 Hey, I am really enjoying my episodes from Brazil. You know why? Because I'm learning so many new things that I never knew it existed. How I wish I speak so many different languages from Africa so that I'll be able to connect. I learned something new from my comment section yesterday that I never knew it existed, which is Oludum, the popular music band in Salvador Bahia. I never knew that word is an Iroba word. Thank you to all my Iroba subscribers who left a comment to educate me. And now, I now know that Iroba is a song like that. But trust me, I never knew the word Oludum came from Nigeria. But hey, that's not why I'm here. I have traveled across Africa. And whenever you travel within Africa, there is one thing that stands out in every single African country that you go through. And that is our African market. And it's exciting to see that in Salvador Bahia, the blackest city out of Africa, the city with 80% of its population routes to Africa, seeing the signature of African market present in Salvador Bahia made me feel like, indeed, this is Africa. It's funny how we are in Brazil and we eat coconut the same way we eat coconut in Ghana. It makes me stay here. I'm not going back to Africa because I'm in Africa already. The similarity in Bahia and West Africa is very similar. And at the same time, the similarity to the South Africa going from down of Congo to Angola. Because if you look at the map of the African map and the Brazilian map of the South America, you see that the Angolans are very parallel to the Bahia. So if you look at the transit of the slavery, it was easier to transport each country to the opposite level. So this Bahia gets Angola, Ghana gets Mariah, these are all like a peak. And this is where they really live, like Africans. They are food. Wow, like literally everything, even the people. The people. Hi man, what's up? Kassava man. Kassava, Dereciam, Watermelon, these are all African roots. She's selling okra. Kiabo. Kiabo, it's called kiabo in Brazil. Uncruma, uncruma man. And these are the white potatoes, the sweet white potatoes. And this is the sweet one? Yeah, the sweet one. Oh my goodness. Look at coco. Oh wow. That's the symbol of Ghana. When they brought some of the seeds from Ghana to here? Exactly. To Bahia. To Bahia? Yeah, that's why they have it most. The whole Brazil, that's where you can have it. They even call it Kakao. It's a big community of production of coco down the south of Bahia. So this is a symbol of one more thing we can find Ghana here. Hello. Hello, I'm from the same language as you. What did you say? I'm from the same language as you. So you're from Bahia, right? No, I'm from the same language. I'm from the same language as you. You are not speaking a language. So why is he going to shake you up and speak in a language? Oh my goodness. So we are entering the front of the market. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. This is the Kaneshi or Makola market? Yes, yes, yes, yes. For Legos, they have Jankara markets, you see. They have the Pepe Land. The Himbaru, man. Bro, this is Africa, man. This is Africa. The first time you came to a market like this, man. I mean, when you landed in this country and you came in, all the settings looks like you're back home. You know, Salvador really changed my life of view of outside Africa. I would say, why? Because I'm like I'm in Kotokraba market. I'm from Cape Coast. Exactly. See, the ginger, look at the Mahogany, the pitas, where we do pitas. Oh my goodness. You understand. You see, it makes me stay here. I'm not going back to Africa because I'm in Africa already. Yeah, in Africa already. I arranged like everything. Yes, yes, yes. Familiar, familiar, familiar. Wow. How are you, man? Good. Yeah. I'm at home. I'm at home. Yeah, he's checking. Yeah, yeah. Black power, black power. Black power, black power. See the ganas. It's the same way we sell it, man. Hello. Another cocoa. Another cocoa. They sell cocoa here too. And you know, like in Ghana, you will never see cocoa on the market, them selling it like this in Ghana. Really? No. You see here. And you know, like selling your cocoa in Ghana is illegal. Illegal. To the government. Yeah. But here everyone is selling their cocoa on the street. You sell what you plant. Exactly. Or you own what you plant. Is that red oil? That's palm oil, red oil, original African oil. Ha! Yes. You, you each red oil, palm oil. What's it called me, Dende? Dende is actually an African name. It's taken from an Angolan language called Kimbundo. So that's why the name Dende comes from. And what does Dende mean? Dende is the name of the tree that produces the fruit. So please, leave a comment if you know anything about the origination of the name Dende. What do you eat with? What do you eat with? Carage. Carage is a beans dough. Like Ghana call it Kosei. Kosei? Oh my goodness. I need to try that. So it's a very traditional African cuisine. They use it in everything. Just everything. Does it feel African? What's it called? Is