Meet the TikToker using humour to break down stereotypes of Africa • The Observers - France 24
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“It comes from that tree “ 🤣🤣🤣 🔥 🔥 🔥 perfection!
Yeah this one was legendary 😂
My hubby is African (I'm white European).
When we invited my mom to come with us on holiday,she was like "I don't know if I can be patient living in a tent." Emmmm....mom...we live in a city that doesn't differ from yours unless in the colors and tastes.
What struck me as well was that other white people (my own people!) would sometimes even give hateful comments on me:
"She is just with him because her vagina needs it." Seriously?!! You say that about a woman who is happily married for 16 years??
"You only took in him because he was homeless and you felt sorry for him. Once he has stolen all your money, he'll be gone." Well, people, he is earning the money and I'm enjoying being a home mum, so he is spending everything on me, not the way around.
Africans have all welcomed me and accepted me. It was my own people refusing to accept us. Except for my parents, my entire family dropped me. Even my own siblings refuse to talk to me or be in the same surrounding. I am the shame of the family.
I may have lost family, but I also found a new one. Asante sana❤
Hujambo Sister, so sorry to hear your story but its just for us to accept what e can't control and after 16 years I still want to say congratulations on your marriage. Positive vibes and forgiveness and understanding to those that lack it. I love your mom though and the funny tent comment
I wish you the best in your marriage❤ and hope quite soon they come to realize what they have been missing
Huuuh, I know the feeling. When in contact with African friends: my "own" people showed sometimes a strange attitude.
Yes,we are your family now,loving wife of my brother🥰
No one care stop tryna sit with us
I am still laughing because of the boy playing video games and shushing a lion! 😂😂😂😂😂
an that was PS 5 Bro 😅🤣, He got it From MR Bones When he Came back to Wakanda.
This 😂😂😂
She's calling people stupid and ignorant in a nice way and I agree, people are stupid and ignorant
Not all people
I once had a large group of Nigerian students (I am a university professor) in a course I was teaching. They were all very very bright young women, very smart yet diligent and ambitious. They all spoke beautiful English and were ahead in all the inter-university debates that were held. The same with another group of Ghanaian students. It was a pleasure teaching them.
My experience is that African education is way better than western education.
@@monakeulen5622 There's a problem with this statement. "African" education would imply the whole continent of 54 countries, some of them quite diverse from each other, have the same education. Is there such a thing as "Asian eduation" or North American education? You have exceptional people coming from Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries that want to take advantage of the opportunities. Hence, they do well in schools. Some aspects of education are on a high level in some parts of some countries but lacking in others.
I'm finding there's still a tendency for people to think African as something uniform and not diverse, like in other continents. That's something that needs to change.
"Beautiful English"🙄
when someone says 'African education' you know they actually know nothing and adore somehting they assume is better than what they already know. You do realize African countries are not all the same, languages are not all spoken the same throughout that country?@@monakeulen5622
@@monakeulen5622 Thankfully you used the phrase "my experience". Objectively speaking, on average, it's not true. Just look at the numbers of Africans leaving the continent for education purposes. Then look at the numbers of non-Africans coming to Africa for education.
Thank you for standing up for our beautiful continent. I was faced with those questions when I moved out of Africa..it's ignorance of the highest level!!
That's what they tell them over there. They actually think that all africa is a continent filled with bushes and hunters that dodge lions and hunt meat for a living .🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 truely ignorance in the highest
I just love her answers. Never give a straight answer to stupid questions. How stupid they are. I dont understand how someone can generalize the poorest of the poorest of Africans with the whole of africa. Its beyond me how stupid they think. Its called social media
@@oziomaezemenaka1100 They don't know Africa is a continent. They think is a small country.
I lived in Africa
@@oziomaezemenaka1100 but they do it with everything looks and politics and ...
The western media have done MUCH damage in the stereotyping of the African continent.
It is not only the Media! We always blame the media - it is the the people themselves who are simply arrogant and unintelligent!
Yes, they purposely had! I've been to Africa all over the country, and people do have internet places to shop and have roads. I wish some certain "races" stopped judging because of what the United States has said about these countries. That's who has been saying the negative things about Africa!
