the same w a, b as in europe says the migration policy starts february 15th on dw, the i've met so many young africans just like me chasing opportunities. since i move to germany. we all share the same dream to go back home and invest in our country's future. at the same time, other members of africa's diaspora are stepping foot on the continent for the very 1st time in generations. in the special edition of the 77 percent, we explore the journeys of young people from the dyersburg with maybe a way back to the ancestral homeland. our big question for them is, what does it truly mean to come home? hello and welcome to the show. coming up on the

program, we find out why kenya is a new destination for african americans looking for a face thoughts you know, it's tracy based. we'll discuss of what impact s o americans having on gun those economy. and finally, we meet a filmmaker who has come home to transform syria. neo is image a growing number of black americans seeking new homes abroad with kenya quickly becoming a go to destination. our colleague alexandra is a black american himself and her report from nairobi. she speaks out of the, for americans to find out why they have grown wary of life in the west. well, not really busy intersection. huffman wrote, named after one of the most famous black americans, history, history, science, natal, too, is there images of black americans like me all over 10 years? but despite our cultural presence, few people seem to know about we are and where we come from. what do you know that

black americans forget about that the violin? after telling him that i was african american, he seemed to change his opinion of them right in front of them coming here. the records for the mixed messaging made me eager to know more or black people from the americas like me truly welcome here. kenyans know we exist outside of pictures to explore these questions. i met with vanessa. she arrived and i wrote a few months ago with noah. her 4 year old signed after traveling the world together. they're now adjusting to life and their luxury apartment. i quite a lot. if i'm honest with you, if i move my community for also and it's going to take time to, to adopt and to build my new community. but listen, it happened events back in canada where she grew up. vanessa ran

a successful business and was by all appearances living the dream. but she says that dream had limits was drain. and when you, it's really easy to go back and take care of her to cook and clean on top of that is too much for the average mom to do the her daily schedule now includes homeschooling, noah, after she leaves them with her nanny, which frees up her time to work on her travel, relocation business, and create content with her videographer. and i never meet like that's less on hand, can you? and for me and i and can and make me see the why the in a different way. there are more people like vanessa and di coming to kenya. that's according to cuba, cash. oh, who runs an african american relocation business? she offers a fresh start for those who are able to afford it. we've gotten a lot of retirees and people own businesses in the states and have sold their businesses, and so they live in optim residual income to services. start at $14500.00 euros,

nearly a quarter of what the average american takes home year least the wealth. it's in the defects. and so when we're bringing people to kenya, we're educating them with integrating them versus me painting because you're not me patriot. and so can you and you're not, can it your american g as employee terry address is looking to is that many local young people have about the impact of these new commerce on jobs and opportunities . many of the units in can you, i don't have work at that's of the moment you might feel that's when the african americans are coming. yeah. they're going, i took you until much cutting team was before i like just time is really not position. maybe to do an investment to get some clients to up for you. g is company is optimistic about fostering deeper connections to accommodate this. they are hoping to build a 100 unit real estate development for african american families. thanks to lee mend bogo located a 2 hour drive from nairobi. this would not be the 1st time that black people from the americas have relocated to advertise in the 1800s,

an organization called the american colonization society move 16003 african americans to liberia. this gave way to an american liberian elite that at times had bad relationships with native inhabitants. now division is different. it's about collaboration and connection. it done, right. it could be a whole new chapter for the day. asper has returned to africa, kenya is a pretty new destination for dyersburg return needs. so when they arrive, it is up to them to seek out their roots, gone out. on the other hand, has made homecoming part of the national bread. they are the 1st country in africa to do so through what's called the u. a. v to an initiative from on that. here's my colleague kaya in 2019, gonna kick those to you over to advising the african diaspora to reconnect with davis. and well, how did they respond of a 1000000 people came to gotten that, that yes, most arriving from the u. s. and the u. k. it was

a homecoming like no as a full with the motion discovery and celebrations to president at the time. not, not cool. i will say that since gone. i was once a key terms of point in the concept then to slave trade. the countries felt the responsibility to welcome anyone who could chase the ancestry to africa. since then, and 1000 have make got a new home drawn by a mix of emotional connection and opportunities to support the diaspora looking to invest in gama the governments at the end of 2019 north to be on the return a program designed to attract investment from attorneys and boost the economy. while the influx of hopeful effort of statements has brought new business from locals, are concerned that it's driving up the cost of living for every day garden. and even with the why res, gonna is working to ensure that the, your return a scene has more than just a moment. and time. recently the country granted citizen steps to $524.00

