You don't even get along with your own people yet you're expecting a stranger in a third world country to show you favour just because you're black. Leave that victim mentality at home if you ever plan to travel outside of America, nobody owes you anything in life. I'm a Kenyan born abroad and I get the same treatment but do you know what I do? I deal with it. I've learned that Kikuyus are the most greedy Kenyans so I avoid living among them. I haggle and find spots where I can get a fair price. Sometimes I get fkd over but most times I manage.
Especially when they look different from the original people of this country😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no respect from African americans. Africans don't like you, Jamaicans don't like you, natives like you but they don't know that you people hated us before they got exposed to your people. I endured racism from your people after leaving the reservation so I know your people well when it comes to having nothing.
The Ugandan lady's right about locals increasing the prices when they notice you're different. Happens everywhere. I experienced it in North West Cameroon and almost got into a fight with a taxi driver. Dear African brothers and sisters, please stop being dishonest. Living on cheating people doesn't get you far in life.
It happens to us Africans too ALL THE TIME esp when buying sth the first time and don't know the price. Just make friends with an African when you get here. They'll let you know how they get around it. Or you can just buy online.
@@fritzdeuces true. Besides, I am African, Beninese. I've visited and lived in about four different African countries (Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana) these past six years, and you're right, prices are slightly higher the first times. It gets better as you adjust to the market and your surroundings, but there will always be people who want to take advantage of you because they perceive you as a foreigner. The second part of my message is meant for them, not for the honest, hard-working and loving people.
@@fritzdeuces don't be silly... blk Americans don't do this. Two wrongs doesn't make it acceptable or right. Your not a victim, so u can justify ur victimization of others. Shame 😢
... but dont forget, Many American businesses and people , treat us the same way, overcharging us for everything, because we are Black...one of the reasons you left...And because of differences in the monies , Ill bet there overcharge, was far less than you would pay in America.... Learn and support... Its not the US
As a Caribbean person who has lived in 4 countries, spent a lot of time in other countries (4,5,6 months at a time) spent time in Kenya and Ghana, have several friends and relatives who have travelled in a similar way, I feel that I have some insight as to what the problem is. One person complained of being scammed and I know in many non-American communities the principal issue is haggling, that is to say a vendor will always tell someone who they believe to be foreign a significantly higher price than the local person and generally expect you to get into the haggling game. Most of us who are westernized hate doing that. As a healthcare professional in Boston most of my customers who recently migrated to the US wanted to haggle. I would carefully explain to them that in that situation they will lose simply because I am the one with better knowledge of local prices and since they are out of their element they will lose. I was able to convince most of them to avoid haggling. However when the shoe is on the other foot you must find local people to tell you the price or do the buying for you. Be patient and understand other people's culture, talk extensively to locals about their country.
It's not haggling. It's straight-up greed and disregard for human life when they quote a price, lol. They think you don't know better or that you have more money, which is not always true, so why not price it up. At malls and large shops it's not so bad but at markets it's ridiculous.
I hate to inform you that in America it got worse than that: those who "spoke with forked tongue", made agreements, broke them then killed off the local people who complained (no haggling there)@@ronniemoore8441
@@ronniemoore8441 They are not taking the money out of your pocket. Just lowball them, if they say 5000 say 1000 and act like its even too much for double of you to pay. But its best to at least know if the real price should be 800 so then you can say 200. So that your lowball buy offer is not actually above the general price still
Why would we haggle our third world family. why should we want to deal with that! but we should come with something to offer, while every other race come to America without anything to offer us.
Those of us trying to go back to Africa now are like a child who was kidnapped from their family and returns after 40 years missing. We have this nostalgic memory of your family but the family members who were left behind when you were kidnapped went through their own emotional turmoil and coping mechanisms over the years. Their reaction to your return is influenced by all kinds of factors and the dynamics within the family are not what they used to be. We been gone 400 years. Rebuilding the trust within the family is gonna be tough and take time because of the prolonged separation and the circumstances surrounding our abduction. Everybody is gonna need time to process their emotions, communicate openly, and work towards reconciliation. This is why the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said America is where we suffered, bled, and died. We deserve a piece of it for ourselves so that those of us who wish to stay can stay, and those who wish to return to Africa can leave. We been through some stuff my people.
Don't forget there would have been no abduction if it weren't for your black African Brothers. In fact, the only abduction taking place was by other Africans. Do you think the Europeans landed on the coast & sent out raiding parties? Probably you do, but that's not how it worked. The Africans abducted other more vulnerable Africans. That's when the abduction occurred... when they were captured. They then sent them to the coast where they were held until they were sold. And they were sold to everyone. All citizens of the world. It's just that the America's were being settled, as well as the carribean, and a greater percentage of the slaves were sent west. So there was every nationality buying you guys. You will never admit this I'm sure, but being sent to the colonies was like winning the lottery for the slaves. In many countries in the carribean & central & S. America, plus in the ottoman empire, slaves were castrated, worked to death, or both. They weren't all that interested in growing their own slave population. That guaranteed a horrible existence. That may seem alright, but I guarantee it wasn't if you were a slave in one of those areas. There were upwards of 12,000,000 Africans carried to the America's & Islands, but only 380,000 slaves were destined for the colonies. Yes...380,000 is the number of African slaves that came to the then British colony of America. Doesn't seem right I'm sure based on all the propaganda that has been planted into the heads of black Americans. But those are the facts. If you came to America, the slave owners had a vested interest in keeping you alive & not overly abusing you. Most slaveholders kept families together, allowed their slaves to marry, etc. I'm not trying to whitewash things, simply presenting a side that is never, and I mean never represented in our modern discourse. It's all about the oppressed/oppressor relationship, which is a waste of time as of course they were oppressed. But that's not the story because almost everyone was poor & oppressed. The story is the sagas of overcoming. Of surviving & maintaining your own self dignity. Slavery didn't destroy the dignity of black people. Freedom sure did! I'm not pro slavery or anti black. I am, however, a realist & black people, in spite of Jim Crow & all other forms of racism, did just fine on their own. Between 1940 & 1960, black poverty went from like 70% to under 40% in 20 years... the highest gain of any ethnic group in any time period in our history. The marriage rate was very similar to that of whites, and single mothers were the exception, not the norm. It only took about 10 years of government pampering before all of those trends reversed. It annoyed to tampering, not pampering. Tampering with the formulas that were working for black people. That's why education is so important. And it was because the government took over the role of the man in the house. That is what is sad. That, and the sorry state of our education & the false narratives that circulate within black culture that tends to place all blame, for all things, on white people. Look where it got blacks? It destroyed everything you all had built & you've never fully recovered. And it's sad to think about, but I don't think the trend is going to reverse anytime soon. For as long as the truth is buried in lieu of all the lies, it's impossible almost to move forward. Until the whole picture is presented fairly & equally understood by all, then there's nothing that can be done because nothing worthwhile will occur when one's reality is based on falsehoods.
I was about to comment something similar. love how succinct your comment it tho! I would put language as first and highest priority. Psychologically language is the key to effective communication, connection, assimilation, etc. Americans the world over seem to severely neglect the this aspect - I had a friend living in Germany even, who hated his experience and felt out of touch with the people. I asked if he spoke any bit of the language, he clamped up and expressed resistance to really needing to learn or speak it. Made no sense to me, but to each their own.
Damn that. If I'm gonna get scammed, I'm gonna get scammed right here in America. I don't need to go across the Atlantic to fall victim to con artists.
Exactly, they quadruple prices and everyone say that’s they way it is . On top of that you got people that get scam saying . I feel at home , I’m with my people , we are foreigners here lol . why do people want to connect and be accepted by people that don’t give a daymn about you and will trick you out of everything you got if they could ?
Had a friend from the US who was based in my home country of SA for some time. Her friends were visiting her over Dec 2022 & she asked if we could show them around Cape Town and give them a great experience. It was 2 women and 1 man and 1 of the ladies was incredibly rude and reminding us that she's American and an attorney - she didn't want to even engage with anyone who she deemed beneath her (Not knowing that some of the people we were with were very wealthy and respected academics in the country). It was just such a disappointing experience. So I guess my point is, black American & British people also need to take some responsibility for how they are received in these African countries. Respect is mutual.
they use that "american" attitude everywhere they go.. that is why american tourist.are not liked in many many countries.. those countries we take the money but hate being around those people
Why is it that African Americans expect to be treated special in these situations? Having been stationed in other countries I tried to learn the language and culture.I realized that I would be seen and treated as a foreigner and the locals seemed to respect that.
@tsiysonprincess the Atlantic slave trade was mostly rooted in West Africa and some of the enslaved were either enslavers themselves or belonged to tribes who were complicit in slavery. The isn't that separation of convenience of "us vs them".
Those people living now in Africa did not sell you or your ancestors. They had nothing to do with it. This is 2024. How are the people living in this age responsible for what happened centuries ago.
In 2006 one of My Cousins tried to live & set up a Business in Nigeria. Every time he get with the Locals for business meetings, someone's under the table trying to Pick-Pocket him or when he'd turn his back his briefcase is stolen. Then trying to buy land to build a house on, he got scammed. Got tired of being scammed to pay more just because he's an OTHER. Eventually he left after 1-1/2 years and come back to The Bronx never to return to anywhere in Africa. I told him I don't care where I go I have to be on high-alert like I'm in NYC and treat everyone with skepticism. I know a few other people who went to Africa and got scammed on land deals, Marriages, etc.
But americans are the other. When my grandparents brought me first time to Ghana they tought ne not just how to speak, but what to speak. My mothers family are not "black" or " american" , they are ewe , l can recite the genealogy of both my maternal grandparents till their grandparents. I never hot jumped, stolen from, scamed etc l am family, if something happens to me there will be others asking for justice . Americans come to Ghana and think that just because tgey are from the US and have money they shoukd get a good or better treatment, then the locals. And it just isn't true. Worse part is that americans (of what ever race, this isn't limited to african americans) expect the US treatment outside of US. Don't want to pay gifts to officials, don't want to pay protection (and they aren't local. If an Ewe tries to live in ghana among non Ewe he will be an outsider too, no one cares what citizentship you have) , they don't bargain which insults the other person buying or sellin. I am half Serbian and in Ghana l am considered more african , then the most pan african of pan africans in the US. And then there is cultural stuff americans don't get. the Bantu consider everyone lesser then them , black or not . They have a social hierarchy within the Bantu ethnic groups. The Zulu condider ALL non Zulu not fully human . I have seen a dude praise a Huttu artist at a bar, in a region that was Tuttsi. And then he was suprised his car got damaged, his stuff stolen and he ended up getting beaten. And he didn't say the stuff he said in some ghetto bar, but in a hotel bar after a medical convention. The only people thst heard him were other doctors .
I was born and raised in Africa( Sierra Leone 🇸🇱). I moved to Europe 25yrs ago and now am working on my way out back, but I myself get scammed by my own people just because of I left and came back. It is hard not to get scam when you are from abroad but always be alert and ready to bargain when you are out there and also try to always link up with the locals and most importantly be yourself and try to learn the language.
That was part of the experiences that I got prepared for before coming back home, which is to be weary of everyone, including family membera, because anybody coming from overseas countries is considered a 🚶 🏧. Family members attempted to scam me as well, but I outsmarted each and everyone of them.
Especially because people forget or don’t know Africa is a continent made up of many different countries. It’s not one country with one set of rules. They know we have so many opportunities at our fingertips. They want our money!
It's the same even for an African moving from one country to another country within Africa. Sometimes the diaspora gets a better treatment than an African.
My cousin lived partially in the US and The Gambia. Her issues: unsanitary street markets and poor healthcare system. She loved traveling in Africa and the people. She now lives permanently back in the states.
@@tvs9978 Ask the same Obama and his wife Michelle how they would even be ignored casually by White visitors to the White house . Michelle wrote in her book how White visitors would even go straight to playing with the Obama dogs but completely treat the owners the Obamas as invisible in their own compound . By the way the white house was built by black slaves and should have been left as a monument . Blacks are tolerated in America and subjugated when they go out of line .
The Gambia is one of the poorest countries in Africa, and it’s obvious she went there because how cheap it is to live there, so what did she expect, South Africa or Nairobi Kenya, sorry she wants to save money but expecting luxury
@@shantaalli2865 that is totally false, you can move to Nairobi Kenya, it’s the New York City of Africa, you can live there with a higher standard of living then America, it’s always something to do 7 days a week, a American couple went to the mall and couldn’t believe their eyes, it’s a amusement park at the mall, a huge park in the middle of the mall with a pond and zip liner’s flying over the park, it was restaurants with live music, it’s a huge supermarket so you can make groceries before you leave
KEY TO SURVIVING AFRICA: Do your research, do some more research, visit your country of choice, in the peak and off peak season, Can you survive in the rainy season, the high heat? make connections on the ground, make some more connections, pray for discernment, then visit again and do some more research. Do all this before you even consider moving to that country of choice.
This is probably the wimpiest and most cowardly advice I have ever read 🤭😏 African Americans just need a mindset change and knowledge about Africa and everything will be fine ❤
90% of Africans who move to the US go with one way ticket. To move to Africa, no need for "research". You need positive and "can do" mindset aimining to make it whatever the challenges.
I lived overseas (Turkey) for several years. I did not forget that I was not in the U.S. this helped me to become part of the culture. I learned the language; and fellowshipped with other Americans who had been there awhile. Learning the culture before was key in understanding what living there would be like.
@AfricanTravelerChannel Respectfully, there is a difference in negotiating and scamming. Negotiating denotes FAIR benefit between two parties. Whereas scamming is exploitative, with a singular benefit and advantage that favors the one scamming.
