Hi, I'm Ashley.
In 2020 I left the United States, moved to Tanzania with my daughters, and started building the kind of life I never thought was possible for us. Six years later, I'm still here (now is South Africa). Still building. Still figuring it out in real time.
This channel is where I document all of it.
The good, the hard, the funny, the beautiful, and the not so pretty parts as well.
Come watch as I build a whole new life on the African continent. Not the highlight reel. The real one.
If any part of what I'm doing has ever made you wonder what's possible for you, I hope you feel at home here.
Ashley In Afrika
Today is my birthday 🌹.
My sixth in Africa.
We were allowed into our home to retrieve what we could and then rushed out because the aftermath of it all was too toxic to remain inside for more than a twenty minutes.
I’ve learned a few lessons in this experience. To surrender and release the illusion of control.
Thank you to all those who contributed words, funds, and support in whatever way you could. You are carrying us through this season, and I don’t have the words to express how deeply grateful we are. We won’t forget your kindness.
We’re still in the early stages of rebuilding, and there is a long road ahead. If you’ve been thinking about supporting us but haven’t yet, your contribution would make a meaningful difference. Every gift, no matter the size, helps us replace what was lost and begin again.
Thank you ❤️:
gofund.me/cb7adab36
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Ashley In Afrika
Many of you have reached out asking how you can help after the fire. Thank you. I don’t have all the answers yet, but I am deeply grateful for every message, prayer, and offer of support.
The fire destroyed our building, and my girls and I have been displaced.
We are grateful to have secured temporary housing and now we are focused on replacing the essentials we’ve lost.
If you’d like to support us, here are the most helpful ways:
• Financial support toward immediate essentials
• Gift cards for groceries, clothing, or household items.
• Children’s clothing and essentials for Penelope—*Saturday was her 8th Birthday*🎉
• Laptop and phone for my teenager Zhaeniya
• Introductions to furnished accommodations in Cape Town
• Your prayers and encouragement as we navigate the coming weeks.
I’ll share additional needs as we learn more.
Thank you for surrounding me and our family with so much kindness during an incredibly difficult time. We don’t take it for granted. ❤️
Zelle: Ancleveland@gmail.com
PayPal: Ashleyinafrika@gmail.com
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Meet the experts that will be speaking tomorrow 🇹🇿
Ambassadors. Attorneys. Financial analysts. Founders. Families who have already done what most people are still deciding whether to do.
Two days with the people actually building, investing, and living in Tanzania right now. Real numbers. Real strategy. Real access to expertise you won't find anywhere else.
Travel Move Do Business Tanzania Online Conference begins TOMORROW.
If this room feels like it was built for you, that's because it was.
Secure your spot NOW:
🎟️Grab A VIP TICKET: www.afrikainvestorsacademy.com/offers/CgmHk93b/che…
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Ashley In Afrika
Meet Paul Ngwilimi.
He has spent his career studying the forces that actually shape East Africa's financial and investment landscape and has become one of the sharpest voices in East African capital markets.
At Travel Move Do Business Tanzania, Paul will pull back the curtain on what is really happening inside Tanzania's capital markets. He will share how to separate momentum from meaningful growth, where fundamentals actually justify valuation, and how diaspora investors can position themselves in listed companies with confidence.
Real analysis. Real discipline. Real clarity on what serious investing in East Africa actually looks like.
If you have ever wanted to approach African markets not as a bet, but as a strategic long-term position, this is a session you cannot afford to miss.
July 18-19, join us online.
Comment ‘READY’ for the ticket link. 📊
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Ashley In Afrika
To my YouTube family,
I don't want the people who have actually been watching this journey with me to be the ones who miss what's about to happen.
Early-bird pricing for the Travel Move Do Business Tanzania Online Conference ends in just a few hours. General is currently $97 and VIP is $197. Once this window closes, prices jump to $147 and $297. Same room. Same speakers. Same two days. Just more money.
