The Sacred Woods: A coming-of-age ritual in Ivory Coast | Al Jazeera World Documentary
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2022
- This award-winning documentary from Ivory Coast follows a group of young men who undergo an ancient coming-of-age ceremony in a remote West African forest.
Their spiritual tutor is struggling to preserve the tradition of the Generation Festival at a time when young local men are increasingly indifferent to these ancestral rituals.
Thanks to his efforts, ancient custom prevails and many young men in their early twenties take part in a gruelling three-week endurance test of physical and mental prowess.
#Documentary #IvoryCoast #Traditional
As Africans we have such beautiful traditions and cultures. It’s crazy how we don’t cherish those traditions more and make them mainstream but instead we choose to glorify western cultures.
Many traditional cultures have been eclipsed by white colonialists. Because they colonized the minds of people and make traditional cultural practices feel inferior to white colonial culture. To move forward we have to decolonize our minds.
@O T I agree with you. Nevertheless African minds still colonized by white Europeans, British or Americans. The wealth of the land still in the hand of whites.
why the fxck does this need to be mainstream?????????
@@nycguycpt *and Chinese
@@Tu51ndBl4d3😊
Gave me tears of joy to know they are carrying on the traditional ways of our ancestors. I really wish I could’ve done this I wish my family were never sold to the America’s….. everything is Devine and has reasoning… watching this gave me so many emotions 🙏🏾🥺. Thank you for sharing
Your family were not sold. do not believe the lies the colonial masters told you!
"I am black and beautiful." - Song of Solomon 1;5 📖✝🕎
Demand to go back
I see a lot of critics in the comments. For me nobody has the right to judge people's culture or traditions. All I see in this documentary is how the old, ancient African traditions was teaching the young men how to leave together respectfully, how to create strong bonds with each other and how to learn and discover yourself. I'm sure if it was about a Scout camp most of you would say something else.
Sorry, where exactly do you see alot of these critics? The comment section is dominated by positive comments, it looks as though the critics you speak of is your wishful thinking. I see little but no hate here +
But you're also judging others cos they don't think like you do or want them to think it's all in your comment 🙄😒
@@mrsmaealtema5562 You talk to fast. Keep reading the first comments and you will understand.
@@mrsmaealtema5562 Whatever... Thanks anyway for your nonsense comment.
We are not saved by works. We are saved only by grace through faith in Yeshua, great grandson of the Queen of Sheba and the Messiah of all humanity. Animism provides the false illusion of moral integrity.
How magnificent is this. Omg! What a rich culture based on respect for each other. Can we have more of these type of news pieces
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Hi Tabitha, thank you for watching our film. You can find more Al Jazeera World films in our playlist: aje.me/AJWplaylist
Absolutely!!
YOU MUST ALSO SHOW THE SLUMS, THE PEOPLE sleeping in the streets in America. You should also show the dirtiest places of America that are worst than the SLUMS of Africa.
You should also show the beautiful places of the capital Abidjan.
Always showing the dirty places of Africa to brainwash the west. Shame on you.
Please stop exaggerating?
This video is a true Testimony of the incontournable importance of the Richest and the Spiritual of Our Sacred AFRIKAN Traditions.....
"I am black and beautiful." - Song of Solomon 1;5 📖✝🕎
My countryyy! 🇨🇮. Les ivoiriens venez pointer ohh ❤️❤️❤️
La côte ivoire est une création coloniale.
Vos frontières et le nom du pays sont l’œuvre des blancs .
@@freegalsen5556 ton point?
@@freegalsen5556 ton ventre est plein!! vas digerer pardon!! malo la!
@@marcbile Salty?
@@freegalsen5556 et alors
if only all nations was humble and peaceful as those people, can you imagine what a wonderful world it would be
This is pride, not humble at all. True humility is found only in Yeshua, the Messiah.
I like how we embrace our African culture and masculinity. Let's keep going our culture should come first.
True masculinity can only be found in Yeshua the Messiah. ✝
Actually I’m part of this ethnic group I always thought that I was on the right path with the Christian’s religion
But now I ripped it and then I think I will be satisfied to honoring my ancestors 🙏🏽❤️
GO BACK TO JESUS!!! THE DEVIL HAS BLINDED YOU… please COME BACK TO GOD!!
Well done!!!! Your culture is beautiful! Stay true to yourself not the whitewashed European doctrines.
True storyline
@@pennyali1290 Jesus was not there before our Ancestors
What ethnic group is that?
