Hi Wode Maya I’m Reginald Gale I can say I’m your friend, I’m a 73 years old Barbadian who lives in Florida USA. I have been watching you for a long time my wife thinks you’re my son, I saw you when you were in Barbados Jamaica and the other island, please keep doing the good work, love you guys your wife Miss Truty is SPECIAL…… You’re in NEW YORK at this time❤❤you’re having a good time in NEW YORK..
What the man said around the slave monument really got to me….We can’t fail our ancestors, they put up a good fight..We must grow out our mentality and conditioning and take our destiny into our own hands
THIS BROTHER, IS TELLING YOU GUY'S IN AFRICA, THE REAL TRUTH LIVING IN AMERICA! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS THE AMERICAN, DREAM! THE AMERICAN, DREAM IS ONLY WHAT YOU SEE IN MOTION PICTURES ON THE SILVER SCREEN PROMOTED IN HOLLYWOOD! WHAT'S GOOD MY BROTHER, WODE 🇺🇲
I'm an African American and I have never had the opportunity to leave the country. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel like my soul is healed. I grew up around friends who are from different countries or whose parents are from different countries. They know so much about the culture of their ancestors. Slavery barred me from having this same relationship. When I watch your videos it does something special. Keep it up bro!
I was sooo happy to see you in CNN today. I felt like a proud mother!! Keep doing what you doing ❤🎉 Congratulations for all your achievements! Please never change.
Maya, sincerely you are making us proud. I wish our political leaders will do the right things to make Africa a choice destination for all around the world. From Bayelsa State Nigeria 🇳🇬.
For those of you in Africa, take note of the stress and sadness in the faces of the Africans in NY. Life is HARD there! To work outside in the cold and it wasn’t too cold in the video! What the man in the beginning said is TRUTH!
Not everyone, some of us with great careers in tech enjoy life in the US and back home. It depends with your circle, most of the people I know are doing good, maybe it is because we met at college, so most educated africans tend have better opportunities, especially if you are educated in the right filed.
@@tomaramash9949 if you get there very young and your parents went through the fire, then you have had an advantage. If you are in your 20s or older coming to the states on your own, then it’s harder! I’ve known many Africans who come to the states and have been homeless and struggling for a while! No one dares let people back home know about the struggles! Some people are built for it others are not. You have to let people know! So you mean to tell me you’ve gained all you have with little to no struggle? Yes some people are living well but more than that are struggling!
Most people wouldn't even bother to travel outside if they were living comfortable lives in Africa. If your leaders can't even control inflation and the currency exchange rate depreciation for people to live a decent and comfortable lives then why won't people travel abroad to seek greener pastures. It's very sad because unfortunately things aren't even getting better
@@PhilemonAnsah yes. Even so, for the people who believe that money grows on trees in the west, educate yourselves to the realities since family or friends abroad won’t reveal their truth.
The cost of advertising in Times Square can range from $5,000 to over $50,000 per day, depending on the type of ad, its length, and the number of props needed. For example, a small digital billboard (8 ft by 12 ft) can cost as little as $4,500 per month. A 15-second ad on one of Times Square's big screens can cost $500 for 20 plays, or $150 for a photo to run for 15 seconds per hour for 24 hours. A 15-second clip on an 18,000-square foot LED display costs about $40.
Can we get some local sponsors to show Wode how we live down South? Show him how we live in the country, ride horses, go fishing, hunting, and he most certainly need to visit New Orleans, Texas, the real Florida, Mississippi, and the Mid-West, etc....
Young man you re doing Gods work. People all around the world follow your videos because not only are you entertaining but you teach something about every place you go. The gentleman driving you around was not only knowledgeable about NY but passionate about our people. Thank you for what you and your wife are doing. Hope to see you in Philadelphia,PA USA one day.
Watching you from Trinidad 🇹🇹 Relocated from the big apple NYC 17yrs ago back to my homeland T& T🇹🇹🇹🇹But I still love New York! Enjoy your trip stay safe! Love you Wodemaya ❤safe travel back✈❤🙌🏾
Great video! Glad you made it to America. I was hoping you would delve more into the Black history of America. You should come back and explore different regions of the U.S., perhaps try some black american food, live music and more. There is not only Hip Hop that we created. Washington D.C., New Orleans have their own native Genre of music, amongst the many other genres of Black American culture. Black history is RICH in the U.S. of America and to really appreciate Black American culture you have to explore our history. Your visit to New York only captured a minute portion of it. Even could have been explored much more (although you were time constraints). Hopefully you will return and follow suggestions from some of your American viewers of where to visit. My suggestions, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Lousiana, Southeastern Coast (Home of Gullah Geechee people). Memphis, TN, Houston, TX, Detroit, MI...many more.
