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  • @WODEMAYA
    @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +146

    We Are Back With Another Exciting Video From Brazil & See You Again On Friday
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    • @manuleesores604
      @manuleesores604 9 місяців тому +4

      Brother Wode Maya You Are An Amazing. Thanks Your Great Job Of Letting Many Outthere And Myself To Know Much About The World, Especially Africa To The Outside World. PLEASE, This Is Manuel S. Luis (WINDHOEK - NAMIBIA) - A Letter of Mine Awaits You In The Office Once You Are In The Office.
      A CONTINUED BLESSED WORK AHEAD, MAN.

    • @user-rl5vr8mf2t
      @user-rl5vr8mf2t 9 місяців тому +1

      Am waiting brother

    • @soursop1972
      @soursop1972 9 місяців тому +3

      Use Google translate app to speak to the people

    • @djboomlife2410
      @djboomlife2410 9 місяців тому +5

      Bless up my brother hope u are have a wonderful day. All Africans didn’t come to the new world by slavery. Some was there before Christopher Columbus and he wrote about it. Do some research you’ll find it. Blessed 🙏🏿

    • @michaelel8602
      @michaelel8602 9 місяців тому +3

      You need to do some moor research because even we were over the whole planet and America was the first primordial land to rise out of the seas.
      The pyramids here are oldest than Egypt there in Alkebulon/Afrika.

  • @liviamarianateodororosa2647
    @liviamarianateodororosa2647 9 місяців тому +384

    I'm so happy to see Wode Maya in my country! Africa is an important part of our brazilian culture. I'm an Afro- brazilian as well and very proud of it 🥰

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +26

      Awwwwwwwwww!You are amazing!

    • @mariabarnes9197
      @mariabarnes9197 9 місяців тому +7

      Afro-Brazilian, including Afro-xxx isn't the same as African from the continent of Africa. Common origin, commonalities in some foods, customs & words, but hybrids. The issue is ignoring the hybridization in favour if claiming one culture/lineage.

    • @liviamarianateodororosa2647
      @liviamarianateodororosa2647 9 місяців тому +19

      @@mariabarnes9197 of course we are hybrids and have influence of other cultures but I see it as an enrichment.

    • @p.fahnndormeyan5681
      @p.fahnndormeyan5681 9 місяців тому +6

      @liviamarianateodororosa2647... Enrichment is the Right Word for Blacks out side of the continent...,❤😅 Love it...

    • @mariabarnes9197
      @mariabarnes9197 9 місяців тому +2

      @liviamarianateodororosa2647 yes, it is an enrichment. However, there is a move to make Africa the dominant identity-- & not an enrichment. The idea is that the forebearers' or ancestors' country of origin, culture, etc, is the true homeland, & should be accepted as such. This movement doesn't take into account whether or not the person speaks or understands the language, has familiarity w/ the customs, traditions, food, political landscape or has ever visited, or wanted to visit. If we are not careful, this movement will push hybrids to unwillingly assimilate & accommodate something they don't fully identify w/.

  • @boakyefelicia2480
    @boakyefelicia2480 9 місяців тому +272

    No one does it better than Maya, Keep connecting Africans around the globe ❤❤❤

    • @sjariciamercera86
      @sjariciamercera86 9 місяців тому +9

      Maya is the Best.....

    • @DarrellLawson-qk1nu
      @DarrellLawson-qk1nu 9 місяців тому

      What good is that you can't even feed yourself. Not one African country have any economy and political power. Another useless feel going moments just to make you all think that you are achieving something.

  • @commscompany1502
    @commscompany1502 9 місяців тому +185

    I am Nigerian who visited Salvador de Bahia recently. I understood their Yoruba. The language is kept in tact by many through music and Orisha (indigenous Yoruba god) worship . Some even sang Yoruba without understanding it but I did. ( A few words were off but over ninety percent is intact). It was super moving.
    Fyi that acaraje is actually akara Aje or market akara :-). and they eat garri too. Worth the visit.

    • @LetsTravellChannel
      @LetsTravellChannel 9 місяців тому +6

      Oh wow!

    • @jeswazwadi7049
      @jeswazwadi7049 9 місяців тому +10

      they eat garri too ? chai am Congolese but I know garri due to having lived in Sierra leone that's cool

    • @donalddotson500
      @donalddotson500 9 місяців тому +29

      As a African American we have lost our African roots, I took a DNA test it said that I was 40 % Yoruba, so I wish I could learn the language before I die

    • @TEMO_TEE
      @TEMO_TEE 9 місяців тому

      youtube.com/@iamKeronye?si=chXX7ZpgveETJTTX

    • @akeemsalami1764
      @akeemsalami1764 9 місяців тому +8

      ​@@donalddotson500Go pick up your Nigerian passport,you are always welcome home.

  • @moriti411
    @moriti411 9 місяців тому +233

    We Africans have always been fascinated with Brazil, especially their football culture. When I was growing up in the 90s, it even seemed the Brazilian national team was the only football team we Africans genuinely loved more than our own. Thank you for this Brazil series Wode

    • @ruzimabonieck6908
      @ruzimabonieck6908 9 місяців тому +15

      Very true😂

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 9 місяців тому +21

      😂agreed I remember crying in 2010 when brazil had lost

    • @moriti411
      @moriti411 9 місяців тому +10

      @@arushanioshaka5600 haha me too

    • @Samtgh
      @Samtgh 9 місяців тому +7

      Yeah very true i thought that too

    • @TheSteadyGrounds
      @TheSteadyGrounds 9 місяців тому +9

      Especially the 1970 National Team OH MY GOODNESS!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

  • @WODEMAYA
    @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +179

    We Are Back Again With Another Video 😊
    Don’t Forget To LIKE & SHARE

    • @stephenmukaabya8442
      @stephenmukaabya8442 9 місяців тому +4

      @WODEMAYA: bring it on bro!!

    • @cbwavy
      @cbwavy 9 місяців тому +4

      You have to come to the US next!!

    • @manuleesores604
      @manuleesores604 9 місяців тому +3

      The Video Is Truly Great And Wonderful. Brings Us To Learn Some Parts Of Our Ancestral People Who Were Taken From Africa Into Slaveryness. Thanks A Lot For You To Expose Such Many Hiden Things. I Believe, Many Current Generations And The Future Ones Will Know Much Through Your Various Untiring Work. God Bless You and Lives To Protecting And Guiding You.

