West Africa: Meet the African-Americans returning to the continent

[@kaylabaker7141]

“I don’t want to focus on the generational trauma but the generational resiliency.” Yes, that is a vibe sis

[@Levi-cx2to]

Shalom Sister Kayla, well said and your words are most edifying. May The Most High who is omnipresent and omnipotent continue to put the spirit on you. APTTMH! 🙏🙏🙏

[@jaredstevens5382]

Too bad they don't want to stay there.

[@7654x]

@@jaredstevens5382 that takes planning, can't just up & leave. Finance is a key factor, but many are making that migration.

[@jaredstevens5382]

@@7654x actually it's not many people. Last time their was a big repatriation back to Africa, black Americans enslaved the native Liberian tribes.

[@anwjuice]

That's the American school system.they teach that. They teach blacks to mad and oppressed about slavery even though it happen way before then. They shod talk about all the things black Americans did to help the country but instead they just keep the cycle going. So to rise up you ha e to do it on your own

[@williambaz213]

Black people are starting to 'Wake-Up'. There are great business opportunities in Africa.

[@denisemiller3247]

Persona non grata You all are dying out so whatever you say doesn’t matter because that is THE BEST NEWS EVER!!!!

[@denisemiller3247]

Persona non grata That’s a bridge we are willing to cross. As long as you all continue to die out, that’s all I need to know. #TeamOpiodHere

[@janet.oboutte1349]

We will help you move to Africa Start packing You're own kind won't you back home We will be glad to point out the way Hurry be for they changed their minds

[@kowlovo]

That's what I'm saying bring those skills and experience to the motherland

[@job5831]

They are still very much asleep. They are Israelites and are "returning" back to the wrong area in Africa.

[@jip230]

What is up with all the salty and snide responses. When white American goes to Ireland to learn more about his heritage it’s met with indifference or applause. When American black people want to learn more about heritage, people become ridiculous and salty. What to you all have against black people learning more about our ancestors and history?

[@gjssjg]

It's got nothing to do with colour, a douchebag is a douchebag

[@jip230]

Ghastly_Grinner how is it any different than going back to Ireland where their own people sold them out in conjunction with the British to create one of the largest famines in recorded history and a population exodus that the Irish people still haven’t recovered from in to the 21st century? Know your history

[@thulasmash2195]

@@Ghastly_Grinner The people that were sold and enslaved are long dead, their descendants are seeking connection with the African continent. Brainless buffoon.

[@40603011]

BLOATED GOAT Exactly what I was thinking. What could someone find wrong with searching for your ancestral history? I remember about ten years ago when I saw a video of Emmit Smith of the Dallas Cowboys breaking down in tears after a tour of the "port-of-no-return" in west Africa. Big man, big heart and no regrets. BG

[@heretoday5932]

Because we're not a boring and bland people, they are infatuated with us.

[@Sheppesh]

We as black Americans MUST take it upon ourselves to learn new languages, beyond English. It’s key 🔐🙌🏾

[@k.c.5426]

AMEN & ACHE!!💯

[@yahushuayah5485]

so true

[@rtsoca5560]

I agree. Well said

[@stevephiri3025]

the labeled u as blacks Americans and still u keep calling urself black Americans,why why????

[@JohnSmith-ne6js]

@@stevephiri3025 Well said👏👏👏👏 Exactly what I have posted to them in the past. Zero response 😩

[@Onyinye20ish]

So happened I met a man from Nigeria 🇳🇬 and he is of the Igbo tribe. We got married this year in Nigeria on 7th of February, about 3-4 days before we got married I found out my ancestors were Igbo from Nigeria. Visiting Nigeria being in Africa for two weeks and coming back to the US was a change in me because I couldn’t stop thinking of my mother land. I ended up sick and depressed so I told my husband I wanted to move to Africa back to where I belong and now I happy, the best decision I’ve made.

[@-dearra8631]

Congrats!👏🏾👏🏾

[@u.j4515]

What a amazing coincident that happened to you, congrats and may God bless you happy marriage

[@zisilemoyi3203]

World of advise Blaq America marry within U different from any blaq...U involuntery American others came to America voluntarily ...marry yours so that ur culture not vanish prioritise AA man period ...U different U hv slavery blood running thrue ur vains hey..them not

[@zisilemoyi3203]

Don't dilute ur sacred blood with anyone but urselves if U crc about ur heritage cz it is heaven n priceless

[@FERESE]

@@zisilemoyi3203 You need to delve into the spiritual, go deeper. Blood and spirit when awake calls forth into generation unknown, connecting all the links in your ancestral travel from the origin to the present. It's no coincidence why your family DNA carry everything that you are. Sometimes we find it difficult to understand why a member of our family marry outside the race. It's spiritual!!! Dots are connected throughout our existence.

[@Ajang10287]

As an African (senegalese to be exact), i love seeing African Americans and Africans across the diaspora retracing their roots. Come back home, you are always welcome and we love you unconditionally!!! Your history didn't start with the slavery and oppression, you were and always will be kings and Queens!! Much love!

[@fritzdeuces]

As Africans, we need to call upon our leaders to make laws that allow AAs to settle (or just do business) in any African country of choice. Also make Haiti a member of the African Union.

