look into Oba ovonramwen of Benin. He fought colonization to his grave. Edo people, in general, celebrate African spirituality. In Benin, there are olokun and shrines everywhere. I believe that's why we are being marginalised and demonized. Sis you look like an Olokun born🥰more peace and power to you😘🤗
Right like I don’t want to hear about slavery all day, tell me about our hair practices pre colonization, the food we ate, the crops, the history before that
I think the heavy prevalence of churches is a commonality between slave port towns. High on the hog(on netflix) is a food docu series that goes from benin to houston exploring how food is linked to our history. They touch on this in one of the episodes, how theyre are so many churches.
The British Colonisers were strategic in ensuring that there was no industry in Nigeria. They looted and shipped resources to the factories in Britain which enabled Industrialisation. They created this scarcity by taxing Nigerians of the little that was left. They were so against Nigeria being industrialised that they ignored the pleas of one of their own about oil. The knowledge of crude oil died with him until post-independence. Nigeria still experiences a scarcity of resources because they're still being shipped to foreign factories countries and the Monopolists are the only ones who benefit
Sad because colonized people everywhere been resisting, but it's erased and it's made out to seem like we willingly submitted to colonialism and slavery without putting up a fight.
I absolutely love your spirit!! We are so similar. It beyond annoys me when most history is about Europeans and or their colonialism. Our history was erased as much as possible for a reason. When you don’t know your history you don’t know yourself. This was done to keep us subjugated.
Loud it sister! The point you made about learning our native spirituality and it informing about us as a people was so deep. I didn't fully grasp my native Igbo language until I began to look into Omenala. All of our Igbo names that are now attributed to Catholic and Anglican ideology have absolutely nothing to do with those doctrines and has everything to do with our ancient values and spirituality. If you do not know the name of a thing how can you call a thing a thing?! I'm not going to lie, this White "suprem*cy" spread via colonialism and slavery was the best thing that ever happened to Europeans. The levels of brainwashing of our people across the diaspora are so profound. I'm learning to be more patient with myself and other black people. We are truly fighting so many wars. Thanks for your work and passion xo
You know what I feel exactly how you feel and I'm glad that you brought this topic up and I'm glad that I actually clicked on your video, because we don't know the whole or exact story of our people. IT'S like okay and just even speaking about us being converted over to Christianity or any religion it's obvious it was not that easy to convert US, so what were we doing before we got converted?! We always want to know the bits and pieces and what happened in between and I'm going to do more digging and more searching and talk to the ancestors and the oracles even go deeper.....A lot of our people are learning and speaking out about the truth, especially the Divine femininity the creators which are us the indigenous melanated black women.
Loved this video. I'm from Cameroun & I can relate with this weird obsession with colonization. Me & my sisters didn't even get traditional names because my parents wanted something "different" & a lot of people stick to french names from their colonizers. It's sad because most of the history only shared is from when "les blancs on arrive". When you talked about life in Lagos it reminded me of my experience now in Mexico . Always having to fight or things never being on time but I love it haha.
Important video as always. Tangentially, you look lovely and it's meaningful that you're wearing traditional clothing and COWRIE shells, which serve(d) as currency and divination tools. I trust that the ancestors are proud of the work you're doing.
I’m so glad I found your channel! I love all that topics you cover and your personality is so captivating 💕 keep moving forward you have all my support
You mentioning the censoring and muting of the histories of rebellions and fighting back in order to discourage current feelings of being able exactly that really hit me. I didn’t realize how much that has informed how we learn about marginalized peoples’ histories until now.
i love this so much!! i really apprecitae this and all your other commentary videos of your experience in nigeria. i appreciate you in general + ur sensitivity and care for our culture. it's my second day in nigeria after not being able to visit in 11years and i am also now fully in my queerness + transness. a lot has changed. i feel a lot of grief lingering in so many parts of nigeria and folks have a deep resistance to learning more about the pre-colonial roots of their own culture. it's rlly shitty! but i also feel like we have the privelege to learn more and think more critically about our motherland because we are from the diaspora and didn't have to grow up in such a traumatic environment. im from the UK and can rlly see how differently + critically ive been able to experience nigeria becuase of the freedom i have to explore all these things in safe spaces + community. your videos are providing me with a lot of grounding and points of reflection during my time here and i'm eternally grateful for your perspective! also v in lovw with ur hair and look here!!
