Black People : Have you ever considered renouncing your US Citizenship?

[Omowale Jabali]

Does that mean an African American can immigrant to any country in Africa without a visa?

No not if you are a citizen of the united states but you may be able to as a citizen of Ghana, Kenya or South Africa.

 

[lizz]

No not if you are a citizen of the united states but you may be able to as a citizen of Ghana, Kenya or South Africa.

This conversation truly interests me and I am not sure I totally understand what you were saying. Would this diaspora have made me more eligible to gain citizenship in Africa, then? Or does this all just simply not apply to African Americans, only to those in other countries.

I guess I'm asking for expansion

 

[Omowale Jabali]

This conversation truly interests me and I am not sure I totally understand what you were saying. Would this diaspora have made me more eligible to gain citizenship in Africa, then? Or does this all just simply not apply to African Americans, only to those in other countries.

I guess I'm asking for expansion

Sorry for the confusion.

What I was trying to say is that if you renounce your citizenship you would have to be a citizen of an African country to freely travel, and you may be able to travel with less restrictions.

However, if you have dual citizenship you may have more restrictions, because you most likely would be traveling with an American passport.

 

[Zim]

No not if you are a citizen of the united states but you may be able to as a citizen of Ghana, Kenya or South Africa.

Do you know if Ghana is the only country which has reached out to the diaspora directly and offered dual citizenship? I'm not aware of any others....

 

[cherryblossom]

Have you ever considered renouncing your US Citizenship?

No. But, I have considered a dual citizenship in an African country which offers it.

Does Africa Want Us Back?

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• By: Jenée Desmond-Harris | Posted: August 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM

The Root) -- The theme of this week's Leon H. Sullivan Summit in Equatorial Guinea is "Africa Rising," but the conversation about improvement, innovation and growth isn't limited by any means to the continent. It extends to people of African descent throughout the world, a Diaspora that the African Union in 2005 deemed "Africa's sixth region."

And some want the inhabitants of that "region" -- black people in the United States, the Caribbean and wherever else they may live -- to be able to live and work in African countries with all the rights and privileges of those who were born there.

The issue of creating a continent-wide platform of dual citizenship infused conversations throughout the conference, with Wednesday's "The Return of the Diaspora" plenary session bringing government, academia and business leaders together to discuss this proposition, in addition to "where the greatest synergies between Africa and the Diaspora have been shared."

For Khamis Suedi Kagasheki, Tanzania's minister of natural resources and tourism, who explained that dual-citizenship legislation is "held up in parliament" in his country, it can't pass soon enough. Although he predicts that a law of permanent residency will precede it, Kagesheki already has his eye especially on African Americans -- not just as vacationers, but as citizen investors in a growing tourism industry. Why? Because of our enormous (in global terms) wealth.

"I remember reading something whereby the African-Americans in the United States, if they were constituted as a country, could be almost the 16th largest economy in the world. I think that means quite a lot as far as what is available within the hands and the powers of the African Americans and what could be done in Tanzania if they could operate here as citizens," he told The Root.

Kagesheki, who also talked at length about development and opportunities for entrepreneurship in Tanzania, has his pitch to African Americans ready, when and if a policy of dual citizenship is implemented in his country. "At the end of the day, I think we spring from the same root," he said. "We are looking forward to a day when this could bring forth something meaningful. I tend to believe the world of tomorrow is very much in Africa ... I think the time has come."

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/does-africa-want-us-back