[@BlackAmerican2]

You guys are so niiice. Thank my African brother! ❤️💯

[@ilovememyselfnidw]

@@BlackAmerican2 we are not nice it's the least these corrupt leaders can do after selling millions of ourselves for profit.

[@yosafvictor5631]

Slaves were taken from West Africa not from whole of Africa. So you can't just settle anywhere in Africa. East Africans differs ethnically from west Africans and north Africans.

[@yosafvictor5631]

@Signal 6EQUJ5 Africa isn't like the US. It's not a multi ethnic society. It's ancient and nations there based on ethnicity.

[@yosafvictor5631]

@Signal 6EQUJ5 obviously we're all humans. No one said otherwise. You can live anywhere if you have money. This talk of nation states is very normal in the old world. Don't see the old world with the eyes of the US. The us is very unique, it's the new world.

[@rosabivins2558]

Tears 😭 are running down my cheeks of happiness and blessing I can’t wait until I go to the Motherland

[@dunastefan3288]

Go,nobody is keeping you anywhere anymore

[@samperkinsomosh9739]

You're welcome home.

[@zaraswrld50]

Me too! I’m so ready to go to Nigeria 🇳🇬🥺

[@kristianoleg7113]

Yes go back to the place where you belongs!!

[@MariaV0071]

To all Africans abroad, who did not choose to be outside of Africa. Go and discover your roots, experience the great cultures, habits, history of your kings, queens, warriors. This is your identity. I also did this with my heritage, as my ancestors were used as modern slaves from india when African slavery was abolished. I wish for all of you a great journey of discovery.

[@MariaV0071]

@Signal 6EQUJ5 Pretty racist of me to wish people a great journey of discovery, what was I thinking!?!? Thanks for pointing that out. I will try to beat that little racist out of me.

[@bendemare5270]

@James Franko lie.

[@bendemare5270]

Thank you, Maria.

[@bendemare5270]

@James FrankoIt's a colonial myth. For those who speak French wanting to know more, check out the video the egyptologist Kalala omotunde did on la traite négrière. Anyhow, I am talking to those who seek the truth.

[@shaddythewiz3836]

@James Franko actually that not true. That is a common lie used by white supremacists. Actually this guy wasn't even the first slave owner and only became one win his indentured servant broke there contract. If they didn't do that he would have never been a slave owner. Also African slavery is no where near chatel slavery as African slavery you could get out of slavery pretty easily by working your way threw the ranks. Lastly most African kingdoms at the time sold slaves as a cry for money as at the time the Songhai empire was in it prime which hog most of the gold and salt trade route from the Sahara desert.for example Mali , the benin empire and Dahomey empire which a lot of slaves came from.

[@StirUpYourPurpose]

This is great, and why I like this idea of African American’s coming to Africa is to connect to their roots, not necessarily for them to move back to Africa but to regain that psychological connection and through that the unconscious troubled soul will reconnect to its identity which through the evil effects of slavery seem to have been disconnected. With this new awareness they will return to America with a deeper sense of power and self-confidence.

[@SeanWinters]

I mean, they don't really want to "move" back lol.

[@nokuthulankosi7362]

Spot on!

[@Scrub_Lord-en7cq]

It’s all the white peoples fault. I’mma change races 👨🏿‍🦳

[@royfornett3859]

This is real it brings tears. You have to understand the knowing nothing about yourself and living among people who hate you is a life of great loss.

[@Max_Le_Groom]

My Life basically

[@thetruth-qf4kb]

I'm am not interested in any slave trade stuff. I'm only interested in the beautiful people of Africa. My beautiful people. One love to all my people all over the world

[@TheMoon12390]

General butt naked has entered the chat.

[@lmesen1873]

@Fannie New Hamer How ignorant. Look up the atrocities in the Congo Free State for one of many examples of hardships African people had to endure under white colonialism.

[@jahlion9546]

You are not interested in any slave trade stuff you're only interested in the beautiful people of Africa,so how you would be interested in a people but not their history,you don't want to know the truth,you sound confusing as hell,and you call yourself the truth,don't you won't you want to see and hear the truth,come on have some intelligence and clear your mind it's the reality and conciousness.

[@алиякенеева-в7ц]

But african americans are descendants of benin and other slave trade countries in africa not the other parts of africa. I hate to say it but africans were very rich back then and one of their greatest mistake were selling their OWN slaves to the white men.

[@алиякенеева-в7ц]

@@jahlion9546 Not all africans were slaves 😂

[@tatriceshipp9139]

Im seeing this as a great opportunity for black people.

[@janet.oboutte1349]

Yes so are we going back is great Hurry home

[@zebmakotoko658]

@@janet.oboutte1349 Dear Sis. This is always too much . I know The universe embraces us forevermore Amen.

[@gdcskates]

extremely

[@backtotheoldway6964]

@Gibson Ampaw Nor should they. If they want to come back, they should be brothers and sisters, not colonizers. Fix the poverty for Africans in the Americas. Which is immense. Ghana will fix the poverty for Africans in Ghana. And we'll grow together.

[@loriannrichardson7644]

@Gibson Ampaw what are your rich corrupt leaders, and wealthy doing about it?

[@francesriley2264]

It was million's of African not thousands!!

[@Afro_Prepper]

You know they have to minimize it as not to encourage us😄

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

It was millions if you include all the countries Africans were brought to. Only about 37,000 slaves were brought to the US.

