Aug 18, 2026 · 58 min · 15 segments
We’re back and we’re kicking off season five by asking: **what happens when Japa doesn’t feel like a one-way trip anymore?** Abimisola and Malik catch up on their own Japa journeys, returning home…
what the japa experience is what immigration looks like today the kind of information we've gathered over the last four seasons talking to people about their japa experience things of that nature so we often talk about immigration as a one-way journey leaving home for opportunity but what happens when that changes you know when what we started out with or what we thought the Jabari experience was going to be kind of changes and shifts, right? We want to explore how migration is evolving from Africans facing new immigration challenges abroad to families choosing to return
back.
Exactly, exactly.
Because, you know, Immigration is going through a lot right now, actually.
Immigration is going through a lot.
Yeah.
I know this is so funny.
When we did the episode with Aisha, what was that? Maybe
about
immigration.
Then we were all like, ah, didn't know that it was going to be real.
I mean, we knew it was going to be bad.
We didn't know it was going to be this bad.
You know,
it's just, yeah, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now we're kind of shifting our goals.
You know, some people we've learned to go back home.
Yes.
And our
question is the goal really to leave the continent forever? Do we want to be bi-coastal? Is the dream the opportunity to just be able to choose? Just to choose which way you want to go.
And some people, like,
their goal is to find their way back home.
what the japa experience is what immigration looks like today the kind of information we've gathered over the last four seasons talking to people about their japa experience things of that nature so we often talk about immigration as a one-way journey leaving home for opportunity but what happens when that changes you know when what we started out with or what we thought the Jabari experience was going to be kind of changes and shifts, right? We want to explore how migration is evolving from Africans facing new immigration challenges abroad to families choosing to return
back.
Exactly, exactly.
Because, you know, Immigration is going through a lot right now, actually.
Immigration is going through a lot.
Yeah.
I know this is so funny.
When we did the episode with Aisha, what was that? Maybe
about
immigration.
Then we were all like, ah, didn't know that it was going to be real.
I mean, we knew it was going to be bad.
We didn't know it was going to be this bad.
You know,
it's just, yeah, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now we're kind of shifting our goals.
You know, some people we've learned to go back home.
Yes.
And our
question is the goal really to leave the continent forever? Do we want to be bi-coastal? Is the dream the opportunity to just be able to choose? Just to choose which way you want to go.
And some people, like,
their goal is to find their way back home.
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