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The reverse migration: African Americans relocating to Kenya cite heritage and restoration
Yahoo News ^ | July 26, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 07/28/2025 8:18:07 AM PDT by Twotone

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. His chance came two years ago when he bought a one-way ticket to Kenya.

The 38-year-old retired veteran has found a community in the east African country’s capital, where he now runs an Airbnb business. He loves admiring Nairobi’s golden sunset from a rooftop terrace, and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in a tastefully furnished apartment in an upmarket neighborhood.

Harris is part of a growing wave of African Americans who are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their ancestors — or “coming home,” a phrase often used among the Black community.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; reversemigration
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To: Twotone

Most come racing back within 2 months.


21 posted on 07/28/2025 8:28:05 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Twotone

If they’re truly happy there, more power to them. Everyone who declares their hatred for our country should join them.


22 posted on 07/28/2025 8:29:31 AM PDT by Spok (Lies and stupidity require an explanation; the truth doesn’t.)
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To: Jim W N
I was on friendly terms with a black co-worker from a previous life. He sent his children to a Christian boarding high school in Ghana when they were of high school age.

He told me that they not only avoided the drug and gang distractions of modern American public schools, but came home with an entirely different perspective on life and culture. It was the best money he ever spent.

23 posted on 07/28/2025 8:29:34 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: KittyKares
I wish the criminal Blacks would leave, not the entrepreneurial ones.

Hey, if they could turn the subcontinent into anything but the corrupt murderous diseased cesspool that it has always been, I'd be okay with it.

(We just need to stop allowing Liberals to erase all consequences for our criminal element, and keep them locked up longer.)

24 posted on 07/28/2025 8:29:55 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Twotone

Having spent many years overseas I can say that 100% of Africans I have interacted with express attitudes towards American Blacks not unlike 1950’s Southern Whites.


25 posted on 07/28/2025 8:33:11 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Twotone

No doubt the local blacks hate them with passion. They will return, like many before them, with tail between legs.


26 posted on 07/28/2025 8:35:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Twotone

Not well thought out.

But, whatever floats your boat!


27 posted on 07/28/2025 8:35:51 AM PDT by old school
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To: Vigilanteman

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.


28 posted on 07/28/2025 8:38:10 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Twotone

Christians not welcome.


29 posted on 07/28/2025 8:41:38 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave e them.-S.Adams)
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To: Twotone

He’ll make sure he takes that fat US govt pension with him,as all expats do.


30 posted on 07/28/2025 8:42:51 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Twotone

Hope he’s happy.


31 posted on 07/28/2025 8:47:10 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: PIF

Yup—Black Americans are easy to spot in Africa.

They do not need to even speak one word.

The entitlement body language gives them away.


32 posted on 07/28/2025 8:47:19 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Twotone

So long
Farewell
It’s been good to know ya ... kinda


33 posted on 07/28/2025 8:48:10 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Twotone

“...source of suspicion...”

This is where the disconnect lives. People arrive in this country, just like they will arrive in Kenya, and try to change it. They display different images of themselves than what is the normal and then demand everyone else to accept it as such.

He enjoys, because of his past in the US, the ability to live in a luxurious lifestyle most Kenyans can’t afford and then wonders why their idea of making the country like what they had in the US gets them to that mistrust. They are mistrusted because they are different and want to stay that way demanding others accept it. But what they are really doing is exactly what they faced in the US and in time they will be like the people they hate here.

wy69


34 posted on 07/28/2025 8:48:22 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Vigilanteman
but came home with an entirely different perspective on life and culture. It was the best money he ever spent.

And why can't they create such schools in the USA?

35 posted on 07/28/2025 8:49:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Twotone

Not surprisingly, also moving to Kenya are a large number of obese, redheaded, white females who wear hoop earrings.


36 posted on 07/28/2025 8:50:16 AM PDT by bort
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To: Twotone

Going to the nearest mud hole each morning to get a bucket of water for the day can be fun


37 posted on 07/28/2025 8:53:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Vigilanteman
He sent his children to a Christian boarding high school in Ghana when they were of high school age... came home with an entirely different perspective on life and culture. It was the best money he ever spent.

Why send one's kids all the way to Ghana? And why can't they create such schools in the USA? I would agree with them that such schools for blacks do not exist in the USA (or rather, they do exist, but are not all black)

Why can't blacks create the same independent education options in their own home towns?

38 posted on 07/28/2025 8:53:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: shanover

Although Christians are slaughtered in parts of the continent, Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in Africa.


39 posted on 07/28/2025 8:56:41 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Twotone
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.

In Atlanta? And he was born in the 1980s? That doesn't ring at all true.

40 posted on 07/28/2025 9:01:23 AM PDT by x
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