People need to get out of their comfort zone and quit thinking that we got the best of the best where in America were actually behind on a lot of stuff.
But I actually got quite a bit of some folks saying very disrespectful things. How are you going to talk about a place that you have never been to before but you're going to listen to someone on a corrupted news 2:16.
@@poshlady43 Africa is a CONTINENT... Not a "country".. It is made up of many developing countries.
You are trying to take the moral highground, and yet have displayed your own ignorance and arrogance.
Can you shove your paranoia in your rectum for once? The western media hardly ever speak about Africa because nothing particularly interesting happens there apart an ever growing population and military coups.
The western media has done much damage in stereotyping literally every part of the world except their own! They have created immense hatred towards muslims all around the world. They have created immense disgust and pity about Africans and the continent of Africa all over the world. They have created a very bad image of russians, chinese all around the world as if their people are evil!
I am African. I come from a small village called The Gambia, located in a small town called Senegal, which is located in a country called Africa.
Hilarious! I come from your neighboring village called Kenya 🦓🦒
😂😂😂! You are going to confuse the already confused. ❤ Love From a little town, by a Lake, past the grapevines in the country of California, near the heart of the Pacific North West
@@cynthiaahern9081 Oh! You are 30 minutes walk away from my village.
@jepkemei That's only 5 minutes walk away from my village.
@@cynthiaahern9081😂😂
I legitimately have a coworker who has these crazy ideas of Africa and she is a mom to 4 kids. I was just shocked at how someone as grown as her could be so unintelligent and not know it. I just laugh at it.
I will say your work colleague is ghastly unknowledgeable.
@@adetolaayodele3425 Can you imagine someone telling you that they know better than you about a place where you grew up🤯.
@@leggyReid4c It is utter madness and I hate it when they do that.
I love her channel! As a Black American, I've been trying to convince other Black Americans that what they've heard about Africa isn't true and pointing them to her channel helps break the ignorance they have.
Have seen quite a few Black Americans in the Continent as well on that mission of breaking stereotypes and I am glad to see we are teaching one another all of this. When I lived in Thailand I was shocked that Thai people knew more about my continent and country than most Black Americans did whom I met abroad
They don't know the world started in Africa
humanity* started in Africa but yes
lol that's all they have. the memory of thousands of years ago
@@reinach77Africa actually sits on 30% of world's natural resources. It's blessed by nature.
Trust me. It was those 70 cents a day commercials.
Definitely those
Yess
I am SOOOOO mad at her for saying that Africa is a country with 54 cities, and that their capital city is Wakanda ALL WITH A STRAIGHT face!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a Jamaican, I find it quite nauseating that EVERYTHING CAME FROM AFRICA, yet fools of all kinds question the whole picture and system of Africa. This exceedingly beautiful Nigerian Princess puts things in exactly the same way I would have answered those typical Western fools. Thank you Charity😂😂😂😂
Thank you very much😄😄😄I love the beauty and the beautiful of MY BELOVED AFRICA
Not everything came from Africa.
Unless you live in the stone age, ALL civilization came from Africa. When we were brought over as slaves we brought our inventions with us. The white man has NEVER invented anything. All he does is rob, pillage steal, plunder an DISCOVER THAT WHICH WAS IN PLACE ALREADY and then improve what he has stolen. He then claims it as his own.
The English stole the gold from Kenya and other parts of Africa, likewise the nasty French. They refuse to return what they have stolen and now want to LEND the Kenyans their own artifacts.
EVERYTHING CAME FROM AFRICA, MY FRIEND
@@dhsf5937 humans came from Africa.
We should show them our stereotypes of the West
Hilarious.
People rather distract you with the perceived poverty instead of addressing the blatant EXPLOITATION that has taken place and still takes place on the continent esp in West Africa and Egypt.
Everywhere on the continent.
I used to find these negativity and extreme naiveness of Europeans and the west offensive till i got to realized its actually their media and some powers-that-be are the ones which that push these narratives into them so they never explore how rich Africa is, least their citizens move here.
Exactly. You never truly know anyones country until you live among them there. Goes for anyplace a person has never visited
I dont want them to move there. They tend to overexploit their enviroment till it dies.
