I Went To A Traditional Wedding In Suriname & Got Shocked 😳

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @WODEMAYA
    @WODEMAYA  Год назад +275

    Merry Christmas To You & Your Family ❤

    • @jarviss.tv.4895
      @jarviss.tv.4895 Год назад +4

      They should of save some food for you! It is not right! Dam!

    • @Agnes_Mugambi
      @Agnes_Mugambi Год назад +7

      Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! What language do the Suriname people speak? Like in Kenya we speak Swahili as a national language and English as an official language. How about them? I've just come to know Suriname through your videos

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад +7

      ​@Agnes_Mugambi Dutch is the official language because we were a colony of the Netherlands. But our creole is called "Sranan" or "Sranan tongo, meaning Surinamese tongue/ language. It's a lingua franca mixture of the European languages and African languages. Suriname is a multi ethnic country so all the other also have their own languages, for example the Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Jews, Lebanese etc. Also the Native Surinamese, the indigenous Surinamese folks. They are called American Indians, They are the real Caribbean. Because of them the region is called the Caribbean.

    • @cellinakangaijulius5015
      @cellinakangaijulius5015 Год назад +7

      Merry Christmas our in-law Maya and our Queen Trudy..may the Lord bless you as as you continue exploring in that country...from Meru Tharaka Nithi County❤❤❤❤🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

    • @emeliatanihu
      @emeliatanihu Год назад +4

      Interesting video to watch 😍🎉 Maya, I think it'll be nice if you own a property like a house in the carribean to build more and strong bond with them.❤

  • @Geelljireqoqay
    @Geelljireqoqay Год назад +56

    These people have their ancestral culture after 500 years Wallah, God bless you!!!

  • @Solar.Goddess
    @Solar.Goddess 9 месяцев назад +11

    After reading all these comments from people recognizing their culture and villages fprom different African countries, I'm starting to see Suriname as the United Africas outside of Africa.
    Ancestors from different tribes created a melted united beatiful mixed African descented culture 🙌🏽
    Bigup Suriname 🇸🇷 the country is a united treasure

  • @mavisburke495
    @mavisburke495 Год назад +520

    Wow I am so proud of Suriname who would have known that they KEPT Africa closer than any of us in the Carribbean.Thank you Wode Maya.

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад +71

      Because of the escaping of our ancestors 2 the Amazon rainforest we could keep our culture. Thanks to them.

    • @m-jay356
      @m-jay356 Год назад +69

      You act like we had a choice. The maroons were the only ones, and thats because they ran in the bush. The rest of us got beaten to accept Western religions and customs. Don't disrespect what our ancestors endured. Respect to those who were able to maintain the african culture.

    • @jojolove3415
      @jojolove3415 Год назад +8

      Yessss beautiful.

    • @MRSZ5440
      @MRSZ5440 Год назад +17

      @@m-jay356 That was a genius move to escape to the bush sir.

    • @kwabenalauriston7581
      @kwabenalauriston7581 Год назад +21

      Our islands are too small to have preserved anything and of course Christianity has made what we had bad!😢

  • @ofiliadefia
    @ofiliadefia 11 месяцев назад +22

    We've lost our identity in Africa but our cousins who were taken away didn't lose theirs. I didn't see much of breached skin and fake hair on our lovely sisters in Suriname.

  • @MrRoyck10
    @MrRoyck10 Год назад +190

    They are 100% authentic Africans, I must visit Surinam in my lifetime to witness this African cultural masterpiece

    • @janjacob2259
      @janjacob2259 11 месяцев назад +7

      Please do!
      It is a very beautiful country.
      More dan 80 procent is Amazing rainforest.
      And the food is Incredible.
      You will not be disappointed!
      ❤️

    • @MSSHARIII
      @MSSHARIII 6 месяцев назад +1

      💯💯💯

  • @nwananka
    @nwananka Год назад +354

    This is the reason Africa should get their act together ASAP and get our people across the world together in culture,open travel, business, etc

    • @comahsamuel3969
      @comahsamuel3969 Год назад +6

      No they'll go back home, all of them.

    • @nwananka
      @nwananka Год назад

      @@comahsamuel3969 african countries can have programs that will enable them visit the continent not necessarily move back

    • @jazariareid7250
      @jazariareid7250 Год назад +6

      Real talk man 🇯🇲💯

    • @TheLocalStandard
      @TheLocalStandard Год назад +27

      ​@@comahsamuel3969No! We most strive to colonize the world in all nooks and cranny, others do it with guns, we Africans most do it with calm and culture.

    • @comahsamuel3969
      @comahsamuel3969 Год назад +1

      @@TheLocalStandard 😁😁👍

  • @chiefspiritwolf6650
    @chiefspiritwolf6650 Год назад +246

    They haven’t left Africa in the mind one bit. That was exceptionally incredible!! I’m in awe.

    • @tulsacaupain2882
      @tulsacaupain2882 Год назад +11

      I myself love that we haven't. Altough it's not all Black people in Suriname appreciate this..

    • @sabri1913
      @sabri1913 11 месяцев назад +4

      Yes it’s truly incredible. They look so good as well. It’s that sun and feeling of being authentic. I admire those that do

    • @MSSHARIII
      @MSSHARIII 6 месяцев назад +1

      💖💖💖Love it!

  • @leopoldnguessan4639
    @leopoldnguessan4639 Год назад +213

    If you asked an African who hasn't watched the video, he will say this is Africa

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +24

      Exactly 😂

    • @elianedorelle2950
      @elianedorelle2950 Год назад +12

      I am telling you!

    • @elianedorelle2950
      @elianedorelle2950 Год назад +25

      These people must be from my country Congo, they were taken from Congo. Jut look at the way they are shaking their ass and the folded cloth attached around their waist to help them shake their ass properly, we do the same in Congo. Oh my God, my brothers and sisters, I am crying of joy 🥲

    • @joejulian617
      @joejulian617 Год назад +6

      You did not lie.

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@elianedorelle2950as a congolese I was amazed. Same thing 100%

  • @aishabaidydiop
    @aishabaidydiop Год назад +84

    Inbelievable !! As an african woman i am shocked. This Peoples in Surinam is like africans People. The same oufits , the same songs, same dance. Same culture. Like we are in africa. They did not lose their ancestry's culture..Travel to Surinam is like travel to Africa

    • @nightallen4704
      @nightallen4704 4 месяца назад +1

      Blood is thicker than water...The African Blood can not be destroyed....because we were also created by God...
      and he has over and over communicated that....to the people who think they are superio...and think they can destroy curtain races...

