Surinam Meets Ghana, Kromanti Part 2
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- / surinameafricanheritage Surinam Film Maker visits Ghana to explore the roots of Surinamese people. Part 2 of a fragment of the Surinamese Documentary "Katibo Yeye".
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This for Non profit educational use. The intention is to make this available to the English speaking public at large, for education purposes.
When they started speaking in their language and the Ghanaian realized they could still understand each other, i all of bust out crying. To think after all these centuries, there are still pockets of people who are almost exclusively one and still were able to maintain their language and ways because of it, it’s a dream!
That man and his direct family don't even have to do any DNA test...he can even trace his forefathers village. Oh! I am bursting out in goosebumps here now.
Tears running down my right eye!!
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This #AFRIKANSpirit!!🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
@@efemzyekun900 He truly is bless.
We are one, people no matter the geographical areas an times our DNA is connected in spirit and bloodshed
I am from Cote d'Ivoire and I am Akan. This story breaks my heart.
Surinam Jamaica Guyana need to be taught in deep to young african generations. Thanks so much for this video.
Could you understand the Surinamese elder?
***** , There are many Akan Languages. I couldn't understand what the Elder said.
The Surinamese old guy probably was speaking old version of some Akan language. Akan languages are many buy they all sound similar. I couldn't understand exactly what he was saying but it sounds phonetically similar to Twi
Do not let those DIRTY French turn you into French , you're far better than that. They want to turn CI into French in order to hide our history n identity.. Fight it with all your power!!!
en cote d'ivoire ils sont en train de fair un programme d'echange entre akan et Boni (Aluku) grâce à Serge Bilé.
Thanks for watching everyone. I'm from Surinam myself, currently living in USA. When I grew up all of this was common knowledge, that honestly I took for granted. A few of our elders made trips to Africa throughout the years. It hit me however how little is known about our heritage, outside of Surinam, which I believe is a shared heritage throughout the Caribbean & USA diaspora. This is why I made this video with English subs.
One of the reasons this heritage was preserved so well is that in Surinam is that Slaves successfully revolted, formed groups and ultimately won autonomy as early as 1762. So in essence they are a country within a country. There are three main groups, Ndyuka, Saamaka & Aluku (Which have migrated to French Guyana for the most part). They basically live according to the way their ancestors lived, with some added modern conveniences. I may make a follow up video about the culture as it exists today.
We are doing a show about Bob Marley with a young man from Surinam, named Mitchell Brunings! in Baltimore Maryland!
FositengTori Could you maybe upload the whole documentary because I couldn´t find it anywhere online.
***** I can't find the whole documentary either. Sorry.
FositengTori *****
Apparently the dvd can be ordered from the production company(?). This is their weibsite, I haven't tried ordering myself, so I don't know if it works.interakt.nl/ It's a Dutch site, so click on "Produkties" and then scroll to Katibo Yeye. It's not easy to order though, and I don't know if they accept orders from outside the Netherlands.
***** Thank you very much.
The Ghanaian was so moved he had to sit down. I think the enormity of what happened to the slaves just hit him .We black people must never let this happen to us again.Every black man in the west should watch this video.
@Billonaire Riches whites make only 7% of the world population...the white race is declyning because they dont want to have children, they want carreers,partying, going to swingerclubs ect ect and all other wicked things...whites have all the money,all the wapons and technology...but they cannot save their own race from going extinct because of their wickedness....time is on our site.....the whitemans time is running out
my neighbours were surinams, my husband from Ghana, they could also talk to each other...
@Qwecy haha, what
@@wingsweep1 And then what?
@@ilsepilse allrighty then.
The Akan brother's shock sums up the loss and the shame. No book on slavery or poem, and not even words, can express what the eyes of the Maroon elder expressed. A deep, noble compassion- maybe something profounder, and closer to a tender dignity, touched with irony, that his people fought and survived against the cruelest of odds.
