- I'm African.
- I am African.
(dramatic music)
- [All] Hi.
- Hello.
- What's up guys?
- What's everyone's name? Where are you from?
- I'll start, I'm Sadiq from Ghana.
Born and raised yeah, obviously.
- When did you move?
- Oh, 2013.
August 24th was actually my ten year anniversary.
- Okay.
- [Sadiq] So I've been here for 10 years.
- Hi everyone, my name is Deborah.
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and yeah. (laughs)
- She never said when she came to the US
and I just felt like she's been here her whole life.
- My name is Blessing.
I was born in Port Harcourt
and I moved to America I think when I was like five.
I've lived in Los Angeles ever since.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Hi, my name is Inda.
I am, well, my dad is from Central African Republic.
I was born and raised there,
but my mom is from Ivory Coast
so it's like, I was raised in both places
and I moved to the United States when I was eight years old.
- She said she was born and raised in two countries.
I feel like if you're the fake,
that's a good strategy to use.
It's gonna be harder to quiz someone from two countries.
What place did you like better?
- I liked Ivory Coast.
No shade to my dad,
it's just that like the vibes are more beaches.
- West Africa. - My family.
Yeah, West Africa for real! - West Africa stand up.
- My name's Elizabeth.
I was born and raised in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
- Hi everyone, my name is Sheila.
I'm Kenyan, born and raised Nairobi, Kenya.
I moved here last year.
- Okay, hi guys, my name is Sam,
but I go by the name Big Sam,
'cause you know every we do it big.
(everyone laughing)
- Big guy, fresh guy.
- We do it big over here, okay?
- He's a fresh guy.
- I was born in Zambia. Born and raised in Zambia.
Then I came here like four, five years ago.
So you know, trying to get used to things still.
But yeah, that's that.
- Okay.
- I already forgot everyone's name but...
- Yeah.
(timer rings)
(dramatic music)
- The accent and speaking Yoruba.
Maybe she was overcompensating.
(dramatic music continues)
- She was just too quiet.
(buzzer buzzes)
- Just the way that I sound,
I think my accent is more towards
like an American sounding accent.
(timer dings)
- I have a question.
When we're here we have to speak like Americans sometimes
and like Africans sometimes.
So what's like, your American accent
and what's your African accent?
- My African accent comes more
when I'm speaking to family
and other people from Africa. - Me too.
- Like, right now I feel like I'm speaking to Africans,
so it's coming out.
- Yeah.
- But I am also into acting
and I work with a lot of white people,
so sometimes I have to switch it up.
- Oh shit, you can do that fast?
- So you switch?
- I was just like, hm, he's an actor,
he could be acting, he could be lying.
These actors, they know how to play it off.
- Every time I try to like do American accent,
I can start like, I'll be like, oh yo yo yo.
(everyone laughing)
And then before I know it,
I will start speaking rubbish, okay?
- Right, right, right.
- And that African accent will always come out.
- It will, it's real.
- I will yell sometimes accidentally,
I'll just be like...
- For me it's only when I'm frustrated.
- For me it's like with my family for sure.
Like right now I'm talking but like, I speak French,
so it's not (speaking French).
So, I'm not gonna like talk like,
it's not like the Nigerian accent
where you know, there's English in there.
It's more like a French accent
and you can kind of hear it when I talk.
But you like, it's like, it's back there.
You know what I mean?
- Even though she was French-speaking,
that would have been a bit more obvious,
but I could only hear America in her accent.
- Also, I agree with what you said with frustration.
When you're in emotional situations,
you don't really think before you talk, you just speak.
- What about you Sam?
- So basically mine,
I could never fake an American accent to save my life.
Even when I think I'm trying to fake it,
it just never works out.
'Cause my friends are like,
so what do you think you did there?
(everyone laughing)
- But you're also not from West Africa.
I feel like West Africa,
their English is a bit better.
- Yeah, what part of Africa are you from?
- I'm from Zambia.
- [Sadiq] Zambia.
- [Elizabeth] Zambia is like, south?
- Southern, yes.
So I have like the typical African accent,
like the Wakanda accent.
(everyone laughing)
Yeah because like, now I've accepted it.
It is what it is.
Let's just, you know, call it what it is.
- I think me too 'cause I'm Kenyan.
You know the accent they make black Americans speak
when they're trying to be African?
- You're Nigerian, right?