@@TheResidentialTourists you still screaming about being unfairly treated??? Do you imagine that paying inflated prices for everything in the west means it's a fair price or value 😅😂🤣
@@TheResidentialTouristsit happens coz you want to look better and different ....integrate with the people and be part of them ....we also visit the States and find out that some items may be overpriced but we opt to adjust and don't call it scamming
@@AmazingManiait's one thing for items to be priced high. It is another thing for a clerk or cashier to take a look at you or listen to the way you speak and raise the prices of the item/ items.
There are few people on the planet less African than African Americans. Africa ,a continent of 52 countries,2000 languages and variations of ,with as many different cultures religion's and faiths as you couldn't imagine, it's an incredible continent. The association between Africans and African Americans is at best skin deep depending on where you are in Africa.
I don't mind being seen as a foreigner in Africa. I've been a foreigner in two countries filled with people who didn't look like me, and managed fine. I currently live in China, one of the most xenophobic countries out there. I know what it feels like to be perpetually kept out and to not feel like you belong. Despite that I've still learned the languages of the places I've lived, followed the rules and as many social norms as I could to not expose myself to undue mistreatment, and managed to meet decent people. When I go to Africa this year and eventually to live as an expat, I'll do the same: immerse myself in the language(s), adapt and integrate the culture into my daily life, make friends with local people, and make money + be productive for the people around me. Culture can be learned. Language can be learned. A new way of life can be learned. The light at the end of the tunnel is that the process of learning those things will be at least a little better because I'll be doing it among people who look like me and wont instantly shut me down or feel disgust because of how I look. You've got a chance at assimilation in Africa. In some other countries you have no chance. I'll roll the dice in Africa.
Respect for making that big decision but here's a quick heads up; It's Important to decide which African country is the best for you before making the move , keep in mind that all countries globally not only those within the African continent has its own set of challenges. No place is perfect but finding that one African country that aligns with your goals and values is key. Just keep in mind that navigating those challenges will be part of the journey wherever you choose to land.the number one mistake I think Black Americans make is not starting businesses. In my country South Africa we got all these non-black folks setting up shop here, and yeah most of them are mad racist. Can't even support their businesses. Imagine if more Black people were starting their own businesses . Sure, we got differences, but we should at least try to bridge the gap. Lately, I've been seeing this division propaganda online, and we need to rise above I can't really speak for the entire continent, but at least in my country Black Americans aren't viewed as foreigners and are often welcomed with open arms. From what I've observed those visiting get a warm welcoming. We even go the extra mile of giving them African names as a sign of connection and respect. It's a vibe that speaks to the hospitality we share in this corner of Africa. In my country we believe in Ubuntu which means unity - a principle that echoes the spirit of togetherness and respect for one another as Africans.Lately, I've been seeing this division propaganda online, and we need to rise above . Good luck(Sorry if this was a bit long )
@@Sanele1246 I appreciate your response! Your message about South Africa hits home with me. I’ve met quite a few South African people out this way and there has been nothing but love. And true to form, they did bless me with an African name as well 😂. I rock with the South African family. Some good spirited people down there
Do you have any recommendations for how to learn Mandarin Chinese, whether it be at a basic level or more? Was it living there in China that helped it click quicker for you or did you have a tutor?
@@horizonrising3216 I definitely had to hire a tutor. It’s best to have a consistent person to practice with and build your confidence. As for learning mandarin as a beginner, learn the tones and tone pairs. Super important. There are like 20 words that you can learn that have nearly every tone combination in mandarin. Learn the pronunciation differences between English and Mandarin, some starter phrases, and you’re good to go. Hop in, find a tutor and start speaking Mandarin gets a bad wrap for being extremely difficult, but if you start with speaking, tones, and pinyin, you can ease into the Chinese characters later. Plus the language has no conjugation, masculine/feminine, etc. It’s literally a language full of super nuanced vocabulary and particles. And learning the characters will be like learning to recognize someone’s face: you’ll get familiar with how they look over time.
@@HausamanB1 You have the right attitude. Ask yourself, most of these people complaining about being treated like a foreigner, how many of them actually take the time and effort to integrate in the manner you described. I'm not talking about just hanging with local people occasionally. I mean actually taking the time and effort to really learn the language and customs? 99% of these so-called Diasporans never learn the language of their host countries. I know of Black Americans who have lived in Ghana for 30 - 40 years and never learned the language all they can say is a few greetings and thank you. This makes me wonder, how much integration are you really doing as you claim, when you live in a country for many years and cannot even speak a broken version of the language? Also, this whole expectation that ppl have of red carpets being rolled out for them because they are Black Americans who have come to Africa is frankly unrealistic and selfish. If anyone does get a welcome with a drum and a cultural dance group at the airport then they ought to be grateful, but to expect this to be the standard or else you don't feel welcomed is some crazy entitlement issue that Africans cannot and should not accommodate. Any Black American expecting this sort of treatment should ask themselves how Africans are received when they go to the US. Do Black Americans stop their daily lives to come and welcome them at the airport? Do they not treat Africans as foreigners when they live amongst them? Don't African children get bullied when they school with Black Americans?
Actually in kenya if you're black nobody cares .......just stay with a local or few days you will be a local too in less than a month. The problem comes when black Americans/Europeans come and want to isolate themselves to look different. Once you create boundaries between the two cultures you welcome yourself to harsh living. This is common to all cultures btw...always learn to integrate
@onelevel2346, you are already a Nigerian. I know by now you have the citizenship already unless if you didn't want it. Even if you don't have citizenship yet, you are already a Nigerian. Only a Nigerian uses that last slogan "Naija for life"
It's like this for any country you step into for the first time. An example for me is I want to go to Japan and the Netherlands someday. I remember trying to learn the language through audio language books and researching on the web. 2 years ago, I even took Japanese 101 because I was determined to learn, and being black American, I don't want to be portrayed as foolish and dangerous as well as an "ugly American" I take learning another culture extremely seriously because I respect the country and the people.
Been to Africa 3 times four different countries. I had a kenya lady with me. she was my protector against charger higher prices. Even though they tried to charge me more, it was still way cheaper than the USA prices. Its good to form relationships before traveling or even hire someone to travel with you.
The world has been taught capitalism… The peddler is always going to try to get more money if possible…in america, Mexico, Europe, China, Thailand, and other country in the world. This is no reason to speak negatively on anyone from Africa
Imagine thinking that people need to be “taught” to want more money. Capitalism is just what it’s called when people are allowed to buy sell and trade as they choose. The only people who don’t want that are totalitarians who want to control people. Greed isn’t part of a particular economic system. It’s human nature and in a totalitarian system it leads to mass murder, legal confiscations, and mass oppression instead of just the occasional illegal scam artist.
I think it should start with friendships before relationships. A male friend with shared interests will tell you a lot about the do's and don't's of relationships. City girls in Africa can be the same or worse than ladies in the West. They belong to no man. They have seen the inside of hotels that most men can dream of. Remember African politicians the richest human beings you can find anywhere and they splash money on these women you find on the streets.
O Shay, I like the topics you deal with in your podcast. I have been living in the States for over 40 yrs now. Look here as a Nigerian when I come home for vacation or whatever as soon as they find out that I live abroad they feel like I don’t know anything anymore and they feel they can take advantage of me. They first of all in their mentality put me in a different upper class, which to them means I have extra more to spend, and they will do anything legally to get extra more from me or even scam if that is easier way to get a little extra from me. Not because they have anything against me, but because I can afford to give up a little extra to a brother or a sister. So when I listen to my African American brothers and sisters crying that they are not treated as fellow Africans because they are scammed, asked to pay more, and therefore hated or not welcomed I laugh. Tell them we Africans that live in the diaspora are treated the same way. Sometimes I ask my nieces and nephews to do my errands to avoid all that.
I know what you mean. I have have spoken with many friends in the diaspora from different African countries and they all say the same thing that you've just shared. It's sad. But this shouldn't stop anyone from moving to Africa. People just need to do their homework before moving. Blend with everyone else when you get there. Choose the right country. Namibia, Ghana, Kenya, cape verde, São Tomé, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe for for instance are countries that most African American should consider the most.
Although I agree with our beloved sister, she must know that it has nothing to do with her being African American. Am Kenyan myself living in the western hemisphere and every time am home or in any African country, the prices have been hiked. Has happened so many time while i was in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda.. That's how it is unfortunately.
The research part is the most important. I've seen Africans research when moving around the continent as well. There's a lot of people on RUclips that will tell the truth about their country. Also pay attention to the past and present political climate too. Lack of good government can effect its citizens.
For Black America looking for assimilation and acceptance, Economic integration first through entrepreneurship and starting businesses in various sectors including real estate and agribusiness despite the challenges, then socio-cultural integration then geo-political integration .
@@jeremiahsams2848 As long as you are a human to them . several white groups consider Black groups subhuman including in America . Hence the mistreatment even in the legal system . Nothing wrong with being a stranger or a foreigner as long as you are seen as a human . Chinese are perpetual foreigners everywhere but now the second largest economy in the world . And in 10 years the largest . You will be a comfortable and happy foreigner . Even the term foreigner or immigrant have been misused based on colonial constructs . Michael Jordan and Lebron James have to live in predominantly white neighborhoods to feel human with next door neighbors as just white doctors and engineers . Ask CHRIS ROCK . A black billionaire or millionaire comparable to a white engineer or doctor or professional .
@@jeremiahsams2848 If being perceived as a foreigner was terrible the 3 million Indians and the 10 million Chinese in Africa together with the 4.4 Indians in America and 5.4 million Chinese in America would have packed up and gone back to India and China . China 2nd largest economy and India the 5th largest economy worldwide .
I guess it depends on the Country. I went to 🇰🇪 many years ago and the people showed me love that I never experienced in America. Free food, invites to homes for dinner, women wanting me to date their daughters, and so on. I never experienced this type of love in America as a Black American.
I'm glad for you bro, the love that you experienced there, but, as user kh had said, about marrying ones daughter, do some background checking before you comply.
dont take one example and spread it on all black peoples way of life.. I saw one day an African American guy, in the bus, telling an Haitian lady to stand up, so he can get her seat. This is what he said, "we came here first". There were lot of black Americans in the bus and they were furious to hear that. It was ugly to see; in front of white people.
In the fall of 2020 I took my family to Tanzania and it was a lovely experience all around when we got to the airport to get our visas the person working there start speaking to us in Swahili then we told him we were from America and he said welcome home and that was a lovely experience and then we had an Uber driver who was helping us the whole time we were in Tanzania and he made sure that we were getting good prices at the markets for buying food. He helped us get a hotel for a good price he also did not haggle us or overpriced us for his Services all day. We were there for 3 weeks. I think the locals treat families different than individuals.
It’s interesting that people who put their race (not culture or religion or country) as primary identity are shocked to find that the world doesn’t think that way.
@@Allious131 happens everywhere that gets modernized or grows in popularity. My family's from the Caribbean. When I was a kid people slept with doors unlocked. And everyone knew each other like a big family. As the city grew crime grew. This is the nature of things, just like Alibaba and the 40 thieves.
1) Afrikan diaspora deal with the same issues as well. We take locals with us, or we tell them the price that the locals say they pay for an item, and that is the price we want to pay. Usually they give you the locals price because they need business. 2) Most items in Afrika are negotiable, not set on stone price. 3) Merchants believe diaspora has money, therefore they should pay a little more. 4) Even in the USA when we go to the Middle Eastern shops we negotiate prices, today. 5) There you have it, culture clash or misunderstanding. 6) The brother is right. Do something with the locals: after school tutoring, sports, art, English & dance classes etc., 3 days a week, sometimes. Only by interacting with the locals in a regular bases you will understand and learn the curlicue.
The price issue has always been there, I live near a market in Nigeria and depending the prices I get fo goods at the market are almost always dependant on how I dress, trust me, if I dress looking good my prices are higher, they gauge you up to set a customized price, it's crazy, bargaining and negotiating prices is normal and am Nigerian. So you just need to know the country, it's not a racism situation trust me😂, Sorry our brothers across the sea are having these problems.
No your biggest problem is that you come here thinking that you're special or superior to locals. We love you guys but if you come here thinking that people will treat you like a king or queen, forget!!. They've been lying to you that you're kings and queens through movies and guess what you'll be shocked once you're here. We work hard in Africa in order to survive unlike you who have it all. If you want to come to Africa, know that it's not gonna be easy. White men built you hospitals, speedway/highway and infrastructure and because you consume them you think they belong to you. Come here and build Africa with us, then you'll appreciate it. You can't come here looking for a finished product, that's why they scam you.
The issue is not about being accepted. Africans accept everyone as long as you have something to offer. Bare in mind majority in Africa are on survival mode. They’re not interested in your emotional void that you’re trying to reconcile. They look to you for leadership and ideas how you all can survive together.
I find it amazing that, those who intend to live in Africa but want to have an American experience don't work it for the long haul. Move there, have children, then gradchildren. All the while, have the children and grandchildren get into politics and change the country to what the first generation want.
If you get frustrated easily, then don't move to Africa. You can just go and visit!. I'm Gambian living in the US but I go to visit every year. I'm planning to move back eventually in a few years when my house is done building. Africa is a hard place to live in. Gotta be ready mentally and financially!
Best advice ever. Living in Uganda and then Kenya for a few years was enough for me. I learned real quick that Africans don't consider African Americans family. In East Africa, white people get more love, big disappointment for me.
@@RRoss5035 Does the majority of Black Americans consider Africans as family, without getting to known the individual African; stop generalizing . It is more likely that an African will accept a Black American as family in Africa than a Black American accept an African as family in the U.S
@coz2j69 true. In fact they have an issue with Africans going to the U.S. They call them aliens. But when they come to Africa, they expect to be welcomed and fully embraced. That's double standards for me.
@journey2africabeyondmore664 Moving to Africa is a marathon, not a sprint, My wife is AA. I have land, and she also has land, and even her mom has land. In May, we are planning on flying to France and driving from France to Gambia. Moving to Africa is a process, and you have to take your time and enjoy it. No rush!