It's amazing how the language has been preserved all those years and that our African brother from Ghana can speak his kromanti language and be responded to and understood my our Surinamese Marroons
Old Maroons in suriname can also understand some Kongo-loango languages and Benin Dahomey languages.
@@y.baa9737 Do you have documentation of this, or also a video like this one?
@@CharLInd12 , check out pastor Melo
@@CharLInd12 I know I'm responding years later but someone else in the comments stated that they showed this to someone from Congo and they understood some of what was being said
@@JanuaryGoat Wow... Beautiful, and not surprising. I've also since dicovered that Surinamese language has quite a lot of Kikongo words. Asaw = Nzau = elefant, apuku= Nzambi Ampungu= God in kikongo, but the name of a spirit or Winti within African Surinamese religion, Tata= father, and many more. We refer to places in Congo in African Surinamese songs etc, you name it. Just beautiful...!
My grandfather was a Maroon from Jamaica. I have always felt so connected to Africa and have a deep longing to come home.
As a Senegalese this made me cry, its sooo amazing how they kept on their language and culture
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I'm crying looking at this story, because I'm a desendant of Ghanaian
"Life was hard. But thanks to our forefathers, we overcame."
Aayoo
Respect!!!
Winti... geen voodoo maar vanodu...
Ashan ti... de kinderen van ashan...
Zoals solomon/suleiman koning vn de "djins"...
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I am from Suriname from the same area and the name of this village is not ADAMPAY, but ADAWAI, which means IT GIVES HAPPINESS. The language he speaks with the Ghanian is known by the Saramaccaners (maroons) as the Komanti language. he dead years back. May his soul rest in peace.
Huh. DAWAY part sounds similar to Ukrainian Davaty(Давати) which means "to give"
My condolences
Wow, powerful!!! Most often it's the diaspora visiting the motherland. This time an individual from Ghana visits and becomes emotionally moved from this exchange.
I'm here after a mention by the TH-cam channel "Geography Now", the history is sad but the reunion part was wonderful. Amazing how they can understand each other.
Ditto. That’s how I found these videos.
Wauw! My mom told me about this year ago. Now today a finally found this. So greatfull. Thank you!
Glad you liked it
that Ghanaian brother was truly. moved, you could tell, what a moment.
This is so deep, it made me very emotional, it's a beautiful thing to see the departed reunite, as a Ghanaian, I feel a connection with our brothers and sisters who were unfortunately torn from us.
i am a grown man , but I was moved at the end, We are strong people. No matter where slavery took us to,, our culture and humanity never deserted us, Only Africans could have survived slavery and triumphed.
I showed this to my African friend who said we are not Africans. After watching this he cried and changed his mind.
It is really good that you showed him this video, because you cannot watch this video and not get emotional.
That sounded like nzema another Akan language spoken in both Ghana and Ivory Coast. Nzema is a much older Akan
Atlas24gh #Nzema blood is here.. Most of our Nzema people are there but we never got to know more about them... Nzema ma ngome gua #Jamaica mor b3ka Nzema wo b3 edw3ne nu!!!
Most of the terms Jamaican musicians use are from the Nzema language (ascent )
I though was Bono and Akwamu and Fante the more ancients
There was also a lot Kikongo I could understand
@@yoelmadesu6365 Really? Jamaica has a lot of kikongo too.
@@y.baa9737Bono would be the oldest alongside Nzema
As someone with Surinamese heritage seeing the Ghanian and Marroon man communicate in the Kromanti language with each other made me feel very emotional. It's unbelievable how this African language endured from the 1700s all the way to now.
Thanks for uploading this! It's incredible that even after all these years of being separated, they could still communicate in their own language. That's a privilege many people of the diaspora don't have. Great video!
+SoRaya That the first thing I noticed,
Keep the Ancestors Alive!
we never left Africa and we never give up the fight for freedom against colonisation. one blood.