I see you... I hope you return to see other parts and mindsets of ours. Perhaps you might discover some of our business owners in various industries. (just a tip) because most of our Heritage was forbidden over generations so it has been wiped out but Africa lives in us and our hearts. Unbuntu (I think that's the spelling) hahaha
Greetings from Dubai, I’ve learnt a lot from this video today… big up Wode Maya and big up to that elderly driver for the education 🤝 One Africa, one Love and one people
🎼🎶🎙📢 WOOODE MAAAAA YA 🎶 💃🏾 MR. GHANA BABY 🇬🇭 🎶 AFRICA 🌍 TO THE WORLD!!! 🎶 🥰👋🏿 MAYA I LOVE THAT SONG! ❤🎶 MAYA, I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN THE STATES, YOU HAVE CHANGED THE NAGITIVE NARRATIVE OF AFRICA 🌍 FOR ME!! YES, I PRAY 🙏🏿 BEFORE GOD CALL ME HOME THAT HE WILL BLESS ME WITH A TRIP TO VISIT AFRICA, (PERFFERED) GHANA 🇬🇭 🙏🏿 YOU KNOW OUT OF ALL THE RUclipsRS YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS LONG AGO NEEDED. YOU'RE NOT ONLY MAKING VIDEOS. YOU'RE DOING WAY MORE THEN THAT!! YOU'RE UNITING ALL AFRICANS BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND, BECAUSE OF YOUR VIDEOS, SOME HAVE RELOCATED SOME HAVE VISITED , BUT ONE THING THAT I SEEN, EVERYONE THAT HAVE VISIT THE MOTHERLAND SAID THAT THEY FELT A CONNECTION TO THEIR ANCESTRAL 32:34 HERITAGE. YOU! ARE! THE! BEST! GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK!! 🙏🏿 ❤️ 🙌🏾 💯🤜🏾🤛🏾
Come along, we are all here to receive u home! Don't think or wait too much, it's not that hard to plan and come. A passport, a ticket, and a little spending money for about a week, that's all.
@wodemaya next time you come to the USA you have to have a Black American who is from NYC, who knows the 400 year history of Black Americans in NYC, and they will take you to Weeksville Heritage Center, which is a museum in Brooklyn. Weeksville, was one of America's first free black communities during the 19th century. They would have also told you the first commodity sold on Wall Street was enslaved Africans(our ancestors) and they would have told you about the Black community called Seneca Village which was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park.They took their land and built central park over it. They also would have taken you to the Malcom X Center, etc... I know you were not there for long, and of course everyone wants to show you around lol, but respectfully the 400 year history is something the African migrants here in this video don't know about, so they could not tell you, and that's understandable, they were giving you their version of NYC and there is a place for that as well. But definitely next time you come back you have to get with one of your Black American viewers that are a native New Yorker for generations who knows the Black history of NYC to really tell you the full range of information on our people in the New York City.
Exactly in any part of the states he has to connect with the African Americans that know the history. There were Seneca village, Tulsa, Rosewood and hundreds of black towns all over to get the true history. Wada talk to the Africans that were enslaved for over 400 years go to the museums and see all the the inventions and things that made America what it is today. 😊
He was only in town for two days people , he had to first connect with people on the grand that he knew . And besides the elder Ghanain brotha did a damn good job with his history of New York. He went out of his way to acknowledge African American relevance to the city .
Hello Wode Maya! I am a huge fan of you! I have been wondering if one day it's possible you do a video on the Gullah and Geechie people in the deep south!!
When, when, how, and for whom? Do you think the oppressed and suppressed Afrikan Americans, those whose ancestors were stolen from their homeland, brought to this land, forced to work and labor for europeans for free for 246 years; their descendants lynched, burned, who had their communities burned and destroyed, their people experimented on, their neighborhoods infested with drugs and guns, poverty, discrimination that to them, america is "the beautiful?"
Love you Wode Maya,From Philadelphia by the way of Brooklyn NY. If you get a chance to come again please go to the outer boroughs. You'll find people that love you and Trudy and watch all your videos. Real diversity in the outer boroughs.
Great Job WODE MAYA: Your Devotion, Hardwork and Resilience inspires me and Alot of Your AfricaN Brothers and Sisters. Keep-Up. Ayuk Benedict from Germany.
It seems shocking that so many people that lives in America watches your RUclips Channel which seems amazing. I am very impressed with that and as everybody is telling you to keep up the good work and I also say the same. This tells you that soon non-Black people will start watching your videos as people outside Africa are already watching your content. Keep it up Wode Maya👍👍👍
Thank you for taking me to New York and I have learnt alot, Development is needed indeed in Africa. I felt like I was there walking with you. You saved me from the flight. We love you from Uganda. GOD BLESS YOU. YOU ARE A LIGHT TO AFRICA
👍🏿👍🏿 and round of applause 👏🏿👏🏿 to WODE MAYA! Keep it up my fellow Pan Africanist. 👍🏿👍🏿You are making the spirit of Pan Africanism stronger 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿. Watching this video from Zambia 🇿🇲.