    • @JohannisKort
      @JohannisKort 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes true, i'm even living in Suriname. Just the same like Afrika

    • @marthamirouw
      @marthamirouw 3 месяца назад +1

      They have african.blood so.they where took from africa to suriname as slaves.

    • @Snkbee
      @Snkbee 3 месяца назад

      Am happy to see that they were able to keep their culture intact. It's good to see the children of Africa surviving and thriving where they were scattered.
      @@nightallen4704

  • @j_4126
    @j_4126 Год назад +75

    They kept the African spirit alive. They really look like our brothers and sisters from West Africa (Descendants). Thanks Wode Maya for bridging the gap.

    • @kxcabral
      @kxcabral Год назад +5

      We came from the same ship…spread all over the world.

  • @Kofi.86
    @Kofi.86 Год назад +137

    They really keep the African culture alive

  • @policyplayback
    @policyplayback Год назад +142

    I wish African women and black women in general would come back to styling and rocking their natural hair. It's looking so beautiful on these Suriname women. I want to marry one of them.

    • @LG-universe
      @LG-universe Год назад +14

      Go get your queen, love and treat her right, and she will reciprocate. Blessings.

    • @merlinelouissaint2421
      @merlinelouissaint2421 Год назад +2

      Beautiful

    • @panafrocanam2100
      @panafrocanam2100 Год назад +9

      Lmao u can make judgments from watching one video that women there are certain way. Secondly, it's up to dudes to stop incentivizing women to adorn what they do now. You can't say one thing when majority complement bad behavior now.

    • @panafrocanam2100
      @panafrocanam2100 Год назад

      ​@LG-universe lmao u keep thinking that...

    • @mpimando6345
      @mpimando6345 Год назад +1

      try your luck and god bless Respekd🙌

  • @CarlienVelland
    @CarlienVelland Год назад +93

    My beautiful Country Suriname 🇸🇷 thank you for putting Suriname 🇸🇷 on the map ❤ Wodemaya ❤

    • @RoselineNoku-dv6fg
      @RoselineNoku-dv6fg 11 месяцев назад +1

      Where is Suriname ??? I'm in Zimbabwe my first time to hard this country name

    • @hurtin0108
      @hurtin0108 10 месяцев назад

      @@RoselineNoku-dv6fg don't be lazy and search the internet

    • @rotimikayode1072
      @rotimikayode1072 10 месяцев назад +1

      They are dancing like some ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria.

    • @nuellubisTV
      @nuellubisTV 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@RoselineNoku-dv6fg
      South America, near Brazil. Little country, but I guess, that's a very pretty country. I think, I am going to enjoy to live in Suriname.

  • @AfroGlobalNetwork
    @AfroGlobalNetwork Год назад +96

    Africa and Suriname are like a mother and child. Thank you Woda Maya❤

    • @JennethonP
      @JennethonP 11 месяцев назад +2

      Suriname is Doughter of the Motherland

    • @GodfreyForrester
      @GodfreyForrester 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@JennethonP❤

  • @kenajiyo
    @kenajiyo Год назад +94

    Thank you Suriname 🇸🇷 for keeping the African tradition, we in Guyana 🇬🇾 had it but we keep slowly losing it.

  • @gotours01
    @gotours01 Год назад +284

    Lovely to see our people being themselves and thriving. Is like a piece of Africa outside Africa

  • @sweetiesuccess8435
    @sweetiesuccess8435 Год назад +38

    I'm glad you got the chance to see how the diasporas of the Americas was taken out of Africa but the Africa was NEVER taken out of them...Especially those in South America and the Caribbean...Their navel string is still connected to Africa.

  • @vicferrmat4492
    @vicferrmat4492 Год назад +234

    Wode Maya, you are doing some great work.
    These African people in suriname are more authentic traditionally than some of our people on the continent. We must also remember that enslavement brought us here 400 hundred years ago.
    Wode Maya, your work is educating all the African people worldwide. You are building a bridge and forging links between all of us wherever we live.
    All this work you are doing will go down in history.
    Thank you.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +5

      ❤️❤️❤️

    • @comahsamuel3969
      @comahsamuel3969 Год назад +8

      Is Jah work, their time is near to go back home.

    • @niecylanae33
      @niecylanae33 Год назад +1

      Yes to all of this 👏🏾 Very well said

    • @Ntuthu-ZA
      @Ntuthu-ZA Год назад +7

      Just about everything I’m seeing here resembles what we do in the Nguni cultures of South Africa, especially the Zulu and Xhosa people. I am amazed. Did not expect it at all.
      It’s a lot of fun, a time when we put our westernised selves aside and become proper abantu for that day, in our traditional outfits.

    • @lacinabakayoko4634
      @lacinabakayoko4634 Год назад

      So many of the problems that melanted Carbonated people in the world today are due to the assault in our minds, by those who captured us and removed significant numbers of us to the western hemisphere.this also included the mind damage caused by the tempering with our spiritual system ( African sacred science) and culture's.

  • @juwanyirenda3457
    @juwanyirenda3457 11 месяцев назад +54

    The connection I felt with the people of Suriname in this video was simply magical. Love from Zambia.

  • @kwameboadukissi426
    @kwameboadukissi426 Год назад +39

    Fawaka my Surinamese brothers and sisters. Did I hear "atuuu" when the women welcomed the groom? If I did, that is how we welcome in the Akan tradition of Ghana too.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +6

      Yep!

    • @selassiesys8794
      @selassiesys8794 Год назад +4

      I thought it was interesting too... In ewe language its the same... we say Atuuu to greet and hug you

    • @RonaldTangwi-pl5wd
      @RonaldTangwi-pl5wd 11 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly it is the same thing.

    • @mojenz1934
      @mojenz1934 11 месяцев назад +4

      yes, we say atuuu in the okanisi language. We also call it akan language

    • @kwameboadukissi426
      @kwameboadukissi426 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@mojenz1934 Interesting!

  • @darboejula9526
    @darboejula9526 Год назад +135

    What I like about them none of them bleach 😊and know heavy makeup 💄 just with the natural flow ✨️

    • @mishapatter9049
      @mishapatter9049 Год назад +14

      Natural Beauty!💯

    • @rosam674
      @rosam674 Год назад

      They are original Africans. No racial mixing. Everything about them is African.

