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Our experience as Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Madagascar, a country in East Africa
Hello, lovely people, and welcome to my youtube channel, Fervently Anchored. I’m Sydney! In this video, I recruited some of my Black Peace Corps Volunteer friends to speak on our experience as Black Americans and as Black PCVs in Madagascar. In this video, we cover 5 topics: How we were perceived, Highlights, Challenges, Experiences as Black PCVs within the Peace Corps community, and what being Black in Africa meant to us. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASEEEE watch to the end! The video is a little longer because I believe everything in this video was worth sharing!
Please know that this was not our entire Peace Corps experience, but we tried to speak on the topics, stories, and ideas that specifically focused on how being Black impacted our experience. There are many more highlights, bonding moments, and challenges that are not featured in this video. Also please remember that these experiences are unique to us and us alone. Another Black American in Madagascar could have had a completelyyyy different experience, as could a Black American in another country in Africa. We are just sharing what we know :)
If you liked this video, please COMMENT, LIKE, AND SUBSCRIBE!!! Oh, and SHARE!!!! Also follow me on IG: @ferventlyanchored . Also, follow Jennifer from the video @aroundtheblockwithjenni . Thanks, y’all!
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  • @bladex264
    @bladex264 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Any more travels to come?

  • @paternebengehya2167
    @paternebengehya2167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great experiences

  • @Terry-q4c
    @Terry-q4c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was a great video. Thank you for sharing. Loved the interviews, and im absolutely sure you guys represented lovely. I tried to do the same thing while serving in Addis Ababa, and made life long Ethiopia 🇪🇹 friends.

  • @Terry-q4c
    @Terry-q4c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was weird also, how I would be in shocked that one of my roommates who was from Ireland 🇮🇪 would show me the vivid differences when we would walk the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. If you don’t know in many foreign countries pedestrians don’t have the right of way while in traffic. However, when my workmate would try and cross the streets, vehicles would abruptly stop or give the right of way. Same thing when going into a restaurant. Sometimes i would be ignored for minutes on end. However, when I was with my lily white friend from Ireland, we would get seating abruptly. Just facts. The brainwashing and colonialism still is quite prevalent. Lastly, I will speak on Nigeria. 😢 sad, sad, sad, how the courts system, or the judicial system, how they still wear the white wigs on their dark hue skin. They feel as if they still must have a semblance of England in their now independent system. It looks heinous and once again it shows the backwards silly brainwashing of a typically brilliant people.

  • @Terry-q4c
    @Terry-q4c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shows how naive the world still is. Even when I was in Africa for 3 yrs., visiting Ethiopia and Nigeria I was shocked while visi😢ting folks homes, I would see a photo of white Jesus with blond hair & blue eyes on their living room wall.

  • @N0phillter
    @N0phillter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I need to talk to somebody I’m coming from San Francisco Bay Area California

  • @N0phillter
    @N0phillter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bruh please holla at me

  • @N0phillter
    @N0phillter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I need to talk to u I’m tryna go to Madagascar. I’m from the bay

  • @Paiige2000
    @Paiige2000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How was it living with a host family ? Were there other peace corp members close by ?

  • @willwright7728
    @willwright7728 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everyone black in Madagascar. You being black is no different then a white person doing it. Putting your color is just weird. Why do blacks do this? Y’all bring your color out so much and no one gives a damn🤣 you wonder why other countries make fun of y’all?

  • @Squ-290
    @Squ-290 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your smile.

  • @cameronproductions9687
    @cameronproductions9687 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I absolutely love your energy! I literally could watch you all day! Your humbling spirit is intoxicating! And to be as beautiful as you are. Who voluntarily lived your life, for two years, as what looks like a couple of steps below a minimalist! Is very sexy to me! Where have you been all my life? “You’re Perfect” Marry Me? Lol just kidding😁 But seriously you have me thinking about joining the Peace Corps now! 😁Great video! 😁👍🏽

  • @isaacmtange3460
    @isaacmtange3460 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am watching you from Kenya

  • @beatsbymelody
    @beatsbymelody 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ i love this now i kinda have a feel of what to expect. Thankyou all for documenting your journey.

  • @alsaulso1332
    @alsaulso1332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awe this is adorable!! Keep spreading Peace!!!

  • @leonwoods4052
    @leonwoods4052 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not looking like the people especially with that lace front weave. Black American women stop wearing fake straight hairdos, everyone on the planet know its unnatural to you.

  • @leonwoods4052
    @leonwoods4052 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I must say the Brother with the twisted hairdo look straight from the BUSH of AFRICA,there's no other reason why the people of Madagascar would think any different.

  • @leonwoods4052
    @leonwoods4052 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why don't you educate the people about the African participation in the cross Atlantic slave trade,that may clear things up upon the question of you being "American".

  • @dorothyrosegreen5848
    @dorothyrosegreen5848 ปีที่แล้ว

    They are black too

  • @shreyasnatesan6207
    @shreyasnatesan6207 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're absolutely gorgeous

  • @chuckhiggins4940
    @chuckhiggins4940 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many Black Americans have Malagasy ancestry. You'll often see "Indonesian", "Filipino", or "broadly SE Asain" show up on Black American DNA tests. This DNA comes from our Malagasy ancestors. It's crazy that the people of the island aren't aware that some of their kin ended up in America. And people still think that American = white even after almost a decade of Obama and a whole black First Family?

