Discover Southern Nigeria with YouTuber Tayo Aina!

Follow Nigerian KZbinr Tayo Aina on his trip to the southern Nigerian state of Cross River! From spectacular waterfalls to the dark history of slave trade and brutal ancient traditions, Cross River state is truly a destination for adventurers!
0:00 Intro
0:12 Calabar
0:43 Agbokim Waterfalls
2:10 Slave History Museum, Calabar
3:47 Pandrillus Drill Ranch
5:05 Mary Slessor House
CREDITS:
‪@TayoAinaFilms‬
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[@solomongamba1091]

Stayed in calabar and had opportunity to visit all this site they are truly wonderful,shade tears when I visited the slavery museum

[@ridewithidris]

Tayo our number one Nigeria Ambassador 💪💪

[@CommonSenseSisters]

OMG the water falls looks absolutely divine & beautiful. Thank you @Tayo Aina ✊🏽for this amazing work and incredible history information. Calabar is beautiful 🤩 we look forward to visiting some day!!!!

[@versatilenursefrances]

Nigeria has beautiful people, culture and weather.We are RICHLY blessed by God..And by God's Grace,We will be blessed with a Good leader that will change the situation of Nigeria to a reasonable extent.Lovely Content ❤❤❤

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

plenty of self-proclaimed Nigerian “princes” would like to befriend you

[@versatilenursefrances]

@@Kevin-fq3zh 😄😄They should shaa have plenty of new notes💸

[@emilianje9054]

You are very smart 🤭Just followed you

[@versatilenursefrances]

@@emilianje9054 Awwn Thank you

[@MegaEllie78]

AMEN 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@esther2462]

Thanks so much Tayo Aina for visiting these historic sites which reveal the African history. Calabar is such a beautiful tourist destination for every African to visit.

[@chukwuemekandudi8712]

Tayo Aina ,I love how you project Nigeria and Africa to the world , keep up with the good work 👏👏👏👏

[@del1111]

Congratulations 👏 👏 👏 👏 Tayo oh my God!!! Thank you DW. Great inspiration 👏 🙌 👌

[@olakuti8449]

@Tayo i came here bcos of you 😊😊

[@kelvinosas]

Proud to see Tayo here .. happy he is getting d recognition he deserves

[@nnenniaifepe5073]

Calabar needs good leadership to enhance its tourism potentials

[@ikwere]

If security improves, tourism will thrive in Nigeria especially Calabar

[@charisexcel]

Tayo Aina, you are phenonenal. Great Nigeria

[@aframaco9491]

Like play like play..Tayo Aina has made such giant strides to the point he is collaborating with D.W. Carry on T.A, nothing do you! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!

[@Lainjo]

Aina!!!!!! Great one. Here from your community post. ❤️ Your doing good Tayo !

[@dalvincee303]

Well done Tayo It's amazing to see how far you've come. Commendable in one word

[@opeyemiogunkoya9189]

Rooting for you Tayo !!!🎉

[@oneman.1780]

Mary slessor only stopped killing of twins in eastern part of Nigeria. We Yorubas from time of immemorial don’t kill twin. We even do party for them.

[@temiladealamudun5063]

TRUE. Yoruba people embrace twins and multiple birth in their culture, it was only in Cross Rivers and Calabar culture that twin are rejected at birth

[@doreenonekalit9888]

Tayo is just amazing

[@marcbios]

Great work Tayo and thanks DW for featuring this. People in America are falling in love with DW.

[@DWTravel]

That's good to hear 😍.

[@emmanuelugwu6205]

Big up Tayo

[@m77ast]

Another great video. Excellent work. I’m guessing DW is an online channel. Mr Tayo - Happy that you are getting such collaborations. Excited to see Nigeria in a new light. All the best.

[@DWTravel]

DW is Germany's international broadcaster with TV, online and social media channels like this! Greetings and all the best as well!

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

Tayo aina

[@commscompany1502]

Good job Tayo

[@kamalakardasari7233]

So nice view 😍

[@josephokunlaja3811]

Tayo, I honestly thought you not gonna come back home from Portugal. Wao. Welcome back to the native sand. Love your vibe everyday

[@aframaco9491]

Naaah! Portugal can't nourish Tayo's soul! Besides, his beautiful work is here !

[@hortenseclarke2589]

We have a school in Jamaica that is named after this state (Calabar). It's funny, I dreamt I visited Nigeria last night. I have very strong spiritual tie to Nigeria that honestly, I don't understand. At certain times, I feel like something literally pulling me to Nigeria. It seems like the community where I come in Jamaica was settled by the Yoruba people. Because many of the people in the community have Yoruba first names. So, I assume that my paternal ancestors were Yorubas. But what is it that kept pulling me to Nigeria? Is it something spiritual?

[@collinsjackson8927]

It's spiritual

[@hortenseclarke2589]

@@collinsjackson8927 Thanks 👍

[@blackcoraltv6787]

Come visit, you will love it here

[@christianfrommuslim]

MARY SLESSOR has been one of my heroes for many years. She was all about loving others and doing her best for the people of Calabar - even dangerous "cannibals." Thank you for recognizing her and showing us the region where some of her courageous deeds were done. If you haven't read about her, consider reading one of her biographies. In fact, it would be wonderful to have a film made of her life!

[@nomazizizembe8662]

Watching from cape Town South Africa

[@DWTravel]

Greetings to Cape Town!

