to happen on the flush, the cutoff is easy to get some visa versus the studies. and if it doesn't tied on a sort of which of these and yeah, the tiny my in, i'm so i can give us, i'm dude. and that could extra to else name when diamond psychologist must or should see is the, provide us to us as soon as taking them above into unimportant, tiny and buddhist must be able to invade mission function. that's of okay. and then i should try to be able to talk to the end of the 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 are 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 as intersections. tubman road named after one of the most famous black americans history, street size 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 like americans 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 to get 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 in a row be a few months ago with noah. her 4 year old sign. 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 miss my community, but 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. i was trained. and when it's really easy to go back and take care of her to a 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 hands. i never thought of me, it's like that's less on hanging and for me, night in town and make me see the why the in

a different way. there are more people like vanessa and die coming to kenya. that's according to cuba cache o events, an african american, the location business. she offers a fresh start for those who are, are able to afford it. we've gotten a lot of, uh, with tyree's 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 is 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 it's a communion that can get your american g as employee. terry addresses the concerns that many local young people have about the impact of these new comers on jobs and opportunities menu and vineyards in can you, i don't have work. that's of the moment. you might feel that's when the african

americans are coming. yeah. they're going to take you and show them much cut anything was before i like just tom, if you're in a position maybe to do an investment, to get something is to up for you. g is company is optimistic about fostering deeper connections to accommodate this. they are hoping to build a $100.00 unit realistic development for african american families. thanks to lima and vocal located, a 2 hour drive from nairobi. this would not be the 1st time that black people from the americas are relocated to advertise in the 1800s, an organization called the american colonization society move 16003 african americans to liberia. this gave way to an a miracle library and elite that at times had bad relationships with native inhabitants. now the vision is different. it's about collaboration and connection. it done, right? it could be a whole new chapter for the day asperger's return to advertise. kenya is a pretty new destination for dies per 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 had the 1st country in africa to do so. through what's called the you a return initiative from on that? here's my colleague, kyle, 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 yes, most arriving from the u. s. and the u. k. it was a homecoming like no other phones with emotion 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 transatlantic slave trade. the countries felt the responsibility to welcome anyone who could chase the ancestry to africa since then, more than 1000 have made got a new home, drawn by a mix of emotional connection and opportunities to support the diaspora looking to invest and gama, the governments at the end of 2019 nurse to be on the richard

a program designed to attract investment from attorneys and boost the economy. while the influx of thoughtful effort of statements has brought new business, some locals are concerned that it's driving up the cost of living for every day garden and even west the why are you gonna is working to ensure that the you have a ton seen as more than just a moment and time. recently, the country granted citizens steps to $524.00 individuals. from this, i asked that the majority of whom were black americans, this mox and the largest single group to be granted citizenship since the initiative was launched. gunners, homecoming initiative is blocking a big debate, all the return news, helping the economy or taking opportunities away from the locals. we also do this very question on our instagram and she is what you had to say to 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 which all new quest this met earnest, pray it 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 o, a panel featuring both experts and low cost share 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 capitol 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 what 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 that in some uncle i handed the overall spiritual head of all of the assigned 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 brad these here 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 grandmothers. 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 feeling 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 with 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 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, make sure of 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 as the i see, when do i coming? the can read 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 as someone in the world who wants any skills 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're missing the. what do you have? it's not enough for them as they come in here, but it brings as such and god. 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 yesterday, your presence is actually fixing the problem for us is going to be kind of me so quickly. obviously, these emotional sentiments have the potential to become something else xenophobia, a phobia. are you just telling people coming or 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 pull to the i, there's a you over time we have an opportunity. that's no good. but then we have to meet with people other us and 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. uh brothers and sisters were coming about. 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 wanna 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 it's 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 the 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 problems 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 us. it's and it's unfair. okay. but you know, you, you,

you gotta really understand code to understand people, you know, when you come to god, but people east 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, that's 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 asked for the gun and into we the gun and 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 do, we don't, we do not. oh, okay, but what about people who go out and make it and make some 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 cushing as 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 profit because we started with you. answer the question for me. how do we go from them? the desperate is a good nance to be. so i think conversations like these are very much necessary. even names when they go travel to places like the us go to don't hang out with the black people because they're all drug dealers cuz they're all gang bang. that's because it all this that 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 debates actually from the words of come in chrome or right the doctor, 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 program. if you want to know the end, look at the beginning and for many reconnecting with the roots, has helped them trace the dentistry and even build a home in africa. now let's head over to sierra leone to look at a filmmaker who also went home. and then he can, hamilton is trying to reshape a country's narrative. check it out. piece that's holding africa back is the day i sprang and we that were born in africa and that 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, you in 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 of you and 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 my 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 your 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. u. r. 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 going to work out, but i'm just going to try. i didn't want chevrolet and 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 if you haven't checked out our homecoming series, what are you waiting for? head over to our youtube channel for inspiring stories from ken. yeah, so done the one that and gone to the short features highlight africans from the taskbar of what breaking barriers and create a new industries. so be sure to give them a watch to have now it's time to unwind. let's go back to god know where a shoemaker is costing one of a kind choose from geez, and car tires. i want to book of my shift. i went to be a to know the episode of might fall. so today we taught by vincent to the wall of 60 p o suspended blades. and guess what? lies the tucker id. pretty cool is we,

i will be learning how to use with inside put materials to big issue. like, do you guys are ready for this mess? cool. that obviously it's out. cool. cool. i know we found in to see will clinical way. this is my hustle, new stuff to talk to about was it that it was so nice to meet? you better to meet too much. alright. which one was do you have time? what does it take to be on a friendly show? because what it takes to be an eco friendly shoemaker so, so i want you to land its plastic out of it. so from here i will take, you are on the move to the actual on do you think is something like unlimited as lots guy like you marry with clinical ever through this bus. and we are going to grab a few real materials that we use and make, and i'll shoot with 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 info,

what kind of show we making today. so today, uh, making just choose so when you put your issue like the one you are aware of and so we will drop edges yet and also got to pay sheets tomorrow at the excise sheet value. we use to do outline. 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 could you close that that what you are doing because you close on this to kind of seat that was on the whole possible up run the it is destroyed by the west. we meet, we try to risk you index though. weasels, 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 life and it gets you double that she was. i was from, we're doing this from yes, the drivers go to the workshop because you are making pay. okay. news to me. so if you trace or you few months, one. yeah. suppose to markets to,

to hold get ok. expedite. i get a 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 of it here. so you're here with this, so as to and not just it was too bad. so it's been almost sold to is missing almost . so now you are using this guy type white one, the x y contact us to enter that down. so the sol, how the tie, square, mean the sports and all of these, those to detect long that years before they the key thing. so we talked inside the why don't we use carts? i cuts it into pieces like you can see design you it will 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 a lot with might that let's all right, so is that i got it from bunker. spend this step down this. now this saw as being blue adolfo applies to as the new. yeah. and yes it was to fix it to get that correct? correct. let me guess what? it's part of the gently dance lea with and now you take you to the machine. oh jet and pressing fast. oh, with that presses cranberry cute. suckling. what size? i love these. thank you very much for all who thank you very much. let's ritual man a thank you very much. one is give you a little fix it and we'll put off the thoughts that the people shoot slush of this 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 programs like that. you are free to 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 us 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 i make, i know these people might not be saving. but looking at the

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