it African? No, it's just a digital African. So yes, they are from descendants of Africa. So for sure he feel Africa. Nice to meet you, my brother. Razi. Razi. Rali. Hello. To express the way I feel to people on camera, because literally I feel like I'm walking in the street of... Any market? Any market? No. Typical. Even the way they sell the... the ingredients. This is mind blowing man. I'm so happy to be here. I'm just super excited. Being here. That's like my grandma from Ghana. How are you? To the bank. To the bank? Everything is cool. She looks like my grandmother from Ghana. For sure, why not? Has she ever been to Africa? She has not, but I really love to. How do I make that dream come true? Say you the one going to say it. Passport? Do you have passport? No. Which country in Africa do you want to visit? Which country in Africa would you like to meet? I would like to visit that country. Which country? Because there are many. Ghana, Nigeria. Nigeria. You want to go to Nigeria? You want to go to Nigeria? What do you know? What do you know? You say she wants to. Dude. We can make it happen. We can make it happen. She has to. She has to. We have this information. She has to be in Africa before she transition. You need to go to Africa, before your mission to this land. Yeah. Because you want to go. It's heavy. Get that content. Let's make it happen. I was so excited when I found Kaku. The greatest meat of all time. I found it in Salvador Bahia. So if you are from Salvador Bahia, call me my brother. This is more like the meat session. You know we have this sort of beef in Ghana. Yeah. This is more like the white one. Yeah. And wow. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. And this one, they do it with sun, they dry it with sun. And you know, like with this, we cook it with that. We can use it to cook. You can also make rice and oil with it. Yeah, yeah. Oh God, this is Africa, man. And this one, when you make it with rice, man, it's so delicious. That's what I'm saying. What do you cook with this? Sautéed beef. Let me know in the comment section, man. Wow, this is like a beef session. No. Wow. This is beef session. Meat. This session, meat. Yeah. Everything meat. Yeah. Shrimp. Different type of shrimp on that side. Wow. Wow. Wow. We did not come here the other day. Ha! This is kaku. This is my best meat in the whole world, man. They got it here. Sautéed? You know, this is like salted shak, bro. You cut them into pieces and then you put salt. It's salty, man. It's one of the best you will ever get. I told you I can live here, man. I must eat kaku in here before I leave. Yo, we buy kaku. Yeah, we're going to buy kaku. Yeah, just dancing. Yeah. Is that a kilo is 80 eggs? 80. A kilo. Yeah. Half a kilo. Half? Half. Half. This? Uh huh. You want the meat to understand the fish? All of them it's OK. OK. Ha! That's it. That's it? Uh huh. What about the size? No. I didn't say... I said it's quite a lot. I said one kilo. One kilo, man? Half a kilo. Any 1.5 kg you can count on us. It's a lot. That's half a kilo. Is it okay? It's okay, it's okay. So how much is it? 40 bucks. Okay. What do you see? See? Spices. Spices, this is what they used to cook Jalof in Ghana. Yeah. All these spices, they have it here, right? This is a garlic. Is that pepper? No. Is that peppermint? No. This one is garlic. Peppermint? Is it peppermint? No. No. What's that? They used to, you know, when you, for example, you are cooking and you want your food to be colored. Do you understand? You have it. You put it to the inside so that it to be colored. I'm sorry. You have the Jalof, yeah. Hello. Tutubeng? How many? Three. Three is the ice. Three is the ice. They have coconuts. They cook. Salt. Salt? Yes. They cook? Yes. No salt? No. They use it with sugar. The same thing. Salt. They use it with salt. No. No. They use it with salt. No. They use it with salt. No. No. No. No, you say it doesn't have, you only have sugar. Sugar? Yes. No. No. No. Okay. Tutubeng. Thank you. The same thing that... The rosemary. The same thing that they do in here. No. Thank you. No. It's over. The same thing that they do in here. I understand. The same thing that they do in here. Okay. Thank you. I see you want to do this for us. This one for two. No. I give you money. Thank you. I don't want anything. I started more. One more. