 Africa to the world is back, showing you the positive image of Africa that you've not been seeing, this is the main motive of this YouTube channel, and listen, we are going to our country number 26, and I'm super excited, and the country that we're going to, the map looks like a key. Can you guess which country it is? Wow, let me know, not because of the title, but you got the country that we're going to. You know what, it's just six hours away from Ghana, so this car comes in handy, come along with us, we're going to show you what happens along the road, and what you also need to be able to travel from Ghana to Benin. So in order for us to be able to travel with our vehicle from Ghana to Benin, we needed these three documents, that is, the international driving permit for the driver, the international certificate for our car, and also an Equa's Brown car insurance. With these three documents, you are good to travel from Ghana to anywhere in West Africa. For now, that's all I know. Yeah, so yeah, let's go. When you're going for road trips, you have to make sure that your tank is full, and that's what we're doing right now, filling the tank of the car. So in order to fill the car, we have to spend just $765 in here, alright. And we are actually 20 minutes away from the Aflau border, and where we are right now is called Akbezome. And apparently it's a market day, because this place looks extremely busy. I mean everyone is busy trying to buy something, and I don't know why. Hi, you want to talk to me? You're selling yam, eh? Want to buy yam? I'm going to Togo, so I don't need yam. I'm going to Benin. Eh, it's supposed to be buy yam. You know, from here to... How can I buy yam? What am I going to cook? How am I going to cook you? We're going to a hotel. We live in Akra. Yeah, we live in Akra, so we're going to... You go hotel, you can go to a place and you pay for food. What's happening in Akbezome, what happens in Akbezome? It's going to be a market day. Because if it's a market day, things become cheaper. How much are you selling this yam? I'm selling it in 12 cities, 50 cities, 10 cities, 10 cities. What yam is it? It's a puma. Yeah, it's a puma. Oh, okay. Don't mistake boss. Yeah, what's up? I watch your videos every time. You watch my videos? Wow, out of nowhere man. I was like, no one knows me in here. I'm following you all the way to Kenya, South Africa, everywhere. Your videos, I view them every time. That's incredible man. Are you from this area? This is today's market day. What does it mean? It's a market day. Is it stable? So, where's your mom? She's selling inside. Selling in there? Can we see your mom? You like it? I just... It's a good word. Thank you man. You're making her to put up with the map. I'm trying my possible best. Exactly. When you told me that your mom is disabled and at the same time, I mean selling in the market to take care of you guys, I felt like nah, I need to go see your mom. It's incredible. Yeah man. My mom is disabled person. My brother is illiterate now. All through her efforts. She did all of that? Yes please. The market is so busy man. I don't even know the space to even walk. Nah, this is her mom. This is what they do. Oh wow. Everyone is to travel all the way back from... Not even close to you. My eyes. So, where's my mom? Where's your mom? Where's my mom? Oh, your mom? This is my sister. Oh, that's your sister? I was like, she looks so young. Hello ma. This is my great mom. Udamaya. Udamaya. It's a great man in Africa. Yeah. Yes. From Taqradi? Taqradi. Yeah. Man born to mend the hire. Udamaya. Ma. Ma. Ma. Udamaya. Udamaya. Udamaya. Udamaya. Udamaya. Udamaya. Yeah. You're welcome. Thank you. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you too. Long life. Amen. You're welcome. Good to see you. To our city. Yeah. Your son was appreciating you and I wanted to come and say hello. Thank you. And say thank you for everything that you're doing for your children. Oh. Yeah. Yo. I take it sir. I take that blessing. All right. Okay Rumi. And you are from Taqradi. I'm from Taqradi. Oh. Yeah. I'm from Taqradi. I'm from Taqradi. So I just came. Going to Beni. Beni. Yeah. So we just stop by. Yeah. Good to see you mommy. Oh thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's my first time here. Oh okay. Wow. It's good to see you man. Good to see you too. Are you from here? Yeah. Oh wow. Tell me about your city man. And you tell me about Guzmán. Guzmán is one of them. When we talk about Kente producing centers. Agus is one of the biggest markets in Agusmán. Kente. Yeah. Kente is one of the biggest markets in Agusmán. It's one of the biggest markets in Agusmán. Kente. Yeah. Kente. And the market normally runs in the morning. I wish you come early in the morning. So that you take a walk through the Kente market. The Kente market for Agus now? Yeah. Yeah. It's just a few works from here. I didn't know that. Yeah. The whole guarantee. Quality Kente. Quality Kente. The whole Africa. The whole Africa. The whole Africa. We do it. I thought quality Kente can be found in Kumasi. No. They come down here to come and buy it here. No. I want to see it. Here is one of the market places. But I think they are close now. They are close now. But you can see some of the Kente clubs in place. And come early in the morning. If you can come early in the morning. You see a lot of people here. With their buying and selling activities. Wow. Look at that. Yeah. But the market normally takes place at dawn. At dawn. Around 4.30 am to 9 o'clock in the morning. So this is Agus man. We just arrived at Aflaou right now. And we have to fill up our tank again. I mean we just have to fill it up. In case anything happens. Because we have Ghana city right now. We are about to cross the border from Ghana to Togo. So we need to just make sure that we are safe. And we can't believe that we are spending again. It seems full and it is so expensive in the country man. We are spending 460 to fill the tank again. So yeah. Let's go cross the border man. That's Togo right there. But