I Went To The Biggest Vodoo Festival In Africa(Benin)

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  • @WODEMAYA
    @WODEMAYA  Рік тому +220

    What’s your thoughts on Vodoo Religion??
    Please LIKE THIS VIDEO!

    • @gegebalo1754
      @gegebalo1754 Рік тому +21

      Witchcraft

    • @AmasAuthenticJourney
      @AmasAuthenticJourney Рік тому +16

      Hey Wode Maya, Thank you for sharing this knowlege with us eventhought you might lose some subscribers. Not everyone will be your cup of tea!
      You should visit suriname one day to experience the extent african culture.💚

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html ....A Ugandan travel to get his son delivered from this! It's no joke. A whole generation!

    • @chiyenyumba7135
      @chiyenyumba7135 Рік тому +14

      Voodoo is a form religion just like any otter religions across the world. It's interesting to find out if Voodoo was the original name?

    • @nyabinghi870
      @nyabinghi870 Рік тому +24

      It's our religion just like Hinduism for the indians

  • @BlaqRozay
    @BlaqRozay Рік тому +86

    If you are here in 2090,I was here💙 2022
    WODE MAYA was young youtuber who came from GRASS TO GRACE and he was among the best youtubers in his generation.
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    Hope the world is better place 2090? stay safe and be nice human🇬🇭💙

    • @movingwheels26
      @movingwheels26 Рік тому +6

      He inspired me too And am creating content and hope to reach the lengths Wade Maya has reached

    • @yamayama6083
      @yamayama6083 Рік тому +3

      The world will definitely be a better place. And you will be here to witness it.

    • @abdiabdi25586
      @abdiabdi25586 Рік тому +3

      You wrote this and you know tommorow will use this as a reference of the early people just like what the kemet people did before

    • @bmgcontentcreator63
      @bmgcontentcreator63 Рік тому +3

      Wode Maya👌🏿

  • @sharonp.1376
    @sharonp.1376 Рік тому +18

    The European tell us that everything about us is evil . Yet they Don't tell us about the evil they've done to us🇯🇲❤

    • @globalcitizen1138
      @globalcitizen1138 Рік тому +5

      When a white person calls anything 'evil' know that it is good.

  • @joelayite4766
    @joelayite4766 Рік тому +98

    If you don’t know where you are coming from, you will never know where to go. Just know yourself. Thanks Wode Maya for this new report on our Culture.

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      Christ over culture ...ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html

    • @GusRayMonCyn
      @GusRayMonCyn Рік тому +2

      This is a statement I always tell to people. We African defendants living in the Caribbean islands need to know where we come from to know where we are going. I don’t believe in voodoo. I am a believe in Jesus Christ.

    • @normanmclean6039
      @normanmclean6039 Рік тому

      WE MUST EMBRACE WHAT IS OUR CULTURE AND OUR SPIRITUALITY AND LET GO OF ALL THOSE EUROPEAN TEACHING OR WE WILL PERISH ALONG WITH THEM

  • @letstalkafrica4072
    @letstalkafrica4072 Рік тому +50

    As a togolese and a proud one, i can testify this is the root ... 🇹🇬❤️ We grew up to this and we'll never be scared of it ...

    • @kwakufrimpongtv
      @kwakufrimpongtv Рік тому +2

      Please can we get close?
      I'll need some info from you, thank you.

    • @happysuppey3541
      @happysuppey3541 Рік тому +3

      I am also from Togo and this what we are born Into can we be friends

  • @mumjarra
    @mumjarra Рік тому +67

    Wode Maya you will never lose me as a subscriber no matter what you do. Weda festival in Benin let me tell you brazil, Cuba,Haiti, evensouth America practice it the the slaves have also migrated and followed the same cutlure. JuJu is everywhere not just west Africa... Congo, Mali,South Africa even the islam some sects have a form called Sufism. You just touching the surface. Love you and always will. I am my brother's keeper.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Рік тому +13

      ❤️❤️❤️

    • @centreflora5170
      @centreflora5170 Рік тому +3

      Thanks so much wode Maya. While studying religious science we visited this juju as part of our studies with Afro Americans. They were shocked to realize that I was so ignorant of this way of worship. Coming from East Africa was even the worship where all this is called evil.
      The studies opened my horizons and your vídeo enriches me more...

    • @centreflora5170
      @centreflora5170 Рік тому +2

      Keep it up Wode Maya!
      Enough research for a full Phd chapter

    • @rina3822
      @rina3822 Рік тому +1

      With all due respect, the people who were enslaved, some of my ancestors, did not migrate from Africa. They were free people, stolen, and sold into slavery. In modern terms, it was human trafficking.

    • @s-8746
      @s-8746 Рік тому

      Sister why do you refer to sufism as JuJu?

  • @MissTrudyy
    @MissTrudyy Рік тому +169

    This is so interesting! The more you travel, the more you learn! 🤯

    • @movingwheels26
      @movingwheels26 Рік тому +11

      Very true,and you learn to appreciate other people's culture's.

    • @sourcestvghuk9897
      @sourcestvghuk9897 Рік тому +7

      Our wife ❤❤

    • @josephcoatofmanycolors
      @josephcoatofmanycolors Рік тому +10

      @@sourcestvghuk9897 Calling someone else wife "Our wife" is wrong.