Beautiful Côte d’Ivoire. Birth place of my husband. The beauty of this earth is the work of God’s hands. May we all turn to him somewhere along our life’s journey 🌷
Ivory Coast needs the objective standard of truth found solely in Yeshua the Messiah.
Look how peaceful we were, minding our business. Thank you for this feature. Makes u remember to always cherish your culture and your people. Even if it doesn't make sense to the outside world, it's ours. And no one else.❤
Not true Africans have always been at war with each other slaving in particular
This is manhood training. This existence so many tribes in Africa!
Black fraternities and sororities imitate these traditions and customs!
This is needed in so many of our communities.
Too many seem to never grow up!
Black men have an obligation to Mentor Young!
This didn't teach me how to become a man. Ephesians 5 did. Yeshua is the archetype of what a black man should be✝
So beautiful. I love that they use the beautiful herbs of the earth to bless and heal the men and honour their ancestors. Our country has similar traditions for the men. Beautiful Motherland. ☺️
Definitely wish they would maintain the indigenous languages only though. These colonial languages are useless🙄 I'm just so glad to see our Motherland preserving ancient customs that our ancestors left behind.
Overall I really enjoyed watching.❤️
"I am black and beautiful." - Song of Solomon 1;5 📖✝🕎
Kudos to those that have tried to maintain and celebrate their culture.
Cool culture
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching! You can find more Al Jazeera World films in our playlist: aje.me/AJWplaylist
Ooh, they are so fine. They look like WARRIORS 😍. At the same time, I'd be scared of them😂🤣🤣. I'd like to learn more about Ivory Coast seems rich in culture and I want to travel one day. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦❤️🖤.
God said "favour is deceitful and beauty is vain" Sister. Find a nice Christian man who obeys Ephesians 5:25.
The western world has always painted our AFRIKAN traditions/cultures in a very negative way...
We as AFRIKANS only want and demand to be left alone in our efforts and dedication to saving/keeping all the traditional rituals that are the true Core of our Existence....
Judeochristinity is the oldest Afrikan tradition. Jesus is from Egypt, in AFRIKA. His ancestors were from Ethiopia, in AFRIKA.✝
So wonderful, God bless Africa and Africans!!
God blesses those who obey him and put their faith in his only begotten son. Practicing animism will only block our blessings.
Beautiful ❤️ thanks 4 sharing
It's sad that this was done in so much French and not their language. Here in South Africa, the native languages seem more alive than in Francophone and Lusophone Africa.
Most Afrikans want to be westernized ! Most don´t hold dear to their traditions or heritage.
It's true what you are saying, but i know that all the people that you saw in the film speak their own language and their children too. They only spoke in French just for the TV.
Same as your country, we all speak our different African languages, but in school and at work we all speak french because other tribes would have a hard time understanding eachother.
Speaking in Fench makes commmunication among people from different tribes and from different part of the country to communicate easly.
So dont get it twisted our languages are still alive too.
Francopjone all speak their traditional language besides the colonial.languagem exactly just like in south africa where people speak english but also speak their languages.
South africans should travel more in other countries because i have noticed they do not know that much of anything
@@adamkofi5683 you are a Ghanaian and you can attest to the fact that most Ghanaian parents prefer their children speak English than twi
@@jibrilrahim1930 I cannot make any comments about the Ghanian languages, as i'm not from Ghane, im from ivory coast.
I will say this though, Africans tends to look outwards for validation, Africans are obsessed with the western cultures, so they dont cherish their traditions and languages as much as they should.
SHAMEFUL, SAD, PITIFUL
dadkan hadana af qalaad bay kuhadlayaan. dhaqana way kahadlayaan. waa wareer!
The comments here are wild. It is actually so beautiful to have such precious knowledge and community like this. There are so many Black americans ditching christianity because we’ve realized how much power was stripped away from us when our ancestors were forced out of their traditions. And we see that erasing that culture only made us much more vulnerable to slavers.
Take it from us: keep your beliefs!! Do not assimilate
after we all destroy each other..these people will be the only humans left. Sometimes I think they are smarter than us for not advancing.
Yes.
It's not that we didn't advance. It's that we devolved after the fall of the Judeochristian Kush Empire. We are the descendants of Sephora,Taharqa, and Queen of Sheba (Semna).✝
Has anyone noticed that not one of these young beautiful African brothers has any excessive fat on their bodies or is out of physical shape?!
Lol!!! Reminds me of the Legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta who said until she got to Lagos, she never saw a man in the village who wasnt fit.
They eat organic plus their lifestyle is very physical. They are exercising without even realizing it.
Village life is hard always farming and fetching water, you cabt get fat!
