CONAKRY, Guinea — Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.<\/p>\n
The couple was awarded citizenship in a private ceremony in the capital of Conakry on Friday. They are scheduled to tour the country’s tourist sites on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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,\u201d said Djiba Diakit\u00e9, head of the president’s cabinet. <\/p>\n
Majors seemed destined for the ranks of Hollywood\u2019s A-list before he was arrested following a 2023 altercation with his then-girlfriend. He had won critical accolades for his work in \u201cDa 5 Bloods\u201d and \u201cLovecraft Country\u201d and secured years of future Marvel stardom with his role as Kang the Conqueror. However, after his conviction on assault and harassment charges<\/a>, Marvel dropped him from future projects, and \u201cMagazine Dreams,\u201d a film once tipped to bring him an Oscar nomination, went on ice until last year.<\/p>\n Good, an actor herself, began dating Majors in 2023, and was a constant presence at his trial in New York. They were engaged in 2024,<\/a> and wed last year in a small, impromptu ceremony as he promoted \u201cMagazine Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n Guinea is not the first country to award citizenship to descendents of enslaved people. Last year, U.S. singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin.<\/a><\/p>\n Ghana last year naturalized 524 African Americans, after President Nana Akufo-Addo invited them to \u201ccome home\u201d in 2019, as part of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in North America in 1619.<\/p>\n Guinea has been ruled by junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya<\/a> since a 2021 coup. Last month, he was declared the winner of the presidential election<\/a> after clamping down on opposition and dissents, leaving him with no major opponents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONAKRY, Guinea — Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[226981,347,171,57,80,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-506965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-226981","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115872801073172327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}