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In 2019 Ghanaian president [[Nana Akufo-Addo]] declared the year the "Year of Return" and made immigration easier for [[African diaspora]].<ref name=":1" /> In June 2020, Ghana Minister of Tourism [[Barbara Oteng Gyasi]] encouraged Black Americans to emigrate, saying "Africa is waiting for you".<ref name=":1" />
== Reasons ==
''[[USA Today]]'' said "Black Americans, like expatriates of all races and ethnicities, leave the USA temporarily or permanently for different reasons: in search of a better quality of life, for work opportunities, to marry or retire abroad, for tax reasons, for adventure."<ref name=":0" /> Kristen West Savali, writing for [[Essence (magazine)|''Essence'']] in January of 2020, compared Blaxit to the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]], saying, "it has become increasingly clear that there is no corner of the United States where it is safe to be Black."<ref name=":2" />
Academic Okunini Ọbádélé Kambon moved to Ghana after an arrest in Chicago.<ref name=":0" /> He is involved in a Ghanaian program that encourages descendants of Africans to emigrate.<ref name=":0" /> Businesswoman Lakeshia Ford moved to Ghana after a yearlong study abroad there; she says in Ghana "I don't have to think of myself as a Black woman...here I am just a woman."<ref name=":0" />
Tiffanie Drayton, whose family moved to the US from [[Trinidad and Tobago]] when she was four, in 2013 moved back and is writing a book, ''Black American Refugee'', on the subject of Blaxit.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Drayton said driving her children around the block to get them to sleep in Trinidad and Togabo differed significantly from the same experience in the United States: "In America, your hands are shaking. You're worried about what to say. You're worried about whether you have the right ID. You're just so worried all the time."<ref name=":0" /> Rapper [[Mos Def]] moved to South Africa in 2013 to escape racism.<ref name=":0" />
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