This fills my heart with so much joy. The original meaning of Jamaica is jama ya ka (which in the Akan language means ‘maybe we are stuck’). Jamaica and Ghana have a lot in common. They even look Ghanaian. Their festivals and food are similar to Ghana’s. I pray the scales on the eyes of the Caribbean people will fall off and they begin to embrace their ancestry. God bless Africa🙏🏾
@@dvineslim This is the most beautiful day for me today as we are on social media in a civilized conversation about our existence I love it. Well every one of the Caribbean islands were founded by the carib and they name everyone of them Jamaica retain their name as well as caricou which is one of the islands belonging to Grenada. We still have a long way to go or to reach the truth of who we are but we know where we came from and that is a good start.
@I Am A Bajan. Cuthbert Wow great to know. Well I am aware some other Caribbean nations also have some of their pple tracing their roots from Ghana so u are ryt
Jamaica please stand up,, one of our owned Jamaica 🇯🇲 grandmother is in Ghana living her dream as a African, African to the world Jamaica land we love 💙❤️
I’m Jamaican and I agree. Went to Ghana in 2017 and knew I would purchase property there. It felt as if I were HOME. Ghana is a larger Jamaica! I love Ghana and it’s a wonderful county.
Aww I will for sure😊 don't worry I will be very happy, but now I am in china now, but when I go back, I will be expecting you. 😂😂 you are most welcome .
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Its great that you could visit. Our country was built and is the foundation left for us to build on by our ancestors. We are part DOS. We are all not full blood African, therefore Africa may ask us to visit, but not to come home. Our home is Jamaica.
My people are from Jamaica but I am a proud African. We were not slaves, we were enslaved. We are the children of the kidnapped people. Many of the words we use are from Ghana. Africa to the world.
Yes brother, finally you find a Jamaican. The similarities between Ghana and Jamaica is undeniable; majority of our retained African history, culture, dialect is traced directly to Ghana.
The maroons ancestry is from Ghana,who are relatives of the Ashanti’s.Our ancestors are from different parts of Africa.I don’t know of too many Jamaican that don’t embrace their heritage.
I really appreciate this program, I am from Trinidad and Tobago and now live in the UK and visited Ghana last October and i truly love the place and hope to relocate their very soon that is my new home, and my and my grate grand parents are from there
@@oseejoseph3280 that's so cool! My parents are from Trinidad, I was born in the States and I've always wanted to visit Ghana! When yuh reach call meh, lol.
which Caribbean country did u choose since your parents are from different countries? sounds interesting and it is good to live under black rule country.enjoy
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The year of return on Marcus Garvey Earthstrong. The Ghanian President has recently visited Jamaica, and re-energie the 400 years since the trans-atlantic trade.
You are from St. Ann Parish in Jamaica and you've been in Senegal for over 20 years!!?? I am from Port Antonio. However, I live in the U.S. I think it's so cool that a Jamaican has lived in Senegal so long. Continued blessings to you.
O my days I am so emotional we eat some a the same meal but we call the meal a different name wow , a Jamaicans with wodemaya , wow , I rate u wodemaya
It sounds like the Hawaiian dish lau lau the way she described it wrapped in banana leaves, it shows no matter how far we were spread out we're connected, blessings
I am white from the UK, but its wonderful to see people reconnect with their heritage.ghana is a wonderful country with wonderful people and i long to return again. To anyone thinking on it.... just go, you will not regret it.
we are not your brothers and sisters do you consider other africans from other countries your brothers abd sisters.. We are from all over africa remember slave trade
@@observer2642 well lol bantus and niger-congo and also nolitic countries in africa consider each others brothers and sisters because were all black africans 😂😂😂 we might have political tensions but at the end of the day we consider each other family thats why we have just introduced the africa free trade and soon were bringing out a passport for all africans.
Many West Africans taken from the Ghana region were taken to the now island of Jamaica. This is the first time that I have heard that Jamaicans call Kenke " Doknou". My family is from Ghana and my mom always called it Doknou....intresting.
Ghana and Jamaica share most things in common. My government and history teacher told me that most of Jamaicans come from Ghana. Ghana is really a home for all. God bless you, Wode Maaaaaaaaaya for this fantastic video
Wow Wode Maya.. 4yrs ago you did this video.. am Jamaican 🇯🇲 but Ghana is home.. Now it's vice versa.. Wode Maya is Ghanaian but Jamaica 🇯🇲 is home.. Wow Maya. Welcome to Jamaica 🇯🇲
Seriously one thing I don't like about this world is that why will people dislike this video and they saw the title before clicking if you know you gonna dislike the content of the video why clicked it. And the most annoying part of it is they don't know it hot to dislike someone's content because it takes guy time to make this video and even the old man and woman. Please and please if you know you don't like any content of any vloger you don't have to throw it on his or her face because it not easy. please no body should insult me I just said my mind, if you agree with me on this please show me some love
Krissy Fusion the 40% was a guess 😂. I am here and I am from Portland with maroon blood. I think my blood is Ghana too. I live in Canada and people from Ghana mistook me for their own. A man even accused me of pretending to be Jamaican.
@@annmariebusu9924 thanks for your reply. I'm from st. Elizabeth and live here US. Same thing happen to me Ghanians always think am from there. Cany wait to visit. We're one people
It's more than 40% Jamaicans are Nigerians and Ghanaians. Only pure Indians and pure Chinese not .Every one Jamaican has some African in them. DNA are revealing the truth.
