I read that all people in the diasporas suffers from PTSD or some other form of mental illness. Our ancestors are crying out for us to return to Africa to pay respect. Our hearts are broken. We need to visit, some will repatriate in order to heal ourselves. May God continue to help us all
@Sharon CatoHow are we not the same anymore? Many European countries also have many tribes, languages and cultural differences. The same can be said of Asia. But it's ok if you're happy there.
@Sharon Cato I didn't ask any of you to come over here. But I was just interested in what you were saying that we ain't the same people. I wanted you to elaborate on that. I'm interested in black people's issues throughout the globe. I'm South African and I'm not that African who would encourage you guys to come over to Africa because, even if you were interested, you'd probably go to West or Central Africa, your ancestral homeland. The life, food and everything in West Africa right now is what your ancestors are accustomed to. So even if you chose to stay in the US, I'd suggest that you visit once every year for that spiritual experience. Besides that there are many Black people from Europe and America who have moved permanently to Africa and are enjoying it here.
Knowing what we know about our ancestors and the PAIN/TORTURE they went through, I still don't understand why NOW they are so so in love with the man the EUROPEAN MAN. I'M A AFRICAN WOMAN AND I CAN PROUDLY SAY OUT LOUD THAT I LOVE MY NIGERIAN KING👑 YES i love and appreciate my AFRICAN KING, so why is it that our race including some of my dumb ass family members, why can't we appreciate and love our people🐘 #LOVEAFRICA
I have also wondered about that too Monaca, but I then realized it was partly the reason they brought their fake religion called christianity & the white Jesus in one package. The intent is for black folks to forgive & also see the white man as Godly/heavenly being. It's all about messing with black peoples psyche & distorting their spirituality foundation. Today Africans practice christianity ten times morethan those that brought it to them, isn't that a convoluted situation?
Danny Boy lol as the granddaughter of a pastor😬😂😵😂the stubborn one😳😁I do believe in God, but if someone starts talking about Christianity/Jesus✋✋✋✋respectfully i say nothing and just walk away, come to think about it me and my father are the only one's that doesn't believe in that🐘 Actually i never knew that my kids were so much like me😳😁have a nice day.
@@dannyboy4917 well I don't think practicing christianity is the problem here, the problem is simply believing that jesus christ is from the descendant of white people. Even today there is those among we Africans that still practices the traditional belief, there to say that traditional belief is alive and well in all African countries.
No race has suffered like us Africans that is why we need to unite and stop this nonsense of killing one another... love you all brothers and sisters...
Our people are killing each other because they don’t know their history that is why they don’t teach you that in the schools in the West. It will be bad for business if blacks unite from Africa to around the world.... the internet is helping doing just that with channels like WODE MAYA 👍🏾 thank you Lord 🙏🏾
And our parents and grandparents who are very greedy are still selling us out again for slavery and this time it’s worst cuz it’s still happening now in 2023 our best if everything is still being shipped over there 😢 humans involved.
I’m crying right now Wode Maya. There I would leave flowers to honor my ancestors who mostly came from the Congo , Togo, Benin. That’s why we of the diaspora have to be strong wherever we are... to honor our ancestors who survived so we could be. We are they and they are we. Rest in perfect peace my African ancestors. I love you , I thank you for making the middle passage, you are my strength. God bless you and keep you in perfect peace. ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
You have 100s of great grandparents, so how can you say where each came from? DNA tests can never answer that. You are made up of all West African tribes and there were not countries in West Africa when people were sold as slaves. So stop saying your ancestors are from Togo, Benin or Congo. These countries were create by White colonizers after the slave trade.
To Russell Jordan and mr Babs. Thank you for responding kindly to my sadness’s. I plan to travel to Ghana in about a year. My son and I have to get my grandson graduated from high school first. Family first. ❤️
Yes, those of us living outside of Africa needs to hear the story of Africa from Africans. Love what the guide mentioned Africans need to tell their story that statement is so true. Great channel for hearing the stories of Africa.
I visited the Elmina dungeon this year and oddly enough the street I stayed on in Accra was Anumansa St in Osu. Also the place that hit me the most was Cape Coast slave fort. I felt something heavy on me and knowing I had ancestry from Ghana it had to be a coorelation with what I was feeling. Much Respect to you Wode Maya. I will be back in Ghana in Nov.
hats off to both of my brothers for this episode... my heart just subsides everytime man. Maya... we thank you. our ancestors will be proud of you brother.
No, please continue to do these types of videos. The world needs to hear the truth from your eyes, voice, and perspective. You are the voice of our ancestors, the pain and emotions you feel is an example of the enormous pain and suffering they felt. Thank you for using your time and platform sharing the history of Africa, and Africans with us Africans of the diaspora. My maternal ancestors are from Cameroon, they are Bamileke, thank you for walking thru the door of return for me. and my oldest maternal ancestors I was able to trace Kizah Turner from Virginia USA born in 1762. Like Africa, many of us in America are decendants from various African nations. We are a replica of the many African nations living in the USA. The slave ports in Cameroon are not as well kept as the ones in Ghana from what I saw on UA-cam. Ghana has and continues to be a guiding light for the descendants of Africans living abroad. Thank you for showing us what our ancestors endured.
Any people who could survive this ordeal must be strong. It means Brothers and Sisters are descendants of strongest of the strongest. That explains their resilience and resistance.
Since you realised this then you might realise it was this same sort of arrogance of our ancestors that ticked God off...alllways patting themselves on the pat a d never giving God the praise he deserved. See this is all great but we really are at the last days..without God's help the white man is not go in to stop!!!' Repent and live right
This is the kind of history that is never taught in schools. Thanks for bringing it out so we have a better idea of what took place hundreds of years ago to our fathers and mothers.
