GROWING UP IN CANADA, Our parents made GHANA seem like HELL!!!!
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Our parents made GHANA seem like HELL!!!!
ABENA ADDO
Is a Canadian-Ghanaian engineer, executive director, and entrepreneur who recently relocated from Toronto, Canada to Accra, Ghana. She is the founder and Executive Director of Aspire for Higher, a Canadian non-profit organization that uses sports as a vehicle to empower and support youth across Canada. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Health Professionals Network, a Canadian organization aimed at supporting Black Healthcare Professionals through mentorship, business development, and networking opportunities. She is a former varsity basketball athlete and captain at McGill University and the University of Toronto. She is an avid lover of sports, fitness, travelling and food and recently started a RUclips channel where she is documenting her experiences living in Ghana and travelling the beautiful continent of Africa.
EVELYN KONADU KOOMSON
Is a Canadian Ghanaian, Event Hostess, Master- of- Ceremonies, and the founder and CEO of the Eve’s Eye Productions, a multimedia production company specializing in marketing, branding, and music video production, and photography.
Eve’s Eye Productions also collaborate with companies to create exceptional social media content, strategies and campaigns from concept to fruition.
Both Ladies Graced the DIASPORA TRANSITION Convo to share their migration stories and experiences about GHANA so far..
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We already have a good Doctors there in Ghana!!
My sister got sick here in Europe and they couldn't help her but when we fly her to a private
Hospital in Ghana in Accra, She's still alive today and doing her things.
Always search there are more good things in the system.
That’s true. Ghana has good doctors and I am proud we do.
Moved back a few years ago... challenging at first but so worth it. You cannot pay me any amount to move back to the US.
Well said my dear 👏 😘 👍 ❤
Good for you, working on that too
Nice 1
That’s awesome. Moved a family of 8 from the UK to Ghana in January this year and we are based in Kumasi. Next month is a year and we are glad we made the move. I share our journey on our channel as well. Wishing you all the best!
I am a Ghanaian youth based in Ashaiman and trust me you don't know how inspired I am now. Especially with the architecture display right in this video as well as the knowledge and eye opening discussion you ladies had. Thank you.
"MAKE GHANA GREAT AGAIN 🇬🇭"
That was the same conversation many Caribbean parents had with us as North American(Canadian and American)born children. They demonized their own countries and literally scared us to never go back and visit, much less live. Thank you all for sharing this conversation 🙏🏿.
💛💚🖤💛💚🖤🇨🇦🇯🇲🇨🇦🇯🇲
I had the best time on the show, thank you Dentaa and the entire team. Its so important to share positive stories, often times we focus on the negatives. It has not been easy but it will be worth it. Happy to connect with anyone contemplating making the move! Thanks again
Am moving in two months and can't wait. As for me, an going straight to my village to start my clothing factory.
Those in the rural areas need jobs too,lol.
I know it's not easy but I won't give up. So wish me well guys😁😁😁😁
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Good luck dear. Wish you nothing but success.
@@IBDish Thank you
You will succeed. Stay positive.
All the best of luck. Where is your village?
Ayyye!! Toronto girls in the house! 🇬🇭🇨🇦🤍. All I can say is WOW, this interview was just soo well conducted. So proud of all you ladies for continuing to make an impact and shifting the narrative of how beautiful and capable Ghana is! Can't wait to be there this year and add some more value to my country and the Ghanaian economy 🙌🏾
The government must have a small but very serious and effective project management team at the presidency to monitor these channels for all the feedback regarding issues in Ghana and work on addressing them. Whether you accept this reality or not, the contributions by diasporans constitute the single most crucial backbone to the socioeconomic vitality and viability of Ghana. Our people are used to the horrifying status quo and the status quo has never worked. Listen to these folks. It is not normal that you can barely accomplish a productive activity in a day due to traffic and the other chaos. A country serious about developing should have a foundation of structure and discipline. There is no way around that.
Critical thinking and powerful exposition !!! Amazing
Best suggestion so far.
Yh well said
So great to see representation from Toronto, Canada! This past winter was especially difficult and we are only starting to get warmer weather in April. The neighbour thing is so real. I haven't spoken to my neighbours and been living beside them for years. I love that you can find community in Ghana. As always, great interview Dentaa!