I was in Tanzania last month. I have bring alot of friends from Europe there, they all have been enjoying it and have been traveling back with there girlfriend or family. What people need to understand when it comes about Tanzania. If you want to enjoy and get well treated and have a very good time. Always have another Tanzania person who negotiate for you all the prices etc. If you have some local guys with you no one will try to trick you with price etc. These people who complain about Tanzania that they got bad treatment im very sure, they did not greet the locals nor did they not try to fit in either. I have seen to many people who treat the locals like they are better then them. When they do not get receivement as they taught they get angry. Tanzania people are very friendly and always looking for have good time. Depends what kind of energy you give aswell.
I certainly agree with this that! I found my experience to be extremely different in Tanzania. I think the people I meet are great! It takes time like anywhere else to adjust to a culture but I know AA who live there and are very happy! So we can’t generalize based on our own experiences! But I can smell a rat so I don’t deal with the rat! But rats are everywhere! Any country that you go to people will try to scam you just because they understand that you are not from there! You must be alert every place you visit!
@@latanyamcpherson9948 Yes im suprised they even mention that, its the same rest of the world people will always try to scam. Im sure you get great experience because you also gave them happiness and greet them well and were respectful. When i have seen people who do not like Tanzania usually act like a diva anyways aspect the local should treat them like a celebrity because they come from west lol
It's interesting because as a chicano (Mexican American) you learn this lesson especially if you don't know spainish very early. I suppose African Americans never really get to experience this being so physically far from the motherland. For us it's embedded in our culture. We use words like pocho, güero, paisa, etc to differentiate each other. Non spainish speakers are looked at with a side eye and in Mexico they will take advantage of that. It's interesting to hear your experience as someone who went all in and moved there. Something most chicanos would probably never do. Much love brother 🙏 💙
@paul4cager0 First off, I'm not spainish werido I'm Chicano. Second, you dont run nothing here. Third, I was drawing a comparison between our experiences as people. But it's obvious your public school education has failed you in reading comprehension. Last, it's still much respect to the brother who made this video because im sure he doesn't share your ignorant views.
@paul4cager0 First off, I'm chicano, not spainish, you J cat. Second, you don't run anything here. Third I was drawing a comparison to our experience as people. It's obvious that your public school education failed you in reading comprehension. Last, much respect to the brother who made this video, I'm sure he doesn't share your ignorant views
@@The-Heart-Will-Testifywe aren’t african Americans that’s a white liberal term, second those are Latinos we not the same as them, ask them what they are they will say Mexican they aren’t gonna say they are black,
The overcharging is global. I remember in Korea a local that was with up would pay a fraction of the price for food and could get far better prices in shops than we could ever hope for.
I visited SA last year. Starting in the airport in Johannesburg I was received warm welcomes…. People asking if I was from America and asking if I would consider coming back home❤
Of course they ask you that. Africa is recruiting AA to come to Africa to build up their country, telling them to come home to place they know nothing of. While Africans are fleeing Africa. I have an African coworker from Ghana who paid over 200.000 to go to the states.
Wights people and Asian you can see them in Tanzania 🇹🇿 Rwanda 🇷🇼 Burundi 🇧🇮 Uganda 🇺🇬 Kenya 🇰🇪 and you find them are with African are Friends you Black America Everywhere You Complain.!!!
The whites are doing business, and i hope they doing it fair, the most don´t try to be part, just to get along well with the people. I would like to visit africa, but i am to scared, because i am white and i don´t think, that white people are to much liked.
This needed to be said. We African Americans that want to go, need more of a community and presence. When you try to do everything yourself, you just fail.
If you were African, you wouldn’t have to leave the continent. You’d know where what countries your people come from and likely would have dual citizenship.
Realistically, it would never work. Too many cultural, tribal, religious (the list goes on and on), differences and to be honest that's okay, but the pride and stubbornness it's supported by cannot be broken. Maybe regionally, it is possible so like; Southern African regions, Eastern African and Western African regions can form some version, but all together? Nope. At least not in my lifetime.
That shouldn't be the end of the story. OK .. they went off half cocked... half these people in their 30s and 40s have never seen a UNICEF ad on tv and have no idea of the total poverty in Africa OR a sense of how MUCH they have in America. How much their people had a part in BUILDING 150 years ago but how little of it they OWN or can access. I hope these people are only temporarily chastened and truly humbled by their experience but now see what they REALLY need to bring to the table. They should be coming back HOME to America and staking out areas where we can implement what they DREAMED of doing in Africa IN AMERICA... then use these areas in America as the jumping off point TO africa! As long as they are American citizens they will have to pay American taxes! Why not set up some zones in some of these underregulated states in the USA where you can claim some land... develop farms and build skills and use that as your entry point to and from Africa. It was a foolish dream to think you could parachute into Africa and look for the nearest TARGET to supply yourself... YOU are going to be the "WalMart" & "Target" on this trip and if you're as bad off as MOST of us are here in America... you're going to have to orient yourself to the REAL WORLD economically. Those returnees should NOT be back heads hung in shame... instead they should be eager to take on the REAL first step of their life's goals and mission!
I had an excellent welcome in Ethiopia and Sudan. They were very welcoming and talking about brotherhood so... different countries, different response i guess
Did you live in those countries? Have to do the paperwork to become a citizen? Buy a house? Send your kids to school? Get a drivers license? The experience of a tourist is not the same as moving to a country and trying to build a life .
Wow very good info! I always thought about visiting myself. and expected a warm welcome. The feeling of welcome is what I hear a lot of people talk about the most.
thats only at the airport or any tourist trap spot where the inflated prices are already posted beforehand. But the people on the street level will scam you left and right.
Am Ugandan born just returned from Uk after 30yrs...guess what i literally get scammed by people i help and even some relatives...but to me its weighing up the freedom i feel here as opposed to the UK.
Why is she in Tanzania? That’s the worst African country to go too, it’s her own fault not to do her homework before going to Africa, Tanzania is 30 to 40 years behind Kenya and South Africa
@@Kholmi.28 sorry but it is correct, they give black Americans a hard time at immigration, every time we buy something they jack up the prices, every time they here our voice they think we have money, even emigration is looking for money, the police are looking for money so I feel like Tanzania needs more time to grow before it a good place for black Americans
@@jarodwilson4946 okay to say that SA is 30/40 years ahead? That's a wild statement. In any informal trading situation you'll experience the same here with hiked prices. Even as a South African that "sounds" educated, you'll be priced unfairly. And bribery is more than a norm with officials here too. I wouldn't be so quick to denounce TZ over SA (coming from an actual South African). 😉
your home is America. they made you think all black poeple came here on slave ships....dont fall for that bullshit! black people were already here!!!!!!!!! Read True history!!!!! Europeans travelled the world and found that we were already there when they got there: wherevere they travelled to around the world‼️
I left Haiti for 20 years, when I went back I was in shock. I also get scammed because back home people think that everyone who comes from USA is rich. You got to prepare your mind for it. Once you wrap your mind around it, then you get to enjoy a different culture .
I lived in Africa for several years, it's just so complex the dynamics of an AA in Africa. But, I think you covered this well. I think the only way to be successful is to accept our foreign status. However, we need to find other ways to connect with and identify with the people of Africa. We do need more connection and camaraderie but unfortunately, we don't have a unified or unifying culture. We don't agree on what is acceptable as far as diet, morals, religion, etc. This makes it difficult for us to get along. I don't think it has to be this way though. However, we need to be more intentional about breaking down barriers between people of different backgrounds and learn to respect each other despite differences. Still, work towards common goals despite differences. If we can get over the judgment and hatred between groups, we'll be alright.
The key is respect for one another's opinion, tradition and culture. For example, in some parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, it's well within cultural norm to mary your cousin. It was a shock to learn about this because I never had of such and I'm sure most people in the west and Africa haven't either. So if we find ourselves in Saudi Arabia, it'll be unwise to attempt to disqualify their tradition. After all, who's to say that it's wrong for the Chinese to eat dogs, while it's right for the rest of the world to eat chicken and beef. Don't all animals equally value their lives, feel the pain from a sword and shed blood as well?
There in lies the problem. In America, yall practice skin color but in Africa it's your kind folk. Has nothing to do with your color. In Africa its about culture, beliefs, morals, religion, gods etc. If you don't fall into one of these with any people, then you don't belong. I don't understand why anyone would think that in Africa it would be perfect to where cos you black that makes you a part of it?? Listen, haven't you heard of tribes who have been fighting and killing each other since 1900? You don't think they both black? Tribes don't when marry each other and have not done so in hundreds of years. 😅😅😅😂😂. Good luck. Dey play.
@@daphneytennard3267no matter what part of the world are you from you are the first creation there are ways to relate I have Ethiopian friends Kenya friends and I love all the food so don't judge all black Americans a lot of us know the truth a lot of us well aware
I traveled to different continents. Europe, Asia etc it don't matter prices will be different for foreigners. I have found knowing people from the place you want to visit help alot. Respect has taken me a long way. W e are disillusioned when it comes to going to Africa. People want to eat and get paid. Plan plan plan. Respect and UNDERSTAND the culture and people. Do your research. It can be a beautiful experience but it's on us too understand how
Sounds like the reason they don't have the prices of their goods marked on signs is so that they can raise the price whenever they want to.🤔 This spirit of cheating AAs isn't just happening in Africa...African hair braiders, furniture salesmen, a food server, a car salesman and an old coworker have all tried to get over on me here in the US, but not one of their little con games have ever worked. Love how their swindling ways have kept my money in my pocket and out of theirs while I mockingly laughed in their faces and walked away. Apparently, some of them haven't learned that honesty is the best policy.
Sad that theft is a way of life. No wonder the continent hasn't advanced more than it should over the centuries. Maybe that's why, the colonizers come over there and pick THEM clean.
Hey my brother. Just happened to come across your channel and enjoyed the video. I am an African American who comes to Uganda often (2x per year). When I’m there I don’t visit any other people, just mainly stay to myself. Would love to connect if you’re open to it. I plan to retire there in 5-7 years.
Nice interesting video that also kind of seems to explain in part why many people who come to America from other places also seem to clump together more often than trying to mix in or assimilate.
Poor planning results in a horrible outcome. Before I moved to the Dominican Republic, I visited several times. I figured out where I would get housing, food, access to banking, gym and the cost of other essentials. People kill me moving to places and complaining about common practice of those Countries, no one is changing for you. I don't expect to be accepted, I will forever be a foreigner! As a foreigner, everyone assumes that you have money or you would not be there; therefore, you have to protect your money, no differently than you would in the US or where every you came from. Don't think you are that smart, before you buy a property, start the Visa Process, XYZ, talk to a local foreigner and ask them questions. Talk to many of them and get as much information as you can. I would not move anywhere, where I have to negotiate a price for anything. I'm use to a grocery store, I don't want to shop at a outdoor market, hundreds of booth where there would be a different price for me. I would not move to a underdeveloped area, where people are poor and build a $200,000+ home. They will hate you and just that they are watching, they know when you leave and when you return. If you ever go on vacation, when you return, they house might be empty.
@@neviamuktar I love my life, but I’m a boring, home body type person. I focus on my health and fitness, I don’t hang out and require friends and shit. There are some culture differences, but there is no one here just plotting against me, trying to make my life difficult. You have to be careful and watch your coins, as you would any other place. The majority of the crime here is amongst and between locals.
@chillintheDR well that's great that you enjoy you life and it's alot of us so call boring type lol that's not about about party night life etc ... may God bless you and give you all the desires of your heart brotha 🙏🏾
Thanks Kenganda for trying to clear this matter up. We need a way for the continent and diaspora to network and exchange culture and become more unified at a ground level. We need a movement to be implemented to end the dissension between us. We’re not accepted anywhere. We should at least be able to go home.
Another great vlog today my humble opinion is countries like Ghana and Senegal and South Africa is a better fit for those who need a more solid base to deal with the transition make be much smoother 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Ghana is very underdeveloped and technologically they are way behind and Senegal there is language barrier since they speak French. South Africa and Kenya has been mentioned numerous times as preferred countries for experts to quickly adjust and transition due to modern infrastructure and technology. My experience in Ghana was unbearable but after moving to kenya everything has been smooth
@@njonjokibera9587there is nothing like a perfect country so that is a lie. South Africa has a lot of issues with electricity and xenophobia so perfect is far fetched
@@Cowboys1998 I didn’t say South Africa is perfect. I said that South Africa would a good country for black Americans to live and set up businesses there. Also it doesn’t have to be SA. It can be Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc. South Africa isn’t unique without it’s problems whether is high youth unemployment electricity crisis, crime rates but South Africa is majority black.
I’ve been to Ghana 🇬🇭 numerous times and is one of my favorite places to go! I have friends there and it’s always a warm welcome even from strangers. I believe it really just depends on which country you go to.
I have said this in many platform before, and I will say again. Sometimes what they call extortion is not really extortion. It is just because our African American brothers and sisters are not used to the culture of bargaining for prices. Bargaining for prices is a common practice in many countries around the world. Come to Asia price bargaining is practice everywhere.
Right!!! I'm black from UK, Nigerian parents. I have been charged higher in Nigeria, Morocco, India, South Korea, China basically anywhere there is an opportunity to get money out of you
This is the same in Ghana. If you don't bargain you insult the other person. It is like saying " you are giving me a too good deal, so good you are either scaming yourself or gou are stupid" .
Say it loud enough so everyone can hear you. They think a red carpet and rose petals are supposed to be laid out for them. Having street smarts is essential.
My step father was Nigerian his view of Americans as a whole was we are mostly lazy and spoiled. He particularly hated black Americans attitude because some insist on the African American title. He would always say, they aren't African. You have to be hardened to be African.
