I think this is a story of resistance that should not be forgotten ,,, I know that African culture is respecting the ancestors ,,, and this is what they are doing. this family could have been extinct if not for their strength
There is something deeply concerning with this video...why can’t they accept their African roots above all instead of claiming Brazilian heritage when it was forced upon them. Their real heritage originated in NIGERIA so be proud of that. Also why is that one dude proud his grandpa participated in the slave trade like....
@@MissMeMe343 No one is asking them to, but they are honestly indistinguishable. They speak Yoruba and look 100% like us. It is disturbing, that this was taking to CNN instead of just talking to their African brothers and sisters. The lady said she is afraid of her children not knowing where they are from and there is no law in Nigeria saying you can't tell your own child their particular history. Are supposed to magically tell the difference between afro cubans, afro jamaicans, afro brazilians anad all the different places that people could have returned from in the 1800s. Let me give you an example, many white people in America had ancestors that came from Europe in the 1800s and even 1900s, and they are completely indistinguishable, because that is what happens when you've been in a place for so long where everybody looks like you and you all have the same accents. She should tell her daughter her Brazilian heritage, just like Irish Americans tell their kids they are of Irish heritage, but we are not going to give you an award for being Brazilian, what kind of nonsense is that. We love them, but to tell you the truth, we don't even know they are different, they look like us, in fact, as far as we are concerned, they are us, and if that is what they don't like -- being associated with us -- then I don't think we are the ones with the problem. Btw.. I have a Brazilian great great great grandfather in my own lineage because my family is from Lagos
My African forefathers are from Cuba and US. So I know a lot was taken from Nigeria to Brazil, Cuba, US and other parts of the north, central and South America and the Caribbean.
But not genetically. Most Cubans are of Congo, Cameroon, Angolan and other Central and Southern Africans countries. A few were Yoruba. The Yoruba culture was adopted by many slaves. The same way they adopt Christianity and Islam.
pascal eburuche : You do realise those returnees had families back in Brazil and if they ignore their heritage then they are forgetting their history and families left behind. Through these people we have had many of their lineage traced to Afro Brazilians in Bahia today. We like it or not they are connected to Brazil. It's like saying all American returnees should forget their lineage from those they left behind in America. That's wrong and it's repeating the same white man's Agenda of erasing our history and self recognition. Catholic is connected to Yoruba religion. They've indoctrinated òrìṣà to all the saints. Yoruba religion is syncretized with Roman Catholicism. For example: St. Lazarus is Catholic Saint associated with Babaluaye. Barbara was believed to be born of SANGO worshippers hence she was Symbolises with THUNDER and attire is Red. So, Chango/Shango/Sango is St. Barbara. Osayin/Osain is St. Joseph Oshun/Osun is Our Lady of Charity Oggun/Ogun is St. Peter. Eleggua /Elegun ososi is St. Anthony So, don't assume what you don't know.
What. Some of them will have been in Brazil for a long enough time (generations) to have ancestry other than Nigerian, and will be mixed. Others will have been there only one generation, but nonetheless, it remains a part of their CULTURAL heritage and their HISTORY, which are also parts of IDENTITY, aside from DNA.
ure stupid, do u not understand that there are different ethnic groups in Nigeria that help build nigeria, just like you have Yorubas ibo... u have Saros(krio) and agudas(Brazilians). We are our own tribe We helped to build the country to what it is. We are decendants of slaves.
There are troubling details in this video. What does it mean to be a Brazilian who has returned to Lagos as part of identifying and reclaiming a long lost culture. And at the same time portray a mostly Eurocentric view of your self. Time to wake up people. There is a reason you chose to come back home, do no negate it with the Eurocentric baggage .
Nigeria is mostly Christian and Muslim. Those are not native African religions. You are arrogant. It was people like you that sold their ancestors to slavery in the first place.
@@MrAmhara actually, I'll say it's probably people like you. You seem extremely prideful even when you boast about the white man and Arab man's religions.
Já constatei em uma pesquisa 🔎 que geralmente Afro-brasileiros com sobrenome Costa, Mina ,tem origem na atual Nigéria Recebiam este nome e os mesmo se denominavam como referência ao seu lugar de origem, tipo Costa da Mina que é o nome da região portuária que eles saíam (África)
I don't understand how they're Brazilians if they left as Yorubas, were in Brazil only for decades, retained their Yoruba names but dropped their native faith in Orishas?! How is it that one returns home as a foreigner, is that even possible?