Thank you so much
I think the panel is aware of that . They are just speaking up peoples mind and bringing out their solution how they are making it work . I think also they are thankful to their parents but they want to make Ghana their home
Seasonal depression is real!!! Those 12 hour shifts were definitely doing it to me! Toronto/Ottawa winters were rough!
I Had an amazing time being on the show. Super grateful to share the light and I'm super glad to see the Canadian community here. I pray this adds to your transition coming to Ghana and you make that move. Blessings Dentaa and the amazing Team.
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Hello Awura Ama. It was nice watching you on the program with such poise and great representation. Don't try to figure out who it is, your uncle from Maryland. Please extend my regards to Nancy, and your parents. Keep on grinding, it will get better.
I’m sooo proud of you. I’ve been pondering on that idea to move back for sometime now. That peace in Ghana cannot be bought. I’m also living in 🇨🇦. All the best girl
"Ghana is not a graveyard" ...THIS!!!!! So impressed and proud of these women for taking the leap of faith. Denta thank you so much for always bringing us the best, particularly bringing BLACK GIRL MAGIC to the show. I love that you always portray the strength of BLACK WOMEN, changing the narrative of us around the globe. LOVE YOU DENTA!!!!
Love you too. Thank you
Am very excited to see so many of our girls moving back to Ghana 🇬🇭 even we the parents are reluctant to. You girls are making me so proud keep it up and you'll all succeed. May God bless and guide your ways 🙏 🙏 🙏
Our parents left as economic refugees. Now we have the likes of Nana Kwame Bediako and Kojo Jones here as returnees. They show possibilities our parents never saw or can’t conceive. Our parents could have never dreamed up the Ayi Mensah communities or even the Cantoments of today. They could have never imagined the tech companies raising millions of dollars in New York. Think of Bolt. So it’s important we understand their limits and how far their imaginations were. What’s more, to our parents, being a second third class citizen in the west is ok. Even slavery for them was better than their village in Ghana. We’re very different people we should be careful listening to them or we risk creating a Ghana just like the one they run from. The returnees should be more advanced, should have better solutions to issues. The returnees May return with a just a phone in their pocket with a billion dollar idea(tech idea). Let’s not have them tell us what the problems are. We are problem solvers. We work in spaces in the west where we sit at the tables as everyone else. Something our parents could not have imagined. We’re not the same people.
Well said. Wowwww.
Couldn't have said it any better
I left Nigeria in 1981 and return for the first time in 2010 after being away continuously in US 25 years. To answer the question why we have negative view of homeland like Ghana or Nigeria. We felt likewe escaped hell. The media did not help matters and family members always encouraged us to stay away. However now at 63 getting ready to retire from work, I literarily have a pull to go home that people do not understand. I have zero interest in living anywhere but Nigeria. At 22 I thought I escaped hell, but at 63 hell is anywhere outside of Nigeria.
I understand you entirely. My mother brought my siblings and me to the US, from Jamaica when I was 12. My siblings and I have always wanted to return but the urge to go back has grown stronger as we have grown older. I am in my early 60's also and feel that the light has dimmed on many western countries and retiring in one of them does not make me feel confident for the future generations that I may leave behind. I really pray and hope fortune will shine on us and that we find the place of our dreams to retire to in the coming years. PS. My older sister even thinks Ghana may be a choice to pursue.
@John Okpara, Same.
Wow...
Wish you well in your future plans!
So glad to hear how much you're enjoying your new home Abena! It is Canada's loss, but I'm so glad you're making a wonderful life for yourself there! Very interesting discussion!
I was wondering if the high ranking officials like the parliamentarians are watching this because this is the time to tap into the great minds of these young individuals. Our problem has Ghanaians is that we think you can only do well in certain positions if you are old, that’s a cultural thing and they need to move away from it. “Empower the youth”.
“Africa is paradise.”
So true. For real.
It takes staying abroad for years for you to know the value of what we have in Africa.
The seasonal affective disorder is so real. The blues winter bring...SAD
Dentaa I am working on my move. As a nurse, you need to find me some connections. But keep those videos coming sis. We appreciate and are soaking it in.
WE GOT YOU
@@ODANANETWORK I hope so! Left 94 and I wasn't fortunate enough to get a parent who encouraged visitation in my youthful years and when I wanted to do fear of rejection just took over and couldn't push hard enough to come on my own ... I've always wanted to return in one capacity to make a difference. The urge is greater now...but you spearheaded ladies are telling me to plan, prepare and be ready.... working on it.