So my best friend did her DNA then later moved to Nigeria.two years later moved back. Thing that pissed me off..she was less than half sub Saharan African,but it NEVER occurred to her to move to Europe, which was her majority. Not once. Never. Totally dismissed her majority donation. And her home...scammed , cheated and treated her like shit.
Every single country nowadays are like this, you will need at least $100k for to re-locate, maybe go back to school, find a property, buy it, adapt and on top of that may take you 3 to 5 yrs to really starts to settled and this costs money..
Being able to adapt is very important. Respect brings honor and honor brings value. It's a lot of people who fail to realize that. I refer to them as narcissists, idiots and heathens. In my line of work I have met all kinds in person or had some form of indirect contact with them. I've met all kinds of people from all over the world. Good, bad foreign and domestic. Young, old, male and female. So I'm very confident to be able to travel overseas and adapt. Some people can't even drive on good dry flat roads because they are so detrimental in their mindset. Them are the people who are the main ones who can't adapt even in popular cities in their own country let alone other countries. This is a great video and I felt compelled to comment.
@journeywithme80 I've been Nationwide and two other countries several times in all kinds of weather. So what's it to you coming from someone who is clueless as yourself. I watch people like you put their feet in their mouths plenty of times. I don't feel bad about correcting the out of order and clueless.
Hello Big Ken, Great job being done here. Very reasonable and realistic presentation. As an African in diaspora and visited many countries. I find your points as factual and promising. Thorough preparation is needed in any such move, as well as, being openminded and patience. Your thoughts are applauded and very sensible. We all need good preparation to move to another country, notwithstanding. Keep up your good job, bro. Best Regards.
Great Video Mate. Appreciate the simple logical breakdown! As a Caribbean person, its an idea we need to thoroughly evaluate and accomplish to move back to the Motherland. Keep doing your content.
Living in Kenya has sadly made me more distrusting and concerned about scams after being scammed once and then constantly being hit up for money. Don't think I'll stay on the continent. If I'm going to be a perpetual foreigner, there's other places where that is more comfortable, even for Black men.
Learn the language and remember even Kenyans who stays in cities whenever they go back to rural areas people tend to overcharge them and it's an African thing to bargain so we simply over price before coming down
Good pointers. I think a lot of people go with 'expectations' and get disappointed by their expectations and, by lack of proper research and lack of ability and willingness, at times, to adapt to the new environment.
We need to be re-educated and be should be a cultural community BEFORE we go. This video right here is one of the reasons why I established a cultural community so we more accepted than be treated like a black European.
Having visited Africa/Kenya once. I've also visited 47 countries total. I'm a black American who has also lived in Australia, Thailand and Brazil. Africa/Kenya is not a place I'd ever consider moving to. Our jealous cousins are too backwards and unwilling to grow for me to tolerate them long-term. It seems trying to thrive in Africa is very similar to trying to thrive in a low vibration U.S ghetto. Resistance, ignorance, a lack of other creative minds and dysfunction are large barriers to success. Can't sugarcoat the obvious.
My first experience with Africans was in 1986 at my HBCU in Nashville Tennessee (TSU). The Africans were condescending and disrespectful towards the African American students… they imagined themselves to be superior to black Americans because, as one person said … African Americans were “a people without a country” reading these present day accounts tells me that the passage of time has changed nothing. As the saying goes…”all skin folk ain’t kin folk” We, African Americans, are not them, and They are not us. It is what it is…
I think your perspective is mighty mighty REAL! Discussions like what you're saying should be the FIRST step before anyone starts talking about the year of return. We haven't yet successfully returned from YOUNGSTOWN or from the local McDonald's . Our people are in trouble.. but HERE IN AMERICA we can organize ourselves get the skills and join in the global destiny of Africa. We are divided from each other but there is hard work we need to do to reach back toward each other and we have to admit that we weren't where we needed to be 400 years ago and it has not gotten ANY better since then but we have to be honest that there IS a big future on the African continent and it can be a dystopian one for Africans around the world or it can be a hopeful growing situation for us! Either way requires half a century of striving like we've never strived before.
Portuguese man living in the US and I can tell you Black Americans and Continental Africans are culturally different. Black Americans aren't from Africa but indigenous to the U.S. I respect Africa but I recommend Black Americans connect to your culture here in the U.S you have a lot to be proud of
You are absolutely right. I just thought about it. Slaves weren't cheap. A strong or skillful slave would be cost as much as a nice car. Lol! I'm 5 ft nothing, got whole bunch of health issues. No one would pay that kind of money for me if my life depended on it! Only the strongest, well fit with good genetics were worthy of being traded. The same happened with majority of the settlers in North America. Only the strongest and bravest would cross the ocean and adapt to new world. So sit you behind down, appreciate your ancestry and sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ for the blessings you've got in life. 😊 ❤️✝️❤️
Tru we aren't African more like Hebrew don't forget to mention black nobility in Europe like Portugal and Spain we were being sold as well not just out of west Africa
These are weird complaints to me... Scamming... They do the same thing in NY - EVERYONE tries to get their hustle on! This is nothing new! That's a part of commerce! Get over it! The second weird complaint - "Oh, I didn't get a warm welcome". Dude! Who the h*ll are you?! You're not special! Just visit a new country and seek a way to live in peace. These "delusional ideas of grandeur" are ridiculous and I'm disappointed that a man would even say such a thing. Its best you know of someone that lives in the country first, and you visit them, instead of venturing off on your own. Common sense people. I'm thinking valid reasons would be said like, "Oh, they like to target Black Americans and kidnap, kill and steal" - that's one thing. But to complain about everyone trying to get their hustle on in countries that are just as suppressed as Americans are is ridiculous to even present.
Dear Brother, I am so glad I found your site. I've been watching your channel for a few weeks. After today's stream, I wanted to share some of my observations, as an African American with a few African friends (mainly from Kenya, Congo, Ethiopia, and Cameroon). In my 61 years on this planet, I hate the lack of historical information we receive about ANY parts of Africa. As a result, few AAs have much passion for African countries and their various cultures (sad). I have long felt Black Africans receive the LEAST favorable reception from Americans who look like them (really sad). I hope more AA directors will begin producing movies that will excite Americans (especially Black Americans) to crave more from Africa and its inhabitants. I suspect AAs visiting Africa expect grand receptions from people we don't get excited about. It's time for each of us to roll up our sleeves to research and extend welcoming hands to our brothers and sisters from ancestral mothers. Thank you again for your bridge to knowledge and understanding 🙂!!!
@@tvs9978 No just my observation of mine. The people in diaspora is sometimes treated worst FOR NO REASON. I think all of my people NEED COUNSELING BADLY. The self hatred was deeply ingrained in psyches
Cause white people's money is the native language of the Earth. It's not right but it's what is. To get equity we are going to have to build it ourselves.
@@msrenee7023 .. and it's really incumbent on black americans to know their place in this situation. We see ourselves as the people forced from the land 400 years ago when really there is no continuity to our presence. We were disappeared and from then on our lives and enslavement was in America. So if we're reaching back to Africa and coming from a place of pure ignorance about what happened THERE in 400 years then that is on US. Too many young people or blacks approaching the BRUTALITY suffered by this continent with a weepy sentimental "magical" view of RETURN instead of looking at it as the NEW STEPS that the African diaspora are taking TODAY all over the world. As Americans we should be bringing knowledge.. both technical & organizational.. a sense of individualist freedom... an openness to learning and experiencing Africans anew and from a totally flexible perspective. WE should be learning, listening, embracing, and GIVING to Africa. And to the extent that we DON'T have money.. DON'T have education.. DON'T have skills and acumen in how the 21st century society runs.. that is OUR problem. The Africans have EVERY RIGHT to say "this is our land.. ALWAYS been our home.. these are OUR WAYS.. but if you're coming here then you SHOULD bring the modern blessings of the west.. you SHOULD have your act together... you SHOULD know more about us than we would know about you.. YOU'VE had free access to information.. when WE AFRICANS have visited and done business in America YOU could have been there to greet us and meet us.. and YOU should have been taking your incomes, revenues, retirements and earnings and INVESTING in us before the Europeans did. THAT would have shown familial legacy that you have here in Africa.... NOT coming to Ghana and collapsing in tears about the leaving of your ancestors 400 years ago when you brought sweet potatoes and rice from Africa to America.. but you bring not so frequent education in mining, engineering, business, architecture, education, organizational knowledge!!! Shame on YOU!" There is no excuse for secondary education among black Americans to be less widespread and deep versus Africans who make a point of traveling the world and locking down degrees and education!
I have closely worked with people from three African countries while on contract in the Middle East. They tended to hold US Black people in very low regard. "Entitled" and "trouble makers" were the two most frequently stated reasons for their distain. Seems "I'm here in Africa to show you all how it's done." isn't an attitude conducive to building good relationships.
Moved to Ethiopia 8 years ago. Wonderful place. wonderful people, wonderful culture. Much depends on the individual who moves to a country in Africa as to what their experience is.
"Just because people look like you, doesn't mean that they have your best interest in mind." Anton Daniels
You don't even get along with your own people yet you're expecting a stranger in a third world country to show you favour just because you're black. Leave that victim mentality at home if you ever plan to travel outside of America, nobody owes you anything in life. I'm a Kenyan born abroad and I get the same treatment but do you know what I do? I deal with it. I've learned that Kikuyus are the most greedy Kenyans so I avoid living among them. I haggle and find spots where I can get a fair price. Sometimes I get fkd over but most times I manage.
Africans are natural thvs, you just have to know how to deal with them.
Especially when they look different from the original people of this country😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no respect from African americans. Africans don't like you, Jamaicans don't like you, natives like you but they don't know that you people hated us before they got exposed to your people. I endured racism from your people after leaving the reservation so I know your people well when it comes to having nothing.
Wake up dude no one has your best interest in mind except maybe your parents 😂😂😂
@@kaybi49shut up dude the message is within a certain context 😂😂😂🙄
The Ugandan lady's right about locals increasing the prices when they notice you're different. Happens everywhere. I experienced it in North West Cameroon and almost got into a fight with a taxi driver. Dear African brothers and sisters, please stop being dishonest. Living on cheating people doesn't get you far in life.
It happens to us Africans too ALL THE TIME esp when buying sth the first time and don't know the price. Just make friends with an African when you get here. They'll let you know how they get around it. Or you can just buy online.
@@fritzdeuces true. Besides, I am African, Beninese. I've visited and lived in about four different African countries (Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana) these past six years, and you're right, prices are slightly higher the first times. It gets better as you adjust to the market and your surroundings, but there will always be people who want to take advantage of you because they perceive you as a foreigner. The second part of my message is meant for them, not for the honest, hard-working and loving people.
@@fritzdeuces don't be silly... blk Americans don't do this. Two wrongs doesn't make it acceptable or right. Your not a victim, so u can justify ur victimization of others. Shame 😢
... but dont forget, Many American businesses and people , treat us the same way, overcharging us for everything, because we are Black...one of the reasons you left...And because of differences in the monies , Ill bet there overcharge, was far less than you would pay in America.... Learn and support... Its not the US
Doing this has gotten them thus far 🤷🏽♀️
Reality never lives up to expectations.
As a Caribbean person who has lived in 4 countries, spent a lot of time in other countries (4,5,6 months at a time) spent time in Kenya and Ghana, have several friends and relatives who have travelled in a similar way, I feel that I have some insight as to what the problem is. One person complained of being scammed and I know in many non-American communities the principal issue is haggling, that is to say a vendor will always tell someone who they believe to be foreign a significantly higher price than the local person and generally expect you to get into the haggling game. Most of us who are westernized hate doing that. As a healthcare professional in Boston most of my customers who recently migrated to the US wanted to haggle. I would carefully explain to them that in that situation they will lose simply because I am the one with better knowledge of local prices and since they are out of their element they will lose. I was able to convince most of them to avoid haggling. However when the shoe is on the other foot you must find local people to tell you the price or do the buying for you.
Be patient and understand other people's culture, talk extensively to locals about their country.
I sell cars , I’m comfortable haggling with the hagglers
It's not haggling. It's straight-up greed and disregard for human life when they quote a price, lol. They think you don't know better or that you have more money, which is not always true, so why not price it up. At malls and large shops it's not so bad but at markets it's ridiculous.
I hate to inform you that in America it got worse than that: those who "spoke with forked tongue", made agreements, broke them then killed off the local people who complained (no haggling there)@@ronniemoore8441
@@ronniemoore8441 They are not taking the money out of your pocket. Just lowball them, if they say 5000 say 1000 and act like its even too much for double of you to pay. But its best to at least know if the real price should be 800 so then you can say 200. So that your lowball buy offer is not actually above the general price still
Why would we haggle our third world family. why should we want to deal with that! but we should come with something to offer, while every other race come to America without anything to offer us.
Those of us trying to go back to Africa now are like a child who was kidnapped from their family and returns after 40 years missing. We have this nostalgic memory of your family but the family members who were left behind when you were kidnapped went through their own emotional turmoil and coping mechanisms over the years. Their reaction to your return is influenced by all kinds of factors and the dynamics within the family are not what they used to be. We been gone 400 years. Rebuilding the trust within the family is gonna be tough and take time because of the prolonged separation and the circumstances surrounding our abduction. Everybody is gonna need time to process their emotions, communicate openly, and work towards reconciliation. This is why the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said America is where we suffered, bled, and died. We deserve a piece of it for ourselves so that those of us who wish to stay can stay, and those who wish to return to Africa can leave. We been through some stuff my people.
