 The reason of coming to Brazil is to connect with my brothers and sisters in the South region. Do you know that Africans in the diaspora has been declared as the South region? Because Africa got the North, South, East, West and Central. And our brothers and sisters that looks like me that are found in the New World are considered as Africans in the South region. And this is why I'm in Brazil. Someone will ask, what are you doing in Brazil? Then I need to also ask you. Did you know that Brazil got the largest black nation out of Africa? Or did you know that Brazil is the second largest black nation in the world behind Nigeria? But I must confess that I thought the only place to see black people in Brazil was Salvador Bahia. But on my way to Brazil, São Paulo was just to connect to the maker of black people which is Salvador Bahia because I thought that is the only place to see black people. How does it feel being here? Loving and amazing. You know the funny thing about it? I'm seeing people. I look at the guy and say there that's my uncle. Everything. So now you know when we back home in Ghana where people come home blacks in the diaspora come home and they feel like oh my god. I feel like I'm seeing my relatives, my uncle. The same thing is happening to me here. I'm saying to my god that looks like my uncle, my auntie. I was at the beach and I was suddenly she kept looking at me I said you know what you are my auntie. Straight up the blood is amazing man. We're walking in the street and you see somebody and they be like this person looks like my sister man. Looks like my auntie. Look like this is this. Indeed. Indeed now. I need to agree with you all that indeed this is the blackest city out of Africa. But when I landed in São Paulo, I found something interesting that I could not keep this to myself but rather share the story of Afro-Brazilians living in São Paulo with you all. Here in Brazil we actually have like most of our population is black or like darker than black. It's like it's not light skin they call light skin like but it's it's like I mean I am I consider myself black because like racist people call me black so I am black. I am still here at the economic powerhouse of Brazil. Welcome to São Paulo. My previous video that I uploaded I saw people commenting that slavery was a fiction. I really want to ask you a question. How did our people get here? He said he can make a video for you. You are from Uruguay, right? Yes, I am from Uruguay and I am from Bahia. He is from Bahia, right? He can make a video for you. So he is from Uruguay? Yes, he is from Uruguay. Born in Bahia. Like how do you believe it? I'm just walking in the street and he started calling me. Hey man, what's up? And I'm like so you believe that you are from Nigeria? This is so cool man. I am from Uruguay and I am from Bahia. Wow, that's amazing man. Do you know anywhere in Uruguay? This is beautiful man. You see, this is Africa representing right here in Brazil man. So excited to see what's happening man. So he said your videos are so much places to know his ancestors. He follows me? Yeah, he is a follower. That's why I was able to recognize you. Really? My English is not so good. My Spanish is better than my English. But what I can get from his videos, I can learn a lot. He's a fan. Yeah, he's a follower. Not the robot. I'm shocked man. I'm so shocked. He's a fan. Wow. Yes. But now I feel like in my videos I need to translate to Portuguese man. Sorry guys. Please, please. I need to get Portuguese, French. Man, that's, that's. Wow, that's beautiful. It is so exciting to see that my brothers and sisters were taken out of Africa forcefully, but Africa never left them. The reason that they are living in the new world, but they still know they are roots. What's your born in here? Your mom and dad are all Brazilians. You know, you look like me. Do you know, have you been to Africa? What does she know about Africa? Nothing, almost nothing. No, no, tell her, tell her. Africa is the most beautiful continent in the whole world. She says she has been with you. The little she knows about your culture. She says it's a great country. She should respect the culture of the African country that we live in. She says we have to respect the African country. The continent of Africa is very rich and the people who serve only the country and a place that has many blacks, but it is a rich country of culture. That's amazing. Oh my goodness. I wish I speak Portuguese to be able to talk to her directly because I have so many questions to ask her. You and I are African. I agree because we were brought from Africa. She said people were taken out from there by force to here. So she believes, she agrees with you that we are, you and her Africans. Going right now? We are going to the Borapora Park. That's the famous park in Sao Paulo, where every Sunday you see people who are very busy at work and weekends. They come there to rest with their families, ride a bicycle and maybe take a walk with their dogs and all that. So as you can see in these previous videos, you see people walking with dogs. So that's what they do on Sundays there. And it's a very cool place to be. So we're finally in the park. This is where you decided to bring us. Yes. Come content creator exploring South America, Brazil, Sao Paulo. I feel like I need to run for a position somewhere in Africa because I feel like things can be done easily. But I don't know why we have to go through so much stress to get things done. You see what is on my hand? This is a permit to be able to film in this park. And it took me less than one minute to get it. But anyway, this park makes me feel like, can we just start doing something like this in our various African countries? Especially Ghana, Accra to be precise man. Because I believe that when you live in a place like this, you're definitely going to live long because this is a park. A park where you can exercise. A park where you can just come and sit. A park where you can just come sit here. And then I mean breathing fresh air. And don't let people lie to you because I am here and I'm seeing similarities between Africa and Africans in South America. The real indigenous of South America were the Amerindians. Not Africans. Africans came here through slavery. If I am here, I need to prove to you that slavery really existed. Because I have been to various forts and castles that got dungeons where slaves were kept. This is the dungeon. This is where our ancestors spent. Months at a time. Brother, turn that light off please. This was our reality. There was no electricity. And hundreds, hundreds, more than 200, 300 women were in this dungeon at a