A Better Life Beckons in Africa

While that may seem counterintuitive to Americans accustomed to bleaker images of Africa, recent studies have documented the flight of immigrant professionals from the United States to their home countries. Chinese and Indian workers increasingly say they see better opportunities and lifestyles at home. And diaspora associations of Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans and other Africans say their members — mostly from middle-class backgrounds — are joining the exodus, choosing life in the land of slow Internet connections and power outages over the pressures of recession-era America.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502313.html?hpid=topnewsBy Stephanie McCrummen — Washington Post