GHANA WELCOMES WITH OPEN ARMS : AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO'VE MOVED THERE SAY LIFE IS GOOD.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | June 23, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: Melanie Eversley Detroit Free Press

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 ...

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