[@ojolof]

Great as always, thanks Tayo. 👍👍

[@brendafleming7951]

I heard Nigeria was planning to do the Year of Return, similar to Ghana. If this is true, your new job should be a tour guide. You have shown so many beautiful places in Nigeria. I want to be the first to sign up for your tours.

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

Knowing Nigerians they’ll copy the idea than 6 years later said it had nothing to do with Ghana it was always a Nigerian thing 😂

[@brendafleming7951]

@@Tu51ndBl4d3 😀😃😄 I am a seasoned woman and don't have much time to wait six years.

[@nasalyn1710]

​@@Tu51ndBl4d3 With this our massive population. Calling on African Americans to return is the last thing we will do. We are happy for you Ghanaians but we will definitely not copy.

[@esther2462]

Year of return for who? Please disregard that fake news.

[@andersonojoshimite6047]

Nigeria 🇳🇬 does not need any 'Year of Return'. Brazilians 🇧🇷, Americans, and others who wanted to return have been 'returning' since the beginning of the 20th Century.

[@pianowithkelvintones3745]

Cross River london of Nigeria 🇳🇬

[@sabelitabandol4485]

🥰🥰🥰wish can visit in ur place someday its really beautiful place

[@gavedet]

Tayo brought me here

[@christabelJ]

Our own Best youtuber, Tayo Aina👏👍👍👍

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

dem ayo na joy !

[@adedamolaayomide5342]

💛

[@gatheringleaves]

Over 200 years ago my paternal ancestors lived here before being enslaved and sent to Jamaica 😢

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

HALLELUYAH PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!

[@TheRealAfricanist]

My brother Tayo, I mean no disrespect, and I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure what Mary Slessor did. But, for me and because of the work I do, I am almost 100% sure that there is more to this story than meets the eye. She was not the only Scottish missionary in Calabar and it seems that she was "no angel", and was apart of the larger practice of sending European missionaries to Africa to "Civilize/Christianize" the so-called "savage/heathenistic" Africans to gain their trust and prepare the way for the colonizing of African countries and the stealing of African resources. And, these stories that are regurgitated and have not been fully scrutinized are why African people and other people around the world believe that Europeans are the Saviors of the African race.

[@NIO623]

Thank you! We Nigerians regurgitate stories that the slavers told us about our history. The mind game is strong unfortunately we are so gullible. Sad !

[@nyaukpong9782]

Thank you man! I’m Efik from Calabar. Long before Mary Slessor came to Calabar, the then Obong of Calabar has already made plans to abolish the killing of twins. I have the letters written by him as evidence. Mary Slessor is not my hero. She came on the same slave ship that the slave traders came in. I don’t consider such a person my hero.

[@priscillaeffah8192]

Here for @TayoAina. He did a brilliant job. 👏

[@geoafrica1410]

There is a lot of investment in Cross River state and in other states in preserving our history, tourism etc. I hope can have funds to investment.

[@iwisiosunde4999]

Very nice..... I thought you would also mention the monoliths in cross river state

[@andersonojoshimite6047]

His reports on Nigeria 🇳🇬 are always incomplete or inaccurate.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

2.40 - I'd be interested where all the "tea" plantations were located in the New World during the Slave Trade times. 🤔🙄 The Slave Trade and Slavery is a real stain on human history - and existed until very recently in Africa and the Middle East. But Museums like this will have a greater impact if they get their information strictly and coldly correct!

[@Kusam369]

Beautiful 😍

[@victoriaaffram1081]

Wow I like the place

[@cabdirisaaqaxmad5302]

Tayo aino 🤗

[@greysenpai6749]

Google translates tayo aino to " what are we" Is that correct?

[@ismailbabaaliyu5890]

Our fathers really suffered from these westerners😢

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Sure did! After they had been rounded up, put in chains and sold to those devilish "Westerners" by their African neighbours! 😱

[@godwinoluponmile5743]

Your fathers who killed innocent twins (stupidly) who later got justice through Mary Slessor you mean?

[@yusluv]

Cross river is kinda beautiful

[@thenight.9220]

Big brotherly ✌️

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

______ stopped the killing of twins (a) no way (b) police and court (c)Mary slessor

[@ucheokoye6744]

Wow wow

[@SamLawal-xz9pt]

Great video, I really enjoyed the lush greenness on display. However, Mary Slessor could not have been responsible for the abolition of killing of twins in Nigeria because not every tribe in Nigeria killed twins! The Yorubas were never killing twins, in fact we love twins and have special orikis for them. Ms. Slessor was responsible for abolition of killing of twins only in regions like south south Nigeria where twins killing was practiced. Let's be careful not parrot these tired half-truths

[@higherlearning95]

Ibo land

[@zat0076]

Calabar was established by the effiks not British

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

Nigeria needs to seriously clean up it’s image before talking about tourism promotion

[@greysenpai6749]

Why? 😅 Which country has a clean name?

[@brankabrance7179]

Maybe you think of UK. and others countries which traded with slaves!?

[@greysenpai6749]

@@brankabrance7179 😅😅

[@nmg1909]

Clean up? All the shootings in America haven't yet been cleaned up. You don't know what you are saying, honestly.

[@kemet0139]

How ?

[@_genova6230]

cant you go places actual nigerians built

[@STORKTV]

Hi Tayo, how do we contact you?