This is an incredible video on every level. Thank you sincerely for sharing your experiences so fully and thoughtfully 💚 your reflections about colonialism were authentic and nuanced and the history you taught me was... new. You're right about the constant erasure of Full African history and how in the West it's overlaid with stories of African 'submission'. Its not the same but what you said about Nigeria importing a lot of goods was similar to how the Clinton administration insisted on Haiti accepting rice grown in Arkansas which caused the market for Ayiti's own, homegrown, organic rice to collapse. The absence of Full African history in Western education gives space to politicans and businesses to try to undermine Black nations. The entitled old 'empire energy' is certainly strong in the UK still. Also Mayowa, you've really strengthened my commitment to learning the colonial history that's been hidden but also what West Africa was like before the Europeans... crucially, from the perspective of Africans. It was a genuine honour to watch your video and I can only thank you for sharing your energy and perspective with the world. I hope the next few days go really well for you and that your cousin has an amazing engagement party 💖 enjoy getting adorned in your Nigerian Finery beautiful lady, can't wait to see your outfit! 🇳🇬💮🌴
So incisive, thanks for this video, Mayowa. It's really sad and annoying. Also, since you're in Lagos, would you consider visiting Ouida in Benin Republic? It also has a Port of No Return (Port de Non Retour) and very moving memorials of enslaved people. The guides I met spoke about them with dignity amd respect. It also has a lot of local heritage sites like the Python Temple and traditional religious monuments. You could stay at an Airbnb in Cotonou and take a day trip to Ouida. Cotonou isn't far from Lagos at all so you can take a bus or taxi. Edit: Just watched the part where you talked about wanting to visit Cotonou. Go for it! I enjoyed my time there.
As a Yoruba from Abeokuta. I've been to Olumo Rock twice and didnt get much history also. For so called "black people"'s (Westernized AFRIKAN'S) it's an identity crisis of a who am I or who are we version, while in majority of Afrika, it's a historical and spiritual erasure version of identity crisis. In Naija, what the natives refer to Nigeria (named by a colonial wyt British woman) Majority of the ppl dont know the true history of artifacts in the country cuz the history stopped getting passed down via colonialism tied to religion brainwashing. Same for majority of other Afrikan countries. Mayowa do a video about who you are as a person cuz I always thought you were Nigerian just raised abroad and was able to code switch accents. If youre Afrikan American, can you share why you chose the name Mayowa. Love your videos.
Youu always crack me up!!! Agh u really are a comedian & amazing at explaining things. I love that you're just out in nigeria, found a partner, place and everything! V inspiring 🧡 Also yes almost every place HAS TO have a touristy, insensitive racist thing going on. Africa not really off limits for that :( Glad that u pick these things up and speak out about them.
Thank you! Luv your videos mayowa❤️❤️ what you shared really resonated. I wanna see our ancestors’ stories of joy + love + resilience + abundance. with Native boarding schools in the u.s. too, our ancestors’ graves exist there but the plaques they show always talk bout what the yt man did to save us 🤨
you are right on every point! afrikans are asleep because history is not required in communities; even though, sometimes when the teaching is done in schools, the books are written by the colonizers or neo colonizers! it’s sad to see this shit again and again in afrika! many brothers and sisters are still asleep and have no clue about their own history or the history of afrika! and they see Europeans as advanced and civilized! this shit is deep and depressing! period!