    • @lampsaltlight
      @lampsaltlight 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s because the majority of people are not well educated. It’s because of the education system. Sad but true. I should know, I myself am Malagasy and used to work in the Ministry of Education.

  • @patrickguillory-yy2gu
    @patrickguillory-yy2gu ปีที่แล้ว

    If I ever get a chance to go to Madagascar, I would stay there forever…………Madagascar is a paradise ❤

  • @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk
    @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing experience .

  • @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk
    @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk ปีที่แล้ว

    Good advice.

  • @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk
    @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful.

  • @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk
    @ThomsoyaWires-mb3wk ปีที่แล้ว

    Woow good looking face.

  • @mightylaser0000
    @mightylaser0000 ปีที่แล้ว

    This almost made me cry.

  • @TheBold1994
    @TheBold1994 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really want you guys to know truly just how the entirety of this video is absolute cringe! So it’s not just America that is systematically racist.

  • @billyandriam
    @billyandriam ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for your volunteering in our country.

  • @rachelbailey3041
    @rachelbailey3041 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did you manage with natural hair products there ?

  • @TheeMcMas
    @TheeMcMas ปีที่แล้ว

    I just found your channel, I love your enthusiam and hopefully more young people of color will see your post here in an effort for them to possibly volunteer and to leave America to see our world in a different light. Thank You for your service sister

  • @anitranovak2459
    @anitranovak2459 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great & Story’s💜💜🫶🏾

  • @Kiribatiboy2002
    @Kiribatiboy2002 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this video... fellow brown RPCV from the Island Nation of Kiribati!

  • @primitivosomera5484
    @primitivosomera5484 ปีที่แล้ว

    The kingdom of Maharlika the Austronesian people....

  • @lalainaramarivelo
    @lalainaramarivelo ปีที่แล้ว

    Home. Home is home right? Not because everyone's right but because that's where you belong the most...lol, as a an uproot here living in the land of the free, i really miss home. Asio sôsisy kely aloha

  • @keneg2406
    @keneg2406 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could listen to this woman speak all day…She us mesmerizingly beautiful. Truthfully, all the participants in this video were all so engaging and wonderful…I enjoyed this presentation so much! Thank you.

  • @louisparmer2718
    @louisparmer2718 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so awesome. I’m currently serving in the the Navy, sparked an interest in joining the peace corps but feel like I should maybe go to school first ? This just looks so awesome

  • @starhairthetutor3765
    @starhairthetutor3765 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the positivity! 😄 May you and all you meet be forever blessed.

  • @zeviongray6883
    @zeviongray6883 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tell me more....

  • @zeviongray6883
    @zeviongray6883 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would like to know more

  • @Pitchithard
    @Pitchithard 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what is the racial issue with black volunteers in a black country, maybe the volunteers need to stop being so sensitive over race issues and just help the local people cope with the poverty.

  • @isackchesoliwekesa1880
    @isackchesoliwekesa1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    when you listen me speaking oops same same guys from Tennessee 🤣 America

  • @isackchesoliwekesa1880
    @isackchesoliwekesa1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    blacks we are everywhere in the world 😜why say Malagasy same same mericana🤣Kenyans same same niggas click sound 🙈

  • @isackchesoliwekesa1880
    @isackchesoliwekesa1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🤣🤣🤣Malagasy same same Kenya not American 🤣🤣🤣

  • @isackchesoliwekesa1880
    @isackchesoliwekesa1880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    😜😜😜😜am real black from Kenya east Africa 🤣🤣🤣I love my skin (napenda rangi yangu) translation in English 😛

  • @Shay45
    @Shay45 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got chosen to go to Madagascar 2023.

  • @jasminepearls1047
    @jasminepearls1047 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is your family also from the U.S. or are they caribbean descent. I know black Americans have a range of looks but you do have a half Asian look.

  • @Doodhwala181
    @Doodhwala181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You look like indian...😮😲 Like (East indian)

  • @getbusydrizzy5296
    @getbusydrizzy5296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Black People - you all are not African American. You all are from the land of America. As Malcolm X says you all are AB-ORIGINAL

    • @bwayn6584
      @bwayn6584 ปีที่แล้ว

      Malcolm X said some bs.

    • @getbusydrizzy5296
      @getbusydrizzy5296 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bwayn6584 so Africa is the civilization for all humanity?

    • @getbusydrizzy5296
      @getbusydrizzy5296 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dont know your color so i cannot comment on where you are from. But the whole world know the truth but the blacks that are here. I travel in and out the country and I read. Malcolm knew the truth

    • @bwayn6584
      @bwayn6584 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@getbusydrizzy5296 You mean black people in America (USA) are descendants of black ancestors who were natives of America (USA)? Before the Europeans? or Geronimo?

    • @bwayn6584
      @bwayn6584 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@getbusydrizzy5296 I'm not black. I understand the suffering of Blacks in America but I don't think that Afrocentrism is the key to solve that suffering. Afrocentrism is a response to white supremacy and is just an inverted supremacy. The same thing.

  • @manakara9821
    @manakara9821 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's not Madagas kaar. it's Madagaska. I don't think the world would respect Peace Corps if they knew the truth.