The reverse migration: African Americans relocating to Kenya cite heritage and restoration

Yahoo News ^ | July 26, 2025 | Staff

[iontheball]

Will Obozo join them?

[Jim W N]

My guess - a lot of them will be trying to come back sooner than later...

[Verginius Rufus]

Nairobi is probably 2 to 3 thousand miles from where his enslaved ancestors were born 300 years ago.

[albie]

Yeah, uh-huh Kenya is beautiful this time of year. They’ll be back if they leave at all in 2.5 seconds.

[Orosius]

Kenya is on the other side of the continent from where the African American slaves came from originally.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Wait until he finds out that race cards are not valid there.

[Nateman]

It is the good ones that will self select to leave. The criminal/parasite side will stay here for the free stuff.

[SaveFerris]

I was thinking about the same thing

[Tell It Right]

Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a source of suspicion, but a mark of a shared heritage.

I'm having trouble processing in my mind that a black man has trouble fitting in in Atlanta.

[PGR88]

You can call this type of article “black expat fantasy porn.”

A lot of emotion, hitting lots of empty slogans, zero facts.

[BenLurkin]

[Sirius Lee]

Better not go to Ethiopia. They don’t much care for Africans.

[central_va]

Someone post Obama in Kenyan garb. I have seen it a million times.

[blackdog]

Wait until they discover they need to provide their own food, housing, heathcare, utilities, and transportation.

[PsyCon]

“A lot of emotion, hitting lots of empty slogans, zero facts.”

Well, it is from “Yahoo News”!

[servo1969]

After a few weeks most will wonder what they were thinking.

[butlerweave]

African Americans moving to Africa to find out they’re American and not African ,LOL

[KittyKares]

I wish the criminal Blacks would leave, not the entrepreneurial ones.

[Tom Tetroxide]

The Back-to-Africa movement was around in the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement

There was a group called the American Colonization Society that started in 1816 to help repatriate Blacks back to Africa and lasted until 1964. It focused on sending them to the area of Africa that we now know as Liberia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society