American Racism, African Wahala. This Young Woman Describes Why Ghana Will Always Be Home
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Timestamps:
00:00-Intro
01:00-Who is Maia
03:00-Early Ghana memories
04:45-Coming to America
07:00-Racism
12:00-Culture shocks
15:45-Returning to Ghana
19:45-Ghana challenges
22:00-Ghana is always home
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I think it is more appreciated to share contact information for your guests, such as Instagram, and full names written properly. So that we can see and find out what the person is doing in their daily life or professionally. This is my first time on this channel, but still, I really don't see much about these girls or why I should watch the full 26 minutes. I am just giving my opinion. Thank you.
@@alimtanta2934 thanks for the comment. Some guest prefer not to have their info displayed. Usually we put it in the video description. Thanks.
if she born in USA and why she speaks with weird accent. Even movies british people speak american accent
@@freespeech515 Is that import? Can you understand the message that comes across your ears???
@freespeech515 there comes the fools! Everyone has a comment! Aaaaahh!
Just love Tim’s professionalism, he’s lifted these conversations to a higher level. He is very natural ❤
Thought taught: "I don't need to justify why I love Ghana"❤ because Ghana is in our DNA.
Great interview with Maya from Ghana. I agree with her, help build Ghana in your own way by contributing resources. We can’t all come home, but we can invest in Ghana. Great work Tim.
Thank you for loving Ghana, we love you too
Her name sounds familiar. I think her mom is the woman who does the science and maths quiz in Ghana. Brilliant young lady.
Yeah
What her name?
Yes that's her mom madam sefa kouffman
She speaks like her
Awesome Mr. Swain, always doing a good job to help Africa! Beautiful young lady with an excellent vision for Africa! You all stay blessed!
It's not all Africans that enjoy abroad. Rich and prominent Africans prefer home ❤#Afrikansuperstar ✊🏿
true
Faaaaacts!
Facts Jeena.
Those who wanna leave Africa are typically those who are struggling financially. Those who are doing well financially typically prefer to stay in Africa and occasionally travel abroad for a break.
It's not that people enjoy being abroad; the circumstances in Africa make it difficult to stay. You have to live there to understand. My late mom was one of the people who went to America, studied, and returned home with the hope of changing things, but corruption from the top down made it difficult. Like her, I was born in America, and we moved to Nigeria as a child. We moved back to America after secondary school. I still have relatives in Ghana, even though we are Nigerians.
Tim, you are doing a good job. I appreciate you. Watching from Minnesota as a Ghanaian living abroad, she has inspired my confidence. Thanks
Bruh you are killing it/ Your topics are exactly what the diaspora look for. Very helpful for ppl who are in the transition process. . 20 K in a Min. Small thing to a Giant
Your interview questions are quite fair and sharp, so I subscribed. Good job bro.
I enjoyed this interview especially when Maya said we can all contribute and it is not solely the citizens responsibility to make the nation better. This is a call for even the Caribbean people living in the disapora to make their contributions back in their respective nations. We live in a tech era where things can be done. Love it! Big up Maya, may all doors be opened to you and the young people of Ghana in this growth process. It is time we see we cna build a great thing at home, and not have to leave to seek better elsewhere.
Maya is such an intelligent, charming and admirable lady. Ghana needs more people like her to give the youths hope.
Your sound alone is like a whole tv production, it’s so clear and loud enough to hear every single word, I’m just wondering what microphone you use 😊
It’s just the voice ! His words sound more pronounced
@@gilbertbwerere
His audio does sound fairly good though. Even though he seems to be using the same youtube mics a lot of other creators use.
Well done guys ❤Ghana 🇬🇭 ❤
I am a Ghanaian living in US, and Naturalized, Usa is not a comfortable place, it is a working hub. If you have a place to stay and food to eat in Ghana, Ghana is The best. I live in US and have a great job, but I am not happy! I get up and go to work. Money is not happiness ! Money doesn't make a person happy. One hour in the traffic, and eight hours work with and E/ R calls back to work. Where is the happiness, when you live to work. and not work to live, You are a slave to money.
