You might just have a headache. Pray for your headache! Let the Lord take over -- breathe, auntie. Breathe.
Now that is false to the core
That's not true
We have a lot of things: we have Maserati. We have Lamborghini. We have Ferrari. The amount of cars people drive in Nigeria
I don't even think people here can afford it. I think for South Africa, specifically, there's a very large population of underprivileged people
Not many people have jobs
That means that a lot of people perhaps live like that
But there's a very large percentage of people that live in South Africa that live very well. We have houses
Some of them are better made than here in Canada. There's like what we would call a Shanty Town. It's running water. Yeah, okay
There's electricity. I mean, there's still some huts, you know, but not all of the huts
You know that one kid with the big belly and the fly that never grows up. It's been the same commercial for 15 --
People have started moving into the huts just to get the experience. Yes, they like the hippies who want the experience
Oh, we want to understand the black plight.
Obviously there's poverty everywhere in the world. And it's just kind of unfortunate that that's the part that's shown in western media
Yes, yes
That's a very good stereotype. I know. I'm gonna stick to that, yeah.
When we wake up we celebrate. Yes. We want to sleep we throw a party for that. When you finish your school
There's celebrations, when I break with
with my girlfriend I celebrate
We love dancing. We love music. We love food. I miss the food of my mom
You have a baby - celebration the baby dies there is celebration. Your neighbor is happy, having a party - you're there
I wasn't even told how to dance. It was just there was music everywhere
We didn't necessarily have a TV or whatever when I was younger
So it was mostly about like having fun all the time, expressing ourselves. That's just natural, really. Not too brag but yeah.
I would say 100%
I would say like 80% like
Africa is still a complicated and sad place at times. So yeah, they sing and dance through it
Look at all the the bad things that happen in Africa. If we have been to focus on the bad thing
we didn't go anywhere. I have to say something - when I eat, I dance. I know it sounds a bit morbid
But you go to a funeral, people will end up dancing
It's a way to really express kind of any emotion, I think and that
plays into even my kitchen. If I am happy I want to dance. I thought you're going to be like, yeah
that'll play into my funeral. African people understand that life is too short. A lot of us are very, um religious or spiritual
so the fact that you woke up is a blessing. We're gonna take the bad thing and make music of this dance
Oh my gosh, you see what I mean though? We party with everything!
There's a church literally on every corner in certain areas within South Africa
When you do your driver's license - a little prayer before. I just have a headache. PRAY FOR YOUR HEADACHE
LET THE LORD TAKE OVER -- breathe auntie, breathe! Even for us like when you say hi, how are you?
Usually when somebody will respond I'm good. They'll say IN JESUS NAME I'M GOOD.
You can open your door in the morning and then never come back, right? Yeah, you open the door
thanks God, you know for making me to blessing my journey, because you want to come back
Because of the Colonism brought the religions with them, so it's really implemented in the culture
You know, some people still have their beliefs in their like old school traditional
Like witch doctors and spirits. The Tokoloshe? Oh my word.
It's like this little demon that comes into your house and like crawls into your bed at night
and he takes you takes your thoughts. People will put their beds onto bricks to raise their beds up for the Tokoloshe
There is one country in Africa
I don't know about the other countries but for us that is not true. Ahem Nigeria.
I will say Nigerian men are very showy, bragging and - thank you! Exactly!
Yeah, i'm here
I'm just saying
I can recognize them from afar. Like I can actually smell them coming. That's how bad it is. I saw him - I'm, like WHAT? OK?
She knows the taste of her men. He knows how to clean up nice
I'm gonna say Congo. Congolese people really want to show that they have
Good looking like good suit with the good shoes with
everything
Sapologie is like a religion. You'd see like a bling car but at like a rundown house. Totally and brand conscious
oh my word! If it doesn't say like
NIKE PUMA
or even ARMANI, anything big
The bigger the letters the better, the bigger the knockers on the fingers the better. Because they they want to show that they're wealthy
and that's what people judge on, but South African specifically South African men, uh,
like the farmer type stereotype always wear weird shorts shorts
Shorts like khakhis, like short shorts.. like if a girl wore that
You'd be like - what is happening. They'll wear like stuff with like car branding on it like
HARLEY DAVIDSON
Like or NISSAN?