@@JohnMooreBarbados brother. We are from the Caribbean. Columbus was not only a murderer and rapist but also an idiot when it came to direction ☝Africa✊
Thank you Maya for this video. I want to express my sadness for the sorrow you felt in that place. I live in the U.S. and my ancestors were stolen from the Continent, and unwillingly walked through " the door of no return" I will return soon, God willing. The suffering here in this country is beyond what anyone can believe. We're not wanted here and I don't want to stay here. It's a prison. Always looking over your shoulder, being stopped by police and lied on, or executed in the street, store or your home. Can some people on the Continent understand our pain? This is no utopia, it's not fun. And some there call us nàmes and say they hate us. My question is what have we done to you or anyone else on this planet to dispise us so much? It's painful, but I pray that God will give them understanding about our plight. We don't want to return to feel like refugee's, we merely want to return home, to have peace and help build Africa to her greatness. Peace.
@@smoothoperator9845 Thank you. We are preparing to get there. We are praying and preparing. We celebrate each escape from the Hell living throughout the Diaspora. Especially America. Much peace to you Brother.
@Mark E. Thank you. That has always been my sentiment. My dream as it is for so many others. Yes we have all been lied to, by the master of liars. Our unity is more powerful than any weapon they can use against us. Much peace & love.
Thank you sooooooooo much! What you are doing is incredibly important. I've got plans for you man... Stay tuned!!! May the Ancestors watch over you.... Ase.
Wode maya it’s one thing to read about those castles but it’s totally on another level to see them and hear the story from our own people. Coming face to face with our history is raw and real. Reality hits home. Again thanks for taking one for the diaspora teams all over the world. As a writer I have to get to my computer fast. I feel more poetry coming. Thank you again. Know that you are doing a great work bring us all together Wode Maya. To whom much is given much is required. You are holding your own young man. Keep bringing them like this and you’ll have us all visiting Africa. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸
Great video especially for us in the diaspora for so long! My family is surely a descendants of theses pregnants slaves... I was told my great grandparents " Maathey, Mate, Maathey" were probably from El Mina or Prampram when I visited that dongeon back in 1999... before they moved to Aneho, Togo in the 1800 ... ( I remember I was crying because I can feel the presences, the smells and the pain they went through...I get goosebumps...) Next time. I will plan to visit with my family, stay longer to discover...
So extremely sad, getting emotional knowing how my fore parents suffered but I get strength in knowing that although so many endured this horrific treatment yet many survived if not I wouldn’t be here. This speaks so profoundly of the strength and resilience of African people. I Feel so proud of my ancestors, proud for my African descent. I embrace my dark skin, ( no skin bleach for me never) my natural, hair, ( relaxer free for over 5 years)noise and lips and all my African features.
Maya,please don't say you won't do videos of this kind, because,it is too emotional,we need your type to bring raw history details so we can never forget what happened . This video showed more details than other videos ,I got to see and feel the trauma and anguish of the captives,how cruel can a human being be to Onother.You are doing a Good job .
You're not the descendant of slaves. Change that narrative. You're the descendant of Kings ,Queens and intellectuals that had their legacy interrupted and stolen by vagabonds.
you are not African proof in link i sent, yes some Africans came on merchant ships not slave ships which there are records and proof of.. the majority of slaves were American Indians and you are not a decedent of an african slave but an enslaved American aboriginal nassofcanada.blogspot.com/ dont let fake his-story hijack your identity. Connect with you motherland america and not a continent across the world that dont even care for the so called "African American" aka the original copper skinned american.
@@naasofficial It's propaganda, or at the least, partial truths like this that help to absolve Europeans, Americans and Arabs of the tremendous pyschological, physical and financial debt that they owe Africa and her descendants for the worst systemic human atrocity in world history. And, how do you know that Africans don't like African Americans? Have you ever been there? Probably not, because if you had been then you would know that what you're insinuating is the furthest thing from the truth.
Wode Maya i can see that, you are very emotional today hmmm our ancestors have been through a lot may their souls rest in God's peace. Anyway good work done bro may the Lord bless you and strengthen you 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Everyone should visit these places, regardless of colour or background. If people dont see the mistakes of the past and learn, we might end up repeating them. Thought provoking and uncomfortable in the extreme, well done Maya
I watched it. My ancestors went through that hell a few centuries ago They made it all the way to the Caribbean. "What does not kill you, make you strong".
@Sharon CatoArabs and the Black converts of Islam. Slavery is the Islamic thing. It's in the Quran and their messenger Muhammad had slaves. That's why it's so rampant in the Middle East and Libya doesn't wanna let go of this barbaric thing in the 21st century.
HELLO WODE MAYA : I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING TO LIGHT THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF OUR ENSLAVED ANCESTORS. AS PAINFUL HAS IT MAY BE TO LEARN THE TRUTH, BUT I THINK ITS IMPORTANT FOR ALL THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR PAST. THANK YOU WODE MAYA.
If you think the dungeons are bad just take a trip to one of the sugar plantations in the Caribbean to see the many instruments of torture that were used on men, women and even children you will ball down de place fa so. It is painful beyond words. You're doing a great job, keep it up.
It’s a castle with a dungeon... you are 💯.... that pit of satan and demons ... is not a castle ... pit of HELL... Castle of HORRORS.. can you imagine... point of no return.. women being raped by the white evangelical... or the the KKK...and this demonic be continued in America on our ancestors.. God bless us.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@amy benje you should add the link in your post. People are more likely to watch if they don't have to go search for it and can just click to get to it.
