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Sister you were afraid to go to the voodoo section but had no problem going to the Christian section the very system that enslave my ancestors. Please think about that, but nice video anyway.
I’ve been to Johannesburg, but I have to get to the door of no return. My DNA says I’m mostly from Cameroon. I hope to travel to Ghana later this year. Thank you Virtue Grace for this education.
thank you, I am African decent born in England from Jamaica parents and I grew up in NYC U.S. We are survivors of the atrocities that happened in Africa.
Thanks for the info . My DNA shows I have more Nigerian but I also have a little of Benin, Cameroon , Mali , Ghana , Ivory Coast . Guinea Bassau . It is remarkable cause I have Irish , Scottish and Baltic area too . I am a melting pot .
My beautiful sister you are doing great work. Thank you for you hard work and dedication to showing the wonderful land and culture in the great Continent of Mama Africa
Hi sister Grace, I really want to thank you for the all the efforts you made concerning Ouidah especially on the slave trade, very interesting, a lot of developments is going on there, certainly our brothers and sisters will surely come back not only to Bénin 🇧🇯, Togo 🇹🇬, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ghana 🇬🇭, thank God for Africa, may God forgive us and heal up the wounds of our ancestors, thank you so much God bless you abundantly, a bientôt
Yes, my ancestry from Nigeria Benin-Togo as well as Cameroon/Congo (as well as others) through the HORROR of the transatlantic slave trade. Knowing that many roots of my personal ancestral tree came from the peoples of these areas which are now designated countries fills me with the pride of my ancestors’ resilience (that passage was just the beginning of sorrows) as well as great sadness thinking of all the stolen seed of Africa with which She should have long been blossoming! That Portuguese colonizers came bearing a holy book (along with sword and raping rods - they’re in my dna too!) and warping it to exploit the people IN EVERY WAY , opening the door to even more European despoilers and of course, the Arabs (who’d been sucking by blood from East and Central Africa for centuries!), is the be if the greatest, most long term examples of evil avarice perpetrated against human beings in the history of this planet! If the last day of judgment ever comes to this world, those wicked souls have a LOT to account and atone for!!!
Thanks, Virtue, for educating us on our history in Cameroon. It is important that we know how and what happened to our ancestors. Very informative! We love you too! Thanks again for blessing us with this gift 💝 of knowledge.
Thank you Grace for bringing us this information with real historical facts of our Ancestry, from the shores of Benin Republic, "The powerful Dahome Kingdom"! We can see the government of Benin has made a great investment in developing the beach line into a Historic Resort.
I liked the stone map of Benin. (It featured NW & SW Nigeria) How about pre-slavery historical Benin? Benin seems to be really gearing up in heritage tourism. Lot's of development going on.
As you can see the story of slaves trade never ends throughout this time, Virtue Grace: cited, "the abolition of slaves trade" Quoted on the history documents nevertheless the imperialism never left Africa and that slaves trade has taken different forms in modern societies in the Poorest Villages of Benin per Example still selling theirs Children to Europeans, in Kenya children has been stolen from theirs parents and sold into slave for free labor markets this as been reported per CNN do your own research to verify the true nature of my shared beliefs, Being Free😥
I bet that coconut water was delicious (and the flesh!). thank you so much Sista for this video and presenting this information. did not know there was a yearly religious celebration there that attracted many from the diaspora. learning so much from you and your videos. I agree it is sad that some of those monuments are eurocentric and they are using western methods to memorialize the history of the area. but it’s better than nothing I guess. Benin looks beautiful. enjoy yourself in Benin Sis. peace and love
Hello Virtue Grace! I will probably make many of your readers very angry by what I am about to say, but I feel that things need to be put into a wider context.But before looking at the wider picture, one factual point: the name *Dahomey* was not changed by the French. It remained after independence in 1960 until it was changed into the People’s Republic of Benin, which lasted from 1975-90, talking its name from the Bight of Benin. Now there is no playing down of the horror of the Atlantic slave trade, which for those who were sold to European and American merchants must have had the additional horror like that of being abducted by aliens before the invention of science fiction. However, slavery is not the invention of the White Man. People from North Africa were taking slaves from south of the Sahara from at least the 1st century CE. And the Barbary Pirates from Algeria captured about 1 million people from Northern Europe. One well known incident is the Sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa and depopulated. The Vikings were both slave raiders and traders - especially in the 9th and 10 centuries they would raid other northern Europeans for slaves to sell in Spain (under Moorish rule), North Africa, and West Asia. Captives from the Eastern Slavs (ancestors of today’s Russians) were sold down the Volga to the Arab empire in Baghdad, and Arab coins from this trade are still being found today in Scandinavia. It is from this that the word “slave” entered Western European languages. The Benin Kingdom in NIgeria was one that grew rich through the slave trade, selling unwanted mostly male captives taken in wars between other Africans. This last point is something very unpalatable to many people in Africa and people of African descent in America, but there are still people who wish to hide or deny this in order to make political capital out of the history for their own nefarious ends. And they may be hidden facts to many in Africa, but the evils of the Transatlantic slave trade have been widely known for over a century in Europe and America, and the matter was at the root of the American Civil War. In his second Inaugural Address, one month before the end of that war, Abraham Lincoln said: «Fondly do we hope-fervently do we pray-that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether".»
