LOUIS FARRAKHAN IN AFRICA

THE MAN WHO WENT BACK BEFORE IT WAS FASHIONABLE There is a version of the diaspora-return story that begins in 2019 with Ghana’s Year of Return and its million and a half visitors, or in 2026 with sovereign diaspora bonds and returnee desks in more than twenty capitals. That version is incomplete. The architecture of return that African governments now build — dual nationality, the investment desk, the citizenship ceremony — sits on top of three decades of visits, crowds and confrontations that most of its beneficiaries have never been told about. Louis Farrakhan belongs in that history, and he belongs in...