Hello and welcome to this solo episode. This week I continue to unpack my return journey- looking at my first attempt to return home. Still in high school I had to decided if I could manage the transition and how it would affect my learning by integrating into a complete different educational system.

This decision was on the heels of a life tragedy. It was an absolutely confusing time and also a monumental time in Kenya's history.

Check out Jeff Koinange's book Through my African Eyes for exhilarating stories across the African continent and across the world from the eyes of an African..

Born in Kenya 🇰🇪 and migrated to Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 while in high school, Yvonne had a strong connection with her country and life. She quickly knew she was not at home in her new location. Yvonne made several visits to Kenya to stay connected to Africa, doing her internship in Uganda. She shares her experience of consciously deciding to move back to Kenya.

The reality of moving across the world and integrating to a “new” environment can hit you smack in your face. How should you adjust and deal with the steep learning curve of a new way of life. Picking your battles is key to smoothing out the integration challenges.

We delve deeply into the corporate world integration for returnees and how it’s like working in Kenya.

Experience the emotional journey that is less talked about and how it impacts on identity and confidence. Shifting from being other to centre and seeing herself everywhere.

Resources:

Move me back https://www.movemeback.com/

The Practice Room on how to start a Small accountancy/tax/finance practice: https://bit.ly/3rCoQa5

Connect with Yvonne: https://bit.ly/3wF6qsZ

Email- [email protected]

It’s time to #GoBlack2Africa. In this episode I interview the man behind the popular Youtube Channel of Go black 2 Africa. Born in Libya to a US 🇺🇸 military family, following in this footstep and travelling the world somehow Africa kept calling him back. Staring off in Ghana 🇬🇭 and then other African countries he has a vast experience sharing his coming black 2 Africa journey. 

Learn how being black get’s its full meaning when you visit Africa. The challenges and struggles from friends and family in the United States in his journey back home-how the miseducation of Black Americans about Africa led him to start his youtube channel.

Currently residing in East Africa 🇰🇪🇹🇿 he advocates to showing the real picture of what it means to live in Africa. That coming with an open mind and removing prejudices trying to fix things is the best way to prepare to visit Africa. The real pulse of Africa is found outside the traditional tourist areas. Accepting the difference in living and being self aware of the comforts of home helps you to reduce points of irritation in moving to Africa. 

Connect:

Youtube- GoBlack2Africa

Email- [email protected] 

In this flight we talk about an actual flight-a historic flight. The first ever direct flight from an African country to the Caribbean. Elizabeth is the brains behind the first flight from Nigeria 🇳🇬 to Jamaica 🇯🇲.

Elizabeth tells us how entrepreneurs should fall involve with service as that leads to sales. She shares how she finds service to be the key to entrepreneurship and reveals how business just seem to some how find her while in service. Find a need in the market and commit to the best way in which you can serve using your uniqueness. Elizabeth shares about her face to face encounter with failure and regret in business, and how it is for a female entrepreneur in a male dominated space. Tune in how the idea of this historic flight started off as a joke at a cocktail party and blossomed to something even bigger than she could imagine.

Elizabeth shares encouragement that at times you may even think that your ideas are not practical and out of this world but all that’s needed is a bit of believe and courage.

To book a Nigeria-Jamaica fight visit https://nai-jamaica.com/ 

www.nigerianstraveltoo.com

Connect with Elizabeth 

www.elizabethagboola.com

Dr. Duncan Ojwang is the Dean of Africa Nazarene School of Law.

His journey took him from Kenya 🇰🇪 to the United States 🇺🇸 as a teenager to pursue further studies in law. Starting out as a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and working with the public defender’s office branching out to studying indigenous people law which had much more meaning to him in the quest for justice through human rights.

In this episode Dr. Ojwang shares with us how in every human rights story there are 3 parables-a white saviour, a victim and a savage. Along with his colleagues launched and wrote about “Saving Human Rights from it’s friends”. Cultural discrimination supersedes any other form of discrimination and justifies the worst injustices against human rights.

Hear how Coming Black 2 Africa means operating and talk more from knowledge production than knowledge consumption. Conformity and comparison are the biggest threats to Coming Black2Africa.

Connect with him on twitter @twitdun

Tiffanie Anderson 🇺🇸 🇯🇲is an attorney at law specialising in

She shares her first taste of Africa when she visited South Africa for a study abroad program in 2016-young in the post apartheid era. How this experience was life changing sparking a personal journey as well as her interest in knowing more of Africa, it’s people and culture.

Tiffanie is the founder of Away to Africa, a destination management company helping you travel throughout Africa.

Bridging the mental division cause by colonilization is something she works on to allow Africans all over the world to better understand each other and their circumstances.

Connect with Away to Africa @AwaytoAfrica across Instagram and Facebook as well as www.awaytoafrica.com

In this episode we interview Angel the founder of "Savor the World" and Co founder of "The Entourage Travel Group".

Angel has traveled to 25 countries and is just getting started with her African journey. A young serial entrepreneur, she sees Africa as a fertile ground for business opportunities as well as helping her brothers and sisters in the homeland. 

Angel is known for her remarkable work as a Digital Marketing guru. Working for some of the world’s top media agencies, she is now climbing to the top in project management, marketing and media with her global enterprise Savor The World. Beyond media she has traveled abroad to over two dozen countries in humanitarian efforts and is a firm believer of giving to the community. She is now leading the world with her company Savor The World in efforts to bring change to the world!

Born and raised just outside of Detroit with Jamaican roots, Angel lives by this St. Augustine quote “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

Connect with Angel on Instagram @superduperflyy.

http://savortheworld.com/

https://areuentourage.com/

She also shares her 3 life hacks for coming black 2 Africa. 

In this interview Joanne discusses how she and her family moved to Africa to explore better opportunities. She shares how she didn’t have a repatriation desire but how being in the mother land led her to get more in contact with her roots and how her self confidence of being in a black skin “skyrocketed”. Tune in to hear how Jo1 encompasses high creativity and high intelligence and how she kept finding low cost opportunities to blossom. 

Coming from Bermuda she gives us a quick recap of impact on black identity through slavery-“The African holocaust”. 

Jo1 also shares one of the most traumatic experiences in her life while living in Kenya and how that affected her.

Lastly, she shares her 3 life hacks for #Comingblack2Africa

About Joanne:

Instargram: @jo1bermudian

Youtube: Jo-1

Better known by her stage name Judge Jo-1, she is a multitalented Dancer, Choreographer, Singer, Songwriter, Author, Educator, Yogini & Television Personality.

She began her career by receiving operatic vocal training at age 11 and has been dancing since age 13. She began formal dance training at age 14 which escalated further at age 19 while in college in Columbus, Ohio USA.

Jo-1 was actually born to dance and bridge continental divides in the process. She has formal training in West African Dance, Modern Contemporary dance, Lyrical & Ballet coupled with East African traditional dances, Hip Hop & Dancehall as well as some dabbling in Musical Theatre.

As the longest serving female judge for East Africa’s widely acclaimed dance competition show “Sakata Mashariki” on Citizen TV, Jo-1 emerged as the unparalleled breath of fresh air the dance industry lacked thus generating her a beloved fan base.

The magic of Jo-1 has spread like wildfire in the East African region, Bermuda & beyond.

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In this maiden episode, we look at what this podcast is all about as I share with you a bit about my own return journey.

Take this flight with me as I also show you how it was for me first moving away from Africa and from my African identity. In this episode get a sense of what it means to #comeblack2Africa.