Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.
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.
“We 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,” said Djiba Diakité, head of the president’s cabinet.
Majors seemed destined for the ranks of Hollywood’s A-list before he was arrested following a 2023 altercation with his then-girlfriend.
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, and wed last year in a small, impromptu ceremony as he promoted “Magazine Dreams.”
Guinea is not the first country to award citizenship to descendants of enslaved people. Last year, US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin.
Ghana last year naturalized 524 African Americans, after President Nana Akufo-Addo invited them to “come home” in 2019, as part of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in North America in 1619.