So, what country would you suggest because I know a lot of people from various countries in Africa and they all seem to paint the same picture, no matter where they come from - Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Mali, Cameroon, Liberia, Gambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, the Ivory Coast, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Cape Verde and the Democratic Republik of Congo. I know people from all of these places, and not just one individual, and none of them think to go back home and live. Many avoid going back to their homelands very often because they know a multitude of hands will be stretched out to take from them, starting at the airport.
I think you are romanticizing Africa and African people. I see how they deal with each other here. Things are changing there, but who are changing them? I see a lot of illegal African young men here in Europe, either selling cheap things no one really needs or begging. It's hurtful. The legal Africans here who are working, do not stand together as a community and definitely don't help each other without financial compensation. If they have valuable information that could help their own people with here, they will not pass it on. They come from that culture. Those who often travel to their homeland, go there to show off, not help anyone with anything unless it is their immediate family and sometimes not even them. Those who travel home and want to help, the locals want the visitors to do everything for them. They are neither willing to invest in or help themselves, but a hand out is always good.
A Ghanian girlfriend told me how she went home to her village to visit her people. She is not rich, but has some saving. Every rainy season the road to the village is so muddy, a person sinks knee deep into the mud. She was willing to pay for half of the road to be done to alleviate this problem. The villagers were not willing to put up the other half of the money. They meant, she lives in Europe, she flies home to visit her people, she must have enough money to pay for everything. Needless to say, the road is still the same.
My best friend is from Kenya. She built a house for her mother and took care of her. Her mother was a diabetic with an amputated leg. My best friend has three other siblings. One of his siblings was doing very well at the time. Her maternal uncles and their families are doing very well. She took care of her mother for over twenty years alone. Her abandoned nephew was included in the deal, although his mother was financially capable of taking care of him. She put her younger brother through school. He and his wife lived with her mother and benefitted monthly from the money she sent home, although they didn't properly take care of the mother and the house. She had to kick the brother and sister-in-law out and find a non-relative (for pay) to take care of the needs of her mother as well as her house. When he mother died three years ago, it was she alone who paid for the funeral, the reception afterward and the grave. No one shelled out a cent. Her sister even solicited donations and tucked the money in her own pocket. It was not long after that the calculating relatives who had never done anything for her started calling. They had calculated that she must have extra money because she didn't need to take care of her mother anymore. The calls are still coming - three years later. How sick! These are two stories of many. My information is very actual. Practically every African I know who goes to his/her homeland for a visit tells me how they are perceived as cash cows. You want FBAs to be a part of that? Really? And we have no connection there except for some ancestry and the color of our skin? Interesting!
Africa is changing, but it hasn't changed that much. The Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Russians, Japanese. Jews and Arabs are still there, getting and taking everything for nothing. The Africans are too busy white mommy and zaddy worshipping to get those people out of there or use them like the Chinese did with the West. Research an article about the Kindergarten system in Djibouti, one of the poorest African countries. The French are in control of everything and cook up tribal differences. The people there have nothing. Then, research some of the richest sub-Saharan countries and read what they provide for their poor people. Nothing. After you read several articles, let me know which country you want to have dual citizenship with and have a residence there.