[@ilovelife3328]

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Actually, it was around 375k, according to Henry Louis Gates. But, yes, most Africans went to Brazil (4 million).

[@TroijanSkinhead]

Lol you really think millions of Africans travelled in ships for months? So called black people were already here indigenous to the so called Americas

[@mummoniq7950]

@@ilovelife3328 Thanks, I was about to say that...

[@youy996]

All of Mama Afrika children are reuniting ☀️💜

[@msannismyname6866]

Jerry Hutchinson Me too Jerry, me too😢

[@janet.oboutte1349]

Yes we are happy for Blacks Need to go home We will help we will point out the way

[@lebredamcelroy832]

Secret of YR FUTURE IS HIDDEN IN YR DAILY ROUTINE...🐕🐍😱💯🤬DOGS. 🐕😵👿🐖

[@adeamujale]

Peace and Power family. By the powers invested into me, let these words of our brothers and sisters have their true and proper meaning. Ase!

[@marilynseptember21]

They have tried to put a wedge between Africans and African Americans. O hope more will just even visit to see for themselves the welcome they will get. Let everyone come home. We need to build up the continent. We need to complete with the world. Enough of watching Black people being shot by police in America or beaten up in other countries. We will find a common tongue...and common currency to trade within African. Africa go survive

[@teresiawachira1034]

Am from Kenya, and every time i watch these videos of our brothers coming back to trace back their origins, i cry. But am glad more are coming to claim their identity. I would love to see them learn their languages and take back their names.

[@TheQuietTusky]

It's a beautiful thing .. the issue is being able to afford it , so grants and programs help a lot

[@fabulousfarrahinsouthafrica]

palermo1kid hell naw we ain’t doing all that y’all sold us

[@earlrogersjr3026]

We have a lot of Kenya in St. Louis Missouri who are now American citizens . Why is that ?

[@teresiawachira1034]

@@fabulousfarrahinsouthafrica You're not forced to come. Tell me one European descent who doesn't know where they come from? And they have their identity. Do you?

[@teresiawachira1034]

@@earlrogersjr3026 Coz they have an advantage of being citizens of 2 countries.

[@nonsikelelosiso2362]

This woman with shaved hair looks so fresh and her skin is glowing

[@lastdays3148]

Yessssss I was noticing her shaved head and glowing skinned tone too🙋🏾‍♀️

[@nonsikelelosiso2362]

Yeah!😊

[@jeswazwadi7049]

I never seen afro American with unglowing skin,they are always fresh

[@kiaj.d.5855]

She's fly too! Love her shades!

[@farminginafrica5220]

You are also beautiful my dear how are you?

[@judahgod8495]

Want to start a solar powered company for my people and profits go bac to the people.

[@vaplus2]

Wish you much success my brother, stay true🙏🏾✊🏾

[@frimpongmanso6761]

Am from Ghana, just connect to me to help you start. I am currently in Florida

[@domju4970]

Invest in Afrika and make your 2 home there, building a futuristic modern, sustainable, with solar power and aeolian

[@domju4970]

Just like me Im in Lisbon to win money , but here they dont pay much...

[@CrystalReneeMusic]

God bless you sweetie.

[@kofisugar]

Grt8 news....glad to see my bros&sis visiting other ciyntries other than Gh. This will help spread shared knowledge...

[@pleasureinvideo4018]

Welcome home.All african people have to work together for the futur.Love you

[@adeamujale]

Peace and Power family. By the powers invested into me, let these words have their true and proper meaning. Ase!

[@thegreekinvestorgr2647]

you should not have sold them in the first place.

[@leilasantoslopes2303]

@@thegreekinvestorgr2647 Its not like it was a choice

[@AfrikanLifestyle]

Wow, just watching this made me tear up. I can only imagine what it;s like to actually be there. I'm planning my trip to Sierra Leone in December this with African Ancestry...

[@disguy2960]

It's a beautiful country with friendly people. You will love it

[@gb_the_accuser]

Don't tear up. Just respect yourself as an African and walk as a proud black man. Proud meaning not being fueled by your impulses. Marry a proud black woman.

[@vanxl9]

Your african ancestors are going too? They are still alive?

[@maybeitsbecauseimalondoner4951]

I like seeing how United they are. Very impressive . Wow. This is how we should be.

[@naoma64]

Welcome back home my brothers and sisters; the land of Africa belongs to you as well!

[@naoma64]

@J796 I know!! my name is spanish... I'm from Cameroon but my mom gave me that name. She probably saw it in some telenovela lol.... I had a lot of Hispanics thinking that I am their sister that I learned Spanish and now fully fluent! Breaking the barriers!!! 👍👍👍

[@emmanuelcharlesbonney6963]

We need the afro Latinos, afro Iraqis, afro Yemeni, afro Arabian and all the afro aborigines across Australia and the Pacific islands back. Come back home and let's build.

[@thaprofessor5861]

Emmanuel Charles Bonney hell no we don’t we need Africans ONLY

[@jaimesolis8362]

@@thaprofessor5861 lmao! Too funny!