I totally have some issues with the way some Africans handle history and the effects it seems to have on their development. Interesting to see how the nations like Nigeria have higher GDP than other African nations like Ethiopia but seem to fail at increasing standards of living. (Just compare their capital cities for begining) I think GDP is not representative of nations ability to provide for their citizen especially when so many African nations are still positioning thesmeslves as mostly exporters of low value goods, which doesn't really change the paradigm in place since the colonial era. The education system hasn't been deeply reformed since colonial era and I'm pretty sure it still promotes a colony mindset. I rarely see Africans trying to propose different economic and societal approaches / structures / theories. They seem to think the best theories already exist and they just have to learn the western way... And if western schools are better at delivering practical knowledge, it mostly produces agents able to validate the current global paradigm, not to question it... So change can only come from Africa at the end ...
You are right, when I visited Nigeria, I did not know about slavery in Nigeria. So my mom tell me how about she marched Dr Martin Luther King walk on Washington, DC. It is sad Nigeria can't even tell the truth about what happened and truth.
Did you say your babe, your partner? Who us that? Let us see.. You share a lot of your pain, make yourself vulnerable for us.. let us see some of your joy. But I get it if you need that separation. Now you got me falling in love with you and your journey I am routing for your TOTAL happiness. I am new to your channel so forgive me if this has already been covered.
I'm cameroonian and I've been meaning to ask my dad what my village/tribe names meant(since my parents come from different tribes...kinda) all I know is my first tribe names ig comes from my great great great great grandma who is the women we start the family tree with I think but he never really told me what it meant, or what my other non white name meant either. And my dad isn't really like some other (west)African parents and people I've seen, he told us and other parents and future parents to start removing and naming our babies with white names, he's removed his as well and when I'm of age, I'll remove mine. He's also stopped celebrating christmas and solely believing in God and stuff. But my problem is that he's never really told me much about cameroon's history only some of my/his and my mom's family. But I'm really curious to know more cameroonian names and their meanings but I just haven't found the time to ask him. Oh, one thing I critisizstillparent's generations and some of other generations for is speaking western languages to us ever since we were kids and babies. Like if you wanted us to learn out tribe language/languages so much, why didn't you speak it to us or around us more than you did with western languages? I also blame myself for not knowing a lot since I was never really interesting until now but still.
Love love love your videos! Just a question out of curiosity, why do you prefer to say "non men" instead of women?? I'm sure there's a specific reason to that, or not? Much love & have a nice day :)
It’s like a black person from the south waving the confederate flag lol I also feel like the heaviness you are feeling from Badagry is spiritual. There was a documentary that described the spell they used over the water given to the slaves before their journey to make them docile. I personally believe the spirit that assisted with that is awaiting payment and not allowing the land to move forward until either truly acknowledged or paid.
I just wanted to ask, has a Nigerian born and raised, is it a bad thing to be Christian? Because I am, but it doesn't mean I am not proud of my people's history. Love your videos, btw!
I did a tour of George Washington's camp in Newburgh NY and the tour guide told about Martha Washington's slaves being unable to be freed by him as they were "gifted" to her by her parents and were not his property to free. He freed his slaves after the war but hers were only freed on her death. The tour consisted of me, my white husband and two other white people. After the tour I asked the guide if that was something he mentioned in every tour and he said he did not. That it was the fact that I asked good questions (history minor) so he felt he could say these "unpleasant facts" about America's father. Never mind slavery was the "reason" behind the Civil War. That Xmas photo was triggering. Question everything, come prepared with as much facts as you can to either confront their dilution of facts or correct them.
This is why I don't think Africa is really free yet. Christianity is about conquering and the fact that all the churches are there says it all. I would love to learn more about pre-colonial Africa and I wish Africa would center that history as the positive and emphasize the negativity about how colonialism changed it all for the worse and not the better.
You ask a very poignant question but your sentences, phrases, and comments ....are littered with the word "like" as though you have no vocabulary. "Badagry is like a waterfront city"--- it is "like a waterfront city" or it is not. Count how many times you've used the word "like" in this presentation.
It funny you how talk down on white ppl damage too Nigeria history but you have the white man progressive mindset and language, who in Africa call their boyfriend a partner, that language is so King English with a gay twist .