Their roots began in Nigeria,where their ancestors were kidnapped from. This is why they say returning. It is the same as Americans going to Africa, it is going back home.........
They need to preserve it. Demolishing doesn’t make less Nigeria. You learn from history. Not the building that should be destroyed but the white images.
Are you high? Brazilian culture has INFLUENCED Lagos??? What???? On the contrary, Lagos has INFLUENCED Brazilian culture. Do you forget that Slaves were taken from Nigeria to Brazil and Cuba? By the way, I am Nigerian, born and bred in Lagos, so I know what I'm talking about. Brazilians traveled back to Lagos, and intermingled with native Lagosians, however, Lagos' identity is not Brazilian; it is Nigerian. Come on. Tell it as it is.
The Black Order Have you visited or lived in Brazil? I have lived in Nigeria and I have also lived in Brazil. The overall tone of the video does not speak of architecture alone. Except for places like Salvador and Bahia in Brazil, where you can buy Akara on the streets, just like in Lagos and where Yoruba culture is present, most of Brazil is NOTHING like Lagos. As a matter of fact, Brazil is one of the most RACIST countries in the world. The current Afro Brazilians in Lagos and their 'Brazilian architecture", have very little in common with the Afro Brazilians in Brazil, except for names, food recipes and fetish spiritual beliefs ( sango, ogun, yemoja, etc). Go to the average Afro Brazilian community in Brazil and see if there is any evidence of the 'grandeur' this video speaks of.
kenisha gilkes To the slaves that were TAKEN by FORCE what use are semantics to the millions of bones that lie at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ( The Middle Passage)? Did they care for or benefit from their SALE? I believe the focus of THIS thread is the impact of Brazilian culture on Nigerian culture, and unless one has experienced both, the point will be missed and objectivity lost.
@@MrHonesttruth7 I agree, Nigeria & Africa has influenced Brazil not the otherway around, Bahia is African not Lagos is brasilian not even their street with grandparents names.
Unneccesary and overexaggerated. They first came from Yorubaland, carried to Brazil and returned because they never forgot where they came from. Sure when they returned, they returned different but the culture of Yorubas is theirs. The Video makes it seem like they are foreigners or something
They are living witnesses of the complexities of the slave trade. My grandma was Black, my grandpa was white, family is a mix of several ethnicities. But these people were caught between local Wars, white merchants who eagerly bought them, many lost their original families on the crossing, built new families and customs in Brazil. Upon returning to Africa, they were not seen as locals anymore. Their families? Tribes? Particular groups within a nation? They were almost strangers in the land where they were born. The agudahs are a very special group, who should be respected on both sides of the atlantic, cause they were slaves, displaced, earned their freedom (most of them), tried to return but remained forever displaced, I suppose because they resisted total assimilation in Brazil, they resisted forgetting their past, tried to Go back, but... I Wonder If that IS not the fate of those who are forced out of their land, by violence and terror. Instead of chastising them for not fitting , we all, both sides of the atlantic, should respect them.
Prove it. DNA results say otherwise. Ifa was adopted by Afro-Brazilians. The Yoruba were only a small group among slaves in Brazil. However the Yoruba influence was huge.
@@MrAmhara And this is why I am a proponent of people doing DNA tests before they return to a part of Africa, so they don't risk the slightest conflicts. Even the slightest knowledge of a trace of actual Yoruba ancestry will give them something more than their captive identity to connect based on. The reason they don't want to connect on a pre western identity is because they don't know where they were from before their western home. If they knew they were Yoruba, to any degree, before being taken to the West, they can connect on that percent of their Yoruba ancestry , because that would be what they and the locals have in common. Even in Africa, a Yoruba can't just go to Kenya and feel 100% at home. If you're coming back to Africa, do some kind of Ancestry test, so you can connect of something beyond the slave nation. Nigerians could also call ourselves British, because we were unfortunately captive to the British, but that would sound weak and silly so we don't do it. It is important that people find something pre-captivity to connect by
Very nice. I'm partly an Afro-Brazilian (i'm a mixed with native american Kiriri, africans and europeans races). I borned in Bahia State where it's famous because the African culture influence, mainly in Salvador city. my african side I don't know what place of África or ethnic group my ancestors are.
