 This trip to Caribbean would definitely cost me a fortune, but I still have to do it. Finally, that time is here. I've been planning this trip for God knows how. A lot kept on happening, but ghost time is always the best. The time is here and listen, I'm super excited to be exploring the other part of the world. I mean, the new world. I'm excited man. I don't even know what to tell you man. Like, hey, let's go to Brazil. Ha ha ha! We made it man. This is one of the longest flights in my whole travels. It reminds me of the days that I used to go to China. 18 hours, but this time around I spent 12 hours in the plane man. Even my waist is paining me. This is connection, baggage claim. Yeah. I can't believe I'm in Brazil bro. I just can't believe it. I mean, what do you think of Brazil man? For me, it's all about football. I mean, Ronaldo. I remember growing up in Africa used to be called Bebeto. I am here. Finally excited to be here and I can't wait to share all the exciting stories with you all. Welcome to Sao Paulo. Welcome to Brazil. We're here and we're in Sao Paulo, but the main goal of coming to Brazil is more of connecting the Africans that were taken away from Africa and brought to Brazil. That is the reason why we are here because we're trying to bridge the gap between Africans living in the diaspora and Africans living in Africa. When I talk about diaspora, I'm not talking about Africans that left the continent by choice, but people that left the continent by force. Yeah. So we're here. We're here and checking out the city that we have to go where everything started from. I mean, the first capital of Brazil is Salvador. And once again, I never knew Brazil is that expensive in terms of traveling and checking tickets from here, which is going to take roughly two hours, 15 minutes together, it's giving me a vibe of 590 US dollars. These guys are here already. They came before me, man. How's Brazil so far? You've been here for three days. Everyone is here. Brazil to the world. And yeah, we got to do what we have to do. But trust me, this trip is going to be one of my most expensive trip ever. I thought Angola was so expensive. That's a fact. That's a fact. But I'm not saying that Brazil itself is super expensive. Angola is extremely expensive. But this one is like, I think we have to spend more hours in the plane. Oh wow, look at the view. The plane is taking off. The camera cannot see anything. So that's an airport ride over there. So from the apartment, you can see the place taking off in and out. So yeah, I'm here to purchase the tickets and on Wednesday, we'll be heading to Salvador. If you have been following me for a very long time, you will know that I'm a big fan of the Caribbean. If you have been following me from day one, you know that visiting the Caribbean is one of my biggest dreams. But I just don't want this Caribbean trip to be just an ordinary trip because it means a lot to me. Why do I say so? I'm just a young man on a journey to change the negative narrative of Africa. But whilst I was on the journey, I discovered that I got my own people living in a new world that I had no idea about. As a young man on a journey to change the negative narrative of Africa, there is so much that I discovered along my journey. What did they do to keep the African spread alive? For me, I don't just wake up to create. I create YouTube videos with a purpose. I create YouTube videos as a way of learning. So whenever you're watching my videos, if you learn something new, don't forget that me as a person also learned something new every single day. And as a young man on a journey to change the negative narrative of Africa, I learned so many new things that I never knew existed. One of the things that I learned is being an African does not necessarily mean that you are born and raised in Africa. But there are Africans that were taken forcefully out of Africa into the new world. And as part of my journey, I decided to connect the dots. I decided to bridge the gap. I decided to go and see my brothers and sisters living in the other part of the world and connect them with my brothers and sisters back home. When I was on this journey, that's how I also discovered that I look like Marcus Gavi. Initially, I didn't even know who Marcus Gavi is. I always tell people that the job that I'm doing is bigger than me. When I wake up in the morning, all I think about is what's next. The challenges has been many. I hardly come in here to tell you guys about my challenges. But the people who know me in person, the people who speak to me in person every day know that it hasn't been easy being on this journey. And I'm not ready to give up on this journey because I feel like it's a calling. When God calls you to do His work, don't think that you're going to have it easy. And that has been my problem from 2021 to today. And if I should tell you guys what has been happening to me from 2021 to now, you'll be like, oh, Maya, just drop the mic and stop being on YouTube. But because it's a calling to connect my brothers and sisters, despite the challenges, I will still do it and I will never give up. Just left one hour for me to go to the airport to check in. Where am I going? We are on our way to Brazil. I tried so hard to get visas for my team for the U.S., Canada, U.K. To make the trip easier for us because I don't want to go on this trip all by myself. I really want something positive to come out of this trip. So I didn't want to do it all by myself. I wanted to take my whole team. And also, you know, like they travel with you within Africa. You know, it expects me to go to the other side of the world and just leave them behind. So I wanted to carry them along. But all the visas that we applied, they got refused. I tried so hard to get visas for my team and it's very difficult because I'm trying to get them visas all the time. They refuse them. I will get the visa and they get refused. I've tried so hard. We tried USA, they got refused. We tried Canada, they got refused. We tried U.K., they got refused. I feel like since I've been going bad recently, I got denied. I applied for