‘Come again to the motherland’ in Africa, Spike Lee tells African Individuals

In an interview with FRANCE 24 in New York on the sidelines of the UN Normal Meeting, filmmaker Spike Lee and his spouse, the producer Tonya Lewis Lee, mentioned their appointment as thematic ambassadors to Benin for the African American diaspora in the US. The West African nation is providing citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans with out requiring funding. “Our brothers and sisters in Benin are telling us: come house, welcome us house, come again to the motherland. Come again [to] the place your roots are,” Spike Lee stated.