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A Kenyan woman based in the US could not hide her joy after seeing her son for the first time in many years.
Beatrice Wanjiku landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Saturday aboard a Kenya Airways flight.
Here, she reunited with her son Alfred Macharia after being apart for 23 years, according to a Twitter post by Kenya Airways.
“Alfred Macharia had not seen his mum, Beatrice Wanjiku face to face for 23 years until today (Saturday) when she arrived in Nairobi from the US,” KQ wrote on Twitter.
Through Twitter, Macharia had earlier requested Kenya Airways for a special Captain's message to his mum.
Captain Simon Musau and First Officer Anthony Adeya, who were in charge of the KQ flight carrying Macharia’s mum to Kenya, delivered the message to her in person.
“Happy reunion Macharia and Beatrice, enjoy and welcome home, mum!” Kenya Airways added.
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Lack of travel documents/ waiting for paperwork is the main reason!
You don’t have to yell. But, for 23 years? Really?
Mwili na Afya ya huyo Kijana yaOnyesha MAMA alimlinda Vizuri via SendWave (regardless of the 23 years Seperation). She looks a good Mama😁.
Msono….wewe sasa umechekesha sana😄😄😄😄😄. Kweli sendwave
Happy reunion!!!! Video call once in a while would’ve been nice. I’ll go on a limb and say she was not legal and could not travel back sooner and or was not able to petition for her son. I know someone who came to the States in the 1960s and have never gone back.
Very Correct. Infact we have some or many (especially MEN) that have or had Sworn never to Go back to Kenya. But they're slowly Changing their Minds (maybe this STIMULUS thing is really Changing and Boosting their POCKET and therefore Airticket ability, MORALE to Travel,and Visit their Long-not-seen Family and Friends back Home.
Must someone go back to Kenya? I know someone who goes back home two times a year and also know another who has not gone home since the 80s
No place on this beautiful earth can replace where home is to you. Home is the best. That’s why some of us go back.
The west is pretty good if you are super rich and no arthritis. If kids are in Kenya then every parent must return at some point. Even westerners including blacks are running to Africa and other places to avoid weather, bills, loneliness, bad selfish families, taxes, too many laws and rules, lgbt epidemic, anti free exercise of religion, insecurity, no love, bad gmo food, too fast life, no rest, etc
how is this news??
For those who ALREADY knew about their 23 yr Separation and their Reunion at the Airport, it's not NEWs to them. They already kNEW it (with "k" at the Beginning but without "s" at the End).😇
Same question
Thank you how is this News seriously.
Listen to this new way of expression! Kenyans will always be amazing. Being one of the world's "thieviest", mischieviests, greediest, "corruptiest" and NOW "jeolousiest" people the world has ever produced since Alexander The Great, Magellan, Lord Delamere, Socrates and Christopher Columbus.