    • @nayida4ever
      @nayida4ever 9 місяців тому

      Africans travelled way before slavery to the Americas. They reached there way before any white Europeans. Plenty of evidence. Books have been written to document that (by Pathé Diagne for example). Bakery 2, the last Mansa before Kanka Musa, of the Kingdom of Mali sailed with over 2000 men and reached North America where he found other Africans who arrived there before him. There is a documentary and a film as well in the works.

    • @socanz1
      @socanz1 9 місяців тому +2

      Road to 2M ❤

  • @bullsilverback4354
    @bullsilverback4354 9 місяців тому +51

    African Brazilians don’t call themselves African, the same way other immigrants don’t call themselves by their ethnicity. The Brazilian identity is what blends everyone in Brazil, despite so many different nationalities in Brazil, everyone just see each other as Brazilians.

    • @Lil_Robya
      @Lil_Robya 3 місяці тому +3

      Yea same goes with Afro Dominicans

    • @radiopiano-liverehearsalsa5914
      @radiopiano-liverehearsalsa5914 2 місяці тому

      The Teuto-brazilians are not called brazilians. .. they are always called alemaos in Rio Grande do Sul... stop typing stuff you dont know... Brazil is a fucKing lie... everything here is a lie...

    • @bog4ntkd8932
      @bog4ntkd8932 2 місяці тому

      Unless if you are an Asian Brazilian.
      You'll never be considered a proper Brazilian, will always be the "Japanese" or "Chinese", even if you are 3rd or 4th generation born in Brazil

  • @benedictkanu6062
    @benedictkanu6062 9 місяців тому +38

    "They left Africa forcefully but Africa never left them ". What a sentence

  • @repatrising5187
    @repatrising5187 9 місяців тому +53

    Profoundly true statement: through the horrors of enslavement, "we left Africa but Africa never left us!" Thank you for ANOTHER excellent video.

  • @peterbsims
    @peterbsims 9 місяців тому +331

    I love this! As an African American, I think, based on this video, Afro Brazilians have maintained a stronger connection to their African roots/culture than African Americans have. Thank you, Wode Maya!

    • @kamargee9680
      @kamargee9680 9 місяців тому +78

      Depends on where you go. We Gullah Geechee people on the coast of NC, SC, GA, and North Eastern FL, have retained more African culture than all other AA's. The Portuguese didn't try to strip Afro Brazilians of everything because they felt it would keep slaves docile. They stripped Africans more in the US because they feared from the many uprisings

    • @visionquest7870
      @visionquest7870 9 місяців тому +16

      No they have not. African Americans maintained stuff like Islam and the Blues in the USA. The Blues are from West Africa and African Americans kept it alive for hundreds of years. There is also Gullah Geechee culture.

    • @25oxendine
      @25oxendine 9 місяців тому +18

      @@kamargee9680 This is true. I'm from Appalachia(NC/Va. State line Grayson Va), but I visit the Pee Dee region of SC often since it is about 3hrs. The people in that region not only look fully African but also retain a lot of the same diet. I think that SC has the widest variety of African ancestry as well . I see them in my 23andme profiles also. Unlike me @66% African, they are coming in at damn near 100% African. I have 2 of 8 grandparents from Darlington and Mullin SC. The ones from Va. are highly hybridized as I also have 7.8% Native American, the rest White. I'm a proud diasporan, and I'm ashamed of these people spreading misinfo that we are somehow indigenous to the Americas. Some of my ancestors were, but they were not Black

    • @AS-rw7rf
      @AS-rw7rf 9 місяців тому

      Because we're too proud of ourselves, we want nothing to do with Africa

    • @dannalondon903
      @dannalondon903 9 місяців тому +4

      I wonder why?😅

  • @MrAsk4more
    @MrAsk4more 9 місяців тому +85

    I really love this video. Wodemaya, you've genuinely captured the essence of Africans living outside of Africa. As a man born in Europe now residing in North America with African heritage, I'm incredibly proud of what you're doing. I hope that some individuals who may not fully appreciate their heritage watch this and learn to take pride in their roots.

    • @user-ho3mu2yx2j
      @user-ho3mu2yx2j 9 місяців тому

      When you just say you have African ancestry, in fact, you are gradually moving away from this continent

    • @pchrides1559
      @pchrides1559 9 місяців тому

      @@user-ho3mu2yx2j ????

  • @kilabob1200
    @kilabob1200 9 місяців тому +33

    Wode Maya, as an American African it moves me to tears to see you connecting with our Brazilian African brothers and sisters. Trust me when I say that you are doing the kind of necessary work to re-connect the African Diaspora. Nkrumah would be proud of you. You are definitely doing his work. Forward ever!!!

  • @thundamania
    @thundamania 9 місяців тому +43

    It’s so nice to see you connecting with the diaspora. It’s amazing to see how connected we really are.
    Come visit us in St. Lucia 🇱🇨

    • @michellefemi-ola8780
      @michellefemi-ola8780 9 місяців тому +1

      Visiting St Lucia would be lovely 🇱🇨 My dad is nigerian my mum is St lucian.

  • @ksharonnie
    @ksharonnie 9 місяців тому +52

    Hello Diaspora, from home. We love you, we acknowledge you and we accept you. You are African and should be proud where you came from.

    • @belovedempress
      @belovedempress 9 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! Much love to the motherland! ✊🏾❤️🖤💚

    • @ricardocima
      @ricardocima 6 місяців тому +1

      Not african. Brazilian.

  • @carlenssaintgerlus4933
    @carlenssaintgerlus4933 9 місяців тому +41

    Brother WODEMAYA your work is priceless...every step of your Journey is a amazing thing for us.
    🇭🇹🇭🇹

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +4

      I appreciate that

    • @sjariciamercera86
      @sjariciamercera86 9 місяців тому +2

      Yes......

    • @belovedempress
      @belovedempress 9 місяців тому

      @@WODEMAYAwe appreciate you and all your hard work! Thank you!

  • @orinthompson6360
    @orinthompson6360 9 місяців тому +72

    I am just amazed and so happy to see Black people or African descent people in the diaspora to admit and are proud of their African roots because I know I am ! 💕

    • @freddymaxwell2094
      @freddymaxwell2094 9 місяців тому +2

      Thank you for your touching words!