    • @policyplayback
      @policyplayback Год назад +14

      That is a very good observation. Nice one.

    • @panafrocanam2100
      @panafrocanam2100 Год назад

      All what u say is a product of Western media and dumbing down of African values. We the people have to put stop to it but sadly many encourage it.

    • @onojaaudu4194
      @onojaaudu4194 11 месяцев назад +4

      That is exactly my perspective

  • @Dan1ell
    @Dan1ell Год назад +42

    I love that you visited my country!

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +6

      I had a great time

  • @Crabtree1844
    @Crabtree1844 Год назад +93

    Suriname: congratulations for remaining authentic! I am loving and living for your natural skin tone and natural hair! You are shining like the tropical sun and you stand out in natural beauty!

  • @kwamebonsu1010
    @kwamebonsu1010 Год назад +100

    Hi Wode Maya, I'm a typical Ghanaian living in America for twenty six not been to Ghana all these years. I come from the central region of Ghana, but I can tell you the Suriname village wedding makes me feel like I'm in the Volta region village in Ghana. What a surprise. Nature is wonderful. After 400-500 years that our people were shipped against their will to the Americas and the West Indies as " SLAVES" the core traditions have been passed on from generation to generation to date, or to the present. Anyone who was born and raised in Africa can surely say these are my people. The way they prepare their food, dress,dance and interact with each other reveal the real African gene established on a different continent. It makes you feel these are my people and I can put some of them in my suitcase and take them home when I'm going back to Africa right? That's the same feeling I get, just like your trip to Brazil. I watched that one too. I didn't mean to write an essay here but I'm getting there. This is my prediction, someday we as Ghanaians will have a new President who will send a ship to go and bring them back home to Ghana. My eyes are all filled with tears watching them over and over again. Good luck with your program, and the good Lord will help and bless you always as you travel the world finding our lost people and promoting African unity. Thank you.

    • @michaelfredericks-c9b
      @michaelfredericks-c9b Год назад +8

      Oh my God charter a Cruise ship and i will be the first to make get on board to make the journey over and i wont be returning to the Caribbean.

    • @JohnRobotham-v3j
      @JohnRobotham-v3j Год назад +11

      Hiring a ship to take our people back home is reminiscent of the Honorable Marcus Garvey’s “Black Star Liner” and philosophy “once you are a Black man you’re an Africa!”

    • @nelsonhotor7116
      @nelsonhotor7116 Год назад +8

      What at all are you doing in the state for 26 years without visiting home?

    • @Ntuthu-ZA
      @Ntuthu-ZA Год назад +2

      @@nelsonhotor7116 mind boggling! Hoping to hear the response.

    • @jameso
      @jameso Год назад +2

      ​@@nelsonhotor7116maybe he couldn't afford it?

  • @jeangermain3621
    @jeangermain3621 Год назад +116

    I am truly amazed man! I am from Haiti, I never seen that similarity like I see in Suriname anywhere else in the diaspora. I see nothing different between Ghana and Suriname. People in the Suriname don't lose their tradition really, I appreciate that. May celebrate different way but carry the same tradition and the same spirit. I truly admire my families in the Suriname!!! God blesses!

    • @Cici_mimi
      @Cici_mimi Год назад +10

      As African, I thought outside of Africa I can relate only Haitians, but now I find it another brothers and sisters. Beautiful how they kept their culture and DNA to themselves.

    • @jeangermain3621
      @jeangermain3621 Год назад +8

      @@Cici_mimi Exactly what I thought too. They always claimed Haiti as the little Africa, but I discover Suriname even more related in culture, dance, wedding, even look. God bless!

  • @stephenokwechime1609
    @stephenokwechime1609 Год назад +158

    Very amazing how our African brothers and sisters in diaspora were able to preserved the Africa Culture , the whites wrongfully enslaved the innocent Blackmen / women but they couldn't wiped away their culture and traditions.....Proudly AFRICAN from Nigeria 🇳🇬

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад +22

      Fawaka , na soso lobi gi yu mi Nigeria brada. Wi na wan Afrikan pikin lobi. Yr Surinamese brother saying hi in Surinamese.

    • @comahsamuel3969
      @comahsamuel3969 Год назад +10

      Fawaka na ga u mi mati ? Greetings from 🇬🇭🦁

    • @HdheehBdhdhdhe
      @HdheehBdhdhdhe Год назад

      Stop blaming it on the white people if y’all were the ones selling us to them 🙄

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад

      @@comahsamuel3969 Bun mi brada soso lobi

    • @jazariareid7250
      @jazariareid7250 Год назад +9

      Right on my brother 🇯🇲💯

  • @YvettePhilip
    @YvettePhilip Год назад +54

    You will certainly make 1.5 million.From Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 we love you

  • @glo6429
    @glo6429 Год назад +38

    The Ijaw tribe in Nigeria dances this way. Waoh awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @sidratulafleur2307
    @sidratulafleur2307 Год назад +192

    As an African I am so proud of my people in Suriname.. must travel there. They kept our tradition closer than any other Caribbean country. So proud of bro Maya for showing this. They even speaking the language. Tears flowing 😭😭 love from Canada 🇨🇦… must travel there

    • @latinsista
      @latinsista Год назад +1

      You are most welcome!

    • @FAMD4SH
      @FAMD4SH Год назад

      @Sidratulafluer2307 if you know nothing about the Caribbean keep quiet!! There are other islands who have kept aspects of different African country culture. Please don’t forget that Africans sold us into slavery and the white man ( whom many of you love so much) enslaved us and stripped us of our mother language(s).

    • @yanikeonpurpose
      @yanikeonpurpose Год назад +4

      Absolutely. As a Jamaican mi shame. This is so much rich culture! Especially their hair. The only place you’ll potentially see this kind of stuff is in the Marroon villages of Jamaica, but having never witnessed marroon culture, I can only assume.

  • @andresmith6029
    @andresmith6029 Год назад +47

    When I see things like this my heart pains me for my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 we barely have any tradition of our ancestors left 😢

    • @annfisher8811
      @annfisher8811 9 месяцев назад +6

      Bc we have been so brainwashed we think african culture is backward. Dont worry my love seek it out for yourself. I am a jamaican born with Africa in my blood NO ONE can take that away

  • @ideiasmultiverso2022
    @ideiasmultiverso2022 Год назад +67

    Oh my God this is real in america! It's like cabinda or tchokwe culture from Angola, the way of dancing is the same. Suriname people thank you for keeping the african culture of our ancestors in america, you are our brothers from far away ❤.