You really asked good questions. Great job.
Thank you
GREAT INTERVIEW AND I AM CANADIAN AND THEY ARE RIGHT!..... BUT THE LOCATION OF THE INTERVIEW IS BEAUTIFUL PAPA
Thank you
You're a Canadian? Are you African born in Canada or African acquired their citizenship or Are you native to the land, I always find it appalling when dark skins folks are referring themselves as Westerners hahaha... well I am African born in Canada by immigrants parents therefore am Canadian on paper but the reality is I'm full grown rooted African without any affiliation to Canada land whatsoever... wakeup black race
@@AlkebulanJahmiahI also know one born in Ivory Coast but now with an Italian passport she would say I’m Italian and in my mind I’m like you’re not Italian sweetheart 😅
Great interview. I definitely shared! Thank all of you ladies. Now come now that's what I heard!
Dentaa I absolutely love your guests. Thank you for the great work you’re doing. You are doing amazing! I love you for this, God bless you!
Great conversation. So glad to see many of us returning HOME, despite the challenges. We will together make Africa great again.
Dentaa, love the location where you shot this... The double ceiling and and landscape are to die for... ... Is this in Aburi? Lovely.
Very good point you all made..my children with you are braking the chain..with one voice please RISE and stop the leaders from selling GHANA to the foreigners ✊✊✊✊✌💯
So far. Way back the credit system and opportunities were limited in Ghana, survival of the fittest. Whereas in the Western world, mostly opportunities are open to all. And availabilities of resources to tap into. Regardless of challenges in the Western world. it's an eye opener to do well in Africa and to appreciate in my opinion. Great ladies and interview. ODANA Network ❤!!!!
@eve’s eye just seen you at Bramalea City Centre. Brampton Canada 🇨🇦!!! Nice seeing you, God Bless You
As always Lady Dentaa, you and the Ladies, delivered on another Sunday, while I'm sitting in BC, in April and it's snowing outside, briefly, but still snowflakes! April! Lots of love always for the Ghanaian Canadians!
Thank you so much
Very entertaining. The location is amazing. Dentaa, this needs to be your studio for interviews. Absolutely, stunning.
A great interview with views, thoughts, opinions & laughs which many can relate to. Many nuggets of wisdom and experience on tap here. Definitely take heed. Well done @Dentaa 😍🤩😂
Thank you so much.
Interview is ❤❤, so much energy and positive vibes and realist opinions. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you
What a lovely setting 😍
Interesting discussion as always 👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you
l wish l had the patience to stay in Ghana for the long term but l just can't do it. l can only take Ghana in doses. 100 percent visit as much as I can but it would be extremely hard to live there permanently. The ladies were right on the money thing lol. I keep comparing and converting prices in Ghana to the Canadian dollars each time I visit but I definitely would have to change that mentality if I moved there.
The way the truth and the light 🕯️🚨 I like that well said my sis💞😎✌️
From here in "Toronto"; I say amazing job ladies...well said & well done!
Great interview. Am in Canada and planning to move back home soon. I was happy watching this interview. Great job.
Best of luck!
Thank you ladies. I really appreciate the conversation.
Thank you Denta, great content.
Dentaa when will you invite single men from the diaspora who came back to Ghana?
It will be interesting to hear from them.
Thank you and God bless you Dentaa.
Great conversation, thanks Dentaa.
Thank you for watching.
Eve is such a vibe… yes girl we are not afraid
Great interview. Awesome advise. I’ve lived in the US for over 25 years and it still doesn’t feel like home. Efie nie fie. Preparing to move back home.
It sure is. Thank you
You ladies are great, thanks for the productive information.
Thank you
Great work queen continue to inspire,God bless
Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you for watching.
Great interview, my parents have the same view about me moving to Ghana. She always have the negative mind set about me moving to Ghana. I hope to move to Ghana next year.
We are here waiting for you
Visit first
@@BILLIONAIREGH I have been and live in Ghana before, that was time ago. I also attended school in Ghana, I am just tired with the UK. I am going to pack my bag and come next year, by the help of God I know I will be fine.
@@BILLIONAIREGH I have started making my plans as well, thanks for your advice though.
I enjoyed this interview, I'm not financially ready to go yet but definitely more spiritually ready.
Thank you
Spiritually is all that you need, you don't have plan and move permanently, just pay a visit and the ideas to make it will follow... If the plane fare seems to high for plan your visit about 6m ahead and you can get fares as low as 300 to 400 dollars.
