Sunday, March 06, 2005

Ethiopians returning home

The Boston Globe is running a story about Ethiopians and other Africans who return home after living in the West for most of their lives. Apparently there is a growing trend towards this and African countries are trying somewhat successfully to lure back citizens. "Business leaders in Ghana and Ethiopia have launched their own ''back to Africa" campaigns to retrieve the more successful among their diaspora and attract black urban professionals from the United States and Europe.In some cases, they are lured to Africa with promises of easy citizenship, inexpensive real estate, and tax breaks, helping to reverse the westward migration of its best educated and most talented. Ghana, once a hub for the West African slave trade, is reaching back centuries to woo US blacks to the land of their forefathers." The article likens Ghana and Ethiopia to Israel.

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