Spot on
Doing great Tim. Keep it up. ❤
I know it's a random comment, but I've noticed that you regulate the volume for the moments that you laugh out loud and I just have to say it is really appreciated. It's a particular attention to detail that makes listening to this video comfortable. Many thanks.
Very refreshing and look at AFRIKA,s People and Culture mix and Understanding AFRIKA IS full of diversity 3mbracing DASPORIA and AFRIKANS Coming to l8ve Unite and learning Life in AFRIKA Asante sana
zzzzb Every Ghanaian have that burning desire for Ghana,and she is with the right ghanaian accent that is of late missing in our coutry
Enjoyed watching the interview and listening to her experience on different continent
It is good to travel and experience different part of the world instead of 2nd info
Most people suffer from "grass greener on the other complex" 😂
Depending on what we want or seeking in life
I don't think one is better then the other because there is good and bad everywhere
Get in where ever you fit in
Having experience Africa and Europe continent
I feel Africa is where I fit in better
Interesting take from those continentals who return from the West. Great job brother Tim, keep on dropping those quality videos.
24:40 Life is situational; for some people leaving is the best option. So those who want to leave should do it, and those who want to stay or return should do so. Either way, we should just stop complaining about Ghana's problems without a commitment to solving them. God bless Ghana!
Of course..it is optional..BYUOB
santisrock
You should always want to help your home or go back. Anyone can do what they want but that mentality can still be fairly criticized, mostly because there's no sense in it. How can you have no connection to the place and people that birth you? If a person doesn't love their home/nation it's fair that those that do, don't feel positively about them either.
Absolutely 🎉….
I agree and agree a commitment to the motherland is necessary 💚🖤❤️….
Even it’s just in our hearts.. spirit.. and or soul!
B1 fam
Ashe’
Tim, you look healthy and peaceful. You are glowing. Nice interview.
Hello pure young lady. You look healthy,pretty and smart lol .
@@fredkofiodoom5499 are you shooting your shot? 😍
@@markntiri8251😂
I love your interviews bro. please keep going we are here to support you
I can’t wait to visit.
Make the TRANSITION fast then.....leave your COMFORTABLE ZONE and make it here on the MOTHERLAND, eat natural food,drink and feel at home through your ancestors here.Cheers 🇬🇭✔️
Excellent interview a good balance 🤗
What a great interview! Thanks for sharing Tim.
Thank You, Mr. Swain. Your content is most informative.
I could say a lot of things about this interview and it was really great. It reminds me of the time that I was riding a gotobus headed for New York from North Carolina. I got a cramp in my leg. Mind you, I was the only African-American on the bus. Everyone else was Chinese. I screamed out, because of the pain and about three young ladies got on my leg to massage it. The rest is history. So, I know exactly how she felt when no one cared and when those came to her rescue.
Not a case of sexual abuse OR invasion of personal space in that situation, lol
But yes, in another that would have been instantaneous sexual abuse
cookiewilkins6699
That's nice. Most of them aren't usually being super generous in other scenarios though or when you go to china. They were boycotting the little mermaid recently cause she's black 😄
@@nanaasafu-adjaye4239
Depends on the person. Some people just don't like being touched, which is understandable to a degree and depending on the culture it might be sensible. If someone sees that you're clearly trying to help them I don't think most of them will claim some kind of sexual assault though. That seems way too exaggerated
Very interesting. I'm so happy to see her. #Afrikansuperstar ✊🏿
Thanks Tim once again for your dedication to Ghana and the diaspora. Am a Ghanaian living in the states and it’s my hope and dream to relocate back home and am doing everything to make it a reality. However, people leave Ghana in different circumstances and some don’t wanna come back because they had nothing or foundation when they left. This lady as you can tell is from middle upper class family, so it’s easier to go abroad, study without sending money home week for the rest of her family, so it’s circumstances that makes some people feel uncomfortable to return but deep down they would love to return.