    • @MakkSon101
      @MakkSon101 Рік тому +2

      @@T915ty
      Absolutely 👍🏽

    • @nicelove4274
      @nicelove4274 Рік тому +5

      @@josephcoatofmanycolors we call her our wife because of Wode Maya, there's nothing wrong with that..

  • @belovedempress
    @belovedempress Рік тому +31

    Wide Maya is growing right before our eyes because of all the experiences he’s having in his travels. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! 🇺🇸🇿🇦🇯🇲🇻🇮🇳🇬🇬🇭🇧🇯🇹🇹🇹🇬🇨🇦🇨🇮

  • @criptovida
    @criptovida Рік тому +43

    I am African from the southern region and I never heard about it , but then I came to Brazil I found it. We know very little about our own history. Thanks for sharing, it's good to learn new ways of spirituality.

    • @jessicabeca1234
      @jessicabeca1234 Рік тому +3

      Mozambican?

    • @FirstPersonHood
      @FirstPersonHood Рік тому +2

      Insane to think such a treasure was missed!

    • @tlfa5554
      @tlfa5554 Рік тому

      But there is also makumba in angola that is the same thing

  • @jamaalbrewer8336
    @jamaalbrewer8336 Рік тому +194

    Time to change our mindset African people and embrace what's ours. We have allowed Whites to determine our religion, culture, and language.

    • @Eyeofancestorskingdom
      @Eyeofancestorskingdom Рік тому +2

      ❤️❤️❤️

    • @movingwheels26
      @movingwheels26 Рік тому +6

      Yessssss, we have everything we need, let's Love ourselves first 🥇

    • @Eyeofancestorskingdom
      @Eyeofancestorskingdom Рік тому +1

      @@movingwheels26 ❤️yes

    • @kofiaidoo1765
      @kofiaidoo1765 Рік тому +5

      Precisely, this is what we are as Africans

    • @kwakuakonto8942
      @kwakuakonto8942 Рік тому

      Recently BBC reported that during the Pope's trip to South Sudan, with the leaders of the church of England, he said it is a sin to make laws that criminalize LGBTQI. Can you believe the audacity of these people saying Africans protecting their culture and society is evil while they criminalize African practice of polygamy. I'm sure it won't be long they will rewrite the Bible to remove the portions that says God is against homosexual behaviour that is a sin against the human body

  • @mybit7470
    @mybit7470 Рік тому +62

    Despite the atrocities, the culture survives!!!!!

  • @ohemaaraina
    @ohemaaraina Рік тому +187

    I like your coverage about Africa. You are well grounded in your own religious beliefs but do not shy away from letting us know what others in Africa believe in. You once covered Islamic fasting season, Christian celebration event in Ethiopia and A traditional religion in Zimbabwe. I have my own beliefs but am here to be educated.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Рік тому +46

      A real subscriber of Maya❤️❤️❤️

    • @chidinque
      @chidinque Рік тому +11

      Yes.

    • @iAmLeslieJones
      @iAmLeslieJones Рік тому +8

      Well said! A person of high emotional and intellectual maturity👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

    • @alawoye
      @alawoye Рік тому

      Wode Maya, it is an embarrassment for you as an ambassador of African cultural identity, to have never before traveled and attended this prestigious annual event, that is merely 5hrs drive away from Accra Ghana.
      When many others, many times, myself included, have travelled halfway across the globe to attend.
      Although I too am of African descent, and a traditionalist in the beliefs of my W.African ancestors, I’d also have been considered on a “tourist” visa, but I make great efforts to attend yearly or alternative years, yet others like yourself have full access and close proximity, yet don’t educate yourself about your own ancestors culture….

  • @omowalemusic3791
    @omowalemusic3791 Рік тому +70

    We have to sell the tourists a watered down version. Especially those who come to see to learn and dissect, not to appreciate or respect.

    • @TheMagster128
      @TheMagster128 Рік тому +6

      I agree with you 💯. I’m from Haiti, I don’t practice voodoo, but I know it’s a big part of my culture. I know a lot of people especially Caucasian people go to Haiti to take part in Voodoo and know the secrets of the religion. But they’re the first ones to talk bad about it. So I can understand why the Benin people are doing it that way. Even though I don’t practice the religion, I believe it’s imperative that we keep it to ourselves.

    • @thesaint5183
      @thesaint5183 Рік тому +1

      I agree. Everywhere we are, here they come! trying to learn and steal. They will go back to their country and tell everyone that they are the "founder" of such and such. We show them how to cook our foods and they go back to make $ off it and sell it as theirs, including other gifts which some of us are too dumb not to share.

