agree that it is important to experience different countries before deciding where to land and plant if that's in your future. Candace brings a a wealth of knowledge, experience and wisdom to the table for anyone interest in connecting with Ghana in particular and Africa in general.
That's so wonderful that you met her. She truly is very knowledgeable and has so much wisdom.
Candace, We met during my first trip to your homeland. Reflect on the significance of gaining citizenship together, the blessings I wish for you on your journey, and the appreciation for the meaningful conversation we shared. Highlight your ✊🏾beautiful spirit and lovely character🫶🏾Shawna Nelson
@@sickandtiredobsat4021 This is beautiful.
Thank you Sis...meeting you and having our Salone citizenship is forever imprinted in my memory!!
About speaking loudly on the phone. It has to do with our past experiences with the phones. There was a time you had to go to the post office to make international calls. First of all, the audio reception was very bad so you had to speak loudly. This has transcended down to the way we speak on the phone even if the reception is very good!
Yes! People had to go to the post office or the communication centre to make calls.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love hearing people's perspectives.
So beautiful 🤩 to reconnect with our Afro roots is a challenge but this sista did it🙌🏿
Candace is SO inspiring!
She truly is inspirational. I love her spirit.
Hi, Pokuase is my town. I am a Poktown boy and I welcome you to be one of us.
thank you brother !
For me too it was the billboards that stuck with me.
Ghana 🇬🇭🎉
This was a very powerful interview. Thank you Candace for sharing with us!
@@steamdecknation7908 It really was..She has so much experience and wisdom.
She is likeable 😊
@@tjanikhilor4240 Very!!
Congratulations, sisters. Peace and blessings to you.
Hope you find peace and love living ✨️ 💕 in Ghana 🇬🇭
Thank you so much.
So proud of you family
thank you
Wishing you all the very best on your Ghana journey! Akwaaba!
Thank you.
I understand everything she’s saying
Bless you my sista!
This was such a wonderfully rich conversation. Candace is always so generous with story and her learnings and I've truly appreciated sharing the gifts and downsides of traveling with her!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the interview!
I am so happy for you Candace - you DID that!!! Love you my good friend xoxo💓
GHANA IS BLESSED
Keep up the good work, Ivy, collecting this wonderful library of Diaspora journeys to Ghana 🇬🇭
Thank you so much You're also doing a great job with highlighting people too!
This was an amazing interview! I can't wait to come visit!🥰❤
@@theluvlounge I'm glad you enjoyed this interview.
love this. Candance I need to connect with you when I come back to DC.
I have taken Black theology course. Africa Countries have a duty to accept the Black Americans back to their ancestoral home
I think most of them do welcome our brothers & sisters, just to visit at least, then move after thinking 🤔 thoroughly, we love you guys ova here🙌🏿🧬
I am a black American with me saying we don't need all our garbage retuning with me approving these countries😢regulating who comes and that includes me if I am disrupting their culture along with a lot of us don't even know the culture and are not trying to learn it being why we also are having such a hard time over there
I guess you mean all blacks in the diaspora with African roots..for example Surinam, Guyanas, Trinidad, Jamaica,Barbados, Brazil(88 million blacks), to name a few.... Not only African- Americans from the States.
@ yes of course, peace & blessings to u🙏
@@tratneyI don’t think you’re disrupting anything, just slowly reconnect with the roots however you see fit, no pressure 🤷🏿♂️
Beautiful Interview Candace!! Blessings! Ubuntu ❤
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Enjoy listening to her. Nice interview
I'm loving her journey
Me too.
thank you so much.
Great conversation. Thanks for sharing.
I’m tearing up
Congratulations ❤❤❤
P.S. love her ancestral altar!!!
Hi Ivy. I'm so happy I found your channel. I'm a writer and will be coming to Ghana in the spring on a writing residency. The stories you share on your channel are so inspiring and helpful! Thank you! By the way, I plan to document my experience in Ghana on my new RUclips channel.
Thank you.
That's great. Is the writing residency with the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora?
@@IvyProsper Yes!!!
@LiteraryLori Awesome.
love this! beautiful!!!
Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the video. Interesting information
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful!
JAY Z was in GHANA
In 2006, JAY Z was in GHANA
yes I remember..
EI ONYAME TUMI SO PAA
Indeed, my sister.
She can never own it because the land is leased only not freehold
Freehold is RARE in Ghana. Those who have it have passed it down from generation to generation.
@ Ghana new land act changed in 2020 which no longer allow Ghanaians to purchase freehold , the reason behind it is because in 2019 African Americans and Caribbeans and black British started applying for citizenship and purchasing land , which would of given them the right to freehold land , the new lands act prevents this opportunity for the diasporas to own a plot of their ancestral land to call home , they can only lease land for 99 years if they become a citizen or 50 year lease with an option of a renewal clause , this is a complete scam because know one can create generational wealth on lease land
@@slaveman2818 You're TOTALLY misinformed. The laws have nothing to do with the diaspora coming to Ghana. Absolutely nothing to do with that.
The laws were to not allow the creation of new freehold lands. There are already existing freehold lands which are within family clans and can be passed down generation to generation.
My understanding is it was to restrict companies from trying to obtain lands they don't have permission to grant as freehold. There were companies making claims that they cannot follow through on.
Unfortunately people in the diaspora sometimes take things personally and think things are targeted at them when you don't stop and think about the local Ghanaians who are already living there and subject to these laws too. The majority of local born and raised Ghanaians are also leasing land and don't have access to freehold land unless they are coming from families who are passing the land down to them.
@ your wrong unfortunately, but first let’s talk about the diasporas and the local people before we talk about government laws , diasporas think about citizens of Ghana and care more for them than those Ghanaians with money Ghanaian’s don’t care about Ghanaian people , there’s 6 witch camps in Ghana 🇬🇭 where women have been cast out of society because they have been accused of being a witch , gambaga , kukuo , gnani , bonyase , nabuli , kpatinga are all witch camps today in Ghana 🇬🇭, I’ve never seen Ghana people protesting against this injustice against these women and children , I could touch on so many things to prove that Ghana people do think about those who suffer , you just have to look at the decisions Ghana have been making for decades which has no benefit for Ghana citizens, Ghana have been serving the white man over their own people since slavery , I’ve been travelling to Ghana for over 25 years and I’ve seen a a lot , I’ve been to the cocoa farms where children work like slaves , anyway look at the end of the day we are the descendants that of those Ghanaian young men and women who walk through those doors of no return to work as slaves for 400 years plus all we want is the opportunity to purchase a freehold plot of land to call a place our home which we can create generational wealth, many of my Ghana friends of freehold , and those who choose to by lease can always go back to family land , something we can’t do with lease land
@ ok what would you do today if you had a job selling coconut all day in the sun but you have also just inherit a 2 million dollar house and land today in Ghana 🇬🇭 which your grandparents leased to African Americans 99 years ago on a lease that expired and you are now the rightful owner of this 2 million dollar property but now the children of this black American family wants your 2. Million dollar house which is legally yours , what would you do ? renew the clause ? take ownership ? sell it for someone interested ? or do what some foolish people , oh no one comes back for there land lol 😂 even if you decide to renew the clause for them for a house with that value, most diaspora wont be able to afford to renew the lease ,, and this is the crisis that’s going to happen in 99 years from now