@@benmalor2833thanks for your passionate for the mother land . May i know what do you think we as the youth should since the system in the motherland (Ghana ) don't support as . You can't fight the system when are hungry.
The best of WodeMaya so far. The combination of WodeMaya and Ben Dotsei Malor was great. I followed Malor's journey from Ghana when he won a BBC Network Africa competition, to working with the BBC and then joining the UN. I even remember his wedding to a Jamaican. Thanks guys for all you are doing for Africa. You are an inspiration. 6:306:36
😂 oh my Gooooooodd!! What are the chances?! Accra restaurant is right next door to my apartment! I wish i knew u were coming, would have invited u upstairs for an interview with me, on Ghanaian living in bronx NY. Aaww!! Im glad u had this man who drove and brought u to the right places, considering your limited time. The young lady u talked to at the Accra restaurant is my favourite called Mariam. U should have let us know u were coming.
Great vlog, Maya! Thank you for sharing. It's deeply moving to see the monument dedicated to the slave trade, with the poignant reminder, "lest we forget."
Yes, that man is speaking the truth, living abroad is not an easy life. You working for the Tax man it best to stay in your own country and do what you are doing to the best of your ability and build up your own wealth in your country. I never know hard until I leave my country to live abroad.
@WODEMAYA I remember you were the first RUclipsr to visit Haiti and always talk positively about HAITI. I appreciate all that you are doing, you opened to door for all the other RUclipsrs in Afrika and started the Blaxit movement and showing Afrika to us you can't visit. Keep up the great work! Much love!🥰
MAYA here is the answer to your question. This bronze statue honors George M. Cohan's contributions to musical theatre. Cohan, a composer, playwright, and performer, was nicknamed "the man who owned Broadway," with hits including "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway."
Lol...$200 hotel room in US but That same standard of a room in Africa (Nigeria) costs only about #20,000 to 25,000 naira per night. When my American gf came to Nigeria, she had to call up some of her family and friends on facetime to show them how comfy, standard and affordable the hotel room was! Africa will become better someday. The transformation is gradually taking place.. we're surely gonna get there!
This episode was so worthy to watch. Specially the part of discovering New York in terms of its foundation, in of its history related to slavery. Thank you to this gentleman who took you around.
Very nice video, and yes you are well known in these states. It touched me when the man was telling the story and showing the replica of the slave ship and said never again. I pray history do not repeat. Thank you for showing us Africa!
Wode Maya, am watching you from Zimbabwe. Thank you for showing us New York City. I also want to commend you for the Good work, i just hope all the Africans will get the opportunity to come back to the African Continent and reunite one day.
Have a billboard about your channel at Times Square. A lot of people need to unlearn and learn about Africa specifically and the world in general. Your travel videos are very impactful .
Something enter me, when our beloved woman says isn't Wode Maya bro you are blessed Ghana need to celebrate your efforts watching u from Dubai wonderful wrk bro
Welcome to the USA, Wode! I just want to encourage you to keep spreading the love of life and culture you feature so well in your videos. Cheers to you and your team of professionals.
So you're in my city man and I miss you. I'm in the city now. I live in NJ but come to NYC every weekend. Glad to see you get to Harlem. It's changing, becoming gentrified, there's good and bad in that but it loses its flavor. The raised road is probably the FDR drive. Wonderful to see so many Africans in NYC and others that recognize Wade Maya. Your guide is wonderful. Really moving trip to UN. I used to work two blocks from there in the 1990s. Times Square is just where tourists go. Times Square is where you can go to a Broadway show and fight the crowds to get to your theater. George Cohan is a playwright. Big figure in show biz. I wish you had more time in the city. I would recommend you take the 7 train to 74th St. and walk around Roosevelt Av. Jackson Heights. Why, because it is the most culturally diverse neighborhood in New York City and very interesting. It's not touristy either. Go to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Big Caribbean culture there But take the subways, it's the real New York City culture down below. I was born in Jamaica Hospital! But that looks like a new building and location. They've expanded. Come back, man. Come back.
Thank you, Bro. Wodemaya was just passing through, to buy some equipment for his expanding work, and did not have time on his side. Thank you for your educative words here. Yes, we were driving on the FDR.
Maya my wife said: "I am an "African want to be" so I told her Yes!!! Would not have it no other way...😀 The key to Africa is interstates USA came to life after the interstates... Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Gambia, Kenya...
Wode, maya i love your content and your video it's just wonderful to watch your RUclips video usually exploring video and i love the most your assent of speaking elaborate in details have you been to India ever..
