Great video. I was raised under American apartheid in the south so it seemed so familiar to me. The same signs and mentality -- it never leaves me. When I gave talks about it at some classes in a NY community college to recent immigrants. They found it unbelievable because no one ever tell them about it--just in America it was called Jim Crow. Sadly today southern states ( former slave states) have decided to remove all references to African American history from the public schools. They need that type of museum in America.
Hi sesi I like the passion when you explaining this things. I'm South African who was born around that period but as a South African now that I've listen to your podcast, I realize I owe my kids a tour to this place because they do not know anything. You know I always feel bad when. I go around Pretoria Paul Kruger square I see you black kids taking pictures of selfies on against the background of this colonisers and I'm thinking it means the school curriculum is still not change it still teaches that these people were heroes like it was done in the past when Bantu education to brainwash us was the in thing. But keep it up . Time is too short. I will need to take my kids to these places before I die. But keep it up and enlighten our kids, the black child, so they realize how far we come from
How cool is this place? I read that a couple of Ashkenazi jewish brothers from South Africa built this museum to honor the people who suffered under Apartheid.
Thanks you so much for this remarkable video to shows the late president Nelson Mandela’s house & also your house in Johannesburg,South Africa in November of 2022❤❤❤
Hello! What a wonderful tour at Apartheid Museum. I really appreciated it. Please, Join us at Mozambique, at Matola raid Monument and Interpretive center. It is also a Monument that seek to preserve the history of Anti-racial struggle which was on force in South Africa up to late 1980s. The Monument is a live testimony of the victory and resilience of the peoples of South Africa and Mozambique on the process of the liberation struggle of south Africa against the Apartheid Government. You will love it. I am there conducting tours.
At last but not least, The Monument was unveiled by His excellence Jacinto Filipe Nhusy the current president of the Republic of Mozambique and His excellence Jacob Zumba then the President of the Republic of South Africa, on September 11th, 2015. Please come and pay us a visit.!
great tour! I have to say the last time I visited the Apartheid museum I become so angry and sad actually seeing the atrocities my people suffered. watching your video I now have new appreciation seeing it through someone else's eyes
Come and visit Kwazulu Natal Port Shepstone it’s beautiful there are a lot of hotels and it’s a multicultural town with great architecture theres also townships and villages by the beach and you can get some lobster being sold by the people of the village if you don’t want to be in the suburb .Thd suburb is beautiful and you can just walk to the beach
Afrikaans was created in the cape . its actually dutch mixed with Indonesian (Malay ) . many people of colour in the cape speaks afrikaans and actually enjoy it . And actually coloured people in the cape was a mix of asians ... indian , malay all sorts of European . cape coloured isn't just black and white . if you google it we are the most diverse people group in the world . apartheid and our colonial past is a sad one . however we have embraced being coloured too . that's what we were born into and that's what we know .
Funny this about the Zulu Kings Coronation is that when he was crowned the new king last month a week after that Bueen Elizabeth died wtf and on top of that his birthday was on her funeral God is really good ❤💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Come to the Zulu Kings Coronation at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on the 29th of October the President will be there it will be a world historic occasion .Because that’s King Shaka Zulu’s Family
South African bathrooms are very European. We don't have electrical outlets in bathrooms like Americans and the light switches are all outside the bathrooms.
How are they the indigenous people of South Africa if they stay in the Kalahari dessert between Namibia and Botswana wtf and those that are really Khoisan the ones in the Kalahari have never said that they are the indigenous people of South Africa they are not dum because they come from the Kalahari they stay so from SA they are just one of the tribes and they are also my ancestors I have Khoisan DNA and I’m Zulu and I found out that all black South Africans do
Coloured people used to call it "playing white" when light-skinned people reclassified and in isiXhosa there was a expression like "changing jackets". When the Population Registration Act and Group Areas Act came in, a lot of Xhosa people in the Cape Province chose to be classified "Cape Coloured", 'cause If you classified "Native", you weren't even a citizen and would face "deportation" to the supposed homelands by the Apartheid government. And it wasn't just the pencil test: they had to change their names, pass Afrikaans language exams and basically show that they reject everything about their Indigenous cultural identity so the government bureau would accept their "Cape Coloured" status. Families and communities were broken up because of this, 'cause if you were found associating with the "wrong" group, the government could come and reclassify you. Everything about your life- where you could live, where you could work, what you could earn, who you could marry- depended on how you were classified.