    • @TEMO_TEE
      @TEMO_TEE 9 місяців тому

      youtube.com/@iamKeronye?si=chXX7ZpgveETJTTX

  • @meciascorner117
    @meciascorner117 9 місяців тому +24

    Thank you brother Wode for sharing this! My husband has been wanting to take us to Brazil to experience the diaspora there and now I see why. Can't wait to go! Obrigado!

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому

      You are very welcome

  • @aspeltaofkush3540
    @aspeltaofkush3540 9 місяців тому +91

    Not all of us are ashamed of our ancestry. My ancestry is from Nigeria of both the Yoruba and Fulani peoples. Some people are ashamed of the ancestors that were enslaved when we have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

    • @jelezulu4707
      @jelezulu4707 9 місяців тому +2

      But majority of afro Brazilians came from Angola, Congo and Mozambique

    • @sylviamaua745
      @sylviamaua745 9 місяців тому +5

      @@jelezulu4707 the first slaves taken to Brazil were from the Congo Basin and Angola. Later on, slaves were taken from Nigeria. There is even evidence of Nigerian/Yoruba language and culture in Salvador Bahia.

    • @sayitasis8326
      @sayitasis8326 9 місяців тому

      How does that negate the op being of Yoruba and Fulani descent? I’m also of Fulani descent along with Ashanti and Congolese

    • @jeffryluise1699
      @jeffryluise1699 9 місяців тому +1

      That's true..and.most of black Americans too.

    • @Addi_Teacha509
      @Addi_Teacha509 9 місяців тому +1

      I do believe though that we need to stop commemorating slavery. It is like a spell we cast on ourselves. We celebrate slavery and stay idle while African glorius history, like in Egypt, is being whitewashed.

  • @madechipimichael7458
    @madechipimichael7458 9 місяців тому +23

    King Wode Maya you are amazing. You are God sent to us. Much love and respect to you and Queen Trudy 🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿

  • @Theopranks
    @Theopranks 9 місяців тому +10

    Olá Wodemaya, greetings from Nego Theo the Brazilian Bushman,l reside in São Paulo 🇧🇷❤, l felt bad not meeting you but anyway am happy you visited Brazil.
    Who knows next year we will meet in Ghana because I will be coming home with my Brazilian family.

  •  9 місяців тому +58

    WodeMaya, so proud of you for spreading your wings to the Americas! I’m not Brazilian 🇧🇷 , but can relate to them. As an Afro American 🇺🇸, we share African ancestry and history of our people becoming enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade.

    • @TEMO_TEE
      @TEMO_TEE 9 місяців тому

      youtube.com/@iamKeronye?si=chXX7ZpgveETJTTX

    • @user-xn1sb3jx6q
      @user-xn1sb3jx6q 9 місяців тому +1

      If that is the case that means even the white man is African too

    • @demeatricecosta2821
      @demeatricecosta2821 9 місяців тому

      @@user-xn1sb3jx6qshut up!

    • @godsin7299
      @godsin7299 9 місяців тому

      stupid comment and we cannot relate to them

    • @Cici_mimi
      @Cici_mimi 9 місяців тому

      @@user-xn1sb3jx6q No.

  • @tuliptea1249
    @tuliptea1249 9 місяців тому +18

    As an African American I’m so very happy and proud of everything that you’re doing igniting the flame for us to reunite ♥️🖤💚.

  • @ephemeralsamsara
    @ephemeralsamsara 9 місяців тому +22

    You went to Bahia. I LOVED it there!!! I'm Nigerian and the African influence is undeniable. Blessings Wode ✊🏿

    • @Kayzef2003
      @Kayzef2003 9 місяців тому +1

      Did you visit the church Bom Fim in Bahia?

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +3

      Our Next Video

    • @ephemeralsamsara
      @ephemeralsamsara 7 місяців тому

      @@Kayzef2003 Yes we did. It was a family trip and that was one of the places that we went to. Such a beautiful part of the world. I was in Bahia, Rio and Porto Alegre on other occasions.

  • @akilimali_ndag
    @akilimali_ndag 9 місяців тому +23

    "I'm not African coz I was born there but coz Africa is born in me" -Nkrumah Kwame
    You know the day is gonna be better when Wode Maya uploads. Thanks bro for all what you're doing and keep it up. From a Congolese 🇨🇩

  • @jamaicannana9012
    @jamaicannana9012 9 місяців тому +7

    It so good to see the women rocking their natural hair.

  • @TheRoxyB
    @TheRoxyB 9 місяців тому +110

    I wish we would get past these debates. No matter our origin, us melanated people had a common oppressive experience. Let’s highlight our commonalities instead of our differences. We can unite despite our differences. It’s so beautiful when we do ❤

    • @kenchagos
      @kenchagos 9 місяців тому +7

      True

    • @Accuface2000
      @Accuface2000 9 місяців тому

      I am a black African man, I don't throw myself at white people like the mulattoes who wanna be loved because of their light skin. My neighbor is a German guy, he doesn't like mulattoes because they are loud, noisy and just plain stupid. He told me I am the first good neighbor around here (I intentionally love keeping to myself because well, I can't tolerate the drama, toxicity, selfishness, backstabbing, crab mentality, jealousy and fake superficial characters found among my own people. Its just not worth it) We had a long conversation, the first genuine conversation I have ever heard in a long time with a neighbor or stranger. Most Africans and mulattoes tend to be superficial and fake, I noticed they only talk to you when they need something and conversation is often short and fake. There were people who were telling me the German guy is racist, but he isn't. He just didn't like their behaviour and character. So not everything is about race. Some people just don't like your behaviour or character. You are light in complexion but ghetto inside.

    • @belovedempress
      @belovedempress 9 місяців тому +3

      Amen!

    • @ReshonBryant
      @ReshonBryant 9 місяців тому

      It's amazing how in North America it's all about identity politics until it comes to Blacks 😎

  • @okorno22
    @okorno22 9 місяців тому +21

    Your videos are just a combination of Geography and History class. The coment section provide a lot of interligent and informed discuss. Your South American series is sooooo full of knowledge. Kudos Maya. My respect to Miss Trudy.

  • @Makida937
    @Makida937 9 місяців тому +76

    Some would like to erase the evidence of transatlantic slavery. Impossible! We in the diaspora are the proof that we know and recognize the history of our ancestors.🙌🏾🙌🏾
    Fantastic work you are doing, Wode Maya! From Suriname to Brazil! Outstanding!