before you cross. Need to make sure you are checked in. And all of that. So yeah this is what we are going to do right now. Hi Johan. Welcome. Thank you. How are you? I am good. Good to see you again. The pleasure is in you too. Yeah. So what do we do now? We have to get our ticket here. Register the car stamp. And stamp at the Togo side and we are on our way. So where is the Togo side now? The Togo side is just here. So this is Ghana? Yeah. And that's Togo? Yeah. Okay then. We have by coincidence. We have the MP for the area too. We are taking the tour around. Okay. Can I say hello to you? You can say hello. Here we are. This is the Africa we won. Yeah. Any time I fly, I also felt this harm. So it's incredible to see that you also have to feel that once you are on the road man. I mean it feels different, but it's kind of cold man. What is this though? Exception from this apartment. Oh for entry in Ghana. In the previous episode you definitely know what really happened at the border. I just hope that this change. I mean I saw so many people complaining in the comment section that they should have paid the money. Listen that amount of money is nothing. But I know and believe that there are vulnerable people out there who can't even afford. But yet people are using their power to take advantage of them. And if I have a platform like this, I won't keep quiet. I believe that things must change. Feel free. I don't think I'm the only one who has experienced this at the border. But if you have ever experienced that at the border, let me know. Comment below. Tag me anywhere. Please like this video. Share. Let's continue that trip. I think I have a headache man. Because whatever happened was so frustrating. Oh my goodness. But we finally allowed to pass. This is the last time for us to do. And Kuku tell us more about what is this. What is this? Okay so this is Lase Pasee. Lase what? Lase Pasee. What does that mean? Alright so this grants the vehicle into Togo. So as you can also cross from Togo to Benin. How much did you pay for that? Our destination. We paid 7000 sefer. 7000 sefer. Yes and then they took another 1000 sefer for registration. Whatever. We've already done the registration in Ghana. And they again said we have to do another registration. Did you pay at the Ghana border? No no no Ghana border. We didn't pay for the registration. So this one you paid for it? Yes we paid for the Lase Pasee. That's the receipt. But the registration they took the money with no receipt. What? Yes they took the money with no receipt. I don't know about this our Francophone brothers. It's getting off head now. We think something has to be done about it. We need a border less Africa. That's all we need. For me I think I have headache right now. And anytime I have headache. Which means I need to eat. Because this is so stressful. Man we've been through a lot like. I think today has been one of the strongest day in my life. You see I even have bruises on my hand man. You know they just hold my hand like give me that camera. You know I think this is the Africa that we all been preaching about. The colonizers created the border. But now we are managing the borders. So we have to do something to allow our own people to move within the continent. You've been living here for 15 hours? For 15 years. For 15 years? Yes. I know and believe that you'll be going in and out of. Yeah I do cross the border sometime. How do you feel about these borders man? Man it's not fair. Because most times like some of the family that live here. They also have some part of the family also at the other side of the border. So for them to go visiting their same family the same surname. But they were separated by one bubble. That's one I don't know fence or something. So for them to cross over they also have to negotiate with the security. To cross over to see the other part of the family. Wow. Why these are one people, these are one family. So it's a very big problem. I think Africans need to help themselves. But they don't know just by what the white man gave to us. They don't live as a people. You know we have our own way. We are all families, we are all brothers. Right now I'm a Nigerian. I'm living in Chogo. Then when I see Ghanians. I don't see them as Ghanians. I see them as an African. Thank you. You know like I told you that I'll be visiting Ghana in two weeks time. I don't go there as a visitor. I go there just like my friends. And I kind of see my other family over there. So all these border things should be quite important. Let's just live as a people. And it's so funny how you will be in Chogo. But you can see Ghana right there. But you need to use a passport of an ID for you to cross. Like I live by the border. Just two house from the border. Wow. Then every day I'm seeing Ghana every day. But maybe this is going to be once in a month. Why? Just because I said about why things are separate both here. If there's nothing like that I can easily cross the border. I'm going to buy something and come back to. Yeah. So it's a problem you know. We need to wake up. Like what you're preaching. I was enjoying the breeze refreshing the sweet memory of Chogo three years ago. But I was still thinking. Since this border of Benin is closed tonight. Where are we going to sleep? There comes another subscriber of Water Maya. And I believe that this guy is an angel sent from heaven. Tomorrow. And I just want to know because you also have land in Agotime. Yes. So where are you from? I am originally my grandparents are from Benin Republic. Which I say Dahome. Because before it became Benin it was Dahome. So my parents are born here in Togo. Yes. But I live in the US. OK. Springfield, Illinois. OK. Yes. So that's where I know you. But how did you have land in Agotime? Which is in Ghana? Yeah. All this area is Iberland. So I am also part of Keiji near Keita. So my grandfather is from there. So I am from Benin Republic. I am from Togo. I am from Ghana. Because I have a land in Dawina. Every time I want to cross the border. They always try to