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For generations, retirement in Africa was not a place. It was a return. After decades of working in cities, successful professionals would eventually go home to their ancestral land, extended family and the community that raised them.
The cultural script was binary.
Success was quantified by the ability to eventually exit the metropolitan fray and return to one's roots. In this era, retirement was not merely an economic transition; it was a profound geographic homecoming.
Yet, across the continent, a sophisticated new pattern has emerged. A growing number of upper and middle-class retirees are choosing not to return to the village. Instead, they are settling in gated estates, satellite towns and master-planned suburbs.