    • @kwade9298
      @kwade9298 Рік тому +1

      So true! 🎯💯
      I was thinking the same thing. The Beninese know exactly what they are doing. ❤️

  • @bastdeluna3919
    @bastdeluna3919 Рік тому +14

    I think Europeans have always and continue to try and permeate what is not for them at all times. Their presence brings down the authenticity- but Voodoo is forever stronger than them. I want to attend this festival at least once , but as a member of the diaspora, I’d rather go to Benin to experience Voodoo away from culture vultures and tourists.
    Thank you for this exploration, and I am a new subscriber BECAUSE of it! Blessings! 🙏🏾

    • @asurrealistworld4412
      @asurrealistworld4412 Рік тому +2

      No it doesn't if they come sincerely and respectfully. Do you think any non-African coming to learn about African culture respectfully is a "culture vulture"? That's nonsense.

  • @maobe762
    @maobe762 Рік тому +147

    African culture is very powerful. In my tribe kisiis in Kenya, special people in the community used to gather around a huge tree facing the mountain and rain came during a prolonged drought.
    The sick got healed. The white man came with a bible and a government, we lost our culture. They told us that our culture was evil and theirs was holy.
    Look at us now, global warming, incurable diseases, war, homosexuality, corruption and hard economic times.

    • @nautatobiasm8991
      @nautatobiasm8991 Рік тому

      Agree ,we have been lied big time , it's a story of hyena abd jackal

    • @TrueYarn
      @TrueYarn Рік тому +26

      The colonizers are the worst thing that ever happened to us Africans

    • @jahvoice5097
      @jahvoice5097 Рік тому

      @@TrueYarn really, you black people put the black christ on the cross remember. You rejected him. You whipped him, spat in his face. Cut his flesh to the bone. I call it justice ⚖ what you suffered.

    • @Bunfire123
      @Bunfire123 Рік тому

      Why wasn’t your ancestors way of life able to defend against the white man ?

    • @emmanuelyambo4143
      @emmanuelyambo4143 Рік тому

      Kisii is notorious for witchcraft!!! Witches are being killed and burned in Kisii. Jesus is the only way.

  • @Sophine
    @Sophine Рік тому +21

    The amount of mzungus being there makes me suspect that it really is the watered down tourist version. But I understand they can't give out all the secrets. Now for what I know from friends who have gone, they went to the festival and also actual villages outside of the festival who practice under specific deities. It's a completely different experience. People there know those who are genuinely interested in learning and practicing the religion when they meet them.

  • @KWASITV_
    @KWASITV_ Рік тому +134

    To the person reading this!!
    Be proud you were born as an African 🙌 Africa is the place to be💪
    Together we can make it a better place
    #Unitedafrica♥️💕

    • @joanbambury421
      @joanbambury421 Рік тому +4

      Wode Maya have subscriber all over the world Wode Maya to the world 🎉 🎊 ❤

    • @troycopeland5156
      @troycopeland5156 Рік тому

      🎯💯💯💯💯

    • @MegaPruddy
      @MegaPruddy Рік тому +2

      @@jay1970 it's okay if you are not proud of where you come from.

    • @TN-xx5qu
      @TN-xx5qu 7 місяців тому +1

      There is no unity outside of Jesus Christ the LORD.
      Only a fool would unify based on skin color. A wise man unifies with others on values, beliefs, character, and truth. The bethlehemite.

  • @RichardIles
    @RichardIles Рік тому +26

    Wonderful to see the people recognizing you wherever you go, keep us informed and entertain Maya, ❤️ it Brother Man Big up. 👍🏿

  • @kiki81828
    @kiki81828 Рік тому +123

    This is what was used to fight against the colonizers in many Caribbean countries. The reason they call it evils is because it is powerful when the people use it as a united force, so they had to prevent that use. It is a powerful mental and manifesting belief to be able to manipulate the elements within and out of yourself, and in nature.

    • @rosemumbua8817
      @rosemumbua8817 Рік тому +8

      True, every religion has an element of this power. Remember how Jesus manipulated the storm in the sea?
      Words have power to manifest. That's why we are told to watch what we say, think.

    • @TITAN-cr5pk
      @TITAN-cr5pk Рік тому +15

      @@rosemumbua8817 ,
      Let us focus about our own spirituality to develop and defend ourselves.

    • @chidinque
      @chidinque Рік тому +7

      Exactly

    • @Philosophical_engineer
      @Philosophical_engineer Рік тому

      Bullshit.

    • @garawa1987
      @garawa1987 Рік тому +11

      As a indigenous Australian most of know know our spiritualism even.before the white man came to our lands they fear what they don't understand

  • @dcbelle01
    @dcbelle01 Рік тому +90

    Thank you for highlighting traditional African spirituality on your platform. It makes me so sad that Africans across the globe have been made to fear who we are at our core. The oppressors really did a number on us, but we are waking up. Keep going brotha! ✊🏿❤🖤💚

    • @temiladealamudun5063
      @temiladealamudun5063 Рік тому +1

      Yes 👍

    • @ShmaAdonaiEhad
      @ShmaAdonaiEhad Рік тому

      Are you saying that satanist are who Africans are at their core?

    • @dcbelle01
      @dcbelle01 Рік тому +1

      @@ShmaAdonaiEhad Your question proves my point.

    • @ShmaAdonaiEhad
      @ShmaAdonaiEhad Рік тому

      @@dcbelle01 beg you pardon? How is that so?