@@lesliecodjoe4764 I agree. Where there's a will there's a way
Also, people from the diaspora must also know that Ghanaians are smart and that is why we are able to survive anywhere in this world. When you come to Ghana with your big ideas of moving the country forward, learn from those that are already in Ghana. Adapt and learn and see how you can utilize ideas. Don’t come with the attitude “I know it all”
Respectfully, I think Ghanaians should eat a little humble pie because we were classified as a developing nation when Singapore was a Third World Country, yet they have surpassed Ghana on so many levels. I agree Ghanaians are smart but most of them use their intelligence for corruption, deception of their fellow Ghanaians and family members in the diaspora. On a personally note I've been coming back and forth to GH for over a decade and my observations in my travels to Ghana are that, I come across mostly proud degree holders who refuse to get their hands dirty to do jobs like plumbing, electrical work, carpentry or any other skilled manual labor, for the desire of a cushy office job. Meanwhile, the extremely poor, undereducated class have dreams of escaping Ghana to move abroad seeking opportunities to change their current circumstances with some even dying in their attempts. Ghana needs visionaries, structure, organizers, some planning and ways to develop jobs to retain it's youth. There is nothing wrong with some critical counseling for leaders in politics and varies industries to truly develop our country and raise our world status, instead of consistently looking for foreign aid. Smart is having the foresight to see that what we are not advancing enough to compete on the world stage and are drowning in stagnation. Therefore we need to rethink our strategy. This is where the highly educated enthusiastic professional diasporian children of Ghana (Whom have come to appreciate Ghana's potential) who are willing to offer their wisdom, skill set, professional experiences etc... come into play. How do you think America became the great nation that it is, along with innovate Americans, they offer visas and citizenship to highly trained and educated professionals from other nations.
Wow God bless you ladies, Ghana is Paradise, well said 🙏🏼🙏🏼👍🏼
Thank you
Wow Ghana is the future, good job Dentaa
I'm looking forward to an interview with you as soon as I'm in Ghana.
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please can we have those ladies, Abenaa and Eve RUclips channel details, I just love their compassion and determination attitude, absolutely inspired 🙌🇬🇧🇬🇭
Here you go - ruclips.net/user/EvesEye
Private hospitals with specialized doctors are moving in.
Exquisite background!!!that view is crazy!!
Thank you
Women are leading the way
...Awesome ..women power ...Just do it ladies
It is beautiful to see this people home Ghana is your home come and less big our country...... Ghana miss you all come home and you will be (safe ) 🙏❤
Loved it being from Toronto and moving home it’s so true what they said we love to compare the prices and that’s where your money will finish fast! Also the fact that … the winter is harsh you go out it’s dark you come home it’s dark! I cannot wait to see the next chapter for these ladies! I love them both! I have followed them from their beginnings till now and can honestly say they are making it! Ghana to the world! Def tell everyone to invest now before it’s too late!
Absolutely!!
you ladies are so smart and razing well Africa is about to by big for dos that see it come
thank you for reconnecting to the motherland.
Thank you
Awesome awesome interview I dreamt of living in Ghana one day, but I’m too old now 60 and retired to make the move to Ghana. I absolutely love what you ladies and the diaspora is willing to do and bring Ghana into the future. Bravo 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾
You are too young to despair. Barring financial problems, you can still make the move. You can build a one bedroom or two bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Accra with 20 or 30 thousand dollars.
Great 👍
Luved❤️ it
Awesome conversation!!!
Thank you for watching
Loved this!
Thank you. Please share
Always a great SHOW.
Thank you for watching and sharing
Thank you ladies for sharing such inspiration words...we are proud of you... especially the last advice from sister Abena...she say Like Dubai is built on desert... Ghana is doing same... and we all have to come together and start doing something now...so we don't regret ourselves..
And that word is something I have been saying for long time... Ghana is on the move...no matter how you think...as Sister Abena again say, over there door is build on one day but in Ghana it will take one month....so it is the matter of time and patient..
We from the Diaspora have to educate our brothers and sisters back home what we learn over there, so they also get the boldness and be on their own and not depending on someone for a living.
It's a waste of time, they won't listen till we move back.