individuals from the day after that, the majority of whom were black americans smocks and the largest single groups to be granted citizenship. since the initiative was launched, gunners homecoming initiative is blocking a big debate. all the return news, helping the economy are taking opportunities away from the locals. we also do this very question on our instagram, and she is what you have to say. it would kick start with christy data that says as a, as a whole need sustainable initiative. care to what's the future we want to see on the continent, not activities and initiatives that exclude the locals. one more comment from what your new quest stairs, my earnest prayer is that this movement forced is positive extra and cultural exchange and growth for the african continent and beyond. thank you very much for your comments. this is a great starting point for this week, straight to page from cra going us capital. our panel featuring both experts and locals, should have thoughts and insights on what it takes to build stronger connections

between the 2 groups. the hello and welcome back to the 77 percent st debate this week. we are back in dallas capital of across now, 400 years ago, the 1st women men and children, forced to be stolen from this continent. arrived on the other side of the atlantic in america. fast forward, many years later. and the government, the more than governmental gun that you sing to its international defendants come back home. but what does that integration look like? i don't want to start with, you profess a company, i went through what a lot of black people go through, which is a trump top charge of racism and so forth. then i'll ask you, are you are, you know, citizen who's benefiting the community and so forth. so i decided that i was coming here to do my ph. d. i did. so i'm doing pretty well. i've been a sort of a traditional ruler. so this was given to me by the in some uncle i handed the overall spiritual head of all of us on to people is about being accepted as about

being respected. and those are things that you don't get under donald trump. and the divide is next of a matter. oh wow. those are some very strong words that you've chosen to use. i don't want to come to the broad b, z a who are a couple and cause a couple of he'll always go because they do so cute. but they've also just joined a uni you and a lifelong union with gun that you got your citizenship yesterday. and they something the professor said here is just how you considered america, where you actually grew up. we moved for our safety and our children's safety. it is unsafe in the states, no matter where you go. if you look like us getting out of the land of our enemy was priority number one to make sure that no matter what we did to build a business or to simply just live the simple life we were be protected in that like yeah, is this also what you think for me, even i think back when i was in school and go on university, i remember i used to go on my phone and try to find like an app to look at um to

listen to radio spaces in a cry just to hear the language and i remember when i would just sit in there and like almost just cried. just didn't like to know that like this was, this was taken from me. you're sitting now, is this, you have goosebumps everywhere because my great, my great, great grandmother's. these are the song that they would sing, these are the language that they will use and we don't have them anymore. and it's even hard to explain like how that, that stealing of our identity impacts our hearts. and so when you see us celebrate, and when you see us happy to be in, got it is because we're trying to heal that was that it was please. okay, thank you so much for being so honest and vulnerable with us. i appreciate that. uh, so out of montreal to you are raising 2 beautiful children here. how has that experience been for you? and what are some of the great thing so far? you know, in the states, we lived a very isolated lifestyle because of safety. you want to go out, you want to take your kids to the park to play,

but when you do other kids spit at them, that is an experience that my son had at the playground on more than one occasion. and so we lived a very isolated line, so to be here and to be free and to see my kids be able to be joyful and that not be a crime has been a very, very beautiful thing. okay, i really love how beautiful this is sounding and i'm just going to throw a little bit of paper in here. so i want to know from the people at the back. anybody, if you got a chance, are you taking the plane to get out of gun and let me see by show hands. if your answer is yes. when you hear this, people come and say, hey, this is a beautiful country, we need to reinvest back on the continental. does that make you feel? i feel is because the have my does, i'm coming back home for me. i want to call and she because economy is, is let me hear one more person at the back. i would love to leave the country. right? like guess i the i see when do i coming to carry to money? which is making that less comfortable by reading their country. people are

struggling on the street. if such, pressing get opportunity for 5, the depression was given to country pro. what do you make of it when you hear that the local population here already has an assumption that's your welfare that there's an income disparity in built. i have translators coming from the university of ghana at a conference that i just had and we hired them to teach p. they had 2 students from the 2 students who were paying them. they were able to get enough money to pay their entire master's degree for one year. and that was a message that they learned that someone in the world who wants any skill that you know how to do, and they're willing to pay you rich lead to do it. let me ask jeff what he thinks. yeah, because he is swallowing hard. i don't know if you think this is great advice or if you see it's a somewhat condescending, what are your views? i had my sister from behind me said that these people have money coming in. yes, they me thing to. what do you have? it's not enough for them as they come in here, but it brings us setting up. but at the end of the day, why does the prices go up?

