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She Was a Teenage Mother in Detroit. Now She’s a Ghanaian ‘Queen’    

Woman in traditional attire with lion in a savannah setting.
African woman dressed in traditional clothing standing with a lion in the wild.

Many kids fantasize about becoming royalty, but very few of them actually do it.  In the case of Kennedy Johnson, a devotion to travel opened up a door to a completely new life. 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. It was conferred on her by the Dakpema, Fuseini Bawa, a local spiritual leader, with Zosimli Naa roughly translating as “Friendship Queen” — effectively making her the Dakpema’s head of development in the area.

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