We are one. There is a town called Abeokuta in Jamaica. To me, it shows that you can't erase a blood line, love to Jamaicans and pardon the past... Ayaaa Maaya, you are a star.
@@876mostvaluabletreasure2 😂 😂 Are you a joke??? Do you just mentioned Two tribes in Nigeria??? Abeokuta is located in Yoruba land in Nigeria while Igbo from East in Nigeria and they have yam /plantain and many other festival going on.
I also found out my people are Ashanti and I was born in Jamaica also and I'm very happy very proud of my rich African history and also I can't wait I might not make it this yeah to Ghana but hopefully by 2020 I could take that trip and relive my roots
You have to realize that black americans and any black person that migrate to america is constantly being conditioned and programmed. Blacks who migrate to America, e.g Jamaicans, trinidadians, Ghanaians, Nigerians are able to break away from the programming because they are connected to their home countries. Their thinking is very different from a black american. So i encourage black americans to adopt a african country or black country to get themselves unprogrammed.
It is not that anyone is ashamed, its that the truth about our origin is still hidden. People keep telling us that we should go here and go there, but never the truth about us. The overall fact is we dont trust........our ancestors were bamboozled, and dragged, sold for inferior goods, raped you name it. After all that they went through, they left a foundation on which we are so proudly building, and we prefer to focus on doing just that........we dont want to be moving from place to place, like ideots. Jamaica is the land of the birth of all Jamaicans and we want it that way. We are not Africans......not full blood African.... Thx.......my opinion
@@andriapd then you in the wrong place you shouldn't even be here go somewhere else I knew it was going to come down we're not full African and we're this we're that but the same people that you claim were the one who raped you that you said but you don't seem to have a problem with them what a contradictory comment but you don't have a problem with white daddy though we understand and I have seen so many Jamaicans 100% African who took the DNA test so you can save that lie
@@pierretoussaint8426 all DNA tests are fake, how about that. I do not believe in DNA testing. Its not our fault that our ancestors were raped by white slave masters, thus creating an entirely different race. If my ancestors were not sold into slavery then we would not have that problem, would we? We just want to be left alone. Do not ask us to Come home, we have a home, thats all i am saying. We are not pure african and that is a fact. Indian, Chinese, European, african etc. Therefore no one country can clame the children of slaves. That's all Empress
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Embrace Pan Africanism!!!!!! When she said that I screamed!!! Unity is the only thing that will save African people around the world. We must come together and love, protect, trade with and employ, teach and marry each other. Read and study the teachings of Garvey and Lumumba. "In order to lead a people, you have to love a people." Garvey, Rawlings, Lumumba, Sankara, MLK, Nanny, Harriet Tubman - they all loved black people. I was going to retire to Jamaica but I keep watching your videos and I know now that my final home is in Ghana.
As a person from the Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadiens, living in the US. I can't wait to visit Africa and Ghana. Though, I do believe that my root is Ghanian, have to check. I really want to make it to Ghana this year!
if you look at a well known Jamaican like Usain Bolt, he looks like a person from Senegal, you can tell his ancestors are from Senegal or Sierra Leone even.
Malcalm Baxter most likely his ancestry is still not primarily from Senegal as many Senegalese or even Sierra Leone tribes wasn’t taken to Jamaica compared to others. Realistically speaking, bolt can indeed have Senegalese ancestry partially (let’s say more or less %8-10%) however his ancestry is still gonna be from where most tribes were taken to Jamaica which historically hailed from Ghana/Gold Coast and Nigeria/Cameroon/Biafra. However, despite the high possibility of most Jamaicans having Ghanian ancestry today, none is purely or solely from Ghana as Jamaicans are a mixture of many of the aforementioned tribes/regions in their respective combinations. It’s just common for Jamaicans to assume they are from Ghana because that’s where most of their visible culture and history derives. Lastly, I think it would also be subjective to say Usain Bolt looks Senegalese, I live in nyc and seen on many occasions Ghanians that could easily pass for Bolt, in both mannerism and looks. Not to mention I’ve seen many Ghanians who look just like Senegalese and vice versa. Senegalese are just typically taller than Ghanians.
My Jamaican friend at work said cola nut they call Bisi.Same the Akans call cola nut Bisi.Dorkunu as prepared and called by Jamaicans,same as Alan's in Ghanaa.Nyakupong referred to as Most High,same as Jamaicans. Wa guan me Jamaican families,Ghana ya home,the Alan's ya family. I'm an Erverh from Ghana and know very well Haitians are Erverhs and my family.Themma practice voodoo,speak gbe,know of fa and Legba as the Ewes of Ghana,Togo,Benin and Nigeria.
Yes indeed my friends at work were eating bizzy you raw she ask me if I wanted a piece I say no but then I look at the shape and reap its green bizzy I told her we dry them and make tea she was supposed we have so much in common.