    • @CJRESOURCEHUBTV
      @CJRESOURCEHUBTV 9 місяців тому

      Makida is the name of the queen in Africa

    • @garyjohn1822
      @garyjohn1822 9 місяців тому +5

      What if millions of Africans have always been in Brazil

    • @Makida937
      @Makida937 9 місяців тому

      @@CJRESOURCEHUBTV Yes🙂

    • @jacobaustin3562
      @jacobaustin3562 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@garyjohn1822they came from Angola

    • @user-xn1sb3jx6q
      @user-xn1sb3jx6q 9 місяців тому +2

      The world was black before

  • @Kenyanmade52
    @Kenyanmade52 9 місяців тому +36

    I’m Kenyan but this Brazilian series touched me because our people are so strong no matter where they’re.

  • @KenRobert1
    @KenRobert1 9 місяців тому +37

    Bless you Wode Maya lol his dance makes me smile always. To me it's about us connecting back to Africa and build, educate ourselves about our history's, our inventions, to move forward not falling into the same trapes being divided. We Africans it's our mission to address self-hate among us. Racism will work it's self out once we get Africa together. Look Asians are diverse and large like Africans, and they organized themselves so we African can become organized. Yes we can.

    • @user-ho3mu2yx2j
      @user-ho3mu2yx2j 9 місяців тому

      😂It is impossible to solve the problem of hatred because of the mutual exclusion at the root of genes

  • @blackafitness9628
    @blackafitness9628 9 місяців тому +27

    Wow this is very Amazing. I’m so proud being an African

  • @nxbtoofficial
    @nxbtoofficial 9 місяців тому +27

    Well done Maya, we love what you do. Thank you! 😍🙌🏾

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +2

      I appreciate that

  • @yokotastrong3902
    @yokotastrong3902 9 місяців тому +42

    I am so glad to see you that you are in Brazil and showing our African Diáspora!! This is such an important “re-connection” to make to reconnect Africa to its largest Afro population outside of Africa. Thank you!! Muito Obrigado!!

    • @andradepasternak
      @andradepasternak 9 місяців тому +4

      The country with the largest black population outside of Africa is the United States, not Brazil. We are a mixed country, but our heritage is mostly European.

    • @yokotastrong3902
      @yokotastrong3902 9 місяців тому +1

      @@andradepasternak our African Diaspora includes you too. Many of us African Americans are also « mixed « but although our levels of European, African and indigenous ancestry may be different amounts many of us come from the same African Ancestors in recent history (within the last 500 years or so). So my brother are one people.

    • @andradepasternak
      @andradepasternak 9 місяців тому +2

      @@yokotastrong3902 African Americans have admixture, but it's a group that is by far predominantly African generically speaking (80% of African admixture on average). White South Africans also have black ancestors from the 16th and 17th centuries, but they're not my brothers.

    • @pchrides1559
      @pchrides1559 9 місяців тому +2

      @@yokotastrong3902 He is telling you he is not African. He is not our brother, and that's ok. We have enough pride to go around the world for eternity!

    • @jlionmenelik77
      @jlionmenelik77 9 місяців тому

      ​@pchrides1559 a self hating dude. Nobody got time ⏲️ for that.

  • @kofid10
    @kofid10 9 місяців тому +21

    Wow , Brazil is beautiful place to be,bro well done for connecting us together ❤🎉

  • @hammondotabil7719
    @hammondotabil7719 9 місяців тому +15

    No one carries the message better than you do. So simple yet so Significant . Thanks for taking the work upon yourself . It had to be done.

  • @unnafoss6957
    @unnafoss6957 9 місяців тому +11

    Love and appreciate you Wode Maya!!! May The Most High guide, guard and shower you with prosperity. Keep doing what you do!

  • @user-mx5hp6bf2i
    @user-mx5hp6bf2i 9 місяців тому +18

    How I loved watching this video! I can't wait to watch the one of Bahia as well because of the African culture the people there preserved for centuries (even in Cuba actually...just in case you travel there one day) and especially the heritage of the Kongo kingdom. I wish I can make this journey too one day to visit Brazil and learn more about the history of Afro Brazilians. Thanks for such a touching video, really 🙏

  • @fatimayeza
    @fatimayeza 9 місяців тому +42

    Brasil do meu coração 🇧🇷♥️Such an incredible video it’s time to learn Portuguese Maya

    • @bonfacewitaba_official
      @bonfacewitaba_official 9 місяців тому +1

      🇰🇪 ❤️ 🇧🇷

    • @kentutu590
      @kentutu590 9 місяців тому +2

      and where did the west indies black migrated from @JermarWilliamson

    • @nostalgiacampesina
      @nostalgiacampesina 9 місяців тому +3

      @JermarWilliamson non sense.

    • @alchambers9213
      @alchambers9213 9 місяців тому

      ​@nostalgiacampesina not nonsense actually. There are scholars and books that confirm the African presence in the Americas. Read the book by Dr Van Sertima: They came before Columbus. Read Dr Leo Wiener Harvard professor, Africa and the Discovery of America, look into the stone heads found in Mexico. There was Africans here before slavery...

    • @Rbj4525
      @Rbj4525 9 місяців тому

      Pimsluer app is a helpful language app

  • @ajormamara6693
    @ajormamara6693 9 місяців тому +7

    I am a dedicated follower from ireland. You are my window to the goodness of Africa and its people. Thanks for the good work.

  • @THETRAVELOGIST1
    @THETRAVELOGIST1 9 місяців тому +17

    I am very grateful for the opportunity to host you guys in Sao Paulo ❤🤝🏾

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +4

      I see You My Brother

    • @DavidAkinwale
      @DavidAkinwale 9 місяців тому +2

      Thank you bro for hosting our man 😁❤

  • @Kayzef2003
    @Kayzef2003 9 місяців тому +39

    Who in their right mind says African slave trade didnt happen??? 😮😮😮

    • @startingoverbygrace
      @startingoverbygrace 9 місяців тому +16

      You’d be amazed to find those content right here on UA-cam claiming that it never happened.

    • @thirdcordtv8516
      @thirdcordtv8516 9 місяців тому +7

      They should just come to Ghana to witness the castles and forts which caged our fore-parents.
      I agree there could be blacks in any part of the world but slavery is no fiction 😢😢

    • @bzb8554
      @bzb8554 9 місяців тому +9

      Mostly a bunch of self-loathing "FBA"s

    • @selemosefehle297
      @selemosefehle297 9 місяців тому

      Well done man, I see people like me rite there. I feel like I have long lost cousins there. I am from SA.

