Random Acts of Blackness: TonyaTko Talks abt Trip 2 Africa

While walking along I discuss shades of Blackness while getting my exercise in. I talk about my trip to Africa as well as some hunky morsels I peep in the park

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[artistnme4life]

I enjoy all of your topis and especially the walking vlogs..I appreciate the time u take outt o do all that you do and share with us.You are a good speaker and seem to relate to many things.I feel like we think on the same wavelength and have similar things in common.I am saying all this to say thank you and I appreciate you.

[TonyaTko]

Okay Art..... How much do you want to borrow? You are butterin me up TOO good! :-P

-Tko

[jjay226]

how do you spell the man name she says from 1:33 to 1:35?

[TonyaTko]

Who Lou Ferrigno?

-Tko

[ddenniscoleman3]

Thanks for the reply. Wish I can put smileys on this comment but I guess this will do.

[yourdreamgirl87]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[yourdreamgirl87]

HOW???? !!!! TELL ME MORE PLEASE, LOL

is there a website

[TonyaTko]

After ALL of that typed I felt I HAD to respond :-P

Thank you for taking the time to educate us on your experience as well as provide some resources for us to follow up iwith... I appreciate it.

-Tko

[ddenniscoleman3]

Typo. Last comment, I lied! LOL!

[ddenniscoleman3]

Not enough space. I feel like I'm writing an essay but this is my comment, I promise, LOL! Since Tonya that you're traveler and interested in visiting West Africa, I thought that book might be of interest to you. It has a catchy title called: Roots Recovered: The How To Guide For Tracing African-American and West Indian Roots Back to Africa and Going There For Free Or On a Shoestring Budget by James E. White, Esq. and Jean-Gontran Quenum, MBA.

[ddenniscoleman3]

... I actually went to Ghana last year in the Spring and the funny thing about it was that unknowingly in hindsight I was going to the place of my recent ancestors and my father went there twice during his college years and had thought of living there.

[ddenniscoleman3]

Also, sorry for saturating up the comments section but I'm so passionate about this. Another EX: is that Haitians, who practice Voodoo, share a very similar link to the Vodun practiced in Benin. Most Haitian's ancestry link to the Bight of Benin (also known as the Slave Coast) which would include the countries of Benin and Nigeria.

[ddenniscoleman3]

I read a book called Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas that touches on how certain slaves of certain ethnic groups were sent to specific geograpical locations in the Americas and not at random. The documentation on certain ethnic markers were kept at times intact not only by slave or court records but also by the slaves themselves...

[ddenniscoleman3]

There's ways of figuring out when you're roots are. I did a DNA test on both my mother and father's sides indication that on my father's side I am of Akan descent in Ghana and on my mother's side of Tikar (Quincy Jones on his mother's side happens to be of Tikar descent as well), Hausa and Fulani descent in Cameroon...