[@thatdude123]

@@thaprofessor5861 they are still africans

[@thaprofessor5861]

That Dude yea okay keep believing that myth

[@JoStylin]

Afro Yemeni???? Afro Arab??? hahahha. Those black Arabs hate black people more than anyone else. Some of you Africans are so naive.

[@truthseeker906]

Africa wants all of her children back home.

[@markaym3735]

That gave me a chill. Mama Africa is calling us. Much love

[@carolyncox7073]

@Deshone Robinson "The BIBLE" Greatest Book Ever Written. Last Days Prophesy! Babylon The Great (America) Is Falling. 2 TIMOTHY 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. All Praises To The Most High and his Son.

[@ilovelife3328]

@Deshone Robinson No it's not. Approximately 375,000 Africans were brought to the United States. The majority were brought to Brazil which is why they have the largest population of African people outside of Africa. People in the Caribbean and the Geechee Gullah people still speak a dialect that includes West African languages.

[@residentalien310]

Come and invest back in Africa... we love you. Bring your skills and expertise and we can give you the resources. Dont miss out... this is you land.

[@kindnessmondyu7489]

@palermo1kid ur not black

[@kindnessmondyu7489]

I was asking a question stupid

[@kevint3322]

why not let them uplift own black communities in USA before extending that "help" to Africa

[@residentalien310]

@@kevint3322 We all need help.. they need help from Trump we have a solution

[@africandiasporaroundtablea3877]

Awesome! So proud of these young folk for reaching out to bridge-the-gap between themselves and their historical background. I guarantee you they will never be the same. It's liberating!

[@johnwebb2442]

Most definitely.

[@nikko__5850]

I don’t blame the American brothers and sisters of African decent wanting to leave. The treatment and inequality is beyond comprehensible. Reconnecting with their ancestor land and roots is very spiritual and therapeutic. However with that said. Some are are content with where they are. And not wanting to leave and fight for the proper representation and betterment of people of color. Each persons have their own personal reason and desire to choose what life to live.

[@brightirene7695]

African is African no matter where you are. God will guard you all for the time you stayed in Africa

[@ValueFarmUG]

Mama Africa is waiting for you! We're ready to welcome you back home.

[@joycecooper498]

Can you tell me how to be apart of this grant to Africa?

[@gomich6120]

$

[@marilynseptember21]

Why do you need a grant? Do a research first before travelling. Each country is different and suits different personalities. Once the virus pandemic is over travel over. You need valid visa. She said there's a waiting list though.

[@aminatakasse352]

I live in senegal and will be glad to welcom you there are opportunities here 221706473906 wats up

[@Arielsnetwork]

Joyce, you can get in touch with Magic and Melanin. Visit their website or instagram page.

[@bakarykujabi4721]

Hello are you doing

[@phinahsenyatso71]

You guys need to come to Botswana too! You'll love it here.

[@zisilemoyi3203]

AA are a conglomeror of Africa

[@andred7684]

@RoTsAtCo KhTsGa Funny thing is it was in that way that Botswana became so rich, it didn't refuse foreign investors/investments and chose to free their markets and investment, meanwhile we saw a Republic of Congo going fully marxist, closing itself to the world, full of resentment and hatred against foreign stuff(pretty usual to socialist countries). So that's how we see what idea is the best, a country having xenophobic/ethnophobic policies will never flourish to be rich. Long live Botswana!

[@missbstuurman]

@@andred7684 maybe there is a reason Congo refused? Its not like Africans were treated equally back then.

[@MoebiusUK]

Oh my ... didn't expect to cry watching this. Tears of pain for our ancestors. Tears of joy for their descendants coming home. I love you guys.

[@gdcskates]

you didn't know that you are from SLAVE stock. have you ever read books or been to a library. does the name Marcus Garvey ring a bell. WTF. look at the damage that TV, movies and SM have done in such a short time. Wake up. You are drooling on the pillow again.

[@mmccoy2570]

Moebious AND WE LOVE YOU TOO.

[@siberiantaurus8853]

I'm African American I'm moving back to Africa to my roots

[@ddjjggfgg7720]

Im not black. I'm a Latino from the US but this made me very emotional. So beautiful

[@WIXNGFRMLUVOKC]

Faxx soo we black Americans can get away from Europeans because they do sooo much for y’all Latinos i mean literally we dot. Get anything that’s why some of us go back two Africa

[@elident7828]

It’s always amazing too me when I hear African Americans speak of dream vacations and it always entails European countries and culture , never where they come from. And this form of tourism could uplift Africa and change its image... I am going home soon!!!

[@marciafoggie304]

I can't wait to go home to Mother Africa!!

[@gomich6120]

Welcome akatan !

[@tlk0216]

I will buy you a one way ticket if it helps you

[@tlk0216]

@Frederick Dorsey any many blacks wouldn't have become millionaires if not for the white man. face it you need white people. Most doctors are white, white people maintain the infrastructure, run the economy, virtually everything, you would be lost without all of the white mans inventions that you use on a daily basis. Give up you tv, car, phone, air conditioner, heat, plumbing, airlines, medication, doctors, dentists, computers, trains, microwaves, refrigerators, stoves, washing washing machines/dryers, various sciences, cures for diseases, space exploration, and so much more...now I will hear crickets...

[@boseman8227]

Let them know that all the vast landscapes they see and everything around them belong to them also.