So “progressive mindsets” are white?? Are you insane?! Also what language should she speak when white people forced our ancestors to stop speaking their languages. You want us to venerate white people and be grateful? Are you sick?
Have you considered the fact that most people coming across her channel can’t speak her native language? And what’s wrong with calling your girlfriend (she’s queer)/boyfriend a partner? And what is wrong with calling white people out on their BS? And how is thinking for yourself or thinking progressively a “White person’s thing”? This comment is so f’ed up, and full of ish. I can’t.
I would love to know this history from the perspective of the people who stood their ground.
yess I hope these stories unravel
look into Oba ovonramwen of Benin. He fought colonization to his grave. Edo people, in general, celebrate African spirituality. In Benin, there are olokun and shrines everywhere. I believe that's why we are being marginalised and demonized. Sis you look like an Olokun born🥰more peace and power to you😘🤗
You are so right I would love to hear more on how our ancestors fought back or pre-slavery and the things we practiced before all of the pain.
Right like I don’t want to hear about slavery all day, tell me about our hair practices pre colonization, the food we ate, the crops, the history before that
Your hair!!! Such a beautiful shape ✨
I think the heavy prevalence of churches is a commonality between slave port towns. High on the hog(on netflix) is a food docu series that goes from benin to houston exploring how food is linked to our history. They touch on this in one of the episodes, how theyre are so many churches.
The British Colonisers were strategic in ensuring that there was no industry in Nigeria. They looted and shipped resources to the factories in Britain which enabled Industrialisation. They created this scarcity by taxing Nigerians of the little that was left. They were so against Nigeria being industrialised that they ignored the pleas of one of their own about oil. The knowledge of crude oil died with him until post-independence. Nigeria still experiences a scarcity of resources because they're still being shipped to foreign factories countries and the Monopolists are the only ones who benefit
😮😮 thank u for this information
Sad because colonized people everywhere been resisting, but it's erased and it's made out to seem like we willingly submitted to colonialism and slavery without putting up a fight.
I absolutely love your spirit!! We are so similar. It beyond annoys me when most history is about Europeans and or their colonialism. Our history was erased as much as possible for a reason. When you don’t know your history you don’t know yourself. This was done to keep us subjugated.
Loud it sister! The point you made about learning our native spirituality and it informing about us as a people was so deep. I didn't fully grasp my native Igbo language until I began to look into Omenala. All of our Igbo names that are now attributed to Catholic and Anglican ideology have absolutely nothing to do with those doctrines and has everything to do with our ancient values and spirituality. If you do not know the name of a thing how can you call a thing a thing?! I'm not going to lie, this White "suprem*cy" spread via colonialism and slavery was the best thing that ever happened to Europeans. The levels of brainwashing of our people across the diaspora are so profound. I'm learning to be more patient with myself and other black people. We are truly fighting so many wars. Thanks for your work and passion xo
You know what I feel exactly how you feel and I'm glad that you brought this topic up and I'm glad that I actually clicked on your video, because we don't know the whole or exact story of our people.
IT'S like okay and just even speaking about us being converted over to Christianity or any religion it's obvious it was not that easy to convert US, so what were we doing before we got converted?! We always want to know the bits and pieces and what happened in between and I'm going to do more digging and more searching and talk to the ancestors and the oracles even go deeper.....A lot of our people are learning and speaking out about the truth, especially the Divine femininity the creators which are us the indigenous melanated black women.
Loved this video. I'm from Cameroun & I can relate with this weird obsession with colonization. Me & my sisters didn't even get traditional names because my parents wanted something "different" & a lot of people stick to french names from their colonizers. It's sad because most of the history only shared is from when "les blancs on arrive". When you talked about life in Lagos it reminded me of my experience now in Mexico . Always having to fight or things never being on time but I love it haha.
8:48 I'm shock! These "holidays" makes me sick, I refuse to celebrate them.