I am Nigerian 🇳🇬 😩😩 but the truth is Ghana 🇬🇭 is home too, I have lived all my life in Ghana 🇬🇭 and right now I even speak and understand the Ghanaian language so well, that people even doubt my nationality, most of my friends are also Ghanaian, I am very sure my subscribers also wonder how and why I sound the way I do, I am just a missing Nigerian, Ayaamaya thanks for sharing this... 🇬🇭 🇳🇬
Maya you made this video just for me. I love everything about this couple. Here is the deal: The British long ago established a Museum of some sort, to highlight their involvement in slavery; and their records state that almost all the slaves they brought to Jamaica, came from Ghana, (I learned this from RUclips actually). That is why, just as expressed by Naomi, I see striking similarities between both of our people. I know without doubt, that none of us could determine each others nationality, without hearing the accent. I am 67 now, and though I love Africa dearly, and particularly Ghana, there is no sense in relocating at this stage in my life. However, African Americans NEED to relocate. After emancipation we Jamaicans, and other Caribbean people who were enslaved by the British, were empowered to start laying foundations however insignificant, toward independence. Emancipation in the US, was a charade. African Americans have never known true freedom, have never been allowed to breathe, and it continues until today. What has, and continues to be, in America, is a travesty, and an abomination. I will come back to this another day. Is it enough to declare a year of return? My view is, the majority who would gladly return, are poor and haven't the resources to sustain themselves until established. I encourage Ghana to examine that. In the meantime, peace and love to my family. Love blackness. Love Africa, regardless.
Steven, your grammar and mechanics are almost perfect! It is quite rare to see excellent grammar, style and mechanics! Clearly you are highly educated or well-read. I know it's random but I needed to say it. Haha
Until Africa gets her act today and define the direction she wants to go by the people coming together to chart the way forward, she can't be of help to her family who desperately need her help. And I'm a Nigerian living in Nigeria so I know what I am talking about.
@@stevenbarrett4110 , I had mentioned something about the video before I stumbled on your comment. I wanted to compliment how you used the written English Language well. Do you have a problem with receiving compliments? You do know that this is a public forum and almost anything can be said, right?
I’m a Jamaican living in America. I’m watching this on July 11, 2020. My husband and I are thinking about moving to Africa. I’m obsessed with watching videos about the diaspora moving back to Africa.
This fills my heart with so much joy. The original meaning of Jamaica is jama ya ka (which in the Akan language means ‘maybe we are stuck’). Jamaica and Ghana have a lot in common. They even look Ghanaian. Their festivals and food are similar to Ghana’s. I pray the scales on the eyes of the Caribbean people will fall off and they begin to embrace their ancestry. God bless Africa🙏🏾
I must correct you as Jamaica was name by the Caribs
I thought the original was Xamayca.
@Mamsie Sackey that is not true how the name Jamaica came about do some more research,
Nothing to do with common. You are the same people .
@@dvineslim This is the most beautiful day for me today as we are on social media in a civilized conversation about our existence I love it. Well every one of the Caribbean islands were founded by the carib and they name everyone of them Jamaica retain their name as well as caricou which is one of the islands belonging to Grenada. We still have a long way to go or to reach the truth of who we are but we know where we came from and that is a good start.
Ghana gets a lot of love from Jamaica.
One love every time
We are one .
🇯🇲🌍💪🏿💯❤️💯💪🏿🌍🇯🇲
I’m Jamaican and I love Africa on a whole!!! Ghana 🇬🇭 I’m coming to visit!!! 🇯🇲🇬🇭
We can wait to have u here coz we Ghanaians love Jamaicans so well
Good one there 👍
We can't wait to have you dear, you already fit Inn
marshab273 u are welcome
@I Am A Bajan. Cuthbert Wow great to know. Well I am aware some other Caribbean nations also have some of their pple tracing their roots from Ghana so u are ryt
I’m Haitian eating Jamaican 🇯🇲 food as I watch this interview from the motherland Africa ⭕️
lol bro,big up yo self my yute.
One love my family👊🏿
yes my African brother
Kush I 👊🏿
Nuh seh a word man
Jamaica please stand up,, one of our owned Jamaica 🇯🇲 grandmother is in Ghana living her dream as a African, African to the world Jamaica land we love 💙❤️
Sam Sharpe 👍🏾👍🏾🇯🇲🇯🇲💕💕👍🏾👍🏾🇯🇲🇯🇲💕💕👍🏾👍🏾
I’m Jamaican and I agree. Went to Ghana in 2017 and knew I would purchase property there. It felt as if I were HOME. Ghana is a larger Jamaica! I love Ghana and it’s a wonderful county.
We are Back!
Now It's Time For Ghana To The World
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Masa woaky3 dodo 👍
Welcome back!!!! 🙂
16 years in Ghana 🇬🇭 wow 😮, Ghana to the world. Preach on my brother.
I wish i can get just 16 hours in Ghana.
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
It's beautiful for Black people outside of Afrika to embrace their Afrikan Roots! Thumbs up if u agree family 👍🏾
ONE TRUE GAWWD! stop lying black people they already all over the world not only in America
@@williamkhumalo5325 true talk brother. People do not know that the continents were one before it split up.
Why u Jamaicans think Africa is our home land crazy ass Jamaicans u need to know your history
This youngster know we're not the same ppl he's just acting u need to love Jerusalem where we're from
You're still Sleeping u need to wake up fuckin Stupid ppl is still around
Thank you wodemaya I am GRANDMA I am so emotional I am ur grandmother
Love You Grandma!
WODE MAYA yea i AM proud of you this is what I like to see GHANA
@@WODEMAYA that was a great interview well done.
Wow thank you 🙏🏿
You're welcome home grandma ...love from Liberia
I'm a proud Jamaican and descendant of the Ashanti(Asante) people of Ghana.