- Yes.
- Recite states and capital.
- Oh.
- You said what?
- States and capital.
- All of the states and capital?
- Just try. Just try. Just try.
- Why don't you recite the states and capital?
- No, no, no, no, you do it!
- Because I grew up in America.
I can't even do that for the 50 states.
- Okay, that's a good point.
- What's like an expression in your country
that people say like as they're like,
whenever they're like...
Let's say they're- - Shocked?
- Yeah, shocked.
- Ay! - Eh!
- Ha!
- Mine is wey.
- Mine's like hi.
- [Blessing] How about you?
- Yey.
(everyone laughing)
- There's something I do wanna say though,
before the time run out.
And I'm so sorry, Blessing, I'm gonna come for you.
- Go ahead, go ahead. Come for me.
- And I genuinely feel like if you're a Nigerian,
there's no way you cannot recite the state and capital
if you grew up in Nigeria.
Like, they beat us to recite it.
- I said I lived in Nigeria for five years
and then I came to the States.
- You lived in Nigeria for five years.
So you didn't go to school at all?
- Yeah, I didn't even start school in Nigeria.
- There's no way you have not start school
and you're five years old.
- Yeah, we moved.
We moved exactly at five. - But he might not remember.
- My dad was a lecturer and we moved to Los Angeles.
- How are you Nigerian and you cannot do (speaking Yoruba)?
'Cause they literally beat us to learn that.
It's not giving.
- Nigerians, when you were five,
do you remember who the president was?
- Mmm.
- When you were young.
- When I was five, I think it was Obasanjo.
- No, she's wrong actually.
Oh no, Obasanjo, no she's right.
99 to 2007.
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(dramatic music)
- Like her outfit just, I just thought she was American.
She looked American.
(dramatic music continues)
- Maybe Blessing is not lying 'cause his attitude, his aura,
his energy, was giving Nigerian.
Sam, when I see him with the tennis everything, no way.
With that hair?
No way, you're not African bro, okay?
(dramatic music continues)
- [Narrator] It is a tie.
- [All] Oh!
- Lord.
- [Narrator] Between Blessing and Inda.
Each of you are going to get 40 seconds to state your case.
- So, I didn't wanna say this
because it is just so personal to me.
I was debating talking about it on camera.
To come into the US I had to like,
there was a war in my country.
- Which one? Sorry.
- In Central African Republic, Bangui.
It's still going on now.
And we had to leave because I had family members that like,
you know, just we lost them through the war
and so we had to find refugee
or asylum in the United States.
Sorry.
- That's okay.
- [Narrator] Are you okay, Inda?
- I'm okay, I'm okay.
- [Narrator] Okay.
- Before I begin, I just wanna say,
I'm sorry about all that.
My parents do a lot of work in Central African Republic,
they do missions.
So, very aware of the situation
and sorry to hear about that.
But to you specifically (speaking in a foreign language).
I shouldn't be expected to be a Lagos boy.
(Elizabeth speaking in a foreign language)
That's it.
So yeah, like I said, I came at the age of five.
My dad is a lecturer,
so he got an opportunity to come to United States and teach.
So yeah, all my upbringing is American.
I am super American, but deep down I'm a Naija boy at heart.
- Period.
- Yeah, that's it.
I'm a Naija boy at heart.
I even cut my blood, you can see it.
(everyone laughing)
Obviously, it's a very hard position to be in
because I think everybody is African already,
so it's very hard. (timer ringing)
(dramatic music)
- Inda told a very personal story
and it would be a bit insensitive
to bring something that has happened to lots of people
and use it as your own story.
(dramatic music continues)
- It's something very sensitive to, you know, call out.
Didn't think what she was talking about was a lie,
but I just thought she didn't really go through that
and she began to cry,
but I didn't see a single tear.
- I had a genuine reaction like,
oh I'm so sorry to hear that,
'cause I know a lot of war goes on in Africa,
but at the same time it was Inda versus Blessing.
If it was maybe Inda versus Sam,
of course you know who I would pick. (laughing)
(buzzer buzzing)
(intense music)
- You guys, I cried for you.
(everyone laughing)
I honestly was kind of shocked
because that would be really like sick (laughs)
of an individual to just make that up,
but I'm glad I got to speak about it
and hopefully it brings attention
to the issues that are going on.