Important video as always. Tangentially, you look lovely and it's meaningful that you're wearing traditional clothing and COWRIE shells, which serve(d) as currency and divination tools. I trust that the ancestors are proud of the work you're doing.
I always watch Roots this time of year. These things can not be forgotten. Another movie I just watched was "Sankofa." Very powerful.
I’m so glad I found your channel! I love all that topics you cover and your personality is so captivating 💕 keep moving forward you have all my support
You mentioning the censoring and muting of the histories of rebellions and fighting back in order to discourage current feelings of being able exactly that really hit me. I didn’t realize how much that has informed how we learn about marginalized peoples’ histories until now.
I love your free spirit, you literally inspire me to be true to myself.
i love this so much!! i really apprecitae this and all your other commentary videos of your experience in nigeria. i appreciate you in general + ur sensitivity and care for our culture.
it's my second day in nigeria after not being able to visit in 11years and i am also now fully in my queerness + transness. a lot has changed. i feel a lot of grief lingering in so many parts of nigeria and folks have a deep resistance to learning more about the pre-colonial roots of their own culture. it's rlly shitty! but i also feel like we have the privelege to learn more and think more critically about our motherland because we are from the diaspora and didn't have to grow up in such a traumatic environment. im from the UK and can rlly see how differently + critically ive been able to experience nigeria becuase of the freedom i have to explore all these things in safe spaces + community.
your videos are providing me with a lot of grounding and points of reflection during my time here and i'm eternally grateful for your perspective! also v in lovw with ur hair and look here!!
Love your channel so much
This is an incredible video on every level. Thank you sincerely for sharing your experiences so fully and thoughtfully 💚 your reflections about colonialism were authentic and nuanced and the history you taught me was... new. You're right about the constant erasure of Full African history and how in the West it's overlaid with stories of African 'submission'. Its not the same but what you said about Nigeria importing a lot of goods was similar to how the Clinton administration insisted on Haiti accepting rice grown in Arkansas which caused the market for Ayiti's own, homegrown, organic rice to collapse. The absence of Full African history in Western education gives space to politicans and businesses to try to undermine Black nations. The entitled old 'empire energy' is certainly strong in the UK still.
Also Mayowa, you've really strengthened my commitment to learning the colonial history that's been hidden but also what West Africa was like before the Europeans... crucially, from the perspective of Africans. It was a genuine honour to watch your video and I can only thank you for sharing your energy and perspective with the world. I hope the next few days go really well for you and that your cousin has an amazing engagement party 💖 enjoy getting adorned in your Nigerian Finery beautiful lady, can't wait to see your outfit! 🇳🇬💮🌴
So incisive, thanks for this video, Mayowa. It's really sad and annoying.
Also, since you're in Lagos, would you consider visiting Ouida in Benin Republic? It also has a Port of No Return (Port de Non Retour) and very moving memorials of enslaved people. The guides I met spoke about them with dignity amd respect. It also has a lot of local heritage sites like the Python Temple and traditional religious monuments. You could stay at an Airbnb in Cotonou and take a day trip to Ouida. Cotonou isn't far from Lagos at all so you can take a bus or taxi.
Edit: Just watched the part where you talked about wanting to visit Cotonou. Go for it! I enjoyed my time there.
As a Yoruba from Abeokuta. I've been to Olumo Rock twice and didnt get much history also. For so called "black people"'s (Westernized AFRIKAN'S) it's an identity crisis of a who am I or who are we version, while in majority of Afrika, it's a historical and spiritual erasure version of identity crisis. In Naija, what the natives refer to Nigeria (named by a colonial wyt British woman) Majority of the ppl dont know the true history of artifacts in the country cuz the history stopped getting passed down via colonialism tied to religion brainwashing. Same for majority of other Afrikan countries.
Mayowa do a video about who you are as a person cuz I always thought you were Nigerian just raised abroad and was able to code switch accents. If youre Afrikan American, can you share why you chose the name Mayowa. Love your videos.