I was also so touched at the meeting, that I just broke down and cried! These are our people! Our people who refused to die - and were lost to us!😭🙆♀️🤦♀️ oh, the agony of what we as a people have borne!!!!✊
Thank you for sharing this really moving and inspiring video with its somewhat bittersweet flavour. I am Ghanaian and understand Fante reasonably well, and I think that at the end, it was more a mutual understanding of the ebb-and-flow of customary welcoming and greeting of a visitor, rather than literally understanding each other’s language. In my eyes, that makes it even more of an incredible encounter.
This people look 100% Ghanaian even more, this are authentic Ghanaians they kept them culture no mix at all, them look is like the people in cape coast and elmina ashanti en fanti tribes.
true even me sometimes mistake suriname-marroons for ghanians here in NL.
It’s like walking back in time to see our roots transported in its purest form - the history - the virgin culture which is not that easy to find in modern day west African . I am just stunned - this is something you won’t find in history books - you really got to see it for yourself and experience it .
This is why I mistake people from ghana for surinamese people.. they look the same surinamese are just a bit lighter sometimes..
This gave me the chills. i can understand a language that I was never taught.
I AM AIN SOF AIN OSUN OSINE NE BAH LANG BIN DEH GU BEY...
WE ARE ASHANTI SUN GR01T. ASE O
what language do you speak? that's wonderful
I am Akan from Côte D’Ivoire and the elder sound like he is speaking old twi, what my great grandmother and grandmother spoke, my grandmother was born in the very early 1900s. Around 1901/02 or perhaps 1899 because she recalled french missionaries punishing students by limiting their educations as a result of not westernizing their names.
Im a Ghanaian and I wanna visit Suriname someday.
you really should i want to visit ghana to
I am from suriname i want to come back home?😢😢
this video done made me cry. beautiful
I cried too. And I am a man!.
Feathers Scott I cried like a baby!
I couldn't hold back the tears as a man from Ghana.
We all knew something is missing and we need a closure.
We missed our ppl that never returned. And generations died off in Africa broken hearted for not been able to see their loved ones n that hurt had been passed on into our genes.
There's a common enemy n we better recognize them in order to move on.
Fee Scott 😢😢😢 !
ITS OK MY SISTER 😘☝💯
Geography Now brings me here
Thank you. Yes Dahomey & Benin are very big influences in Surinam as well as Yoruba & igbo. Feel free to share your your knowledge. It will give us in the afro diaspora a better picture overall.
Thanks so much for this upload. That final scene should be seen by every African and person of African descent. I just wanted to let you know that dahomey and benin are essentially the same thing. Dahomey is the name of the ancient empire but its name was changed to The Republic Of Benin in around 1973. 'Dahomey' is not an ethnic group. Maybe you are referring to the Fon or Adja or Ewe peoples.
There is a village along the "Upper Suriname River" where those maroons are living called Dahomey.
Behold I Live, and AM alive for EVERMORE...man can kill the body, but the Spirit lives on.
Mikea Simkele Beautiful words!
...We still can communicate!...
There should be a DNA project of all these small descendants of slave groups in places like Suriname, Columbia, Guyana, South Carolina, Jamaica, Brazil, Equador, Peru, etc.
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I often wonder ,Why do people need a scientific prove or taking Blood to study it if they people are related somethimes its just clear to see that even apart from the languages there are similarities in their costums conditions and way of living and even how they look and dance and sing ,i can even see it also in other people of nations in the world
In Suriname exist several types of kromanti languages (but a very few person know to speak them) : ancient Fanti of the "amanfu nengre", kyeri ancient Akyem, Wawi (maybe a Guan dialect or the wali language) and the last is called "Openti Madyawsu" it's a sacred spiritual language only talked by the Akomfo (okomfo) insiders to the Kromanti spirits (ancestors, and abosoms) and by the kromanti spirits .
Wow,I would love to know more about this! Thanks for sharing. Lots of love from Suriname☺
This is one of the most beautiful things ever.