    • @achiaaobeng100
      @achiaaobeng100 Рік тому +2

      Waking up to what, where were the spirit idols when the enemy attack and enslaved Africa, stole from Africa and this so call idol, didn't talk and save us. Wake up Africa and refrain from idol worship, it's an abomination ok . It is because of this idol worship that's why Africa 🌍 is Bless with all natural resources, gold 🥇, diamonds 💎, platinum, aluminum, copper, good whether for farming, yet most Africa 🌍 people lives in extreme poverty, Repent Jesus saves 🙏❤️

  • @lisalewis4138
    @lisalewis4138 Рік тому +14

    Wow, once a year in Jamaica we have Johnkonuu. Same thing on a smaller scale. Men on stilts, people in costumes. Dancing and revelry all day. The culture carried.

  • @goncalvesmariagoncalves5880
    @goncalvesmariagoncalves5880 Рік тому +75

    You are not lossing subscribers , you are educated us ...Thank you

  • @Yoniverse666
    @Yoniverse666 Рік тому +14

    Wode Maya and Tayo Aina Kings and Gods of Africaaaa. Loveee you guys ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 we must wake up and UNITE because Africa is the future. Goosebumps.❤

  • @kiki81828
    @kiki81828 Рік тому +44

    Most cultures have a spiritual belief system, if you check all based on mysticism, however none of them is vilified as the one from Africa, but when you see how the others worship it is all basically the same, but the one practice in Africa is so powerful that it had to banished and seen as evil, this was supposed to be a weapon for protection against your enemy in case of war, but not to be used for self gain. This is supposed to garner the elements, use your mental energy etc, all primitive cultures have or had that ability

    • @mcamara488
      @mcamara488 Рік тому +3

      Exactly. However the issue with us black is that we use it against each other. Very race regardless or the religious they preach to practice (Islam, Christianity, Jews, Indu, etc..) all of them practice the so call "ocult magic" ALLLL of them and even in their places of worship.

    • @mcamara488
      @mcamara488 Рік тому +1

      @@teoviels8484 it's true, but fortunately, we are waking up now and they know it. It's better late than never...

    • @phizzy123
      @phizzy123 2 місяці тому

      you’re 100% right

  • @movingwheels26
    @movingwheels26 Рік тому +26

    MAYA - ON THE CONTRARY- YOU WILL GET MORE SUBSCRIBER'S - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

    • @taharka3897
      @taharka3897 Рік тому

      I can bet he is going to lose subscribers from ghana 🇬🇭 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 the most. These two countries love and worship white people and white Jesus like no other.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Рік тому +4

      ❤️❤️❤️

  • @wildflower7925
    @wildflower7925 Рік тому +82

    I love us Africans embracing our spirituality, culture, religions and traditions❤️

  • @justicekumordzi901
    @justicekumordzi901 Рік тому +33

    Our roots, our heritage, our culture. We have a duty to understand what voodoo means and cherish it.

    • @ackahkofiefrancis4289
      @ackahkofiefrancis4289 Рік тому

      one thing I have come to release is that, religion is man made and for as the Africa religion need to be innovated and add some value to it, eg the killing humans and animals need to be reduce and approach some of the issue scientifically, like how the japanese have done to theirs .

    • @lildancer54
      @lildancer54 Рік тому

      I grew up seeing my grandfather practice “Roots” (Voodoo) in SC and hearing of neighbors practicing it as well along with Christianity.

  • @osceolatheartist1306
    @osceolatheartist1306 Рік тому +28

    One year I attended a Oshun festival here in America. The women who did my alterations was from Nigeria. I walked in her shop and couldn’t believe my eyes! There she was dressed traditionally but watching Joel Olsteen a christian prosperity preacher. I didn’t say anything about it, I just laughed in my mind. Oh Colonization is some evil powerful witchcraft What’s the spell? Christianity ghost spell

    • @kojojampa
      @kojojampa Рік тому +7

      😂... sad and funny at the same time but yeah that Christianity witchcraft is super strong. But things re changing.

    • @chidinque
      @chidinque Рік тому +4

      If you go ask her all she's afraid of back home is backlash frm her ppl.

    • @lovelove-pr2yo
      @lovelove-pr2yo Рік тому

      @@kojojampa damn y'all always coming after Christianity's. Christianity been in Africa. But you cannot do the two either you going to do do or you going to be a Christian you can't walk on the fence. Has Voodoo done for our people like come on now make it make sense.

  • @AfricaTravelling
    @AfricaTravelling Рік тому +11

    it's our culture, it's African.
    We should be proud of that. Those who told us that it was demonic, they are the same ones who want to have this knowledge at all costs.
    May this push each of us to go further in our thinking.

  • @senu2014
    @senu2014 Рік тому +19

    Thank you Woda Maya for educating the World about our culture. Afrika to the World 🌎 ❤!!! Proud to be an afrikan.

  • @boseman8227
    @boseman8227 Рік тому +24

    A lot of Africans are afraid of this side of their culture because of their bad deeds. In the villages that practice these voodos, people hardly commit crime because they know what could happen to them. A lot of us are hiding behind religion and are committing various sins because we get away with it. We all need to open our eyes and start asking questions.