Happy you now support and believe in the spiritual movement. Was mad at you at first when you made a video titled why the year of return is a scam with a fellow African American returnee to Ghana and you yourself being a Ghanaian, I found it hard to digest buh since you've made this video to endorse the Year of Return.Am glad and proud of you.Ghana is behind you.
Do be gentle with our Ghanababy. He's conflicted too, like many of us, and learns as he goes along. He's very much on a journey of discovery of his continent as well as of himself. He's growing in all its forms.
It is a scam because Africans have been returning even before this year and that is what the guy was trying to say in the video. This year is not the only year people have been returning.
Thank you for your videos! Your videos teach me a lot!❤ Even though this makes me sad. What they had to go through. I wish i could see Africa in person someday.
Wode Maya great content. I came to the point in my life that i believe only God can free us from our selves and remove the bad from all people, and put a stop to slavery.
Great work you are doing Maya, really appreciate the time you taking to showcase Africa, and Educate us. It's Amazing. God bless you ... keep the fire burning, without you I wouldn't have seen such places with Great History..
I get very emotional anytime I hear this stories ofslave tradebro. I Was fortunate to do a video for my channel on the fort Good Hope and I was broken down. Maya you're really strong. God bless you for your hard work for Ghana and Africa
As much as i love to learn about our history,like i really love a lot .. from our own Fort Jesus to many more....this was very deep got me teary ,I can't believe what our people went through...keep telling the story yes they left but we returned to tell our stories,Thank you Wode 🙏❤ #Africatotheworld
How can Africans educate African Americans on our history? Do you know that African Americans are the most educated groups of Blacks on earth? All that he said came from African American historical scholars. Don't ever say those folk are educating us, when they folk to America for education. We educated their national heros. If you think he educated you, perhaps you need to ask yourself why he didn't mention that Africans sold your ancestors to the white slave trader. Why are they covering up this egregious fact? Why don't they tell you which tribes were complicit in the slave trade and which tribes benefited financially?
Go study John Henry Clark and Dr Ben, Tony Browder and Ronuko Rashidi if you want to know about your history. Don't ever let other people tell you your history!
duke of york I love learning about where my Ancestors came from African, I hate how I was taught to look down on African , I was taught to be thankful to have been born in America, I used say to myself Thankful for what? I enjoy seeing it from another point.
1980aivilo1 well where I was raised in went to school I only had white teachers , I was the only black in my class, they showed us photos of African dressed in straw shirt , the woman with nothing covering there top body, they showed them living very primitive, They never taught us how they obtained the slaves, only we were shaves I was a child felling like why didn’t they fight back? Until Roots by Alex Hailey we all learned the truth, In riots broke out blacks against white kids , I am not sure how old you are because we could been in a different era of school time but , nevertheless I enjoyed all the African people in Africa telling the other side of the story
This is typical of the Zanzibar castles,same architecture Seeing and listening to these stories makes me even more bitters towards the so called WAZUNGU 😩😩😢😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🇹🇿🇹🇿 This literally had me shading tears 😭
spider879 Its so devastating, I really don’t know what’s wrong with we Africans, the brain wash is real that we cannot even think for a min 😩😩. It’s high time we stand on our own and suit ourselves.
Our ancestors must always be remembered where ever we are. The spiritual connection we have transcends any dna, and transgenerational memory means we will never forget. To be sad is a vehicle that will only serve to remind us and warn the coming generations of the capabilities of those who enslaved us and have never apoligised for the things they have done. We the children of the kidnapped people in Jamaica, Barbados, st Lucia, and others scattered to the four corners of the earth still bear the scars like orphaned children and need to come home. Aya maya " Africa to the World".
Emotional episode.. As you see me so I vex deh man. Dem man wicked and heartless mehson. I still caan understand the obsession with dem. Thank you, Jah bless, one love.
Thank you for this Wode we have been enjoying your channel. We filmed a video on Ghana as well called “journey to the motherland” and we covered the Cape Coast castle which was equally as emotional.
I am from the Ashanti tribe. My grandmother told me that the Europeans ship had the name of JESUS written in English and because the Africans could not understand the writing. Also I learnt that the Europeans missionaries used Christianity to convert and distracted Africans while their colleagues enter Africa and stole the people. I can only trust GOD'S words of encouragement " vengeance is Mine " thus saith The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. Nothing is impossible with GOD .
Thank you maya for the job you are doing teaching the world about our continent, our people. I personally feel every african leaders must know african history before attempting to lead us at any level, lack of knowledge of self has been stalling the progress of our continent and people, we keep falling for the same banana in the tailpipe with every generation because we seem to keep forgetting who the real enemies of Africa and Africans are. We must remember, we have no friends, we have been bitten by Arabs and Europeans, their plastic smiles should serve as a trigger to our traumatic experience with them and thus, should better prepare us to deal with them properly. All young Africans from around the world, born after 1980 must make it our mission to make sure the constant attack on our continent and people stop once and for all, 500 years has been long enough.
It’s so painful... I know but what doesn’t kill us .. has made us strong .. we survived the worst crime against humanity... stay strong my brother and sisters
@@carafadaleeli272 Why should he Google? Can you direct him to primary sources. You should have knowledge, first hand, of your people over the last 5,000 years, at least. West Africans are generally better built. So the whites would need the one who are stronger. The Arabs, I don't know.
as long as you you know my brother...Esau and Jacob...you may be a lighter skin color but still related. Every skin color started in Africa..the motherland of civilization.
I'm upset can't finish the video... Revenge is the only solution! It breaks my heart anytime I saw a black woman/man marry our enemies.... May the departed souls rest in perfect peace! If we don't unite we'll be slaves forever.... Let's unite and support each other Thanks Wode Maya and the other Bro for telling us our history
I hv bn to Elmina Castle n it truly affects yr emotions whilst in thr n out for a very long time. At the same time it is good to know what an ancestors (history) hd gone through n how they were treated.