Don't forget there would have been no abduction if it weren't for your black African Brothers. In fact, the only abduction taking place was by other Africans. Do you think the Europeans landed on the coast & sent out raiding parties? Probably you do, but that's not how it worked. The Africans abducted other more vulnerable Africans. That's when the abduction occurred... when they were captured. They then sent them to the coast where they were held until they were sold. And they were sold to everyone. All citizens of the world. It's just that the America's were being settled, as well as the carribean, and a greater percentage of the slaves were sent west. So there was every nationality buying you guys. You will never admit this I'm sure, but being sent to the colonies was like winning the lottery for the slaves. In many countries in the carribean & central & S. America, plus in the ottoman empire, slaves were castrated, worked to death, or both. They weren't all that interested in growing their own slave population. That guaranteed a horrible existence. That may seem alright, but I guarantee it wasn't if you were a slave in one of those areas. There were upwards of 12,000,000 Africans carried to the America's & Islands, but only 380,000 slaves were destined for the colonies. Yes...380,000 is the number of African slaves that came to the then British colony of America. Doesn't seem right I'm sure based on all the propaganda that has been planted into the heads of black Americans. But those are the facts. If you came to America, the slave owners had a vested interest in keeping you alive & not overly abusing you. Most slaveholders kept families together, allowed their slaves to marry, etc. I'm not trying to whitewash things, simply presenting a side that is never, and I mean never represented in our modern discourse. It's all about the oppressed/oppressor relationship, which is a waste of time as of course they were oppressed. But that's not the story because almost everyone was poor & oppressed. The story is the sagas of overcoming. Of surviving & maintaining your own self dignity. Slavery didn't destroy the dignity of black people. Freedom sure did! I'm not pro slavery or anti black. I am, however, a realist & black people, in spite of Jim Crow & all other forms of racism, did just fine on their own. Between 1940 & 1960, black poverty went from like 70% to under 40% in 20 years... the highest gain of any ethnic group in any time period in our history. The marriage rate was very similar to that of whites, and single mothers were the exception, not the norm. It only took about 10 years of government pampering before all of those trends reversed. It annoyed to tampering, not pampering. Tampering with the formulas that were working for black people. That's why education is so important. And it was because the government took over the role of the man in the house. That is what is sad. That, and the sorry state of our education & the false narratives that circulate within black culture that tends to place all blame, for all things, on white people. Look where it got blacks? It destroyed everything you all had built & you've never fully recovered. And it's sad to think about, but I don't think the trend is going to reverse anytime soon. For as long as the truth is buried in lieu of all the lies, it's impossible almost to move forward. Until the whole picture is presented fairly & equally understood by all, then there's nothing that can be done because nothing worthwhile will occur when one's reality is based on falsehoods.
Learn the money
Learn the language
Learn the people
Don't go. It's too many negative outcomes.
F'ck all that, I'm going to Thailand
@@Mike_M. 😆😆😆👎👎👎
I was about to comment something similar. love how succinct your comment it tho!
I would put language as first and highest priority. Psychologically language is the key to effective communication, connection, assimilation, etc.
Americans the world over seem to severely neglect the this aspect - I had a friend living in Germany even, who hated his experience and felt out of touch with the people. I asked if he spoke any bit of the language, he clamped up and expressed resistance to really needing to learn or speak it. Made no sense to me, but to each their own.
Stop it. Even if you learn the language, everyone knows you're not them and they will still scam you. No one wants to deal with the truth.
Damn that. If I'm gonna get scammed, I'm gonna get scammed right here in America. I don't need to go across the Atlantic to fall victim to con artists.
Exactly, they quadruple prices and everyone say that’s they way it is . On top of that you got people that get scam saying . I feel at home , I’m with my people , we are foreigners here lol . why do people want to connect and be accepted by people that don’t give a daymn about you and will trick you out of everything you got if they could ?
Why is she in Tanzania? That’s the worst African country to go too, it’s her own fault not to do her homework before going to Africa
Sounds to me that people are PEOPLE… wherever you go…
But it can be easier if you instead have anonymity and can “blend in”
The scamming is bad everywhere out there. They have embraced deception and the devil out there.
You can stay in Amerikkk. I'm leaving.
Had a friend from the US who was based in my home country of SA for some time. Her friends were visiting her over Dec 2022 & she asked if we could show them around Cape Town and give them a great experience. It was 2 women and 1 man and 1 of the ladies was incredibly rude and reminding us that she's American and an attorney - she didn't want to even engage with anyone who she deemed beneath her (Not knowing that some of the people we were with were very wealthy and respected academics in the country). It was just such a disappointing experience. So I guess my point is, black American & British people also need to take some responsibility for how they are received in these African countries. Respect is mutual.
Somebody pin 📌 this
Facts.
they use that "american" attitude everywhere they go.. that is why american tourist.are not liked in many many countries.. those countries we take the money but hate being around those people
True and vice versa. I've met many Africans who come to America who frown down on us. And these are not always well to do Africans.
I bet that's what's really happening.😒
Why is it that African Americans expect to be treated special in these situations? Having been stationed in other countries I tried to learn the language and culture.I realized that I would be seen and treated as a foreigner and the locals seemed to respect that.
The fact that we’re going to live amongst the same people that sold us here escapes me.
@tsiysonprincess the Atlantic slave trade was mostly rooted in West Africa and some of the enslaved were either enslavers themselves or belonged to tribes who were complicit in slavery. The isn't that separation of convenience of "us vs them".
Those people living now in Africa did not sell you or your ancestors. They had nothing to do with it. This is 2024. How are the people living in this age responsible for what happened centuries ago.
Ain't no one sold u, u are the indigenous people of America
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I’m from jersey just moved to GHANA. Love it and support your channel consistently
Nice nice im from newark ❤
@@jsarp1310 Brick city! That’s wassup I’m from Jersey City
In Mombasa myself
@@Nightrain349 dope 💯
Nice man. I'm coming out there soon
In 2006 one of My Cousins tried to live & set up a Business in Nigeria. Every time he get with the Locals for business meetings, someone's under the table trying to Pick-Pocket him or when he'd turn his back his briefcase is stolen.
Then trying to buy land to build a house on, he got scammed. Got tired of being scammed to pay more just because he's an OTHER.
Eventually he left after 1-1/2 years and come back to The Bronx never to return to anywhere in Africa. I told him I don't care where I go I have to be on high-alert like I'm in NYC and treat everyone with skepticism.
I know a few other people who went to Africa and got scammed on land deals, Marriages, etc.
But americans are the other. When my grandparents brought me first time to Ghana they tought ne not just how to speak, but what to speak. My mothers family are not "black" or " american" , they are ewe , l can recite the genealogy of both my maternal grandparents till their grandparents. I never hot jumped, stolen from, scamed etc l am family, if something happens to me there will be others asking for justice . Americans come to Ghana and think that just because tgey are from the US and have money they shoukd get a good or better treatment, then the locals. And it just isn't true. Worse part is that americans (of what ever race, this isn't limited to african americans) expect the US treatment outside of US. Don't want to pay gifts to officials, don't want to pay protection (and they aren't local. If an Ewe tries to live in ghana among non Ewe he will be an outsider too, no one cares what citizentship you have) , they don't bargain which insults the other person buying or sellin. I am half Serbian and in Ghana l am considered more african , then the most pan african of pan africans in the US. And then there is cultural stuff americans don't get. the Bantu consider everyone lesser then them , black or not . They have a social hierarchy within the Bantu ethnic groups. The Zulu condider ALL non Zulu not fully human . I have seen a dude praise a Huttu artist at a bar, in a region that was Tuttsi. And then he was suprised his car got damaged, his stuff stolen and he ended up getting beaten. And he didn't say the stuff he said in some ghetto bar, but in a hotel bar after a medical convention. The only people thst heard him were other doctors .
He choose to set up shop where Nigerian Prince leaves 🤣🤣🤣
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the sad part is that they don't scam white people and treat them with the highest respect.
@@piotrjeske4599 We know that we're the other, MemoGrafix stated that in their comment.
I was born and raised in Africa( Sierra Leone 🇸🇱). I moved to Europe 25yrs ago and now am working on my way out back, but I myself get scammed by my own people just because of I left and came back. It is hard not to get scam when you are from abroad but always be alert and ready to bargain when you are out there and also try to always link up with the locals and most importantly be yourself and try to learn the language.
I think it's also nice if you have a native friend who really cares about you so the natives don't mess with you
@@essynatukunda this is the best way.
That was part of the experiences that I got prepared for before coming back home, which is to be weary of everyone, including family membera, because anybody coming from overseas countries is considered a 🚶 🏧. Family members attempted to scam me as well, but I outsmarted each and everyone of them.
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Perfect! I Agree. However, just meeting someone here who migrated from the same country you're coming is also a plus.
Any tips for those who are in the diaspora?@@XY-rh3if
I saw this coming. There's always a clash of culture, wherever you go.
Thanks for this enlightening channel. Many of us are idealistic and our romantic fantasies about moving "home" are not based on reality.
Especially because people forget or don’t know Africa is a continent made up of many different countries. It’s not one country with one set of rules. They know we have so many opportunities at our
fingertips. They want our money!
My ancestors came from Iceland. No way I want to go 'home' to that island...Just fairy tale thinking.
Because you are too focused on race. I can't imagine being so focused on my race as my main identity. You are americans for pete's sake.
It's the same even for an African moving from one country to another country within Africa. Sometimes the diaspora gets a better treatment than an African.
facts, South africa does a better treament to black americans than africans. Not sure about caribbeans.
Sounds like Africans have no honor
No one gets better treatment than white or asian folks
My cousin lived partially in the US and The Gambia. Her issues: unsanitary street markets and poor healthcare system. She loved traveling in Africa and the people. She now lives permanently back in the states.
Obama said it best. Coming to Africa will reinforce to you just how American you are
@@tvs9978 Ask the same Obama and his wife Michelle how they would even be ignored casually by White visitors to the White house .
Michelle wrote in her book how White visitors would even go straight to playing with the Obama dogs but completely treat the owners the Obamas as invisible in their own compound .
By the way the white house was built by black slaves and should have been left as a monument . Blacks are tolerated in America and subjugated when they go out of line .
The Gambia is one of the poorest countries in Africa, and it’s obvious she went there because how cheap it is to live there, so what did she expect, South Africa or Nairobi Kenya, sorry she wants to save money but expecting luxury
You have to be super smart, rich , and in perfect health to live in Africa.
@@shantaalli2865 that is totally false, you can move to Nairobi Kenya, it’s the New York City of Africa, you can live there with a higher standard of living then America, it’s always something to do 7 days a week, a American couple went to the mall and couldn’t believe their eyes, it’s a amusement park at the mall, a huge park in the middle of the mall with a pond and zip liner’s flying over the park, it was restaurants with live music, it’s a huge supermarket so you can make groceries before you leave
KEY TO SURVIVING AFRICA: Do your research, do some more research, visit your country of choice, in the peak and off peak season, Can you survive in the rainy season, the high heat? make connections on the ground, make some more connections, pray for discernment, then visit again and do some more research. Do all this before you even consider moving to that country of choice.
This is probably the wimpiest and most cowardly advice I have ever read 🤭😏 African Americans just need a mindset change and knowledge about Africa and everything will be fine ❤
@amARI589... "KEY TO SURVIVING AFRICA:"
Stay where you are.
Someone who lived there...
90% of Africans who move to the US go with one way ticket.
To move to Africa, no need for "research".
You need positive and "can do" mindset aimining to make it whatever the challenges.
@@gerrytushh you sound like the type of Niga that will get scammed lol
Pretty much don't go
I lived overseas (Turkey) for several years. I did not forget that I was not in the U.S. this helped me to become part of the culture. I learned the language; and fellowshipped with other Americans who had been there awhile. Learning the culture before was key in understanding what living there would be like.
This was such an informative video! Thank you all for the work you all do. We need to embrace our differences but still move forward as a community.
Oshay loves Africa and I love that about him. Lets jaw jaw more and fight, fight less. Our future is together.
Peace Bro. Oshay! Excellent, Excellent, Excellent video!!! You hit all the major points...and hit them well!
oshay is a hatter he never understand any problem in Africa and jump on it
Any price I'm being told I just cut it in half. We can both play this little game of getting over!!
Omg negotiating prices is universal. Why do you think that you will not have to do so in Africa?
@AfricanTravelerChannel Respectfully, there is a difference in negotiating and scamming. Negotiating denotes FAIR benefit between two parties. Whereas scamming is exploitative, with a singular benefit and advantage that favors the one scamming.
@@TheResidentialTourists you still screaming about being unfairly treated??? Do you imagine that paying inflated prices for everything in the west means it's a fair price or value 😅😂🤣
@@TheResidentialTouristsit happens coz you want to look better and different ....integrate with the people and be part of them ....we also visit the States and find out that some items may be overpriced but we opt to adjust and don't call it scamming
@@AmazingManiait's one thing for items to be priced high. It is another thing for a clerk or cashier to take a look at you or listen to the way you speak and raise the prices of the item/ items.
Peace fam. Here in South Africa we are trying to build community. We tend to come together often. We have received warm welcomes everywhere.
try harder bro
There are few people on the planet less African than African Americans. Africa ,a continent of 52 countries,2000 languages and variations of ,with as many different cultures religion's and faiths as you couldn't imagine, it's an incredible continent. The association between Africans and African Americans is at best skin deep depending on where you are in Africa.
I don't mind being seen as a foreigner in Africa. I've been a foreigner in two countries filled with people who didn't look like me, and managed fine. I currently live in China, one of the most xenophobic countries out there. I know what it feels like to be perpetually kept out and to not feel like you belong. Despite that I've still learned the languages of the places I've lived, followed the rules and as many social norms as I could to not expose myself to undue mistreatment, and managed to meet decent people. When I go to Africa this year and eventually to live as an expat, I'll do the same: immerse myself in the language(s), adapt and integrate the culture into my daily life, make friends with local people, and make money + be productive for the people around me.
Culture can be learned. Language can be learned. A new way of life can be learned. The light at the end of the tunnel is that the process of learning those things will be at least a little better because I'll be doing it among people who look like me and wont instantly shut me down or feel disgust because of how I look. You've got a chance at assimilation in Africa. In some other countries you have no chance. I'll roll the dice in Africa.
