 you know i think when you have an african mom you by force will learn you will learn the language you will learn how to cook you will learn the culture but from a dad passing that true at least my dad always said that no let her learn dutch your dad was ghanian yes and your mom dutch so you're a mixed race yes yes you're also a mixed race yes and they're also mixed race it's not easy being mixed race it comes with difficulty sometimes because at one part you don't belong to the white people and at one part you don't belong to the black people why is it like that well in the Netherlands when somebody asks me like oh where are you from i'll say oh i'm then i'm i'm dutch i'm from Amsterdam and they say no you're not and say yeah i'm dutch i was born in the Netherlands no but i mean where are you really from and then they'll start touching their skin like you know where are you from the signs and i said well i'm from the Netherlands my dad's ghanian so all you're not really dutch well i'm born here so i'm dutch so you always have to explain yourself right well when we came to Ghana and people ask us where are you from we say oh i'm half ghanian half dutch or oh i'm ghanian they'll say wow and there are no questions there's just like welcome that's the only thing yeah wow so you feel a sense of belonging yes yes yes hello where's that champong family my name is my name is Anna a champong and i'm Kevin Isaac a champong and we're the champong family we make videos about our move to Ghana welcome back to the youtube channel it's your favorite village boy mr ghanababy and today i'm joined by one and only youtube family in Ghana yes hello the a champong family yes we're here everywhere people are telling me that you cannot come to a crab without meeting the champong family because there is one crab have i committed i need to meet it before i leave so nice to have you on the internet you don't know that we're getting a lot of love yeah yeah it's coming now yeah why why people love you guys so much i mean it's it's mainly because we are just who we are and we show everything yeah we're a family thing and and we show everything how it is wow yeah you're based in Ghana right now yes but where were you before Netherlands oh wow Holland yeah i you speak dutch yes oh yeah i speak dutch oh look at this vast a lot of italians that is dutch that's very german gentleman yes and then you have dutch holland so it's different the neighbors from each other i'm sorry next time i'm gonna do better don't worry are you guys from Ghana because the name of the champion is a ghanian name yeah so my father's from Ghana and her father's from Ghana yes which makes us ghanian yeah and your mom dutch and we are both born and raised in the Netherlands like Sophie Jane as well this is gonna be an interesting story just sit here and i have so many questions to ask you okay okay you were born in Netherlands yes Amsterdam to be precise yeah and what are you both of you doing in Ghana looking for a better life it's not only looking for a better life but i mean living the better life educating our children about Ghana uh giving them an opportunity which we feel like this is something they gain an experience which is it will have a big impact on my life i hope they'll thank us eventually for it yeah i don't understand i don't understand what you're saying she's saying living a better life looking for a peaceful life you are saying that giving the opportunity for the kids to know who they are or something yeah yeah true know their heritage and all that are you trying to say you didn't get a chance to know where you're coming from or something well uh the way i've been brought up i didn't learn a lot about my ghanian part uh i forgot my father but he didn't explain everything about traditions and those things and i've been to Ghana before a period twice for a short period and i have a lot of friends who have gone multiple times but for me it's not the same so i haven't got all the education about gana and about the ways and i felt like and we felt like it's time to do our parts and to bring it to them or to bring them to here yeah we wanted to pass that heritage because you know african heritage is very good and very their traditions their culture is so rich and we want to pass that true to our children especially when she started asking like why am i brown who is grandpa where am i coming from why am i not just looking the same like other kids then we let her know that she's african and she needs to be proud but we weren't really brought up that way so how can we how can we give that to her if we don't have that that's why we decided to come and learn as a whole family this is interesting and how has the experience been like so far wonderful ups and downs and yeah it's it's it's been a rough ride with a lot of eye-openers yeah but it's been very fun and educational yeah and also very nice to just come together as a family you know migrating to a different continent is quite difficult because you leave your family you leave your friends you leave the people you know and then you only come with us for so that made us like i think we connected better yeah and i think maybe i can even say that gana saved our marriage wow no let's let's go the gana saved your marriage yeah how well you know waiting together for a long time it gets tough sometimes you know he's always working i'm always home with the kids and he needs to work a lot so he will come home late and then the kids were already in bed i did everything so sometimes i'm frustrated and then sometimes i take it out on him or he takes it out on me so yeah so which means you are busy working every day every day which is normal which is well nine to five and weekends you're free but yeah but then still at that time we're building a house and do a lot of construction things and you're in the range a lot of things so basically you're an autopilot doing things and we won't have any time to so basically you're both your whole house in netherland and you decided to leave all that behind and come to gana yeah you see the way your mom and that sacrifice for you they did that because of you you know that yes you're living in gana as a family yeah the kids were not born in here yeah what are the pros and cons living in gana as a family like this okay for us i think because they didn't speak the language when they came here it was a bit difficult they were only known to dutch language so when they came here they struggled a bit at the beginning but i think through school and friends and playing they learned it