African-AmeriKings? Some Black Americans Relocating to Africa, Citing “Heritage”

The New American ^ | July 28, 2025 | Selwyn Duke

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Some black Americans, we hear, are moving back to the land of those who sold their ancestors into slavery. That’s one way of putting it, anyway. But as is said, home is where the heart is. The heart is often happier, too, when your formerly upper-middle-class self can now live like a king in a country of relative serfs.

The Associated Press (AP) covered this topic on Saturday. Relating stories of black Americans relocating to Kenya, the news organ wrote (with the expected woke suppositions):

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.

Like dozens of other African Americans who have moved to Nairobi in recent years, Harris was attracted to Kenya’s tropical climate and what he describes as the warmth and friendliness of the people he believes he shares a history and culture with.

Not Exactly a Wave

The AP further relates:

• Other black Americans have also created flourishing businesses in Kenya; these include travel agencies, restaurants, and farms.

• Along with Kenya, other African countries have drawn black American expatriates. For example, through its “Year of the Return” program, Ghana granted citizenship to...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: backtoafrica; bloggers; gtfo; returntoafrica; wakanda

[proxy_user]

Prediction: They won’t like it.

[rlmorel]

Good for them. I have heard that there are many places in Africa that dislike blacks from America.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If you want to watch a really funny video about a black woman’s move to Africa that didn’t quite work out the way she thought it would, watch this -

https://x.com/NatCon2022/status/1917249780830384252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917249780830384252%7Ctwgr%5E485c3ada4202608fb82e819ae9b002d844bafb72%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrctv.org%2Fblog%2Fbrittany-m-hughes%2Fwoman-who-moved-ghana-escape-us-racism-begs-come-back-due-poverty-and-big

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Like dozens of other African Americans who have moved to Nairobi in recent years, Harris was attracted to Kenya’s tropical climate and what he describes as the warmth and friendliness of the people he believes he shares a history and culture with.

Except he doesn't.

[escapefromboston]

Good luck

[V_TWIN]

Another prediction....they’ll be back...and sooner than you think.

[Lurker]

Need any help packing?

L

[cherry]

They may go wherever they please but their heritage is HERE.

[jerod]

Africa sadly hasn’t changed a whole lot since your ancestors left there in the 17th and 18th centuries... Slavery continues there to this day.

[PGR88]

He loves admiring Nairobi’s golden sunset from a rooftop terrace,

Its a good thing he's got a rooftop terrace, because between the bus/truck exhaust, the garbage piles, the markets, the unwashed masses, and the sewage - Nairobi's streets are a "feast for the nostrils"

[Savage Beast]

Well, some people move back to Europe. Even people whose ancestors were chased out of Europe. Like people who're descendants of the Huguenots. That sort of thing.

(I've been to France a zillion times. Never to Versailles. Stick my tongue out at pictures of Louis XIV. I'm holding a grudge.)

[Steely Tom]

At least they put their money where there mouth is and go there to check it out for themselves.

Most will come back, perhaps some will come back with a changed point of view.

[doorgunner69]

We wuz kangs, and could fly!

[doorgunner69]

Yep, that is the thing no one wants to mention.

They cannot move up in civilization.

Only places slighty modern are leftovers from the hated white europeans.

[packagingguy]

Moving to Kenya? That doesn’t make sense. Their ancestors weren’t from Kenya. They were from west Africa.

[Angelino97]

I saw a trailer from a documentary about an American black woman who relocated to Ghana. She discussed how great it was to live among so much "black excellence." (That phrase was coined during the BLM era.)

The documentary depicted her beautiful mansion with swimming pool. I was thinking...

1. Her American dollar goes far in Ghana.

2. Whites -- and not "black excellence" -- brought all that technology to Ghana.

The documentary included her holding her Ghanan and American passports, as she happily proclaimed, "It's official! I'm now a dual citizen!"

So it seems she didn't give up her American citizenship.

Yet another dual citizen, loving a foreign country while wanting to maintain the benefit$ of American citizenship.

[hanamizu]

Perhaps one legacy of slavery is that American blacks have no idea of how important tribe membership is back in ‘mother Africa’.

One reason that the trans-Atlantic slave trade could exist is the mutual hatred between Tribe A and Tribe B who happened to live only a few miles apart. They’d raid each other capturing unlucky souls and when Europeans showed up on the coast, they were more than happy to sell their slaves. The sellers would get cool European stuff and get rid of neighbors they hated.

American blacks will never ‘fit in’, even in West Africa where all of their ancestors originally came from, let alone East Africa.

[Rummyfan]

Please go. No one is stopping them from doing so.

[Rummyfan]

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.

So is he Masai or Kikuyu?

I would further state, if a black man doesn't feel comfortable in Atlanta, there is something else going on.