    • @rda-gama2567
      @rda-gama2567 Год назад +4

      Yes , we are all mixed up in the same pot !

    • @kxcabral
      @kxcabral Год назад +4

      We came from the same ship. 🥹 and spread all over the world.

    • @lacinabakayoko4634
      @lacinabakayoko4634 Год назад +6

      Melanted Carbonated family must remember that the slave ships brought no west Indians, no Caribbeans,no Jamaicans, no Trinidadians, no Barbadians, no Guyanese, no Ayitian, no vinccy to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

    • @rochekalifa2074
      @rochekalifa2074 Год назад +1

      Yes this particular group saramacans have predominantly Angola ancestry but also mixed

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад +3

      I was saying that this wws congolese traditional dance. Even thr music.We also have tshokwe in Congo

  • @Businessflip
    @Businessflip Год назад +82

    ❤From Somaliland to wode Maya and our Carebean brothers and sisters

    • @leongrant2320
      @leongrant2320 Год назад +15

      Thank you, my people from Somaliland for recognized us as your brother and sisters. We have known this all a while. I'm from Guyana 🇬🇾

    • @Cici_mimi
      @Cici_mimi Год назад

      Idoor there's only one Somalia and SSC Khaatumo State Of Somalia 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴 Guul SSC Khaatumo State Of Somalia.

    • @Cici_mimi
      @Cici_mimi Год назад

      @@leongrant2320 **Somalia** Somaliland is a little village inside the great Somalia.

    • @Businessflip
      @Businessflip 10 месяцев назад

      @@leongrant2320 your ere welcome

    • @usmanjohn3267
      @usmanjohn3267 4 месяца назад

      Is Somalia Africa do we have the same culture are you not Arab pls let us be

  • @miaosman8760
    @miaosman8760 11 месяцев назад +38

    I'm so surprised as an African lady who was born in Somalia 🇸🇴 raised in San Diego, CA. I never knew how much Suriname 🇸🇷 brothers and sisters keep their African
    tradition. Their dance is just like Uganda 🇺🇬 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Kenya 🇰🇪 and Somalia Bantus dance. This dance is all over Africa. Suriname 🇸🇷 you guys are our family ❤for sure!

    • @hervem.
      @hervem. 11 месяцев назад +1

      The culture so similar to ours in Cameroon
      It's insane

    • @modouceesay9793
      @modouceesay9793 10 месяцев назад

      Can you dance?

  • @giovannibey7836
    @giovannibey7836 Год назад +35

    I am
    Indian. melanated american original aboriginal Nottoway Indian. And it feels very good to see videos like this. My soul is being hugged.

    • @rudynathan8852
      @rudynathan8852 Год назад +2

      The black and natives in surinam actually worked together. You also have mixed native/african tribes in Surinam

    • @hurtin0108
      @hurtin0108 11 месяцев назад +2

      so why the Morrocan flag though?

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@hurtin0108one of those AA who think they are native indian

    • @CruzRosa-kk1nl
      @CruzRosa-kk1nl 11 месяцев назад

      Sadly, many AA have lost their sense of identity. They claim to be everything under the rainbow except from being primarily descendants of West Africans. They claim to be indigenous American Indians, Moors from Morocco, Hebrews, Egyptians etc. It's sad and pathetic 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @Cubakah234Bujirire
      @Cubakah234Bujirire 3 месяца назад

      You simply mean you're african. Aboriginal is not a race. If you don't accept, mind the way other races treat you.

  • @Food-Fashion-travel
    @Food-Fashion-travel Год назад +49

    My country, my culture, thank you for visiting 🤩❤️ 🇸🇷

  • @fokofotso8122
    @fokofotso8122 Год назад +50

    They are doing it like in my country in west Cameroon 🇨🇲

    • @atemnkeng4660
      @atemnkeng4660 Год назад +5

      Almost like asiko in Cameroon

    • @Nana97651
      @Nana97651 Год назад +1

      Bah c’est comme tout l’Afrique de l’Ouest et central

    • @rychelssassa7866
      @rychelssassa7866 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@Nana97651normal se sont des africains

    • @rychelssassa7866
      @rychelssassa7866 11 месяцев назад +1

      Je suis camerounaise ils dansent coe 1 peuple ici chez nous qu'on appelle les bassa

  • @exquisitecaribbeanqueen7198
    @exquisitecaribbeanqueen7198 Год назад +105

    I personally as a Jamaican think that we in the Carribbean need to go back to African traditions as farcas family, marriage & childrens discipline ...its just a better way of life...And the women's hair..Wow, you can see they love thrmselves...beautiful

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +5

      ❤️❤️❤️

    • @simonmanley6257
      @simonmanley6257 Год назад +12

      Yardies shame of dem ancestors culture dead ina Jamaica
      No history taught in a de wicked Island

    • @charmainethompson1319
      @charmainethompson1319 Год назад

      Stop writing crap..do you think Africans see Blacks that were not born in Africa, as African. Most Africans hated Black Americans and Caribbeans, especially those Africans in the despora.. God never make mistakes, He chooses where you would be born and raised, so be thankful. And stop wanting to be like people who don't think you have a culture and think they are better than Black Americans and Caribbeans. Their women adopting and copying western culture and dressing now half naked and if other Blacks do it they criticized them, and if blacks that were not born in Africa, wear head wraps or African clothing, they said people want to be like them. But only fools would want to be, anything other than themselves and not proud to be who they are. Africans don't like you, so get that in your head and stop this stupid comments. And be proud of who you are

    • @Cici_mimi
      @Cici_mimi Год назад +1

      @@simonmanley6257 But why Haiti culture is still strong?

    • @simonmanley6257
      @simonmanley6257 Год назад +10

      @@Cici_mimi Becuse the Haitians adore and venerated their ancestors and built their own spiritual systems
      The African Jamaicans split and abandoned the African practices because of the overwhelming acceptance of Christianity. And its total control on the slave colonial plantation Island.
      The European dominance over the slave Island institutions was totally entrenched. Mental slavery also took hold over the population. So anti- African sentiments runs very deep into Jamaican population psyche, which in it self is paradoxical considering the Island is solidly Black country.