Understandably so... but a lot of the problems with the country needs to be resolved by us in the diaspora... we cannot expect those in Ghana with less exposure than us, to move the country forward. It would be a millennium if that is our expectation
Got you. But circumstances notwithstanding, there's no place like home. I'm like you, rooted here in the States, but my heart yearns to go home every second, despite the comforts I've been fortunate to have and all the challenges out there. We are all coming - home sweet home.
@@kwaseb
Ghanaians remaining in the country can do plenty as well and already are. Most of the developement that's come so far in ghana has been done by ghanaians in ghana. We can contribute more and probably move things faster and better but I disagree that they can't make significant progress without us. It might simply be incomplete
@@kwaseb Additionally, the diaspora collectively can do more than African government and elected officials
So proud of you Maia! Great interview! Thanks for the outstanding work you're doing, Tim!
Thank you for bridging the gap!!
One of the best interviews from Swain. I love this interview
Exactly. #Afrikansuperstar ✊🏿
Hope you and your family are doing great
Great show Tim/ Maya is very passionate about her African roots.
Wow love this content best ever love my Ghana
She's very beautiful 😍
Ever subject matter about improving africa, no one ever talks about improving wages. Tim Swain, if it is possible see can you have that conversation on your show. I'm a 80 year man and it took me all these year to find out about Africa. I had a TV but did know anything a smart TV. My son explained to me how it works. Then I start looking up things about Africa. I best stop writing bease I will forget the subject matter. (Wage Improvement Improvement) Thank you Nicholas Williams from Ocala Fl
Wage improvements come with a economic growth, when the GDP per capita goes up and more jobs are created, the wages will rise . Eg a place like South Africa with per capita, people earn more in wages . I bet in a place like Botswana, Gabon , Namibia, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Seychelles etc , people make more too.
Great interview. Very proud of you Maia Ewurabena 😘
She made us proud Obaa.
Interesting conversation bro 😊 keep it up❤❤❤
Yaaaaay!! I knew it! I knew Tim will start speaking the language soon.Bro, didnt i tell u,u will start speaking soon? Dont get self conscious about it, just throw it out there,and it will land! There are ghanaians born and raised in ghana, who would say the same thing u said in twi,with the strangest GA or Ewe accent, hahahaha,,so just join them and make it land,, we can all understand u. Shoot! It all works. Practice makes perfect, bro! Im so proud to hear u speak your ghanaian english, then twi at the end of your video? Dont worry u said it well, its just a few more tries on the accent, and we wouldnt be able to stop u oooo challey! Very soon, we cant gossip about u anymore ooo! 😅😅
Great interview. Such a young lady, so insightful.
Brother, God bless you? We are glad you came to bavk home.Nice interview, the lady a gift to Africa
Ghana 🇬🇭 ❤️
Great interview Mr. Swain. Love your channel.
There is a deep level of humanity generally speaking in Africa.
She is 26 and wise beyond her years. She is our future and may God bless her journey in life
Good interview man... always coming up with great interview s.
Her mom is the moderator for the popular brilliant maths and science quiz
It’s true o!
Great video. Loved it. Keep it coming brother Tim. 💪
Great content. You gained a sub❤
Nice interview
You have well you have introduced yourself to my parents you have done well Tim mo
Tim so far you kind of bring great content
Good job, Tim!
Nice interview Tim.
Tim, the desire by the Ghanaian youth to leave the country or African youth is two fold - there are the economic factors but the most insidious is the colonial mindset- everything African is bad, and everything from Europe/West is better. It is a deep psychological issue that explains why the continent has lagged others. All the major accomplishments have emerged out of self confidence, self belief, and appreciation of the gifts God gave us as African people. Every major accomplishment on the continent comes from that. Yet, the colonial legacy is that we need handouts. That is the root of the begging culture.