Entering the Elmina Castle is GH5 for Ghanaians and GH40 for foreigners. I think Ghana should at least make a different price for tourists of African countries.
#salute brother from NYC..thank u for all u do and representing Africans worldwide...i hope u connect with UA-cam Channel 'Home Team History' it is one of the best and most informative channels on Africa, Africans and our history and culture brother
Have you been there before and you are saying it's not a castle but a dungeon....Lol it's both my brother the place is soo .... So are you trying to tell me that the British colonists where also sleeping in the dungeon
Wow that is a huge castle 🏰 them people were just treating my people any ole” way I will never forgive them .period God shall punish them hardcore........ I’m asking God to Rise all my ancestors up and take revenge!!! Amen 🙏🏾.
Great video.
If you know what WODE MAYA is doing for Africa countries is good than press the like button
He is really projecting Africa very well than our Presidents in Africa
If you know what took place down in the dungeon 🤦
Who love what wode maya's doing? One love wode❤️❤️
I read that all people in the diasporas suffers from PTSD or some other form of mental illness. Our ancestors are crying out for us to return to Africa to pay respect. Our hearts are broken. We need to visit, some will repatriate in order to heal ourselves. May God continue to help us all
Yes come home.
@Sharon Cato your loss.
@Sharon CatoHow are we not the same anymore?
Many European countries also have many tribes, languages and cultural differences. The same can be said of Asia. But it's ok if you're happy there.
@Sharon Cato I didn't ask any of you to come over here. But I was just interested in what you were saying that we ain't the same people. I wanted you to elaborate on that.
I'm interested in black people's issues throughout the globe. I'm South African and I'm not that African who would encourage you guys to come over to Africa because, even if you were interested, you'd probably go to West or Central Africa, your ancestral homeland.
The life, food and everything in West Africa right now is what your ancestors are accustomed to. So even if you chose to stay in the US, I'd suggest that you visit once every year for that spiritual experience. Besides that there are many Black people from Europe and America who have moved permanently to Africa and are enjoying it here.
I love cameroon and africa General
Knowing what we know about our ancestors and the PAIN/TORTURE they went through, I still don't understand why NOW they are so so in love with the man the EUROPEAN MAN.
I'M A AFRICAN WOMAN AND I CAN PROUDLY SAY OUT LOUD THAT I LOVE MY NIGERIAN KING👑
YES i love and appreciate my AFRICAN KING, so why is it that our race including some of my dumb ass family members, why can't we appreciate and love our people🐘
#LOVEAFRICA
I have also wondered about that too Monaca, but I then realized it was partly the reason they brought their fake religion called christianity & the white Jesus in one package. The intent is for black folks to forgive & also see the white man as Godly/heavenly being. It's all about messing with black peoples psyche & distorting their spirituality foundation. Today Africans practice christianity ten times morethan those that brought it to them, isn't that a convoluted situation?
Brainwashing and the result of psychological trauma.
Danny Boy lol as the granddaughter of a pastor😬😂😵😂the stubborn one😳😁I do believe in God, but if someone starts talking about Christianity/Jesus✋✋✋✋respectfully i say nothing and just walk away, come to think about it me and my father are the only one's that doesn't believe in that🐘
Actually i never knew that my kids were so much like me😳😁have a nice day.
Tajiri BLACK WILL ALWAYS BE BEAUTIFUL🐘
@@dannyboy4917 well I don't think practicing christianity is the problem here, the problem is simply believing that jesus christ is from the descendant of white people. Even today there is those among we Africans that still practices the traditional belief, there to say that traditional belief is alive and well in all African countries.
No race has suffered like us Africans that is why we need to unite and stop this nonsense of killing one another...
love you all brothers and sisters...
I think we allow ourselves dear. Is still happen now in our days.
Our people are killing each other because they don’t know their history that is why they don’t teach you that in the schools in the West. It will be bad for business if blacks unite from Africa to around the world.... the internet is helping doing just that with channels like WODE MAYA 👍🏾 thank you Lord 🙏🏾
MAJOR FACTS sadly lots of us are to far gone that mental slavery was never undone after they released us not freed but released
Dou you know about Gulag and how many russians died there ?
And then in World War II there were more than 25 000 000 deaths.
@@fylink the video is about Africans and their suffering under white colonialists.
Russians can make their own video about their wars, thank you!!
I love that the guide said, "Our ancestors." He is the first guide that I have seen, who recognized that the enslave people were also his ancestors.
And our parents and grandparents who are very greedy are still selling us out again for slavery and this time it’s worst cuz it’s still happening now in 2023 our best if everything is still being shipped over there 😢 humans involved.
I’m crying right now Wode Maya. There I would leave flowers to honor my ancestors who mostly came from the Congo , Togo, Benin. That’s why we of the diaspora have to be strong wherever we are... to honor our ancestors who survived so we could be. We are they and they are we. Rest in perfect peace my African ancestors. I love you , I thank you for making the middle passage, you are my strength. God bless you and keep you in perfect peace. ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
Amen
Jewel When are you coming to West African...The Motherland awaits You!!
☝️ One Love ❤️ Africa United!!
You have 100s of great grandparents, so how can you say where each came from? DNA tests can never answer that. You are made up of all West African tribes and there were not countries in West Africa when people were sold as slaves. So stop saying your ancestors are from Togo, Benin or Congo. These countries were create by White colonizers after the slave trade.
To Russell Jordan and mr Babs. Thank you for responding kindly to my sadness’s. I plan to travel to Ghana in about a year. My son and I have to get my grandson graduated from high school first. Family first. ❤️
Yes, those of us living outside of Africa needs to hear the story of Africa from Africans. Love what the guide mentioned Africans need to tell their story that statement is so true. Great channel for hearing the stories of Africa.
