gatiano:
Beautiful pictures. That is the preparation of them coming back. Yes, they laboured there in the americas, infact, Black had always been there even before the indians, let alone the europeans. They would all have to come home first. Every Black person on earth will converge in the whole of Africa which include the middle-east which is infact Northeast Africa, it only got splitted in 1850. Europeans too would go back into europe, all of them. Every man unto his or her own.

It had already started.

Lushore1:



watch this video of two African America girls in Nigeria during their initiation as Orisha priestess


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqQFHmvMOUg

Lushore1:


Hahahha....very funny, you actually remind me of someone i know, anyway asking all black people in the whole world to move to Africa is just a fantasy that will never happens, having said that i know of many africa america and blacks in caribean that are currently in nigeria (south west) learning about yoruba religion/cultures.

fightforchange1:
Do u think its a good idea to do dna test n then migration for the masses.

Sowell25:
they don't care about Africa because no one admires backwardness. It takes the courage and goodwill to even desire to make a change there.It's difficult to reason with primitive people.they'll frustrate you.
people admire progressive nations - Australia,Botswana,Namibia,United states,Japan,Singapore,Sweden,Germany,etc. Not ;Somalia,Iraq ,Afghanistan,chad, etc.

Glamrock:
Absolutely!

bigfrancis21:


I am in total agreement with you. I have always advocated for a name change for african americans as the first step in reclaiming their african heritage. African americans NEED to start rediscovering their african roots. They need to start reclaiming their african heritage. Like you said, they all left here as Emeka Utubor or Olawale Adeyemi and today are Jaquan Brown or LaShonda Carter, which are ancestrally inappropriate.

Americans of Italian ancestry whose acestors settled decades or centuries ago STILL bear Italian names, last names at least. Same for German, French, Spanish and Jewish Americans. Why do Black Americans have to be different? Only African Americans walk around bearing English names or so-called black names which have no meaning whatsoever.

I am thinking of founding a non-profit organization for Reclaiming African roots by African Americans specializing in helping millions of African Americans return to their African roots, which would offer paternal DNA testing services to determine tribal affiliation in Africa, and provide a huge database of African names to choose from to adopt as last names, as the first step in the reclamation process.

It takes 7 generations for Black to go white(200 years),

Once on the 7th generation, He/she is no longer family, how can?

It take only one for light race to return to half Black and after 2 more generations, Totally Black.

AAinEqGuinea:
I'd like to continue seeing Africa to find more people like me, network with them, and help them out where I can.

I've thought about changing my name but I'm unsure of what to change it to. I question everything so I don't know if I would have accepted a tribal name either even if I were born in Africa. How does my name matter if my name means Holy Sun but I'm the biggest crook ever.

I don't see Africa in a vacuum like 99% of people do. I see Jamaica and much of the Caribbeans as "Africa-West", parts of southeastern Asia as "Africa-East", and America's South as "Africa-North" (there are whites there, so "South Africa-North". Who said that the boundaries of Africa had to stop at the Oceans? We know many Blacks took their mainland African cultures with them and still practice an evolved version of their culture today. Aside from cultural and language barriers, all black people act the same in ways I hate and love. I don't need the whole group, I'll just like to carefully pick the ones who I'd like to build with.

Most African Americans don't care about Africa... If African Americans are a problem here, they'll be a problem there, a hallmark for a dangerous proportion of black people across the globe. I came up with this, You can take the black man off his land but you can't take the blackness out the man

AkanIgbo:


I don't think that you know the hearts and minds of most African Americans to be making a blanket statement about them not caring about Africa. Every major university in America teaches about Africa and Africans; including Historically Black Universities, of which many African Americans attend. There are 107 Historically Black Universities in the USA and countless other State and private universities all throughout the USA that teaches African Culture and history.

If you are saying that most African Americans don't know much about Africa then that is a different statement. It is a true statement, because most African Americans probably don't know much about Africa. Then again most Africans probably don't know much about America and African Americans. So a better statement is that both groups don't know each other; and that is the fault of the Africans, because they are the ones that warred on the ancestors of African Americans and sold them into slavery. And with the exception of Ghana, Benin and a Chieftan in Cameroon; none of the other African nations have even bothered to apologize for the role of their ancestors in the slave trade.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2014/06/why_won_t_the_united_states_apologize_for_slavery.html
http://exposingbimbia..com/p/related-works.html

Many African Americans have and continue to trace their roots through DNA testing. There are a lot of companies in the USA that cater to this, including a company called African Ancestry. That is what that company does; it traces the ancestry of African Americans.

http://www.africanancestry.com/assets/img/testimonials/uploads/w06xjgvifbk8cgcs40.pdf