Excuses excuses excuses…yes the media peddled what they wanted to create as an image for Africa. Also, a simple google search will show you everything you need to know to debunk the media propaganda.
But choosing to stay ignorant will, and rightfully so, be blamed on the person and not the media.
Yeah, sadly, we have a lot of uneducated people here in the US ... I can't help but want to apologize on behalf of them. 😬 It's Cringey.
It is just willfully ignorance and racism
It's sad they choose to live that way coz we Africans are nice and joyful people
Actually Africa mainstream is not broadcast to the world like that. That is where the misconception is coming from.
My parents brought me to America when I was four from Nigeria. I remember my classmates asking me how I got here, and if it was by a raft? I also got asked if I knew how to ride a lion. Even at that young age my sarcasm and wit were top notch. Ask me a stupid question, you're going to get a sarcastic answer first. Then I'll school you on reality.
And you can imagine in 2017 or so Americans still asked a Nigerian lady who went for her Masters degree in the US how she got there and how she knew to apply to a school in the imagine Chicago US. I am ashamed of the ignorance of the west. Nobody is even asking you to come Nigeria or any Africa nation. But you can research about it about us many of us have not been to any western nations, but we know lot about them we google it ,search u tube , Read books etc
My favorite question when I returned from living in West Central Africa". Did you see any lions and Elephany?" My response was yes, they are located off Fullerton St , In Chicago Zoo.
People ( Americans primarily ) seems to think Lions and Elephants roam all over the continent where in fact they are located in 4-05 nations in Africa and in a limit range.
You don't blame the ignorant, its what we get when we turn to the very wrong source, in this case the media. Rather than going out to investigate things ourselves. Always 2 sides to any book or story! Thank you nwanne m nwanyi for educating the world on all matters Africana 😊
Love it! Keep on doing these videos to get through the thick forest of ignorance on the perceptions of Africa!
Africa is not a country but a continent. The most diverse one too
I love your sarcastic videos, Greetings from East Africa.
I was watching Animaniacs! in a lounge tv at Istanbul old airport next to a family and the dad asked me where am from I told him Sudan and he laughed and said y’all have tv’s in Africa? first timing watching this show! I just smiled and said we used to sometimes listen to it on the radio 1st time seen it and he believed. What made me offended that he was African American 😅 like broooooo! well aleast he knew Sudan is in Africa!
Yeah Sis you be killin’ it! 😀Love your commentary. It’s an outstanding effort to educate the impossibly ignorant 😂😂
Love your vidéos, keep up Bless you .
It’s true that in the US, people don’t have access to clean water because companies and the military would have “leaks” that would go in the water. It happened in my state and in others but they aren’t being mainstreamed into the media. I’m glad that this tiktoker and others are shedding light on these stereotypes.
Great job my sister. Keep educating them
Do people realize you can't just pour water into a package and expect it to stay in there during shipping and it won't do much even if it somehow makes it
I love your videos ❤
The issue is in the west, they teach that Africa is sooo poor and and backwards. They also teach them that Africa needs saving from the west.
I'm an African and once when I was at school my African friend who came over from Nigeria 🇳🇬 not that long ago and a boy came up to her and said when you were in Africa did you have to drink dirty water and we were very offended by that comment and I said who told you that and he said my mum. The sad thing is his mum probably did say that 😔
I'm African. I once got asked by an American in the US how I got to the US. I replied by saying, I simply dove into the Atlantic Ocean and a few days later, VOILA! Here I am in the United States 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Needless to say by the expression on his face, he admired me for doing something he probably thought most Africans did to arrive the United States 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅.
She's brilliant! So talented.
Beautiful!!
France 24 tell them you are part of those misinforming people about AFRICA 😡
Truth!
Break those Stereotypes, Girl!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯
The absolute worst thing my father in law said, he is from the us in the south. Im south AMERICAN, look again its not africa as yall always ask. He said i thought ppl in the caribbean live in sand huts. This is after being married to a Guyanese woman for almost 50 years. If thats not ignorance,i don't know what is.
I think that's sheer stupidity, "ignorance" is giving him too much leeway.
