Rita Marley, the wife of Bob Marley, has lived in Ghana for more than 20 years. She moved to Ghana in the 1990s with Bob Marley's family.
She applied for Ghanaian citizenship in 2013 and was successful. Rta Marley is now known as Nana Afua Abodea in Ghana.
She also resides in the Aburi region of Ghana. Rita Marley established a studio in Accra, Ghana, in honour of her late husband Bob Marley.
Studio One is the name of the said studio. She is in charge of a non-profit organization in Ghana. Her foundation, the Rita Marley Charity foundation aids philanthropic causes.
Early in the 1960s, Nana Rita Marley began her career in music as a vocalist with the all-female group The Soulettes, who shared the stage with the Four Tops, Johnny Nash, and other artists.
One Draw, a song she released in 1982, was a huge hit in Europe but Jamaican radio refused to broadcast it.
According to the Jamaica Observer, One Draw was the first reggae song to reach number one on the Billboard Disco chart.
Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett gave birth to Rita Marley in Cuba, and she was raised in Trenchtown, Jamaica.
She describes growing up on Greenwich Park Road with her aunt Viola in her book No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley.
With her eldest daughter, Sharon, apparently married to a Ghanaian Ekow Alabi Savage, Rita Marley is the mother of 12 children, more than 60 grandkids, and one great-grandchild.
She never looked back on the 1990s move her family made to Ghana. "This is heaven "Apparently, Rita Marley stated. "I see myself still as a Jamaican, but Africa is our roots and I was always looking forward to this transition, she said."
"Nigeria is more like New York, but Ghana is a lot more like what we expect Africa to me."
She received a Ghanaian passport in recognition of her services to Ghana. Her charitable foundation in Ghana promotes programmes aimed towards enhancing Accra, Ghana. She assists the kids of the Methodist Local Primary and J.S.S by renovating outdated facilities and establishing new ones, granting scholarships, and supplying lunches for elementary school students to help them eat better.
In 2005, Rita Marley intended to exhume her deceased husband's remains and bury it in Ethiopia because she thought he had a "spiritual resting place." The day he would have turned 60 was going to be a month-long celebration, according to her plans.
She had intended to bury him in a Rastatari community on property that had been allotted to them by the country's former leader, Haile Selassie.