- [Narrator] If everyone feels confident
that you already caught the mole, you can end the game now.
Please raise your hand if you want to continue playing.
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] All right.
(timer ticking)
- Okay.
- Okay, I'm gonna go Sam, I'm coming for you.
Do not go.
See, first of all, the energy was just giving,
oh my God, don't catch me.
First of all, second of all wait.
Calm down bro.
See, I noticed something about African men
when they move here.
Their fashion sense will be different.
Your fashion is giving me...
- American.
- [Elizabeth] You're not, I swear, you look good.
- I was like first of all, this shirt is great.
Okay, this is Spongebob.
Like I've got this from Target, okay?
- No, no, no.
- It's actually giving me African.
- No, no, no.
- It's giving me some, an American
that is like in senior high school.
- I feel like you're forgetting this actor.
- But is a nerd.
- He's an actor.
- Wait, this is between the two of you.
I'm not involved. - Wait, wait, wait.
Don't bring him. - You guys have your
conversation, leave me out.
- I'm feeling like an African that was raised in Africa.
Okay? You don't dress like that.
But then I'm trying not to judge you
'cause you're from Zambia.
And I'm not gonna lie, I'm not extremely familiar.
- Honestly, even in Kenya, guys dress like this, so.
- Yes. I think you're giving me African.
- West African guys do fashion.
- I don't trust you.
- When I first moved from Ghana to the States,
I dressed similar to you.
- When did you come here? When did you come here?
- 2018.
- So, you went to what school?
Like did you go to high school here, college or what?
- So, I've been primary school, high school,
I did everything back in my country in Zambia.
- What was the name of your teacher in primary?
- I had so many teachers.
- Hold on. What you mean, so you moved here for college?
You moved here for college?
- College at 2018.
- On what kind of visa?
- Student visa.
What else? What other visa do you?
- What's it called?
- F1 visa. - Okay, okay.
- If you asked me that question, I would have failed
'cause I didn't come on student visa.
- What did you come with? - Wait what did you come on?
- What did you come on?
- I come here 'cause my grandparents have been living here
so they filed for my dad, me, they filed for us.
- So you guys got green card?
- So we just come here as green card holder.
- What's the hardest part about living here as an African?
- One thing that I found a little weird but not hard
was the fact that Americans enjoy cold food.
Like, you know, food just left on the table.
- Cold pizzas.
- Yeah, like cold pizza or like just leave the,
I like my food hot.
You know, I feel like most Africans, you know,
they'll eat their food straight from the pot.
- First of all, when I first got here,
and you people were kissing in public,
that was rubbish for me.
- What year did you get here?
- 2015.
- Honestly.
- 2015, 2018.
- 2018.
- Last year, 2022. - Oh wow.
- 2013, you came just last year?
- Yeah.
- Really?
- So they weren't here for like the hard part
'cause when you guys came like
Africa was already kind of cool.
- Yeah.
- Way back when we were here I actually didn't do things.
- I don't think I would've done high school out here.
- African British culture.
You guys are walking to school,
riding on elephant to school.
We're just like.
- No, you have to play along - Calm.
- Yeah.
- I feel like I'm an outsider twice,
because I came here and like in my school
there's a lot of black students
so I'm like ah there's black people like me.
But once I say I'm African it's like,
I'm not even like the other black people, you know?
I'm separated from them so.
- Since I lived here for so long,
it was like the cultural differences.
Like my parents didn't let me do anything, right like,
Couldn't go to parties. - No sleepovers.
- Couldn't spend the night at a friend's house.
Even like at a certain point like Jordans, things like that,
my dad didn't want me to come
be like one of those yo yo yo guys.
So like, they didn't want me doing any of that culture.
- And you know (speaking in a foreign language).
- Yeah, so like certain things
like he would just not let us even wear
because yeah, what it would like represent.
So I think for me, that was like the hardest thing.
Not being able to like fully integrate
and going to school and still kind of being an outsider.
But I'm like, but I've been here like,
I'm basically African American.
- I wanted to add one small thing.
Also like pronunciations, words.
When I first came there are certain times that-
- Nobody can hear you.
- Yeah, you start talking
and people stop paying attention to you
just 'cause they don't understand what you're saying
and then that makes you a little bit more timid, you know?
- Like I can't even order from drive through, okay?
They'll say come to the front,
I say I'm not coming to the front.