    • @scorpiovenator_4736
      @scorpiovenator_4736 Місяць тому

      Only the imbeciles who deny the Islamic slave trade

  • @evelyngolden2272
    @evelyngolden2272 9 місяців тому +27

    Thank you for this content. We need to know our people everywhere in the diaspora.

  • @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877
    @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877 9 місяців тому +80

    Black culture cannot and should not be minimized but we should reinforces the way we should look with affection and pride on this culture

    • @moztransform9108
      @moztransform9108 9 місяців тому +2

      Just like Nigerians.... unapologetic

    • @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877
      @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877 9 місяців тому +2

      @@moztransform9108 yeah we have to be proud to stand by our beliefs

    • @Happey67
      @Happey67 8 місяців тому +1

      So you are saying every black countries own their cultures and should not be put in a pot, stired and called Africans. I agree 1000 percent. The diversity in the black cultures is unique and should not be locked up and called Africans. Brizilians are not African or may have some traditions like their mother country , Portual, Spanish and Africa.

    • @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877
      @florencedonkor-abbraduh2877 8 місяців тому

      @@Happey67 exactly we have to be proud of ourselves

  • @prodigiouswoman2093
    @prodigiouswoman2093 9 місяців тому +16

    Thank you for being the pioneer of content creation. Your insights are always valuable and enlightening.

  • @rjjr30
    @rjjr30 9 місяців тому +15

    Great video!! I’ve wanted to travel to Brazil since a youth.

  • @hitmakerstudio6405
    @hitmakerstudio6405 9 місяців тому +13

    I love everything African I'm in love with Africa! Africa is the shape of my heart, i love us somuch 🌍💪🏿👑💯

  • @chimakalu5195
    @chimakalu5195 9 місяців тому +32

    Excellent Wode 👍😊. The man is looking for black people all over the world.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +5

      hehehee yep

  • @TheRealAfricanist
    @TheRealAfricanist 9 місяців тому +13

    So Proud and happy to see you still doing your thing, Maya. Please ignore crazy folks who say the slave trade never happened...just pure stupidity 😕😳❤️🖤💚💛✊🏽

  • @michaeldouglas2914
    @michaeldouglas2914 9 місяців тому +30

    My favourite African TUBER!!! Showcasing Africa and bringing vlogs with SUBSTANCE to enlighten the DARKNESS an misconception of Africa...

  • @deand9141
    @deand9141 9 місяців тому +13

    Oh, Maya I am happy you are coming to the Caribbean. I hope you visit St. Maarten on your way to Jamaica. if it wasn't for SOAI visiting Ghana. I wouldn't get to know Africa to the level that I've been introduced.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +4

      We will visit every Black Nation so as St Maarten

  • @Goldniz
    @Goldniz 9 місяців тому +33

    WE DO NEED PARKS IN AFRICA !!! Amen ! Please spread the word ! In the new constructions we just have buildings and buildings enough with the buildings

    • @melbee5767
      @melbee5767 9 місяців тому +6

      Ethiopia is doing a good job with city parks and national parks

    • @RDCFemmes
      @RDCFemmes 9 місяців тому

      yes in urban areas.

    • @AdebamboYinka
      @AdebamboYinka 9 місяців тому +3

      There are lots of parks in Africa.

    • @Goldniz
      @Goldniz 9 місяців тому

      @@AdebamboYinka Okay 👌🏾

  • @nomadictravelerfromTx
    @nomadictravelerfromTx 9 місяців тому +22

    My wife is black/brazilian and we live in Texas.😊😊😊😊😊 We are both black. We will be visiting and possibly moving to the motherland.❤

  • @inmythoughts718
    @inmythoughts718 9 місяців тому +3

    bro, I have following you since China.. God is using you for African Unity, sometimes its hard and you feel like giving up.. But you are indeed something special - love this brother

  • @marilyncutts6985
    @marilyncutts6985 9 місяців тому +7

    Thank you for sharing Virginia with the world and where we can find ourselves.

  • @duchess56me-tf7fx
    @duchess56me-tf7fx 9 місяців тому +7

    Wode Maya! That was so great. Finally my curiousity about Brazil and Afro Brazilians is being satisfied. Thanks!
    💁🌹🙅💯⭐👍

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +2

      Wait for more on this storyyyy

  • @eat2health
    @eat2health 9 місяців тому +5

    Great content. I enjoyed the enthusiasm of the people and the knowledge of their heritage. Well done Wode Maya. Guidance, Blessings & Protection. Much Love 💕💕💕

  • @carmary14
    @carmary14 9 місяців тому +22

    I can't get enough of this Brazil series

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +4

      More to come

  • @BishopZoneTV
    @BishopZoneTV 9 місяців тому +3

    Wode Maya loving this video Brotha! I’m an Americanized African aka Black American and I’m fascinated by how many Brazilianized Africans acknowledge their African lineage. I suspect whenever you get a chance to make it to the United States that your experience might be a little different. You will run into some pushback and cognitive dissonance asking people if they acknowledge their African lineage here. There’s not a lot of Pan Africans here in America such as myself.
    If you do happen to come to America Brotha, may I suggest going to these places to get a better grasp of the history of slavery in America and our unique culture in relation to its African roots.
    1) New Orleans,LA
    2) Savannah, GA-Charleston, SC (Gullah-Geeche corridor)
    3) Washington D.C.
    4) New York City

  • @musicman7773
    @musicman7773 9 місяців тому +5

    Wode Maya you understand the assignment. We are African no matter what! 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

  • @Watermeloncmt
    @Watermeloncmt 9 місяців тому +5

    Wode do voice over in French, Portuguese and Spanish and you’re message will go far and reach many people. That what Mr Beast did. Love from Ghanaian Australian❤👍

  • @EdrisAtherley-smith
    @EdrisAtherley-smith 9 місяців тому +11

    Maya you have to connect your kinks folks in the countrys the you visit in the south Americans, by going back to your home and try to get some of the people in the air line or travel industry to start the trip to help the people in especially Brazil, Surinam and others countries that our ancestors were brought to and we as the offspring of your and my ancestors are yearning to come home to connect and be reunited with .
    Maya please don't not go back to the African continent to forget about the people in thies country hope and dream to connect to the mother land is in your hands, your are like our twenthcentery Marcus Garvy,let the movement become a reality 🙏🏽❤️☮️🇹🇹🇺🇸

  • @koimt6732
    @koimt6732 9 місяців тому +13

    Me too Maya, I'm a Brazilian woman and your fan

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +4

      Really?wow!

