Wow great video. My great-grandmother is from Suriname. I recently learned of the connection between Ghana and Suriname due to slavery. I'm now learning Twi and to my surprise a lot of the words, tone, and phrases came so naturally and quickly. Our connections run deeper than we think. Thanks for sharing this video.
Please, it's good you are learning twi , Suriname are fantis or mfantesefo, our language is fanti, Please, i will advise you to learn fanti, that is your language and my language. Twi is a totally different language. We don't speak twi. I don't understand 95% of twi language .
We notice this kind of mixture in a lot of Creole languages. It makes us smile thinking of how all our ancestors came together to communicate with each other.
We know the role the Fantis played in this atrocity can you give us your perspective or what you know about the role they played? Just a little quiz that’s all.
I heard the name of our town called Kromanti mentioned in the video. This is a fishing town near Cape Coast in central region of Ghana. Tears filled my eyes. Thanks for the video.
Wow guys, this filled my eyes with mixed emotions even though I am Ghanaian myself. I have to watch the clip again. Thanks for sharing. The man from Suriname’s language has understandably changed or gone through serious metamorphosis and it will take the average GH a bit longer to catch on. It’s not late to learn your language. Good luck with that. 😊
I am in a flood of tears because I can understand what he is saying my God what did they do to us. Lord have mercy. I am a Fante so I understand the exchange.❤❤❤
A Colombian friend told me that the black Colombians in the Palenque.. choco regions speak a language similar to some languages spoken in the Congos 🇨🇬 🇨🇩… maybe you can research on that and do a video too.. the south sea company took more slaves from the Congos and Angola to South America…
🇸🇷‼️ Us Alone Bushinenge (maroon) of Suriname. We have many languages 7 & 7 : there seven contemporary Afro-Surinamese and a bit of European Creole languages: Sranan tongo, Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi, Kwiïnti, Aluku and Pamaka. 7 other older ones that some of us also practice are: Amanfu, Kumanti, Akoopina, Loanga, Ampuku, Papa and Anklibenda, ancestral African languages. saamaka, Pamaka, Aluku, Sranan, Okanisi, Matawai, Kiïnti. and the oldest Amanfu, Kumantie, Papa, Loanga, Anklibenda, Akoopina, Ampuku THESE ARE LANGUAGES PRACTICED ALREADY MORE THAN 343 - 500 YEARS OLD. I am extremely proud of what we have, I myself speak 6 of them with other languages from elsewhere like French, English and Créole guyanaise. So with the rest of the other communities in the country we are unique for a population of around 614,000 inhabitants on a territory covered 90% by the primary Amazonian forest.
Yes they were speaking Twi language, surprisingly one thing most people didn’t know about Ghana in the late 50’s and the 60s when Ghana was the favorite in the 100 meters race all over the world so am not surprised Jamaicans are now in charge of all the short distances in the field of athletics. And when you see a Jamaican in Ghana there’s no difference we are 100 percent the same looks
Coming from a mixed background in South Africa 🇿🇦. Having both my African and Asian roots being enslaved by the Dutch and British. This just make me sad and proud at the same time for what they had to endured. Much love guys❤
Hi @@TheDemouchetsREACT thank you. We wear our traditional ( cultural) clothes, eat traditional food and dance to cultural music.The entire country participates in the celebration and watches cultural performances by the various marron groups in the city center.The President makes a speech, and they place flower wreaths at the memorial of the marron groups.
That's my homecountry! Nice to see you reacting to this. This is also solid counterargument for those denying our African roots. There's no way these men were able to understand each other on a base level at the first time, without a prior connection.
I've have seen this so many times. But everytime they meet, tears roll over my cheek. And years i wondered what happened to our culture (food, music, clothing, language) with our Afro American brothers and sisters. Nobody had a answer. But recently i found out, that in the South of the US, The Gullah are living!
Sadly most of us Surinamese still don't know much of our heritage, our family tree starts in rhe late 1800s after the end of slavery, we were never able to figure out where in Africa our ancestors came from, to be honest it's quite painful.
It is painful. Slave records in the U.S. have been released online in the last decade to make it easier for us to view the records. Hopefully the same is done for you all.