it doesn't come down and we are the ones who so far eventually, and that is a problem we're facing here to the, to your presence is actually creating. the problem for us is going to be kind of just a question. obviously, these emotional sentiments have the potential to become something else xenophobia, a phobia. are you just telling people come in? are you putting in place strategies? so the integration is sustainable and seamless when we started to your written and the prices of goods, more comfortable because you put for the i, there's a you over time we have an opportunity that's milk it. but then we have to meet with people. other us sent uh with the top ridges with hotels to explain to them. that's right. this for the long term. that is more just an open window for you to caching is we want to talk about cultural integration. it's also looking at how do we make sure that people understand what we are doing, and you're not taking advantage of a boat as, as just as we're coming back. yeah. jennifer, because you're the latest. the latest arrival. if i could call you back, do you feel that because of your accent? sometimes people want to take advantage of you?

us. uh, i would say that sometimes that is true, but it's not just true for african americans, i think is true for anyone that has an american or u. k. excellent. even if they're going in, when we're talking about gone, i've gone over the country that has a population of over 30000000 people. there may be 10000 african americans, we're an extreme minority. so i think that sometimes we're used as a scapegoat, and that is misplaced. ok, but what i'm hearing is a black. we may be, but a bank accounts surely, and not the same. let me find out from jeff how he feels. hearing all these sentiments because these are now your country, men and women, are you aligned with their bodies? we are happy, they are here and would wish that we can always use with them without having any problem whatsoever. if we see our brothers and sisters are respectful even to color, even if it's a white person coming to buy something, let's the pricing be as it is, you understand and maybe governments and the states businesses need to establish some kind of a price control with james so that's um every huevo the price will be the same,

okay, you want it cuz i try, we try to shop in our neighborhood and because we are new and because we don't speak the language that will yet we're learning, but the prices get hacked up and so then we are forced to go somewhere else to spend our money, and we would prefer to spend it in our neighborhood, but they are hiking the price up because we're new. they don't know us yet, but it makes it harder for us when, when that happens to it's and it's unfair. okay. but to you know, you, you, you got to really understand cold. you don't understand people, you know, when you come to god. but people is culture, yes, but when you come to gone to chop in as part of the culture. so it's important for us to start to look at culture and didn't influence culture in a way. well, we can bridge the difference and then we can progress. okay, as one, the journey has no brought to here and given everything that you've had,

what do you think it's gonna take for everybody here to stop seeing them, they ask for the commands into we, they're going in. i'm not come up with a successful business or retirement. we didn't come here to make money stretch. we came to contribute. so the, the amount of money that you guys think we have, at least as to we don't, we do not. oh, okay, but what about people who go out and make it and mix up things of themselves and very small percentage half. and of course they're going to show you that on television, that's a very small percentage. and of course that's what they're going to show. all right, but like she said, you go there, it is not as cushion goes, you think great, you get a fancy job before you get the police police going you down before you even make the money. that is a reality. i just want to close with pulse because we started with you. answer the question for me. how do we go from them? the dashboard is a good nance to be. so i think conversations like these are very much necessary. even got names when they go travel to places like that, us go to don't hang out with the black people, cause it all drug dealers cause they're all gang bang those because it all this out

and you know, they'll say, oh africans all for the one who benefits from the problem is most likely the one who caused the problem in the 1st place, and we're the ones who can solve that problem. well, thank you so much. yep. and so there are a lot of things that this debate was not. it was not about confirming whether or not the people who returned african that was never in question. they what always have been and always will be this debate actually a from the words of come and crew. i'm a right the delta. he's not african simply because he was born here, but to be african is to have africa born in. thank you for the thank you it is and the panelist that debate reminds me of an african provo. if you want to know the end, look at the beginning and for many reconnecting with their roots, has helped them trace the dentistry and even build a home in africa. now let's head over to syria. leona, to look at

a filmmaker who also went top identico hamilton, is trying to reshape a country's narrative. check it out. a piece that's holding africa back is the day i sprang and we that were born in africa and that's left the missing part of what's wrong with your countries you, it's basically a gaping hole. my name is identical hamilton. most people call me in the care. i'm a sarah, leo, an american. i'm the recent, returning back to sierra leone. i am a story teller. i'm a filmmaker. i'm the founder of 3rd culture kids production. i'm left several young when i was 5, as a refugee i moved to the gambia, where i lived for 2 years before we're settling at the age of 7 in the united states. i remember of moments i remember when the war happened. i remember like getting ready to leave and we actually left by boat or so when i 1st moved to the

states, it was tough because whenever they heard that you were there in the union, this was during the time of the civil war and civil union. so everything was blood diamond, oh child soldiers, yours or you a child soldier. and he said so candidly and it almost becomes a moniker that you wear on your neck. and so that was the 1st kind of time i had to grapple with my identity. there were a number of things that inspired me to come back. i went to this event called africa, chop house, the american investor for the a. you are a conner? sure. um quite. she gave a talk on words. why the missing piece of africa? a piece that old in africa, math is the diaspora. and we that were born in africa and then left. and she just gave a very moving speech. she says you africans that are always saying,