I think she is Nigerian- 10:41
Youu always crack me up!!! Agh u really are a comedian & amazing at explaining things. I love that you're just out in nigeria, found a partner, place and everything! V inspiring 🧡
Also yes almost every place HAS TO have a touristy, insensitive racist thing going on. Africa not really off limits for that :(
Glad that u pick these things up and speak out about them.
So godgeous🌞
as someone who grew up in Nigeria I really enjoy hearing your perspective
U're so great Mayowa ! Much love from North Africa 💚
You get it. My father is from Ghana and the way he talks about Cape Coast like it’s no big deal is disturbing.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel...you've literally opened a whole new door for me regarding travel and history
The intro music is it!!!
Thank you! Luv your videos mayowa❤️❤️ what you shared really resonated. I wanna see our ancestors’ stories of joy + love + resilience + abundance. with Native boarding schools in the u.s. too, our ancestors’ graves exist there but the plaques they show always talk bout what the yt man did to save us 🤨
The blue bag is everything 😍
Like that you say you didn't know either cuz I'm always like "how did I miss this?!" Been wanting to get an Ankara outfit on Etsy forever!
you are right on every point! afrikans are asleep because history is not required in communities; even though, sometimes when the teaching is done in schools, the books are written by the colonizers or neo colonizers! it’s sad to see this shit again and again in afrika! many brothers and sisters are still asleep and have no clue about their own history or the history of afrika! and they see Europeans as advanced and civilized! this shit is deep and depressing! period!
Hi sis. Your posts are always refreshing and necessary. Blessings.❤🙏
i just resonate with this so hard. gosh, thank you for speaking this sha!
have you watched the nigeria doc on Netflix - journey of an african colony? would love to hear your thoughts
Loved this. this is why preserving history is important. this video is important
You might find my comment weird but i often wonder if it is spell work on our ppl.
Absolutely. The powers that be love mind control. They cast spells as they are wizards and worlocks of the occult I do believe.
Not weird at all. I believe so too.
New subscriber def binging all your content!!!!!!!!
Beautifully said siSTAR 💛
I was thinking maybe stuff is early bc of the heat sometimes? Just a thought
Mayowa your light is so bright! Thank you for sharing with us you’re one of my favees! ✨
I totally have some issues with the way some Africans handle history and the effects it seems to have on their development.
Interesting to see how the nations like Nigeria have higher GDP than other African nations like Ethiopia but seem to fail at increasing standards of living. (Just compare their capital cities for begining)
I think GDP is not representative of nations ability to provide for their citizen especially when so many African nations are still positioning thesmeslves as mostly exporters of low value goods, which doesn't really change the paradigm in place since the colonial era.
The education system hasn't been deeply reformed since colonial era and I'm pretty sure it still promotes a colony mindset. I rarely see Africans trying to propose different economic and societal approaches / structures / theories. They seem to think the best theories already exist and they just have to learn the western way...
And if western schools are better at delivering practical knowledge, it mostly produces agents able to validate the current global paradigm, not to question it... So change can only come from Africa at the end ...
I feel this. Thank you.
Fascinating. I love your channel. You make me want to travel more and give up my day job! Gotta work on that. :)
You are right, when I visited Nigeria, I did not know about slavery in Nigeria. So my mom tell me how about she marched Dr Martin Luther King walk on Washington, DC. It is sad Nigeria can't even tell the truth about what happened and truth.
Did you say your babe, your partner? Who us that? Let us see.. You share a lot of your pain, make yourself vulnerable for us.. let us see some of your joy.
But I get it if you need that separation. Now you got me falling in love with you and your journey I am routing for your TOTAL happiness.
I am new to your channel so forgive me if this has already been covered.
That intro 👏🏾 love the edits
I love your outtake, & you're just glowing!
Also I would be curious if the Ankara you bought was made in Nigeria. One of my neighbors a Yoruba told me that most of the Ankara is made in China.