  • @rorycurtis8627
    @rorycurtis8627 9 місяців тому +10

    Brazil looks absolutely beautiful and most of the people appear to be friendly and nice.

  • @briggsmaleakah
    @briggsmaleakah 9 місяців тому +7

    I love Bahia! While there, I was able to experience Nigerian street food and Angolan dance and martial arts. Bahia has a large Yoruba community that I love!

  • @irierootzz246
    @irierootzz246 9 місяців тому +4

    this is beautiful. been watching a lot of Brazilian and Afro-Latino content lately. Brazil is on my bucket list of countries. if you visit the Caribbean make a stop in Barbados 🇧🇧

  • @neommutle8033
    @neommutle8033 9 місяців тому +17

    Wow, the title of the video 📹 is very interesting, but true. The racism in that beautiful country Brazil 🇧🇷 is something else.
    Please visit African islands 🏝 you will encounter the same narrative, its like people do not want to be African or Black.
    Great work again 👏 angel 😇 of Africa. Praying for you 🙏 Love ❤ and Blessings from South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @jmanhope1745
    @jmanhope1745 9 місяців тому +42

    Many of us that deny our ancestors' origin and enslavement know that their denial is false and futile. Their insistence to hang onto a falsehood is due to their inability to recognize then accept the truth. There is no improvement of our conditions until we accept the truth, then move FORWARD!

    • @jamescarel5520
      @jamescarel5520 9 місяців тому

      Your truth is not universal. I think you’re talking about rejection and evolution.people need to reject some and adopt some new to evolve and create a brand new identity.its nature its life

    • @jmanhope1745
      @jmanhope1745 9 місяців тому

      @@jamescarel5520 no one owns the truth. The truth is universal. When mankind discovers the truth then understands the truth mankind's knowledge and opinion should CHANGE to align with the truth. Truth never changes, what changes is mankind's perception and degree of enlightenment of the truth. As long as a human is able, he/she should seek the truth, no matter where it leads.

    • @jamescarel5520
      @jamescarel5520 9 місяців тому +2

      @@jmanhope1745 I didn’t say THE TRUTH but rather YOUR TRUTH or what you called YOUR PERSONAL PERCEPTION.the universal truth is based on facts and experiences not emotional perception.

    • @jmanhope1745
      @jmanhope1745 9 місяців тому

      ​@@jamescarel5520 I will repeat, no one owns the truth. I am included in the phrase, "no one owns the truth". The truth is universal. When I discover the truth, then understand the truth, my knowledge and opinion CHANGES to align with the truth.

    • @nicolash6553
      @nicolash6553 9 місяців тому

      Africans were in the Americas before slavery and there's clear evidence of that. Africans being brought to the Americas through slavery is also true. Two things can be true at the same time folks.

  • @DaddyFatSzack
    @DaddyFatSzack 9 місяців тому +7

    As an African American this makes me want to visit Brazil and see our brothers and sisters down there

  • @siquara100
    @siquara100 9 місяців тому +3

    I'm delighted with your videos in my country.
    Please, come back soon.
    There many and special African sides of Brazil that African people must know.
    Hugs....!!!!

  • @petrichorke
    @petrichorke 9 місяців тому +8

    Wode Maya I love what you're doing...Thank you for bringing us all together. I have one request...could you kindly add CC for different languages.

  • @mknowles2090
    @mknowles2090 7 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for this video so now I know where to go and stay as Brazil is on my list for 2024. Marcus Garvey wow love it ❤❤❤The powers to be want to keep the status quo , new ideas , new light needs to shine.

  • @Fretty876
    @Fretty876 9 місяців тому +4

    As a proud African Jamaican love the job your doing my African brother can't wait to visit the continent one day

  • @dr.kashifulhaq6372
    @dr.kashifulhaq6372 9 місяців тому +6

    Great Program. Very Informative. And I would consider this as one your best documentaries ever in terms of photography,direction and content.
    Love your work man.❤

  • @georgehosea139
    @georgehosea139 9 місяців тому +4

    Beautiful video Wode Maya, good to see creating quality content about African people in Brazil absolutely amazing keep up the good work. 😅

  • @Dempress378
    @Dempress378 9 місяців тому +2

    Watching from Guyana, my brother. We love you.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому

      Can’t wait to visit

  • @conqueror7723
    @conqueror7723 9 місяців тому +4

    @WODEMAYA, You say Ghana must build such lovely parks as the one in Sao Paolo, but we already have them. Accra has a lovely park for relaxation, complete with a lake, boat rides, and a canopy walkway, at the Legon Botanical Gardens. Apart from the Aburi Botanical Gardens, Kwahu also has a beautiful new historical park, as does Kumasi. S3 wonnim a, menngu Ghana ennim ase, wae.

    • @paulinakonadu2274
      @paulinakonadu2274 9 місяців тому +1

      I was at legon botanical gardens for holidays in Ghana, amazing place ..
      Aburi botenical in aburi is also very beautiful

  • @overviewthem
    @overviewthem 9 місяців тому +9

    It's great to see you again Wode especially now on this side of the world. I'm an African from Jamaica watching from NJ. I'm indeed learning from your journey there in Brazil the circumstances of my brothers and sisters there. Why are most Afro Brazilian preferences to go to Angola and/or Mozambique? That may also explain the very same reasons why others in other parts of South, Central, and North America and by extension the Caribbean would prefer the circumstances of the countries on the continent of Africa that share the same relationship in presence of the colonial languages (English, French, Dutch etc.) in usage there. Because not all languages will anyone know entirely, I hope the technology of AI (Artificial Intelligence) using simple devices on the spot will assist that need greatly by interpreting fundamentally the simulating characteristics of the voices of anyone communicating with each other from different perspectives and/or backgrounds. Bless 😇😇😇

    • @jelezulu4707
      @jelezulu4707 9 місяців тому

      Because majority of slaves came from Angola, Mozambique and Congo

    • @overviewthem
      @overviewthem 9 місяців тому

      @@jelezulu4707 That's also true for Brazil in particular.