I'm Ashanti too I will like to see you in Ghana one day
Me tooo ❤ you guys !peace
You are welcome home Typhanie. Greetings from Ashanti regional Capital- Ghana.
Jamaican men = Ashante
Straight out of Moore town.this where I want to be in a few years time.blessing my African people
Jamaica 🇯🇲 my Island to Ghana 🇬🇭 my ancestry home land.
Descendant of slaves
@Becky Britin He's just a stupid troll just ignore him....
@@fearlessfortruth and never showered or bathed until they met the moors, most still don't to this day and oh shit its summer ohhh noooooo that stench
@@fearlessfortruth am a female (: you welcome
@@joehouston2833 As it says the African Hebrews will be and Yah return so now and worship him before its too late.
I am Ethiopian and my boyfriend is from Ghana. I have learned a lot and I have plan to visit Ghana. Ghanaian are the coolest and very friendly people.
I’m Jamaican and my father just sent me this video, he is OBSESSED with Ghana, hope we can visit there one day
you are welcome brothers and sisters
"Any black man anywhere in this world is an African" Powerful statement
Kudos to Ghana for taking the lead in welcoming our people home
Look at how happy they are!!!
I’m Jamaican/American but African first. Hail you up... love the message and hope that I visit Ghana soon.
We will be expecting u
Blessings wode Maya i I'm Jamaican still following u from China back to Africa one love 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
I am somali u made right choice to return ghana I know alot of Ghanaian they are cool ppl or should I say civilized
One love
Abdi Jama yes we really are. One people
Abdi Jama big up my Somali East African brother! 🙌🏿 🇸🇴
Straightforward civilized people
Thank you my African brother
I've always thought that Woda Maya looks like Marcus Garvey
Jupiter Wisdom 😂😂😂 I started laughing from imagining that
@@okotieudumebraye6117
Why? Lol
yh he does
you are so right.
He's his reincarnation XD
every black people around the world is an african,i liked that Aya maya.peace and love to 🇬🇭 "love from zanzibar🇹🇿".
dawa zam will you host me when I come Zanzibar.?
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
Aww I will for sure😊 don't worry I will be very happy, but now I am in china now, but when I go back, I will be expecting you. 😂😂 you are most welcome .
All people are African. Proven through dna. Everyone!
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There are thousands of Jamaicans living in Ghana ..the Marley family still here ..over 20yrs
I went Jamaica earlier on this year and trust, it's just like being in Ghana. Plus Jamaican people are some of the nicest people on earth. 🇬🇭
I hope we treated you will. GHANA I'm coming
thank you for visiting my country. Hopefully i will visit Ghana soon
Nana Aggrey, that is awesome! Glad you enjoyed Jamaica & received great Jamaican hospitality during your stay. Love and blessings!
Its great that you could visit.
Our country was built and is the foundation left for us to build on by our ancestors. We are part DOS. We are all not full blood African, therefore Africa may ask us to visit, but not to come home. Our home is Jamaica.
Jamaican needed to live in the ocean
Really that is right .any black man anywhere is an African 😂 ilove africa from Somalia🇸🇴🇬🇭
👍👍👍
That is Peter Tosh brother. Much respect
What about those 'black' dudes from places like and around Fiji or Australian Aborigines?
@@Aikunle78 they literary teach that they are from East Africa 40000 years ago over there in Fiji
@@arushanioshaka5600 i heard that too apparently the Fijians/papua new guinea are descendants of Tanzanians
I love Jamaica 🇯🇲 from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
My people are from Jamaica but I am a proud African.
We were not slaves, we were enslaved.
We are the children of the kidnapped people.
Many of the words we use are from Ghana.
Africa to the world.
Yeah true😉
YESSSS ‼️‼️ I hate when people call our ancestors “slaves” they were AFRICANS✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🖤🖤🖤🖤
@@ladyghana5603 power to you my sister.
Yes brother, finally you find a Jamaican. The similarities between Ghana and Jamaica is undeniable; majority of our retained African history, culture, dialect is traced directly to Ghana.
Correct
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
@@AYAOORELAXATION go watch your mother not interested
@@pierretoussaint8426 who the fuck you are
That is true. The dialects, food and music are distinctly Afrikan.
ruclips.net/video/TBKoDaR12UQ/видео.html
The maroons ancestry is from Ghana,who are relatives of the Ashanti’s.Our ancestors are from different parts of Africa.I don’t know of too many Jamaican that don’t embrace their heritage.
You should visit Ghana and see the Ashanti region.
Those who are brainwashed by the colonizer deny their African heritage and quick to see they are "British".
I love Ghana 🇬🇭. Ghana passport is free visa to South Africa 🇿🇦
I really appreciate this program, I am from Trinidad and Tobago and now live in the UK and visited Ghana last October and i truly love the place and hope to relocate their very soon that is my new home, and my and my grate grand parents are from there
@@oseejoseph3280 that's so cool! My parents are from Trinidad, I was born in the States and I've always wanted to visit Ghana! When yuh reach call meh, lol.
@@oseejoseph3280 help me travel to UK n iwill appreciate this
Wode maya am Jamaican am i also love Ghana plus most Jamaican identified with west Africa especially Ghana .
Fantastic interview held by Maya.Jamaica is Ghana
Nuff Respect
I was born in U.K. (my parents Jamaican/Barbadian)
I moved back to Caribbean and I love been in Black rule land.