What a nonsense. You come back home to be real african and not afro brazilian. Be proud to be back home Where you Feel Safe. You are afro brazilian is brazil not in Nigeria.
Most Nigerians in Lagos are Christians. Most Africans are Christians are muslims. Any they are a group and are like their own "tribe". Why would they forget their history and struggle? You sound insane.
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This is a complicated subject, as is African descendents of Slaves in the USA. Culturally we're lost in a middle ground. Great Video!
My first time in Lagos I visited Badagary and learned about the slave trade. This was the best trip I have ever taken. Looking forward to going back.
Why can't Lagosians beautify the area, plant flowers and trees, and keep the area nice and tidy?
The area is very run down and its a shame.
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I think this is a story of resistance that should not be forgotten ,,, I know that African culture is respecting the ancestors ,,, and this is what they are doing. this family could have been extinct if not for their strength
There is something deeply concerning with this video...why can’t they accept their African roots above all instead of claiming Brazilian heritage when it was forced upon them. Their real heritage originated in NIGERIA so be proud of that. Also why is that one dude proud his grandpa participated in the slave trade like....
Because thats most of them got their richness from. It is really confusing
They are Brazilian. They've been there 500 years and that is part of their culture and identity. They can't just drop it and become Nigerian now.
@@MissMeMe343 No one is asking them to, but they are honestly indistinguishable. They speak Yoruba and look 100% like us. It is disturbing, that this was taking to CNN instead of just talking to their African brothers and sisters. The lady said she is afraid of her children not knowing where they are from and there is no law in Nigeria saying you can't tell your own child their particular history. Are supposed to magically tell the difference between afro cubans, afro jamaicans, afro brazilians anad all the different places that people could have returned from in the 1800s. Let me give you an example, many white people in America had ancestors that came from Europe in the 1800s and even 1900s, and they are completely indistinguishable, because that is what happens when you've been in a place for so long where everybody looks like you and you all have the same accents. She should tell her daughter her Brazilian heritage, just like Irish Americans tell their kids they are of Irish heritage, but we are not going to give you an award for being Brazilian, what kind of nonsense is that. We love them, but to tell you the truth, we don't even know they are different, they look like us, in fact, as far as we are concerned, they are us, and if that is what they don't like -- being associated with us -- then I don't think we are the ones with the problem. Btw.. I have a Brazilian great great great grandfather in my own lineage because my family is from Lagos
My African forefathers are from Cuba and US. So I know a lot was taken from Nigeria to Brazil, Cuba, US and other parts of the north, central and South America and the Caribbean.
But not genetically. Most Cubans are of Congo, Cameroon, Angolan and other Central and Southern Africans countries. A few were Yoruba. The Yoruba culture was adopted by many slaves. The same way they adopt Christianity and Islam.
@@MrAmhara How do you know that??
The difficulty is clear. We are still not a protected people. So we are still struggling to get the respect of our ancestors struggle.
Thank you for my like
All Africans of the diaspora are African descendants we all need too celebrate
Then let them not bring the slave masters mind with them.
How does it makes sense to claim ancestry from Brazil when the same ancestors originally where taken from nigeria... is this ignorance or what?
Ignorance of the highest order. They brought back the catholic religion and claiming prison heritage.
pascal eburuche : You do realise those returnees had families back in Brazil and if they ignore their heritage then they are forgetting their history and families left behind. Through these people we have had many of their lineage traced to Afro Brazilians in Bahia today. We like it or not they are connected to Brazil. It's like saying all American returnees should forget their lineage from those they left behind in America. That's wrong and it's repeating the same white man's Agenda of erasing our history and self recognition. Catholic is connected to Yoruba religion. They've indoctrinated òrìṣà to all the saints. Yoruba religion is syncretized with Roman Catholicism. For example: St. Lazarus is Catholic Saint associated with Babaluaye. Barbara was believed to be born of SANGO worshippers hence she was Symbolises with THUNDER and attire is Red. So, Chango/Shango/Sango is St. Barbara.
Osayin/Osain is St. Joseph
Oshun/Osun is Our Lady of Charity
Oggun/Ogun is St. Peter.
Eleggua /Elegun ososi is St. Anthony
So, don't assume what you don't know.