Keep ‘‘em comin! Love your videos
Ur vlogs are so great!
as a Nigerian i totally agree
I'm cameroonian and I've been meaning to ask my dad what my village/tribe names meant(since my parents come from different tribes...kinda) all I know is my first tribe names ig comes from my great great great great grandma who is the women we start the family tree with I think but he never really told me what it meant, or what my other non white name meant either. And my dad isn't really like some other (west)African parents and people I've seen, he told us and other parents and future parents to start removing and naming our babies with white names, he's removed his as well and when I'm of age, I'll remove mine. He's also stopped celebrating christmas and solely believing in God and stuff. But my problem is that he's never really told me much about cameroon's history only some of my/his and my mom's family. But I'm really curious to know more cameroonian names and their meanings but I just haven't found the time to ask him. Oh, one thing I critisizstillparent's generations and some of other generations for is speaking western languages to us ever since we were kids and babies. Like if you wanted us to learn out tribe language/languages so much, why didn't you speak it to us or around us more than you did with western languages? I also blame myself for not knowing a lot since I was never really interesting until now but still.
Love love love your videos! Just a question out of curiosity, why do you prefer to say "non men" instead of women?? I'm sure there's a specific reason to that, or not? Much love & have a nice day :)
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It’s like a black person from the south waving the confederate flag lol
I also feel like the heaviness you are feeling from Badagry is spiritual. There was a documentary that described the spell they used over the water given to the slaves before their journey to make them docile.
I personally believe the spirit that assisted with that is awaiting payment and not allowing the land to move forward until either truly acknowledged or paid.
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Agreed
How do you spell the city you were talking about in this video? I couldn’t really catch it
its the judges' creepy blonde and curly toupe' wigs for me.
I just wanted to ask, has a Nigerian born and raised, is it a bad thing to be Christian? Because I am, but it doesn't mean I am not proud of my people's history. Love your videos, btw!
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I did a tour of George Washington's camp in Newburgh NY and the tour guide told about Martha Washington's slaves being unable to be freed by him as they were "gifted" to her by her parents and were not his property to free. He freed his slaves after the war but hers were only freed on her death. The tour consisted of me, my white husband and two other white people. After the tour I asked the guide if that was something he mentioned in every tour and he said he did not. That it was the fact that I asked good questions (history minor) so he felt he could say these "unpleasant facts" about America's father. Never mind slavery was the "reason" behind the Civil War. That Xmas photo was triggering. Question everything, come prepared with as much facts as you can to either confront their dilution of facts or correct them.
I wrote it before hand.
I thought the point of no return is located in Ghana
There are different points of no return
Wait.. did she say Nigerians aren't allowed to make their own goods?
This is why I don't think Africa is really free yet. Christianity is about conquering and the fact that all the churches are there says it all. I would love to learn more about pre-colonial Africa and I wish Africa would center that history as the positive and emphasize the negativity about how colonialism changed it all for the worse and not the better.
When you don't know your history, you're bound to repeat it.
Coconut oil will dry the @#$% out of most peoples hair.😐
erasure indeed
You ask a very poignant question but your sentences, phrases, and comments ....are littered with the word "like" as though you have no vocabulary. "Badagry is like a waterfront city"--- it is "like a waterfront city" or it is not. Count how many times you've used the word "like" in this presentation.
It funny you how talk down on white ppl damage too Nigeria history but you have the white man progressive mindset and language, who in Africa call their boyfriend a partner, that language is so King English with a gay twist .
So “progressive mindsets” are white?? Are you insane?! Also what language should she speak when white people forced our ancestors to stop speaking their languages.
You want us to venerate white people and be grateful? Are you sick?
Have you considered the fact that most people coming across her channel can’t speak her native language? And what’s wrong with calling your girlfriend (she’s queer)/boyfriend a partner? And what is wrong with calling white people out on their BS? And how is thinking for yourself or thinking progressively a “White person’s thing”? This comment is so f’ed up, and full of ish. I can’t.
It's funny, but so do you. Strange isn't it?