Nice interview ❤️
32:35 Eeiii this confidence thing is something ooh! 😀
Thank you for watching and sharing
Great interview, I Like their positivity
Thank you
Those homes look beautiful, however, they lack green spaces. The developer needs to plant more trees and green spaces/parks.
Good episode great conversation 👍
Thank you for watching and sharing
Much Gratitude
Sister the food choice questions were tricky for me. Because all the ones the guests named were great 👍
Thank you
Much blessing
Thank you
Bless you my dear you are doing well
Thank you so much
What a great interview.
Thank you so much
You go and fit into somebody's system they built with their blood and sweat. Nation building is sweat and blood and sacrifice and diligence and discipline and honesty. The vast majority of our people won't sign on for that and we're suffering for it. Let's strap our boots up. Everything will work eventually.
I realy like this ashanti girl she been real
Interesting view of points. Health care is not cheap in Ghana and you know when have immense privilege when you can finance going abroad fore care
I love my motherland ghana to bits, i came back to London on the 6th March and going back to the sunshine by the middle of October and will be coming back only to do business of buying and selling, because Ghana is heaven on earth, my favourite is coconut and suya ,cant wait to go back, you have people to talk to and nothing like bills bills bills to pay ❤
lol
I love this ✊✊🥰🥰
Thank you
Chale...I spent my money on rent and finishing my home. That 0 to 100 is REAL. Thank God for that first contract 🙏🏿. 10 months in Ghana, I couldn't be happier, my children are content.
I found awesome hiking boots at Kantamato!
Another insightful and honest dialog. 👏🏾
Amazing!
I am a Ghanaian based in the uk,but ask your self if your parents had not come over to make a better life for them self and you guys.will you have had this platform if you were born and grew up in Ghana.it was for a better life and clearly you guys have benefited.
This is hot my beautiful sister’s. Africa is the future Mach love
Yes yez
Great video. I enjoyed the conversation from these young ladies who returned to Ghana.
Thank you for watching and sharing
I'm finding these interviews so interesting even though I'm feeling my age is a deterrent I wish I could have found the interest in Africa when I was younger.
Well I think to the opposite is true, I presume you are retired or getting close to retirement and with that study income you can live like a queen in Ghana. Just to let know I'm 50+ living in US and about to start my business in Ghana later part of the year.
sometimes i feel the same..however there is definately advantages for older folks i wish i was closer to retirement. however i have started investing in Ghana and will move fulltime later.
@@111pp7 Best of luck and nothing but good wishes
@@lesliecodjoe4764 That's wonderful to hear but I'm 75 and concerned that if something were to happen to me I can't depend on anyone. That's what keeps me here.
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The more simplistic you live, the better your experience will be, I’d think. Work your way up, year by year. Be savvy about how you store up emergency 💦 I agree be spiritually prepared. Follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit and Keep God’s Commandments. 🙌🏾😇💕🕊
Great young women.
Thank you for watching and sharing
Good job
Your fashion is excellent
Aww thank you
Wow dentaa your show is a bomb lol
Lol thank you
The darkskin girl seems so dope, full of knowledge and full of life. I want to be her friend.
@Peter Tosh oh, but that’s so mean!
WE MUST ADJUST TO OUR ENVIRONMENT......
Ahh Dentaa, is that my house? 🙂🇬🇭🇨🇦 💪🏾
Lol
@@ODANANETWORK lol😆
Great interview, not sure why RUclips keeps recommending your channel. What I would say to our Canadian sisters is not to abandon Canada you have all the rights to thrive in both places it is yours for the taking, it's all about having the right attitude and mindset. And don't compomise, mediocrity is mediocrity call it out and demand the best in your space, yes respect the culture but don't lower your standards.
The individual experience that influenced immigration to developed countries forms the ideas that are fed into immigrant kids especially if the developed country created a better lifestyle to the immigrant than what he had previously in his or her home country.
💜💙♥️👌
For impact, I think y'all can help train people with customer service,let's make customer service a big deal and let's do it in love
kumasi in the house
Off topic. Can you please upload the entire event Guba awards. Thx in advance ❤💛💚🇬🇭
Scroll down it’s there November
@@ODANANETWORK Oh o.k. thanks again.
Good show as always, Dentaa. Did Abena say she has a youtube channel, and what is the name please?
Hi my RUclips channel is Abena Addo
ruclips.net/video/lBze4LaF4RU/видео.html
ruclips.net/channel/UC5vwJjbKiMSbgmpVJ9uLO7w