    • @dorothmungure9393
      @dorothmungure9393 Рік тому

      True

    • @Timeless_Ascension
      @Timeless_Ascension Рік тому

      I believe that this perfectly answers Maya's question in the title of this video.

    • @chidinque
      @chidinque Рік тому

      Correct. They fear what will become of them doing tradition but pretend and hide under grace. And society will continue to rot until steps are retraced.

    • @AustineGyjndoro-pu1uh
      @AustineGyjndoro-pu1uh 5 місяців тому

      You are on point my dear. ❤❤

  • @maureensworld3118
    @maureensworld3118 Рік тому +33

    Thank you maya for showing us this, africa is indeed rich with beautiful cultures. This is so amazing 👏

  • @Odhis_Mwafrika
    @Odhis_Mwafrika Рік тому +51

    I love the beat from the African Drums...This is such a rich culture that must be protected. It's what keep them as a people United and one.

    • @degreeskelvin3025
      @degreeskelvin3025 Рік тому +4

      The talking drum is easily top 3 instruments of all time

    • @Odhis_Mwafrika
      @Odhis_Mwafrika Рік тому +5

      @@degreeskelvin3025 It ranks the 1st. The African drum has a Big story. It connects us to our Ancestors...
      IT ALSO TALKS.

  • @africanzone2646
    @africanzone2646 Рік тому +11

    If our region and believes that makes us still have our lands and identity or dignity then we are most happy 💪🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾👌🏾💪🏾👌🏾

  • @abayomialao4916
    @abayomialao4916 Рік тому +19

    You should visit Oyo State in Nigeria especially Ibadan around June That's when we have egungun festival

  • @les_deux_aventures0507
    @les_deux_aventures0507 Рік тому +4

    I can’t wait til you visit haiti 🇭🇹 you’ll love it so much history

  • @dabuophillip8432
    @dabuophillip8432 Рік тому +8

    Wode Maya to the all Africa I am from The northern part of Ghana Tamale n I always watch ur videos 🙏🙏🙏💯❤❤

  • @emanuellual
    @emanuellual Рік тому +14

    Woow I was shocked to see a person from North Sudan celebrities voodoo festivals

  • @robbiechauke8430
    @robbiechauke8430 Рік тому +13

    This video should be voted a video of the year if not a decade 🤠

  • @lisalai8709
    @lisalai8709 9 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for sharing. I am from Trinidad 🇹🇹. We call our Practice Orisa. A lot of ppl say we “wok obeah”. I could careless, I love my way of life. Olodumare blessings.

  • @abdallahyussif1314
    @abdallahyussif1314 Рік тому +78

    Africa is blessed with authentic culture n history

    • @praiseyahisrael4072
      @praiseyahisrael4072 Рік тому

      THIS IS NOT AFRICA’S CULTURE… ITS THESE CLOWNS FROM BENINE AND OTHER COUNTRIES THAT GOES AGAINST “YAH” !!! PLAY WITH LUCIFER STAY WITH LUCIFER!!! THE REAL CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SERVE YAH ONLY!!!! All praises to the Most High YAH ONLY!!! In this life, the next, and eternity!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏿🙌🏽

    • @word268
      @word268 Рік тому

      What's authentic about summoning demonic spirits from hell?

  • @Nectpost
    @Nectpost Рік тому +10

    Vodoo is mainly from the ewe tribe in ghana volta, Togo , Benin and Nigeria badagry.

    • @wahabodusola6484
      @wahabodusola6484 Рік тому +4

      Historically, Ewe people migrated from Ile-Ife in Nigeria. Vodoo is still practice in the SW of Nigeria.

    • @casmirifeanyi7788
      @casmirifeanyi7788 Рік тому +2

      It's practiced in all of west Africa, even in the Eastern part of Nigeria

  • @annelinesiebritz1206
    @annelinesiebritz1206 Рік тому +12

    Proudly African and we've learn to respect each others believes. 👌👌

  • @brodiejr4real
    @brodiejr4real Рік тому +7

    I agree with you. All those tourist, especially the European ones, raised a bit of suspicion in me.

  • @BlaqRozay
    @BlaqRozay Рік тому +10

    Heavenly Father, I pray that you keep anybody reading this alive,safe,healthy and financially
    Blessed Amen 🙏🙏

  • @kettlycharles4312
    @kettlycharles4312 Рік тому +149

    WE MUST DECOLONIZE OUR MIND

  • @Ko_ndjeni
    @Ko_ndjeni Рік тому +10

    Thank you so much for sharing this with us Maya. I feel this video was too short. I hope there’s part 2.

  • @innocentemessy
    @innocentemessy Рік тому +27

    WODE MAYA thank you for this video. I was born a Christian but I have now come to realise it is not my ancestors religion but VOODOO is. So I am educating myself trough your video today. Thank you thank you 😊 🙏🏾💚

    • @chiyenyumba7135
      @chiyenyumba7135 Рік тому +6

      Those other foreign religions are also vodoo only they sanitised and promoted theirs.