[@omobanedonaija6966]

You are very correct, they should be given this speech before travelling anywhere, while back home in africa, etc. They should know they have resources, their resources as far as they can see. It is their land tooo.

[@rasasonchi5581]

France 24 better learn. Ain't nothing like afro American ok. Better recognise ✊🏿... It is AFRICAN American or AFRICAN. Black we Black. "Don't really care where you come from as far as you're a Black Woman or man you're an African" (Peter Tosh)

[@drdread9896]

RAS ASONCHI 📠!!!!!

[@char08fal]

Yea most of us have adopted Black American because our ties to the continent are so far back and we don't know anything.

[@rasasonchi5581]

@@char08fal I can live with Black American but not Afro American. I don't see why one should be called based on the way they wear their hair.

[@rludlum1]

RAS ASONCHI we both know that they are not referring to the hairstyle. Cmon now

[@rasasonchi5581]

@@rludlum1 😳😳😳 where you been? Level Up.

[@mikedobby-jooga5547]

when i went to my mother country -italy- it was a really special experience. All Americans should experience their roots

[@victoriaallen8271]

I love this. What brilliance. I can see the excitement of these people returning home where they are accepted and honored for all that they are. The best to you all!!!

[@dantrag2890]

I see they left out the part where they were sold by their fellow countrymen.

[@tlk0216]

yes the slave trade was alive and well before Europeans landed.

[@mariemely1343]

@thought criminal BS, africans do not owe them anything. I am african, and my family did NOT sell any slave so I do NOT owe you anything.

[@NunayoBisnez]

If there had been no demand, though...

[@dantrag2890]

@@NunayoBisnez There was a huge demand in Africa for guns, gun powder, and alcohol. European's had those in great abundance, and Africans had slaves.

[@dantrag2890]

@@mariemely1343 No living person in the United States has ever been a slave, or owned one. I think it's funny how black people want to shake you down for reparations, or how white people feel the need to cleanse themselves of white guilt. Even resorting to having a "black people feet washing party" in Seattle.

[@Lyniquechunte]

This is beautiful!! I never thought I would want or desire to go to Africa until I was mature enough to understand and now as an adult I have a longing to go

[@godsonnzube7988]

You have to sister, very important I'll personally welcome you..Lol

[@clorox6447]

So If white Americans move to Europe it's called migration, and when black Americans move to Africa it's called returning?? Equality at it's finest!

[@jonathanprime1507]

Double standards

[@peacekeeper4946]

We were not tooken we were sold. Big difference

[@landon6054]

@Vianka Brown doesnt change the fact that they sold us...

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

@@landon6054 are you mad about it?

[@OmarOsman98]

@@landon6054 so what? Slavery was part of global commerce. It was just business.

[@taq1238]

@@landon6054 Who is they? Name the tribe(s). Name those that were forced to take part in the slave trade at the threat of massacre of their entire tribe. Name Black slave catchers in the US and those that told "massa" about a planned revolt or escape. Until then, shut the hell up and stop embarrassing yourself with ignorance.

[@silva1530]

You're a plant or a white troll account, has been debunked that thats a myth, african kingdoms have fought to free the enslaved.

[@angelicakweku5293]

"Focus on the generation of resiliency. " Inspiring!!!

[@knocknapeasta]

2:00 The history of slavery in the Muslim world is more like 13 centuries up until the 1960s but hey it's your story to spin

[@martinsmith2258]

If you’d listened to the video you would’ve heard the narrator say “enslaved on the American continent”. Meaning your comment is pointless because the narrator WAS NOT referring to slavery on the African continent for 4 centuries, but the AMERICAN continent. Open your ears weirdo🤡

[@martinsmith2258]

Aiko your welcome but I wasn’t purposely correcting you😭I was correcting the original commenter.

[@knocknapeasta]

@@martinsmith2258 The narration is poor regardless - "the American continent" is wrong, as the Americas are not one continent, they are two, and South American colonies have a far longer and harsher history of slavery than the United States. It is totally insensitive to omit certain history to suit your own narrative as is done here. If they had said "one of the darkest chapters in Western history" perhaps that would be better fitting? Slavery was not unique to the United States; it is a part of almost every nation’s history, from Greek and Roman civilizations to contemporary forms of human trafficking. The American part of the story lasted fewer than 400 years. How, then, do we calculate the timeline of slavery in America? Most historians use 1619 as a starting point: 20 Africans referred to as “servants” arrived in Jamestown, Virginia on a Dutch ship. It’s important to note, however, that they were not the first Africans on American soil. Africans first arrived in America in the late 16th century not as slaves but as explorers together with Spanish and Portuguese explorers. One of the best-known of these African “conquistadors” was Estevancio, who traveled throughout the Southeast from present-day Florida to Texas. As far as the institution of chattel slavery - the treatment of slaves as property - in the United States, if we use 1619 as the beginning and the 1865 13th Amendment as its end, then it lasted 246 years, not 400 as stated in the video.

[@knocknapeasta]

@Aiko Sorry, the wording just didn't sit right with me. An estimated 388,000 slaves, or 4 - 6% of the transatlantic slave trade came to the United States. A significant number of enslaved Africans arrived in the American colonies by way of the Caribbean, where they were “seasoned” and mentored into slave life. They spent months or years recovering from the harsh realities of the Middle Passage. Once they were forcibly accustomed to slave labor, many were then brought to plantations on American soil. The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean. An estimated 4.9 million slaves from Africa were brought to Brazil during the period from 1501 to 1866.