For real
Great Maya you are pure pan African list...keep the fire of African alive
thanks and subscribe to my channel too
I visited the Elmina dungeon this year and oddly enough the street I stayed on in Accra was Anumansa St in Osu. Also the place that hit me the most was Cape Coast slave fort. I felt something heavy on me and knowing I had ancestry from Ghana it had to be a coorelation with what I was feeling. Much Respect to you Wode Maya. I will be back in Ghana in Nov.
Very deep emotions.
All Black People stand together Our people have suffered so much i am crying so much
Doreen Konadu UNITY is the key 🔑
@@HH-vg5sb
AMEN
Be comforted, my SISTA; JUSTICE, will be delivered!!!!!
*Thank you Bro for telling us about our history. Keep sharing our story authentically **#Africatotheworld**. Greetings from a Nigerian UA-camr ❣️*
The drone view gave it more life
Keep up the great work sis
They never mention that tribes sold our ancestors. We want to know which tribes were complicit in the slave trade. Ashanti? Igbo? Who?
The chills I felt when you were walking towards the condemned cell...I had to stop the video. This is a very heavy one
hats off to both of my brothers for this episode... my heart just subsides everytime man.
Maya... we thank you. our ancestors will be proud of you brother.
No, please continue to do these types of videos. The world needs to hear the truth from your eyes, voice, and perspective. You are the voice of our ancestors, the pain and emotions you feel is an example of the enormous pain and suffering they felt. Thank you for using your time and platform sharing the history of Africa, and Africans with us Africans of the diaspora. My maternal ancestors are from Cameroon, they are Bamileke, thank you for walking thru the door of return for me. and my oldest maternal ancestors I was able to trace Kizah Turner from Virginia USA born in 1762. Like Africa, many of us in America are decendants from various African nations. We are a replica of the many African nations living in the USA. The slave ports in Cameroon are not as well kept as the ones in Ghana from what I saw on UA-cam. Ghana has and continues to be a guiding light for the descendants of Africans living abroad. Thank you for showing us what our ancestors endured.
I've visited once all the way from the Gambia... A door of no return made me cry inside the castle and their dungeons very heartbreaking
Any people who could survive this ordeal must be strong. It means Brothers and Sisters are descendants of strongest of the strongest. That explains their resilience and resistance.
Since you realised this then you might realise it was this same sort of arrogance of our ancestors that ticked God off...alllways patting themselves on the pat a d never giving God the praise he deserved. See this is all great but we really are at the last days..without God's help the white man is not go in to stop!!!' Repent and live right
patting themselves on the back.
This is the kind of history that is never taught in schools. Thanks for bringing it out so we have a better idea of what took place hundreds of years ago to our fathers and mothers.
John Moore When are You coming to the Motherland? You are Very Welcome Home 🏡 To Your 1.25 Billion African
Family!
☝️ One Love ❤️ Africa United!!
@Russell Jordan I'm from the West Indies.
@@JohnMooreBarbados brother. We are from the Caribbean. Columbus was not only a murderer and rapist but also an idiot when it came to direction ☝Africa✊
@@smoothoperator9845 Thanks for the invitation and welcome to my true home.
@@steppaboss Columbus was totally lost and stumbled across this area, yet we honour him for murdering and raping our women.
...yeah wode...this highlights the connection between ourselves n our homeland...🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
It's very sad our Ancestors has really suffer in the hands of the Europeans.
You are still suffering at the hands of the Europeans. Only this time, you seem to like it.
Balla Boy we need to ........?
@@joskofi1651 why we need to?
Lack of knowledge & too gullible is problem
Thank you Maya for this video. I want to express my sadness for the sorrow you felt in that place. I live in the U.S. and my ancestors were stolen from the Continent, and unwillingly walked through " the door of no return" I will return soon, God willing. The suffering here in this country is beyond what anyone can believe. We're not wanted here and I don't want to stay here. It's a prison. Always looking over your shoulder, being stopped by police and lied on, or executed in the street, store or your home. Can some people on the Continent understand our pain? This is no utopia, it's not fun. And some there call us nàmes and say they hate us. My question is what have we done to you or anyone else on this planet to dispise us so much? It's painful, but I pray that God will give them understanding about our plight. We don't want to return to feel like refugee's, we merely want to return home, to have peace and help build Africa to her greatness.
Peace.
Monique Major When are You coming to the Motherland? You are Very Welcome Home 🏡 To Your 1.25 Billion African
Family!
☝️ One Love ❤️ Africa United!!
@@smoothoperator9845 Thank you. We are preparing to get there. We are praying and preparing. We celebrate each escape from the Hell living throughout the Diaspora. Especially America. Much peace to you Brother.
Welcome home we dnt hate you..
@@wanjikuroki2688 Thank you. I have no hate but love for the Black family. Peace and love.
@Mark E. Thank you. That has always been my sentiment. My dream as it is for so many others. Yes we have all been lied to, by the master of liars. Our unity is more powerful than any weapon they can use against us. Much peace & love.
I have been patiently waiting this video from you Wode Maya. Glad it's finally posted. Thank you so much bro for sharing
Thank you sooooooooo much! What you are doing is incredibly important. I've got plans for you man... Stay tuned!!! May the Ancestors watch over you.... Ase.
Wode maya it’s one thing to read about those castles but it’s totally on another level to see them and hear the story from our own people. Coming face to face with our history is raw and real. Reality hits home. Again thanks for taking one for the diaspora teams all over the world. As a writer I have to get to my computer fast. I feel more poetry coming. Thank you again. Know that you are doing a great work bring us all together Wode Maya. To whom much is given much is required. You are holding your own young man. Keep bringing them like this and you’ll have us all visiting Africa. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸
Jewel When are You coming to the Motherland? You are Very Welcome Home 🏡 To Your 1.25 Billion African
Family!
