Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors achieve Guinean citizenship | EUROtoday

Hollywood actors Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have been granted Guinean citizenship, tracing their ancestry to the West African nation by way of DNA testing. The pair acquired their new nationality in a personal ceremony in Conakry on Friday. They are scheduled to tour the nation’s vacationer websites this Sunday.

“We think that you are among the worthy sons and daughters of this Guinea. You represent our country, the red-yellow-green flag all over the world,” mentioned Djiba Diakité, head of the president’s cupboard.

Majors appeared destined for the ranks of Hollywood’s A-list earlier than he was arrested following a 2023 altercation together with his then-girlfriend. He had received crucial accolades for his work in “Da 5 Bloods” and “Lovecraft Country” and secured years of future Marvel stardom together with his function as Kang the Conqueror. However, after his conviction on assault and harassment expenses, Marvel dropped him from future initiatives, and “Magazine Dreams,” a movie as soon as tipped to deliver him an Oscar nomination, went on ice till final yr.

Good, an actor herself, started courting Majors in 2023, and was a relentless presence at his trial in New York. They have been engaged in 2024, and wed final yr in a small, impromptu ceremony as he promoted “Magazine Dreams.”

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Guinea is just not the primary nation to award citizenship to descendents of enslaved individuals. Last yr, U.S. singer Ciara turned one of many first public figures to change into a citizen of Benin.

Ghana final yr naturalized 524 African Americans, after President Nana Akufo-Addo invited them to “come home” in 2019, as a part of the four-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the primary enslaved Africans in North America in 1619.

Guinea has been dominated by junta chief Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya since a 2021 coup. Last month, he was declared the winner of the presidential election after clamping down on opposition and dissents, leaving him with no main opponents.