[@martinsmith2258]

Runnymede85 thanks for the info but much of that is common knowledge😭and you strayed kinda far away from what I was talking about. But really thanks for the info!

[@aishaa409]

Wow you can’t even tell who’s African American and who’s African were obviously family❤️I love being African

[@aishaa409]

American loves wahhabi creed I’m talking about looks their was no need to bring that up

[@zakfarah5949]

@@messianic_scam staving arab

[@messianic_scam]

@@zakfarah5949 you will find me alote you will be mad alot

[@Jean-qn4fy]

They aren't "returning." They are being tourists, same as a lot of hubby's German relatives are.

[@yaya78774]

@y 7 😂 more like moving to the usa 🖕🏾

[@konpeitosama]

@y 7 They were never there to begin with, so they're not "moving back." They just moved there for the first time.

[@konpeitosama]

Yup.

[@taq1238]

@@konpeitosama If you're European, it is beyond you to understand our ways. We are our ancestors, and our ancestors are us. At our core, we understand interconnectedness. At your core is disconnection.

[@silva1530]

You have a white husband? Why you think you have a say here? You're a bedw€nch.

[@faithBelieve]

I am from Africa, I LOVE MY AFRICAN AMERICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.. Please come back home, forget the past. The present matters right now.. Start by visiting Africa. You all are welcome home.. We Love you all...

[@BlackAmerican2]

We love you too! ❤️ I plan on visiting Nigeria soon and I'm so excited for it! Never been to Africa so it'll be nice to visit the homeland

[@faithBelieve]

@@BlackAmerican2 you are fully welcome my brother ... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@YellowSynth]

ALL THE MEN ARE EFFEMINATE AND GAY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE

[@theconstantseekeroftruth9414]

I tried to ignore it....but....👀💁🏾‍♀️

[@YellowSynth]

@@theconstantseekeroftruth9414 ITS NOT ADDING UP

[@steventaylor4847]

Liberals in America....

[@v.gonzalez3085]

Lol

[@gomich6120]

Bispenol A

[@QQhermano]

This is very inspiring, i want to do this. I want to go back To the mother land. And God willing one day I will. So proud of those who were able to make that trip, more of us so called black people from the diaspora need to join together to go back home.

[@dianawakaba1400]

Welcome home,if you would love to visit Kenya, I will proudly show you around.

[@Maxinemorr22]

Please help me my sis I’m ready to come home I’m of Nigerian decent me and my family.

[@otacheochefio1843]

Do you have any family contacts in Nigeria? Or you're not aware of none, just want to reconnect?

[@omobanedonaija6966]

Call the Nigerian or any African Embassy of your choice. Go try first on a visit and connect with ANYBODY. I am positive as heck you will get the foundation to moving IN BACK HOME TO MOTHER AFRICA.

[@lunakmbitou4198]

*I'm Haitian, and I want to visit Africa so badly.* This is a piece of my life I know is mine, but afraid I will never own.

[@gene7arttech]

It was in the millions that were taken/kidnapped from Mother Africa, not the low numbers you presented.

[@markaym3735]

200 million or more, most likely

[@gene7arttech]

@@markaym3735 Yeap, they were trying to downplay their obvious demonic role in Human Society.

[@shonjohn9023]

How can you be contacted, very interested in traveling there...

[@fredrenaissance1334]

The scene at the end showing rhe last steps on the African being taken in slavery,, puts the music got me in my feelings, big to the production, and big up to my people, Love ❤❤🖤💚

[@VySharieff]

My grandparents was a descendants of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Trinidad 🇹🇹 living on a Indian reservation💓 So glad they taught me who I am!!! Africa I will see you someday soon🥰

[@dangerouswarrior7748]

Come to Gambia ,,the smiling coast of Africa,come and see kunta kinteh roots,,002202327749

[@dunastefan3288]

What are you waiting for?Leave already

[@politech2722]

They hate everything we do. If we walk, they’re angry. If we run, they’re angry. If we sit, they’re furious. Just ignore them.

[@nwankwonwachukwu5277]

@Valayar Checkpost stfu

[@nwankwonwachukwu5277]

@Valayar Checkpost why are you insulting me, what have I done💁

[@nwankwonwachukwu5277]

@Valayar Checkpost ok

[@hamidoumaoulida9210]

I'm from East Africa and you are more than welcome brothers and sisters

[@CharlesfranklinC]

I Want to move to Africa just a different part of Africa tho I actually speak Amharic so 🇪🇹 ሰላም እና ፍቅር to all 54 african nations

[@tesfayetegegne3563]

Welcome to Ethiopia my brother. Wishing you all the happiness and make most of you stay.. bring you brothers back to Africa Ethiopia is so unic historically and culturally . You will love it there.Welcome to africa.we here to support you and make you stay happier and exciting .

[@gb_the_accuser]

What's stopping you? Student loans?

[@CharlesfranklinC]

@@gb_the_accuser just saving money then I'm going to go

[@gb_the_accuser]

@@CharlesfranklinC awesome! Im right behind you brother!