  • @Crabtree1844
    @Crabtree1844 Год назад +42

    Wode Maya, did you notice how the majority of the women and men kept their hair NATURAL. I also noticed they are not bleaching their skin. They look stunning and very beautiful! You go Suriname! Aya maya. Happy New Year!

    • @Crabtree1844
      @Crabtree1844 Год назад

      @@rafaelw8115 ...some are still suffering from the effects of colonialism, self-hate and, ignorance. Skin-bleaching, hair relaxers, cosmetics...etc affect childbirth, cause cancer, some bleached skin look like rotten banana peel, the breath smell bad, they reman poor while enrich doctors and pharmaceutical industries....and so much more. Black is beautiful - that's why whyte people roast themselves in the sun like rottisserie chicken.

    • @janjacob2259
      @janjacob2259 11 месяцев назад +4

      indeed... in Suriname... they dont do Bleaching .. at all.
      i never heard about bleaching.. until i met african that did that.
      i was in shock.

    • @Crabtree1844
      @Crabtree1844 11 месяцев назад

      @@janjacob2259 ...aren't Surinamians not Africans? I thought all black people are Africans who were forcefully displaced through slavery.

  • @Cici_mimi
    @Cici_mimi Год назад +76

    I never thought I would see a more African and blacker country outside of Africa other than Haiti. This is educational and really beautiful. They seem like they did not lost much of their culture.

    • @rochekalifa2074
      @rochekalifa2074 Год назад +17

      Yes because they freed themselves just like Haiti did. The saramacans escaped very very early and were like 200 years free before abolishment of slavery and they are a very close community

    • @miguelcazal721
      @miguelcazal721 9 месяцев назад

      even more incredible it was done before Haiti and we have Paramount chief (Gaanman 6) since the 1700s until today with our own living customs and 14 languages ​​while in Haiti this is not the case...

    • @miguelcazal721
      @miguelcazal721 9 месяцев назад

      even more incredible it was done before Haiti and we have Paramount chief (Gaanman 6) since the 1700s until today with our own living customs and 14 languages ​​while in Haiti this is not the case...

    • @Mark-z5v8m
      @Mark-z5v8m 4 месяца назад

      ​@rochekalifa207They run away soon after they got off the boat😂😂😂4

  • @WabiSherie
    @WabiSherie 11 месяцев назад +41

    The HAIR! THE HAIRSTYLES!!!! Both the men and especially the ladies! Woooooow 🎉🎉🎉can't wait to visit Suriname 🇸🇷. Love from 🇰🇪 Kenya!

    • @VeronicaLovesAI
      @VeronicaLovesAI 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes. The hair, the skin…🎉❤

    • @lesiemehle1901
      @lesiemehle1901 3 месяца назад

      It's only women in this wedding, has anyone noticed that too.

    • @mkaijewett
      @mkaijewett 28 дней назад

      @@lesiemehle1901 Watch to the end. It was explained that the women come first, then the men.

    • @hurtin0108
      @hurtin0108 15 дней назад

      @@lesiemehle1901 When the sun goes down, the kids & all of their mothers leave so the adults can party

  • @paullamah5073
    @paullamah5073 Год назад +24

    Honestly …I don’t know what to say anymore….im stunned

  • @frederickcollins9228
    @frederickcollins9228 Год назад +30

    I live in Guyana and have visited Suriname and it takes Wode Maya for me to see a typical Saramacca wedding. Great work!

  • @shyfettymtunda4619
    @shyfettymtunda4619 Год назад +116

    The dancing was the whole vibe🎉.
    Everything is beautiful there.😍
    Sending love from Tanzania 🇹🇿,East Africa.

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад +10

      Thanks Habari, Nakupenda. Send some Nyama Chowma over hahahaha. Thanks to some Tanzanians I met some years ago I learned these words. When they spoke I also heard the word Angalia. I as African descent u always curious of Africans, maybe I could understand something

    • @shyfettymtunda4619
      @shyfettymtunda4619 Год назад

      @@Jose-b2k1u Thank you.☺️

    • @shyfettymtunda4619
      @shyfettymtunda4619 Год назад +7

      @@chaljen That's amazing.Come to Tanzania I'll treat you with nyama choma,lol.😂
      Hakuna matata.

    • @chaljen
      @chaljen Год назад +7

      @@shyfettymtunda4619 thank you very much nakupenda you already. 😘

    • @shyfettymtunda4619
      @shyfettymtunda4619 Год назад +6

      @@chaljen Hahaha!! Nakupenda pia.😂

  • @chloesogood
    @chloesogood Год назад +28

    One Caribbean ❤🙏🏽 our special rich culture and beautiful African roots. Unity ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

  • @stopyra3395
    @stopyra3395 Год назад +23

    Wode, as a US citizen originally from Cameroon living in the US for 2 decades, believe me or not, the wedding ceremonies remind me my home country. Thanks, Wode I must visit Suriname

  • @Jassy-s9g
    @Jassy-s9g Год назад +41

    This pure our African brothers and sisters. I love you guys

  • @kuyahkudey3217
    @kuyahkudey3217 Год назад +176

    Wow! I thought Jamaicans were the most African people culturally in the Caribbean. Now I know that the Maroons of Surinam are culturally the most African people in our region.

    • @Cln2023
      @Cln2023 Год назад +25

      Come to My Country Suriname 🇸🇷❤️👌🙏

    • @Queen_Amenarina
      @Queen_Amenarina Год назад +26

      Jamaica has Maroons to that ran away from slave plantations and began living in the mountainous .
      Cuba has a maroon community to.

    • @goldbluetears
      @goldbluetears Год назад +5

      there are also marron people in colombia who live like that!

    • @kuyahkudey3217
      @kuyahkudey3217 Год назад +14

      @@Cln2023
      Thanks for welcoming me! I hope to visit one day. 😊

    • @kuyahkudey3217
      @kuyahkudey3217 Год назад +36

      ​@@Queen_Amenarina
      Yes we have Maroons here in Jamaica but I don't think their culture is as African as these people.