some visas and I got denied, you know. And then... We tried another option. We went to the Brazilian embassy and with the Brazilian embassy because that's another alternative that we need to use to get to the Caribbean. So we go to the Brazilian embassy, thank God the consul actually knew me and know what I do. So they ended up getting their visa. So they have the visa and... The ticket to Brazil was extremely expensive. I don't think it's advisable to tell them that, hey, the trip is so expensive so some of you cannot come with me. So I travel with two guys and their ticket to Brazil was around $1,600 each person. And I bought two and then I am in Germany right now so I speak to you guys but they have to fly to Brazil as I speak to you right now. The flight is today. But then I need to make sure I get a ticket that goes to Kingston, Jamaica. So we are trying to book a ticket from Brazil to Jamaica which will prove to the Brazil immigration that we are not coming to stay in their country. We will leave after because when you get to the immigration they have to ask you, when are you leaving and where are you leaving to? Are you returning to your country or are you moving to another country? Maya is trying to book the ticket. I am checking online and the least tickets that you will never get is $1,099. So three people including myself, we have to pay $3,297. That is the amount that I need to spend to take with the Caribbean men. Once again, we are not going to give up. So I am finally in the plane and then there was a big delay and the funny thing is I am part of the people who delayed the plane today. But I am so sorry to everyone on this flight. But someone will ask why is Maya traveling out of Africa? Is Africa to the world over? Cheers to good life. Cheers to lunch on the desert? Yes please. The goal is to travel to every African nation in the world. I said it. If you are black looking like me, living out of Africa, know that you are African. If you know the history of Brazil, you will know that Brazil was built on the struggles of Africans. If you live in America, you know that America was built by the struggles of Africans. You know, know your history. I am just here to go to every single black nation in the world. Wherever you see black people, you will see what admired there. This is the new face of the Africa to the world movement. So I have seen all your comments, the unnecessary ones. I just don't react. But I just want to let you know that I did not give up on Africa to the world. What I am doing is still Africa to the world. This feels like you are in an African market somewhere in Marco. We are not in Africa, we are in Brazil. The fact that everyone in here looks like me, that's even more crazy. I don't know if you can see this stretch. I don't know if you know that Brazil got the most populous African nation out of Africa. The blackest city out of Africa, most of the slaves that were shipped out of Africa were brought to Brazil, even more than the United States of America. So when I got in here, I have seen comments like, oh, finally he left Africa. Oh, he is trying to be someone that he is not. My purpose and my goals, mission, vision have been clear since day one. This is me, the same guy you watch from day one. I have never changed. So we finally in Brazil and our goal is to take you to the blackest city out of Africa, Salvador Bahia, where the culture is similar to whatever we have in Africa in terms of hygiene, food they eat and everything. We just want to introduce the African city within Brazil to you all. But hey, I just have to be honest, man. This trip will cost me a fortune and I will need your help. I decided to create a travel fund. It's in the description box. Feel free, it's not by force. It's not by force and we're just letting you know. If there's any way you can support us, please do so and support us. That's all I'm going to tell you. But I bought a ticket to Jamaica. The goal was to travel from Brazil to Jamaica and we're not allowed to fly to Jamaica. It's unfortunate. Why? The flight that we bought was for us to fly from Sao Paulo to Panama and Panama to Kingston, which was a one-hour transit. But I don't know if you guys have heard of the Darien Garb where Africans and Asians travel through the forests of South America to enter to Mexico and Mexico to America. And because of this, my team once again were not allowed to fly from Sao Paulo to Jamaica. I was so excited going to Jamaica but the dream nearly got shattered. But I'm not going to give up. Definitely not going to give up until I got myself and the whole team in Jamaica because the goal is to bridge the gap. I cannot do everything by myself because of the concept that I have for Jamaica. So I have to wait until I make sure that the whole team come along with me to Jamaica. So I had to change everything again. So we got stuck in Brazil for like five days, which that money was a lot of money, over $3,200. It's gone because I cannot just travel all by myself because I have all the business. I have all the business but I don't have to travel by leaving my team behind. So I have to stay behind to make sure that everything is okay. So that's why I'm saying that so many things that we planned didn't go the way we planned it. So because of that, it's making me lose a lot of money out here. But the goal is to travel every black nation within this region. So we diverted our trip to Suriname. So I want to say that everything is okay with us. This is just me coming in here to speak to you. This should have been a live video. But yeah, decided to put it up in the YouTube video. It's been long since I did something like this. So stick and stay, like the video, share to your friends and family that what am I finally made it to, I mean, South America Caribbean. And subscribe to be part of this awesome channel. There's more videos coming up. You see the similarities between Africa and the Caribbean. You see our own people. It's exciting. I'm so excited to be here. So be excited to be part of this awesome family. Subscribe. 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