Love this video
I know the feeling,I moved backed to the Virgin Islands 2 months ago,found out that I have been missing all of the good stuff.
which Caribbean country did u choose since your parents are from different countries? sounds interesting and it is good to live under black rule country.enjoy
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Thanks for putting my peeps on Wode Maya.
When I see the markets in Nigeria and Ghana it reminds me of the markets in Jamaica.
@James Ajayi Facts!!
Your name resemble with the name of highest mountain in Afrika found in Tanzania known as Mount Kilimanjaro I guess your ancestor are from East Afrika
I said the dame thing
There is no difference; it is the mother land
@@juliussanane1860 yes that's where I got the name and all Africans originated in east Africa.
Yes mama AFRICA you found my yaadie. She looks like my aunt. Nuff nuff love.
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
U made my eyes 'water' when you mentioned Marcus Garvey. To all our cousins in Jamaica and Jamaicans in the diaspora, we love you all.
The year of return on Marcus Garvey Earthstrong. The Ghanian President has recently visited Jamaica, and re-energie the 400 years since the trans-atlantic trade.
He came to St.Vincent too.
Ghana is indeed motherland I feel at home each time I am there.
really, what an experience. so where did you go and stay
Hailing from St Ann to senegal 23 yrs and no regrets!
You are from St. Ann Parish in Jamaica and you've been in Senegal for over 20 years!!?? I am from Port Antonio. However, I live in the U.S. I think it's so cool that a Jamaican has lived in Senegal so long. Continued blessings to you.
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
Niceeee enjoy
dan tafari please show us life in Senegal from your perspective.
Yes iayh👊🏿 Jah live
Jamaican currently living in Ghana here, Africa to the world! God Bless Ghana and i hope she continues to show us love.
I am Jamaican can't wait to visit Ghana
Welcome to Ghana.
Can't wait to travel to Jamaica as well, it is my plans
O my days I am so emotional we eat some a the same meal but we call the meal a different name wow , a Jamaicans with wodemaya , wow , I rate u wodemaya
Is still call Dokunu in Ghana the Akans call it Dokunu and the Ga tribe call it kenkey
@@patrinaadamajapiong9585 oh wow!
@@patrinaadamajapiong9585 Also called Blue Draaws in JA.
It sounds like the Hawaiian dish lau lau the way she described it wrapped in banana leaves, it shows no matter how far we were spread out we're connected, blessings
Yo wode when you got to Jamaica go see the maroons, you’ll see the akan culture.
Asante Akan They are also in Sierra Leone, to date the first Maroon church is in Sierra Leone after they left Jamaica.
Yes it's true and it's a shame people do not know
Big my maroons family's, I am from cujoe hill
Jamaicans and African-Americans who have moved to my motherland Ghana are inspiring me to move back to Ghana. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Haiti is coming too pretty soon
🙌🏿🇭🇹 yep
Haiti is already here
R Monga you there?
St Vincent is coming!
@@neiljamesreel indeed
I am Cameroonian and my mother is from Jamaica. We did the ancestry test and found her heritage is mostly from the Ghana /Ivory Coast area
Lydia Fomuso Wow that’s a nice mix. We are Jamaicans I just met a Cameroonian in Japan where we live. Nice people.
Yup most Jamaicans are descended from Ghana 🇬🇭, with some Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Senegalese mix
I’m Jamaican and I was mostly Nigerian and Sierra Leonaian
Most Jamaicans are from the East and West coast of Ghana. My mother told me these things before she passed
Cynthia Sala my line of both my parents tracked to nigeria
I am Jamaican living in America, I can't wait to visit Ghana🇬🇭🇯🇲🇬🇭🇯🇲🇬🇭🇯🇲🇬🇭🇯🇲🇬🇭🇯🇲🇬🇭 my country origin
Love this interview. Jamaican living in UK, coming to Ghana
You are always welcome. Peace be upon you
I love Jamaicans so much......Jamaicans have been so good to me and that’s why I always call Jamaica small Africa.
AFRICA AND AFRICANS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE ONE; AFRICA ALL THE WAY.
HAITIAN is on the way to the motherland
Kettly Charles mw anvi ale lot bo
Kettly Charles mw anvi ale lot bo
Thats that partois/ patwa.Waa Gwaan
@@rightontime9586 mezanmi relem pitanm 904 343 8241 nou sipoze kòmanse kinekte pou nou kite peya blan mannan ba li. Yo prejije tròp
@@rightontime9586 we're are you living at
I am white from the UK, but its wonderful to see people reconnect with their heritage.ghana is a wonderful country with wonderful people and i long to return again. To anyone thinking on it.... just go, you will not regret it.
Peace and love
Wow Grandma such a lovely person.. I’m visiting Jamaica 🇯🇲 to see for my self ... kudus Maya
Nuff respect, I am a Jamaican who loves Africa. Ghana is home for real
Thank you. Peace be upon you
We must go to Afrika
We all should go to Africa
@@luciatoussaint-francis1786 yes! Leave AmeriKKKa's stolen land ruthless government & Europcaves for the Neanderthals
Omg I'm glad you find a Jamaican there
I'm also from jamaica.love Ghana love u guys in Ghana respect maya 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Do well to visit ur spiritual homeland
One love
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
Mark waibel there are thousands of Jamaicans in Ghana ...
