{"id":254726,"date":"2018-07-04T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=254726"},"modified":"2020-08-09T17:10:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T21:10:16","slug":"african-american-in-africa-my-move-to-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/african-american-in-africa-my-move-to-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"African American In Africa: My Move To C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wonderful! It\u2019s just the beginning! Millions should do it! Then White Americans will desperately try to get a visa for African countries in order to get jobs and food\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meet Assanouan G\u2019bado (formerly Kelvin Green), an African American who moved from America to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire less than a year ago! He&#8217;s sharing with us why he relocated, his business model for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, and how he&#8217;s adjusted Ivorian life so far.<\/p>\n<p>WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE THE U.S.?<br \/>\nAs far as I can remember, I\u2019ve always been curious about Africa. In fact, when I was stationed in Germany, I passed on an opportunity to visit the continent. Thirty eight years later, in 2015, I wasn\u2019t going to miss another opportunity to visit Africa.<\/p>\n<p>I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Back To Kama. Briefly, we share positive information and opportunities online for people of African descent to consider relocating their business to Africa. It\u2019s with Back To Kama that I began to re-educate myself about our history. So when the chance came up to visit Africa, I did everything I could to be able to go. Thanks to a few credit cards, I was able to make the trip.<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of visiting Burkina Faso, Ghana, and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. Africa felt more like home to me than the U.S. I knew that one day I would return for good.<\/p>\n<p>WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO MOVE TO CO\u0302TE D&#8217;IVOIRE SPECIFICALLY?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s here in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire where my Ebri\u00e9 family welcomed me as family and re-named me. They are an Akan people who I initially met on my first visit to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire in 2015. I actually recorded my first experiences meeting them on video.<\/p>\n<p>I am so impressed by how much of their \u00c9Bri\u00e9 (Tchaman) language and culture has been preserved after colonialism. And, through my connection with them, I have a wonderful opportunity to learn a second language. I also share the beauty of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire on social media. Finally, by living here there\u2019s also an opportunity for me to help the less fortunate, as there people without homes and living in &#8220;shanty&#8221; areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aainafrica.com\/blog\/2018\/6\/25\/assanouan-in-ivory-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.aainafrica.com\/blog\/2018\/6\/25\/assanouan-in-ivory-coast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful! It\u2019s just the beginning! Millions should do it! Then White Americans will desperately try to get a visa for African countries in order to get jobs and food\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":254727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}