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do you know what he said? Tell me more. Do you know the meaning? No. Bye bye, my love. Oh, wow. Yeah. I love you too, mama. Feel that we have in Africa here. Yes. That's why I feel at home so much. Because we the... They will say this is a snake food. It's snake food in Ghana. Snake food. But here the eat is the real food. You understand. This is what I was talking about. In Africa you will say that you will die. In Ghana, yeah. You can't eat this. They tell you that it's... You bought it already? No. You can't eat it. You know this one. I'm opening it. This one, we call it Nyunyan. You know Nyunyan. Yeah. But we use a leaf for medicine. You know we cook the leaves for medicine. But here... I cannot eat because I still have that mindset that this is good for the snake. I'm not a snake. Oh. Ah. This is a fruit. What if I turn into a snake, bro? They brought everything with them. Basket. Like it's exactly the same way we make baskets. And they are all handcrafted. Handcrafted? Yeah. So our aunties in the market this is exactly the same hat. To protect the sun. Right. We have this. In Ghana, man. Made out of cans. And they're doing exactly the same thing here. Like literally everything. She's the one doing this art. Beautiful art. Oh. What did she learn it? Apprende onji. Apprende onji. She's just observing and doing it. It's handcrafted. That she knows that... That she knows that the reason why she knows how to do it is the spirit from Africa. If you know that the institution that comes to do this comes from Africa. Did you know? No, he said he knows. Because we make it. Everything comes from Africa. They have this culture of Africa that they use it to do baskets. They use it to do hats. They use it to do other things. Like put fruits. Wow. Wow. The basket. Oh. I feel like Brazilians embrace Africa. The Afro-Brazilians really embrace Africa, man. He thinks that the Afro-Brazilians appreciate Africa a lot. Sit down. He said... Not everything started from there. That's why. See, the Africans that came to Brazil with the colonization that tends all these things to happen like this. So for sure, the roots is Africa. Hey. Serious matter. The markets where they have restaurants. So these are the restaurants that feed the whole market people. I hope you can get a restaurant where we can eat some African meal today. Yes, yes, yes. The whole city is fed from this market. Oh. They take it to everywhere. Like 24 hours on function. Because the food comes from the farm in the middle of the night. So like 5, 4, 3 o'clock people already here come from far places to pick it up in large quantities to take along, you know. These are fruits, huh? Yeah. It comes in large quantities. Pineapple. This is melon. All kinds of melon. Watermelon. I don't know the kind of melon, but these are all kinds of melon. That's the purple, right? So I think this side is the fruit session. Do you guys have plantain in here? Yeah, plantain and bananas. They are from the most African countries. They export every food. They export everything. Everything. They feed 40% of the population on it. Actually, it's the bread basket of the whole world. Every food comes from Brazil. Exactly. I've seen some fruits that I've never seen before. Example. Oh, that's plantain. That's plantain. I was like, where am I going to see plantain? So which means you can pound fufu here? Yeah, you can pound, but we don't have the pounder. So what we do is I use another system of eating original Ghana fufu. But I have to go through technology. Microwave, you know. But the soups, palm nut soup, granite soup, light soup, contemporary garden eggs stew, pumpkin stew. Everything you get it. Everything. That's where we are. Everything. We bought some fufu from the market, man. Where are you heading to now? We are here. We are finding a place to eat in a traditional Sanjuaki where all the food that goes to all the city are from here. And they created a restaurant where you can see people eating doesn't have nothing to do with the market. You can see because it's become an attraction where everybody feel like coming to have a lunch in the market. So if you look at them they have nothing to do with the market. There are people that come from somewhere and just come and enjoy the the place, you know. So what this market stand for is tourist. I'm salivating, man. Is he going to give me some? So we are the area of the African spiritual religion. African spiritual religion. Where you have the traditional religion, you know. Maybe with the outfit. What inspired the outfit? Is it from Benin? Aki Inspiration to the Benin. Aki Inspiration to the Benin. To the Benin. To the Benin. To the Benin. This one? Yansan. Yansan. They call it Yansan. Because Yansan is a Yoruba language. Because why? Yoruba was the last slaves that came to America. That's why their religion it's all Yoruba. If you go to Cuba, if you go to all the Latin they all use the Yoruba. So it's the only sham. Yansan, we call this Benin. So this is the outfit from the Yoruba people, right? For the traditional religion of the Afro religion in diaspora. Here, if you see the way they use all the beats you understand. Our chiefs in kings and also our native doctors. So this is like the things that the native doctor will act. Do you know this? No, no, this is no cola. Oh my goodness. So they all use this in a traditional of arending and other you know. Exactly. But these are beats. I'm seeing like clay pots right in there. Wow. So they all use this for juju, you know. They have juju here? Yes, that is what is meant for playing. Okay, do you know what we have here? That's a