☝️ One Love ❤️ Africa United!!
Wodemaya on it again. You are doing a great job bro
Great video especially for us in the diaspora for so long!
My family is surely a descendants of theses pregnants slaves...
I was told my great grandparents " Maathey, Mate, Maathey" were probably from El Mina or Prampram when I visited that dongeon back in 1999... before they moved to Aneho, Togo in the 1800 ... ( I remember I was crying because I can feel the presences, the smells and the pain they went through...I get goosebumps...)
Next time. I will plan to visit with my family, stay longer to discover...
I have been to this place twice....looking at this makes me 😭, doesn’t matter that I have seen it in person.
So extremely sad, getting emotional knowing how my fore parents suffered but I get strength in knowing that although so many endured this horrific treatment yet many survived if not I wouldn’t be here. This speaks so profoundly of the strength and resilience of African people. I Feel so proud of my ancestors, proud for my African descent. I embrace my dark skin, ( no skin bleach for me never) my natural, hair, ( relaxer free for over 5 years)noise and lips and all my African features.
Maya,please don't say you won't do videos of this kind, because,it is too emotional,we need your type to bring raw history details so we can never forget what happened . This video showed more details than other videos ,I got to see and feel the trauma and anguish of the captives,how cruel can a human being be to Onother.You are doing a Good job .
Nyamwanta Kaping'a Truth
*Wow, as an American Descendant of Slaves this really breaks my heart.*
It is well brother
You're not the descendant of slaves. Change that narrative. You're the descendant of Kings ,Queens and intellectuals that had their legacy interrupted and stolen by vagabonds.
you are not African proof in link i sent, yes some Africans came on merchant ships not slave ships which there are records and proof of.. the majority of slaves were American Indians and you are not a decedent of an african slave but an enslaved American aboriginal nassofcanada.blogspot.com/ dont let fake his-story hijack your identity. Connect with you motherland america and not a continent across the world that dont even care for the so called "African American" aka the original copper skinned american.
@@naasofficial when you look in the mirror do you see aborigines or African. Aborigines too were from Africa by the way.
@@naasofficial It's propaganda, or at the least, partial truths like this that help to absolve Europeans, Americans and Arabs of the tremendous pyschological, physical and financial debt that they owe Africa and her descendants for the worst systemic human atrocity in world history. And, how do you know that Africans don't like African Americans? Have you ever been there? Probably not, because if you had been then you would know that what you're insinuating is the furthest thing from the truth.
Wode Maya i can see that, you are very emotional today hmmm our ancestors have been through a lot may their souls rest in God's peace. Anyway good work done bro may the Lord bless you and strengthen you 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Everyone should visit these places, regardless of colour or background. If people dont see the mistakes of the past and learn, we might end up repeating them. Thought provoking and uncomfortable in the extreme, well done Maya
Agreed
Can’t argue with that.
I watched it. My ancestors went through that hell a few centuries ago
They made it all the way to the Caribbean. "What does not kill you, make you strong".
Wode Maya's ancestors could have sold your ancestors.
@Melanine Afrika he is white ignore it
@Melanine Afrika Yes "Troll", you know them well. Very very dangerous sets of people.
I do not energy to answer to ignorance.
How demonic were these monsters, how can you treat people even children like that. 😥😭😭
It really hit me @the gate of no return
Shiko inauma sana,
So brutal
@@mikeg1428 sana washetani wazungu
😭😭😭😥 inauma aki sad sad
@Sharon CatoArabs and the Black converts of Islam. Slavery is the Islamic thing. It's in the Quran and their messenger Muhammad had slaves. That's why it's so rampant in the Middle East and Libya doesn't wanna let go of this barbaric thing in the 21st century.
Check out year of return when the african American came back to Ghana..its so emotional everytime I watch this slave dungeons I cant stop crying
HELLO WODE MAYA : I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING TO LIGHT THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF OUR ENSLAVED ANCESTORS. AS PAINFUL HAS IT MAY BE TO LEARN THE TRUTH, BUT I THINK ITS IMPORTANT FOR ALL THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR PAST. THANK YOU WODE MAYA.
I'm the 1st african king 2 comment thumbs up, hit me with the like ya
I see u
That's kool😎all black men are kings to me.
But my husband is #1always in my eyes🐘
If you think the dungeons are bad just take a trip to one of the sugar plantations in the Caribbean to see the many instruments of torture that were used on men, women and even children you will ball down de place fa so. It is painful beyond words. You're doing a great job, keep it up.
I have chills through out my body. Never again. Never forget. 😩
Thank you for recognizing this sad part of my history. It’s very important that this history is not forgotten.
Maya from Jamaica wow this episode is a hard one to swollow 🇯🇲🇧🇴
We have to get away from calling these structures castle's..Dungeon is more accurate...
SMH.
It’s a castle with a dungeon... you are 💯.... that pit of satan and demons ... is not a castle ... pit of HELL... Castle of HORRORS.. can you imagine... point of no return.. women being raped by the white evangelical... or the the KKK...and this demonic be continued in America on our ancestors.. God bless us.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Jamaal Ali RIGHT
@@joyabbensetts The men were raped as well...
@amy benje you should add the link in your post. People are more likely to watch if they don't have to go search for it and can just click to get to it.
Happy you now support and believe in the spiritual movement. Was mad at you at first when you made a video titled why the year of return is a scam with a fellow African American returnee to Ghana and you yourself being a Ghanaian, I found it hard to digest buh since you've made this video to endorse the Year of Return.Am glad and proud of you.Ghana is behind you.