Both of you highlighted that you would have loved MORE time at certain places and MORE info on certain aspects of Apartheid. I hope that you realized that many South Africans who LIVED TROUGH THAT TIME and 'HAPPENIGS' are STILL LIVING today and they present a special auhentic source of information/history. Did you spend enough time meeting/talking to them? Did you meet some of those school children (elders today) who took part in the Protests against Afrikaans? Both of you highlighted that you would have loved MORE time at certain places and MORE info on certain aspects of Apartheid. I hope that you realized that many South Africans who LIVED TROUGH THAT TIME and 'HAPPENIGS' are STILL LIVING today and they present a special authentic source of information/history. Did you spend enough time meeting/talking to them? And did you meet some of those school children (elders today) and teachers who took part in the Protests against Afrikaans for instance? FYI - I am an Afrikaans speaking SA'can also called Colored by both the White Supremists (who developed their racist version called Apartheid) and our present ANC government. During the Soweto Protests I was in high school(Grade 11) in Paarl, a smaller town near Cape Town. That was 1976 and both "Colored" high schools and the wider community were actively protesting Apartheid. Both Colored high schools in the town were Afrikaans medium schools ... because all the coloureds (and their parents) grew up with Afrikaans as home language. Apartheid was that 'successful' for decades and decades. In my view, the idea of extending Afrikaans to schools in SA'can areas where Afrikaans was not that common, was an ideological mistake that helped the Struggle against Apartheid. The hubrism of the racists hastened their inevitable demise. Suggestion: If at all possible, could you give an idea about your NEXT STOP/City ?
Afrikaans is not a language that was "brought" here. Whilst it does derive from Dutch, it is a language that was created by the workers of the Dutch in order to communicate with Dutch. Why would the Dutch abandon their own language and take up a new dialect?
@@polymath_sa9745 Spanish and Portuguese are like 1 language and yet they are classed as 2 different languages. Just because Afrikaans derives 4rm Dutch, it does not make it a Dutch language 4 the Dutch themselves did not speak it. The language was developed by the workers of the Dutch and then became a written language thanx 2 malay imams and was then adopted by Europeans. Afrikaans does not only have dutch origins but also has Portuguese, Indonesian and the indigenous khoekhoe and San languages. Me being from kzn, do not speak the language but I know that it is a south african language. It's only spoken in 3 countries in the world, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana and is regarded as the world's youngest language.
Lol she said apartheid is a combination of 2 words apart + hate 😂😂😂, poor couple was lied to passionately. I'm not Afrikaner or coloured but Hate is Haat in Afrikaans
Couldn't quite make out what the guide was saying. I thought she said when they came to the skull that blacks were known as Apes? Couldn't quite make it out. What an education thus far.i am enjoying this.will continue to watch it.🙂 thank you.
Black South Africans are half Khoisans and Khoisans aren’t the indigenous people of South Africa they are the Indigenous people of Namibia or botswana the come from the Kalaha dessert.
Uyahlanya wena, khoisan an koi koi they are indigenous people of south africa as well they occupied the eastn cape westan cape as well as the Northern cape way befor the nguni people arrived coming from upper north of sub sura u mst learn more
@@thobanimthethwa5247 that's what the Dutch and British settlers want u to believe . They write what suits their needs but will not highlight that they killed thousands of indigenous people for the LAND. The LAND issue must be resolved before 2024 or else.........
Lets look at facts: - I don't see signs saying white people are not welcomed here - Never heard of the law prohibiting whites from walking on a pavement - Never seen a sign that says white people are not allowed to live in certain areas - When did we start telling white people that they can only be teachers, nurses, doctors and policeman so that they can only work in they own communities? - Is the government forcing white people to learn native languages? - I don't see police brutalising white people for their own rights to the extend where they get hanged Next time when you want to complain about privillages go to the apartheid museum and tell me if its common sense to compare BEE and apartheid. BEE doesn't benefit an average black South African, who is not politically connected, But during apartheid a below average white person lived way better than an educated black. Today its white people who still have most wealth than all races put together Next time gat your facts right before you expose your ignorance.