Respect for making that big decision but here's a quick heads up; It's Important to decide which African country is the best for you before making the move , keep in mind that all countries globally not only those within the African continent has its own set of challenges. No place is perfect but finding that one African country that aligns with your goals and values is key. Just keep in mind that navigating those challenges will be part of the journey wherever you choose to land.the number one mistake I think Black Americans make is not starting businesses. In my country South Africa we got all these non-black folks setting up shop here, and yeah most of them are mad racist. Can't even support their businesses. Imagine if more Black people were starting their own businesses . Sure, we got differences, but we should at least try to bridge the gap. Lately, I've been seeing this division propaganda online, and we need to rise above
I can't really speak for the entire continent, but at least in my country Black Americans aren't viewed as foreigners and are often welcomed with open arms. From what I've observed those visiting get a warm welcoming. We even go the extra mile of giving them African names as a sign of connection and respect. It's a vibe that speaks to the hospitality we share in this corner of Africa. In my country we believe in Ubuntu which means unity - a principle that echoes the spirit of togetherness and respect for one another as Africans.Lately, I've been seeing this division propaganda online, and we need to rise above . Good luck(Sorry if this was a bit long )
@@Sanele1246 I appreciate your response! Your message about South Africa hits home with me. I’ve met quite a few South African people out this way and there has been nothing but love. And true to form, they did bless me with an African name as well 😂. I rock with the South African family. Some good spirited people down there
Do you have any recommendations for how to learn Mandarin Chinese, whether it be at a basic level or more? Was it living there in China that helped it click quicker for you or did you have a tutor?
@@horizonrising3216 I definitely had to hire a tutor. It’s best to have a consistent person to practice with and build your confidence. As for learning mandarin as a beginner, learn the tones and tone pairs. Super important. There are like 20 words that you can learn that have nearly every tone combination in mandarin. Learn the pronunciation differences between English and Mandarin, some starter phrases, and you’re good to go. Hop in, find a tutor and start speaking
Mandarin gets a bad wrap for being extremely difficult, but if you start with speaking, tones, and pinyin, you can ease into the Chinese characters later. Plus the language has no conjugation, masculine/feminine, etc. It’s literally a language full of super nuanced vocabulary and particles. And learning the characters will be like learning to recognize someone’s face: you’ll get familiar with how they look over time.
@@HausamanB1 You have the right attitude. Ask yourself, most of these people complaining about being treated like a foreigner, how many of them actually take the time and effort to integrate in the manner you described. I'm not talking about just hanging with local people occasionally. I mean actually taking the time and effort to really learn the language and customs?
99% of these so-called Diasporans never learn the language of their host countries. I know of Black Americans who have lived in Ghana for 30 - 40 years and never learned the language all they can say is a few greetings and thank you. This makes me wonder, how much integration are you really doing as you claim, when you live in a country for many years and cannot even speak a broken version of the language?
Also, this whole expectation that ppl have of red carpets being rolled out for them because they are Black Americans who have come to Africa is frankly unrealistic and selfish. If anyone does get a welcome with a drum and a cultural dance group at the airport then they ought to be grateful, but to expect this to be the standard or else you don't feel welcomed is some crazy entitlement issue that Africans cannot and should not accommodate.
Any Black American expecting this sort of treatment should ask themselves how Africans are received when they go to the US. Do Black Americans stop their daily lives to come and welcome them at the airport? Do they not treat Africans as foreigners when they live amongst them? Don't African children get bullied when they school with Black Americans?
Actually in kenya if you're black nobody cares .......just stay with a local or few days you will be a local too in less than a month. The problem comes when black Americans/Europeans come and want to isolate themselves to look different. Once you create boundaries between the two cultures you welcome yourself to harsh living. This is common to all cultures btw...always learn to integrate
Exactly! Same as in SA. We're dealing with too many internal problems to care if you're African American anyway.😂
I live in Nairobi and it's true. I be around locals and speak basic Swahili so people really be thinking I'm Kenyan now 😂 the people are nice here.
@@KingJudah87love Kenya
Kenyans are very good at scamming visitors and the police are pure thugs in uniform. I know,I was born there,grew there and left.
Same as in the USA, keep trying to separate and isolate, then blame it on another group.
I have lived in Nigeria for over 20 years.. I love it.. every country has its ups and downs.. but its Naija for Life
@onelevel2346, you are already a Nigerian. I know by now you have the citizenship already unless if you didn't want it. Even if you don't have citizenship yet, you are already a Nigerian. Only a Nigerian uses that last slogan "Naija for life"
are you black american?
@5Pointstarr , I think he or she is an African American or Caribbean. There are a lot of African Americans and Caribbeans in Nigeria.
Same i lived in south africa ppl are arrogant
are there more african americans than caribbeans there?@@sunnyyande378
It's like this for any country you step into for the first time. An example for me is I want to go to Japan and the Netherlands someday. I remember trying to learn the language through audio language books and researching on the web.
2 years ago, I even took Japanese 101 because I was determined to learn, and being black American, I don't want to be portrayed as foolish and dangerous as well as an "ugly American"
I take learning another culture extremely seriously because I respect the country and the people.
Been to Africa 3 times four different countries. I had a kenya lady with me. she was my protector against charger higher prices. Even though they tried to charge me more, it was still way cheaper than the USA prices. Its good to form relationships before traveling or even hire someone to travel with you.
The world has been taught capitalism… The peddler is always going to try to get more money if possible…in america, Mexico, Europe, China, Thailand, and other country in the world. This is no reason to speak negatively on anyone from Africa
Imagine thinking that people need to be “taught” to want more money. Capitalism is just what it’s called when people are allowed to buy sell and trade as they choose. The only people who don’t want that are totalitarians who want to control people. Greed isn’t part of a particular economic system. It’s human nature and in a totalitarian system it leads to mass murder, legal confiscations, and mass oppression instead of just the occasional illegal scam artist.
I think it should start with friendships before relationships. A male friend with shared interests will tell you a lot about the do's and don't's of relationships. City girls in Africa can be the same or worse than ladies in the West. They belong to no man. They have seen the inside of hotels that most men can dream of. Remember African politicians the richest human beings you can find anywhere and they splash money on these women you find on the streets.
O Shay, I like the topics you deal with in your podcast. I have been living in the States for over 40 yrs now. Look here as a Nigerian when I come home for vacation or whatever as soon as they find out that I live abroad they feel like I don’t know anything anymore and they feel they can take advantage of me. They first of all in their mentality put me in a different upper class, which to them means I have extra more to spend, and they will do anything legally to get extra more from me or even scam if that is easier way to get a little extra from me. Not because they have anything against me, but because I can afford to give up a little extra to a brother or a sister. So when I listen to my African American brothers and sisters crying that they are not treated as fellow Africans because they are scammed, asked to pay more, and therefore hated or not welcomed I laugh. Tell them we Africans that live in the diaspora are treated the same way. Sometimes I ask my nieces and nephews to do my errands to avoid all that.
Very true!!!
You Are Correct Brother 👌🏿!
I know what you mean. I have have spoken with many friends in the diaspora from different African countries and they all say the same thing that you've just shared. It's sad. But this shouldn't stop anyone from moving to Africa. People just need to do their homework before moving. Blend with everyone else when you get there. Choose the right country. Namibia, Ghana, Kenya, cape verde, São Tomé, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe for for instance are countries that most African American should consider the most.
@@Anforjesus Not Nigeria?
Nothing funny bout being scammed out of thousands of dollars which might be some people’s life savings
Although I agree with our beloved sister, she must know that it has nothing to do with her being African American. Am Kenyan myself living in the western hemisphere and every time am home or in any African country, the prices have been hiked. Has happened so many time while i was in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda.. That's how it is unfortunately.
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NO BLACK AMERICANS DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT BULLSHIT....
Yes you must be Prepared! Because we’re living in a Hateful World!💗✌🏿🤴🏿👸🏿
Lol ive been to Africa and y'all wouldn't last very long there
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Ew no
Preach it Build our communities in every African Country. We need each other!!
Great points! really enjoyed this video, Thanks
The research part is the most important. I've seen Africans research when moving around the continent as well. There's a lot of people on RUclips that will tell the truth about their country.
Also pay attention to the past and present political climate too.
Lack of good government can effect its citizens.
Research won't stop thier scamming ways.
Most definitely 💯
For Black America looking for assimilation and acceptance, Economic integration first through entrepreneurship and starting businesses in various sectors including real estate and agribusiness despite the challenges, then socio-cultural integration then geo-political integration .
Very well written. You can achieve in any field you choose!
You will always be a foreigner to them.
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@@jeremiahsams2848 As long as you are a human to them . several white groups consider Black groups subhuman including in America . Hence the mistreatment even in the legal system .
Nothing wrong with being a stranger or a foreigner as long as you are seen as a human .
Chinese are perpetual foreigners everywhere but now the second largest economy in the world .
And in 10 years the largest . You will be a comfortable and happy foreigner . Even the term foreigner or immigrant have been misused based on colonial constructs .
Michael Jordan and Lebron James have to live in predominantly white neighborhoods to feel human with next door neighbors as just white doctors and engineers . Ask CHRIS ROCK . A black billionaire or millionaire comparable to a white engineer or doctor or professional .
@@jeremiahsams2848 If being perceived as a foreigner was terrible the 3 million Indians and the 10 million Chinese in Africa together with the 4.4 Indians in America and 5.4 million Chinese in America would have packed up and gone back to India and China . China 2nd largest economy and India the 5th largest economy worldwide .
I guess it depends on the Country. I went to 🇰🇪 many years ago and the people showed me love that I never experienced in America. Free food, invites to homes for dinner, women wanting me to date their daughters, and so on. I never experienced this type of love in America as a Black American.
Be careful. The "Marry my Daughter" is a centuries old scam.
Karibu nyumbani Tena brother, welcome back home again
I'm glad for you bro, the love that you experienced there, but, as user kh had said, about marrying ones daughter, do some background checking before you comply.
dont take one example and spread it on all black peoples way of life..
I saw one day an African American guy, in the bus, telling an Haitian lady to stand up, so he can get her seat.
This is what he said, "we came here first".
There were lot of black Americans in the bus and they were furious to hear that. It was ugly to see; in front of white people.
@@GuyMontag-n6g how does this scam work? What all is involved in it?
In the fall of 2020 I took my family to Tanzania and it was a lovely experience all around when we got to the airport to get our visas the person working there start speaking to us in Swahili then we told him we were from America and he said welcome home and that was a lovely experience and then we had an Uber driver who was helping us the whole time we were in Tanzania and he made sure that we were getting good prices at the markets for buying food. He helped us get a hotel for a good price he also did not haggle us or overpriced us for his Services all day. We were there for 3 weeks. I think the locals treat families different than individuals.
It’s interesting that people who put their race (not culture or religion or country) as primary identity are shocked to find that the world doesn’t think that way.
It’s extremely sad that this is happening.
@journey2africabeyondmore664africa is grieving
Happens when people move to the big city.
She should learn the language people and culture better before moving there.
@deseangibir4764....That has been happening in decades.
Literally!
@@Jason-nosaJ But they don't have to when they come here
@@Allious131 happens everywhere that gets modernized or grows in popularity. My family's from the Caribbean. When I was a kid people slept with doors unlocked. And everyone knew each other like a big family. As the city grew crime grew. This is the nature of things, just like Alibaba and the 40 thieves.
1) Afrikan diaspora deal with the same issues as well. We take locals with us, or we tell them the price that the locals say they pay for an item, and that is the price we want to pay. Usually they give you the locals price because they need business.
2) Most items in Afrika are negotiable, not set on stone price. 3) Merchants believe diaspora has money, therefore they should pay a little more.
4) Even in the USA when we go to the Middle Eastern shops we negotiate prices, today.
5) There you have it, culture clash or misunderstanding.
6) The brother is right. Do something with the locals: after school tutoring, sports, art, English & dance classes etc., 3 days a week, sometimes. Only by interacting with the locals in a regular bases you will understand and learn the curlicue.
The price issue has always been there, I live near a market in Nigeria and depending the prices I get fo goods at the market are almost always dependant on how I dress, trust me, if I dress looking good my prices are higher, they gauge you up to set a customized price, it's crazy, bargaining and negotiating prices is normal and am Nigerian. So you just need to know the country, it's not a racism situation trust me😂, Sorry our brothers across the sea are having these problems.
No your biggest problem is that you come here thinking that you're special or superior to locals.
We love you guys but if you come here thinking that people will treat you like a king or queen, forget!!.
They've been lying to you that you're kings and queens through movies and guess what you'll be shocked once you're here. We work hard in Africa in order to survive unlike you who have it all.
If you want to come to Africa, know that it's not gonna be easy. White men built you hospitals, speedway/highway and infrastructure and because you consume them you think they belong to you.
Come here and build Africa with us, then you'll appreciate it. You can't come here looking for a finished product, that's why they scam you.
The issue is not about being accepted. Africans accept everyone as long as you have something to offer. Bare in mind majority in Africa are on survival mode. They’re not interested in your emotional void that you’re trying to reconcile. They look to you for leadership and ideas how you all can survive together.
I find it amazing that, those who intend to live in Africa but want to have an American experience don't work it for the long haul.
Move there, have children, then gradchildren. All the while, have the children and grandchildren get into politics and change the country to what the first generation want.
If you get frustrated easily, then don't move to Africa. You can just go and visit!. I'm Gambian living in the US but I go to visit every year. I'm planning to move back eventually in a few years when my house is done building. Africa is a hard place to live in. Gotta be ready mentally and financially!
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Best advice ever. Living in Uganda and then Kenya for a few years was enough for me. I learned real quick that Africans don't consider African Americans family. In East Africa, white people get more love, big disappointment for me.