Ancestry DNA is also an option. I'm also a Surinamese woman and all i can say that this is a very sad and painfull story; what"s happened with our ancestors. Im very determined to find the truth and where from Africa did our ancestors came from.
The Dutchman hostman the listed following Nation during a survey in 1850 :Sokko,Mandingo,Abo, Fula,Mende,Tiamba,Loango,Ibo and the Coromantin negroes.🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷💯.
They have their own languages, but there is also a language that is just like a language in Ghana and their culture looks African, while we are in South America
I just came across your video and in the video you talk about but I am from Jamaica in the West Indies and we have lots of maroons, we even have a Maroon Town there. And we told they came from Africa but now I know they came Ghana. All the elders that speak the native language are all dying off, and most of the young people don’t want to speak the language. Because they’re only pushing the agenda for the kids to speak proper English not creole or any other language that is native to the land.
It was the Dutch who did that. If you want to live permanently in the Netherlands ( expats excluded) . You have to learn these things as of apart of being accepted into the society. Learn history with a smile. 😢😂. A process called inburgering. It can be cringy! I would say at least they are honest. I wonder how others who came directly from Africa feel. Especially those who came as a lovepart 😂
Being Dutch myself im probably biased, but it seems a bit too easy to just single out the Netherlands for this behavior, its not like we were the only ones. (Not in any way shape or form trying to justify what my ancestors did either btw!!! just trying to point out the nuance) and the video seems to confirm as much, we are very open about our history and according to official accounts we've had about half a million slaves in all the time my ancestors were douchbaggy f*cks (roughly 200 years) but that means (based on the numbers mentioned in the video) that there's quite a massive gap there??? if not the Netherlands then what country owned and used those other _few dozen million_ slaves?? nobody dares to take the blame for it but the fact remains that the Netherlands was far from the worst, but because we're open and honest about our history now we look like the worst offenders today because everybody else just keeps their mouth shut & alters their history books.. The Dutch subtitles also says quite a lot, you hit the nail on the head with your "at least they are honest", these sort of documentaries are made specifically for the Dutch "government tv" because its important that we all know (including new generations) about this bad sh*t in our history & never to become that again. The fact that Suriname and the Netherlands have really good relations today (to a point where they even somewhat backtracked on their own freedom?!?!) probably means that they don't see us as the worst offenders either. Again, everybody please understand that im not in any way trying to justify the god awful things by ancestors did, f- those people and what they did, im just trying to make it clear that there's a bigger picture.
In suriname maroon comuinity we speaks seven diffrends langruage which is .SAAMAKA , N'DJUKA , MATAWAI , ALUKU , PAAMAKA , SAAKiKi , KWiNTi so coromanti is not a langrge speak permanently inside thees comuinity but i think a vew of the elders . If you hear a youg man speak it he speak in spirit an after the spirit is gone he never rialice all what was happend😂 or what he had all said now they need someone how will understant the situation what he had said or what to do.and sometime's it comes on story like someone ( elders) hu was murder brutalety durring slavery and he is still worry today am saamaka decents .but suriname today is a multynational country in south america where black indian from india and oure indígenas indian from rithe here in the caribian ,javanees from indonesie and the chinees from difrend part asia and china so it is a verry long story ❤ peace and unity
🇸🇷 📽👂🏿👀Freedoms hard-won. Over the centuries we have been able to build, develop a true incomparable community in its own right which continues today, we continue to cultivate this cultural and identity difference proudly affirmed in culture our own languages, traditions, music, cuisines and values... In ethics there are 6 tribes with 6 great supreme customary chiefs. 6 (Gaan Lo) tribes: Pamaka, Aluku or (Boni), Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi or (Djuka), Kwiïnti. The 6 (Gaanman), of the 6 communities (Gaanman Lo) each is made up of its own traditional council: the Gaanman as the main leaders of the community, a certain number of Kabiten as leaders of the different sub-communities (Lo) and a certain number of Basiya as assistants to the Kabiten and Gaanman in each (Lo). And in particular Women can also occupy all these positions we have experienced mistreatment, discrimination, racism all the evil of slavery therefore the woman is in her place as a human woman equal to men. Therefore also in our societal culture we are in a culture structured by the Matrilineal Clan. Consider that each of us is descended from a line of women from Africa called Mamabee 🇸🇷🇸🇷 we Bushinenge (maroon) of Suriname. We have many languages 7 & 7 : there seven contemporary Afro-Surinamese and a bit of european Creole languages: Sranan tongo, Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi, Kwiïnti, Aluku and Pamaka. 7 other older ones that some of us also practice are : Amanfu, Kumanti, Akoopina, Loanga, Ampuku, Papa and Anklibenda, ancestral African languages. THESE ARE LANGUAGES PRACTICED ALREADY MORE THAN 343 - 500 YEARS OLD. I am extremely proud of what we have, I myself speak 7 of them with other languages from elsewhere like French, English and Créole guyanaise.