I had chills and cried my eyes out. These stories must never be forgotten.
Thankyou for this video. As a surinamese guy born in surinam and living in the netherlands. I think it is so important to keep the connection between yourself and your heritage alive, meaning with surinam and africa. the culture in surinam takes the main course but even though we have been living in surinam for so long the original believes and culture of africa should he respected and cherished.
With tears of joy, thank you for posting this video
Isn't it beautiful? I get emotional every time I see it....
Wow wat geweldig. . . ze kunnen gewoon nog met elkaar communiceren in dezelfde taal als de Kromanti voorouders die uit Kromanti, Ghana vertrokken en naar Suriname werden ontvoerd om als slaven werkzaam te zijn op de surinaamse plantages. . .
Mimi4here ik kreeg tranen in de ogen+ kippevel tegelijkertijd van de video ! Het heeft me toch wat gedaan ! Meer dan ik voor mogelijk had gehouden !
Ghana meets Suriname
Oh man. Amazing amazing!
I am never tired of watching this...and the great message delivered..."We still can communicate !!"
This video gave me goosebumps at the end. They can still understand each other. As an afreecan i realize that we don't know much about our brothers and sisters who've been taken away to the americas. May the enslaved afreecan rest in peace
We will never... we are infiltrating their society...
Saramaka Maroons are the more old Maroons people. Their Yoruba Ewe Kongo and Akans ancestors were broughth to Suriname since the 1600's and they started to revolt, to fight against Dutch and slavery and to fleed trough the deep bushy jungles since the begining of the 18th century. Then in 1765 after many years of fighting they accepted to sign a peace treaty with the Dutch which granted them definitely their autonomy and officially their freedom.
So it's to say that they came from ancient africans peoples which still exist but the culture and the languagese dont remained the same.
Suriname Maroons by the fact they have lived far away,isolated and remoted in the suriname bushes for 2 centuries have preserved lot of things from precolonial Kama (Africa) some that no more longer exist today in present Africa.
I'm from Suriname living in Europe. This brought tears to my eyes. Cause i always had a feeling they could communicate. I grew up listening to all kinds of music but, mostly Caribbean/south American,African and North American music. Those African music not only from Ghana but all over Africa, i would sometime catch a few words that meant something in Sranangtongo or Saramakaans and wonder if it meant the same thing. I'm a mix of Natives and African diaspora who weren't able to escape. Now that i think about it, i also used to watch African comedy and i never thought to see if a word match the same meaning, i was so focused on reading the translation to get the jokes. This warms my heart though !
This is priceless. Thanks everyone who contributed in putting this together. The message of this footage goes far in the past. IT is a huge honor for our ancestors. Love for all black people who are trying to find their roots back in Africa. ONE LOVE!
Wow the fact that they can still communicate is just overwhelming
I am Dutch and in to history,also this bad history where my country was involved. I have been in west African countries,to work.Also in Ghana,I felt welcome always,the people are so friendly.I know offcourse of the terrible history of the African slaves(who don’t).All for money and power, today its still the same.War in Ukraine is about this to,the western world didn’t learn anything.Today we are all slaves from the system,work and then we die.
This video made tears in my eyes.
eye water when the brothers reunited.
This video is so moving thank you for sharing. As somebody who is Half-Ghanaian and Half-Jamaican, the reconnecting of the African diaspora with the Motherland is always a beautiful opportunity and treasured occasion, thus I can't stress how much this means to me! Could you by any chance tell me where Adampay is and which of the 6 Maroon groups they belong to (e.g. Ndyuka/Aukan, Saramaka etc.)?
Saramaka I recognise the people faces and also because they are the oldest of the 6.
It's on the Suriname river.
Thanks for your comments. You are correct, but most slaves to our part of the world which were controlled by the English & Dutch did come from the area that was controlled by the Ashanti which is now considered modern day Ghana. As you may know Africa didn't have official borders before the Europeans came. The borders as we know them today were basically set by Europeans. Africa as the Middle East, was, IS organized by tribes.
