About Tony and Ayo Jones | Expat Life Ghana
Founders of Expat Life Ghana  |  Featured on HBO Max and TLC Africa

We Made the Move.
We Built the Roadmap.

Tony and Ayo Jones are the founders of Expat Life Ghana and the hosts of the Ghana Relocation Summit. They moved their family from Texas to Accra over five years ago. Everything they offer is built from that lived experience.

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We Made the Mistakes So You Do Not Have To.

Over five years ago we were sitting in our living room in Texas, exhausted. We had done everything we were supposed to do in the West. The careers. The suburban house. The middle-class life on paper. And underneath all of it, the heavy invisible luggage of being Black in America.

For Tony, a former police officer, it was the weight of constantly making himself smaller in public just to come home in one piece. For Ayo, it was the moment she instinctively told their young son not to touch anything in a store, and realized she was already teaching him the survival playbook every Black American kid inherits.

"We looked at our boys and realized we could not keep raising them in a place where we had to teach them a different set of rules just for a traffic stop or a trip to the store."

So we moved to Ghana. We did it without a roadmap. We figured out the visas, the land process, the banking gaps, and the cultural adjustment on our own. We paid every school fee the hard way. Then we built Expat Life Ghana to be the bridge we wished we had.

Tony and Ayo Jones, founders of Expat Life Ghana

The Flood Was the Rescue.

Before Ghana, Hurricane Harvey destroyed our home in Houston. We had just rebuilt it. It was beautiful. The neighbor said it never floods, not in 35 years. Then it flooded. Tony drew a line on the wall. If the water hits this, we leave. The water hit the last step of the stairs.

Standing in the wreckage, we realized we had been working so hard to rebuild something that was never truly ours to begin with. The flood stripped away the faulty wiring. It forced the question we had been avoiding. Is this the life we actually want?

The answer was no. The flood did not break us. It freed us. We sold what was left, packed our family into eight suitcases, and moved to Ghana for good. Every program, every Summit, every product we have built since comes from that moment of total disruption and total clarity.

Ayo Jones delivering the opening keynote at the 2026 Ghana Relocation Summit

110 People. 12 Government Agencies. One Room.

On March 31 and April 1, 2026, we brought 110 attendees together at The African Regent Hotel in Accra for two days that changed how families plan, prepare, and move. This is what that room produced.

110 Worldwide Attendees
12 Gov't Agencies on Stage
2 Days of Programming
1 Clear Plan. No Guesswork.

"Your ancestors left through a door they were told had no return. I am asking you to walk back through it."

Honorable Ebi Bright, Mayor of Tema

"The descendants of those who were taken are returning as architects seeking foundation."

Nana Kyere Agyemang, Office of the President

"Done moving. D-U-N moving. We are finally home."

Sai'lah — 2026 Summit Attendee
Diaspora attendees building community at the 2026 Ghana Relocation Summit in Accra

We Do Not Sell Tourism.
We Build the Roadmap You Wished You Had.

The Relocation Summit, the BLAXIT Blueprint™ product suite, and the VIP Tour are all built from the same place. The exact truth of what we learned the hard way, and the exact connections it took us years to make.

Our community grows because we do not sell a sanitized version of Africa. We show the reality. The grits, the mosquitoes, the slow internet days. Then we hand you the tools to actually build a life inside it.

70K+ YouTube Subscribers
6M+ Total Video Views
5+ Years Living in Ghana
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The Full Ecosystem
for Your Move to Ghana.

Every product and program is built from the same place. The truth of our own move and the connections it took years to earn.

BLAXIT Blueprint™ Summit Replay

The complete recording library from the 2026 Ghana Relocation Summit. 12 government agencies. Every session organized and available from day one of purchase.

BLAXIT Blueprint™ System

The Replay restructured into six sequential modules by B.L.A.X.I.T. pillar. Action checklists, resource sheets, the Before You Land Checklist, and the Government Agency Reference Sheet.

Ultimate BLAXIT Blueprint™ Toolkit

Everything in the System plus six standalone execution documents. Resident permit checklist, land walkthrough, business registration SOP, medication guide, school chart, and emergency planning card.

Ghana Relocation Summit

Our annual flagship event in Accra. Two days of government officials and diaspora practitioners on one stage. The 2027 Summit waitlist is open now.

BLAXIT VIP Relocation Tour

Eight days and seven nights in Accra, Cape Coast, and key real estate hubs. Tony leads the group through neighborhoods, schools, and cultural reconnection at the slave castles.

YouTube Channel

Over 70,000 subscribers and 6 million views of unpolished, honest content about daily life in Ghana. The free entry point into the Expat Life Ghana community.

Ready to Stop Watching
and Start Moving?

The 2026 Summit Replay is live now. The 2027 waitlist is open. Your next step depends on where you are in the process.