Black In Ghana (Full) -- Peace Corps Ghana -- Documentary
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2015
- Peace Corps Volunteers all over the world face different hurdles and milestones once they are assigned to a country. Black In Ghana, captures some of the experiences that Peace Corps Volunteers of color face while living in Ghana.
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Great documentary and very informative video.
Great Video! As I am preparing for my service, it has definitely given me a new perspective on what it's like to be a minority volunteer.
+Life with Patience Blacks are in the majority in most if not all countries on the continent of Africa.
It's so sad that we are STILL affected by european standard of beauty!!
First of all, they are not calling you White, they are calling you a foreigner. For example, oyinbo can mean white in Nigeria or someone that’s foreign. Sometimes even I as a Nigerian when I go back home, sometimes my friends will say “this one don turn oyinbo finish” which means “I am completely foreign now” but loose translation it will mean “I am completely white now. The word for foreign and the word for white are sometimes the same.
I cannot wait to move to this beautiful country!!
I have 2 kids that were born in Canada, anytime I take them to Ghana they called them Obroni, it doesn't matter whether your parents are Ghanian or not since you're born in us or Canada you're still obroni because of their attitude and the way they act,I don't think they mean any ham.
Alicia youre right alicia its because we so westernized
It's the difference in culture, you guys even though your black , you behave different from an average Ghanaian, we come to America or Europe and try to fit in its not easy but over time you get used.
Your services in Gbana is impressive . Are you in Nigeria?
However KN Nkrumah Welcomed them way back in the 1960s for a particular reason.
i would never ever move there we are closer to the ones in the caribbeans
joseph campbell nobody need here in ghana.idiot.
Nobody need you here in ghana.idiot guy.
Being called "Obroni " doesn't mean a White person. It has nothing to do with skin color.
This name was coined around 1490s when the Portuguese showed up and our fathers couldn't figure out where they came from or how far they had travelled to get to the Gold Coast. Obroni literally means a swimmer. What our fathers had in mind in identifying white folks was a person who came from a far away place that you can only get there by swimming.
So presently, we can substitute Obroni with the country you originated from, ie. America, UK, or any other that you have to cross the pond or the Ocean to get to the present Ghana . Many Ghanaians do not know this, so they maintain the traditional way of calling people from Ocean crossing visitors Obroni or Abrofo (plural). My cousin who is a lawyer in Ghana calls me Obroni because he would want me to buy him drinks with my American money.
Americans are too much obsessed with color, both black and white, educated and uneducated, and I disagree with lots of what is being said, Ghanaians call black americans OBRONI because even though they are black, they have a western culture, and this also applies to Ghanaians who have stayed in the west for a long time, because they believe living in the west a for long time you have adapted their culture, it has nothing to do with the skin
I know! I'm Ghanaian myself and we 'obroni' means stranger. it was used mostly information
referring to Europeans because of the large contact between us. However, we sometimes say 'obroni fitaa (white)' and obroni tuntum(black)' to make further distinctions. Nevertheless, Obroni is used for strangers/westerners, black or white.
lovecharity16 obroni doesn't mean a
Stranger it's only means white person but if you are not
black person and you behave like a white person that what they will call you obroni. A stranger in akan language means.ohohow.then a foreigner in akan language is omanfrani.
Because they listening to African American Music that is the reason why they are using N-word.