Wow great video. My great-grandmother is from Suriname. I recently learned of the connection between Ghana and Suriname due to slavery. I'm now learning Twi and to my surprise a lot of the words, tone, and phrases came so naturally and quickly. Our connections run deeper than we think. Thanks for sharing this video.
This is beautiful! Comments like this keeps us on this path.
Please, it's good you are learning twi , Suriname are fantis or mfantesefo, our language is fanti,
Please, i will advise you to learn fanti, that is your language and my language. Twi is a totally different language. We don't speak twi. I don't understand 95% of twi language .
She must have been a great woman then..❤
The language is a mixture of Fante(Twi), Nzema, Ga and Ewe…this is a serious mixture of 4 different Ghanaian languages
We notice this kind of mixture in a lot of Creole languages. It makes us smile thinking of how all our ancestors came together to communicate with each other.
Nice!
I am Ghanaian living in state l am so emotional watching this l understand what he was saying.
I am a Ghanaian and also a Fante and I could understand some of the words the SURINAMESE man spoke right there..
We know the role the Fantis played in this atrocity can you give us your perspective or what you know about the role they played? Just a little quiz that’s all.
I say this all the time that Ghana 🇬🇭 is a mark on every diaspora it the center and home for children from the diaspora.
Shout out to my country suriname born and raised
I heard the name of our town called Kromanti mentioned in the video. This is a fishing town near Cape Coast in central region of Ghana. Tears filled my eyes. Thanks for the video.
Wow guys, this filled my eyes with mixed emotions even though I am Ghanaian myself. I have to watch the clip again. Thanks for sharing. The man from Suriname’s language has understandably changed or gone through serious metamorphosis and it will take the average GH a bit longer to catch on. It’s not late to learn your language. Good luck with that. 😊
This is my homecountry. We have the biggest African heritage outside Africa..our music, food, culture. Proud to be from Surinam!❤
I am in a flood of tears because I can understand what he is saying my God what did they do to us. Lord have mercy. I am a Fante so I understand the exchange.❤❤❤
A Colombian friend told me that the black Colombians in the Palenque.. choco regions speak a language similar to some languages spoken in the Congos 🇨🇬 🇨🇩… maybe you can research on that and do a video too.. the south sea company took more slaves from the Congos and Angola to South America…
as a fanti man from ghana i do understand what he is saying,its emotional to watch😢
One Love African peace and great ❤❤🥰🥰🥰
🇸🇷‼️ Us Alone Bushinenge (maroon) of Suriname. We have many languages 7 & 7 : there seven contemporary Afro-Surinamese and a bit of European Creole languages: Sranan tongo, Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi, Kwiïnti, Aluku and Pamaka. 7 other older ones that some of us also practice are: Amanfu, Kumanti, Akoopina, Loanga, Ampuku, Papa and Anklibenda, ancestral African languages. saamaka, Pamaka, Aluku, Sranan, Okanisi, Matawai, Kiïnti. and the oldest Amanfu, Kumantie, Papa, Loanga, Anklibenda, Akoopina, Ampuku THESE ARE LANGUAGES PRACTICED ALREADY MORE THAN 343 - 500 YEARS OLD. I am extremely proud of what we have, I myself speak 6 of them with other languages from elsewhere like French, English and Créole guyanaise.
