 Guess what I found? Guess what I found? Zanzibar! Yeah, you're not those in here, you're in Bahia, man! Welcome to Zanzibar, baby! You know, in Zanzibar, they got the best beach ever! They have the best beach in here too! Let's go check it out! Hello! How are you? Zanzibar! Zanzibar! Oh yeah, I said it, baby! From Salvador, Bahia, it's a very beautiful, shiny morning. Sunday morning, and listen, as I'm on a journey to keep it, I have to come out this early morning to work out because, listen, working out in the coastline is one of the best things to do. And the fact that the people living in here are so big on exercising, I just have to join them. As we exercise along the coastline this morning, it's beautiful, man! Look at that, it's so beautiful! The culture in here, it's the same culture that we have in Africa. Everything that they do here, it's similar to what we do in Africa, especially Sunday morning exercises that if you live in Ghana, if you live in Nigeria, if you live in Sierra Leone, I mean, West Africa in general, Sunday morning is the time that a lot of people come on the street, exercise, and it's exactly what we do exercise, and it's exactly the same way that happens in here. What is happening, like everybody is on the street exercising, everybody is on the street just doing all kind of exercises that keep them fit. We are on the beach, man, and they are calling for a press-up challenge. How many are we going? To the beaches right here in Salvador, Brazil in general, all you see is bikinis. So the South Bikinis just along the, I mean, the beachfront, so you buy when you change yourself and enter, man. Because this is the only place, I mean, coming from Africa, going to beaches in Africa, especially countries like Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and the rest. You hardly see women wearing bikinis on the beaches, but here, every single person, man. This is super cool. To the bank? Oh, okay. That's all I know. Obrigado. Obrigado. Tell me, my name is Maya from Ghana. What's your name? My name is Sara, I'm from Bahia. Bahia? Bahia. You know, we look alike. This is Palazzo. You're just like my sister. Palazzo, you want it? Yeah. What does he say? You are brought to your sister, the same blood. Oh. Do you want it? I'd like it. Oh, you said it's from Peru. Really? Very beautiful. Is it? Our color is so beautiful. Oh. I wish I speak Portuguese, man, because I want to say a lot, but I don't know what to say. Because she doesn't understand me. And I don't understand her. She doesn't understand me. She doesn't understand me. What do you know about Africa? What do you know about Africa? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Is it the dance from Africa you think? Dance from Africa. It's like all of them. What do you know about Africa? It's about our dance, man. Yeah. Tell her, tell her. What do you know about Africa? Where do you dance? Why? Because it's something that we admire a lot here. It's a legend. We are so proud of you guys for your dances. Our culture is unique. They're nice. Can you send a message to your brothers and sisters in Africa? That you keep smiling in the face of any situation. Growing up in Africa I know that Brazilians are super big on beach football. But the fact that the people playing football looks like me, if we should take this beach to somewhere in Sierra Leone, you would definitely think that these are all Africans. This is crazy, man. Woo! I now know why Africa is one of the best in the world. Because it's been played by our own people, man. I just wanted to know you're from New York? Yeah, from Brooklyn, New York. You live here now? 15 years here in Salvador. Why Salvador? I will black people, bro. And how does it feel living here? What's the difference between living in Salvador and living in the United States? It's way less dangerous. There are a lot of dangerous projects. Dangerous situations. You don't have to deal with the U.S. white Americans. Sorry for all the white people out there. But y'all know how y'all are. Out here is just way better, man. I love it. Wow. And you're also spending time with your own people. Yeah, exactly. Connecting. Here I get to meet a lot of people that come from the continent, different countries in Africa that I never would have met. I wouldn't have run into in the States. To me, Salvador is like the hub for the diaspora because in Africa you got 54 countries to choose from but in Brazil you only got one city to come to. So everybody comes here. That's why I love it here. That's a beautiful one, man. It's the best education ever. I feel like I don't need to read the books to know what's happening in different countries that I visit because I've been to Mozambique and Angola and this coastline is developed exactly the same way they developed Angola and Mozambique. And when you go to Mozambique on this stretch of the coastline you see that they are selling the same sugarcane juice right on the stretch of Mozambique, man. That's like what it's doing. If you're from Mozambique, just let me know in the comments section that if you guys don't have this, it's exactly the same thing. And on the same stretch in Mozambique you could see people selling coconut juice just like what they're doing in here. The similarities is super crazy. I don't know if because of all of them are Portuguese-speaking countries that's why they've got a lot in common. That's so super crazy, man. I feel so excited to see my brothers and sisters from Africa but never been to Africa but from Bahia. He said that's so nice. Welcome. Thank you. That's all I know, man. What did he know about Africa? Do you know about Africa? Yeah, he's saying that whatever they heard from Africa is the bad side of what they said. People are the puberti, the loneliness, the sadness but they know that there are people who are very strong, hard-working, very warriors. Tell him that if his ancestors were able to make it to Bahia despite all the struggle, it means that being a black man is full of resilience. And they shouldn't believe in all the lies that have been told about Africa. Africa is the most beautiful continent in the whole world. I was telling him that Africa is the happiest country in the world and he said, yeah, they have seen it in the music, they have seen it with their hands and they know that it is one of the happiest country in the world. Would you ever want to go to Africa? We said, yeah, it's the biggest beautiful country in Africa. Yeah, they have seen the beaches there. Yeah, they have seen the beaches there. Exactly, we got the best