give me headache. So. Crazy man. I see what he is saying. I don't really see that to get it. But the whole stretch is Iberland. That has been divided into Benin, Togo and Ghana. Yes. But they are the same people. Now if they have to go and visit their brothers in Togo and Ghana. They need to check their passport. They want to go to visit their sisters in Benin. They have to check their passport. Yes. Foundation pay for it. Make sure that that evening. We were satisfied with good food. Bro. You are amazing man. And this is what I keep on saying that. The borders don't define the people of the country. What we love about Togo is the fact that even women ride a motorcycle man. This is something that you hardly see in Ghana. So anytime I come to Togo. This one that I love to see. Look at that. That's a woman riding. Look at that. Motor is more like the main source of transportation in this country. Literally everyone owns a motor. Is motor luxury in Togo? Is it luxury in Togo? Motor. It's necessity. Every household needs to have a motorbike. Wow. Look at that man. Everyone. You see. Yeah. That's another woman. Look at that. If you don't have a helmet. You will be arrested. So many people are not wearing a helmet. No. The guy behind. That's fine. But they are not. They know the quality of the passengers. You know what to wear. One thing that I love about Kegali is that you cannot ride in a country without a helmet. You and the passenger needs to have it. And it's very very important. So I guess the Togo government needs to do something about it. They have done it. They have done it. They have done it but I'm seeing. Yeah. Let me explain to you. Contamination. Yeah. What happens is the same task for the passenger is to use. You use it. If you give it to somebody, you get to use it. In a day, 20 people may use the same task. So in Benin, now what they do is let every traveler who knows that he's going to take a motorbike. Have it on his or her own task. Helmet. I use the same road to Aneho. It was a very tiny road man. And coming back after three years seeing like a wide road in here. It's incredible. I mean, like I said, things are changing. Things are not the way it is before. This is a very wide road that is happening. There's still construction going on. I don't know. How broad this place is? We've been driving on it for quite a few kilometers and I think everything is changing. Like look at that. Now there's construction still going on in here. This is the Lome Benin Road, right? What road is this? This is like, yeah. This is what needs to happen to the Akrata Karate Road, man. They need to do something like this. Same Kwame didn't want us to go through what we went through at the Togo border. So he got us an immigration officer from the Benin border to smoothing our process. And within ten minutes, we were on our way to Benin. We finally made it to Benin, man. Geez. This was supposed to take us six hours. We ended up spending more than 24 hours just to get into Benin. Kwame is indeed an African angel. He made sure that we entered Benin smoothly. And when we were coming back, he also made sure that we arrived in Togo smoothly again, bro. And listen, Kwame fed us that evening and hosted us in Togo once again. He paid for everything. Like, I never spent a dollar in Togo. This is the angel of the year, man. This is the Ghana baby. This Togo baby. I don't know how he appeared, but I think he saved the whole trip to Benin. He's African of the year. I love him. Too much. That place we visited is about ten times in Zulezu. It's about three or four times Makoko. About three or four times even Venice. So it is not a place to despise. But you were on the water and you visited communities. Exactly. What was your impression when you were with the people on the water? I think they just like us. It was really great connecting with our own people. For me, I think the people makes the place me one of the best. I don't know how to explain to you. I actually enjoyed my authentic self over there because the people were nice to me. They were amazing. I didn't even realise that I was on the water by the way. Because everybody was so nice to us. One thing that was really fascinating, the fact that I saw kids riding the boats. It was everything for me. But if you pull me out there, I'm going to get drunk. You weren't born there. No, exactly. That is exactly the same way when you told me you were born in Benin. I'm like, can you ride bikes? And I said no. So you're not born there. Okay, thank you very much all day. I think it's a nice experience. We were there for about four days. And we met some angels along the way. It's the angels. Show the angels. Yeah, we met some angels. And you wanted you too. We met these angels on the way at Lome Beach. They saw us at Lome Beach and said, wow, what a thing here. They say angels are in heaven. No, no, no. But some angels are on heaven. It's a real life angel. Imagine us fighting on the immigration. To go to the border. And then we come to look for food to cool down. And then we meet two angels and they're like, you know what? I'm going to host you guys. They hosted us when we were departing. And they hosted us when you are even arriving back here, right? Yeah. That's incredible man. I just want to say, you guys are amazing. Thank you. Keep on showing the African love. This is what we need as Africans. Thank you. We should not hate ourselves man. You are welcome the next time. Okay, come back. See, it's not like come back. I'm coming back. Thank you all. This is what we want to build a united Africa, a borderless Africa. Language should not be a barrier to us. Language was imposed on us. Our people were living borderless before the colonialists came in. We want to bring that back where I could walk from Ghana through Togo, Berlin, Nigeria, everywhere and come back to my home knowing that I have just traveled across Africa. The only tool for development for Africa is to love one another. Yes. We have to love, regardless of languages, we have to love one another.