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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; reversemigration
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1 posted on 07/28/2025 8:18:07 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Will Obozo join them?


2 posted on 07/28/2025 8:19:46 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Twotone

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


3 posted on 07/28/2025 8:20:31 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

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


4 posted on 07/28/2025 8:21:18 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Twotone

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


5 posted on 07/28/2025 8:21:32 AM PDT by albie
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To: Twotone

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


6 posted on 07/28/2025 8:22:07 AM PDT by Orosius
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To: Twotone

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


7 posted on 07/28/2025 8:22:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: Twotone

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


8 posted on 07/28/2025 8:22:43 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: iontheball
I was thinking about the same thing


9 posted on 07/28/2025 8:23:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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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.

10 posted on 07/28/2025 8:23:31 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Twotone

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

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


11 posted on 07/28/2025 8:23:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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12 posted on 07/28/2025 8:24:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Orosius

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


13 posted on 07/28/2025 8:24:58 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Twotone

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


14 posted on 07/28/2025 8:25:21 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Twotone

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


15 posted on 07/28/2025 8:25:23 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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“A lot of emotion, hitting lots of empty slogans, zero facts.”

Well, it is from “Yahoo News”!


16 posted on 07/28/2025 8:27:25 AM PDT by PsyCon
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To: Jim W N

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


17 posted on 07/28/2025 8:27:27 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Twotone

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


18 posted on 07/28/2025 8:27:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I wish the criminal Blacks would leave, not the entrepreneurial ones.


19 posted on 07/28/2025 8:27:34 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Twotone

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


20 posted on 07/28/2025 8:27:59 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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