So with the rest of the other communities in the country we are unique for a population of around 614,000 inhabitants on a territory covered 90% by the primary Amazonian forest.
It is just so amazing how these men just met and they could understand each other. Indeed language is a spirit that will forever be with us human..
Yes they were speaking Twi language, surprisingly one thing most people didn’t know about Ghana in the late 50’s and the 60s when Ghana was the favorite in the 100 meters race all over the world so am not surprised Jamaicans are now in charge of all the short distances in the field of athletics. And when you see a Jamaican in Ghana there’s no difference we are 100 percent the same looks
I had never heard of Suriname or Curacao until about 10 years ago. Imagine that.
Coming from a mixed background in South Africa 🇿🇦. Having both my African and Asian roots being enslaved by the Dutch and British. This just make me sad and proud at the same time for what they had to endured. Much love guys❤
Wow! There is strength and resilience running through you. Much love!
Hi, today is dag der marons (Day of the marrons). It is a national holiday here in Suriname
Happy belated Day of the Marrons! How is it celebrated?
Hi @@TheDemouchetsREACT thank you. We wear our traditional ( cultural) clothes, eat traditional food and dance to cultural music.The entire country participates in the celebration and watches cultural performances by the various marron groups in the city center.The President makes a speech, and they place flower wreaths at the memorial of the marron groups.
"Work and die". Wow😢. Torturous
That's my homecountry! Nice to see you reacting to this.
This is also solid counterargument for those denying our African roots. There's no way these men were able to understand each other on a base level at the first time, without a prior connection.
💯 I visualize our ancestors when we see things like this.
Good evening am from Ghana but I understand the language they are speaking keep on a light ass as you do everyday
@@anewx that fanti
They are my fanti people, hopefully we shall all meet again in our homeland,
We have still people living a natural live along the riverside
This is so emotional
I've have seen this so many times. But everytime they meet, tears roll over my cheek. And years i wondered what happened to our culture (food, music, clothing, language) with our Afro American brothers and sisters. Nobody had a answer. But recently i found out, that in the South of the US, The Gullah are living!
This reminds me of the the Jamaican Kromanti video watched a few years ago.. Very Interesting
He spoke some Akan. I could understand that!
Man understood the heaviness of it all
This made me so very emotional
this is deep !
Wow..the best thing I've watched today. Beautiful and chilling video. ❤❤❤
Sadly most of us Surinamese still don't know much of our heritage, our family tree starts in rhe late 1800s after the end of slavery, we were never able to figure out where in Africa our ancestors came from, to be honest it's quite painful.
It is painful. Slave records in the U.S. have been released online in the last decade to make it easier for us to view the records. Hopefully the same is done for you all.
Ancestry DNA is also an option. I'm also a Surinamese woman and all i can say that this is a very sad and painfull story; what"s happened with our ancestors. Im very determined to find the truth and where from Africa did our ancestors came from.
I can understand some of words he is saying 😮
Our stories are our stories indeed.
I was hopin you 2 see this vid and maybe find out about the connection between Su/Us-a love the video
The Dutchman hostman the listed following Nation during a survey in 1850 :Sokko,Mandingo,Abo,
Fula,Mende,Tiamba,Loango,Ibo and the Coromantin negroes.🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷💯.
I could hear what he was saying.
🥰🥰🥰🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
Emotional 😢
Great video
They have their own languages, but there is also a language that is just like a language in Ghana and their culture looks African, while we are in South America
How could we even try to calculate the value of generational wealth created in the Americas and elsewhere on the back of black African slaves 😢?
I just came across your video and in the video you talk about but I am from Jamaica in the West Indies and we have lots of maroons, we even have a Maroon Town there. And we told they came from Africa but now I know they came Ghana. All the elders that speak the native language are all dying off, and most of the young people don’t want to speak the language. Because they’re only pushing the agenda for the kids to speak proper English not creole or any other language that is native to the land.