in about three months would you say three months that you could speak english by that time like two months two months yeah they were really fast yeah like before they couldn't speak any english no oh no hi how are you fine oh okay and uh it's the same oh wow okay that's a plus amazing yeah yeah and um i mean coming here to gana of course it's not always the same like kids used to play outside and kids are playing outside here you know covid now has changed that thing yeah but still things are possible it's you just have to manage yeah but there are a lot of pros like the weather is one for instance she she always doesn't like to wear socks and are wearing like these shirts underneath her shirt she was always complaining that it doesn't nice it doesn't it's not that but when you're here just wear whatever you want sometimes they shower in the rain they'll be just outside when it's raining and they'll feel free um what else they can swim whenever they want i think the sun does something to you i mean when you're of color and you you have sun 247 it does something to you it gives you a good five yeah good five you just wake up open a curtains and be like wow i'm gonna enjoy the day you just smile because of the sun and and the heat it's it's amazing it makes you happy and and it's also makes you happy because in old land it's raining every day so you can't go and swim somewhere but in gana again yeah okay and uh how is your experience in gana you didn't tell me do you enjoy living in gana yes yes you have so many friends in here how many friends do you have in gana i don't know you don't know i have too much friends too much friends what are your friends i can't even count them wow you can count your ghanian friends yes okay they teach you the tree they don't teach you a little bit a little bit mom wants to teach me oh mommy's teaching her a bit you speak the tree language no no i don't but i have some basic words that i'm not trying to teach them i think you know when we came we should have told everybody that don't speak english to us speak tree but then the english is there so whenever we now tell people that no no no speak tree they don't they just speak english to us so that's something we really need to work on i'm trying now i mean whenever we go out and going for shopping or other errands yeah yeah you try you try yeah you know like you guys are living in gana as a family and i know there are so many people out there who are looking forward to bring their family back in gana if you should advise people like that what will it be it is really nice for kids to live here it's really nice in general for anybody to live here like i would say there in the netherlands you're you're a bit confined to your home and nobody's really talking to you but here everybody is out and you talk you go to the grocery store you meet new people it's it's very nice well and the people love you they do they do yeah you know she has uncountable friends yeah she's really enjoying the thing i love i really love about gana and i think it's all all over africa but i've noticed it in gana really people accept you as you are yeah people are glad that you're here yeah it's it's the love you get is so so refreshing so warm um i can i can recommend everybody to just come and and see and experience it because it's so nice and especially bringing your family here having a small kids feel feel the warmth of other people embracing them and and feeling welcome that's so beautiful oh i just want to know right now you in gana yes you tell me you're living your best life yes hey how can you live your best life in gana what do you do like what do you do in gana in general we saved for it to live here but we do we now do youtube yeah youtube is what we do yeah we create we we start with a hobby educating people and educating our family and friends and i have seen your youtube channel and i believe that you guys are doing an incredible job thank you got like 10 000 subscribers yes we gotta take it to the next level yeah of course come tell them tell them you know what tell them that it's by force to come and subscribe to their champion family tell them right now it's by force uh-huh you know what we're gonna do they are sharing their experiences in gana and i believe that we need to support people like this i mean their story can inspire so many out there what are you waiting for as i always do it's by force i'm not going to tell you oh please go and those guys no we gotta support our own this is when black lives matters comes in when you start supporting each other we're going to be stronger together so what i'm going to do right now i'm going to put the youtube channel link in the description it's by force 10 000 subscribers we're going to take them to 20 000 and after 20 000 they want to go to 30 000 it's none of our business let's talk about cost of living living in gana's family yeah is it expensive or cheaper um it depends yeah that's a real difficult question but i think um the value of what you get here is way more but um if you can leave your western life behind and leave your western mentalities behind the cost of living is way cheaper here but if you can't leave that behind and you still want to have that western food um the western things around you like all imported that's that comes with the cost yeah that's that's good and it also depends on where you stay yeah i mean akra is more expensive than takra yeah thank you so much but you know like i have so many questions but i don't want this video to belong but i just want both of you to share a message you know if you should advise the african diaspora who are looking forward to visit live in africa you'll find a message to them well so basically come to gana come explore come and see what it can do for you but mainly come and bring something bring yourself here bring value edit and try to build up this country in a way everybody benefits from it not only you but everybody in your surroundings that's my main message when you're black when your skin color has any type of blackness in it you need to come to africa don't matter which country but you just need to visit at least once it will heal your soul oh that's a beautiful message and i just want to ask is it worth it to live and invest in africa very much very very much yeah i've seen a lot of things around me people just starting a very small business and that blew up i mean africa is the future take the risk africa is the future take the risk but i would say that africa is present how what are you gonna say say something before we go