  • @georgehosea139
    @georgehosea139 Год назад +52

    Wow that looks so much like Africa, good to see in Suriname they have retained African ways, that's lovely to see.. 😅

  • @UK-sm4co
    @UK-sm4co Год назад +40

    What! This is outside Africa? Ahmazing, 👏 👏 👏 🇸🇷 🇳🇬
    So proud of them, as an African this is very emotional for me

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +5

      Yes

    • @bgreatgraphixxgreat9559
      @bgreatgraphixxgreat9559 11 месяцев назад +2

      Same culture... Parts of Nigeria do have gift presentation from both parties (Bride and groom family) but more from the Groom... Especially when the groom family has fulfilled the item in the list... Great one

  • @vickiev.7016
    @vickiev.7016 Год назад +38

    im so in admiration on how those people fought to keep their culture alive and are practicing it. Black people are really resilient people. May God bless them.

    • @worshipthelordwithdance28
      @worshipthelordwithdance28 10 месяцев назад +1

      Hundreds of years ago they fled to the bush and they kept their culture because there was noone there who could take it from them or force another culture on them. They lived alongside rivers with a lot of big rapids, so the slave masters couldn't come to get them. That is why their culture was kept for hundreds of years.

  • @matomem
    @matomem Год назад +23

    Many tribes in South Africa we also have the family of the bride gifting presents to the groom as well just like in Suriname.

    • @norahmvelase5693
      @norahmvelase5693 4 месяца назад

      What about us native People in South afrika 😢

  • @NyashaMhandiwa
    @NyashaMhandiwa Год назад +24

    They still do it the African way.They represent.Im so proud of you Suri what what .Its still new to me .

  • @mypeople6590
    @mypeople6590 Год назад +16

    The music sounds like the jinja people of Uganda.

  • @sohenko
    @sohenko Год назад +32

    I am surprised OAU has not given Wode Maya an award ? I am going to petition them ! We need to update our educational systems across the world, there must be an Inter African educational summit not only on education but economics, medical research, history, defense and more. Let’s get to work.

  • @garthybrookens4839
    @garthybrookens4839 Год назад +14

    Suriname should be a country in Africa.
    The likeness is so much.

  • @ajshousenorway289
    @ajshousenorway289 Год назад +66

    They are more like the Sawa People in cameroon. Their way of dancing is very much like the Ewondo People of Cameroon. ❤

    • @bowgate3817
      @bowgate3817 Год назад +12

      You find similar in Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin.

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +9

      Interesting

    • @LG-universe
      @LG-universe Год назад +6

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @geniusg811
      @geniusg811 Год назад +8

      The Ijaws in Nigeria also has a similar dance 🙂

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад +1

      Same in Congo.

  • @Hacinth123
    @Hacinth123 Год назад +23

    Even the music is the same like in Cassamance and Guinea Bissau, I think they might come from Guinea Bissau

    • @mcamara488
      @mcamara488 5 месяцев назад

      I am from Guine-Bissau tooo. 🖤🙏🏿

  • @daudyisrael6142
    @daudyisrael6142 Год назад +450

    The more I see what our people do traditionally, the more I dislike what the colonizers have done to us here in the U.S.

  • @JaneDoe19635
    @JaneDoe19635 11 месяцев назад +15

    From Sierra Leone, happy to see my people from Suriname. I have been to Guyana but not Suriname even though I knew they were next door, there was not time to travel across borders. Beautiful Africans 100%❤

  • @ebotawiah6567
    @ebotawiah6567 Год назад +13

    I hear them singing kwadwom, the recitals made before the Asantehene speaks. I have goosebumps all over me!

  • @Essess23
    @Essess23 Год назад +34

    Wow how beautiful are those women 😍 I fell in love with at least 10 when he went down the bridesmaid line 😅

  • @khadimlo5920
    @khadimlo5920 Год назад +15

    I m senegalese the surinamians look like the manjak ethnie group from the south of Sénégal in the west Africa you are amazing

  • @whz366
    @whz366 Год назад +45

    Suriname is amazing. Wonderfully festive wedding.

  • @fredericktiku2585
    @fredericktiku2585 11 месяцев назад +9

    This people preserved the African culture even more than some African countries in Africa.

  • @hourgla-ss
    @hourgla-ss Год назад +6

    I have never heard of a country called suriname 🇸🇷 not to talk of knowing their Africans. The most beautiful video i have seen this year

  • @user-xy5xl1bt5b
    @user-xy5xl1bt5b Год назад +50

    Man I most admit I had a nice time watching you Woda Maya. Black African empowerment! Strength and health , love and understanding to all the diaspora of Africa, the final frontier of world trade among themselves and to the world!. James in America Chicago peace be upon you.🤨🤔🧐❤️

  • @patchristzekeng8888
    @patchristzekeng8888 Год назад +36

    Africa should unite and that unity most include all our fellow black brothers and sisters. Wode Maya I hope Ghanaian president will have the courage to have you in the African union summit voicing for One Africa

  • @Rilia.
    @Rilia. Год назад +86

    thank U very much for helping to share our beautiful culture with the world, A very proud Surinamese. ❤❤❤💙 many many blessings to you and your family wodemaya. We hope to welcome you back in Suriname .

    • @kobinaadaboh4859
      @kobinaadaboh4859 Год назад +7

      You somethings unique form Ghanaian weddings. Very beautiful women you have there❤

    • @Oliver-l4l7t
      @Oliver-l4l7t Год назад +4

      As a Nigerian I am shocked by what I see. In faraway America? And it's just like attending a wedding in another part of Nigeria.

    • @whizzywee
      @whizzywee Год назад +2

      Hi,
      greetings from Nigeria,
      please what language is being spoken ?
      searched online but the official language says y'all speak Dutch ?
      also .... what's an interesting fact about your country that i should know, cheers .

    • @CharLInd12
      @CharLInd12 Год назад +8

      @@whizzywee Yes, the official language is Dutch. The Lingua Franca is a Creole language , very much like Nigerian Pidgin. It's called Sranantongo, and has influences of English, Dutch, Portuguese and various African languages. Some enslaved people managed to escape slavery and live out their lives isolated in the interior of the country. There they formed various sub ethnic groups, with one of them being the Samaaka who are highlighted in the video. We also have the Ndyuka or Okanisi, the Pamaaka, The Aluku/Boni, the Kwinti, the Matawai.