The youth need inspirational leadership and good management of national resources to restore pride and confidence.
"...The youth need inspirational leadership...". Therein lies the problem, with all due respect.
Some Africans waiting for "Change" to come from the "Top."
We all have to be the "Change we seek and want." Bottom-up changes.
@@dejumaboutique1305 True. But you don't deny the fact that everything rises or falls on leadership, do you?
Always providing us with topical, substantial meaningful & thought provoking content! Thanks Tim!🤝🏾👏🏾😇
@@dejumaboutique1305 I agree. From the family head to the chiefs, to local and national politicians and religious leaders, every one must do something. However, the tone is set from the top. Note, I mentioned the colonial mindset of waiting for handouts. Self development + accountable leadership
@@NanaKNOwusu
Can we get rid of the colonial mindset or cutting our girls hair in schools? You're right, it's certainly deeply ingrained and we self perpetuate it and aggressively protect what cultures, traditions and modes of thinking the british gave us. If we want to change it we have to be ready for it.
And leadership can only do so much, most of what needs to be done has to be done by the people. This isn't to suggest that people will rise up by themselves and start doing everything, but those that want change the most and are thinking it needs to happen on a large scale are going to have to be the ones to mobilize other people and organizations themselves. We mostly only need leadership to remove certain barriers that are usually placed there by *leadership* in the first place, things to do with law etc. "Leadership" as it is now in ghana is actually best in a supporting role than a leading role
Also what exactly are people asking them to do to address the specific problems they're seeing? Because people often throw out a vague "we need leadership" but rarely state clearly what exactly they want to be done. Leadership aren't engineers, they're not business men, they're not teachers etc. Many of them don't know how to do what would need to get done. We need to done a better job on how we ask for improvement
Intelligent young adult.
One of my favorite interviews from Tim Swain
Kudos ❤
Great talk❤
Well done bro
Nice conversation
VERY good interview ! 😀👍🏾
Great interview
Listen well! However, I will visit wear Ghana. I was inspired by you both! Great job!
Tim keep on doing ur work
It's bringing an impact to life
This is good stuff Fam
I really enjoyed this interview. She's very sweet and positive. God bless her!
We are coming back home, with God Yehovah's help!
Lovely video!!!!!
Very Educative
This is wonderful
Greattttt Interview.
Very interesting 👏
Thanks Man
Girl, I love Gari and groundnut soup too!
This one is giving
Are you Ghanaian
Please keep giving content
She's a real one. Keep going and being yourself, Maya.
Thanks for the interview.
Ghanaians have grown up planning to travel outside the country. Anywhere .Even another African country will be ok. So Ghanaians have not really psychologically invested in the growth and development of their mother land .
Ghanaians are raised to travel. Thats why everyone is waiting to go abroad. That mindset can change with time and with the reeducation of the Ghanaian child.
This is an African mindset
So perfectly said.
What we don't realize is that by leaving African countries, we help hold up the very system that impedes progress at home. Black Americans have always stayed in the US and fought for theirs, in a system where they aren't even the majority. Surely we can do the same in Africa.
I love it, man I see your hard work paying off! Keep it up brotha! Coming home to help raise the literacy rate my focus is on education! Thanks
Good job. Proud of u. Education is my focus too.
@@rainbow3649 really have to focus agriculture! No food no life!
21:30 I believe it is the responsibility of both the private and public sectors. The private sector needs to learn how to exert influence on the public sector more effectively than foreign influences.
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She's African, A Ghanaian 🇬🇭 at that, so Home 🏡 is Home 🏡 sir. Good critical thinker, a Motivator, a Enthusiast, & a Front-Liner. May God bless her & keep her to fruition in her Aims, Goals & Objectives..🙏🏿🙌🏼🙌👏🏽👏🏼👏🏿👏👏🏻👏🏾
She's also european and american ....