    • @arltklm8322
      @arltklm8322 Рік тому +2

      The origin of everything is God Almighty the creator, Christianity came from Him it's not any human beings private invention

    • @boakyefelicia2480
      @boakyefelicia2480 Рік тому +3

      My dear are you sure you have a personal relationship with God? Christianity is not about being born into a church or ancestors , it's all about giving your life to God and allowing him to be the master of your life

    • @chiyenyumba7135
      @chiyenyumba7135 Рік тому +3

      @@arltklm8322 🤣🤣🤣 you are twisted

    • @chiyenyumba7135
      @chiyenyumba7135 Рік тому +4

      @@boakyefelicia2480 relationship with God is not a preserve of christianity even Africans before the arrival of christianity by imperialists they have God worshipping our own way

  • @FakaEverywhere
    @FakaEverywhere Рік тому +34

    My tradition my culture.

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      Christ before culture ... ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html

  • @TheSENYO
    @TheSENYO Рік тому +6

    Narrating the African story and telling Africa’s history to the world 🌍. The world is a global village and in this light we see the emergence of people from different walks of life to partake in festivals and experience cultures of Africa. We will be here to always learn from Wode Maya.

  • @kennethotieno995
    @kennethotieno995 Рік тому +6

    I'm Luo from Kenya, Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe). We do encounter pythons and treat them well, feed them. They have special significance. The particular one called "Omieri" appears occasionally and we treat it well,feed, take care. So I identify with these.

  • @xagaboss1083
    @xagaboss1083 Рік тому +7

    It's things like this that make me feel proud to be african, thank you wade maya

  • @tonifergie1423
    @tonifergie1423 Рік тому +30

    Maya I was born in Jamaica 🇯🇲 and Voodoo is not viewed as a good thing here. However, when someone is desperate for “help” for a family member or friends, visiting a voodoo person seems to be more common even if they are considered to be Christians. Some may not want to admit it. I can only guess there is good and bad voodoo and people are desperate when the church cannot assist. We use to have really good spiritual leaders and churches in Jamaica such as Pocco churches, who will be the help the community need, but that too became washed up and decreased in right spiritual connection. Everyone have to find their way because everything we thought was good is now bad and everything we thought was bad is now good. We all have to pray for wisdom and understanding and test the spirit. Be Bless. I love what you do.. 🙏🇯🇲🥰🥰

    • @thesportschannel3114
      @thesportschannel3114 Рік тому +10

      Bro, there's no good and bad voodoo, its demonic.

    • @georgeasamoah7593
      @georgeasamoah7593 Рік тому

      The diaspora have seen the secrets you can hide but you cannot hide for ever

    • @tonifergie1423
      @tonifergie1423 Рік тому +4

      @@almostfifty I beg to differ on that one.

    • @davidwafula4107
      @davidwafula4107 Рік тому

      Typical of a brainwashed person, who are you to declare the competing ideas evil?

    • @nounkombou9682
      @nounkombou9682 Рік тому +4

      @@thesportschannel3114Show respect to other people beliefs please! Voodoo is the best African religion

  • @theophilusampiah5163
    @theophilusampiah5163 Рік тому +6

    Wode Maya is an embodiment of anthropology. He participates and observes every detail in real time with validity.

  • @TegaMartins
    @TegaMartins Рік тому +5

    I’m so proud to say I’m a Benin precisely Ouidah… and I’m in Benin right now ❤

    • @boymizzy808
      @boymizzy808 Місяць тому

      Please I want to come for spiritual help I need a strong voodoo priest 😢

  • @otooransford7130
    @otooransford7130 Рік тому +14

    Wode Maya is the best of all times content

  • @jmtvgh
    @jmtvgh Рік тому +10

    Always doing a great job keep it up the good work, that’s who we are nothing will stop it. My dear brother weather you will loose 2000 or 5000 do your best to promote who we are, and i know our ancestors will never disappoint you of get more people more than the one you lost. #JMTVGH

  • @fasulukumohamedbaryoh6716
    @fasulukumohamedbaryoh6716 Рік тому +5

    I want to remind every African as said by Burna’s mother ; ‘ we were Africans before we became any other thing ‘.

  • @superdatawolf4652
    @superdatawolf4652 Рік тому +5

    Everybody is waking up!! Great video!!

  • @kentakemalopenza9699
    @kentakemalopenza9699 Рік тому +11

    I am a proud and unapologetic Vodou devotee living in Jamaica and in this island obeah and Vodou is condemned and seen as evil and wicked. It pains my heart to see caucasians running down Vodou knowledge and wisdom while so many Afrakan and Afrakan Caribbean people condemn their own heritage and culture. I will always honor and cherish my heritage and i pray that one day Vodou will be acknowledged as the birthright inheritance of Afrakans around the world. Ayibobo.

    • @StarLight-sl9ok
      @StarLight-sl9ok Рік тому +1

      My Jamaican granny would be rolling in her grave about all this she was so brainwashed by Christianity. Time for us to wake up.

    • @AustineGyjndoro-pu1uh
      @AustineGyjndoro-pu1uh 5 місяців тому

      I agreed with you my dear, but it is not their fault but European deception.

  • @simonaflo7804
    @simonaflo7804 Рік тому +64

    It's about time we value what we have as Africans, big ups Maya.

