1 - Take your emotions out of the table, and read again.
And to the bolded part, fair enough, but who told you that i am here to please or be praised by African Americans? You should take this out of your mind, that the fact that i am using this platform, that i was invited to, means that i came here to please or expect some type of praise from black americans. Saying this, doesn't mean that i came to disrespect, either.
My advice to you and a lot of people here, you guys should know the meaning of passive-aggressiveness. Because from what i have seen, people here just don't use it properly.
2 - Back to the topic, what is not really accurate? African Americans have DNA mixes from all of the west coastal Africa. But they always tend to be more connected to the people from Ghana. If you meet black americans who are open to travel to Africa, the majority of them, will always tell you that they want to visit Ghana. And in second place, Nigeria. So, MAYBE, just MAYBE, it is because there are cultural aspects that still stand and connect more Ghanaians to African Americans or African Americans to Ghanaians, than Gabonese, Angolans, Guineans, Malians and etc to African Americans.
For instance, there are many AAs with roots in the ancient kongo kingdom. But you are more likely to find a black american girl named Ashanti than N'zinga, and i have met AA girls named N'zinga, but not at the same rate as Ashanti.
Do you understand, that the fact that Kwame Nkruma was influenced by AA movements, doesn't change the possibility that what remains African inside of the AA culture, could be heavily rooted in Ghana? Do you understand that i am talking about a connection from slaves and slavery that was passed through centuries?
And that's why i tagged @Akan , because he is the one who posted before, evidence that Gullah people love rice, because they are descendants of enslaved people that were already experts in rice farming in West Africa.
If you still don't get it, just think it like this. If you were raised in a traditional African American family, let's say with Gullah roots. And you were raised to love gullah red rice, gullah stories, junkanoo and etc. PS: Gullah and Bahamians have a lot of similarities, so i believe that the Gullah have something close to junkanoo.
And years later, you find about Ghana, and you find out that Ghana is the country in Africa, that resembles the most, the education and culture that was passed to you.
What is that going to do to you? It is going to make you more comfortable around the ghanaian culture. You might have more yoruba dna in your family, but what still stands as African, is more ghanaian, even if your ghanaian percentage is very low...Ghanaian culture is going to be out of your comfort zone, but still the closest thing to your comfort zone...
Simple, maybe it is just that. That's my theory, to the fact that African Americans are more connected to Ghana than the rest of West Africa