beaches, man. Which country in Africa would you love to go? Yeah, they said they don't have any Pacific country, but for them to enter into Africa and have that feeling of being in Africa have that energy, it's okay for them. Africans love you guys, man. Africa. We also love Africa. We also love Africa. Thank you, appreciate it. That's all I know. Okay, thank you. No, you know, one of the things that I really love about exploring the Talbadot by here is the fact that when you meet your fellow black man, he's so excited about the continent, he really want to visit Africa. He really want to, I mean, go or touch the soil of the motherland because they've had a lot about Africa even though they've been fed with their lives. The same way we living in Africa has been fed with their lives about our brothers and sisters living part of the world because at the end of the day when I came in here everybody was like, oh, don't go to so dangerous. I was there and I never felt like my life was threatened or anywhere. I was with my comrades and everything. The places that people say don't go, that's why I go because I believe that there's always two sides of a coin. Cleaning the roads, man. I mean, cleaning the pavement, cleaning the street. You'll also see people like cleaning the beach every single morning, man. Like, you know, this is the second most popular tourist destination in the entire country after Rio de Janeiro. So they keep it so clean for tourists. I mean, this is what tourism is all about. When you keep your city clean, keep your country clean, that's when people keep on coming and it brings a lot of investment into the country and the investment help boost the economy of the country because everywhere I go, like every beach that I go in Salvador Bahia is super cool and the name is called Barra and the beach at the barra is always cool because I came in here and it's so full of tourists and that's why the last time I had to go to a beach that is not touristic. So it's really like amazing. I just want to give a big props to the city council of Salvador Bahia for always making sure that the city is so clean and fresh that dustbin is everywhere in the city. I don't know if you guys can see what I'm saying that dustbin is everywhere you see? Let me show you guys man. Dustbin is everywhere in the city see? That's the dustbin right here so when you are done with what you're doing you just put it right in here and this is a coastline and high stretch of the coastline so that people can walk jog food body color restaurant across so after eating, if you want to exercise you can come and exercise. People walk with their dogs why everyone has a dog in this country though and this is quite interesting. I remember back in the days in China where you have to use an app to rent a bicycle I think we need something like this and I really love to take this concept to Ghana because you know not all of us want to ride motorbike because I feel like it's so unsafe to ride motorbike and not all of us can afford bicycle not all of us can afford to buy bicycle so if you can't afford to buy bicycle you can easily rent one of this and then drop it at your next destination and it's good to go one thing that I really love about this whole area people are saying Brazil is not safe that's not one of the safest place to be but I have felt safe since I came in here and I'm not even going to lie about it I've been to the most dangerous neighborhood in this place and I still felt safe so yeah, your experience might be different but my experience trust me, I feel okay if anything happens to me I'll come in here and tell you guys the longest coastline that I've ever seen apart from being in Somalia this is the country with one of the longest stretch because we've been driving kilometers man and still we're driving along the coastline and it's exciting to see the beautiful beaches that it got in here and where I am it's called Santome so it's Santome and Principe which is a country in Africa it's also colonized by the Portuguese this is so cool man so we are in Africa inside Africa yeah, when you just go right here is Africa that's why the transit of the slaveway is easy because there is nothing in the middle of this side to the other side only water so Africa is right here Africa is right here man and it's exciting to see that almost everyone at this beach is in Africa it seems like they want to say hello I've seen that guy want to say hello you know you want to say hello Hola, Tutubang Hey you from here Yeah, Tutubang Botaji nice to meet you Nice to meet you Love from Africa to you man Nice to meet you Thank you Thank you The industry the economy that involve it is the most exciting brother their beach without beach these people might be more hunger but the money that beach brings even the poor people that don't have money can still go to the beach they take their own food their own drink from their house and come and sit down here come and sit and eat enjoy it's part of the quality of life I feel so good messing myself in the Atlantic Ocean at the other side of the world this is Sao Tome I'm not talking about the Sao Tome in Africa I'm talking about Sao Tome in Brazil this whole area is called Sao Tome it's found along the coastline in Salvador the back end city out of Africa the African city within Brazil literally everyone around me is black everyone around me looks like me everyone around me is black this is so cool man I feel like the water is so calm out here this is my first time going in the ocean like this man I'm in the middle of the ocean it's not the middle it's on your leg I'm in the middle of the ocean bro you know why? because the water is so calm Brazil is giving me one of my best experience ever man I love it I love it this is what we call fried dino potato fish that's fried fish so these are the compliments we have salad here and we have the fried potatoes and we have the beans wow this is the real African diasporan fish it's time to say goodbye to Sao Tome this is actually a local beach so no tourists in here all the people that you see around here live closer to this place it seems you want to say hello to me hi how are you nice good to see my own people man that's amazing hey hello hi good to see good to see you Africa Africa wow you know Africa unites he said Africa unites yeah man African brother you speak English? you speak English? you speak English? alright so you speak English? yes a little they are beach everyone takes advantage of the beach people are here chilling that's the wife of a Jamaican man the people are happy