Grace love your videos but disappointed when you refused to visit the spiritual house which is our African heritage, our ancestors were not christians we had our own spirituality until the European colonisers in order to weaken us and brainwash us demonised our beliefs, we have rejected our powerful dieties that's why we as Africans are in confusion and suffering, what has christianity honestly done for the African, all our religions were forcebly brought to us.
So you said The Europeans came and this is where they bought your people. Well, Who was selling them in the first place. The Slave trade existed before The Europeans came. Africa's history was not interrupted by slavery, slavery is part of African history. It still going on today. Tell the whole story.
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Sister you were afraid to go to the voodoo section but had no problem going to the Christian section the very system that enslave my ancestors. Please think about that, but nice video anyway.
I’ve been to Johannesburg, but I have to get to the door of no return. My DNA says I’m mostly from Cameroon. I hope to travel to Ghana later this year. Thank you Virtue Grace for this education.
thank you, I am African decent born in England from Jamaica parents and I grew up in NYC U.S. We are survivors of the atrocities that happened in Africa.
You are,we love you ❤️
Thank you again lovely Grace for showcasing our beautiful Afrikan continent and exposing the truth in Afrikan history.👍💖💕
👍👍👀👀
Thanks for the info . My DNA shows I have more Nigerian but I also have a little of Benin, Cameroon , Mali , Ghana , Ivory Coast . Guinea Bassau . It is remarkable cause I have Irish , Scottish and Baltic area too . I am a melting pot .
Hi from America. Teach sister!
THANK YOU WISE🍫👑WOMAN FOR EXPOSING THE TRUTH🌹😘❤😍
My beautiful sister you are doing great work. Thank you for you hard work and dedication to showing the wonderful land and culture in the great Continent of Mama Africa
Thank you for sharing this. The land is waiting for its people to come home
I absolutely love this video Virtue Grace. And I am mostly Nigerian
Informative historical video! Thank you for sharing.
So interesting, thank you for sharing the culture!
Hi sister Grace, I really want to thank you for the all the efforts you made concerning Ouidah especially on the slave trade, very interesting, a lot of developments is going on there, certainly our brothers and sisters will surely come back not only to Bénin 🇧🇯, Togo 🇹🇬, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ghana 🇬🇭, thank God for Africa, may God forgive us and heal up the wounds of our ancestors, thank you so much God bless you abundantly, a bientôt
Thanks for sharing ouidah to us you made us know what we don't know, I appreciate it, try to visit Porto Novo too and lets see PN through your lens.
Yes, my ancestry from Nigeria Benin-Togo as well as Cameroon/Congo (as well as others) through the HORROR of the transatlantic slave trade. Knowing that many roots of my personal ancestral tree came from the peoples of these areas which are now designated countries fills me with the pride of my ancestors’ resilience (that passage was just the beginning of sorrows) as well as great sadness thinking of all the stolen seed of Africa with which She should have long been blossoming! That Portuguese colonizers came bearing a holy book (along with sword and raping rods - they’re in my dna too!) and warping it to exploit the people IN EVERY WAY , opening the door to even more European despoilers and of course, the Arabs (who’d been sucking by blood from East and Central Africa for centuries!), is the be if the greatest, most long term examples of evil avarice perpetrated against human beings in the history of this planet! If the last day of judgment ever comes to this world, those wicked souls have a LOT to account and atone for!!!
This is beautiful 😍😍got to hear a different side of the story than what we are used to, thank you for sharing
Thanks dear 🤗
Thanks, Virtue, for educating us on our history in Cameroon. It is important that we know how and what happened to our ancestors. Very informative! We love you too! Thanks again for blessing us with this gift 💝 of knowledge.
Great , the Ada tribe in Ghana has that game too, it brought back memories.
Thank you Grace for bringing us this information with real historical facts of our Ancestry, from the shores of Benin Republic, "The powerful Dahome Kingdom"! We can see the government of Benin has made a great investment in developing the beach line into a Historic Resort.