@@RRoss5035 Does the majority of Black Americans consider Africans as family, without getting to known the individual African; stop generalizing . It is more likely that an African will accept a Black American as family in Africa than a Black American accept an African as family in the U.S
@coz2j69 true. In fact they have an issue with Africans going to the U.S. They call them aliens. But when they come to Africa, they expect to be welcomed and fully embraced. That's double standards for me.
@journey2africabeyondmore664 Moving to Africa is a marathon, not a sprint, My wife is AA. I have land, and she also has land, and even her mom has land. In May, we are planning on flying to France and driving from France to Gambia. Moving to Africa is a process, and you have to take your time and enjoy it. No rush!
This show is getting better and better, more and more informative, answering more and more crucial questions. Keep up the great work.
I was in Tanzania last month. I have bring alot of friends from Europe there, they all have been enjoying it and have been traveling back with there girlfriend or family.
What people need to understand when it comes about Tanzania. If you want to enjoy and get well treated and have a very good time.
Always have another Tanzania person who negotiate for you all the prices etc. If you have some local guys with you no one will try to trick you with price etc.
These people who complain about Tanzania that they got bad treatment im very sure, they did not greet the locals nor did they not try to fit in either. I have seen to many people who treat the locals like they are better then them. When they do not get receivement as they taught they get angry.
Tanzania people are very friendly and always looking for have good time. Depends what kind of energy you give aswell.
That's right. People need to respect the culture when entering a country.
I certainly agree with this that! I found my experience to be extremely different in Tanzania. I think the people I meet are great! It takes time like anywhere else to adjust to a culture but I know AA who live there and are very happy! So we can’t generalize based on our own experiences! But I can smell a rat so I don’t deal with the rat! But rats are everywhere! Any country that you go to people will try to scam you just because they understand that you are not from there! You must be alert every place you visit!
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Yes im suprised they even mention that, its the same rest of the world people will always try to scam.
Im sure you get great experience because you also gave them happiness and greet them well and were respectful.
When i have seen people who do not like Tanzania usually act like a diva anyways aspect the local should treat them like a celebrity because they come from west lol
It's true in this country if you try to navigate alone you will get scammed
You're absolutely right.. thank you..
It's interesting because as a chicano (Mexican American) you learn this lesson especially if you don't know spainish very early. I suppose African Americans never really get to experience this being so physically far from the motherland. For us it's embedded in our culture. We use words like pocho, güero, paisa, etc to differentiate each other. Non spainish speakers are looked at with a side eye and in Mexico they will take advantage of that. It's interesting to hear your experience as someone who went all in and moved there. Something most chicanos would probably never do. Much love brother 🙏 💙
so what ???? this video and comment section is not about Spanish people. stay in your lane .
@paul4cager0 First off, I'm not spainish werido I'm Chicano. Second, you dont run nothing here. Third, I was drawing a comparison between our experiences as people. But it's obvious your public school education has failed you in reading comprehension. Last, it's still much respect to the brother who made this video because im sure he doesn't share your ignorant views.
@paul4cager0 First off, I'm chicano, not spainish, you J cat. Second, you don't run anything here. Third I was drawing a comparison to our experience as people. It's obvious that your public school education failed you in reading comprehension. Last, much respect to the brother who made this video, I'm sure he doesn't share your ignorant views
She is black Mexican, are they not allowed to be black or it's only African Americans that are considered black?
@@The-Heart-Will-Testifywe aren’t african Americans that’s a white liberal term, second those are Latinos we not the same as them, ask them what they are they will say Mexican they aren’t gonna say they are black,
The overcharging is global. I remember in Korea a local that was with up would pay a fraction of the price for food and could get far better prices in shops than we could ever hope for.
I visited SA last year. Starting in the airport in Johannesburg I was received warm welcomes…. People asking if I was from America and asking if I would consider coming back home❤
Because, you have money.
@jeremiahsams2848 No. Just because we love to see tourists have a great time. We want feedback so we can improve.
@@jeremiahsams2848 why because he has money for what we also have our own money dear so stop being negative towards south Africa wena lwabishi😮
@@lebo5281 and the money be honest now
Of course they ask you that. Africa is recruiting AA to come to Africa to build up their country, telling them to come home to place they know nothing of. While Africans are fleeing Africa. I have an African coworker from Ghana who paid over 200.000 to go to the states.
Same thing happened to me they put the prizes up when they realized I am a foreigner, that was in Jamacia and Caracas, happens everywhere.
Wights people and Asian you can see them in Tanzania 🇹🇿 Rwanda 🇷🇼 Burundi 🇧🇮 Uganda 🇺🇬 Kenya 🇰🇪 and you find them are with African are Friends you Black America Everywhere You Complain.!!!
The whites are doing business, and i hope they doing it fair, the most don´t try to be part, just to get along well with the people. I would like to visit africa, but i am to scared, because i am white and i don´t think, that white people are to much liked.
The dude that said "nothing is free here" hit the nail on the head.
This needed to be said. We African Americans that want to go, need more of a community and presence. When you try to do everything yourself, you just fail.
That is the major issue, we are way too individualized.
Sounds like something said in London during the Palestinian Mandate.
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AGREED!
If you were African, you wouldn’t have to leave the continent. You’d know where what countries your people come from and likely would have dual citizenship.
Welp, so much for "pAn AfRiCaNiSm." 🤷🏾♂️😂
Realistically, it would never work. Too many cultural, tribal, religious (the list goes on and on), differences and to be honest that's okay, but the pride and stubbornness it's supported by cannot be broken. Maybe regionally, it is possible so like; Southern African regions, Eastern African and Western African regions can form some version, but all together? Nope. At least not in my lifetime.
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Nothing is easy it needs a lot of work 😂
Try learning the language, that's 90% of fitting in.
Learn the language? I thought we were AFRICAN Americans?🤔🗝️
Do you really think african american have the brain for that
I'm a South African 🇿🇦 I learnt Mandarin before visiting China, I learnt French before visiting Paris so yes it's important.@@Angel-lq5im
I guess the year of return only last a year 😂😂😂😂
Facts
Ghana was milking blk Americans lol ..
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That shouldn't be the end of the story. OK .. they went off half cocked... half these people in their 30s and 40s have never seen a UNICEF ad on tv and have no idea of the total poverty in Africa OR a sense of how MUCH they have in America. How much their people had a part in BUILDING 150 years ago but how little of it they OWN or can access. I hope these people are only temporarily chastened and truly humbled by their experience but now see what they REALLY need to bring to the table. They should be coming back HOME to America and staking out areas where we can implement what they DREAMED of doing in Africa IN AMERICA... then use these areas in America as the jumping off point TO africa! As long as they are American citizens they will have to pay American taxes! Why not set up some zones in some of these underregulated states in the USA where you can claim some land... develop farms and build skills and use that as your entry point to and from Africa. It was a foolish dream to think you could parachute into Africa and look for the nearest TARGET to supply yourself... YOU are going to be the "WalMart" & "Target" on this trip and if you're as bad off as MOST of us are here in America... you're going to have to orient yourself to the REAL WORLD economically. Those returnees should NOT be back heads hung in shame... instead they should be eager to take on the REAL first step of their life's goals and mission!
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I had an excellent welcome in Ethiopia and Sudan. They were very welcoming and talking about brotherhood so... different countries, different response i guess
Did you live in those countries? Have to do the paperwork to become a citizen? Buy a house? Send your kids to school? Get a drivers license? The experience of a tourist is not the same as moving to a country and trying to build a life .
Wow very good info! I always thought about visiting myself. and expected a warm welcome. The feeling of welcome is what I hear a lot of people talk about the most.
thats only at the airport or any tourist trap spot where the inflated prices are already posted beforehand. But the people on the street level will scam you left and right.
Am Ugandan born just returned from Uk after 30yrs...guess what i literally get scammed by people i help and even some relatives...but to me its weighing up the freedom i feel here as opposed to the UK.
So glad your out of my country
Great information insight and a balanced perspective on moving back to the motherland and it’s not seen through rose tinted glasses 💯
Why is she in Tanzania? That’s the worst African country to go too, it’s her own fault not to do her homework before going to Africa, Tanzania is 30 to 40 years behind Kenya and South Africa
@@jarodwilson4946 oh no!!! Where are you from? This so incorrect.😳
@@Kholmi.28 sorry but it is correct, they give black Americans a hard time at immigration, every time we buy something they jack up the prices, every time they here our voice they think we have money, even emigration is looking for money, the police are looking for money so I feel like Tanzania needs more time to grow before it a good place for black Americans
@@jarodwilson4946 okay to say that SA is 30/40 years ahead? That's a wild statement. In any informal trading situation you'll experience the same here with hiked prices. Even as a South African that "sounds" educated, you'll be priced unfairly. And bribery is more than a norm with officials here too. I wouldn't be so quick to denounce TZ over SA (coming from an actual South African). 😉
As a black American woman I am not interested in going to Africa at all!!
Me either!
Someone about to say we don't want yall here either lmaooooo 😂
your home is America. they made you think all black poeple came here on slave ships....dont fall for that bullshit! black people were already here!!!!!!!!! Read True history!!!!! Europeans travelled the world and found that we were already there when they got there: wherevere they travelled to around the world‼️
We are already home.
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Our (American) culture was hijacked and altered by colonizers. Surely you’d understand that.
I left Haiti for 20 years, when I went back I was in shock. I also get scammed because back home people think that everyone who comes from USA is rich. You got to prepare your mind for it. Once you wrap your mind around it, then you get to enjoy a different culture .
Wow! Oshay, you have another channel. You are really going hard.
I lived in Africa for several years, it's just so complex the dynamics of an AA in Africa. But, I think you covered this well. I think the only way to be successful is to accept our foreign status. However, we need to find other ways to connect with and identify with the people of Africa. We do need more connection and camaraderie but unfortunately, we don't have a unified or unifying culture. We don't agree on what is acceptable as far as diet, morals, religion, etc. This makes it difficult for us to get along.
I don't think it has to be this way though. However, we need to be more intentional about breaking down barriers between people of different backgrounds and learn to respect each other despite differences. Still, work towards common goals despite differences. If we can get over the judgment and hatred between groups, we'll be alright.
The key is respect for one another's opinion, tradition and culture. For example, in some parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, it's well within cultural norm to mary your cousin. It was a shock to learn about this because I never had of such and I'm sure most people in the west and Africa haven't either.
So if we find ourselves in Saudi Arabia, it'll be unwise to attempt to disqualify their tradition. After all, who's to say that it's wrong for the Chinese to eat dogs, while it's right for the rest of the world to eat chicken and beef. Don't all animals equally value their lives, feel the pain from a sword and shed blood as well?
You are Indigenous Americans not Africa this is why you cannot connect with them.
There in lies the problem. In America, yall practice skin color but in Africa it's your kind folk. Has nothing to do with your color. In Africa its about culture, beliefs, morals, religion, gods etc. If you don't fall into one of these with any people, then you don't belong. I don't understand why anyone would think that in Africa it would be perfect to where cos you black that makes you a part of it?? Listen, haven't you heard of tribes who have been fighting and killing each other since 1900? You don't think they both black? Tribes don't when marry each other and have not done so in hundreds of years. 😅😅😅😂😂. Good luck. Dey play.
@@daphneytennard3267no matter what part of the world are you from you are the first creation there are ways to relate I have Ethiopian friends Kenya friends and I love all the food so don't judge all black Americans a lot of us know the truth a lot of us well aware
I traveled to different continents. Europe, Asia etc it don't matter prices will be different for foreigners. I have found knowing people from the place you want to visit help alot. Respect has taken me a long way. W e are disillusioned when it comes to going to Africa. People want to eat and get paid. Plan plan plan. Respect and UNDERSTAND the culture and people. Do your research. It can be a beautiful experience but it's on us too understand how
Not in Europe
Sounds like the reason they don't have the prices of their goods marked on signs is so that they can raise the price whenever they want to.🤔 This spirit of cheating AAs isn't just happening in Africa...African hair braiders, furniture salesmen, a food server, a car salesman and an old coworker have all tried to get over on me here in the US, but not one of their little con games have ever worked. Love how their swindling ways have kept my money in my pocket and out of theirs while I mockingly laughed in their faces and walked away. Apparently, some of them haven't learned that honesty is the best policy.
Sad that theft is a way of life. No wonder the continent hasn't advanced more than it should over the centuries. Maybe that's why, the colonizers come over there and pick THEM clean.
@cindy you were expecting the braiders in US to braid your hair for free?
@@vickiev.7016stop that condescending nonsense. No one expects anyone to work for free.
Betcha when white man come they grin and laugh.
Not free but not scammed either. I just stay away.
Hey my brother. Just happened to come across your channel and enjoyed the video. I am an African American who comes to Uganda often (2x per year). When I’m there I don’t visit any other people, just mainly stay to myself. Would love to connect if you’re open to it. I plan to retire there in 5-7 years.
Nice interesting video that also kind of seems to explain in part why many people who come to America from other places also seem to clump together more often than trying to mix in or assimilate.
Poor planning results in a horrible outcome. Before I moved to the Dominican Republic, I visited several times. I figured out where I would get housing, food, access to banking, gym and the cost of other essentials. People kill me moving to places and complaining about common practice of those Countries, no one is changing for you. I don't expect to be accepted, I will forever be a foreigner! As a foreigner, everyone assumes that you have money or you would not be there; therefore, you have to protect your money, no differently than you would in the US or where every you came from. Don't think you are that smart, before you buy a property, start the Visa Process, XYZ, talk to a local foreigner and ask them questions. Talk to many of them and get as much information as you can. I would not move anywhere, where I have to negotiate a price for anything. I'm use to a grocery store, I don't want to shop at a outdoor market, hundreds of booth where there would be a different price for me. I would not move to a underdeveloped area, where people are poor and build a $200,000+ home. They will hate you and just that they are watching, they know when you leave and when you return. If you ever go on vacation, when you return, they house might be empty.
