Ms. Lauryn Hill arrives in Benin 🇧🇯 to officially attend citizenship. The place where she has traced back her Ancestry in Africa.

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Benin collecting Black celebrity infinity stones

First Ciara now Lauryn Hill

 

[George Gooney]

Everybody just wants to go somewhere that they feel comfortable.
I hope she finds that in Benin.

She did it for a check. Looney Lauren is not moving to Benin

 

[Chrishaune]

She did it for a check. Looney Lauren is not moving to Benin

She probably did get paid, but she also might have found a spot.

 

[Uachet]

I hope she finds what she desires there, if she decides to make that her home.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

 

[JT-Money]

Yep. Looks like a completely organic movement.

FACT SHEET: Celebrating U.S.-Africa Partnership Two Years After the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit​

FACT SHEET: Celebrating U.S.-Africa Partnership Two Years After the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit | The White House

In the two years since the December 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the Biden-Harris Administration significantly expanded engagement and partnership

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Elevating African Diaspora Engagement

Since the Summit, the Administration has aimed to harness the dynamism of the African Diaspora to enrich lives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Administration has strengthened educational, cultural, social, political, and economic ties among African communities, the global African Diaspora, and the United States. As Vice President Harris said during her 2023 trip to the African continent, “The fates of America and the continent of Africa are interconnected and interdependent.”

In December 2022, President Biden established the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States (PAC-ADE) to provide advice on strengthening connections between the U.S. Government and the African Diaspora in the United States. The Council members held their inaugural meeting in October 2023 with Vice President Harris and Secretary Blinken presiding.

 

[George Gooney]

She probably did get paid, but she also might have found a spot.

They better be giving up land. What do you think? I can't live with tethers. I'd need my own American enclave

 

[Chrishaune]

They better be giving up land. What do you think? I can't live with tethers. I'd need my own American enclave

She can buy land.

 

[CopiousX]

They better be giving up land. What do you think? I can't live with tethers. I'd need my own American enclave

Unfeasible. These are poor countries with millions of long-term, taxpaying residents who themselves don't have land.

Most of the existing land is already claimed by national parks, or communal owners or tribal owners or private owners. So you would have to steal land from locals and displace them, or use the tax dollars of local tax payers to buy these properties for wealthy foreigners. Keep in mind even poor FBA/ADOS are orders of magnitude wealthier than local Africans without land. So The anger would be palpable from local Africans in response.




The best they could do is similar to how America or other Western nations treats refugees by giving them legal status, courses on integration, social services, and slight moving assistance. But outright land grants are unfeasible.

 

[RC-P90]

the fba having a problem with this is like a karen finding something to complain about.

 

[Curioser]

The one thing that confuses me about this is that likely people trace ancestry to multiple countries in Africa. So is thi being granted to country with most percent, random or just who decides to give it to you no matter what the percent is..?!?!

 

[I love Latina women]

The hype around her after 1 album and consistent tardiness to her shows after all these years is mind boggling

 

[King Poetic]

I did mine ancestry and it was Benin , Nigeria and cameroon

Majority of us that trace their ancestry will be west africa

Glad for her.., it seems for over the past 20 years she be crazy out here

 

[Bunchy Carter]

the fba having a problem with this is like a karen finding something to complain about.

Where do you see FBAs collectively having a problem with this?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Ouidah (also known as Whydah) is a commercial center in the modern African nation of Benin that was one of the most active slave trading ports in all of Africa. Europeans called the Bight of Benin—where Ouidah is located—and the surrounding region the “Slave Coast” because of its importance in supplying American markets with African laborers. Historians estimate that over the course of two centuries, Ouidah alone exported more than one million Africans before closing its trade in the 1860s. Only one other port in Africa (Luanda, in Central Africa) transported a greater volume of slaves.

Ouidah | Slavery and Remembrance

Through sites and objects from across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared and painful past, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to shape our present and future.

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Benin was a major supplier of human slaves to Europeans. Quite frankly, fukk em.

Trying to get on that kumbiya shyt just for some American dollars might work on some of us, but not enough of us
Nice try though

if she traces back to benin that means the ancestors she was stolen from are also there. so you want to lump her lost family in with the slave masters. painting everything with broad strokes. it's never that simple. Benin was a major offender but who are you specifically blaming. was it the elite or certain tribes. i'd assume you don't care because it's just more convenient to say "fukk em" all, but it matters.