Pleasure is mine. Yes, the government is making good investments
Wow, I always thought the "Door of No Return" was in Ghana. I'm going to learn today
No,not only Ghana. The doors are in other West African countries as well
You are right my sister the names of the missionaries are there ,but the names of my ancestors are not inscribe there , thank you for that 🙏🙏💖💖
Bonsoir mademoiselle Grace. Bravo!!!
Bonsoir
I like to visit Cotonou Bénin
I liked the stone map of Benin.
(It featured NW & SW Nigeria)
How about pre-slavery historical Benin?
Benin seems to be really gearing up in heritage tourism. Lot's of development going on.
Yes, they are. The president is working
Awesome sisi. Keep it up
Thanks my brother 👏🏽🤗
I love learning so much from you. I would love for him to give us a tour. I really want to see that spirit house.
I'm happy to share with you 🤗
In Kongo we call it NSAKA-NSAKA.
Hi virtue grace 💞🥰🇧🇷🇳🇬
I'm Haitian our history say we are from Bennin Republic. They sold us to the French people 😪 😢 very 😔
We love you
Don't worry
Come back home.
God is love ❤️
As you can see the story of slaves trade never ends throughout this time, Virtue Grace: cited, "the abolition of slaves trade" Quoted on the history documents nevertheless the imperialism never left Africa and that slaves trade has taken different forms in modern societies in the Poorest Villages of Benin per Example still selling theirs Children to Europeans, in Kenya children has been stolen from theirs parents and sold into slave for free labor markets this as been reported per CNN do your own research to verify the true nature of my shared beliefs, Being Free😥
Lot of fake news in mainstram media.
I bet that coconut water was delicious (and the flesh!). thank you so much Sista for this video and presenting this information. did not know there was a yearly religious celebration there that attracted many from the diaspora. learning so much from you and your videos. I agree it is sad that some of those monuments are eurocentric and they are using western methods to memorialize the history of the area. but it’s better than nothing I guess. Benin looks beautiful. enjoy yourself in Benin Sis. peace and love
Yes, personally I felt like these monuments should have been left in their original form
@@africanstorytellerThey won't keep long in their original form.
Hello Virtue Grace! I will probably make many of your readers very angry by what I am about to say, but I feel that things need to be put into a wider context.But before looking at the wider picture, one factual point: the name *Dahomey* was not changed by the French. It remained after independence in 1960 until it was changed into the People’s Republic of Benin, which lasted from 1975-90, talking its name from the Bight of Benin.
Now there is no playing down of the horror of the Atlantic slave trade, which for those who were sold to European and American merchants must have had the additional horror like that of being abducted by aliens before the invention of science fiction.
However, slavery is not the invention of the White Man. People from North Africa were taking slaves from south of the Sahara from at least the 1st century CE. And the Barbary Pirates from Algeria captured about 1 million people from Northern Europe. One well known incident is the Sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa and depopulated.
The Vikings were both slave raiders and traders - especially in the 9th and 10 centuries they would raid other northern Europeans for slaves to sell in Spain (under Moorish rule), North Africa, and West Asia. Captives from the Eastern Slavs (ancestors of today’s Russians) were sold down the Volga to the Arab empire in Baghdad, and Arab coins from this trade are still being found today in Scandinavia. It is from this that the word “slave” entered Western European languages.
The Benin Kingdom in NIgeria was one that grew rich through the slave trade, selling unwanted mostly male captives taken in wars between other Africans.
This last point is something very unpalatable to many people in Africa and people of African descent in America, but there are still people who wish to hide or deny this in order to make political capital out of the history for their own nefarious ends.
And they may be hidden facts to many in Africa, but the evils of the Transatlantic slave trade have been widely known for over a century in Europe and America, and the matter was at the root of the American Civil War. In his second Inaugural Address, one month before the end of that war, Abraham Lincoln said:
«Fondly do we hope-fervently do we pray-that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether".»
😁❤️🖤💚👍🏿👍🏿
So our ancestors had pure spiritualy. They were sold and after that foreigners brought a so called gospel. Lol
Mon frère Président Patrice Talon travaille bien
Grace love your videos but disappointed when you refused to visit the spiritual house which is our African heritage, our ancestors were not christians we had our own spirituality until the European colonisers in order to weaken us and brainwash us demonised our beliefs, we have rejected our powerful dieties that's why we as Africans are in confusion and suffering, what has christianity honestly done for the African, all our religions were forcebly brought to us.
Let's just say I'm also a product of the foreign religion, not my fault
So you said The Europeans came and this is where they bought your people. Well, Who was selling them in the first place. The Slave trade existed before The Europeans came. Africa's history was not interrupted by slavery, slavery is part of African history. It still going on today. Tell the whole story.
Africain never sold slaves to african before europeans come.