Hey wod maya I love you brother Not love like women but love you like brother and brother I am from Africa But not like you from Africa it’s your personal I am here Ohio Watching you in New York city
When the Brits conquered New York , simultaneously Fort York in Axim , in the Westen Region of Ghana was conquered by the Dutch .. So Fort York was renamed Fort Amsterdam , whiles New Amsterdam was renamed New York.. @jaycameron has a video on it ..
The President of Angola came to USA & was giving out tickets to Angola. The ancestors between August 20,1619- _1700s was from Angola and Congo & then after they kept uniting & fighting back, that’s when ppl decided to stop enslaving Central Africans & get west Africans from all over, so they couldn’t speak the same language
Wode Maya, you deserve all the best. You're very humble as well. I am really glad you went to Ghana restaurant, that's where I used to eat lunch during my break.
You are doing a great job my brother cos most people especially those African Americans who've been lied to about Africa can now see how Africa is and can visit or even stay if they want to.
I spend most of my good moods getting inspired traveling the whole world with you in your videos, Thanks for the great content, i didn't want to stop watching this hihh
WODE MAYA YOU ARE THE MOST WELL LOVE & KNOWN U TUBER IN THE WORLD ❤ WHO AGREES ?💯❤🇰🇳😃
I concure.
Hi Wode Maya I’m Reginald Gale I can say I’m your friend, I’m a 73 years old Barbadian who lives in Florida USA. I have been watching you for a long time my wife thinks you’re my son, I saw you when you were in Barbados Jamaica and the other island, please keep doing the good work, love you guys your wife Miss Truty is SPECIAL…… You’re in NEW YORK at this time❤❤you’re having a good time in NEW YORK..
he should visit you too ,
You had a great gentlemen showing you around NYC. I can tell he loves NYC, Africans, and the diaspora. Believe it you are uniting us all.
Thank you. It was my great pleasure to assist our brother Wodemaya for the short time he was here. Bless up.
What the man said around the slave monument really got to me….We can’t fail our ancestors, they put up a good fight..We must grow out our mentality and conditioning and take our destiny into our own hands
I'm travelling the whole world courtesy of MAYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
😂😂😂
me too
In the same flight ✈️ 😅
@@meshackkibiwot338 🤣🤣🤣 from 254 to the world looooooool
THIS BROTHER, IS TELLING YOU GUY'S IN AFRICA, THE REAL TRUTH LIVING IN AMERICA! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS THE AMERICAN, DREAM! THE AMERICAN, DREAM IS ONLY WHAT YOU SEE IN MOTION PICTURES ON THE SILVER SCREEN PROMOTED IN HOLLYWOOD! WHAT'S GOOD MY BROTHER, WODE 🇺🇲
@stedwatts1541, great point my brother.
@@dmode1535🙌🏽🙌🏽
So we should go to Europe?
He dropped some truth 😮 though few will believe it, take heed dear brothers snd sisters in Africa
Yes! That's why all Brothers and Sisters in America should return to the motherland!
I'm an African American and I have never had the opportunity to leave the country. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel like my soul is healed. I grew up around friends who are from different countries or whose parents are from different countries. They know so much about the culture of their ancestors. Slavery barred me from having this same relationship. When I watch your videos it does something special. Keep it up bro!
Such a beautifully introspective comment!!! ♥️🙏🏾✨
I was sooo happy to see you in CNN today. I felt like a proud mother!! Keep doing what you doing ❤🎉 Congratulations for all your achievements! Please never change.
Wow can you give me the link to the CNN staff.
Link please
Wode Maya To The World, Everywhere he goes people recognise him, The ❤❤❤ is great, Continue the good work 👍
Wow! 'no place like home'. I love that statement. Thats why I love my country❤❤❤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦♥️♥️
Maya, sincerely you are making us proud.
I wish our political leaders will do the right things to make Africa a choice destination for all around the world.
From Bayelsa State Nigeria 🇳🇬.
I'm AA in Florida.... WE ❤ You & Your Family 🎉🎉
Unite the AA Caribbean & Our African Family ❤🎉😊😊
For those of you in Africa, take note of the stress and sadness in the faces of the Africans in NY. Life is HARD there! To work outside in the cold and it wasn’t too cold in the video! What the man in the beginning said is TRUTH!
Not everyone, some of us with great careers in tech enjoy life in the US and back home. It depends with your circle, most of the people I know are doing good, maybe it is because we met at college, so most educated africans tend have better opportunities, especially if you are educated in the right filed.
@@tomaramash9949 if you get there very young and your parents went through the fire, then you have had an advantage. If you are in your 20s or older coming to the states on your own, then it’s harder! I’ve known many Africans who come to the states and have been homeless and struggling for a while! No one dares let people back home know about the struggles! Some people are built for it others are not. You have to let people know! So you mean to tell me you’ve gained all you have with little to no struggle? Yes some people are living well but more than that are struggling!