She American with one European parent
Awesome l love the story, the lady is also cute
Nobody is denied a mortgage in America ! Get some money saved for a down payment and pay off your credit card debt you have used buying clothes and vacations you cannot afford. Many black people buy homes every day in America ! I am black and bought a home in a predominantly white neighborhood and so did my daughter and her husband !
What's the name of where you stay with mostly populated white neighborhood ? Try and visit here in Ghana 🇬🇭
@@fredkofiodoom5499 For what ? What is so great about Ghana? I am happy where I am!
@@josephbrown1573 I'm not saying you not happy where you are !
I think @josephbrown1573 is commenting on the wrong video or has made it personal. Something must be going on with his life in his McMansion in the USA.
Yes you may not denied mortgage in the states as black person but you may not be allowed or systematically denied to buy a property in certain areas and also you may get mortgage but would not get a fair rate and everyone knows that so if you Joseph Brown don't know this, then something definitely wrong you. Your type of black are the ones who are blindly brainwashed whitewashed to believe that if one or thousand black people are giving a chance in Western Countries then all is good for everyone. I feel sorry for you what kind of education training you're giving your children. But don't worry one day you'd not brag or boast about your and your daughter livinh in predominantly White neighborhood... it is when but not if.
she said at the beginning of the interview the states was her home of birth, but when he asked her why did she return Ghana after graduation she said without ANY!! hesitation in her voice "I wanted to come back home to Ghana" let That s0ak in your brain my so call AA brothers and sisters. You where born in America and that's it nothing more.wake up Africans of slaves you better wake up from your mental slumber or you are doomed. 😊 😃 😀 enjoying my best life and on the was back to collect the reat of my belongings. My great grandparents where slaves in the Virginia and the Mississippi area. ✌️
Beautiful vid 😍
This young lady is a American citizen. She is obviously from a well off , privileged family in Ghana. You seem to be missing the point .People like this in Ghana have privilege's and opportunity . She went to college in America from Ghana . There are Americans living in America that cannot afford to go to college .This is not the type of person who needs to leave Ghana! Plus as a American citizen she can go to America or another Western country whenever she wants ! The desperation many Ghanaians feel due to lack of opportunities is obviously not an issue for her !
Most Americans have access to college than Ghanaians do, just more costly for some. I doubt if she was privilege in USA. She probably was a bit more comfortable in Ghana than the average Ghanaian, but I doubt she came from the elite background you asserted. Having American passport or education is not a passport to success. Anyone in USA, esp. us Africans who have studied & lived there will tell you. California has 200 thousand homeless in the streets. The difference is that Ghana has opportunities that no one is pointing the youths to. I understand that it may require some funding, but every success starts with good partnership & entrepreneurial drive which is not being encouraged. Some basic tools can help:
If 4 young men own 5 football-field-sized (~5 hectares) of plantain farms, that is 5 X 2500 bunces (12,500). A bunch goes for about 55 cedis, 12500 x 55 = 687500 cedis, in 10 months. Value added thru restaurant & cook houses with some young ladies or turning it to flour can total 800,000 cedis. Each young man gets 200K cedis a yr. with 2 months of rest. Rollback that cash & diversify/expand. That's what I am doing with youths here at home. You get dirty, you can get ahead. Not easy but very rewarding.
I came to the US when I was only 18 right out of high school as an international Visa student..not privileged leaving Africa...😊 our goal,/ aim is only to achieve and have new experiences even at that age.. we were not even allowed to work..only work study@ the college for $75 a week...Only strive to thrive in your lif😮e..The US is prejudice. Discrimination..I was very disappointed with the US..Quite uncivilized ❤❤❤😂
@@GridSocket She is obviously from a wealthy family . She does not even look Ghanaian ! Good luck with your endeavors . People have to do what they have interest in .I have a profession that I spent years studying and I enjoy my work! I have lived in the US for 25 years and even with discrimination I have achieved great success and have reached the top of my field . The discrimination in US is more of a personal nature .It does not prevent you from getting a job or buying a house were ever you want to live ! It does not prevent you from earning a living !