And French is the official language of the country because there are over 70 languages in the country.
Love 💕 your spirit MMMD ℹ 🇺🇸👁
Wow their language sounds very Atlantic like Wolof Mix with some Akan,Kru and definitely Ewe. Even the way they were drumming sounded the same . I don’t know why media never shows Akan or Mandinka or senufo culture that are on par with everyone else! It’s always something to try to embarrass us . But I have respect for ancient Africa so I am not embarrassed at all.
Nah im ewe there's nothing ewe about the languauge. It sounds very akan.
The Adjoukrou tribe come from the Akan
It’s a know fact they are ewe guys but they are mixed with Akan and some Atlantic especially by the sound of there language. 6:50
@@mahalo675 nah it is very akan. You can even hear. Maybe if you said mixed with guan then maybe. But theres nothing ewe about the language bro.
@@mawuliahiable6178 i’m done arguing I literally know someone that’s from there are you Ivorian no !
This are the kind of things Al jazeera, CNN, BBC like to show about Africa, anything that sounds negative to the ear, it gives them joy but someday Africa will be great again and they will be begging to have a shot
An interesting watch.. im very curious about the type of ceremonies the female bodies go through
Me too
What I read: for a girl to become a women this happens naturally through her period. Obviously males don't bleed so they invented elaborate rituals to mark the transition from childhood to manhood. If you hear someone saying "Be a man" or "Become a man!" that seems to be rooted in such tradition. You'll never hear someone saying "Women up!" though. She automatically assumes her role in society as a "women", once here period sets in.
FGM
@@werqzeleke2815 Please, don't just spew stereotypical n0nsense for the sake of it. Every ethnic group in Africa does not practise FGM. The people in the Documentary are Akan people and Akans do not practise FGM.
@@kindomofghanait is what it is go look up the research and be informed
More positive stuff sir 😊
from India my god bless all
What's the name of this group?
LOHDJOUKROU OR ADJOUKROU IN IVORY COAST 🇨🇮.
@@opheliegnalega6723 Thank you
Is that ayahuasca?
No but fresh palm wine quite sweet
beautiful culture . sad thing its dying away. Many natives in many parts of the world have these types of initiations, something to celebrate to show how connected we are as one humanity.
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Rubbish country
lol
@@iamaformerhistorystudent agreed that’s why everyone that isnt from there should leave. And leave the natural resources too.
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1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. MAY THE LIGHT OF GOD SHINE ON OUR LAND AND DELIEVER AFRICA FROM DARKNESS IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
They seem more like the Ewes a tribe in Ghana ( volta region)
Actually they are or a contingent of their villages are ! It is said that some came from that region but they have blood from abroad as well definitely senegal Liberia too they are a mix of many people!
These people are akans they are not ewe.
Definitely not Senegal nor Liberia ,I am.from that ethnic group and we are from Akan
@@melianeake6780 what is the name of the group???
@@mahalo675 this tribe originally migrated from what is actual GHANA. The LÔHDJOUKROU (adjoukrou) tribe is one the many subgroups of the AKAN ETHNIC GROUP. THE AKAN ARE FOUND IN PRESENT DAY GHANA 🇬🇭 CÔTE D’IVOIRE 🇨🇮 AND TOGO 🇹🇬.
"Je suis noire et belle." - Cantiques de Salomon 1;5 📖✝🕎
"I am black and beautiful." - Song of Solomon 1;5 📖✝🕎
1 PETER 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. AFRICA SHALL BE SAFE FROM DARKNESS IN JESUS NAME AMEN,
before the slave religions imported into africa imposed its mythology on us, africa its ancestral spirituality and its culture
"I am black and beautiful." - Songof Solomon 1:5🙏🏾✝🕎
🙏🙏 monsieur tout les africains doit retourner à la traditions les africains pense que c'est le 😈😈 nos traditions pour temps c'est pour nous mieux vraiment 🙏🙏👍🇨🇮🇨🇮
Le judéochristianisme est la plus ancienne tradition africaine.🙏🏾✝🕎
28:08 Why would you guys show that we all know what that is . No respect do you not know you make people as targets doing that?
Is speaking in French part of traditional too? It would have been better if they spoke in their mother-tongue.
Is writing and speaking English part of your tradition? I believed he spoke in French for everyone to understand, that is why you wrote in English as well, so others will understand. Stop making language an issue because English is not an African language to my knowledge! You
French is commonly spoken all throughout West Africa. Duh!
