Because African immigrants are often lumped into the same category as African Americans, there has been very little research conducted on the health outcomes of African immigrants. This has resulted in an ideology of promoting preventative medicine versus treatment. This study, based on self-reported information, will ask the question: what are the differences in susceptibility to hypertension and other cardiovascular disease-related risk factors among different African immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest, specifically those from Somalia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The hypothesis of this study is that Ethiopian and Nigerian immigrants are at a lower risk of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases as compared with Somali immigrants because of differences among their country of origin's health care systems. To be able to answer this question, I examined and evaluated the recent historical backgrounds of these three countries by conducting literature review. I also used surveys to collect data and critically analyzed and grouped the responses according to key words and comment phrases to test the correlation of the responses to the main research topic. I expect that the results will paint a mixed picture about African immigrants’ health outcomes, specifically rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, as region of origin confers major health effects on immigrants. This research will shed light on the differences among African immigrant groups separate from the African American population.