Do be gentle with our Ghanababy. He's conflicted too, like many of us, and learns as he goes along. He's very much on a journey of discovery of his continent as well as of himself. He's growing in all its forms.
It is a scam because Africans have been returning even before this year and that is what the guy was trying to say in the video. This year is not the only year people have been returning.
Thanks Bro Mode. Well down but it is so full of emotions. I am shivering. Oh my God!!!!
Everytime I watch something like this it gets me so Mad!!
Thank you for your videos! Your videos teach me a lot!❤ Even though this makes me sad. What they had to go through.
I wish i could see Africa in person someday.
I plan to visit someday. Thanks for sharing you are the best!
Wode Maya great content. I came to the point in my life that i believe only God can free us from our selves and remove the bad from all people, and put a stop to slavery.
Great work you are doing Maya, really appreciate the time you taking to showcase Africa, and Educate us. It's Amazing. God bless you ... keep the fire burning, without you I wouldn't have seen such places with Great History..
My ancestors came from Benin Togo /🇧🇯 Cameroon ,Congo, 🇬🇭 Mali Southern Bantu , Nigeria....my mother & father I have a lot of places to visit
Becky Britin thank you Becky 🙏🏽❤️🇲🇱🇳🇪🇬🇭🇨🇮🇧🇯🇨🇲🧬❤️❤️❤️
Becky Britin 😊 Thank you 🙏🏽 are you on Facebook?
Very emotional,, but educative
Wode Maya....may God richly bless ur good works....Proud of you#Tadi boy#
I get very emotional anytime I hear this stories ofslave tradebro. I Was fortunate to do a video for my channel on the fort Good Hope and I was broken down. Maya you're really strong. God bless you for your hard work for Ghana and Africa
As much as i love to learn about our history,like i really love a lot .. from our own Fort Jesus to many more....this was very deep got me teary ,I can't believe what our people went through...keep telling the story yes they left but we returned to tell our stories,Thank you Wode 🙏❤ #Africatotheworld
Can't even control my tears
I so grateful for UA-cam for allowing African to educate African Americans on our history, 🙏🏽 from an African American woman 🙍🏽♀️
How can Africans educate African Americans on our history? Do you know that African Americans are the most educated groups of Blacks on earth? All that he said came from African American historical scholars. Don't ever say those folk are educating us, when they folk to America for education. We educated their national heros. If you think he educated you, perhaps you need to ask yourself why he didn't mention that Africans sold your ancestors to the white slave trader. Why are they covering up this egregious fact? Why don't they tell you which tribes were complicit in the slave trade and which tribes benefited financially?
Go study John Henry Clark and Dr Ben, Tony Browder and Ronuko Rashidi if you want to know about your history. Don't ever let other people tell you your history!
duke of york I love learning about where my Ancestors came from African, I hate how I was taught to look down on African , I was taught to be thankful to have been born in America, I used say to myself Thankful for what? I enjoy seeing it from another point.
Muriel Williams ....Did you just say that African Americans are taught to look down on Africans ?Just wondering ?
1980aivilo1 well where I was raised in went to school I only had white teachers , I was the only black in my class, they showed us photos of African dressed in straw shirt , the woman with nothing covering there top body, they showed them living very primitive, They never taught us how they obtained the slaves, only we were shaves I was a child felling like why didn’t they fight back? Until Roots by Alex Hailey we all learned the truth, In riots broke out blacks against white kids , I am not sure how old you are because we could been in a different era of school time but , nevertheless I enjoyed all the African people in Africa telling the other side of the story
African story's can never finish
I’m so vex over this . I always wanna cry 😭
Yes, 😭 and 😡, mostly 😭😭😭
me too & I understand if they never forgive us ,this is soooo bad
Queen Of Queens UNITY is the key 🔑
Yes my sister you can cry...you allowed. It is so very painfull.
Thank You so much Woda Maya! This is great information all African Americans and Adfricans alike. Powerful!
This is typical of the Zanzibar castles,same architecture
Seeing and listening to these stories makes me even more bitters towards the so called WAZUNGU 😩😩😢😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🇹🇿🇹🇿
This literally had me shading tears 😭
Walikua na unyama, so unhumane
God bless us🙏🏿🙏🏿
spider879 Its so devastating, I really don’t know what’s wrong with we Africans, the brain wash is real that we cannot even think for a min 😩😩. It’s high time we stand on our own and suit ourselves.
Mike G Sanaa,na hawajawahi kubadilika maana upo mpaka leo
Ni vile tu akili zetu TUMESHIKIWA sijuwi😏😏😏
I don’t consider this to be a castle, but rather a dungeon/prison. Thanks for sharing.
What is the definition of a castle?
Bee Wild it’s a dungeon...the bottom floor or the basement is the DUNGEON.. where our ancestors were kept
duke of york, my home is my castle and I certainly hope your home is also your castle too.
@@beealert911 this imbecile comes from a cave.
Africa to the world 🌎
Changing the narratives
Our ancestors must always be remembered where ever we are. The spiritual connection we have transcends any dna, and transgenerational memory means we will never forget.
To be sad is a vehicle that will only serve to remind us and warn the coming generations of the capabilities of those who enslaved us and have never apoligised for the things they have done.
We the children of the kidnapped people in Jamaica, Barbados, st Lucia, and others scattered to the four corners of the earth still bear the scars like orphaned children and need to come home.
Aya maya " Africa to the World".
Emotional episode.. As you see me so I vex deh man. Dem man wicked and heartless mehson. I still caan understand the obsession with dem. Thank you, Jah bless, one love.