@@accountretired9479 It actually debunk the myth that they are under oppression, they want to compare SA today to Apartheid time but he has no clue what it means to live under an apartheid regime hence he can just put it on the same sentence with BEE.
What is sad about the government ? You dutch came from Netherlands ( Holland?) With yo crazy ideas that messed up African life . Mind u your ideas wouldn't have worked if u came here bare knuckles . Guns saved you
People who come from developed first world countries always have nothing but the best things to say about present day South Africa...I think we trust their opinion more than some butthurt yt South African
Africans owned European slaves , but we never hear of it. There are no museums or specials on it. There are books though. The Vikings ,Moores and Barbarians captured and sold more European slaves then there were ever black slaves, but this is somehow more important to remember?.
@@robgeibert5971 Now the fact that suicides and overdoses are killing Europeans all over the world by the hundreds of thousands is now being ignored.smh.
Slave museum in Cape town I have visited there was doing a tour guide course tells the story about the slave history in Cape town when the European came to Cape town from Europe I learn also as a Nguni I'm Xhosa my ancestors came from central Africa the Bantu people most Xhosa stays in eastern Cape where my family come from moved to Cape town because of work
There we go with the gaslighting. Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire (Included Arabs in North Africa) owned and or traded in European slaves. European slaves numbered in hundreds of thousands and it had nothing to do with 'race'. The children of those slaves integrated into the society & rose to prominent positions in the military and governments in the Ottoman Empire (including North Africa), Roman Empire. The enslavement of Africans by Europeans in the transatlantic slave trade for example numbered in tens of millions that got to shore not counting the millions that perished enroute.
Before the invaders came, there were people living there, they had their own kingdoms and developing at their own pace - necessity is the mother of invention and all that, there were a lot animals and a lot of natural beauty. They were in harmony with their environment & eating organic food. No Zoos and concrete jungles.
Even when there was nothing to see, your ancestors came but couldn't leave. They fought to die here with all they had they didn't want to go back to Europe. Just stating facts not hate!
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Shout out to your tour guide👏🏽👏🏽. Sis wethu is doing a wonderful job. A beautiful and articulate queen🇿🇦
She was amazing 🧡💚🇿🇦🇿🇦💯💯
She did an amazing job! We loved her and we're glad we found her!
I agree! She was amazing!
Can i have her contacts please
@@fittimetravelers can I get her contact lead?
As a south African this is a great tour to do...I remember doing it when I was around 16 years old
no better way to mentally re-victimize yourself.
It was a great tour! I'm glad we were able to do it. I am hoping this video encourages others to visit South Africa and to visit the museum as well.
A very simplistic representation of history at the museum
Great video. I was raised under American apartheid in the south so it seemed so familiar to me. The same signs and mentality -- it never leaves me. When I gave talks about it at some classes in a NY community college to recent immigrants. They found it unbelievable because no one ever tell them about it--just in America it was called Jim Crow. Sadly today southern states ( former slave states) have decided to remove all references to African American history from the public schools. They need that type of museum in America.
Peace family I would like to interview you guys for my channel. I am an African-American living in Johannesburg
I was able to visit the museum last month, November 2022. I was fortunate to have a great tour guide just like the lady in the video.
How much is the entrance fee? Did you have to pay for a tour guide as well?
Welcome and thank you for choosing SA🇿🇦
Thank you! We really enjoyed our time in South Africa. It was beautiful and we cannot wait to come back to visit!
Hi sesi I like the passion when you explaining this things. I'm South African who was born around that period but as a South African now that I've listen to your podcast, I realize I owe my kids a tour to this place because they do not know anything. You know I always feel bad when. I go around Pretoria Paul Kruger square I see you black kids taking pictures of selfies on against the background of this colonisers and I'm thinking it means the school curriculum is still not change it still teaches that these people were heroes like it was done in the past when Bantu education to brainwash us was the in thing. But keep it up . Time is too short. I will need to take my kids to these places before I die. But keep it up and enlighten our kids, the black child, so they realize how far we come from
Yes, our goal is to create videos to teach and educate others! Thank you for sharing your country with us!
Such an eloquent speaker.
