Stevie Wonder Explains Why He’s Moving to Ghana Permanently

Stevie Wonder (Photo credit: Bang Media)

By Terry Shropshire – (Source: www.rollingout.com) All-time music great Stevie Wonder declared with absolute resolve that he is moving to Ghana to live out the rest of his days.

Wonder, 70, whom most R&B artists and even pop singers revere as a source of inspiration for decades, blew Oprah Winfrey away during a recent episode of “Oprah Conversations” when he said that once he makes that move to the Motherland, he will not be coming back.

Winfrey, 67, seemed to need a second to absorb intellectually what Wonder had just articulated.

“You’re gonna move permanently to Ghana?” the talk show host asked seeking clarity.

“I am,” said the “Higher Ground” singer who first exploded onto the scene in the 1960s with Motown.

“I don’t want to see my children’s, children’s children have to say ‘Oh please like me, please respect me, please know that I am important, please value me.’ What is that?” he asked.

Wonder has been pondering the move to the West African nation for decades. HNHH reports that Wonder vowed to the International Association of African American Music in 1994 that he would eventually settle in Ghana because “there’s more of a sense of community.”

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