So your statements probably need to be revised. On a side note; there is a reason why the modern country of Cameroon made a statement on slavery. DNA testing is showing that a lot of African Americans have roots Cameroon among the Tikar Bamilieke, Bamoun, Fang, Hausa and the Fulani of Cameroon. African Americans have been visiting Cameroon as tourists to see the slave port of Bimbia. Another thing that you might not know is that African Americans have been immigrating to Ghana in record numbers. Those tourists and immigrants are probably why Ghana and eventually Cameroon are likely to have economic growth spurts in the coming years. Other countries to watch for are the two Congos, Angola and Gabon. A lot of African Americans are tracing their roots to those countries too.

http://afkinsider.com/29041/african-americans-visiting-moving-ghana-record-numbers/

AAinEqGuinea:



You can't somehow tell me not to generalize but then you proceed with an unwarranted generalization yourself @red

I won't be long-winded but I'll end with this, too many AA don't care about themselves. Your or my lost of life is only worth a mention ONLY IF a racist killed one of us, but if black ppl killed one of us... NOTHING, just normal day in the hood. No protests, no community sobbin . You can't care about other people, especially those across the globe, until you care about yourselves first. This story is no different than many parts of Nigeria. I read their stories, many Nigerians have had enough of the problems too. Of course there are those more adventurous and accomplished and clearly the shoe of my story doesn't fit them.

Please don't get me started, I don't wanna hear how you think all these AA hoes are salvageable.

AkanIgbo:


Again you are generalizing about Africans Americans. African Americans obviously care about each other, because they learned that they had to work together to gain their human rights in their own land. They worked together to build their own universities. They worked together to enter into the trades and the professions and to build their own business. Hell it is the African American civil rights struggles that have allowed Africans from the Continent to immigrate to the USA for school and employment; so African Americans do care about people and they do care about their culture, which is why they are outraged at the continued racism against them in the land that their ancestors built.

Now if you want to talk about who doesn't care then you don't have to go around the Globe; you don't have to look any further than Sub Saharan continental Africa. The leadership in those countries continue to make the Europeans and the Asians rich, while continuing to keep their own citizens living in poverty. The leadership of those countries still value the Europeans and even the Arabs and now the Chinese over their own Black people. Don't get me started; but after hundreds of years of enslaving their own people for sale to the Europeans and then being enslaved by the Europeans in their own land (call it colonization if makes you feel better), you would think that our people in Africa would have had enough and demand some changes from their greedy ass corrupt so called leadership. But no. A bunch of folks are still too caught up in a bunch of petty tribal crap and they and we as a people fall further and further behind the rest of the World.

On a side note; why do Black people around the World always try to find divide in one another; rather than coming together as a people and realizing that the rest of World see us as a bunch of Niggers and just want to exploit us. Just that alone should be reason enough for all of us to come together as a people and work towards and for our own interests. To utilize our own professionals. To build our own business. To rebuild our own ancestral homelands. To embrace and respect one another; but instead of that we are reduced to the Igbos don't like Yorubans. The Nigerians don't like the Ghanans. The Kenyans don't like the Somalis. Nigerians don't like African Americans. News flash: many African Americans have roots in Nigeria, so if Nigerians don't like African Americans that means that Nigerians don't like themselves.

Rivertemz:
A bad example of African-Americans migrating to the continent is the History of Liberia.

muafrika:
AkanIgbo
You are forgetting something important. Africans are not one people. If you think the inter-country rivalry is serious you should check out intertribal and inter clan animosity. You should see what Somali clans are doing to each other. What some tribes within Kenya are doing to each other. You've heard of what the Hutu/Tutsi war did. You should see the Nigeria civil war.

The sad thing is that even western ideals like democracy and governance cannot withstand the power that tribalism does wield in Africa. They just become a convenient tool for yet another tribe to rule over another, to eliminate another tribe, time for one tribe to "eat," euphemism for plundering the country's wealth at the expence of the "others" etc.

The future of Africa is not in Western Ideals of civilization. African leaders could not be compared with the vampire feudal Lords and Kings of Europe of a similar time e. g during the middle ages, who reigned terror on their people in dreadful ways. We just need to get the basics of our ancestral political, social and economic systems and translate them to our time.

We are many "nations". Around 2000 in number the last time I checked. With historically deep reasons for perception of similarly different nations. There is always a deep rooted reason for why a community perceives and relates to another and it won't change just because some irreverent people from a very far away land impose some artificial boundaries disregarding the existence of both the nations and their leaders and telling them they are now brothers, countrymen. This is why democracy will never take root in Africa. It has ignored the reality on the ground, and has ensured the suffering of people that were better off without it.

bigfrancis21:
Yes!