What. Some of them will have been in Brazil for a long enough time (generations) to have ancestry other than Nigerian, and will be mixed. Others will have been there only one generation, but nonetheless, it remains a part of their CULTURAL heritage and their HISTORY, which are also parts of IDENTITY, aside from DNA.
ure stupid, do u not understand that there are different ethnic groups in Nigeria that help build nigeria, just like you have Yorubas ibo... u have Saros(krio) and agudas(Brazilians). We are our own tribe We helped to build the country to what it is. We are decendants of slaves.
There are troubling details in this video. What does it mean to be a Brazilian who has returned to Lagos as part of identifying and reclaiming a long lost culture. And at the same time portray a mostly Eurocentric view of your self. Time to wake up people. There is a reason you chose to come back home, do no negate it with the Eurocentric baggage .
Nigeria is mostly Christian and Muslim. Those are not native African religions. You are arrogant.
It was people like you that sold their ancestors to slavery in the first place.
@@MrAmhara actually, I'll say it's probably people like you. You seem extremely prideful even when you boast about the white man and Arab man's religions.
As a Brazilian I’d like to visit them one day.
Say Afro
@@IGLSaddam Eles não perderam a essência de brasileiros então ainda são brasileiros
I'm from Brazil. I wish they were my family... at least I would know where i come from!
Já constatei em uma pesquisa 🔎 que geralmente Afro-brasileiros com sobrenome Costa, Mina ,tem origem na atual Nigéria
Recebiam este nome e os mesmo se denominavam como referência ao seu lugar de origem, tipo Costa da Mina que é o nome da região portuária que eles saíam (África)
Love from an African American brother.
What are they preserving. The food and culture of the people that enslaved them..I am confused
They are preserving their identity which that history, even though it was part transformed by it.
That food is a black culture in brazil, the feijoada, is a black dish.
I don't understand how they're Brazilians if they left as Yorubas, were in Brazil only for decades, retained their Yoruba names but dropped their native faith in Orishas?! How is it that one returns home as a foreigner, is that even possible?
MrAmhara Your comment is very dumb and stupid.
Muitos retornaram mestiços com outros africanos e português
Their roots began in Nigeria,where their ancestors were kidnapped from. This is why they say returning. It is the same as Americans going to Africa, it is going back home.........
The whole point of returning back to Lagos was to come home. Then why are they preserving the Brazilian culture ?? You are a Nigerian now...
They need to preserve it. Demolishing doesn’t make less Nigeria. You learn from history. Not the building that should be destroyed but the white images.
Truth!
@@XxxclusiveReviews they should go back!
They returned home some centurys later, they can't just erase who they were but become who they've always dreamt to be.
Because they were born in Brazil that's who they are.
Are you high? Brazilian culture has INFLUENCED Lagos??? What???? On the contrary, Lagos has INFLUENCED Brazilian culture. Do you forget that Slaves were taken from Nigeria to Brazil and Cuba? By the way, I am Nigerian, born and bred in Lagos, so I know what I'm talking about. Brazilians traveled back to Lagos, and intermingled with native Lagosians, however, Lagos' identity is not Brazilian; it is Nigerian. Come on. Tell it as it is.
The Black Order Have you visited or lived in Brazil? I have lived in Nigeria and I have also lived in Brazil. The overall tone of the video does not speak of architecture alone. Except for places like Salvador and Bahia in Brazil, where you can buy Akara on the streets, just like in Lagos and where Yoruba culture is present, most of Brazil is NOTHING like Lagos. As a matter of fact, Brazil is one of the most RACIST countries in the world. The current Afro Brazilians in Lagos and their 'Brazilian architecture", have very little in common with the Afro Brazilians in Brazil, except for names, food recipes and fetish spiritual beliefs ( sango, ogun, yemoja, etc). Go to the average Afro Brazilian community in Brazil and see if there is any evidence of the 'grandeur' this video speaks of.
kenisha gilkes To the slaves that were TAKEN by FORCE what use are semantics to the millions of bones that lie at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ( The Middle Passage)? Did they care for or benefit from their SALE? I believe the focus of THIS thread is the impact of Brazilian culture on Nigerian culture, and unless one has experienced both, the point will be missed and objectivity lost.
Preach!