    • @Yoniverse666
      @Yoniverse666 Рік тому +3

      ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽👌🏾🙌🏾❤

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      Big up Jesus always ...ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html

    • @TN-xx5qu
      @TN-xx5qu 7 місяців тому

      Value😂. A countries with no running water, good roads, electricity, schools, jobs, security, corruption 😅.

  • @kettlycharles4312
    @kettlycharles4312 Рік тому +18

    WE MUST DECONSTRUCTED OUR MIND

  • @Ignite_TV
    @Ignite_TV Рік тому +7

    I am a pastor , i am here to support you and also to understand this religion/culture. I may not agree with what they do but i am here to learn .

    • @ILIVEAGOODLIFE
      @ILIVEAGOODLIFE Рік тому

      The white man won't what you to agree with what they go there to study.

    • @stevostevozz1168
      @stevostevozz1168 Рік тому +1

      pastor you should know better !!

    • @Ignite_TV
      @Ignite_TV Рік тому

      @@stevostevozz1168 Knowledge is better so i know how to deal with the voodoo religion.

    • @stevostevozz1168
      @stevostevozz1168 Рік тому

      @@Ignite_TV you are right...water spirits

  • @formore6256
    @formore6256 Рік тому +5

    maya i would be glad if you show more of these african festivals. Like the Kundum festival,Aboakyir festival etc

  • @jadenbrown522
    @jadenbrown522 Рік тому +18

    Vodun means Spirit. A Nature based Spirituality. Vodun has been Practied by our Ancestors for Thousands of Years just like all other diverse Indigenous Afrikan Spiritualities before Man-Made Colonizer religion was invented and Violently Foreced, via Slavery. Vodun has also Freed many of our Ancestors during the earliest days of the Maafa. Long Live Afrikan Spirituality ❤🖤💚 ✊🏾🌌🌠☀🌕🌳🌴🌺🛖.

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      Christ over culture ...ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html

    • @ArA-og1dv
      @ArA-og1dv Рік тому +1

      YES, exactly!

  • @sofiaondemand
    @sofiaondemand Рік тому +5

    Have been looking at this video 📸 all day now happy that you posted this video today it quiet interesting that we will learn alot

  • @medegandamien5406
    @medegandamien5406 Рік тому +4

    I really enjoyed your meeting with the South Sudanese woman, it was so good, she admires you a lot like we all do. Thank you for your work

    • @lucifer12354
      @lucifer12354 Рік тому +1

      She's from Sudan not south Sudan

  • @fredborteykyeremeh2353
    @fredborteykyeremeh2353 Рік тому +5

    Very educative as always. The insights provided are very much appreciated. Thanks for going the extra mile to bring us this. You are indeed changing the narratives. Never knew people travel from the diaspora for the festival. Never knew this festival even existed. Thanks Legend for this insightful video. You are paying your dues to mother Africa.

  • @vivaafrika604
    @vivaafrika604 Рік тому +9

    Thanks Maya for the video🥰 I'm here to learn

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому

      The devil comes to kill steal and destroy. I have come to give you live and live more abundantly! Christ over culture ...ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html

  • @mybit7470
    @mybit7470 Рік тому +6

    @wodemaya If you ever visit Suriname, request to be taken to the Dujka(Juka) Settlement!!! You will be surprised that they made every effort to maintain AFRICAN ways!!!!!

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Рік тому +6

      Will be there this year

    • @Ortenge
      @Ortenge Рік тому

      Wode maya when will you visit Suriname? Because i am waching you and miss Trudy and i enjoy your video's. I always say to my husband Maya is humble and you are not( joke)i love the way miss Trudy say; Maya is soo Humble; My husband and i are from Suriname but we are living in Holland and we will visit Suriname this year. I woul like to see you in person. I tell a lot of my friends and family about you, i love personality. Greetings from Holland

    • @mybit7470
      @mybit7470 Рік тому

      @@Ortenge I hope you will facilitate his visit to the Djukas!

  • @olinago
    @olinago Рік тому +2

    its good to see Haiti represented. I have seen a couple of Haitian flags. Ayibobo

  • @AmorachiTV
    @AmorachiTV Рік тому +4

    God blessed Dahomey (Benin)! ❤🇭🇹

  • @dhirajtayade9419
    @dhirajtayade9419 Рік тому +9

    Africa will progress and african will lead a Confident and respectful life if they leave Colonial abrahamic religions like Christianity and islam. Africans should preserve, protect and improve their own culture, language like the Indians Did.

  • @supernewafrica4210
    @supernewafrica4210 Рік тому +3

    Anybody unsubscribing is brainwashed. Don’t beg them. You have every right to cover any religion you want to cover especially when invited, and all peoples have a right to their religion

  • @miriamhoward5865
    @miriamhoward5865 Рік тому +12

    I must thank you for the education that we would have never known, if we don't travel and experience different Cultures.

  • @ZeleKaregaa
    @ZeleKaregaa Рік тому +21

    Thank you Wode Maya!!! I seen Tayo Aina video and it was amazing! My husband and I were waiting for your video 🙌🏽
    I live in Georgia in USA and love seeing my culture! Love how powerful we are as Africans and so glad you can help me see what is not represented in USA.