Or like a big tire. Yeah. No, it's definitely not
Africans in general I would say some countries, more West Africa, I would say yeah
Are we in like a cartoon or something? As you guys can see we actually can wear clothes. I know in Mali in the village
They're still doing this for the wedding for uh a newborn
There are definitely people that still keep their traditions and that have that, you know, the tribe of course and more simple, of course
But that's definitely not
Everybody! It's not something existent anymore. Yeah, that's traditional
Culture. Back to the roots. Been up into sort of North Africa
So as far as Kenya and the Maasai that live there they are definitely in their traditional gear
Some of the Zulu people might, but like not as common as I guess people think. And I think also it really depends on the tribe
So some tribes are more into
The face paint and the cloth versus other tribes are not
Africans... are black? No! My mother. She's as white as anything
No
No! Let's mention South Africa
HI! HELLO!
Like I'll show up to things I'll say I'm African, and they're like
What? And i'm like yeah, we come in this shade. One of my very good friends actually is white, but she's Nigerian
It's a massive content Africa! People don't get it. It's huge and we're on it
And we're a different shade. I mean, we're even a different shade from each other
We're basically the face of the world, like you can find everything. Thank you! United States of Africa
That's what I'm rooting for!
Yes and no, depending on the location you are
Listen, I feel safer in Africa than in Paris, New York, London. That's not true
That's because of the media I think. Don't go to another place in the village
So if you go to the village your life is in danger
DON'T LISTEN! WHAT?
It feeds to the stereotype that the media like to project about Africans being
savages or kind of really behind
Yes, we have a lot of maladies, but if you take care of yourself before you go
There's nothing to be scared
I'm, not saying this because i'm an African! You need to make sure that you're not in unmarked cabs or taxis
um, and you're not walking around late at night, I mean
but doesn't that just make sense? Depending on who you take with you
is how you're going to enjoy Nigeria. If you take someone that doesn't know anything
it could be dangerous. If you go with somebody that knows the area, any area - you're good!
except if you're white and they might kidnap you. No no!
Just don't throw your wealth in people's faces. Oh, look. I have the newest iphone 10, and this person has no food
What do you think is going to happen?
The most annoying one is "oh do you speak African since you're from Africa?"
No, I do not!
Do you speak "tktktk?" like listen
Oh, you don't sound African. What do Africans sound like?
Sound like me!
I always struggled to pronounce this term. There is a fetishization
having sex with a black woman. Once you turn black you don't go back and it's different and this and that and
I'm tired of it! Black people are good at running or sport or gym. When you talk about the size of the genital part of
men and women. Genital body in general like
the butt and whatever. I agree. I am tired of that! Everyone is different
The poverty
Same. Just so unfair because there's so much to see, so much to live there
And I'm tired of people coming to us and like no, you know, I feel guys
No, it's dangerous. I don't feel like going there. Oh, did you have like a pet lion?
Oh, yeah! The most rational person wouldn't have a pet lion. Why would I do it?
just because i'm in Africa? We don't all speak the same language
Like we can be from the same country and not even understand each other
Because there's so many languages. There's so many dialects
Ah so many
Africa
is
A country no, no. Sorry. It's not a country. It's a continent a big mistake
okay, I I made a mistake because
You hear that a lot. That's why. You know, I would like companies to stop ravishing it. That would be nice
Uh, I don't think they're gonna watch this video and take my advice
We're actually very nice people and we love to party and we love to eat and we just
really like people. I think we're just people that are really full of life and that have a really big heart
People take care of each other. It's very collective community-based. Yeah, it's very community-based
And then also like they know that you're from abroad so they'll take care of you
Yes, they don't want it on their conscience if something happened to an abroad child.. trust!
This is an African saying that once the soil is in your shoes it never leaves you. Cameroon, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire
All this - it's beautiful out there. I was complaining about this, this, this and that whereas these people they have nothing in their life
They are struggling financially
But here they are feeding me, treating me like a queen. This is where the world started
That's that's pure. Say it louder for the people in the back!
two one god
Man with love is
You