Comments on: Diaspora at Work: African Repatriation website making it easier to be reaspora

By: tms ruge

tms ruge — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:04:04 +0000

Hi Lyn,Great comment. I think you are right in terms of including the AA population into the call. The door should always be open for those that want to collaborate, but for many of us Neo Diaspora, we find it hard to integrate in the AA culture and tradition here in the States. Not sure about European Afro Diaspora.This is something I went through. There's never that welcoming spirit for us so we tend to stick together I suppose.After 20 years in the US, I can honestly only name but a handful of great friendships with AA that I cherish, but they worked and were genuinely curious to learn about NEO Diaspora and our culture.I would welcome a much more open cultural exchange and partnership. We must change this paradigm.

By: Kerr

Kerr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:45:44 +0000

Good for the comment. I am AA diaspora and would like to contribute. Although I can understand the call for former identified Kenyan's, I send a message to the concious of those who are forgetting high-powered and highly skilled African-American (and the other exiles). The same talents the neo-diasporan groups have recently acquired were in some cases earned under the tuturialage of Af-americans… So, why the settle call for the Af-Americans when the U.S economy is collasping?

We were divided before, so lets not repeat this phonemonon….. A split would only sabatage in the long run…

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By: marieme

marieme — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:24:09 +0000

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By: techmasai

techmasai — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:19:43 +0000

Interesting, this will probably have an effect somewhat in the long run. The is the first time I think Africans are actually returning home in significant numbers.

By: tms ruge

tms ruge — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:45:03 +0000

Hi Wayan,I also work in Uganda and Dallas, TX.

By: Wayan

Wayan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:36:42 +0000

Ehere do you usually work then, if not Nairobi?

By: tms ruge

tms ruge — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:27:03 +0000

Good point Brendan,

I think that's the easy way of doing marketing in this sector as they the most common of buzzwords. I think we should rethink the approach, but \"reasporification\" is really self-organized initiative by the Diaspora, I think such a movement needs and deserves appropriate marketing slogan that go beyond the box..

As an aside, I would really love to see the source of the brain drain numbers provided by African Repatriation... I've been looking for hard figures on the diasora...

Adam, can you provide some insite?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:16:15 +0000

Awesome, I love it. One quibble: the tagline. Empowering and Sustainable are pretty uverused and vague. I bet there's something that could better captrue the passion of the effort.
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