In Ghana, African-Americans are worried about the US election

“If Kamala Harris wins, the situation will be bad. If it’s Donald Trump, it will be even worse,” said Daryl Landy, expressing his concern on the eve of the American presidential election, which takes place on Tuesday, November 5. This former teacher from New York moved to Accra, the capital of Ghana, in 2019 to escape what he described as the increasingly overt racism in American society.Five years later, he’s convinced the situation has worsened. “The people chanting ‘Make America great again’ today want to go back to a time when only one group of people controlled the country,” he said.Sitting next to him, his friend Wanida Lewis nodded with a serious look on her face. Before launching her business promoting pan-African cuisine in the Accra suburbs, this woman from Maryland on the US East Coast worked for the US government, notably under the Trump administration. “Whatever the outcome of the election, people are going to go crazy. We live in very strange times, where some people don’t want to see their history change and are willing to fight,” she asserted. This situation terrifies Landy who said, “I’m afraid for my family, who are still over there. I really hope...