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Article: Ghana attracts African Americans home to motherland.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 19, 1996
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ACCRA, Ghana _ Malkia Brantuo shocked everyone at the end of a six-week visit to Ghana in 1973.
``I decided I couldn't go back to Detroit,'' said Brantuo, 66, a former schoolteacher. ``I called my sister and had her retire me.''
And she stayed, lulled by the tropical weather, palm trees, and living among a simpler, untainted people who made her feel like a child again.
``I grew up in Inkster (Mich.),'' Brantuo said. ``It was just like being down south up north. It wasn't developed at all. Everybody knew everybody.
``When I came to Ghana in 1973, a lot of things that Detroit began to lose as far as the closeness of the people, the trusting ways, ...