    • @jelezulu4707
      @jelezulu4707 9 місяців тому

      @@overviewthem yes even jamaicans have Congolese blood to

    • @osvaldodanett8674
      @osvaldodanett8674 8 місяців тому

      these countries also speak portuguese

  • @patriciamatthews9390
    @patriciamatthews9390 9 місяців тому +14

    Their style of dance what they called salsa in Brazil in Angola that same style dance is called kizomba❤️🇯🇲 No matter where you're from as long as you're black you're a African a lion anywhere in the world is still a lion

  • @yipmabaruya1148
    @yipmabaruya1148 9 місяців тому +2

    Good night from PAPUA NEW GUINEA. I enjoyed watching your contents

  • @thecoolone73
    @thecoolone73 9 місяців тому +4

    Wode Maya, these Brazilian videos have been great. I see the similarities in culture that they have with African Americans (I'm pretty sure the Electric Slide line dance is everywhere within the African Diaspora and the motherland). Keep up the good content. When you get to the US, come to New Orleans, Charleston, Atlanta, and Birmingham.....

  • @fredborteykyeremeh2353
    @fredborteykyeremeh2353 9 місяців тому +4

    Indeed Legend Maya captures the narratives so beautifully. You've carried us with you in all these countries and have shaped given us a beautiful sense of the lives of our Afro natives. You remain our Legend. Keep soaring high

  • @fiifikoffi1066
    @fiifikoffi1066 9 місяців тому +9

    Maya, do this it will help you a lot. Learn how to speak many languages.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому

      Will definetly do that soon!

  • @robinafrica3456
    @robinafrica3456 6 місяців тому +2

    My ancestors are from Benin 🇧🇯, my grandfather is from Brazil 🇧🇷 or Cape Verde 🇨🇻….. I never knew him, he passed away before I was born. My last name is Portuguese and this video makes me want to visit Brazil more than I ever wanted to before!! My Dad spoke Portuguese and can only speak the language a little…. Espero que os meus irmãos e irmãs da diáspora possam encontrar a sua terra natal e visitá-la um dia!
    In the late 1800s - 1965, the U.S. allowed Cape Verdeans to emigrate to the U.S. so they could work in the whaling industry in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, I believe this is how my grandfather made it to the United States 🇺🇸. My grandmother was 13yrs old when she had my father and died at 34yrs old from cancer. Being a young mother she didn’t pass down a lot of information about my grandfather to my father….

  • @idrisahmadloko304
    @idrisahmadloko304 9 місяців тому +4

    Yes this is the chosen one for this job. Kudos to you. Continue doing the great job

  • @gerrytushh
    @gerrytushh 9 місяців тому +17

    Most of the black African diaspora, whether in the US or the Caribbean or in South America are unfortunately POOR. They have never really overcome the tragedy of slavery. That's why many still DENY or PRETEND to deny their connection to their ONLY real motherland Africa 😢

    • @gibson2675
      @gibson2675 9 місяців тому +9

      They might be poor, but compared to africans they are doing well

    • @mariabarnes9197
      @mariabarnes9197 9 місяців тому +1

      This may be a reason. However, there is also the question of nature vs. nurture. People are beginning (or, in some cases, continuing) to ignore that there are two strong variables at work in the life of each human being. This can be defined as 1.) genetics, which include the choices that our ancestors made, & we've made that become encoded in our genes (epigenetics). 2.) The second variable is our environment & or culture. This includes the language/s we learn, food we eat, education, political landscape, ways of relating to others (elders, ancestors, parents, family, teachers, peers, neighbors etc), holidays & so much more. Each of these factors shapes our lived experiences w/in our respective cultures.

    • @timasuna1756
      @timasuna1756 9 місяців тому

      ​@@mariabarnes9197epigenetics doesn't apply to humans, but it is studied in rats. Are you a rat? There is no epigenetic proof in humans dealing with slavery or even in war veterans. Please stop comparing people to rats.

    • @gerrytushh
      @gerrytushh 9 місяців тому

      @@gibson2675 millions and millions of Africans are TEN TIMES richer than black Africans in the diaspora. Just visit Nigeria or Kenya or Uganda or Ghana or Botswana or Namibia or DR Congo and many other countries south of the Sahara. You will be surprised by the level of wealth and prosperity 💕😅

    • @AlhajiBah-mo3ud
      @AlhajiBah-mo3ud 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@gibson2675Which Africans?? There are rich and poor in every African country! Not all of Africa is poor. The richest black men on earth are AFRICANS!!!

  • @kamargee9680
    @kamargee9680 9 місяців тому +18

    I am African American (Gullah Gechee) and i love my Afro Brazilian brothers and sisters. We have similar experiences and even similar roots in Africa. We have different cultures because of our captors but our blood is the same. Much respect to my Afro Brazilian fam and to all of my brothers and sisters in the diaspora

    • @osvaldodanett8674
      @osvaldodanett8674 8 місяців тому +2

      Preserve the Gullah land and tradition. I know the history of your people and the trips to reconnect to West Africa

    • @kamargee9680
      @kamargee9680 8 місяців тому +3

      @@osvaldodanett8674 Yes. We are still fighting in many coastal areas because yt ppl are still trying to take land in the gullah geechee corridor. Our struggle is no different than the struggles of our brethren throughout the diaspora. Much love and respect Osvaldo

    • @osvaldodanett8674
      @osvaldodanett8674 8 місяців тому +1

      @@kamargee9680 don't allow your land to be stolen. Only your ancestors could survive in those territories. Now everybody wants those pristine sand beaches. Keep the fight.

    • @kamargee9680
      @kamargee9680 3 місяці тому

      @AnyNessy96 hunna nuh know wah hunna crack teeth bout. Wi know who be ouchea. Stop trying to act like you know about us. Take a trip to Charleston, the center of the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage corridor and learn from us.

    • @kamargee9680
      @kamargee9680 3 місяці тому

      @AnyNessy96 you obviously don't know that many of our ancestors were also angolans. They led many of the revolts around the sea islands. Not gonna keep feeling you info. Sooner or later you gotta get off your backside, stop being lazy, and start really doing research. Don't be raggedy all your life "Annie"

  • @PatriciaAbijah
    @PatriciaAbijah 9 місяців тому +13

    Growing up, telenovelas almost erased black people cos I didn’t see black people in them until I watch a telenovela from Brazil. The media doesn’t represent enough black culture from Brazil and other Afro-Caribbean communities

    • @ruzimabonieck6908
      @ruzimabonieck6908 9 місяців тому +1

      Did you watch Shades of sin?

    • @PatriciaAbijah
      @PatriciaAbijah 9 місяців тому

      @@ruzimabonieck6908 I did!