Thank you for this Wode we have been enjoying your channel. We filmed a video on Ghana as well called “journey to the motherland” and we covered the Cape Coast castle which was equally as emotional.
I enjoyed your trip even though it was a long video
Speechless, Emotional
Thank you for taking time to write down below few historical details 💚🖤❣✊🏾
Thank you Brother Maya for what you are doing !
I am from the Ashanti tribe.
My grandmother told me that the Europeans ship had the name of JESUS written in English and because the Africans could not understand the writing. Also I learnt that the Europeans missionaries used Christianity to convert and distracted Africans while their colleagues enter Africa and stole the people.
I can only trust GOD'S words of encouragement " vengeance is Mine " thus saith The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
Nothing is impossible with GOD .
Great video!
This is one of the best video thank you my brother,I’m crying right now 🌍
Thumbs up if u love this video
What's to love about this video?
Russell Dale Good Question
Yaaayyyy 😍😍 First comment 😘 Wode Maya to the world
Awwwwww I see u
Bro you are really doing a great job
There is a petition going around America to change that CASTLE to DUNGEON.....ITS A PRISON NOT A CASTLE.......THANKS MY BRO
Great work, Wode Maya :)
This makes me sad 😞 our ancestors went through brutal atrocities just wicked 😭😭thanks for this maya!!
Thanks for showing this and other associated videos ,Wode Maya.
When it comes to such a video I always shade tears our people went through a lot of pain 😢😢😢
Pouring libations🍾 I'm proud of my ancestors🇭🇹 for retaliates⛏⚔🔪🔥🔥 and gave us freedom.💧🔥🌀🏔🌈
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Thank you maya for the job you are doing teaching the world about our continent, our people. I personally feel every african leaders must know african history before attempting to lead us at any level, lack of knowledge of self has been stalling the progress of our continent and people, we keep falling for the same banana in the tailpipe with every generation because we seem to keep forgetting who the real enemies of Africa and Africans are. We must remember, we have no friends, we have been bitten by Arabs and Europeans, their plastic smiles should serve as a trigger to our traumatic experience with them and thus, should better prepare us to deal with them properly. All young Africans from around the world, born after 1980 must make it our mission to make sure the constant attack on our continent and people stop once and for all, 500 years has been long enough.
thanks wode maya for sharing this important part of of slavely, it is also very sad to knew what our people had to go through .
Great video bros 🙌🏻
Brother this is too sad , I can't even watch any more 😭😭😭😭
It’s so painful... I know but what doesn’t kill us .. has made us strong .. we survived the worst crime against humanity... stay strong my brother and sisters
clemen ortiz UNITY is the key 🔑
Great job,,,I wish you more strength 💪🏻
I stand tall on the shoulder of my ancestors,may the almighty Creator bless Afrika and it people,i from the west of Africa,LIBERIA
I am regret of myself now bcz my teachers never ever tought me this momentous history of our ancestors. Thank you brother Wode Maya.
Hello Wode
I trust that you and your family are well
Well done Maya
I didn't know that there is a place like this in west Africa
Everyone is fine
Now you know a place like this exist
@@WODEMAYA brother, slave castle seems an oxymoron. more like a slave dungeon.
I m from somalia so
Somalia there was no slaves trade but I'm feeling so sad cuz Africa is Africa
carafad Aleeli you need to start doing Vlogs of Somalia.
Yes please make some videos about Somalia share with us 🙏🏿
bro somalia there was no slaves trade
even go to Google
@@carafadaleeli272 Why should he Google? Can you direct him to primary sources. You should have knowledge, first hand, of your people over the last 5,000 years, at least.
West Africans are generally better built. So the whites would need the one who are stronger. The Arabs, I don't know.
as long as you you know my brother...Esau and Jacob...you may be a lighter skin color but still related. Every skin color started in Africa..the motherland of civilization.
i like how you incorporated a saying you said a while back "you must always start from home" carry on showing our history
Wow! So emotional.May their souls rest in perfect peace ❤🙏🏾. Thank you Maya.
So they asked the king to built home for themselves to trade gold and sliver but was not truth they had their own plans.
I couldn’t hold back my tears when I visited 4 the first time ...
It took me a long time to recorver!
@@WODEMAYA me too
Woda Maya another great video!
Thank You
I'm upset can't finish the video... Revenge is the only solution! It breaks my heart anytime I saw a black woman/man marry our enemies.... May the departed souls rest in perfect peace!
If we don't unite we'll be slaves forever.... Let's unite and support each other
Thanks Wode Maya and the other Bro for telling us our history
I married an african american woman she loves it. She said i make her happiest. We try to make babies all day
I hv bn to Elmina Castle n it truly affects yr emotions whilst in thr n out for a very long time. At the same time it is good to know what an ancestors (history) hd gone through n how they were treated.
Entering the Elmina Castle is GH5 for Ghanaians and GH40 for foreigners. I think Ghana should at least make a different price for tourists of African countries.
I'm mixed (Somali-Samoan)
And I love all African countries!
Samoan is country
#salute brother from NYC..thank u for all u do and representing Africans worldwide...i hope u connect with UA-cam Channel 'Home Team History' it is one of the best and most informative channels on Africa, Africans and our history and culture brother
Have you been there before and you are saying it's not a castle but a dungeon....Lol it's both my brother the place is soo .... So are you trying to tell me that the British colonists where also sleeping in the dungeon
First to watch...Yayyy Wode Maya
Blaaaaaaaaaaaxit!
No no no😂😂😂
You're fast
Wow that is a huge castle 🏰 them people were just treating my people any ole” way I will never forgive them .period God shall punish them hardcore........ I’m asking God to Rise all my ancestors up and take revenge!!! Amen 🙏🏾.
Amen!