How cool is this place? I read that a couple of Ashkenazi jewish brothers from South Africa built this museum to honor the people who suffered under Apartheid.
Thanks you so much for this remarkable video to shows the late president Nelson Mandela’s house & also your house in Johannesburg,South Africa in November of 2022❤❤❤
Hello!
What a wonderful tour at Apartheid Museum. I really appreciated it. Please, Join us at Mozambique, at Matola raid Monument and Interpretive center. It is also a Monument that seek to preserve the history of Anti-racial struggle which was on force in South Africa up to late 1980s. The Monument is a live testimony of the victory and resilience of the peoples of South Africa and Mozambique on the process of the liberation struggle of south Africa against the Apartheid Government. You will love it. I am there conducting tours.
At last but not least, The Monument was unveiled by His excellence Jacinto Filipe Nhusy the current president of the Republic of Mozambique and His excellence Jacob Zumba then the President of the Republic of South Africa, on September 11th, 2015. Please come and pay us a visit.!
Congratulations to you guys to shows your remarkable apartment in Johannesburg,South Africa 2022❤❤❤
great tour! I have to say the last time I visited the Apartheid museum I become so angry and sad actually seeing the atrocities my people suffered. watching your video I now have new appreciation seeing it through someone else's eyes
It was a great museum and we learned A LOT! Thank you for sharing your home with us!
It's very uncomfortable for White's too. You feel guilty but that's not enough and you don't know what to do that is appropriate.
Its so heart breaking by the time I got to reconciliation I was too angry to even care😢😢 Africans have been through a lot
Thanks you so much for this remarkable video about the apartheid laws & Nelson Mandela’s house in SOWETO Township in South Africa 2022❤❤❤
Why no like thumbs up button...great content guys...welcome to my beautiful country...hope you had an awesome stay.
Thank you! We truly enjoyed our time in South Africa!
Come to KwaZulu Natal Portshestone y’all will love it so much
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Congratulations to you guys to shows these remarkable video about the late Nelson Mandela’s house in SOWETO Township in South Africa 2022❤❤❤❤
It was an awesome experience! We're glad we were able to spend some time in South Africa! Thank you for your support!
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Thank you! We really enjoyed our time in Joburg.
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Come and visit Kwazulu Natal Port Shepstone it’s beautiful there are a lot of hotels and it’s a multicultural town with great architecture theres also townships and villages by the beach and you can get some lobster being sold by the people of the village if you don’t want to be in the suburb .Thd suburb is beautiful and you can just walk to the beach
Thank you for the recommendation! When we come back we will add this to our list! The lobster sounds delicious!
Watching from Cape town South Africa
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Afrikaans was created in the cape . its actually dutch mixed with Indonesian (Malay ) . many people of colour in the cape speaks afrikaans and actually enjoy it . And actually coloured people in the cape was a mix of asians ... indian , malay all sorts of European . cape coloured isn't just black and white . if you google it we are the most diverse people group in the world . apartheid and our colonial past is a sad one . however we have embraced being coloured too . that's what we were born into and that's what we know .
Afrikaans is also made up of English, German, French and Latin words.
How can I book with Cindy, she is so knowledgeable with her History. I am visiting in November, would love to have her as my tour guide.
I can’t find the travel group online, can you assist please? Thank you
Can I get a link to this tour guide?
Funny this about the Zulu Kings Coronation is that when he was crowned the new king last month a week after that Bueen Elizabeth died wtf and on top of that his birthday was on her funeral God is really good ❤💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Come to the Zulu Kings Coronation at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on the 29th of October the President will be there it will be a world historic occasion .Because that’s King Shaka Zulu’s Family
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South African bathrooms are very European. We don't have electrical outlets in bathrooms like Americans and the light switches are all outside the bathrooms.
All the tribes here have Khoisan ancestry !
There's nothing called Khoisan...it's either you are Khoe or it's either you're San/Abathwa... totally different tribes
How are they the indigenous people of South Africa if they stay in the Kalahari dessert between Namibia and Botswana wtf and those that are really Khoisan the ones in the Kalahari have never said that they are the indigenous people of South Africa they are not dum because they come from the Kalahari they stay so from SA they are just one of the tribes and they are also my ancestors I have Khoisan DNA and I’m Zulu and I found out that all black South Africans do
I don't know alot about the Khoisan people ..but what I've learned is that they never stayed long in one place...