    • @Rilia.
      @Rilia. Год назад

      greetings.🥰 the official language is Dutch that is being taught in school but the lingua franca is Sranantongo we also speak other native language because we have many different ethnicities and tribes living peacefully and respectful to each other culture in Suriname . 🥰@@whizzywee

  • @ireneatenkeng9766
    @ireneatenkeng9766 Год назад +23

    What a beautiful culture and their skin color is so so beautiful. The way most of them look and their music and dancing style is a lot similar to that of the Doualas and Bassas of 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад

      Also yes. Especially the waist dancing. Same in Congo

    • @mikesterk9888
      @mikesterk9888 11 месяцев назад

      ​​@@africaine4889 Ai you speak the true 26:59 e 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @mpakempake3235
      @mpakempake3235 11 месяцев назад

      I heard something similar to Bikutsi 😢😢😢

  • @shakkamusa2366
    @shakkamusa2366 Год назад +48

    This makes me feel very good. I love seeing the women with their natural hair and beautiful shining black complexion. The fact that they have retained so much of their African culture is a testament to the strength and resilience of our ancestors and African cultures in general. I am so proud of them. Thank you, Wode Maya! You have gained a subscriber.

  • @aulenebeckford6268
    @aulenebeckford6268 Год назад +52

    Big up Suriname, keep the tradition alive, one love!

  • @selkybangs4333
    @selkybangs4333 Год назад +21

    Wode how possible can we try to organize a kind of Africa cultural festival back home, where we can invite all the African countries and those in the diaspora in one country, maybe make it rotating ( being hosted by different countries every year)

    • @redhillhero1975
      @redhillhero1975 11 месяцев назад

      i thought ghana has started with Afrofuture festival

    • @citylinkproject9901
      @citylinkproject9901 11 месяцев назад

      excellent idea !

    • @emmanuelozuru5097
      @emmanuelozuru5097 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nigeria bankrolled FESTAC in 1977. They even built a brand new city for it. Later the country suffered heavily economically. Let's just open up our bothers and do some cross-pollination of African cultures. Just my opinion, though.

    • @mkaijewett
      @mkaijewett 28 дней назад

      There was one in the 70s called FESTAC. I don't know what happened to it.

  • @AmosHashaka
    @AmosHashaka 11 месяцев назад +7

    Those cultures are definitely the descendants of Congo-Angola empire, and therefore, congolese and Angolan descendants without doubts!

  • @Olcool
    @Olcool Год назад +19

    They can also communicate in english. what an amazing group of people. I am so pleased, The smiles on their faces are so authentic. they are loving and welcoming.

  • @sranansani8568
    @sranansani8568 Год назад +18

    Wode Maya, thank you for puting Suriname on the map, a lot of people in the world had never heard of Suriname. THANK YOU!

  • @PatrickMwizozo-ep3vg
    @PatrickMwizozo-ep3vg Год назад +20

    Wodemaya ..you are true son of Africa...bring this pple home. ..This is our tradition... even..here in Malawi..Zimbabwe..kenya.. South Africa.

    • @worshipthelordwithdance28
      @worshipthelordwithdance28 10 месяцев назад +1

      Oh, we like Ghana, but in 500 years time Suriname became our home. Suriname is not the USA where white people are the majority. There are no white people in Suriname. Black people are the majority and after the Amerindians the first Surinamese people. We have also Indian and Indonesian immigrants here since 1875 and Chinese since 1853. The Dutch immigrants who came to Suriname long time ago died of malaria or were married to black, Indonesian or Indian people. There are only a few white families left or maybe none. One white family I knew some of them went to the Netherlands and a white colleague of mine married a Javanese.

  • @yotsanta
    @yotsanta Год назад +22

    Surinam is really Ghana in abroad. I would have to take my vacation there one day.

  • @MikeJones-ck4yt
    @MikeJones-ck4yt Год назад +20

    Wow!! They're even eating fufu the Afrikan way, so happy to see they have kept Afrikan tradition ❤❤❤

  • @AmoyaE
    @AmoyaE 11 месяцев назад +5

    Even though their ancestors were enslaved they still held onto a large percentage of their culture and passed it down to their descendants. Seeing these people practice the culture of their ancestors is so wonderful to see. 😀

  • @anthonytobi9773
    @anthonytobi9773 Год назад +61

    My tribe in Nigeria dances more like that. We are 95% coastal in Nigeria. When I saw women carrying plates to the water front to watch I thought it is my village in Nigeria. Wonderful.

    • @rudynathan8852
      @rudynathan8852 Год назад +6

      Might be true. Im from holland and half surinamese. Most my african dna is nigerian (yoruba) according to two different dna tests. But my mom is not from this tribe tho

    • @mhizummy2091
      @mhizummy2091 Год назад +2

      @@rudynathan8852yoruba don’t shake waist lol 😂

    • @TheLocalStandard
      @TheLocalStandard Год назад +16

      ​@@mhizummy2091😮Yorubas don't shake waist?!
      All the 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria shake their waists especially the Yorubas, even the Muslims. And I am from the Muslim majority North. Don't say what you don't know.

    • @AMOE_30
      @AMOE_30 Год назад

      @@mhizummy2091They certainly do, just in a different way than this.

    • @rudynathan8852
      @rudynathan8852 11 месяцев назад +2

      I will aks my cousin to do a dna test. She is half Samaaka. I can compare my results with hers.

  • @jackiejackson8484
    @jackiejackson8484 Год назад +32

    This is wonderful I wish we had something like this in 🇯🇲we have a lost culture. I never knew Surinam was so African.

    • @simonmanley6257
      @simonmanley6257 Год назад

      That because Jamaica is an anti African society history and preservation of black culture is demonized on the Island

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +5

      Really????

    • @melanin7977
      @melanin7977 11 месяцев назад +1

      If you attend our cultural events you will see african traditional dances eg. Kumina, dinky mini, quadrille, bruckins, maypole, jonkunnu etc they dress in african traditional clothes when performing these dances too. Those are african traditional dances prserved in jamaica, you need to visit St. Thomas they have a village with elderly people speaking in an Aftican traditional language. The culture is still there but most people nowadays wants to be americanize.

  • @SunkissFlower
    @SunkissFlower Год назад +113

    Your Suriname content brought tears of joy and tears of sadness. I am so proud of the Surinamese people, yet I am sad to see what the rest of us in the Caribbean and Americas have lost. God bless Suriname. And Merry Christmas to you Wode Maya and Miss.Trudy.