[@imout3025]

@@CharlesfranklinC study do some research save some money you will definitely achieve a bigger place. Most do research. One love

[@destinyschild.9103]

What's France 24 English? What nonsense name is this? This is Black people affairs...

[@MenteLiberta1980]

Agree 100%

[@writingac8956]

This is a form of surveillance. The high-key type

[@thaprofessor5861]

Writing AC facts

[@controversialpsychologist3052]

Funny that, white people's affairs have to be for everyone otherwise it's racism

[@PureTexan]

I am a white man born and raised around Dallas, Texas. According to a dna test, I have African dna pumpin through my veins and lies within every microscopic fiber of my being......so, seein that I’m technically a mixed race individual, what do yall say about a white boy who would move to the mother land of ONE of his ancestors, based on their African nationality? I believe this is really cool. The great great great great great grandchildren of Africans going home to where they should’ve been born. ALL blacks around the globe that are not in Africa are the descendants of slaves. Now, not all slaves were taken by force. Lots were sold to the Europeans, and the kings of these villages became wealthy. this story is awesome! But I believe there is this guilt that runs through everyone of these individuals. I believe these individuals are the blacks that use the atrocities of white men committed upon the blacks, from the ships sailing away from the African coast with slaves and arriving in the America’s, to the Segregation and racism if he 1960s and Martin Luther King, to benefit themselves. Everything is racist. Trumps racists. The American flag is racist. The cops are racists. 200 year old statues are racist. Yet I’m willin to bet all of these individuals son this video are democrats. The very same party that created the kkk, established segregation and Jim Crowe laws, hunted down blacks and hanged them from trees, fought for the enslavement of blacks.....all while republicans, trumps supporters such as myself do not believe in, and republicans fought AGAINST all of those horrible ideologies. As AMERICANS of all colors, religions, and nationalities, we’ve overcome and fought for so much. We’ve conquered the evils of the past. There’s no changing history, no rewinding the time, no lacking back the lives lost and families broken apart. But through time, we’ve fought through courage and determination not let hate win. Yes, I’m white, yes, I’m a trump supporter, yes I love my guns, love to hunt, and what 99.9% of blacks in America would call a racist red neck, but I’m far from it and my wife is a dark skinned Hispanic from a socialist shithole.......I will be honest, I’ve had African friends, from Nigeria and Sudan to be exact, and they say Africans hate black americans. Because blacks in America have only built the most dangerous streets and neighborhoods, and the most disrespectful, degrading, vulgar music genres in America....truth hurts. Coming from a man who grew up in the country and in the ghettos, with gang shootings 5 houses down from me, police shootouts with black suspects three blocks over, my car being broken into by blacks, I can confirm this.

[@tinman6182]

How do I contact her thinking of going to Kenya.

[@roastchicken401]

Imagine as soon as you arrive they tell you to go back to america 😂

[@thulasmash2195]

There's no white people in Africa to tell them that.

[@kingmed6061]

Failed attempt try again fragility?!

[@Floppy1932]

Thulas Mash I think they meant other Africans bro

[@ragingpatriot772]

How much is EBT in Africa?

[@g718ny]

How can you return to somewhere that you werent orginally from?

[@selenabonner7352]

Exactly! Just like the color of the original Egyptians have been changed from Black to White, so has the original people of America. If you research enough you will find this information to be true.

[@mercydoddy5510]

I am coming home,I am coming home tell the world I am coming home...

[@queenace2070]

Blessing to you all! I can't wait to visit!

[@thedarknessluciano]

Our people are so beautiful!😍

[@naturalbeauty8041]

I went there! So cool! I loved in Benin. I remembered the people who lived on the lake!

[@ctbt1832]

Great job

[@debbiethompson14]

Thank you for this! I'm going to subscribe and I'm going next year to visit and then I'm going to move there.

[@godsonnzube7988]

I'll personally welcome you...

[@debbiethompson14]

@@godsonnzube7988 Thank you😁

[@antonellavitale7264]

This is beautiful

[@themadlad8540]

Do you guys have room for about 50 millon more?

[@scottallen6227]

Nice

[@YoshiXO]

Fck that! Africa sold us for a reason! They don’t care about their own!! I’m staying here

[@silva1530]

How much room Europe has to take its "people" back?

[@rudaughterofzion3903]

Very touching indeed.... I'm glad they came!

[@NarcisismoTV]

When she says: "on the American continent" she is talking about south and north as of one continent? I'm confused.

[@demetrius2847]

I pray one day I get to go to the motherland 🌍 Nice video💯%❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@124hl]

I love to see this .

[@MoRasheed]

Welcome back Africans. This is your home. The richest continent in the world. Whatever you're doing as business in America, you can do it in Africa with tenfold results.

[@shevypearl]

All the first named place I have in my blood Togo Benin Ghana Nigeria Congo Cameroon Bantu if anybody has information links about the people I'd appreciate it

[@TabsT-vy5jy]

Theres no african news channels?

[@brendabullock9102]

I want to move to Africa please send some info on how to begin the process please I am serious I want to leave the us

[@farminginafrica5220]

Hi which Africa country do you want to move to? Am in Ghana

[@brendabullock9102]

Ghana maybe Accra for starts

[@farminginafrica5220]

Can we chart on Whatsapp [phone]

[@MorganBee211]

Same here!

