Another Afro-American settlement is concentrated in Accra, Ghana, which has more than 1,000 Afro-American residents, primarily originating from the United States, who reside in the country on work permits, with a few on permanent resident status. Accra has long attracted Afro-American tourists since the country became the first African country to gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1957 (W. E. B. DuBois settled in Ghana in his last years and is buried in Accra), and the government has made controversial overtures to gain more Afro-American residents and tourists, including enacting a right of abode law in 2001.[6][7][8][9][10] Organizations have been established to support Afro-American residents in Ghana, including the African-American Association of Ghana.