I can’t exactly relate to what they’re going through but I’ve had similar experiences with people from small town 🇺🇸 who have never met a ✡ person before. Of course I’ve also had times traveling the 🌎 where people didn’t know what a ✡ was. I explained in a nutshell “ you know the two bibles, Old and New Testaments. “ Usually I’d get an affirmative response. “ Well now take away the New one that’s Judaism.” “Who was first?” was a common follow up question.
One day i gone visit Nigeria
Sadly I was taught in school I'm a black American that the African people were very very poor they didn't live in houses they lived in Hutts 😅and it was hard to believe I used to hate black history because it was only one page or two pages in the whole history book full of like 250 pages of white history and the first thing they would say we were the black Americans were enslaved and that they made it like you was not a hard slavery that they were taught and treated equally that was very much a lie so I always question the things that were written in these history books that were written by white women the Confederate women and they wrote the history books for the schools so you know where that comes from ignorance is is really deep it really is and I'm so glad to find out the truth and see how beautiful and how wealthy which I always knew it was a lot of wealth in Africa you name it every country is trying to take it from how can you take something from something that doesn't have anything they know where they were doing Africa's rich😊❤
African societies are diverse, there are rural dwellers and city dwellers, schools,airport, stadiums but also villages with no water. There are rich politicians and businessmen as well as peasant farmers and ghetto children. There are posh parts of cities and also horrible crime infested shanties in the same cities.
What happened to using abbreviations and paragraphs? Tried to read your comment in vain 🤔🤭
Next time someone asks if you have water. ask them if they have food. silly question demand silly answers .
Her videos are hilarious
wakanda 4eva🤣🤣🤣
I can just tell your white
Amen
takin that one to the grave
Stupid assumptions wins stupid prizes! Travails of the ignant's abounds🙄! In love with her clapbacks! She is so beautiful and awesome🥰Asé
Hilarious...highly relatable responses to insanely ignorant queries and questions...
Bravo...!!!
🇿🇦🫶🏻🇳🇬
Exactly 😂❤
Africa was the most developed continent for thousands of years, the build most of Spain and portugal(moors), but history always gets changed by political interests
Maybe send that water to Michigan.
Yes
I'm from Iran in West Asia. People in Canada had asked me if I had seen snow before moving to Canada, if we live in tents and ride camels. Their brains almost exploded when I told them that I am Asian because Iran is located in the continent of Asia 😂
Wakanda! 😂 I live in Bucaramanga, Colombia. People always laugh about the name of the city
Yes sista ❤⚘️
In the USA everyone doesn't have clean water and plenty of homeless in EVERY STATE.
Africa is great. I belong there that's why I'm moving my kids back home.
For those who are curious on how they upload their videos, they send it by letter to Unesco or MSF, so they can upload it. You are welcome.
Hakuna Matata
She’s the best.
❤❤❤❤
So that is who😊 the African lady with the jokes on Tick Tock is
In 2022? I'm shocked to know that some people are still thinking this way about Africa. Go do your OWN research and get out of this IGNORANCE in which you love to lock yourself!!
🎉 😊🎉 great 👍 videos 😊
Charity is a star. My friends & family are big fans.
Don't take it personal. It is ignorance.
Yes love you are doing a great job of representing our land it doesn't hurt you are a beautifull black woman too
We ❤ you here in Ethiopia. Africa Unite!
People don't realize that Africa is more modern than South America
Modern in what mean ?
@@matejdrabek6982 in growth and development and gdp
Ha ha Hahaha you are too bad, bad bad girls 😅🤣😆🇯🇲
Tell them ,some of them cant even afford five star hotels in kenya,we occupy them ourselves.
I love how the beautiful lady use the stereotypes to get advantage
I see a lot of these stereotypes against Africa as “Willful Ignorance”, “deliberate hate/racism towards Africa and Africans”, and “outright dull wittedness”. 🤷🏽♀️
She is cute, smart and beautiful at the same time ❤
Sis I understand. It's not that long ago that someone I knew was asked by.... if they had cars in jamaica???😂😂😂😂. The bigger joke is that this person was university educated. I try not to tell this joke when people are eating😂😂😂😂.
