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Ghana has announced a new Jamaica Homecoming Festival, set to take over Accra on December 4th and 5th this year. The event is being spearheaded by reggae artist Gramps Morgan of Morgan Heritage, and it brings together music, culture and heritage tourism under one roof, inviting people of Caribbean and wider African descent to reconnect with Ghana as a place of origin rather than simply a holiday destination. What makes this festival stand out is how far beyond the stage it re

This month, something rare has been happening in London and Manchester: Nigerian passport officials have crossed the Atlantic to come to the diaspora, instead of the other way round. The Nigeria Immigration Service, acting on a directive from Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, launched a special passport intervention exercise running from 7 to 19 September in those two cities, with Aberdeen and Cardiff to follow later in the month. On just the second day alone, 422 applica

This week, Jamaica's Minister Olivia Grange is leading a delegation to the United Kingdom to press the case for reparations, with plans to petition King Charles III directly during the visit. For the tens of thousands of Jamaican and wider Caribbean families now settled across the UK, the trip has landed as more than a diplomatic headline — it's a reminder of just how tightly the two nations' histories, and futures, remain bound together. The reparations conversation has been