    • @simonmanley6257
      @simonmanley6257 Год назад +9

      Totally agree with you look at the mess in Jamaica

    • @WODEMAYA
      @WODEMAYA  Год назад +8

      Amen!

    • @hendrikmkvanleesteniv1294
      @hendrikmkvanleesteniv1294 Год назад +5

      Never too late for us all to connect to our traditional roots and cultural ways! This is the power of technology now we can find out where we are from and then learn from those who know and can teach us what we have lost! We are the lost tribe and will eventually be reunited!

    • @lacinabakayoko4634
      @lacinabakayoko4634 Год назад +2

      Happy Kwanzaa

    • @missalwaysfortunate
      @missalwaysfortunate 11 месяцев назад +2

      You are 100 percent right. Especially when it comes to marriage. Here in the United States only a little over 20 percent of black people marry. The destruction of the traditional family is destroying us.

  • @chimemekx9033
    @chimemekx9033 Год назад +14

    This people may be far away from their mother land (Africa) but they will never be forgotten. Merry Christmas to everyone. Maya, thanks for bringing your African story to our brothers and sisters taken away from us.

  • @osuaccra
    @osuaccra Год назад +13

    What they’re wearing, is their version of kente cloth. Every Caribbean nation has their version with different colours. The songs they were singing sounds close to ewe.❤❤❤

    • @davidcomma1930
      @davidcomma1930 11 месяцев назад

      Most ancestors of Suriname came from Ghana.

    • @Mark-z5v8m
      @Mark-z5v8m 4 месяца назад

      Yea I noticed that. The language donation is very close to ewe.

  • @mysterymankab
    @mysterymankab Год назад +23

    Africans are gorgeous!

  • @nowornever5189
    @nowornever5189 Год назад +20

    Very nice i am happy to see our brothers and sisters from suriname love from Burundi 🇧🇮 in East Africa

  • @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
    @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul Год назад +9

    "The whole world is Africa", a song by Reggae group, Black Uhuru

    • @simonmanley6257
      @simonmanley6257 Год назад

      You're a genius, as a child I could not fully understand that song as an adult travel to a few countries I fully understood what Black Uhuru was saying .My favorite group too

    • @mkaijewett
      @mkaijewett 28 дней назад

      I have that album from back in the day. Love that song!

  • @hansjames3156
    @hansjames3156 Год назад +14

    Culture is quite rich and authentic,amazing Suriname.

  • @PLEASANTGIFFT
    @PLEASANTGIFFT Год назад +17

    From the UK. I keep watching your travels and you must keep up the work - this is a mission you are on and you are the chosen one uniting the scattered family of Africa. And what was shattered you are piecing it back together again. I'm send you love and respect from the UK of Jamaican descent. Thank you

    • @africanjamaican7365
      @africanjamaican7365 Год назад +1

      Amen the chosen one to piecing the broken family. Yes yes blessings.

  • @zaraarazab7402
    @zaraarazab7402 Год назад +22

    Beautiful Natural Hair Queens ...Love from Guyana

    • @lacinabakayoko4634
      @lacinabakayoko4634 Год назад +2

      Black skin is not a badge of shame but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness

  • @boatengsolomon5256
    @boatengsolomon5256 Год назад +28

    These people definitely have Ghanaian ancestral root ❤❤❤❤

    • @elizabethbekoe381
      @elizabethbekoe381 Год назад +5

      Surimame has free passport visa to Ghana ..same as ghanaians travel to Suriname with free entry

    • @emmydongo
      @emmydongo Год назад

      No, i think the roots points towards Uganda😊

    • @elizabethbekoe381
      @elizabethbekoe381 Год назад

      ​@@emmydongo
      There are few west African countries as well with similar traditional dancing ..so amazing 🌹

    • @lolasobande8663
      @lolasobande8663 Год назад +1

      ​@@emmydongoHuuuuuuun, but Uganda was never a part of the trans Atlantic slave trade. The enslaved were West and central Africans.

    • @davidcomma1930
      @davidcomma1930 11 месяцев назад

      Most Suriname ancestors who were sent to Suriname were from Ghana during the slave trade.

  • @mauriceharvey1084
    @mauriceharvey1084 Год назад +25

    WODE MAYA NATURAL BEAUTIFUL LADIES ❤KEEP THE CULTURE ALIVE ❤WHO AGREE ?

  • @Meli_Mels
    @Meli_Mels Год назад +12

    the colors, the music, the joyful celebration. Thank you for taking us along. It was a delight to watch.

  • @overviewthem
    @overviewthem Год назад +18

    As I had said in other comments before this one, the African descendants in Suriname are a gem for studying. What they have in contributions will in many ways be rewarding in absolute profound ways that connect to us to what had existed before being modified by the impact of outside influences. I certainly believe that there are areas even on the continent that had been impacted and others that may not have tremendously so.

  • @johod2994
    @johod2994 Год назад +49

    Incredibly great and amazing seeing Afro descendants in replica West Africa culture with a bit of flavours, of local identities and European influences...
    Love it!

    • @zazabrown732
      @zazabrown732 Год назад +1

      Central African culture not West African. the dancing is from the Congo region

  • @fredericakitisu5417
    @fredericakitisu5417 Год назад +23

    The dance that they are clapping and dancing is similar to ga-Dangbme people in Ghana dance called Kramer, especially people from Dodowa, they normally dance it at marriage ceremonies and dipo

  • @eugenebruno1481
    @eugenebruno1481 Год назад +16

    That's why MisTrudy had to catch up with you😂😂😂😂too many shaking going on

  • @curty920
    @curty920 Год назад +7

    you are bringng all African Children together. we thank you and May God Bless you

  • @DAVillagegirl
    @DAVillagegirl Год назад +32

    Woodeee!! Excellent content. I wish our sisters on the African continent who bleach their skin and use blonde wigs and weaves take note of the natural black chocolate Surinamese queens. They rock the natural hair, naps and all and appreciate our “blackness. Beautiful black natural beauties like me, a Caribbean natural black beauty.

    • @PaaBoo-q8w
      @PaaBoo-q8w Год назад

      Especially N@ rian women
      They bleach their faces and forget their fingers.
      They smell funny too.

    • @joejulian617
      @joejulian617 Год назад

      So all African women are known for skin bleaching?

    • @AMOE_30
      @AMOE_30 Год назад +3

      What about the brothers on the continent who bleach their skin and hair? Only the women bother you?