Stevie Wonder has had Africa on his mind for the last few decades, but now it appears he’s putting his plans into action.
The 25-time Grammy winner told Oprah Winfrey during The Oprah Conversation that he has plans to move to Ghana, because he wants to live in a place where he’s valued.
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Wonder, 70, said he has grown weary of America’s infuriating and mystifying unwillingness to accept all of its citizens equally.
“I promise you [America], if you do the right thing, I will give you this song. I will give it to you. You can have it,” he said, according to Hot New Hip Hop. “Because I wanna see this nation smile again. And I want to see it before I leave to travel to move to Ghana, because I’m going to do that. I don’t want to see my children’s, children’s children have to say ‘Oh please like me, please respect me, please know that I am important, please value me,’” he told Winfrey.
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The Orlando Sentinel reports that Wonder vowed to the International Association of African American Music in 1994 that he would eventually settle in Ghana because “there’s more of a sense of community.”
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