Hollywood Couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors Embrace Guinea Citizenship

Sun Jan 11 2026 00:30:12 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Famed actors Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors visit Guinea after tracing their roots, marking a significant cultural journey as they prepare to gain citizenship in the West African nation.

Hollywood stars Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have traced their ancestry back to Guinea and are set to be granted citizenship after a ceremonial event. Good expressed her excitement at experiencing Guinea, while Majors looks forward to connecting with its people. Their visit is part of a broader trend of African heritage reclamation among celebrities.

Husband and wife movie stars Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have travelled to Guinea, where the US couple are due to be granted citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African nation through DNA testing.

We are just happy to be here, said Good, best known for the film Think Like a Man, and who went on to explain that it was her first visit to Guinea.

Majors, a star of Creed and Ant-Man, added: I am excited to meet the people and go around the town with my wife. Their citizenship ceremony has been organised by the ministry of culture - and is similar to other initiatives in the region to encourage people of African descent to reclaim their heritage and invest in the continent.

The event - a private cultural ceremony - is to take place at a new tourist garden on the outskirts of the capital, Conakry later on Friday.

Good, 44, and Majors, 36, began dating in May 2023 and tied the knot last year. They married following a turbulent period in Majors' life. In 2024, he was sentenced in the US to probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, British choreographer Grace Jabbari. He was mandated to complete a 52-week domestic violence intervention programme.

The actors landed at Conakry's Gbessia International Airport in the early hours of Friday morning and were welcomed with great fanfare by officials and musicians. During their stay in Guinea, the pair are scheduled to tour Boké, a coastal region with historic slave trade sites. It is not clear if they plan to invest in or move to Guinea.

In recent years, several celebrities have taken up citizenships of countries in Africa, largely beginning in 2019 when Ghana launched The Year of Return, inviting those with African heritage to come home and invest. Other notable examples have been US singer Ciara, who took Beninese citizenship last year, and Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson, who acquired a Gabonese passport in 2020.

Guinea itself has a long history of welcoming activists and people from the African diaspora, with notable figures such as singer Miriam Makeba and civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael having moved to Guinea in the 1960s.

The country is rich in minerals, including bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, and uranium, yet its people remain among the poorest in West Africa. Under the junta that seized power in 2021, the country has experienced political turmoil, though it recently returned to civilian rule following elections.