84-Year-Old Kenyan Man Returns Home to Rousing Reception After Living in the US for 60 Years

Eeeeer...did this guy want to return? Or did you guys force him? Who will care for him in Kenya? He is 84 and was doing fine in the retirement home as seen here.

Very bad idea.

welcome to Africa mzeeh

I think it's the best thing that happened to him to go back home and to still find his brothers whoa...home is always the best.

Two way ticket I hope. t\Taking him away from his home of 60yrs. who will pay for hip replacement if he needs one here in Kenya? Back in the US the trump govt would pay.

Hakupata msichana wa kuoa huko Marikani!

Welcome back home mzee Mugweru. You made a lifetime decision. I just wish you had made that decision earlier. Living in squalor surrounded by uncultured, palatable and the so called retirement-home-to-nursing-home-to-funeral-home-to-closest-cemetery.
Ushujaa wako wa kukata kauri ya kurudi makwenu ni jambo la kujivunia na la kutia motisha kwa Wakenya wengi ambayo litajwalo swala la kurudi makwao, linaleta kero, zogo, na matusi mengi ilhali maisha yao Marekani fedheha tupu.
Nitembeleapo jopo, sherehe au kongamano ya Wakenya wengi katika sehemu kadha wa kadha, nawaona wengi wa rika lako na sampuli yako wakijikokota na mikongojo dalili kwamba, kazi waliokuwa wakifanya walipokuwa miaka 20, 30, 40, 50 na kadhalika ndio hio hio wanayofanya wakiwa vidubweshe vikongwe wanaotetemeka kama tinga tinga zee zee iliofika mwisho wa ukiriba.
Nikiyarusha rusha macho yangu kwingineko, nawaona wengine kadhaa ambao tayari walevi wa kuombewa, wengine wakisemezana kwamba, kwa muda wa miezi kadhaa iliyopita, makao yao ilikuwa mle magarini mwao, au huishi nje kama wanyama huku baridi au joto kali ikiwachuja chuja na kuwasokota sokota bila huruma. Kisa na maana? Kazi kesha wachomoka. Kisa na maana? Maisha kesha kwenda mrama. Inapofika wakati, ndugu zetu hawana chochote mbele na nyuma cha kuwawezesha warudi makwao.
Sitaki kuwa mnabii wa uwongo lakini ni muhimu kusema hapa bayana kwamba, hata kama mambo yako yote yamo Marekani, fikiria kidogo tu kuhusu makwenu sababu chochote chaweza kutoka.
Ni jambo la kuchukiza unapowaona wale Wakenya wanaopiga domo eti kwamba Kenya kuna ufisadi, woooo Kenya ni kwa wahuni, woooo Wakenya watakutapeli kwa hili na lile, wao wao au jamaa zao ndio wanasisitiza kwamba wakifa wachangiwe wachangiwe wazikwe Jamhuri. Kicheko na fedheha ya upusi na ushenzi.

Nobody forced him to go home. He is on a 30 days visit.

I am the organizer of this reunion. Feel free to contact me.

Thank you Madam President. We support you all the way. Time to stop the negativity.

What was he doing for 60 years if he can't afford a plane ticket?? Total failure here not news.

Reality of the choices we make.Finally we have home regardless of our migration status.Lets keep connections alive

NHIF paid for my surgery in 2019.I paid nothing. It will pay for his hip replacement. Kenya is poor, but somehow things work in their own way.

USA can easily make us homeless not only lost son. not a comfortable land for foreigners.

Current SSA check is $1400?For the first time I see one advantage of aging. At Kwa Njenga slums with such a check, I become a slum lord!!!

SSI depends on how much you made in the last or highest earning of 10 years. Not everyone gets $1400. Let's assume he is at that, plus 401k, and his wife's SSI if she was working. He just did not want to come to shithole Kenya, I speculate coz he could afford to.

Looks like he was manipulated to come, and being smart, made yolls pay for the ticket and it is you guys making the noise about celebration. I do not see him all giddy. He is not destitute, has a steady retirement income, and here comes Kenyans with their own romantic notions of his family, eti tuchangechange we send him home. He deliberately avoided his kin for 60 years. Pengine walimgonga his investments, who knows? Many are such stories

Strange how another man who truly was homeless in the same Atlanta, and really wanted to go back, but ended up dying in the very Hotlanta.

Useless Useless yes i uphold that huyu mzee angekaa tu hii united state of gormolla juu @84 anarudi gichagi,he will not leave long coz amezoea maisha ya huko but on other side it's good amepata his brothers/sisters wako alive?For me i had a plan yakurudi gichagi before 40 years so i can grow up hapa sweet home n i cannot regret.

60 years is a lot of years but enjoy.