this is wrong with africa. you not know that they're missing part of what's wrong with your countries. you. it's basically a gaping hole where you're from and you, it's never going to be healed unless you make an effort to reunite with your countries. at that point, i had already started my production company in new york, i registered it and i've been doing little things. and then i said, you know what? i'm going to, i'm going to figure out how to just move back. i don't know what's going to happen . i don't know if it's gonna work out, but i'm just going to try i didn't want say we're leaving to only be her be be known as the bullet place, the blood diamond place. the war place, the child soldier, place i just, i wanted to just tell a different kind of story about 0. or you haven't checked out our homecoming series . what are you waiting for? head over to our youtube channel for inspiring stories from 10? yes. so done. the one that and gone to the short features highlight,

applicants from the dash for what breaking barriers and create a new industries. so be sure to give them a watch to have them. now it's time to unwind. let's go back to god. now where a shoemaker is costing one of a kind choose from jeans and car tires are the ones to both of my shift. i went to be a to know the episode of might also today we taught by vincent to the world of 6050 . how sustainability i guess what lies the tucker id. pretty cool is we, i, we've been living all to use with inside put materials to big issue light. these guys are ready for this less cool that obviously it's out. cool. cool. i know we the funding to see will clinical way. this is my hustle. me stop, you talk about the was it that it was so nice to meet? you better to meet 2 more. all right. which one was? do you have time?

what does it take to be on the coast friendly shoot because what it takes to be an a cool for a nation, make ourselves so i want you to land it's plots of color. so from here i will take you are on there. we move to the actual on do you think is something like unlimited slots guy like you 5 mary with critical everything on the spot. so we are going to grab a few real materials that we use and make and i'll shoot swift almost stacey me then towards being dumbed in africa. every ice zeros. we have lots of them concert that while the last and most of the time, you're not able to call his gym for what kind of show we make into that. so today, uh, making just choose so when you put your issue like the one you are aware of it, so we will drop edges yet and also got to pay sheets. oh my go at the excel sheet value. we used to do all right, good. so we don't know, we all know that i want to take you to one downside here so that you know, the reason for re coming to the market to, to help rescue with this figure out before is to the reason why couldn't you close

that that what you are doing because because of this to kind of seat that was on the whole possible up run the it is destroyed by the wish to be me. see, we try to risk you index though we both by visiting the sick, a hunt or the market to buy the worst one day before they end up finding the drama literally just to pick was go pick it was all going to come to the wall. i for the kitchen double that she was, i was from where, where are we doing this? from? yes, yeah, drivers to, to the workshop because you are making pay. okay. news to me. so if you trace, or you few mach one, got suppose 2 markets to, to hold get ok. expedite on the left and the right, right under the right. perfect. good. yeah. so then this process is a glowing process. so glowing. so we are going to glue that each site. ok, because of that, when you make the issue, this place would come on the 1000 miles. so you're here with this, so as to and not just it was too bad. so it's been almost all the tools and then i

move. so now you are using this guy type white one, the x y contact us to enter that down. so what do you, sol, how the tie, square, mean the sports and all of these, those to detect long die as before, they the key thing. so we talked inside the why doing so you, you was caught, i cuts it into pieces like you can see design you it was give bunk. oh, do you move from bunking to show because i shop without i came back to dr. id westbury did i miss on or right, was already into shoemaking was full the now. so i thought it's why the, why the ones i upon the with might that let's all right, so is that i got it from bunker, spend this step now on this. now this saw as being blue adolfo applies to as the new. yeah, i guess it was to fix it to get a car. right? correct. let me guess what? it's part of the gently dance lea with and now you take it to the machine. oh, okay. and pressing fast, oh, with that press,

it can vary. queue its suckling. what size i love. these types of pretty much all the thank you very much. all thoughts, ritual. men of thank you very much. one is give you a little fix it all without thoughts that the people shoot some of these cold out of trust. what to read it sadly, already time to wrap things up. we've heard, remarkable stories from return is about their homecoming journeys. but a key takeaway is a program, so i figure of a to a trying to encourage cultural exchange and growth while they have made progress in some areas. local people feel that there is still more to be done. the discussion does not end here. so head over to our social media pages, we always want to hear from you. i'll leave you with a song from fire boy d m l called a show up at the power of believing in yourself and your heritage. that's it for me until next time. i can make our lives gets a job make,

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