In the last decade, the number of migrants from countries in Africa to Turkey has grown immensely. Some hope to make their way to Europe, while others aim to stay in Turkey indefinitely. In Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, African residents have built storefront churches, soccer leagues, informal restaurants, and social networks, aiming to build community and care for each other. In the absence of support from the Turkish government due to their immigrant status, they turn to each other to make care available—efforts that are necessarily complex and incomplete. In this essay, I take Istanbul as a lens to add nuance to analyses of how care unfolds within African diasporas. I show that the complexities of care articulate through anti-Black racism, which is often deemed a “nonissue” in the broader Turkish political discourse. I follow the events surrounding the passing after a struggle with AIDS of a young Ghanaian man in Istanbul who had aspired to be a professional soccer player. The circumstances of his funeral arrangements reflect many narratives of his life and death, illuminating the coming together and coming apart of communities, solidarities, and care. I trace these narratives’ paths through various communities—from the young man’s teammates to his Pentecostal church congregation—showing how care works unequally in practice, particularly in diasporic communities. I juxtapose Ghanaian narratives about his life with Turkish narratives about his death. In particular, the way Turkish state officials referred to his body throughout the funeral proceedings reveals the stigmatization of migrant Black bodies with AIDS in a country that denies anti-Black racism as a meaningful or significant domestic issue. In this way, discrimination and racism become entangled around non-Muslim and non-affluent death. Retelling these narratives through an essay addressing him, I seek to convey the affects his death invokes, and hope to animate others to think through and act upon racialized death and migration.