  • @Odhis_Mwafrika
    @Odhis_Mwafrika Рік тому +33

    It's culture and we have to understand why it is important for this community. We're Africa and Africa is our business 💪🇰🇪

    • @movingwheels26
      @movingwheels26 Рік тому +6

      Yessssss, Africa 🌍 is our business

    • @nancymuseve3249
      @nancymuseve3249 Рік тому +8

      Afrikan people should ask themselves why white men want to know about our culture. What's it important..our culture is so important than Afrikan people think

    • @Odhis_Mwafrika
      @Odhis_Mwafrika Рік тому +1

      @@nancymuseve3249 True. I wish we'd go back to the roots... AFRICA IS GOD. Masterpiece of God's creation.

    • @sodvine3486
      @sodvine3486 Рік тому +1

      Christ before culture always ...wake up ua-cam.com/video/L-lkwFqcNJQ/v-deo.html today is your day

    • @nancymuseve3249
      @nancymuseve3249 Рік тому +4

      @@Odhis_Mwafrika..Afrikan people doesn't see Arabians people give us Islam and white men give us Christianity..where is our culture.

  • @Houseoftherisingsun254
    @Houseoftherisingsun254 Рік тому +4

    Now after watching this... it is in bucket list 🙏🏿🇰🇪

  • @kreativekraal
    @kreativekraal Рік тому +6

    AM DEFINATELY GOING TO FILM THE NEXT FESTIVAL. IN THE MEANTIME, LET ME SHARE THIS VIDEO.
    Much love from South Africa

  • @movingwheels26
    @movingwheels26 Рік тому +9

    Africa 🌍🌍🌍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 the best!!!!!

  • @adjohabia4080
    @adjohabia4080 Рік тому +4

    Thank you Wode Maya for doing such a great job. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿I’m so proud of my culture❤️

  • @gadeyeye6268
    @gadeyeye6268 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for this Wode Maya. I appreciate you for keeping an open mind

  • @rosiewarrington6723
    @rosiewarrington6723 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Wode Maya. I'm so pleased that you have shown this video. It's time we remember our African religion and culture. I'm staying right here on your channel FOREVER. Peace xxx

  • @titus254
    @titus254 Рік тому +3

    This one will add a million subscribers on this channel. Good piece Maya

  • @jrmac85able
    @jrmac85able Рік тому +3

    Haiti in the house 🇭🇹 🇭🇹

  • @joshuabukuru9869
    @joshuabukuru9869 Рік тому +1

    It has a double wall inside, wherein someone hides in, giving off the illusion that it's empty

  • @princeachraf4873
    @princeachraf4873 Рік тому +6

    Bro keep the good work for the Africa community we are proud of you

  • @kettlycharles4312
    @kettlycharles4312 Рік тому +11

    AGRICULTURE MUST BE GREAT AGAIN!

    • @rosemumbua8817
      @rosemumbua8817 Рік тому

      Yes, without adding GMO from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. May God scuttle their plans.

  • @sakhu8945
    @sakhu8945 Рік тому +7

    I can’t wait to go to the Ouidah Festival.

  • @blessed403
    @blessed403 Рік тому +2

    I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish. --“Toussaint Louverture”

  • @beatrice123ful
    @beatrice123ful Рік тому +2

    I want to come one day 🇭🇹

  • @theblackgods4699
    @theblackgods4699 Рік тому +6

    Vodoo is not Africa's only religion

  • @ACEDTVL
    @ACEDTVL Рік тому +5

    that was some deep research on that tree I see my Haitian sister is curious too

    • @Mbaye77
      @Mbaye77 Рік тому +1

      Hello Ace. We are waiting for you here on the motherland. You re mostly welcomed. 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳

    • @adntvshow
      @adntvshow Рік тому

      Ace when you coming to NYC

  • @Mygirllifestyle
    @Mygirllifestyle Рік тому +2

    You are so humble and respectful Wode Maya, keep it up....

  • @oseniajayi51
    @oseniajayi51 Рік тому +4

    Maya, there's nothing evil with our African traditional medicine that is based on nature.
    Please let us stop using derogatory word to describe our ancestors traditional medicine as 'voodoo'. Haitian and Ethiopian used the African traditional medicine successfully, defeated the French and Italian their colonial powers long time ago. I'm happy that you have the courage to gave us this educational video on African traditional medicine that some of us used to in Yoruba culture, Western Nigeria when we are growing up.There is nothing evil about it.I cherish my African traditional medicine that is based on nature. God bless you and protect you for the amazing work you are doing for Mama Africa.

  • @abayomialao4916
    @abayomialao4916 Рік тому +7

    Egungun is called masscurade in Nigeria

  • @agboyaw6607
    @agboyaw6607 Рік тому +5

    Africa was it's own reality

  • @blockavelli
    @blockavelli Рік тому +1

    Was looking forward to this one. Keep up the good work!

  • @nikkiellis923
    @nikkiellis923 Рік тому +1

    To my Ancestors, I pray that my feet step on the continent one day to visit this beautiful country of Benin and attend the festival. Voodoo is my life! Africa forever!

  • @cynthiatotty3644
    @cynthiatotty3644 Рік тому +3

    Well you gained a follower!!! Love this...thank you