Wow
First here
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That is my country: Suriname
It was the Dutch who did that. If you want to live permanently in the Netherlands ( expats excluded) . You have to learn these things as of apart of being accepted into the society. Learn history with a smile. 😢😂. A process called inburgering. It can be cringy! I would say at least they are honest. I wonder how others who came directly from Africa feel. Especially those who came as a lovepart 😂
Being Dutch myself im probably biased, but it seems a bit too easy to just single out the Netherlands for this behavior, its not like we were the only ones. (Not in any way shape or form trying to justify what my ancestors did either btw!!! just trying to point out the nuance) and the video seems to confirm as much, we are very open about our history and according to official accounts we've had about half a million slaves in all the time my ancestors were douchbaggy f*cks (roughly 200 years) but that means (based on the numbers mentioned in the video) that there's quite a massive gap there??? if not the Netherlands then what country owned and used those other _few dozen million_ slaves?? nobody dares to take the blame for it but the fact remains that the Netherlands was far from the worst, but because we're open and honest about our history now we look like the worst offenders today because everybody else just keeps their mouth shut & alters their history books..
The Dutch subtitles also says quite a lot, you hit the nail on the head with your "at least they are honest", these sort of documentaries are made specifically for the Dutch "government tv" because its important that we all know (including new generations) about this bad sh*t in our history & never to become that again. The fact that Suriname and the Netherlands have really good relations today (to a point where they even somewhat backtracked on their own freedom?!?!) probably means that they don't see us as the worst offenders either.
Again, everybody please understand that im not in any way trying to justify the god awful things by ancestors did, f- those people and what they did, im just trying to make it clear that there's a bigger picture.
In suriname maroon comuinity we speaks seven diffrends langruage which is .SAAMAKA , N'DJUKA , MATAWAI , ALUKU , PAAMAKA , SAAKiKi , KWiNTi so coromanti is not a langrge speak permanently inside thees comuinity but i think a vew of the elders . If you hear a youg man speak it he speak in spirit an after the spirit is gone he never rialice all what was happend😂 or what he had all said now they need someone how will understant the situation what he had said or what to do.and sometime's it comes on story like someone ( elders) hu was murder brutalety durring slavery and he is still worry today am saamaka decents .but suriname today is a multynational country in south america where black indian from india and oure indígenas indian from rithe here in the caribian ,javanees from indonesie and the chinees from difrend part asia and china so it is a verry long story ❤ peace and unity
Aluku aren’t maroons their were chased by other slaves ( sent by the dutch ) and Dutch, they did not have Suriname nationality but French one
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🇸🇷 📽👂🏿👀Freedoms hard-won. Over the centuries we have been able to build, develop a true incomparable community in its own right which continues today, we continue to cultivate this cultural and identity difference proudly affirmed in culture our own languages, traditions, music, cuisines and values... In ethics there are 6 tribes with 6 great supreme customary chiefs. 6 (Gaan Lo) tribes: Pamaka, Aluku or (Boni), Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi or (Djuka), Kwiïnti. The 6 (Gaanman), of the 6 communities (Gaanman Lo) each is made up of its own traditional council: the Gaanman as the main leaders of the community, a certain number of Kabiten as leaders of the different sub-communities (Lo) and a certain number of Basiya as assistants to the Kabiten and Gaanman in each (Lo). And in particular Women can also occupy all these positions we have experienced mistreatment, discrimination, racism all the evil of slavery therefore the woman is in her place as a human woman equal to men. Therefore also in our societal culture we are in a culture structured by the Matrilineal Clan. Consider that each of us is descended from a line of women from Africa called Mamabee
🇸🇷🇸🇷 we Bushinenge (maroon) of Suriname. We have many languages 7 & 7 : there seven contemporary Afro-Surinamese and a bit of european Creole languages: Sranan tongo, Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi, Kwiïnti, Aluku and Pamaka. 7 other older ones that some of us also practice are : Amanfu, Kumanti, Akoopina, Loanga, Ampuku, Papa and Anklibenda, ancestral African languages. THESE ARE LANGUAGES PRACTICED ALREADY MORE THAN 343 - 500 YEARS OLD. I am extremely proud of what we have, I myself speak 7 of them with other languages from elsewhere like French, English and Créole guyanaise.
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I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE OLD MAN IS SAYING
Is not ghana only is the ghana Empire. There they stole and sold the people.