Twenty-five years later, when Johnson found herself in northern Ghana being made a queen, she couldn’t quite believe where life had led her.
In front of an adoring crowd in Tamale, the largest city in northern Ghana, Johnson was given her honorary title of “Zosimli Naa” in October 2021.
Kendall JonesKennedy Johnson is not the first Zosimli Naa to be enskinned by the Dakpema.
Seven years later, Johnson became the next person to receive the title from the Dakpema Palace.
“It’s still a hard thing to conceptualize.”And what would the teenage Kennedy Johnson in Detroit think of the current Queen in Tamale?
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