Good
Jamaica is here! Been waiting, thanks fi that.
Look at our brothers and sisters in Jamaica. I love my beautiful black people.. Thanks Wode 💯💯💯👏👏👏❤👏😘😘😘👏❤⭐
we are not your brothers and sisters do you consider other africans from other countries your brothers abd sisters.. We are from all over africa remember slave trade
@@observer2642 well lol bantus and niger-congo and also nolitic countries in africa consider each others brothers and sisters because were all black africans 😂😂😂 we might have political tensions but at the end of the day we consider each other family thats why we have just introduced the africa free trade and soon were bringing out a passport for all africans.
@@observer2642 Im Jamaican and yes we see dem as our brothers and sisters
@@observer2642 go to hell
@@kuntri4389 Lool they're not brothers and sisters, our culture is different.
Thank you for visiting Nigeria bro. We love to see you in Nigeria again
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
Jamaica is exactly like Ghana just that it's way smaller
I hope you enjoy your stay in Nigeria.. Maya.. We love you.. One love Africa..
Naija fans Yes brooo
In Nigeria she will be kidnapp. Best place in Africa is Ghana. Not in kidnapping like Nigeria haha
Bala your father yansh
Bala Kaitu Ghanaians won’t stop to amaze me. When would y’all get civilised and have common sense?
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DOMINICA (Ashanti) in the house...Blessings to the Mother Land
Many West Africans taken from the Ghana region were taken to the now island of Jamaica.
This is the first time that I have heard that Jamaicans call Kenke " Doknou".
My family is from Ghana and my mom always called it Doknou....intresting.
JOHN OWUSU “Donkuno” is Twi for “kenkey” in Ga
Ghana and Jamaica share most things in common. My government and history teacher told me that most of Jamaicans come from Ghana. Ghana is really a home for all. God bless you, Wode Maaaaaaaaaya for this fantastic video
Great video as usual. Kenkey is also called Dorkonu( I know I spelled it wrong) in Akan as well. I love Jamaica 🇯🇲
#d)kono🇬🇭
Dokono in Jamaica.
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We love u too my African sister
Dorkunu means Kenney in Ga(Accra)
Wow Wode Maya.. 4yrs ago you did this video.. am Jamaican 🇯🇲 but Ghana is home.. Now it's vice versa.. Wode Maya is Ghanaian but Jamaica 🇯🇲 is home.. Wow Maya. Welcome to Jamaica 🇯🇲
Seriously one thing I don't like about this world is that why will people dislike this video and they saw the title before clicking if you know you gonna dislike the content of the video why clicked it.
And the most annoying part of it is they don't know it hot to dislike someone's content because it takes guy time to make this video and even the old man and woman.
Please and please if you know you don't like any content of any vloger you don't have to throw it on his or her face because it not easy.
please no body should insult me I just said my mind, if you agree with me on this please show me some love
People dont know the difference btw likes and dislikes... dont be offended pls. This vid is worth watching over and over
@@halfnigeriaandhalfghana6447 thanks for understanding
The mzungus
Where are my Jamaicans ? Represent
I am from that 40% ancestors center from Ghana
Krissy Fusion the 40% was a guess 😂. I am here and I am from Portland with maroon blood. I think my blood is Ghana too. I live in Canada and people from Ghana mistook me for their own. A man even accused me of pretending to be Jamaican.
@@annmariebusu9924 thanks for your reply. I'm from st. Elizabeth and live here US. Same thing happen to me Ghanians always think am from there. Cany wait to visit. We're one people
You are ever welcome home to Ghana. Much love.
It's more than 40% Jamaicans are Nigerians and Ghanaians. Only pure Indians and pure Chinese not
.Every one Jamaican has some African in them. DNA are revealing the truth.
@@annmariebusu9924 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 he right we are Ghanaians living in the diaspora
Proud Jamaican 🌏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
"mama AFRICAAAAA; how are you doing, mamaaaaaa; mama, AFRICAAAAA, we love you; MAMAAAAAAA"; (PETER TOSH)!!!!!!!!
We are one. There is a town called Abeokuta in Jamaica. To me, it shows that you can't erase a blood line, love to Jamaicans and pardon the past... Ayaaa Maaya, you are a star.
Abeokuta is Capital of Ogun state in Nigeria.
In which parish is this town located?
Ruzt Stain our dna have Nigeria ancestors too.
Charles brown we have Igbo town in Jamaica and yam festival
@@876mostvaluabletreasure2 😂 😂 Are you a joke??? Do you just mentioned Two tribes in Nigeria???
Abeokuta is located in Yoruba land in Nigeria while Igbo from East in Nigeria and they have yam /plantain and many other festival going on.
A beautiful interview where are the Trinidadians , wode maya we love you
I love Trinidad and Tobago, specially Trinidad, am in UK now but am still missing the place
Hey,
How are you going? I lived in Trinidad for 13 years and still go back every year.
we have a red carpet waiting for you in Trinidad you need to visit the Caribbean is like home away from home
@@andysandy8823 yes ooo I really miss the place
@@SmoothSilk Trinidad is good but Africa is where our greatness is. My DNA is calling me to Africa especially Ghana
I'm Canadian in Jamaica just met grandma daintyann out here at night promoting you
I love the african culture my son dad is from ghana so it make me love that country more love my ghanaians💕💕💕
I also found out my people are Ashanti and I was born in Jamaica also and I'm very happy very proud of my rich African history and also I can't wait I might not make it this yeah to Ghana but hopefully by 2020 I could take that trip and relive my roots
Shout out from Jamaica, Wode Maya!