You're going to hear what I'm saying.
Two order burger, two patty.
(everyone laughing)
They wanted to kill me, okay?
- Okay, I feel like for me it was making friends.
I feel like Americans are very open.
Like, you will meet them, they'll tell you about their-
- Their whole life. - Divorce.
Every single thing that has happened in their life.
And then ah, they give you their number
and in your mind you're thinking,
oh we're friends, we're cool, this is it,
like we're locked in, this is for life.
Tomorrow, they don't pick up your phone call.
(phone beeping) I said oop?
- That's so true.
- I said, and they even walk past.
(timer ringing) They said who?
- He had the African attire
and I just felt like that was too obvious.
(dramatic music)
- Every time I look at that table
and I need to vote, I just see you, okay? (laughing)
- Elizabeth, she started like pressing Sam.
You could see he was getting nervous.
Like he started like fumbling in his answers.
I was like, yes.
It's like an auntie is actually peppering him now.
Like, he doesn't know what to do.
(dramatic music continues)
- [Narrator] We have another tie breaker.
(intense music)
- Oh Lord.
- [Narrator] Between Sam and Sadiq.
I will give the rest of the group a minute
to deliberate on who you want to vote off.
- Vote wisely.
(Elizabeth and Sheila laughing)
- Mind your business.
- [Narrator] Okay.
- I don't believe him.
The Wakanda shit, I don't believe it.
- He did say that. He did say that.
- I don't believe him.
- I would never compare to Wakanda.
- I would never compare my accent to Wakanda.
- I know what he's saying though. I know what he's saying.
- I feel like you're coming from the perspective
of you are Kenyan and he can defend you
the way we can defend ourselves.
- Yeah 'cause we defending each other almost.
But she doesn't agree so like we should.
- Yeah, but it's two against one, so.
- [Narrator] All right.
- That was hard.
- I hope I don't cry after this, okay?
- [Blessing] West Africans always rigging elections.
I'm sorry.
(Elizabeth laughing)
- I tried.
(buzzer buzzing)
- The agenda, I saw it.
(Blessing laughing)
- I am covering my face, okay.
- West Africans, eh? - Actually thought I was out.
- That was so snaky.
I felt so betrayed because like,
I'm the most African African.
- [Narrator] Please raise your hand
if you would like to continue playing the game.
- I wanna continue. I feel like we should.
It's up to you guys.
- [Narrator] It's three against one, the game is done.
- Ugh!
- [Narrator] If the lights turn green,
you caught the mole and you win.
If the lights turn red, you didn't catch them,
they're still in the game and you lose.
Three, two, one.
(dramatic music)
- What? I'm gonna kill one of you guys.
- What the hell?
- Why is it one of us?
- No!
- No, it's not her.
There's something she said.
- [Narrator] Can the mole please step forward
and reveal themselves?
Three,
two,
one.
- I knew it!
- Wait, I knew it was you!
- No you did not!
No you didn't.
- I knew!
- I knew, you cannot say state and capital.
- Your accent was way too impressive.
- I'm sorry all, I'm sorry, please forgive me.
- I knew that!
- But I'm still a Naija guy through and through.
Almost everything today I said was true.
The only difference is I was actually born here
and then I went back for like two years.
- I knew it.
- And then I came back to the States and I stayed here.
(Deborah speaking in a foreign language)
Amen.
(group exclaiming)
- Thank you.
No hard feelings for being eliminated.
It's the game. I can't really do anything about that.
I just know that it'll cause some reflection maybe
from the people and you know,
not to assume or to just open your heart.
- I got voted out because there was an agenda.
An agenda to keep the West Africans in.
But she was like, well I'm gonna save
my little brother from Nigeria
and then now she finds out
that he was the one that was actually lying.
So look at you.
- Dear Sam. (laughing)
I'm so sorry bro.
I swear to God.
See, I love you Sam, okay?
Genuinely.
And I apologize my dear Inda.
I felt bad that even though you cried
and you were being vulnerable,
at that time, I still voted you out.
I'm so sorry.
- I kind of felt that I was gonna
win this one to be fair.
They're all really cool.
Whenever I'm around, like other Africans,
especially West Africans, we always click.
Love all you guys when you're watching this.
I didn't mean to lie, but I had to do it for the bag.
I had to do it for the bag.
Real Naija guy.
Wow, wow.
Wow.
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