Kenyans in Kenya or Kenyans in the USA, or Kenyans everywhere, are known for everything that is evil. What is the return of this woman back to her homeland gotta do with makaratasi or the "whys" most of you are vomiting. If there is anything that scares any Kenyan out there, is the mention or idea of relocating back home. Her bravery to end the misery and the cycle of being seen to be living in paradise, should be applauded. Its not easy to decide that enough is enough, pack your bags and head home. Most of you fear going back to Kenya to experience the poverty and the un-ending life carnage that you had left behind ten twenty years ago. Truth be told. Most if not all, live hand to mouth; check to check, or worst case scenario, line up for welfare to keep themselves alive. Most live in houses that will never belong to them, legally. I look at some Kenyans in church and other get-to-togethers, and as Kikuyus would say "Ngai vava". Most drive expensive cars they think they own, until that check stop flowing. Most struggle to mountain of bills that has weighed down the US Postal service for decades. Most arrived in the US as a fully fledged family, now disintegrated due to various reasons. Me going back home?? Niende nikachekwe? Hell noop! oooh I would rather stay here for prestigious reason, other than go back home to nothing. Why despise your homeland but during sunset, unachangiwa usafirishwe nyumbani. Kenya as a country is not bad. It emits enough resources to cater for us all. Its the leaders you elect foolishly that make our country look the way you see it. I have lived in America for 21 one years and have seen it all, lived it all. Men sending their wives to college to do nursing on an $8-$10/hour, the after the wife graduates and start to earn $25-60/hr, kule college kesha pata hubby, anakupotea vivi hivyo. Wives earning more than their men anamea pembe. Unadhubutu kuwelekelea mkono. Mtoto wako anakwambia utampeleka wapi? Hasira za Kikenya hizooooo piap. Unacharaza yeye. Matukio? To even have the courage to mention of going back home to your roots is God send. Leave this lady alone. Naturally, there are so many things that will never add especially if you came here as an adult. That is a fact. Whether you want to settle in America or otherwise, just make sure you have some nest eggs back home. Work out some ways of avoiding being conned by family, relatives, lawyers, friends and others. This America is not for all of us. Chunga usirudi nyumbani kama umelalishwa kifundi fundi kwa geneza la mkebe, au ukiwa kama mzigo. Rudi nyumbani kwa hiari kama umeketi kitako kwenya ndege kama mama huyu. Corona epidemic has made things even worse. But don't call me MjuAji, I know nothing. Just listen to me and forget it. Am trying to say it in a kindlier way than "Mkenya Halisi". I know he is writing something as I speak. For Beatrice Wanjiku, conglats, niko nyuma hivi karibuni. Maisha ya utumwa hii; maisha ya bwerere hii; maisha ya kukamuliwa hii. Miasha ya ufukara hii. Maisha ya kulipa nyumba miaka 30 hii; AAAh si mie tena.
It’s difficult to know what you are saying. It’s long and very boring
Wah this guy has really nailed it. Hata mimi got tired of the fake life and left not too long ago but I'm yet to meet mkenya halisi. Life here is not bad if u can only figure out how to make enough money. Better to live pay check to pay check back home than in another mans land take it from me. My guess is the lady was in Seattle just like the rest of them sasa hata bwana si alioa mwingine?
She made the right decision at the right time. Good to go on feet than lying flat and costing someone else 12k USD. West isn't for the old lonely sickly frail. I visited an old friend in hospital and realised I saw him more days than his kids. Luckily his wife was there everyday.
Long separation, though I do not know the circumstances, she must have kept in touch with her son and supported him through his education. Hope she has come back permanently with a pension to spend rest of her days in Kenya.
Wish them luck
It’s so sad. Missing 23 years of all the valuable moments, birthdays you name it. Nothing can ever replace that ever ata Kama send wave was good kiaje...someone missed all the childhood can’t ever be the same
Sorry to say it’s crap backwardness stupid if you leave yr childrens for that long.I don’t give any Shit whether u claim u don’t have makaratasi that’s why u abandoned yr blood for that long.Guys I have always said always have a plan b if u love that wife/husband children you left in kenya or Africa.Don’t let the money greed n the fake life controls you to forget yr loved ones.if you work yr ass off for 5 years u can invest Good back home n return otherwise if u don’t n u abandoned yr loved ones only blames yrself for not planning better.Money is not everything.Tutaiacha tu hapa duniani time ikifika so no what to treasure.
Yaaani @ Mjuaji unanichomea hivyo.But u have written n summarised it very very well.N if one decides to stay in the great fake usa leave n enjoy it but as mjuaji said it comes that one day one yr senses will hit u back yr body mind starts to tell you””I need to go back to yr roots back to the mother Africa Kenya?So invest 80% pahali Uko na in kenya 20% coz u don’t know when utarudi or not.Keep something floating for that shittty day incase it comes.
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Too many pieces of this puzzle are missing. 23 years but why? Didn’t she have makaratasi, sick, or just never cared?