“Anyone who's returning should really try and come back and sow seeds into their community.”
Maame Adjei is a Ghanaian returnee who is currently prepping a travel show to expose more of Ghana. She has a healthcare finance background and also does consulting within the same field. On the Move
On family and friend’s reactions
My move to Ghana was 50% impulse and 50% emotional. For a long time I had no plans to move back to Ghana. I had been away for so long and spent only a third of my life in Ghana. I always considered it home though. It's where my mother lives and a lot of my good friends. At the beginning of 2012 I started thinking about the possibility of coming back. I set tentative move dates that I kept pushing back. I visited Ghana in September 2012 for a month and I knew at the end of the trip that I was ready to move back. I missed my family.
Most people were very excited for me. It's a big move and I really did it based on lots of faith and a certain level of blind trust. I didn't plan extensively like most people do. I had no job lined up, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do when I got here. I had never lived in Ghana as an adult so it was going to be a challenge navigating the system and getting used to how different things are here.
My Ghanaian friends who are in the States recognized the magnitude of my decision and were very supportive, proud and a maybe even a little envious I missed my culture. I missed the overall calm I felt of my ballsiness. My mum on the other hand was a when I was in Ghana and I really began to feel like I little apprehensive about the idea initially but she could have a better quality of life in Ghana than I did in came around. Philadelphia. I went back to the States in September, started making plans and I was back in Ghana for good On Misconceptions by December. I don't regret it at all! Even though I had spent my adult like in Ghana, I didn’t have any misconceptions about the place. 23| www.afroellemagazine.com