@josephbrown1573 - You've taken this video as a personal attack and countered with nonsensical statements.
"People have to do what they have interest in" - Sure, but where did anyone say people shouldn't do that?
"I have a profession that I spent years studying and I enjoy my work" -- You are not the subject of this video. Nobody knows who you are or gives a toss.
"I have lived in the US for 25 years and even with discrimination I have achieved great success and have reached the top of my field" -- I think you forgot to add, "I have zero social life, use 95% of my income to pay for housing, taxes, car note, utility bills, credit cards, have no savings and can't even afford a plane ticket to visit Ghana or take more than 2 days off work".
"The discrimination in US is more of a personal nature. It does not prevent you from getting a job or buying a house were ever you want to live " -- Point us to where in the interview this lady said she returned to Ghana because she couldn't get a job or buy a house? Besides, for someone who claims to have lived in the US for 25 years as a black man, you sure are very blind to the nature of discrimination. Try this... skip a few payments on your mortgage or property taxes. Lets see how fast you'll be introduced to the REAL owners. You are living in an "illusion of inclusion" (term stolen from another TH-camr).
@@ConcerttoI am a white male who lives in the US. Question - if I miss several months of mortgage payments do you think I will get a different scenario than what you outlined above?
I like the way, Tim reminded her of the laws of sexual harassment in the US. - as to why no one would just jump on to massage her feet.
I think she never quite understood the American system because she seemed almost always focused on building her life in Ghana because she definitely belonged to the Ghanaian higher echelon.
With all that, she doesn't belong to the Ghanaian lower/middle class masses, so it doesn't surprise me that she enjoys Ghana so much. And that she always has a backup plan ready to deploy should she ever want to return to the US. Most Ghanaians don't have that sort of hope.
You are right. That's true!
Good day...what is the proper, legal and best way to start the process of wanting to move to Ghana? What are the applications, fees, qualifications, etc.....Thank you!!
Hey buddy, awesome vlog. Actually live here in Philadelphia and know uofp area well. Too many politics there. But very sharp young lady very very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!
If you listen to Tim closely, is questions are riddle with separation of people and race. This is because, it's the way Tim was brought up in the USA. When he talked about her mother, and father I guess making love, she blushed. You don't do that in Africa. This is why 70% of African-Americans should not be in Africa, until they read and watch documentaries on Africa, especially the one they would like visit. I have noticed also that a lot of AA's do return to the US frustrated. Ghana is a developing country, and have to work for what they have. However in the US, the people work hard, but the US government can go into other countries, and steal there oil, and minerals or anything they can get hold of.🙃🤔
jahmala
Why, we can't talk about race? Not sure what you're saying but hope you're not spewing some colonized mindset where you just think white people are nice, because we need to get rid of that nonsense. If you live with them for a couple hundred years you would talk about race too. Just like it became a problem for fellow black africans in south africa when white people relocated there in large numbers.
On minerals african countries sell their minerals for money, it's not being "stolen" (at least not for the most part, maybe in the congo or some illegal mines but not in most cases). We just have mostly bad deals that don't maximize what we could get out of them.
Brother. Good job... Your guest is a real lady. I think that is worth saying today. However, your questions were so redundant. I feel like she answered you effectively enough each time. At least for me. You may have to step up your interview angles?
3:57 Tim, the right word is "evacuate" 😆😆. That's based on the psychology of the GH youth.
20:07 the arts. Is there a way to get in touch with Maia? I have an ideal that may help with the education effort.
Appreciate the broadcast Mr. Swain I plan to reach out to you as well sir.
Bro what are u eating in Ghana u looking good
How do I order fir the bag please
👍👍👍
wahala if you want plenty meat, veggies and staech in equal proportion go to zimbabwe or south africa,
we have big beef portions.
Decided to study biology and pop! Here you came 😂
Another It’s Just Peachy Living Here sales pitch.