tortoise. What do you guys keep tortoises like this? They use it for rituals. I want to bring where you can see diversity of all these Africans starting from the drums, right? These drums is only meant to be played in the African religion. We call it Kandumbleh because actually for me, it doesn't really make sense Kandumbleh because it's only Yoruba both tribes in Africa are billions of tribes. They only use one language so it's not everybody that is going to understand the Kandumbleh. They call it what? Kandumbleh. Yes. In here. But that's Yoruba language? That's Yoruba language. Which means a traditional religion. Wow. Where they call it that Ghana, we call it traditional religion. Okay. Yes, so it is the traditional Let's go and see what the tigers have for us. Powerful. Start from the power. If you want to pound your palm nut Ghana, for the Fufu pounders, they're more here. So you can see that all the people in the whole Brazil when they want to do anything spiritually if you want to give some sacrifice for some spiritual thing you direct it to buy some things which they will use it together to make the ritual so that's where they come. So most of the people here are sent with some definition you know. Something to come and buy. Like you see what they hold in their hands. Can you ask what you see coming to buy here? Wait, what's that? He came to he came to find out something like a research so these are the beads. Beads. Yeah. Wow. Look at that. Yeah, these are the African artifacts. Yes. This one, I know this one. These are Nigerian Yeah, Ibo. Typically. Oh my goodness. And the outfits. The outfit is representing. This is crazy man. And also the statue is very important not to forget as well. Each statue stands for one kind of spirit that they believe mixed with the Catholic because as Brazil have the they are colonizing the religion oppressed. They always have to hide. They never do it openly. So even to today they are dying because of it's a slave religion. And that's the diaspora. So they are still being oppressed. So a Christian movement Pentecostal temples they are growing here in Brazil and some of them not all of them sustain this message that Candomblé is the same of the devil. So this is sugar cane. This is sugar cane. Oh it's the biggest economic in Brazil, sugar cane. In alcohol in alcohol for vehicles for sugar and for the spirits appetite So it's a symbol of slavery as well because that's where the slaves work on the farm. Big farms. So when they brought them here that's why everybody thinks that when you are going to Brazil you are going to grow sugar cane. Because it's the symbol that's what the slaves not only in Brazil, Cuba as well they have a lot of sugar cane molasses, plantations that produce sugar all over the world and to make this quantity of production they needed the slaves. That's why it was very economically growing because the more slaves you have the bigger farms you have. This is Assanka. Wow. We eat in this we also grind tomatoes and peppers within this and it's exciting to see that they have the same thing in Brazil. It shows you that indeed Africans were taken from Africa and brought to this part of the world. Nothing can change my mind about that. That slavery story or the transatlantic story was a fairy tale. Because you see the presence of Africa in here. Are they selling on water? No, they are taking it to the island. To the island? The island needs products. Wow. All the islands they need products from here. All these boats itself like long distance and to support the market, the growth store so it's very important the work of these big, big boats. They are not that big but they are big enough to take enough. So most of the owners own little, little shops on the island so they come and do the big shopping and take it there. So that's what they sustain. Greetings from Africa. Say Complimentation from Africa. Complimenting. And we are so sorry we are very sorry. We ask for your forgiveness. We couldn't fight so hard not to bring you guys here. Yes, so as not to make you bring you here. You are welcome to Africa anytime. You are always welcome to Africa. Let's see. Thank you so much for taking me around showing me Africa in Brazil. I've learnt a lot of new things today and believe me or not this is Africa in Brazil. Yeah, for sure. Thank you very much having this opportunity to share this wonderful educational colonial Africanism diaspora and I know my people are going to have a lot of good benefits of this wonderful wonderful education system to you in Africa. Maya. So whenever somebody comes to Salvador Bahia, reach out to DJ Sankofa and believe me you're going to learn something that you've never learnt in your whole life before. Don't forget to like this video. Share this video so that others will see this video. I mean I am blown away. I've learnt something new and I believe that so many people need to know that there is Africa's presence in Brazil and I will see you all in the next one. Peace out.