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Husband and wife film stars Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have traveled to Guinea, where the American couple are expected to obtain American citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.
“We’re just happy to be here,” said Good, best known for the film Think Like a Man, and who went on to explain that this was her first visit to Guinea.
Majors, a star of Creed and Ant-Man, added: “I’m excited to meet the people and tour the city with my wife.”
Their citizenship ceremony was organized by the Ministry of Culture and is similar to other initiatives in the region aimed at encouraging people of African descent to reclaim their heritage and invest in the continent.
The event – a private cultural ceremony – is due to take place on Friday at a new tourist garden on the outskirts of the capital, Conakry.
Good, 44, and Majors, 36, began dating in May 2023 and married last year.
They married after a turbulent period in Majors’ life. In 2024, he was sentenced in the United States to probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, British choreographer Grace Jabbari. He was assigned to complete a 52-week domestic violence intervention program.
The actors landed at Gbessia International Airport in Conakry in the early hours of Friday morning and were welcomed with great fanfare by officials and musicians.
During their stay in Guinea, the two men are expected to visit Boké, a coastal region home to historic slave trade sites. It is unclear whether they plan to invest or settle in Guinea.
In recent years, several celebrities have acquired the nationality of African countries.
It largely began in 2019, when Ghana launched “The Year of Return,” inviting people with African heritage to return home and invest. One of the hottest stars to do it was Stevie Wonder in 2024.
Other notable examples have been American singer Ciara, who took Beninese nationality last yearand Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson, who acquired a Gabonese passport in 2020.
Guinea itself has a long history of welcoming activists and people from the African diaspora.
In the 1960s, South African singer Miriam Makeba and her husband, American civil rights activist and Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael, moved to Guinea.
Makeba had been made stateless due to her opposition to apartheid and after her marriage to Carmichael, who popularized the slogan “black power”, her US visa was revoked.
She was treated as an honorary Guinean citizen and cultural ambassador, while Carmichael, who took the name Kwame Ture, remained in Guinea even after their divorce and died there in 1998.
Guinea has experienced political unrest in recent years – and under the junta that took power in 2021, the country has become less open to dissent.
Coup leader General Mamady Doumbouya restricted media access and suppressed protests.
The country recently returned to civilian rule following elections last month, won by Doumbouya with 87% of the votes.
Unlike other countries in the region that have experienced recent coups, Guinea maintains relations with Western governments, notably France.
The country is rich in minerals, including bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold and uranium, but its population remains among the poorest in West Africa.