[@dangerouswarrior7748]

Come to Gambia ,,the smiling coast of Africa,,go and find out kunta kinteh roots,,002202327749

[@MichelleBrown-vi5zo]

Africa Yisrael gotta retain no matter which walk of life,rich, poor, it’s time to detox from the western way of life and start afresh the Most High knows Who you are! He will prosper return to the Most High and he will do the rest return with humility and he will raise you up!!!! And let your enemies before you be put to shame! 🙏 AMEN!!!

[@p.k.2220]

Amen

[@beautifulspirit7420]

Fascinating! What am amazing trip. It's very interesting to see so many people in the USA and UK with West African heritage not only vist but many are emigrating to countries such as Gambia, Kenya and Nigeria. Really interesting. I love to watch videos about their new lives.

[@sheenadawkins4703]

This is really interesting!!!

[@marmocarr8529]

Its time for african americans to return to africa ,,,,no racism, no hurt, no pain,,,rebuild the continent of your ancestors,,what is stopping you brothers got to and sisters ?

[@GuerillaTVChannel]

Were they not enslaved in Africa by Africans and sold as slaves to the transporters?

[@PheneticsCo]

Yep, but do people read history??? NO!!

[@Jason-xb5sc]

In Africa prisoners of war were enslaved for a period of time after which most assimilated and married into the tribe they were enslaved by.

[@GuerillaTVChannel]

j jones yes but they were enslaved by the Africans and sold to the transporters. Slavery is still going on in Africa today as we can see with the Muslims in Lybia

[@thulasmash2195]

@@GuerillaTVChannel They were sold to transporters to be enslaved by lazy Neanderthals.

[@GuerillaTVChannel]

Thulas Mash but the Africans already had slaves prior to the transatlantic slave trade and after there is a slave trade today in Libya?

[@SupaNami]

You know these are the ones who sold our ancestors in the first place!!

[@tunesmithdainfinitytunegat1691]

Africa peace and Love

[@shqiptarskii]

I approve is this. More Americans should move to their ancestral continents, whites to Europe, blacks to Africa

[@shonyahb.yisrael4600]

Are bus drivers needed there?

[@judahgod8495]

An we need a army also

[@mandalor-8315]

@PAUL FAISON a non disciplined army with no direction hell we cant even search out the sell outs and rid ourselves of them

[@GhostCell47]

Dude! Erase the comment!

[@stephendise7946]

Great goal. But for now if you need help packing, I’m available 24/7.

[@gb_the_accuser]

Technology and a military. Yes we are the Army. We need to educate ourselves and protect ourselves and invest in ourselves by only marrying African.

[@proudafricanamerican7586]

Loving it👍🏿✊🏿

[@p.k.2220]

Welcome guys it's so emotional and sad and happy at the same time . You are welcome home... Goverment need to support you guys by giving you homes and amount of money to start afresh, to those who need it. Not everone has business in their mind. Some need peace and not to rushed to anything but to be.

[@p.k.2220]

@palermo1kid Africa is not able to welfare anyone enough not even local ppl. That will be just a welcome addition for a brother and a sister. To them that will still not make it up only YAH. They deserve that by truth.

[@BrokenDownTramp]

Those are Americans, immigrating to Africa.

[@chitownflippers5552]

where do i find her travel agency

[@farminginafrica5220]

Which Africa country do u want am in Ghana here

[@dangerouswarrior7748]

Come to Gambia ,,the smiling coast of Africa,come and see kunta kinteh roots,,002202327749

[@k.j.8341]

Look up Magic & Melanin

[@inaxaaji1935]

My beautiful African American brothers and sisters please visit east Africa we are you family to and we love you and we know you raised the image and status in the world one people we are much love from london I'm somali not from Somalia but from the Republic of somaliland

[@rkagiso10]

I am involved in mining and IT in South African. I am South African. My heart bleeds when I see people from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan , China taking up business opportunities. I was impressed with What Steve Harvey did, taking Family feud to Africa and if more wealthy African Americans can do the same, Africa will prosper and Africans in Diaspora can see Africa as a place to make home. Come home.

[@Talk2nanro]

A south African should be keeping quiet in this kind of thread you xenophobic fools

[@rkagiso10]

@@Talk2nanro a fool is the one who generalizes. We dont need your energy here. Please...

[@andres-rodriguez]

More power to these folks who have always been segregated from their African roots and now they are coming back to their mother land. Well done!!

[@philedwards896]

I’d love to go. Don’t know how I’d be accepted. But it would be amazing

[@rain1676]

You will.

[@Situation-report01]

Bro. Fear of unknown is more of a virus than COVID19, we back home are sincerely waiting to receive you with Joy and all humility,live from Nigeria.Africa is the most beautiful continent on earth

[@Situation-report01]

@@scottallen6227 that is why we are unique in our diversity,no Nigeria tribe or culture forbid other tribes from living in cities of choice,rivalry is natural,but we are better in Africa.If white can have all the freedom in Africa,then Africa Americans will enjoy more freedom

[@godshelter211]

There are a lot of great scholars in Africa that will provide you with more information in regards to slavery than you will find here in America. I'm so happy and proud that we are starting to reconnect with our brothers and sisters. Great things are to come. Can't wait!