What is it like in DR
@@neviamuktar I love my life, but I’m a boring, home body type person. I focus on my health and fitness, I don’t hang out and require friends and shit. There are some culture differences, but there is no one here just plotting against me, trying to make my life difficult. You have to be careful and watch your coins, as you would any other place. The majority of the crime here is amongst and between locals.
@chillintheDR well that's great that you enjoy you life and it's alot of us so call boring type lol that's not about about party night life etc ... may God bless you and give you all the desires of your heart brotha 🙏🏾
@@neviamuktar Thanks a million, best wishes to you as well.
Thanks Kenganda for trying to clear this matter up. We need a way for the continent and diaspora to network and exchange culture and become more unified at a ground level. We need a movement to be implemented to end the dissension between us. We’re not accepted anywhere. We should at least be able to go home.
Another great vlog today my humble opinion is countries like Ghana and Senegal and South Africa is a better fit for those who need a more solid base to deal with the transition make be much smoother 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Ghana is very underdeveloped and technologically they are way behind and Senegal there is language barrier since they speak French. South Africa and Kenya has been mentioned numerous times as preferred countries for experts to quickly adjust and transition due to modern infrastructure and technology.
My experience in Ghana was unbearable but after moving to kenya everything has been smooth
South Africa would be a perfect country for the diaspora to move and settle there. It’s well develop
@@njonjokibera9587there is nothing like a perfect country so that is a lie. South Africa has a lot of issues with electricity and xenophobia so perfect is far fetched
U can just tell someone has never been to Africa😂😂😂
@@Cowboys1998 I didn’t say South Africa is perfect. I said that South Africa would a good country for black Americans to live and set up businesses there. Also it doesn’t have to be SA. It can be Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc. South Africa isn’t unique without it’s problems whether is high youth unemployment electricity crisis, crime rates but South Africa is majority black.
I’ve been to Ghana 🇬🇭 numerous times and is one of my favorite places to go! I have friends there and it’s always a warm welcome even from strangers. I believe it really just depends on which country you go to.
Wonderful breakdown on the realities
I have said this in many platform before, and I will say again. Sometimes what they call extortion is not really extortion. It is just because our African American brothers and sisters are not used to the culture of bargaining for prices. Bargaining for prices is a common practice in many countries around the world. Come to Asia price bargaining is practice everywhere.
True, it was that way in S. Korea.
Right!!! I'm black from UK, Nigerian parents. I have been charged higher in Nigeria, Morocco, India, South Korea, China basically anywhere there is an opportunity to get money out of you
This is the same in Ghana. If you don't bargain you insult the other person. It is like saying " you are giving me a too good deal, so good you are either scaming yourself or gou are stupid" .
We bargain hunny its just American Black Natives has to learn America is our home
Say it loud enough so everyone can hear you. They think a red carpet and rose petals are supposed to be laid out for them. Having street smarts is essential.
My step father was Nigerian his view of Americans as a whole was we are mostly lazy and spoiled. He particularly hated black Americans attitude because some insist on the African American title. He would always say, they aren't African. You have to be hardened to be African.
But the entire continent is in shambles. That "Hardened" has not helped now has it.
@@sheldonhollis5258 africa, which is three times bigger than the us, is far from being entirely in shambles. travel more.
So my best friend did her DNA then later moved to Nigeria.two years later moved back.
Thing that pissed me off..she was less than half sub Saharan African,but it NEVER occurred to her to move to Europe, which was her majority.
Not once. Never.
Totally dismissed her majority donation.
And her home...scammed , cheated and treated her like shit.
Every single country nowadays are like this, you will need at least $100k for to re-locate, maybe go back to school, find a property, buy it, adapt and on top of that may take you 3 to 5 yrs to really starts to settled and this costs money..
What a weird thing to think that people will roll out the red carpet for visiting another country. Weirdos.
FRIENDS IN AFRICA TOLD ME, ITS BECAUSE THEY TRY TO PULL THE SAME SH!T THERE, THEY DO HERE .. THEY AINT HAVIN IT
Being able to adapt is very important. Respect brings honor and honor brings value.
It's a lot of people who fail to realize that. I refer to them as narcissists, idiots and heathens.
In my line of work I have met all kinds in person or had some form of indirect contact with them.
I've met all kinds of people from all over the world. Good, bad foreign and domestic. Young, old, male and female. So I'm very confident to be able to travel overseas and adapt. Some people can't even drive on good dry flat roads because they are so detrimental in their mindset. Them are the people who are the main ones who can't adapt even in popular cities in their own country let alone other countries.
This is a great video and I felt compelled to comment.
@journeywithme80 I've been Nationwide and two other countries several times in all kinds of weather. So what's it to you coming from someone who is clueless as yourself.
I watch people like you put their feet in their mouths plenty of times.
I don't feel bad about correcting the out of order and clueless.
This video just makes me feel more skeptical lol
Hello Big Ken, Great job being done here. Very reasonable and realistic presentation. As an African in diaspora and visited many countries. I find your points as factual and promising. Thorough preparation is needed in any such move, as well as, being openminded and patience.
Your thoughts are applauded and very sensible. We all need good preparation to move to another country, notwithstanding. Keep up your good job, bro. Best Regards.
Great Video Mate. Appreciate the simple logical breakdown! As a Caribbean person, its an idea we need to thoroughly evaluate and accomplish to move back to the Motherland. Keep doing your content.
Living in Kenya has sadly made me more distrusting and concerned about scams after being scammed once and then constantly being hit up for money. Don't think I'll stay on the continent. If I'm going to be a perpetual foreigner, there's other places where that is more comfortable, even for Black men.
Learn the language and remember even Kenyans who stays in cities whenever they go back to rural areas people tend to overcharge them and it's an African thing to bargain so we simply over price before coming down
Nairobi's women are bad news. I wish you had a friend tip you on that. We will in Nairobi but we settle with ladies from outside Nairobi and Mombasa.
Irish americans come to Ireland and feel like their coming home but for us Irish their american full stop. Black or white.
But isn’t that the same Africans are treated when coming to America or Uk etc🤔
Not an excuse
All who engage in dishonesty are disgrace
We’re now talking about Africa
Yes and worst
Good pointers. I think a lot of people go with 'expectations' and get disappointed by their expectations and, by lack of proper research and lack of ability and willingness, at times, to adapt to the new environment.
We need to be re-educated and be should be a cultural community BEFORE we go. This video right here is one of the reasons why I established a cultural community so we more accepted than be treated like a black European.
Having visited Africa/Kenya once. I've also visited 47 countries total. I'm a black American who has also lived in Australia, Thailand and Brazil. Africa/Kenya is not a place I'd ever consider moving to. Our jealous cousins are too backwards and unwilling to grow for me to tolerate them long-term. It seems trying to thrive in Africa is very similar to trying to thrive in a low vibration U.S ghetto. Resistance, ignorance, a lack of other creative minds and dysfunction are large barriers to success. Can't sugarcoat the obvious.
Go live in Bali then smh the nerve
@@uzunumgm1179that person has the right to say what he feels, you people are so selfish
@@uzunumgm1179 Why Bali? I'm cool with the countries of my choice. But Bali is VERY nice. Been there 3 times and never a bad experience.
My first experience with Africans was in 1986 at my HBCU in Nashville Tennessee (TSU). The Africans were condescending and disrespectful towards the African American students… they imagined themselves to be superior to black Americans because, as one person said … African Americans were “a people without a country” reading these present day accounts tells me that the passage of time has changed nothing. As the saying goes…”all skin folk ain’t kin folk” We, African Americans, are not them, and They are not us. It is what it is…
I think your perspective is mighty mighty REAL! Discussions like what you're saying should be the FIRST step before anyone starts talking about the year of return. We haven't yet successfully returned from YOUNGSTOWN or from the local McDonald's . Our people are in trouble.. but HERE IN AMERICA we can organize ourselves get the skills and join in the global destiny of Africa. We are divided from each other but there is hard work we need to do to reach back toward each other and we have to admit that we weren't where we needed to be 400 years ago and it has not gotten ANY better since then but we have to be honest that there IS a big future on the African continent and it can be a dystopian one for Africans around the world or it can be a hopeful growing situation for us! Either way requires half a century of striving like we've never strived before.
Portuguese man living in the US and I can tell you Black Americans and Continental Africans are culturally different. Black Americans aren't from Africa but indigenous to the U.S. I respect Africa but I recommend Black Americans connect to your culture here in the U.S you have a lot to be proud of
You are absolutely right.
I just thought about it. Slaves weren't cheap. A strong or skillful slave would be cost as much as a nice car. Lol! I'm 5 ft nothing, got whole bunch of health issues. No one would pay that kind of money for me if my life depended on it! Only the strongest, well fit with good genetics were worthy of being traded.
The same happened with majority of the settlers in North America. Only the strongest and bravest would cross the ocean and adapt to new world.
So sit you behind down, appreciate your ancestry and sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ for the blessings you've got in life. 😊
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Tru we aren't African more like Hebrew don't forget to mention black nobility in Europe like Portugal and Spain we were being sold as well not just out of west Africa
These are weird complaints to me... Scamming...
They do the same thing in NY - EVERYONE tries to get their hustle on! This is nothing new! That's a part of commerce! Get over it!
The second weird complaint - "Oh, I didn't get a warm welcome". Dude! Who the h*ll are you?! You're not special!
Just visit a new country and seek a way to live in peace. These "delusional ideas of grandeur" are ridiculous and I'm disappointed that a man would even say such a thing.
Its best you know of someone that lives in the country first, and you visit them, instead of venturing off on your own. Common sense people.
I'm thinking valid reasons would be said like, "Oh, they like to target Black Americans and kidnap, kill and steal" - that's one thing. But to complain about everyone trying to get their hustle on in countries that are just as suppressed as Americans are is ridiculous to even present.
Dear Brother, I am so glad I found your site. I've been watching your channel for a few weeks. After today's stream, I wanted to share some of my observations, as an African American with a few African friends (mainly from Kenya, Congo, Ethiopia, and Cameroon). In my 61 years on this planet, I hate the lack of historical information we receive about ANY parts of Africa. As a result, few AAs have much passion for African countries and their various cultures (sad). I have long felt Black Africans receive the LEAST favorable reception from Americans who look like them (really sad). I hope more AA directors will begin producing movies that will excite Americans (especially Black Americans) to crave more from Africa and its inhabitants. I suspect AAs visiting Africa expect grand receptions from people we don't get excited about. It's time for each of us to roll up our sleeves to research and extend welcoming hands to our brothers and sisters from ancestral mothers. Thank you again for your bridge to knowledge and understanding 🙂!!!
Off topic for the video, but it's dope you supporting other creators ie. the Daily Rap Up Crew Tee. I see you Oshay!
They sure don’t look at the European as foreigners
You speak for all Africans?
@@tvs9978 No just my observation of mine. The people in diaspora is sometimes treated worst FOR NO REASON. I think all of my people NEED COUNSELING BADLY. The self hatred was deeply ingrained in psyches
Cause white people's money is the native language of the Earth. It's not right but it's what is. To get equity we are going to have to build it ourselves.
SMH
They look at all non-natives as foreigners (including Europeans)
@@msrenee7023 .. and it's really incumbent on black americans to know their place in this situation. We see ourselves as the people forced from the land 400 years ago when really there is no continuity to our presence. We were disappeared and from then on our lives and enslavement was in America. So if we're reaching back to Africa and coming from a place of pure ignorance about what happened THERE in 400 years then that is on US. Too many young people or blacks approaching the BRUTALITY suffered by this continent with a weepy sentimental "magical" view of RETURN instead of looking at it as the NEW STEPS that the African diaspora are taking TODAY all over the world. As Americans we should be bringing knowledge.. both technical & organizational.. a sense of individualist freedom... an openness to learning and experiencing Africans anew and from a totally flexible perspective. WE should be learning, listening, embracing, and GIVING to Africa. And to the extent that we DON'T have money.. DON'T have education.. DON'T have skills and acumen in how the 21st century society runs.. that is OUR problem. The Africans have EVERY RIGHT to say "this is our land.. ALWAYS been our home.. these are OUR WAYS.. but if you're coming here then you SHOULD bring the modern blessings of the west.. you SHOULD have your act together... you SHOULD know more about us than we would know about you.. YOU'VE had free access to information.. when WE AFRICANS have visited and done business in America YOU could have been there to greet us and meet us.. and YOU should have been taking your incomes, revenues, retirements and earnings and INVESTING in us before the Europeans did. THAT would have shown familial legacy that you have here in Africa.... NOT coming to Ghana and collapsing in tears about the leaving of your ancestors 400 years ago when you brought sweet potatoes and rice from Africa to America.. but you bring not so frequent education in mining, engineering, business, architecture, education, organizational knowledge!!! Shame on YOU!" There is no excuse for secondary education among black Americans to be less widespread and deep versus Africans who make a point of traveling the world and locking down degrees and education!
Much love, thanks for the support given ❤ and to all black Americans and black people in the diaspora, Africa is home to you all💯
We love you Ndagire ❤❤❤
And who the fuck is you? You hold no power in any government.
And who the fuck is you? You hold no power in any government.
And who the fuck is you? You hold no power in any government.
And who the fuck is you? You hold no power in any government.
I lived in the Caribbean for 15 years, you have to earn there respect.
Best experience of my life...x
Where
I have closely worked with people from three African countries while on contract in the Middle East. They tended to hold US Black people in very low regard. "Entitled" and "trouble makers" were the two most frequently stated reasons for their distain. Seems "I'm here in Africa to show you all how it's done." isn't an attitude conducive to building good relationships.
Moved to Ethiopia 8 years ago. Wonderful place. wonderful people, wonderful culture. Much depends on the individual who moves to a country in Africa as to what their experience is.