Most people wouldn't even bother to travel outside if they were living comfortable lives in Africa. If your leaders can't even control inflation and the currency exchange rate depreciation for people to live a decent and comfortable lives then why won't people travel abroad to seek greener pastures. It's very sad because unfortunately things aren't even getting better
@@PhilemonAnsah yes. Even so, for the people who believe that money grows on trees in the west, educate yourselves to the realities since family or friends abroad won’t reveal their truth.
The cost of advertising in Times Square can range from $5,000 to over $50,000 per day, depending on the type of ad, its length, and the number of props needed. For example, a small digital billboard (8 ft by 12 ft) can cost as little as $4,500 per month. A 15-second ad on one of Times Square's big screens can cost $500 for 20 plays, or $150 for a photo to run for 15 seconds per hour for 24 hours. A 15-second clip on an 18,000-square foot LED display costs about $40.
Can we get some local sponsors to show Wode how we live down South? Show him how we live in the country, ride horses, go fishing, hunting, and he most certainly need to visit New Orleans, Texas, the real Florida, Mississippi, and the Mid-West, etc....
They would never do that.. He and his wife have a agenda when they come to America 🤷🏾♀️
I would love that for real. And him meeting thr gullah geeches
Young man you re doing Gods work. People all around the world follow your videos because not only are you entertaining but you teach something about every place you go. The gentleman driving you around was not only knowledgeable about NY but passionate about our people. Thank you for what you and your wife are doing. Hope to see you in Philadelphia,PA USA one day.
Watching you from Trinidad 🇹🇹 Relocated from the big apple NYC 17yrs ago back to my homeland T& T🇹🇹🇹🇹But I still love New York! Enjoy your trip stay safe! Love you Wodemaya ❤safe travel back✈❤🙌🏾
Great video! Glad you made it to America. I was hoping you would delve more into the Black history of America. You should come back and explore different regions of the U.S., perhaps try some black american food, live music and more. There is not only Hip Hop that we created. Washington D.C., New Orleans have their own native Genre of music, amongst the many other genres of Black American culture. Black history is RICH in the U.S. of America and to really appreciate Black American culture you have to explore our history. Your visit to New York only captured a minute portion of it. Even could have been explored much more (although you were time constraints). Hopefully you will return and follow suggestions from some of your American viewers of where to visit. My suggestions, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Lousiana, Southeastern Coast (Home of Gullah Geechee people). Memphis, TN, Houston, TX, Detroit, MI...many more.
@wodemaya this 💯
Thanks for mentioning the Gullah Geechee people. Come to Charleston, SC!!!
Just a random Vlog in New York 😂
Its a lot of mentally ill people moving around the city and trains brodie...just pay attention but your good besides that
Cool I will visit new York one day
Wode are you going to the African American Museum in Washington D.C. ?
I see you... I hope you return to see other parts and mindsets of ours. Perhaps you might discover some of our business owners in various industries. (just a tip) because most of our Heritage was forbidden over generations so it has been wiped out but Africa lives in us and our hearts. Unbuntu (I think that's the spelling) hahaha
Random though but very very educational…. Thanks for sharing always 🤝
Greetings from Dubai, I’ve learnt a lot from this video today… big up Wode Maya and big up to that elderly driver for the education 🤝
One Africa, one Love and one people
Wode is the definition of famous. Everywhere he goes, he is known. Keep living your best life my dude!
IF YOUR'RE AN AFRICAN AND YOU DON'T KNOW WODE MAYE, THEN YOU'RE NOT YET ON THE INTERNET....LOTS OF LOVE FROM GH
I cant stop being amazed by this mans now GLOBAL LEGACY. Absolutely incredible!!!
Me too!🎉 i am so proud of you of him even though we do bot know each other
🎼🎶🎙📢 WOOODE MAAAAA YA 🎶 💃🏾
MR. GHANA BABY 🇬🇭 🎶 AFRICA 🌍 TO THE WORLD!!! 🎶 🥰👋🏿 MAYA I LOVE THAT SONG! ❤🎶 MAYA, I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN THE STATES, YOU HAVE CHANGED THE NAGITIVE NARRATIVE OF AFRICA 🌍 FOR ME!! YES, I PRAY 🙏🏿 BEFORE GOD CALL ME HOME THAT HE WILL BLESS ME WITH A TRIP TO VISIT AFRICA, (PERFFERED) GHANA 🇬🇭 🙏🏿 YOU KNOW OUT OF ALL THE RUclipsRS YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS LONG AGO NEEDED. YOU'RE NOT ONLY MAKING VIDEOS. YOU'RE DOING WAY MORE THEN THAT!! YOU'RE UNITING ALL AFRICANS BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND, BECAUSE OF YOUR VIDEOS, SOME HAVE RELOCATED SOME HAVE VISITED , BUT ONE THING THAT I SEEN, EVERYONE THAT HAVE VISIT THE MOTHERLAND SAID THAT THEY FELT A CONNECTION TO THEIR ANCESTRAL 32:34 HERITAGE. YOU! ARE! THE! BEST! GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK!! 🙏🏿 ❤️ 🙌🏾 💯🤜🏾🤛🏾
Come along, we are all here to receive u home! Don't think or wait too much, it's not that hard to plan and come. A passport, a ticket, and a little spending money for about a week, that's all.
