Ghana’s tourism sector is finding ways to thrive. One resort teaches guests about sustainable living from an indigenous perspective.
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00:00In America, those of us of African ancestry, we don't strive as much as we can because
00:27we don't have a cultural foundation.
00:29They tell us that our history began with slavery, but we know we have a history long before
00:33that, but we don't know that history.
00:35We've been disconnected from it.
00:36So I see myself as a bridge between the diaspora and the continent.
00:41And in 2016, I made the choice to leave America, leave my job there and bring my family and
00:47come and relocate here in Ghana so that I can help others who are interested in reconnecting.
00:59So we teach about sustainable ways of living, sustainable ways of doing our regular chores
01:23like building houses, eating our foods, using our energy, which we use solar here, completely
01:30off the grid, healing ourselves through our traditional medicines, growing our food.
01:35All of those things, we look at it from an indigenous perspective.
01:38The goal of Kazi is really to be able to heal from the negative effects of the transatlantic
01:43and Arab trafficking.
01:45So this is a place where we want to come as a sanctuary, as a learning hub for the diaspora,
01:49for the continent of Africa, where we can share, we can learn, and we can build.
02:02I feel like there's so many questions, even more I want to learn about all the different
02:06plants, about all of the different methodologies they use to make this a regenerative space.
02:12And that's what inspires me too, is how many people can come here and leave with a richer
02:18amount of knowledge about the power of Africa and what we provide.
02:23The earth was protected for millennia by indigenous communities, and the only way forward to do
02:27it is to go back to how those ancestors lived, so that we can come and see what we see today.