Amazing video... I can watch this video over and over...
How touching! Thank you for sharing this amazing video!
This make me cry, especially when they started speaking Koromanti and he said "time was hard". Black people when our suffering will end?
Now viewing this in 2022 very emonitional. Africans have been through so much and still survived the worst evil done to any race of people. Thanks to the film maker.
This video is so emotional. I was literally crying. I salute the resilience of our ancestors. That is who we are as Africans. The indigenous people of the Americas were almost wiped out right from Canada to Argentina. Africans survived the cruelty of slavery and are still thriving. God blessed the souls of our ancestors.
Years of years ago, some adventurous people took a travel for a greater good, for finding their culture mate. Culture, the thing we are living for and living with. And now, after all these years, I saw a 2 second clip of this video at Geograph Now's Suriname video. Then I came there and I get blessed with this. I blessed with the power of "Culture" and power of your ancestors. That beautyfull peoples left us a sign. Even for me, a 22 years old from Turkey, I took their messages. Thank you and Love you, all gods may bless you my friends
So glad I found this treasure! Much Love, Peace & Respect!
incredibly how they kept their language and traditions.
onti kantinaka. this warms my heart lobi !
what means "kantinaka" ?
very touching
Het is een les voor ons stads Linge (slaven die in de stad zijn blijven wonen en geen cultuur hebben mee gegeven wij lachen meestal of kijken neer op de zo genoemde djoekas waarvan zij nog steeds ver van huis zijn niet alleen de taal. Maar ook de cultuur handhaven het woord tijd om van hun te leren
I scouldn't stop the tears as soon as he started singing!!... Sigh!
Got tears.......
The Ghanian brother was stunned
longing to Forward to INI roots Tears of joy and lost
this is just AMAZING!!!! what wonderful peoples these are!!!! WOW!!!! the will of survival kept these people and their culture alive! respect!!!
Full of tears right now....
I couldn't show the whole video, but there were elderly people from Ghana who were still upset that their forefathers were kidnapped or betrayed by their own...
This happen because of war between Asante and other Akan groups such as Fanti, Bron, Akyem, Akuapem etc...
Wow
Jamaicans an Suriname are all From Ghana this is great.
Beautiful
sounds like the nzema dialect of Ghana !
The Kromanti language is basically Fanti.👍👍👍
MUCH RESPECT TO GHANA AND SURINAME❤❤❤
Dit was ons aangeleerd door de kolonialisten... Daarom is het boek "Wij Slaven Van Suriname" een belangrijk boek voor all Surinamers!
Omg. I started crying when they started talking in their native tongue.
Wow that’s so sad but a beautiful reunion
The best I have dream about I love and will share this on Facebook
Priceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeless
The last part was deep
Next time they should bring 10 Surinamese from Adampay to Kromanti
I wonder what the Ghanese would say.
Maybe this is also a way to bring closure to the nightmare called colonialism/ emperialism
Those stools one of which he sat on when he went to the old man's cottage is the same traditional ones we got here.
Indeed as I said before this is because the Ashanti now modern day Akan, dominated the area in the time of the slave trade, so their culture did as well influence the region.
I saw this a while back and didn’t want to comment... But... I speak Fante and I could barely make out what the old gentleman from Suriname said. It may be that they came from Kromantse, but over time, their language has greatly evolved. So much that it is unintelligible to present day Akan spoken in Ghana. I fear Mr. Korsah was being a tad bit diplomatic in order not to hurt feelings.
I still find the entire story fascinating and wish more research would be done into the history of our diaspora.
A Ghanaian commented either here or somewhere else on youtube were this vid was posted, that he could understand every word. However he recognized the language as Nzema. Apparently that's also a language spoken in Ghana?
