Many Black immigrants are settling in Aurora, saying its diversity is a welcoming atmosphere.
The kind of food items shoppers will find at Dollar Groceries in Aurora are among the staples Kwesi Snyper ate growing up.
Snyper bought his grocery store in 2011 after moving to Aurora. When he first immigrated to the U.S., he settled in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked for Publix. But he needed a better-paying job to support his family and when he got an offer to work for the manufacturing company American Gypsum in Gypsum, he made the move to Colorado. Then he moved to Grand Junction where he was reunited with his family. He worked for the state as a psychiatric technician.
For Snyper, that meant catering to that community. He started adding groceries not just from West Africa but from Latin and Asian countries and the Caribbean. Oyugi used to work for the embassy when living in Kenya and moved to the United States about 20 years ago. She first lived in California, working as an instructor for special-needs children and went into health care for a period, but she’s always had an interest in art and business. After connecting with people from various African festivals, she settled on Aurora. There was the added bonus that her brother was already living in Colorado.
That refers to groups who were formerly settled as refugees before, but now other individuals are joining family members in Colorado or are seeking citizenship through other immigration avenues. In Colorado, that often occurs with more-established communities such as those from Somalia, Ethiopia or Eritria, she said.
“That will build diversity,” he said. “And once we have diversity, we will have stronger community and have stronger state.”
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