Have u seen the architecture. Its completely portuguese.
@@MrHonesttruth7 I agree, Nigeria & Africa has influenced Brazil not the otherway around, Bahia is African not Lagos is brasilian not even their street with grandparents names.
my people.......I see my family compound...however there's nothing to preserve.
What would you like to see preserved
Você é descendente de Afro-brasileiros na Nigéria ?
They returned to togo and benin too. And some were slaves traders selling slaves to the whites. And they were the wealthiest.
They need to shake those Portuguese names. You're home now so pick one.
And the picture of white saints on the walls of the church?
@@abdulraheem415 Yes! Stop the madness!
Unneccesary and overexaggerated. They first came from Yorubaland, carried to Brazil and returned because they never forgot where they came from. Sure when they returned, they returned different but the culture of Yorubas is theirs. The Video makes it seem like they are foreigners or something
They are living witnesses of the complexities of the slave trade. My grandma was Black, my grandpa was white, family is a mix of several ethnicities. But these people were caught between local Wars, white merchants who eagerly bought them, many lost their original families on the crossing, built new families and customs in Brazil. Upon returning to Africa, they were not seen as locals anymore. Their families? Tribes? Particular groups within a nation? They were almost strangers in the land where they were born. The agudahs are a very special group, who should be respected on both sides of the atlantic, cause they were slaves, displaced, earned their freedom (most of them), tried to return but remained forever displaced, I suppose because they resisted total assimilation in Brazil, they resisted forgetting their past, tried to Go back, but... I Wonder If that IS not the fate of those who are forced out of their land, by violence and terror. Instead of chastising them for not fitting , we all, both sides of the atlantic, should respect them.
Nossos irmãos do outro lado do oceano 👑🇧🇷🫡
I guess the scammers behind the computer can speak Portuguese too?🤣
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Nigerian ancestors, so their story began in Nigeria.
I don't think it was a matter of decision for black brazilian to return to Nigeria... Not sure about that
THEY ARE ALL YORUBA'S
Prove it. DNA results say otherwise. Ifa was adopted by Afro-Brazilians. The Yoruba were only a small group among slaves in Brazil. However the Yoruba influence was huge.
MrAmhara what dna dumbass. Most of the aguda that came still know their origin in Yoruba land like deinde Fernandez or de Rocha
@@adeyemiadebayo9952 hallo brother, i'am fron salvador/ bahia/ brazil, and my granfather is PAULO ROCHA MEDRADO, I DO THEY ARE BY SALVADOR/ BAHIA.
Antonio De Jesus good for u man. Stay safe
@@MrAmhara And this is why I am a proponent of people doing DNA tests before they return to a part of Africa, so they don't risk the slightest conflicts. Even the slightest knowledge of a trace of actual Yoruba ancestry will give them something more than their captive identity to connect based on. The reason they don't want to connect on a pre western identity is because they don't know where they were from before their western home. If they knew they were Yoruba, to any degree, before being taken to the West, they can connect on that percent of their Yoruba ancestry , because that would be what they and the locals have in common. Even in Africa, a Yoruba can't just go to Kenya and feel 100% at home. If you're coming back to Africa, do some kind of Ancestry test, so you can connect of something beyond the slave nation. Nigerians could also call ourselves British, because we were unfortunately captive to the British, but that would sound weak and silly so we don't do it. It is important that people find something pre-captivity to connect by
Vida longa a todos, com muito carinho e com a proteção de Deus...amém.
Very nice. I'm partly an Afro-Brazilian (i'm a mixed with native american Kiriri, africans and europeans races). I borned in Bahia State where it's famous because the African culture influence, mainly in Salvador city. my african side I don't know what place of África or ethnic group my ancestors are.
Do a dna test
What a nonsense. You come back home to be real african and not afro brazilian. Be proud to be back home Where you Feel Safe. You are afro brazilian is brazil not in Nigeria.
Fique 5 anos e media em Salvador. Gostei, amei tudoooo! I am going back.
So backward! You were the original tribe who was stolen and then they went back. You want to keep up the slave masters practices? I'm confused!
Most Nigerians in Lagos are Christians. Most Africans are Christians are muslims. Any they are a group and are like their own "tribe". Why would they forget their history and struggle? You sound insane.
The comments here... 😂
AKA children of Judah/Agudah