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你们的信仰还能维持？ 公义不实现，马赫迪能出现？马赫迪不出现你们的各种分歧和矛盾咋解决？ 我可是完全不知道….你们可别拍马屁拍错人….省得白费力气白牺牲自尊…
NEXT TIME I WANT YOU to show the slums, the poor people sleeping in the streets in America. I want you to show the real face of America as well. SOME PLACES IN AMERICA ARE WORST THAN THE SLUMS IN AFRICA. YOUR TELEVISION SHOULD SHOW THEM AS WELL.
YOU SHOULD ALSO SHOW THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF THE CAPITAL ABIDJJAN AS WELL.
YOU ALWAYS SHOW THE BAD PLACES OF AFRICA SHAME ON YOU.
The fact that you will reduce their beautiful village to slums shows that you still live in a colonize mindset. The village is not a slum it’s modest and traditional the people are peaceful well fed and live in the tradition of their ancestors that’s far better than looking at some stupid city center where everybody’s on their cell phones constantly working them selves after death
@@mikhailmaimoonahoward The problem with this is that the media always portrays african countries in the same manner. Sub Saharan's rural population is about 58% of the total population, meaning almost half of Sub Saharan Africans live in cities some of which are highly developed with excellent infrastructure (Kigali, Nairobi, Windhoek, Gaborone etc...) yet the media always shows rural poverty which gives people the impression to the rest of the world that africans are backwards and all live in huts and poverty.
@@mikhailmaimoonahoward This is pure propaganda
@@FeelingsAintFacts You are so very right.
Nobody in the comments section is laughing at the people in the video. In fact there is a mix of pride and even jealousy of this beautiful and rich culture. Hold some pride in our traditions and beliefs because they are powerful and deserve a place in the world. A combination of videos showing what you said as well as this but also how Cote D'Ivoire is moving forward are all necessary
very sad history
this is my culture. But not everything is worth keeping in that culture. There is lot of witchcraft involved in that festival. I have participated many times and I can tell you the only interesting part is the party feeling you get in the village, and all the nice foods you can eat to your heart's content.
This is the comment I was looking for! As an African although our culture is beautiful and I wouldn’t change certain aspects of it because it has definitely helped ground and shape my life but certain aspect of it is rooted in NONSENSE.
@@nyaintunyaintu509 me too
@Primatologie fools think every thing is westernized and other fools glorify their dead ancestors who have put them in the very same bondage they've been in smh this is why Africans stay down cos of stupid things like this and yes this ritual is pure witchcraft if you have a spiritual eye and discernment from the Lord God most high Jesus Christ
"I am black and beautiful." - Songof Solomon 1:5
Although shunned upon, this ritual is necessary Jews do barmitzal. As long as they do not abuse women with circumcism,Christianity is not working for us. We must continue to participate in our "old time religion"
Girls still are forced with FGM and treated as second class citizens
Jewish ones are based on the study of the 5 books of Moses there is no abuse involved unlike African bone where young girls are forced with FGM
"I am BLACK and beautiful" - Song of Solomon 1:5
@@werqzeleke2815 .......and who told you that all African traditions practice FGM?
@@kindomofghana my friend, go pick up a book instead of arguing with me without a point. Just like your name you're a Johnny just come lately. Pick up a book for free online.bye
This is so demonic and satanic, possessing these young me. The Blood of Jesus, may God protect them.
For God so love the world that he sent his only son Jesus Christ that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Loves you. John 3:16
@@hotpepper5037 "I am black and beautiful" - Song of Solomon 1;5
Coming of what age? And what ever happened to human evolution? This is _devolution._
French language 🙄🙄🙄
French is a useful tool for us Africans to advance globally. It's okay to speak French and native language. Bilingualism is part of why we Africans have the fastest growing economies right now.
we need to start boycotting these types of documaentaries about Africa
Why?
Boy stop
@@monsieurpatate1573 Despite how innocent this documentary comes across, it is part of propaganda to maintain around the world, the idea that, Africans are backwards and primitive. Think about it, have you ever seen a documentary about Sub Saharan African showing anything else other than rural Poverty, tribal life and civil wars ? For people whose only source of information about Africa lies in Western media, how can you expect them to believe Africa has anything better to offer ? Yet, Sub Saharan Africa has a lot more to offer and over half of the population do not live in those conditions, some of them live in vibrant cities with excellent infrastructure and many more are springing up. Some Sub-Saharan countries have made tremendous economic progress over the last decade achieving very high HDIs like Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, another example is the city of Kigali in Rwanda which has been dubbed the cleanest city in Africa, why aren't such positive stories shown in the Western media ? This is why people around the world still think Africa is nothing but a collective of mud huts and jungles, keeping investors at bay, and even worse, Africans being "primitive" was the same narrative used during colonialism and slavery to justify the exploitation of Africans....