Smh. The khoisan are the original inhabitants of Southern Africa. They are found all over Southern Africa.
Just wondering when the " ANC Corruption and Destruction Museum " will open.
Coloured people used to call it "playing white" when light-skinned people reclassified and in isiXhosa there was a expression like "changing jackets". When the Population Registration Act and Group Areas Act came in, a lot of Xhosa people in the Cape Province chose to be classified "Cape Coloured", 'cause If you classified "Native", you weren't even a citizen and would face "deportation" to the supposed homelands by the Apartheid government. And it wasn't just the pencil test: they had to change their names, pass Afrikaans language exams and basically show that they reject everything about their Indigenous cultural identity so the government bureau would accept their "Cape Coloured" status. Families and communities were broken up because of this, 'cause if you were found associating with the "wrong" group, the government could come and reclassify you. Everything about your life- where you could live, where you could work, what you could earn, who you could marry- depended on how you were classified.
But we are still classified in South Africa as per the colour of our skin, so what's changed?
Both of you highlighted that you would have loved MORE time at certain places and MORE info on certain aspects of Apartheid. I hope that you realized that many South Africans who LIVED TROUGH THAT TIME and 'HAPPENIGS' are STILL LIVING today and they present a special auhentic source of information/history. Did you spend enough time meeting/talking to them? Did you meet some of those school children (elders today) who took part in the Protests against Afrikaans?
Both of you highlighted that you would have loved MORE time at certain places and MORE info on certain aspects of Apartheid. I hope that you realized that many South Africans who LIVED TROUGH THAT TIME and 'HAPPENIGS' are STILL LIVING today and they present a special authentic source of information/history. Did you spend enough time meeting/talking to them? And did you meet some of those school children (elders today) and teachers who took part in the Protests against Afrikaans for instance?
FYI - I am an Afrikaans speaking SA'can also called Colored by both the White Supremists (who developed their racist version called Apartheid) and our present ANC government. During the Soweto Protests I was in high school(Grade 11) in Paarl, a smaller town near Cape Town. That was 1976 and both "Colored" high schools and the wider community were actively protesting Apartheid. Both Colored high schools in the town were Afrikaans medium schools ... because all the coloureds (and their parents) grew up with Afrikaans as home language. Apartheid was that 'successful' for decades and decades. In my view, the idea of extending Afrikaans to schools in SA'can areas where Afrikaans was not that common, was an ideological mistake that helped the Struggle against Apartheid. The hubrism of the racists hastened their inevitable demise.
Suggestion: If at all possible, could you give an idea about your NEXT STOP/City ?
Afrikaans is not a language that was "brought" here. Whilst it does derive from Dutch, it is a language that was created by the workers of the Dutch in order to communicate with Dutch. Why would the Dutch abandon their own language and take up a new dialect?
It is a Dutch dialect because in the Netherlands ppl dnt really understand Afrikaans
It's kitchen Dutch.... it's not African!!!
American English is not the with Great Britain English. But it was brought to the US by the British
@@polymath_sa9745 At end of the day it's still English.. all English speaking people around the world understand them!!
@@polymath_sa9745 Spanish and Portuguese are like 1 language and yet they are classed as 2 different languages. Just because Afrikaans derives 4rm Dutch, it does not make it a Dutch language 4 the Dutch themselves did not speak it. The language was developed by the workers of the Dutch and then became a written language thanx 2 malay imams and was then adopted by Europeans. Afrikaans does not only have dutch origins but also has Portuguese, Indonesian and the indigenous khoekhoe and San languages. Me being from kzn, do not speak the language but I know that it is a south african language. It's only spoken in 3 countries in the world, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana and is regarded as the world's youngest language.
Also other tribes have light Skinned people this lady is not doing a good job
Just came say... I hate planks! God Bless
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Correction the kio San the right full owners of South Africa...
What is the matter with the whiteman. Why is he so Babaric?
Lol she said apartheid is a combination of 2 words apart + hate 😂😂😂, poor couple was lied to passionately. I'm not Afrikaner or coloured but Hate is Haat in Afrikaans
Couldn't quite make out what the guide was saying. I thought she said when they came to the skull that blacks were known as Apes? Couldn't quite make it out.