Even your name is Asanti name
@@victoropoku7005 yes my brotha it's only right to reclaim name and identity being Asante descendant
Am also kwame owusu...welcome anytime to Ghana
Im ashanti and i m from a royal family😉
Love it. Jamaican here did the dna study and yes 75% west African with the majority Ghana, i will be going in November im very excited.
You are always welcome to sweet and peaceful mother Ghana. Peace be upon you
You are always welcome to sweet and peaceful mother Ghana. Peace be upon you
I will visiting Jamaica one day
The livelihood of the black American & Caribbean are Afrikan lifestyle assimilating will be a breeze
Thank God 🇺🇬
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
Jason Denton not true Liberia was form as a way for the usa to return our people back to the continent many return so those who return are
You have to realize that black americans and any black person that migrate to america is constantly being conditioned and programmed. Blacks who migrate to America, e.g Jamaicans, trinidadians, Ghanaians, Nigerians are able to break away from the programming because they are connected to their home countries. Their thinking is very different from a black american. So i encourage black americans to adopt a african country or black country to get themselves unprogrammed.
@@jasondenton5432 african Americans enslaved Liberians bro.
Some Black people are ashamed of their African roots because of negative images of Africa and also anti-blackness.
Garland Owls11 forget bout the negatives ..Africa will unite
It is not that anyone is ashamed, its that the truth about our origin is still hidden. People keep telling us that we should go here and go there, but never the truth about us.
The overall fact is we dont trust........our ancestors were bamboozled, and dragged, sold for inferior goods, raped you name it. After all that they went through, they left a foundation on which we are so proudly building, and we prefer to focus on doing just that........we dont want to be moving from place to place, like ideots. Jamaica is the land of the birth of all Jamaicans and we want it that way. We are not Africans......not full blood African....
Thx.......my opinion
@@andriapd then you in the wrong place you shouldn't even be here go somewhere else I knew it was going to come down we're not full African and we're this we're that but the same people that you claim were the one who raped you that you said but you don't seem to have a problem with them what a contradictory comment but you don't have a problem with white daddy though we understand and I have seen so many Jamaicans 100% African who took the DNA test so you can save that lie
@@pierretoussaint8426 all DNA tests are fake, how about that. I do not believe in DNA testing.
Its not our fault that our ancestors were raped by white slave masters, thus creating an entirely different race. If my ancestors were not sold into slavery then we would not have that problem, would we?
We just want to be left alone. Do not ask us to Come home, we have a home, thats all i am saying. We are not pure african and that is a fact. Indian, Chinese, European, african etc.
Therefore no one country can clame the children of slaves. That's all
Empress
@Ebro Big boy You can't argue with children my friend. It's not worth it.
where's my Jamaicans at.big up yourself Moya
apple jaguar 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Wow this is awesome!
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Embrace Pan Africanism!!!!!! When she said that I screamed!!! Unity is the only thing that will save African people around the world. We must come together and love, protect, trade with and employ, teach and marry each other. Read and study the teachings of Garvey and Lumumba. "In order to lead a people, you have to love a people." Garvey, Rawlings, Lumumba, Sankara, MLK, Nanny, Harriet Tubman - they all loved black people. I was going to retire to Jamaica but I keep watching your videos and I know now that my final home is in Ghana.
Yes indeed they truly have love for black people
One love and peace be upon you
Speaking facts most Jamaicans are having roots in Ghana and Gambia.
False
Nigeria, Cameroon, and Congo
False.
@@caroledawokmeni3493 and Benin and Toga. I've got several of my family to take their DNA too (on both sides).
I like her. She’s very dignified. She has an amazing presence.
Caribbean is Africa extension
As a person from the Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadiens, living in the US. I can't wait to visit Africa and Ghana. Though, I do believe that my root is Ghanian, have to check. I really want to make it to Ghana this year!
I know a Vincy who organizes trips to Africa. The next trip is Ghana but I think it's next year though.
LeVieDeAsh you will love it
Every black people around the world are bond to Africa
Mell Lisa you are right. But others salves did come apart from the ship wreckers. So who knows.
Next year for me!🥁🏞🏝🤗🔥
Thanks Wode Maya for taking Africa to the world.
A Jamaican 🇯🇲 RUclipsr...living in the US 🇺🇸who want to visit Ghana🇬🇭 one day.
Love this i am Jamaica living in Africa and they right Africa is home
Nice interview intelligent and big people are the Jamaicans I love you welcome in Africa you home from Senegal 💜💜💜💜💜💜
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if you look at a well known Jamaican like Usain Bolt, he looks like a person from Senegal, you can tell his ancestors are from Senegal or Sierra Leone even.