I suggest that you should have a look at "WODE MAYA"'s channel on youtube to see a different side of Sub Saharan Africa that should be promoted in the media more often, while I'm not saying other issues shouldn't be spoken about, the media needs to give balanced information regarding Africa and not just the same old clichés because it is becoming very misleading ...
Why ?? Isn't it our reality ??
Stop talking to dead evil spirit vodun
Girl bye
Amen. God bless this comment in Yeshua's Holy name.
Old fashion outdated nonsense
True but not older than Jesus. 🙏🏾✝🕎
They need science not voodoo.
That's traditional medicine. Not what Americans perceive as 'evil' voodoo.
@@caimaccoinnich9594 Eating Albinos is also considered medicine there.
Welp in the West they believe the original inhabitants of northeast Africa (Israel) are Eastern Europeans from Poland, Russia, Germany, etc instead of people from northeast Africa 😂 . that seems more like voodoo to me..
I guess you must be scientist then.
My guest,
There is zero probabilty that you are a scientist LOL LOL
You only watch scientist on TV, just like everybody else LOL LOL
I guest you will not be the one to intruduce science to Africa, Because you are useless
for your information, before the Africans met the white man and his Science, they were doing just fine.
They didnt swim the ocean to go find the white man and his science to save them.
Instead the white man crossed the ocean because he had heard of the great thing that Africa had to offer from the Arab merchants and slave traders.
Ever since the white man landed on the African shores, he has never left.
For most of humanity's existance people lived perfectly without the so called SCIENCE, and we will continue to live the way our forefathers did.
Ha ha, "follow the science"...the nonsense mantra
There are so many great things happening in Africa in the 21st century Al Jazeera, why not focus on them? This old world version of Africa you are fixated on to show to the world betrays your calculated strategy to paint a backward picture of Africa to the world. Each culture has its relics of the past, but the idea of the information age is to propel societies into the dynamic future that lies before us; come on Al Jazeera, do your part and let Africans share this version of their culture.
I liked it. It portrays Afrika's true cultures. I think that you are too used to European cultures and system that is why you are calling this a backward picture of Afrika, which is sad. This is how Afrika is and the people in the documentary are proud and they do not want their traditions to die away.
@@maweeja Everybody has a culture, it is noting to make us feel more or less special about. Our real legacy is our Humanity, which makes us equal to everyone else and worthy of all that has been bestowed upon Man. Africans must continue to remember the white man has not yet learned to see us as equal, due to his own inherent insecurities. Africa has everything, including 1.4 billion strong black people, capable of telling our own stories completely. let Us tell those stories as we march confidently into the 21st century and own it. There are other stories for Al Jazeera to tell.
@@JO-uf3mq Everybody has a culture, it is noting to make us feel more or less special about. Our real legacy is our Humanity, which makes us equal to everyone else and worthy of all that has been bestowed upon Man. Africans must continue to remember the white man has not yet learned to see us as equal, due to his own inherent insecurities. Africa has everything, including 1.4 billion strong black people, capable of telling our own stories completely. let Us tell those stories as we march confidently into the 21st century and own it. There are other stories for Al Jazeera to tell. Africans deserves to tell our Own stories.
Lol your confused. These are traditions that are long lasting. In no way shape or form are they "backwards". Perhaps you are and need to emancipate your mind from the white man's mental slavery.
This is the most embarrassing comment ever. Obviously most people know that Africa is a mixture of both modern and ancient cultures why would we want to continuously focus on the same modernity that we all experience around the world? it’s more refreshing to see so much true cultural identity rather than something that was manufactured for them due to Colonization.
Nothing to do in the Bush you entertain yourself with meaningless culture God help them
how do you say your racist scum without saying you're racist scum?
Another ignorant writing..........
Go and tell this to arabs, Christians, buddhist, chinese, Japanese, indians on their cultures.
@@christngouf2251 I am talking about some that don't make sense .Okay
Pray for them. God bless Africa in Jesus' name. Witchcraft is growing in Europe as well. May God bless Europe to come back to Christ too✝
Ivory coast need to advance , Cmon we are in 2022 all this useless rituals are waste of time and energy
Depends on whether "advance" is that ...or getting lost....and disconnected
Now we only think in terms of money and time, this is what it means to be advanced. Its so sad
@Gh Business, you are ignorant
@@maweeja Nobody colonize my country .....
Just go celebrate halloween and christmas quietly 🤠