Cincinnati Magazine
April 23, 2021
If you’ve yet to vacation outside of the United States, the thought of traveling 5,000 miles may seem like an intimidating and arduous pilgrimage. But Nzingha Byrd’s mission is to easily connect visitors, especially those of the Black diaspora, to destinations like Accra, Ghana.
“I feel like it’s our birthright,” says Byrd, who owns Beach Birds Travel. “It’s a life-changing experience to go to Africa.”
Even though enthusiasm overflows in her voice, it is not lost on her that many African-Americans’ desires to reconnect with the Motherland are hindered by perceptions of it being a complicated process.