Its nice to see these smart beautiful African people in NY.
@wodemaya next time you come to the USA you have to have a Black American who is from NYC, who knows the 400 year history of Black Americans in NYC, and they will take you to Weeksville Heritage Center, which is a museum in Brooklyn. Weeksville, was one of America's first free black communities during the 19th century. They would have also told you the first commodity sold on Wall Street was enslaved Africans(our ancestors) and they would have told you about the Black community called Seneca Village which was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park.They took their land and built central park over it. They also would have taken you to the Malcom X Center, etc... I know you were not there for long, and of course everyone wants to show you around lol, but respectfully the 400 year history is something the African migrants here in this video don't know about, so they could not tell you, and that's understandable, they were giving you their version of NYC and there is a place for that as well. But definitely next time you come back you have to get with one of your Black American viewers that are a native New Yorker for generations who knows the Black history of NYC to really tell you the full range of information on our people in the New York City.
This.
Awesomeness.
Exactly in any part of the states he has to connect with the African Americans that know the history. There were Seneca village, Tulsa, Rosewood and hundreds of black towns all over to get the true history. Wada talk to the Africans that were enslaved for over 400 years go to the museums and see all the the inventions and things that made America what it is today. 😊
Thank you I’m New Yorker and I didn’t know this info 😊😊
He was only in town for two days people , he had to first connect with people on the grand that he knew . And besides the elder Ghanain brotha did a damn good job with his history of New York. He went out of his way to acknowledge African American relevance to the city .
Hello Wode Maya! I am a huge fan of you! I have been wondering if one day it's possible you do a video on the Gullah and Geechie people in the deep south!!
One of the best pieces of journalism I’ve seen in years. It captures the people of New York so perfectly.
Watching from Saint Lucia. Only my favorite village boy could give such great video of the city NEW York. Blessed love❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wede! I've grown up in NY. My father was a diplomat. NY is my second home, that is why I love America the beautiful.
When, when, how, and for whom? Do you think the oppressed and suppressed Afrikan Americans, those whose ancestors were stolen from their homeland, brought to this land, forced to work and labor for europeans for free for 246 years; their descendants lynched, burned, who had their communities burned and destroyed, their people experimented on, their neighborhoods infested with drugs and guns, poverty, discrimination that to them, america is "the beautiful?"
Wode Maya is a celebrity, looks sharp 1luv ❤ watching from Boston, where lots of Africans lives 😊🙏🏽
This is beautiful. Happy tears. Africa is the future
Love you Wode Maya,From Philadelphia by the way of Brooklyn NY. If you get a chance to come again please go to the outer boroughs. You'll find people that love you and Trudy and watch all your videos. Real diversity in the outer boroughs.
REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA ACTIVO TE ESPERAMO EN RD 👍👍👌👌🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🖐🖐🦾
Great Job WODE MAYA: Your Devotion, Hardwork and Resilience inspires me and Alot of Your AfricaN Brothers and Sisters. Keep-Up. Ayuk Benedict from Germany.
Wode Maya is a global icon ❤❤❤❤. The whole world knows you.
Thanks for showing us New York 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🇯🇲
A small and munute portion of new york, not new york!
Your Tourguide is an amazing man.When he spoke about the slavery memorial l felt that ...
Thank you. I feel deeply passionate about this. We must learn. Too many are refusing to learn and apply the lessons of history.
Excellent video wode maya ,africa to di world...🎉one love fr jamaica
An absolutely fantastic video, a great culmination to your Americas trip. Congratulations Wode Maya🎉 stay blessed brother. You doing it 💯😎🔥
WODE MAYA is worldwide! Welcome to the U.S Glad to see you visiting New York and ppl are recognizing you.
So trueee!!! I live in New York and I work, work, work!!! I am a teacher, this place is NOT easy!
Come let's go to our Motherland for real peace!!!
This is great, Woda,keep what you're doing carrying Africa and other Nations to the whole world, the,world is,watching
It seems shocking that so many people that lives in America watches your RUclips Channel which seems amazing. I am very impressed with that and as everybody is telling you to keep up the good work and I also say the same. This tells you that soon non-Black people will start watching your videos as people outside Africa are already watching your content. Keep it up Wode Maya👍👍👍
Thank you for taking me to New York and I have learnt alot, Development is needed indeed in Africa. I felt like I was there walking with you. You saved me from the flight. We love you from Uganda. GOD BLESS YOU. YOU ARE A LIGHT TO AFRICA
Ben Dotsei Malor is really a wise and educated man. I love your videos, Maya. Thank you! ❤
Thank you for the kind words. May GOD help build a truly strong and united Africa in our lifetime.