In my opinion, we shouldn't have to prove them the contrary, we just have to let them ignorant, so that we can surprise them as china did
These ppl look beautiful
Don't know why ppl see them as ugly
Jealousy
Propaganda and programming.
White supremacy and European beauty standards.
I think the most absurd one is that many think Africa is a country. Come on there are only 7 continents on earth & Africa is the 2nd largest for God’s sake!
She the capital city is Wakanda😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
What is offensive about filling a cardboard box with water and send it to Africa to help the people there? If everybody in California sent a box of water to Africa, wouldn't it help the drought? California does have a drought, so I assume Africa has one too. And BTW I love your educational videos. Especially the pink sky.
That explains a lot😁... c'mon we are blessed😉
Jah rastafari....love and unity.....lion heart man from Jamaica 🇯🇲
You're amazing and beautiful ❤️.
The girl is soooo pritty.
It’s called media. Imagine all the lies told all these years 😑
Awesome content, love such accounts on internet, they’re what makes
It fun.
Ps: Clean water is never a problem in Europe, though. never an issue. Not a single part of it.
"not a single par" really? You have no clue.
EU has water issues ( not as big as Africa issues) . In fact all continents has some issues with clean and plentiful water. Do some study, read a book, or google it.
@@kfelix2934 EU might have water issues, but those. Issues are never about the “access” to the water. This way it that way, it’s accessible.
And which book would you suggest? By Which book do I get informed about the so called water crisis in Europe? Read a book…? Any book will tell me the answer, you think?
@@KinkRanger Google is your firend or reach out to the WHO and unicef if you want to ready water studies.
You earlier statement was not 100% correct by any measuring sticks.
EU has the same issues as us Americans with soil and water cotaiminates from farming and industries. So I laugh when people try to paint EU as some high gold standards. Now they do take water quality issues more strict than us, but they are are not always the gold and platinum standards.
@@kfelix2934
" Do some study, read a book, " --- THAT... is the *biggest problem of current Europe*
@@kfelix2934 What do you mean not as big as Africa issues, you people are the reason why Africa has issues at all
Not in French TV!
Did you say angella summer was your cousin?
Ppl ask the dumbest questions about africa...i have never been there but its just common sense that there r cities n things in africa. Ppl need to stop listenin to african stereotypes....that so damn 1926....ppls leave that mentality back there
Thanks! Simply common sense, you don't need to be a professor or research Africa to know this must be the case if you have any sense.
@@gaia8uranusur welcome ikr...but unfortunately to many ppl have been lead to believe the lies about africa that they dont want to b taken out their comfort zones
😆😄😃😀😂 🎉😂
You live in wakanda??????are you from the lost city of black panther movie?????🤔🤔
Being stupid and or ignorant is no reason the hate someone. We are all stupid and ignorant about something. Satire and humor is the best way to deal with it with out spreading more stupidity and ignorance. I am white South African so I am not as ignorant as those Tik-tokers. During Apartheid it was almost as if we did not live in Africa we were so ignorant about our black brothers and sisters. So when the Tik-tokers are made to look stupid I have a laugh but I do feel a bit stupid as well.
You have the East(Asian countries), you have the west(white countries), and the Middle(black countries)
Thanks for educating the West, they are hopeless 😩
Tbh these are probably trolls.
Africa was NEVER POOR it's just that our rich is foreign to them then they colonised us and took away our riches to enrich themselves. They had the know how which is a damn pity
I think you really can go way harder on those comments.. How oblivious they are about the rest of the world in the US..
That's the point - going harder won't get the message across.
They are totally ignorant
we feel she would be even funnier if she got herself to a point where the ignorance doesn’t bother her at all…
#indigenous ppl can show you how to do that
U got electricity?
Nah, we absolutely do not have electricity. We only have dams, waterfalls, at times electrivillages and electritowns, but electricity? WHAT? Never heard of that.
@@Sir_Zombie1ted ok u in south Africa then rolling power thanks for making it clear :)
@@Sir_Zombie1ted no reply u run out of electric ??
@@AntAnt-mr7lcNAHHHHH
baby you are beautiful!
No we do not have food in Africa, we just eat the air, it doesn't have much but it has enough nutrients to sustain us😅