That is such a nice thing to say! Senegalese are lovely people
Malcalm Baxter most likely his ancestry is still not primarily from Senegal as many Senegalese or even Sierra Leone tribes wasn’t taken to Jamaica compared to others. Realistically speaking, bolt can indeed have Senegalese ancestry partially (let’s say more or less %8-10%) however his ancestry is still gonna be from where most tribes were taken to Jamaica which historically hailed from Ghana/Gold Coast and Nigeria/Cameroon/Biafra. However, despite the high possibility of most Jamaicans having Ghanian ancestry today, none is purely or solely from Ghana as Jamaicans are a mixture of many of the aforementioned tribes/regions in their respective combinations. It’s just common for Jamaicans to assume they are from Ghana because that’s where most of their visible culture and history derives. Lastly, I think it would also be subjective to say Usain Bolt looks Senegalese, I live in nyc and seen on many occasions Ghanians that could easily pass for Bolt, in both mannerism and looks. Not to mention I’ve seen many Ghanians who look just like Senegalese and vice versa. Senegalese are just typically taller than Ghanians.
@@malcalmbaxter5672 ✌️
The Jamaican culture is unique and admirable 👌👌
My Jamaican friend at work said cola nut they call Bisi.Same the Akans call cola nut Bisi.Dorkunu as prepared and called by Jamaicans,same as Alan's in Ghanaa.Nyakupong referred to as Most High,same as Jamaicans.
Wa guan me Jamaican families,Ghana ya home,the Alan's ya family.
I'm an Erverh from Ghana and know very well Haitians are Erverhs and my family.Themma practice voodoo,speak gbe,know of fa and Legba as the Ewes of Ghana,Togo,Benin and Nigeria.
In St.Vincent we say Ducuna 😆
Yes indeed my friends at work were eating bizzy you raw she ask me if I wanted a piece I say no but then I look at the shape and reap its green bizzy I told her we dry them and make tea she was supposed we have so much in common.
I am Nigerian 🇳🇬 😩😩 but the truth is Ghana 🇬🇭 is home too, I have lived all my life in Ghana 🇬🇭 and right now I even speak and understand the Ghanaian language so well, that people even doubt my nationality, most of my friends are also Ghanaian, I am very sure my subscribers also wonder how and why I sound the way I do, I am just a missing Nigerian, Ayaamaya thanks for sharing this... 🇬🇭 🇳🇬
What is the name of your channel so I can subscribe
Weldone for learning the Ghana language..
Name of your channel please
Veronica Narh the name is ITZ Bibi .. thank you 🏃♀️
Robert Frimpong thank you dear, I am not very fluent thou
We love you for what you do. Thank you for showcasing Africa. I’m Nigerian...
This is such a great video 💯
Mabel’s Channel Mabel I see u ...a fan here
Yes-It is
Love to ghana from russia
In Benin we call kenkey dakunu too
we do in Ghana too
your descendants are mostly Haitian hence the voodoo
Kenkey/dorkunu is originally Ghanaian food
Jeswaz Wadi no Jamaicans ancestors are from Benin too also Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. We are mixed with West Africa countries.
@@876mostvaluabletreasure2 okay my bad, most of our descendants were all taken to brazil because am Congolese central African
Ghana is amazing I love it there my husband is Ghanaian
A lot of Jamaican are originally from Ghana anyway and taken to Jamaica
Maya you made this video just for me. I love everything about this couple. Here is the deal: The British long ago established a Museum of some sort, to highlight their involvement in slavery; and their records state that almost all the slaves they brought to Jamaica, came from Ghana, (I learned this from RUclips actually). That is why, just as expressed by Naomi, I see striking similarities between both of our people. I know without doubt, that none of us could determine each others nationality, without hearing the accent.
I am 67 now, and though I love Africa dearly, and particularly Ghana, there is no sense in relocating at this stage in my life. However, African Americans NEED to relocate. After emancipation we Jamaicans, and other Caribbean people who were enslaved by the British, were empowered to start laying foundations however insignificant, toward independence. Emancipation in the US, was a charade. African Americans have never known true freedom, have never been allowed to breathe, and it continues until today. What has, and continues to be, in America, is a travesty, and an abomination.
I will come back to this another day. Is it enough to declare a year of return? My view is, the majority who would gladly return, are poor and haven't the resources to sustain themselves until established. I encourage Ghana to examine that.
In the meantime, peace and love to my family. Love blackness. Love Africa, regardless.
Steven, your grammar and mechanics are almost perfect! It is quite rare to see excellent grammar, style and mechanics! Clearly you are highly educated or well-read. I know it's random but I needed to say it. Haha
Until Africa gets her act today and define the direction she wants to go by the people coming together to chart the way forward, she can't be of help to her family who desperately need her help. And I'm a Nigerian living in Nigeria so I know what I am talking about.
jamdawgutube, thanks for your kind words. I do appreciate your comments. Just wish you had included a line or two about the video.
@@stevenbarrett4110 , I had mentioned something about the video before I stumbled on your comment. I wanted to compliment how you used the written English Language well. Do you have a problem with receiving compliments? You do know that this is a public forum and almost anything can be said, right?
I’m a Jamaican living in America. I’m watching this on July 11, 2020. My husband and I are thinking about moving to Africa. I’m obsessed with watching videos about the diaspora moving back to Africa.
Choose Ghana....we got the largest influence on your country. Language and Food
Wode your government did something all other African governments should emulate. Please let your next trip be in Jamaica....if you agree hit like👏👊💪
Up top,big up Wode Maya n my Jamaican ppl love di love we getting from Africa, love mama Africa fi life!!
Watch this dear ruclips.net/video/NuaqSx3BI50/видео.html
We from all over Africa, you can choose to go wherever you want to live in Africa.
The love Jamaicans have for Ghana is incredible i meet few in Ghana and they are soo lovely