{"id":459251,"date":"2026-02-07T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:05:08","slug":"why-countries-like-ghana-benin-and-guinea-are-courting-african-american-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459251\/","title":{"rendered":"Why countries like Ghana, Benin and Guinea are courting African American stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">For instance, Liberia, Africa&#8217;s oldest republic, was founded by freed black American slaves in 1822. After Ghana became independent in 1957, a wave of black intellectuals and artists moved there from the US. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali subsequently paid high-profile visits to Ghana, while Guinea  became home to Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For instance, Liberia, Africa&#8217;s oldest republic, was founded by freed black American slaves in 1822. After Ghana became&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-459251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}