time. So how can we say that this is a castle? This is your reality. This is my reality. This is the reality of our ancestors. And if I'm here, I need to visit a museum that proves to you that indeed our people found themselves in this part of the world through slavery. This is a boat that brought a lot of Africans to America. And they've kept the history so today. So I am in the museum and this is what I'm saying because I've been to Benin. I have no return right here. And these are the pictures that they are showing people over here. You see, this is the culture of Benin representing in this museum which shows that the people from here are from Africa. I love the fact that Africans that were taken out of Africa forcefully and found themselves in America still stick to their root. Which makes me agree with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's famous quote that I am African not because I was born in Africa because Africa was born in me. Maybe I guess I need to add my own quote to it that they left Africa forcefully but Africa never left them. You know why? Because the spirit of Africa still lives within them. Okay, people say Tafazendo. I asked her what is she doing? What is her? Okay, she's asking for offerings to help donate to support the Twins Festival because every September is the Twins Festival in Tafu. Ghana we call it in Tafu here. In Nigeria we call it Bejes. They have a Twins Festival here? Exactly. We have a Twins Festival in Accra. In Ghana. In Ghana, Africa, there are ten celebrations in Bejes. It's the Homo Hop Festival. So Homo Hop is Twins Festival. Yeah, so the day for Homo Hop is like a day or two days or a week before Homo Hop. The Celebrate Twins Festival. The mother was born in Africa? Yeah, in South Africa. And my grandfather is from Kabul. Wow. Right? And so I was talking with the guys that specifically with family that it's like I am so curious about Africa. I saw in movies all that I saw in movies I want to see in real life. And the thing that makes me sad is we have a lot of movies that talk about different cultures from Europe for example. But from Africa we have like in Africa there isn't loads of different people different cultures like and they don't show this like in TV, you know. And so I already like subscribed to your channel because I want to see more videos. You're definitely going to see more videos from different parts of Africa. Yeah. Africa you don't see on TV. I believe that you want to know more about Africa but you've never been there? Never. Wow. What is that one country that you would love to go in Africa? I want to go to South Africa because my mom and Kabul village too. Because of your dad. And I don't know I like there are many countries that actually they say there is one that I was looking at like internet and they say that you can walk with lions. It's not walk. Oh you can walk with lions. So if you go to Zimbabwe Zambia you can walk with lions like more like in the car and they like next to you. No, no, no. Literally. Literally. They'll be in front of you and then you'll be behind them and then they walk with you. That makes you feel like a king. In Brazil we actually have like most of our population is black or like darker than light. It's like it's not light skin. They call light skin light. But it's like I am I consider myself black because like racist people call me black so I am black, right? Yeah. So actually our population is the majority of our population is black. Wow. So you are going to see black people like a lot. I'm rotation by Pablo to attend this event even though I don't know what kind of event that I am at the moment but I feel like I'm in Africa. Yeah man. You're home. What kind of event? It's like an event to celebrate black culture here made by the main TV station in Brazil. Yeah. So half of our population in Brazil are African descent. It's a whole wide to celebrate black culture. That's beautiful. Like if you look around me it's like if I'm not in here. It's African man. I wish I could go around and say hello to everybody. Yeah. Like family. Hi man. Can I say hello? I love your hair man. Nice to see you. Wow. You know, how are you brother? You look like Africa here. Yeah. That's so beautiful man. Travel vlogger. Travel vlogger. Wow. We have to travel together man. Please come to Brazil and travel to black places. I'm going to Salvador tomorrow. Ah cool. The perfect place. Are you guys celebrating African culture in here? Yeah. That's so beautiful man. Look at that. Are you from Ethiopia? Ethiopia. Ethiopia. No. No. She's wearing an African outfit. She looks so African today and she's looking so gorgeous. And I just want to tell you that Africa welcomes you. But she doesn't understand. Hi. Thank you so much. You are so cute. Oh thank you. And thanks for representing Africa. So a big kiss for the African country and she hopes one day go there. Oh. Welcome to the motherland. It's my dream. Oh. Which country in Africa would you love to go? Angola, Mozambique. It seems everyone wants to go to Angola, Mozambique. I love this man. Like I mean I feel like I'm in Africa right now because everyone surrounding me looks like me. Everyone is wearing the same outfit. Come on. If I knew that this is an event that I'm coming I would have put up and down African centric men and just walk in here like a prince from Ghana. It's very good to have this identification, you know? Because I was raised by a black family. You know? Which really has a lot of awareness of being black and a lot of pride of being black. So I'm directly from Africa because I'm a Brazilian African. Have you ever been to Africa before? Have you ever been to Africa before? I've never had the opportunity. I want to go. I've never had the opportunity. If anyone wants to bring her she can go. If she marries someone from Africa can marry and take her to Africa. I'm going to explain. This person is the founder of Escrow de Samba in São Paulo, but it's still active here in São Paulo. It's called Lava Pes. So she did for the freedom to grow along with the blacks. The flag of Lava Pes Escrow de Samba. From Africa. From Africa, right? From Africa, yeah. Wow. That's the founder of Samba. Founder of Samba. Those people enjoy Samba. Yeah. Just before I leave the street there's only one question that was going through my mind. How are Afro-Brazilans treated in Brazil? Wow. Unbelievable. I guess we need to have a conversation about how deep is racism in Brazil. Don't forget to like this video. Subscribe and be part of this awesome channel. Turn on your post notification as you follow our journeys through South America to the Caribbean. I'll see you all in the next one.