Mar G ohh alright. Nzema is another Akan language, yes! spoken in Western Region. That makes sense then! Thank you!!!
its a seperation of 350 to 400 years so I think thats why most of u guys dont understand. becuase a language lives. some pronunciation change, new words. other ways of saying things also.Influence of other languages. I see here also in Suriname when I compare some old documents/videos then u read/hear that those from years ago were speaking different as we do know. and we are talking about 350 to 400 years thats a big gap. the basic thing will surely be there but some will change I think.
No ancient Akan language and today Akan are not the same especially the pronunciation and what the man said can also be Guan language. But there is 3 centuries fanti and ashanti bono were not the same languages as they sound so close today.
@Aubaine....You have to Understand that the Twi Language spoken by all Akan tribes have Changed. Back then when an Akan king or Spiritual priest (okomfo) speak it sounds more like Today's Bawule and Anyin Language in Ivory Coast or Sefwi, Nzema, Guan etc that why even tiday 2023 when a fetish priest speaks somone have to translate it because it is very very deep Twi Language just like English before most words have "thou" "th" at the end but no more today
7:20 The stool is in wood. The wood carvers class survived. what happen to those artistes that worked in metals like Brass and Gold ➲ ➲ did they survive?
Yes, wood carving is a very popular tradition among the African Surinamese of the interiors. No, the "brass or gold class" did not survive. What we do have is that traditional African symbols are used for African Surinamese jewelry. Just search for "mattenklopper Suriname" for one of many examples.
This forms of wood art is call "Tembe" in Suriname
iemand merkte op dat niet alle surinamers uit Ghana komen, maar ook uit Centraal Afrika alsook uit het Westelijk gedeelte...
History wise klopt jouw opmerking. Surinamers van Afrikaanse komaf, zijn absoluut niet alleen uit West Afrika. De tribes zijn een mixture of Akan, Ewe, Fon, etc.....Uit landen als Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Kenia, Sierra Leone, Ivoorkust, Gambia, Senegal etc.
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen ‼
Wow
Come back home to Ghana/ Nigeria/Togo /Cameroon
This have me broken..we the Africans in the Diaspora we need back our African roots..I was move to 😢
Surinam my country..we still have the African culture all the way!!!!
Am from surinam living in netherland see ghana people from ashanti and acra every day. Non of them originally afrikan can understand the surinam old man. How come only this ashanti man can understand what he saying
Sounds like Ashanti and nzema languages(akan)old man says b33t33,borkor, meaning welcomed, cool,or calm.
The stools they sitting on is the same shape of stools in Ghana. Wow.
Wow, ik ben zeer onder de indruk. Geweldig dat je dit hebt gedaan. Surinaamse geschiedenis.
How moving. Thanks for making this documentary. What is the name of the beautiful song?
sukru sani- ma maisa
Suriname's 1st naturalista ! Thanks for inspiring me to go natural....
Ik ben ook onder de indruk over het werk dat jij doet. ga zo door! Ik ben met een website bezig over de Afrikaanse kultuur in Suriname voor het engel sprekende publiek. Ik laat je weten waneer het zo ver is. brassas
i am from Ghana i can hear some Ga words
Thank you very much for this video I can her him wan he speak we are one ❤ 💙 t
Who noticed that Ghanaian stool the man sat on? Wow...this is really serious. I'm in shock.
Kan misschien de hele docu geupload worden? Het ziet er super interessant uit, zou heel graag de rest willen zien!
I somethimes cry and het emotional when i see This ,but feel i dont know how you say it shivers over my back ,its because people live so far away from eachother and are still connected to one another ,we are a big family scattered but one Day One again One in His Love and all The Earth Shall Praise The LORD The God Of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God of Israel ,Jesus The Son of God and Lord and Savior came to save and Gather and He Saves and Gathers we will become One Flock
Something i never noticed, the stools are in the same fashion as those in Ghana.
I noticed that too
superinteressant
dankbaar ,voor deze reeks het ontroerd mij enorm . sprakeloos
Thanks dank je wel danke hvala
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