Some of you have been here since I had 100 subscribers. Some of you have watched every video I've ever posted. Some of you have emailed me privately about your own dreams of moving to Tanzania, and I've read every single one whether I've been able to reply or not.
If any part of you has been quietly wondering whether Tanzania is for you, I'm asking you not to just watch this time. Come sit in the room with me on July 18 and 19. I'll be there and so will the people I trust most on the ground. And you'll leave with more clarity than any video I could ever post here has been able to give you.
GRAB YOUR GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET — 👉
www.afrikainvestorsacademy.com/offers/3jZ2zPgh?cou…
GRAB YOUR VIP TICKET — 👉
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Ashley In Afrika
This continent has a way of asking you real questions.
Not the ones you can answer in a vlog. The ones that only start showing up once you have signed the lease, opened the bank account, enrolled the kids, and realized nobody is coming to translate the moment for you.
Most people arrive here in love with the picture. That is not the same as being ready for the ecosystem underneath it.
I say all of this as someone who chose Tanzania anyway. And still chooses it, every single day. What made the difference for me was not how much I wanted it. It was how much I understood before I moved.
If you are anywhere on this path, I want you to arrive with information and not just excitement. That is what we are building the room around July 18-19.
Comment “TZ” and we’ll send you the link to grab your ticket.🤍
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If you've been circling Tanzania for a while now quietly wondering where you'd even begin, I made this for you.
This is the playbook I wish someone had handed me before I moved. The legal path. The financial runway. The housing plan. The people you need in your corner before you ever land.
I didn't figure it out neatly. I lost money, wasted time, and had to build from the ground up while everyone around me quietly wondered if I had lost it.
You don't have to do it the way I did.
Every step in here is one my clients are actually using right now to make this move real. None of it is theory. None of it is guessing.
And on July 18-19 I'm bringing all of it into one room. Fully online. Two days with the people already living this.
Comment "MOVE" and I'll send you the details.
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Ashley In Afrika
🏡 Why I Live In Both South Africa And Tanzania (And You Might Want To)
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The people who are going to build real wealth over the next decade are already moving.
That is the truth most people are not ready to hear.
People don’t build wealth in places that are already developed. They build wealth in places that are STILL developing. That is where the ground floor lives. That is where the entry price is still accessible. That is where the next 20 years are being built.
And what is happening in Tanzania right now is on a completely different scale than most people are still willing to acknowledge. The infrastructure. The capital. The scale of what is being built. All of it is moving faster than the average person can catch up to.
And it will keep moving with or without you.
I am not writing this to convince anyone. The numbers are easy to find. And honestly, it’s not even about the numbers anymore. It is about whether you can recognize an opportunity when it is standing right in front of you.
The people who see it are already positioning themselves. The people who don’t are going to keep watching.
If you’re in that first group, or you’re trying to become one, come sit with us July 18 and 19. Fully online. Two days. The people already doing this work will be there.
Comment “TZ” and I’ll share how you can get on the waitlist and get notified when tickets go live ahead of everyone else.
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You are watching a continental turning point happen in real time.
This week, Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, committed to a multi-billion dollar portfolio of projects inside Tanzania 🇹🇿 . A 2,000-megawatt power plant. A urea fertilizer complex. Port development. An 812-kilometer transport corridor. A 40-kilometer access road. A special trade zone.
That is on top of the $500 million cement operation his group has already been running in Mtwara for years.
But the number that matters most in this story is not $500 million.
It is the fact that a Nigerian billionaire from West Africa is deploying billions of dollars to build up an East African nation. The narrative of African disunity that the West has been selling for generations is being dismantled right in front of us, and most people are still scrolling past it.
The continent is uniting behind its own future. Africans are building for Africans. And the smart investors, the ones who understand what this signal means, are already positioning themselves.
The investors I work with stopped waiting for validation a long time ago. They saw what was coming. They positioned themselves while everyone else was still researching.
On July 18-19, I am bringing those very people doing the work in real time into one room. Two days. Fully online.
Comment “TZ” for the waitlist.
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