In all honesty, yes!

African americans are quite talented but the effect of mental slavery still holds sway in many of them, especially in the area of expressing and utilizing their intelligence. I see many african americans, especially males, believe they are incapable of achieving great statuses in life through the use of their brains simply because they are black, which is as a result of lingering echoes racial superiority in America. Sports or music are the only roads to success in life, as viewed by many. I see racial tension between blacks and whites continuing for a very long time. Equally, the american educational system, which only showcases white achievement, is partly responsible for the mental slavery of many african americans. From childhood, black kids are exposed to brainwashing of only white achievers and very little or no black achievers, meanwhile the legacy of slavery is audaciously brandished against black kids in the form of so-called history with the purpose of ingraining in their mindset that their forefathers were slaves, which is an indirect pyschological means of mentally subjugating these black kids from their early years. These kids grow up with the lingering effects of such mental subjugation in their primal years. Equally, the media keeps portraying Africa to be some deserted jungle and desert which many african americans believe and are ashamed to associate themselves with.

During the first quarter of the slave trade era, the Irish (regarded as caucasians today) were sold massively as slaves to English men and women and sold off to the Americas. However, this is hardly taught in so-called american universities. That portion of history has totally been ignored and sidelined and it is almost as if it never existed. However, the entire slave history of african americans was properly packaged and thrown at there at blacks as a subtle reminder of a lower social class in the past.

Thus in that regard, I am in full support of a mass return of AAs to Africa, especially to a country carved out as their own. A country they could call their own.

AkanIgbo:


A good example of African-Americans migrating to the continent is the History of Ghana. Since independence the country of Ghana has went out and actively sought African Americans to do business with and to immigrate to Ghana. WEB Dubois immigrated to Ghana. He was one of America's great Civil Rights leaders. African Americans have been visiting and immigrating to Ghana for a very long time.

semitunde:


@your last paragraph, isn't that reason why we have Liberia and Sierra Leone?

barwaaqo:
I want to go to Senegal or Botswana.

I can't wait to make the move I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ready to leave this place behind. I plan on working to help the environment once I'm there maybe starting some planting and breeding programs. Promoting indigenous 'religion' and contemporary african fashion are other interest I have, there also needs to be more of an african influence on the architecture, the homes and buildings should reflect they are actually in AFRICA.

bigfrancis21:
Yes!

In all honesty, yes!

African americans are quite talented but the effect of mental slavery still holds sway in many of them, especially in the area of expressing and utilizing their intelligence. I see many african americans, especially males, believe they are incapable of achieving great statuses in life through the use of their brains simply because they are black, which is as a result of lingering echoes racial superiority in America. Sports or music are the only roads to success in life, as viewed by many. I see racial tension between blacks and whites continuing for a very long time. Equally, the american educational system, which only showcases white achievement, is partly responsible for the mental slavery of many african americans. From childhood, black kids are exposed to brainwashing of only white achievers and very little or no black achievers, meanwhile the legacy of slavery is audaciously brandished against black kids in the form of so-called history with the purpose of ingraining in their mindset that their forefathers were slaves, which is an indirect pyschological means of mentally subjugating these black kids from their early years. These kids grow up with the lingering effects of such mental subjugation in their primal years. Equally, the media keeps portraying Africa to be some deserted jungle and desert which many african americans believe and are ashamed to associate themselves with.

During the first quarter of the slave trade era, the Irish (regarded as caucasians today) were sold massively as slaves to English men and women and sold off to the Americas. However, this is hardly taught in so-called american universities. That portion of history has totally been ignored and sidelined and it is almost as if it never existed. However, the entire slave history of african americans was properly packaged and thrown at there at blacks as a subtle reminder of a lower social class in the past.

Thus in that regard, I am in full support of a mass return of AAs to Africa, especially to a country carved out as their own. A country they could call their own.

Udmaster:
NO! African Americans should stay in America and fight for equality and their Right.. white americans are not the natives of the Land and they dehumanized and abused your AA ancestors in the name of slavery..

gatiano:
Yes! Most defintely, but do not be deceived by those DNA kits non-sense, All Black people share the same DNA. The whole of the Sahara desert with all of the North-eastern African would be replenished (I wonder where all the missing lakes and river are going to, onething for sure is that they can't escape into space). However, Get your minds back and right.

To fight those white thing, Surprise them by changing your names fight, use a Black organisation agency (so that funds can go there), change your names. Africa would not accept you with them. Why? Because you went 500 years ago as Emeka Utubor, it is very nice if you come back as Haruna Ishola, or Koffi Ibang, or Eboka Ngungu or Shehu Muhammad or Tope Badimu/Badmus or Da-Silva(like the moors).