By BBC
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Legendary singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is officially Ghanaian.
On Monday – the US musical icon’s 74th birthday – he was granted citizenship of Ghana by the nation’s president.
“This is it, congratulations!” Nana Akufo-Addo told a beaming Wonder, handing the Grammy winner a certificate at a ceremony in the presidential palace where he was also presented with a birthday cake with a Ghanaian flag iced on top.
Wonder told the BBC that gaining Ghanaian nationality on his birthday was an “amazing thing”.
The superstar was born and bred in the US state of Michigan but has long had an affinity for Ghana – a West African nation thousands of miles from home. READ MORE…