Watching from Ghana keep it up brother God bless you good work
Love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
👍🏿👍🏿 and round of applause 👏🏿👏🏿 to WODE MAYA! Keep it up my fellow Pan Africanist. 👍🏿👍🏿You are making the spirit of Pan Africanism stronger 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿. Watching this video from Zambia 🇿🇲.
Your driver is so passionate about the development of Ghana ❤
He's a former BBC journalist. He left for the UN after working there for many years.
Yes, I am. Thank you.
@@benmalor2833 you're welcome
@@benmalor2833thanks for your passionate for the mother land . May i know what do you think we as the youth should since the system in the motherland (Ghana ) don't support as . You can't fight the system when are hungry.
First time seeing Wode Maya in shoes🤣🤣🤣 New York has humbled you, Maya.😂😂
Thanks Family ❤Good Leadership is on the WAY to STAY in the Holy Land at HOME 🇿🇦
The best of WodeMaya so far. The combination of WodeMaya and Ben Dotsei Malor was great. I followed Malor's journey from Ghana when he won a BBC Network Africa competition, to working with the BBC and then joining the UN. I even remember his wedding to a Jamaican.
Thanks guys for all you are doing for Africa. You are an inspiration. 6:30 6:36
Wow. You know so much about my journey. It's all God. So we give thanks and praises. Thank you. God bless you.
😂 oh my Gooooooodd!! What are the chances?! Accra restaurant is right next door to my apartment! I wish i knew u were coming, would have invited u upstairs for an interview with me, on Ghanaian living in bronx NY. Aaww!! Im glad u had this man who drove and brought u to the right places, considering your limited time. The young lady u talked to at the Accra restaurant is my favourite called Mariam. U should have let us know u were coming.
Sorry oooo. Sorry. Next time, please.
Hopefully your next stop in America will be to visit more black American establishments.
Yes I want to see that .....like the Southern States.
Agreed, Wode Maya need to see the history Black Americans have maintained in America and their contributions to the world in inventions.
I hope not he has seen enough of you in Ghana
@@faculty891 Some people just want attention, by insulting others. WOW
That will never happen
I actually love this guy. WodeMaya long life and move forward from Djibouti 🇩🇯
Great vlog, Maya! Thank you for sharing. It's deeply moving to see the monument dedicated to the slave trade, with the poignant reminder, "lest we forget."
Watching from Nairobi 🇰🇪
Yes, that man is speaking the truth, living abroad is not an easy life. You working for the Tax man it best to stay in your own country and do what you are doing to the best of your ability and build up your own wealth in your country. I never know hard until I leave my country to live abroad.
@WODEMAYA I remember you were the first RUclipsr to visit Haiti and always talk positively about HAITI. I appreciate all that you are doing, you opened to door for all the other RUclipsrs in Afrika and started the Blaxit movement and showing Afrika to us you can't visit. Keep up the great work! Much love!🥰
New York is world of its own. Every time I drove in manhattan , I got intimidated. Thanks, brother WODE MAYA, you’re awesome!
I love driving in the city! It’s so exciting! Just crank up your music and go!😊
Wode Maya i have seen you on "CNN African voices" keep up the good work 👌🏾👍🏾
MAYA here is the answer to your question.
This bronze statue honors George M. Cohan's contributions to musical theatre. Cohan, a composer, playwright, and performer, was nicknamed "the man who owned Broadway," with hits including "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway."
Maya, we love everything you do, please keep up with the good work brother.❤❤❤
Lol...$200 hotel room in US but That same standard of a room in Africa (Nigeria) costs only about #20,000 to 25,000 naira per night. When my American gf came to Nigeria, she had to call up some of her family and friends on facetime to show them how comfy, standard and affordable the hotel room was! Africa will become better someday. The transformation is gradually taking place.. we're surely gonna get there!
This episode was so worthy to watch. Specially the part of discovering New York in terms of its foundation, in of its history related to slavery. Thank you to this gentleman who took you around.
Very nice video, and yes you are well known in these states. It touched me when the man was telling the story and showing the replica of the slave ship and said never again. I pray history do not repeat. Thank you for showing us Africa!
Maya you're a super star now, everywhere you go. Imagine in New York everyone knows you. Keep it up
Wode Maya, am watching you from Zimbabwe. Thank you for showing us New York City. I also want to commend you for the Good work, i just hope all the Africans will get the opportunity to come back to the African Continent and reunite one day.