What an education thus far.i am enjoying this.will continue to watch it.🙂 thank you.
Black South Africans are half Khoisans and Khoisans aren’t the indigenous people of South Africa they are the Indigenous people of Namibia or botswana the come from the Kalaha dessert.
Lol ufuna ukuhlanyisa laba abathanda abelungu
Uyahlanya wena, khoisan an koi koi they are indigenous people of south africa as well they occupied the eastn cape westan cape as well as the Northern cape way befor the nguni people arrived coming from upper north of sub sura u mst learn more
@@thobanimthethwa5247 Mina I don't come from central Africa. Zikhulumele wena.
@@thobanimthethwa5247 that's what the Dutch and British settlers want u to believe . They write what suits their needs but will not highlight that they killed thousands of indigenous people for the LAND. The LAND issue must be resolved before 2024 or else.........
What she say,we were known as apes ?
Afrikaanse was made in South-Africa...that's way is called Afrikaanse not Dutch.
SO little fact, Aparheid name changed to BEE. You will notice how this country is falling aprt.
lol, a white South African who doesn't like the Apartheid museum, what a surprise, who could have guessed?
Lets look at facts:
- I don't see signs saying white people are not welcomed here
- Never heard of the law prohibiting whites from walking on a pavement
- Never seen a sign that says white people are not allowed to live in certain areas
- When did we start telling white people that they can only be teachers, nurses, doctors and policeman so that they can only work in they own communities?
- Is the government forcing white people to learn native languages?
- I don't see police brutalising white people for their own rights to the extend where they get hanged
Next time when you want to complain about privillages go to the apartheid museum and tell me if its common sense to compare BEE and apartheid.
BEE doesn't benefit an average black South African, who is not politically connected, But during apartheid a below average white person lived way better than an educated black.
Today its white people who still have most wealth than all races put together
Next time gat your facts right before you expose your ignorance.
@@accountretired9479 It actually debunk the myth that they are under oppression, they want to compare SA today to Apartheid time but he has no clue what it means to live under an apartheid regime hence he can just put it on the same sentence with BEE.
Look what the new government has done to south africa, its sad
What is sad about the government ? You dutch came from Netherlands ( Holland?) With yo crazy ideas that messed up African life . Mind u your ideas wouldn't have worked if u came here bare knuckles . Guns saved you
People who come from developed first world countries always have nothing but the best things to say about present day South Africa...I think we trust their opinion more than some butthurt yt South African
Africans owned European slaves , but we never hear of it. There are no museums or specials on it. There are books though. The Vikings ,Moores and Barbarians captured and sold more European slaves then there were ever black slaves, but this is somehow more important to remember?.
Precisely. 👍
@@robgeibert5971 Now the fact that suicides and overdoses are killing Europeans all over the world by the hundreds of thousands is now being ignored.smh.
Slave museum in Cape town I have visited there was doing a tour guide course tells the story about the slave history in Cape town when the European came to Cape town from Europe I learn also as a Nguni I'm Xhosa my ancestors came from central Africa the Bantu people most Xhosa stays in eastern Cape where my family come from moved to Cape town because of work
White supremacy, always trying to rewrite history to justify your dehumanization
There we go with the gaslighting. Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire (Included Arabs in North Africa) owned and or traded in European slaves. European slaves numbered in hundreds of thousands and it had nothing to do with 'race'. The children of those slaves integrated into the society & rose to prominent positions in the military and governments in the Ottoman Empire (including North Africa), Roman Empire. The enslavement of Africans by Europeans in the transatlantic slave trade for example numbered in tens of millions that got to shore not counting the millions that perished enroute.
How about a tour of South Africa before 1652..... There would be nothing to see....
Before the invaders came, there were people living there, they had their own kingdoms and developing at their own pace - necessity is the mother of invention and all that, there were a lot animals and a lot of natural beauty. They were in harmony with their environment & eating organic food. No Zoos and concrete jungles.
Even when there was nothing to see, your ancestors came but couldn't leave. They fought to die here with all they had they didn't want to go back to Europe.
Just stating facts not hate!