    • @michaelmaps2004
      @michaelmaps2004 9 місяців тому

      ​@@ruzimabonieck6908is it good?

    • @savvyroca
      @savvyroca 9 місяців тому

      Same to learn Spanish I watched the Brazilian Telenovelas dubbed in Spanish. Representation matters!

  • @MsPrincessaj
    @MsPrincessaj 9 місяців тому +2

    What an amazing video!! So proud of the cultural awareness of Afro Brazilians you have shared with your viewers. We must all continue on this journey of enlightenment to know ourselves, and to understand our collective power as people of Africa and its Diaspora. Thank you for all that you do Wode Maya!🤗💕🙏🏾❤️💛🖤💚

  • @JamesCMays-lr5ie
    @JamesCMays-lr5ie 9 місяців тому +4

    Brother baby face Woda Maya, i have been praying, and God revealed to me the auto industry in Africa. Such as Ghana, what happened with kantanka not wanting you to promote their product. It's japan.who is affecting them concerning the auto market, pray they get free from needing Japan for parts for their auto business, brother Woda Maya. Peace be onto you. James in America Chicago. Africa the Final frontier of world trade amongst themselves and to the WORLD. 🤔☺🦁🌍🌘 so again where you are at in Brazil is mighty concerning the slave trade is chilling information of our ancestors of Africa,

  • @CleVerCPO
    @CleVerCPO 9 місяців тому +34

    You don't need to run for a position in Africa but you need to educate the youth and the kids

  • @rosahacketts1668
    @rosahacketts1668 9 місяців тому +18

    Never heard of any Afro Brazilian or Caribbean person refer to themselves as Africans - but we certainly acknowledge our African heritage for sure.

    • @yaakemet9408
      @yaakemet9408 9 місяців тому +6

      Because you never heard of Marcus Garvey, Ama Mazama, Benito Sylvain just to name a few

    • @kenchagos
      @kenchagos 9 місяців тому +4

      Well said. As a Zimbabwean from Southern Africa, I do understand the dynamics. The narrative has to change. I thank you for acknowledging the connection through our shared history.

    • @rosahacketts1668
      @rosahacketts1668 9 місяців тому

      @@yaakemet9408 Exactly, only four out of millions of Western blacks!

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 9 місяців тому +2

      False. I have afro Brazilian that refer themselves by africans. They even moved to Africa

    • @kenchagos
      @kenchagos 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@@yaakemet9408You can say that again. Actually the Portuguese played a very big role in enslaving Africans who think it's a curse to be called African.

  • @Kya1942
    @Kya1942 9 місяців тому +2

    Wode Maya needs his flowers now. You great man amog men. You doing a great deal of work to uplift the black man. Ayekoo

  • @tesire
    @tesire 9 місяців тому +11

    I am really happy to hear them loving Africa. I met a lot Black Americans who were offended when they were addressed as Africans. Ghanaians to be specific.

    • @AlhajiBah-mo3ud
      @AlhajiBah-mo3ud 9 місяців тому

      😂😂😂 African American are the most self hating black people on earth 🌎!! I don't gaf about them.

    • @mightylaser0000
      @mightylaser0000 9 місяців тому +1

      They shouldn’t be offended but a lot of us simply identify with our ethnicity, we have different histories than a lot of other countries in the diaspora & our slavery was different as well. While slave traders in South America and the Caribbean had to keep buying new slaves every time some of them died from the harsh labor, slave traders in the USA wanted to avoid this outcome so they introduced chattel slavery and we were bred on farms. American slaves first came to the USA in the early 1500’s and resided in then Spanish Florida before being sold to the English slave traders in the 1600’s when the English made the Jamestown colony but I’m saying all this to say a lot of the diasporans are a lot more recent arrivals to the Americas than you realize and Black Slaves in the USA were already several generations removed while new slaves were being brought to South America and the Caribbean due the morality rates so while they shouldn’t be offended a lot of us don’t view ourselves as African.

    • @tesire
      @tesire 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@mightylaser0000I understand you my dear. Unfortunately most of black Americans believe they are more superior than black Africans. That's why they were offended. It had nothing to do with what their ancestors went through. They just made it clear being an American is a privilege. I lived in Ghana for 9 years and I met a lot of them and very arrogant to Ghanaians. I come from Rwanda and I did not see much of that behaviour

    • @mightylaser0000
      @mightylaser0000 8 місяців тому +1

      @@tesire With all due respect ma’am there’s 45 million Black Americans and irrespective to your experience you can’t say that most of us think we’re better than Africans but I’ll leave it at that.

    • @tesire
      @tesire 8 місяців тому

      ​@@mightylaser0000I believe you , that most comes from my own experience. In fact I wish I can meet most of the kind ones it could fix my disappointments.
      I also wish to add the we have two kinds of back Americans, those who are ( originated from their ancestors) and those whose patents moved from African countries and they were born and raised in America. One of those who got offended was born from A Ghanaian father and mother who moved when he was little and now has rights in American. We really got onto toxic conversations trying to defend our opinions

  • @dondolomhlaba8438
    @dondolomhlaba8438 9 місяців тому +17

    Wode , the young African lion

  • @greenelephant2690
    @greenelephant2690 9 місяців тому +2

    Wode Maya, congratulations! It is great to see your videos looking at subjects like the slave trade. Find out about Maroons-Slaves who fought against enslavement and won!

  • @Josephine34667
    @Josephine34667 9 місяців тому +8

    Maya, continue to educate us about the different cultures in South America that are similar to African cultures. People are being taught that we are all the same no matter where you were born and raised

  • @gilbertimbeah2599
    @gilbertimbeah2599 9 місяців тому +10

    Such a rich culture bro... great content and insightful ❤🎉❤

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  9 місяців тому +2

      Thank you so much 😀

  • @afrocentricafrica
    @afrocentricafrica 9 місяців тому +5

    Very illuminating story bro. It does spiritually take you to Brazil. Your South American journey will change you in so many ways I can tell. As well as your audience! Hopefully we link up some day when you visit Kenya, or anywhere else really. "Machiegni ahinya omin... ng'aat ma or." and Trudy can translate this, or Dad will :)

  • @natashabitencortlopes9226
    @natashabitencortlopes9226 9 місяців тому +2

    It was a pleasure meeting you, energizing!
    The video was incredible, necessary work!!

  • @user-rl5vr8mf2t
    @user-rl5vr8mf2t 9 місяців тому +5

    Africa unite thanks Mr. WODE MAYA