Maya you are loved wherever you go ❤️❤️❤️
Parents born in raising Liberia, West Africa!
I’m Born and raised in Brooklyn! Currently living in Hawaii! #WINNING!!!! 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🗽🗽🗽🌺🌺🌺
I am in America but i am learning sbout it on your channel Wode! You are a legend 😮
Thanks for showing us around NYC.
Have a billboard about your channel at Times Square. A lot of people need to unlearn and learn about Africa specifically and the world in general. Your travel videos are very impactful .
Big up Wode Maya I sorry I did not meet u in N.Y.C . But I glad u experience a little of the City Nuff Love To U And Ur Beautiful Wife 🙏❤️
I watched this and cried! Welcome to our City! ❤❤ Im happy you are getting the love from random people on the street! Much Love ❤️
Your favorite boy In Zambia 🇿🇲 is the house
#Wode Maya for Africa Ambassador and the America Dream
Something enter me, when our beloved woman says isn't Wode Maya bro you are blessed Ghana need to celebrate your efforts watching u from Dubai wonderful wrk bro
Welcome to the USA, Wode!
I just want to encourage you to keep spreading the love of life and culture you feature so well in your videos. Cheers to you and your team of professionals.
Welcome to New York I just missed you
This was a great vlog, you had a great guide in New York City ...
Lest we forget..that place really got me😢
So you're in my city man and I miss you. I'm in the city now. I live in NJ but come to NYC every weekend.
Glad to see you get to Harlem. It's changing, becoming gentrified, there's good and bad in that but it loses its flavor. The raised road is probably the FDR drive. Wonderful to see so many Africans in NYC and others that recognize Wade Maya. Your guide is wonderful. Really moving trip to UN. I used to work two blocks from there in the 1990s.
Times Square is just where tourists go. Times Square is where you can go to a Broadway show and fight the crowds to get to your theater. George Cohan is a playwright. Big figure in show biz.
I wish you had more time in the city. I would recommend you take the 7 train to 74th St. and walk around Roosevelt Av. Jackson Heights. Why, because it is the most culturally diverse neighborhood in New York City and very interesting. It's not touristy either. Go to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Big Caribbean culture there But take the subways, it's the real New York City culture down below.
I was born in Jamaica Hospital! But that looks like a new building and location. They've expanded.
Come back, man. Come back.
Thank you, Bro. Wodemaya was just passing through, to buy some equipment for his expanding work, and did not have time on his side. Thank you for your educative words here. Yes, we were driving on the FDR.
Wode Maya, great content. You are absolutely making a different. I watched Larry Madowo interview you for CNN. Keep putting Africa front and center.
Wode!!!!! Next time you're here, do a meet-up. Please have Ms. Trudi accompanied you. You're loved.
Maya my wife said: "I am an "African want to be" so I told her Yes!!! Would not have it no other way...😀 The key to Africa is interstates USA came to life after the interstates... Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Gambia, Kenya...
Cool vibes watching from the Dominican Republic
Enjoying seeing you getting all the Love ! Yes ,we watching All the way from Houston, Texas 😊! ❤❤❤❤❤
Wode, maya i love your content and your video it's just wonderful to watch your RUclips video usually exploring video and i love the most your assent of speaking elaborate in details have you been to India ever..
This is a great educative video. That man who took you to the museum is loaded with data 🎉🎉🎉🎉
It was important for me to show him that monument. Thank you.
Hey wod maya I love you brother
Not love like women but love you like brother and brother
I am from Africa
But not like you from Africa it’s your personal
I am here Ohio
Watching you in New York city
When the Brits conquered New York , simultaneously Fort York in Axim , in the Westen Region of Ghana was conquered by the Dutch .. So Fort York was renamed Fort Amsterdam , whiles New Amsterdam was renamed New York.. @jaycameron has a video on it ..
Love the thumbnail Wode and yow you relate well with people too❤❤❤👌👌👌👌
Welcome to New York Maya! I love New York!!! But no place like home.
I cant wait to touch ground in Africa. Ghana. South Africa, egypt and ethopia... one day. My ancestors are calling me home
The President of Angola came to USA & was giving out tickets to Angola. The ancestors between August 20,1619- _1700s was from Angola and Congo & then after they kept uniting & fighting back, that’s when ppl decided to stop enslaving Central Africans & get west Africans from all over, so they couldn’t speak the same language
Wode Maya, you deserve all the best. You're very humble as well. I am really glad you went to Ghana restaurant, that's where I used to eat lunch during my break.
You are doing a great job my brother cos most people especially those African Americans who've been lied to about Africa can now see how Africa is and can visit or even stay if they want to.
WOW!!! What a great video. I love it. Thank you for what you do
I spend most of my good moods getting inspired traveling the whole world with you in your videos, Thanks for the great content, i didn't want to stop watching this hihh