 You don't know how thankful I am at my age to be a hero in our, to experience this before I die. I get to experience freedom. I get to experience supreme black love. I get, I get to feel what sisterhood feels like without resentment and envy and cardiness. You know, I get to hear sister say, what can I get for you? Yeah, Africa is, like you said, it's warm. The people are warm. They don't worry about anything. They're just content with what you have. The greed is not, they are family oriented. They are so communal. It's awesome. I, I, I would not, when I go back home, like brother said, I'm going to get my stuff together, sell what I have to sell. I will be here. I'll be back. All done when it's Ghana month. So you all need to represent Ghana. That is why I've got my I love Ghana t-shirt. This was done by Charlie Socks. So hey, you all should make sure you get yourself this from Charlie Socks. The link will be in the description. I found myself in the beautiful part of Ghana that I have never been. This is Pamprom and it's in the greater Accra region. Listen, it's just 45 minutes out of what? Accra city. So yeah, what am I coming to do in here? I told you that moving to Africa is now a movement. So many people are settling back in the continent and it's so exciting to see what is happening. I just came in here to check out what's going on. I think there's a party and you know what, wherever there is food, there's water mire. Food is a lot man. A lot on the plate. Do me a favor, like the video if you love food too and subscribe and be part of the awesome family. And she's the one who brought me here by the way. This is my little darling. This is Gifty. Gifty, how are you? How are you? Good to see you. Nice. She's helping me. You're looking so beautiful. Really? I can't believe that you're 73 years old. 73 years old. 73. 73 young and beautiful. 73 years old. 73 years old. Everybody come here. Everybody's waiting for you. Everybody's waiting for me. Yeah, they're waiting for you. Oh, wow. Everybody's waiting for you. Everybody's waiting for you. Everybody's waiting for water mire. Everybody's waiting for water mire. It's here. Oh wait, how are you? Good. Good. I know you. Yes, you do. Angie. Remember we were at the flag? Yes, yes, yes, yes. You too. You too, you too. Oh my goodness. Whoa. This is a full house though. Yeah. It's a house of love. Welcome. Hi, how are you? It's my other daughter. Your other daughter. You have so many beautiful daughters. My daughter, yeah. Come on. Come on, come on over. Yeah, this is, he keeps the yard. They're insane. This is Sea Eye. Brother, how are you doing? This is Sea Eye. Yes, Sea Eye and Sea Eye's nephew. And she helped me with the decorations today. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on over here. No way back. Come on. Come on, everybody's here. It's a big family. Yeah. Hi. Hey. How are you? Wonderful. How are you? Good. Thank you to see you. Thank you. Come on. Here's my nephew. Here's my nephew. This is Curtis right here. How are you? This is Curtis. Good to see you, man. Good to see you. Yeah. So everybody's inside. I want to get some air conditioning till we come out. I'll hear it. Okay. So, damn it. Good to see you again. Good to see you again. Yeah. Who is the DJ? Walk one. Ah, walk one. Are you from Jamaica? Yeah. It was so cool to be in the midst of Africans that were born in the diaspora that have transitioned back to the motherland, sharing their experience in Ghana with me. It was so hard to absorb that alone. So, I had to put this on camera. This is going to be a random interview. But hey, you know what you need to do for me? Like the video is very important. Share the video so that others will know that Africa is the home for Black people put on the continent in abroad. Thank you. Collected, ma'am. About a month ago, Peaches and I had died in a restaurant in a crock. And he was so, so nice. He was walking by and I told him, I said, you have a chance to get away. You can run now if you don't. You belong to me now. You're a part of my, you're a part of my family. So you can, you can break and run or you can stay. So you stay. Now you belong to me, you're part of my family. And so you see what he did? He's a part of the family. So this is my extended family. These women here are a part of my life and I wouldn't trade anything for it. I have Peaches. They're, they're everything to me. They're everything to me. They have been there for me, for me. I'm new. I don't know anything about God. All I know was, I was watching Mr. Ghana Baby. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. And the video brought you here? Yes. Yes. But I, I've never been to Prom Prom and you already did. Let me say this. You know, she said she came to Ghana because of my video, but I came to Prom Prom for the first time because of her. It is, it's that you have to understand. You have to understand what I gotta do because I will cry so my kids will, anyway, you have to understand how important you are. And I don't think you understand because you're so humble and you're so sweet. Your spirit is sweet and you're pure and you don't have a hidden agenda, you know. And we are here because our ancestors brought us here. Our ancestors commanded that we came. I heard the voice just as clear and the voice said, come home now. The voice said, come home now. Now come home when you get ready. Come home when the money's right. Come home when you get everything lined up. The voice said, come home now. So I came. You helped me, Wotamaya, by everything that, that, that you said was so upbeat. It made me think it's possible I could come home. And when I get here, you know, I meet these wonderful women who just love me because they wanted to, because they chose to love me and to show me that I have a home here. So I just wanted to, as I'm saluting Wotamaya, I want to salute all of you. Beautiful, beautiful. I ain't gonna cry. I ain't gonna look at you because I'll put something in front of you. I ain't gonna look at you. But this is what we, this is what we've achieved over here. We do what our grandmothers used to after slavery time. We look out for each other. We look out for each other. We take care of each other. Do you need anything from the store? I'm going to the store. Okay. That means somebody goes to the store and brings it to you. What you having for dinner? You're not cooking anything? Well, I'll send dinner to you. Okay. That's what our grandmother did. Your baby's sick. I'm going to come over to your house and sit with you. Your mother died. I'm going to come over and be with you. We used to be with each other. We used to be with each other. It's called standing in the gap. You don't know how thankful I am at my age to be here, Wotamaya. To experience this before I die. I get to experience freedom. I get to experience supreme black love. I get, I get to feel what sisterhood feels like without resentment and envy and cattiness. You know, I get to hear sister say, what can I get for you? What do you need for me to do? I just told the soul, yesterday, all I need for you to do is touch and agree with you. So all I need is touch, just touch me and tell me it's going to be all right. It's a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing. So thank you my darling. Thank you my darling. I love you so much. You don't know. And I want you to know this is your home. Anytime you come this way, just say, Mama Vera, I'm coming. And I'll put some pots and pans. I already told them. The guest room is ready. Y'all come and spend the night. Come and eat whatever you want to. You know, and this is, I want you to know this is your home. So welcome. Thank you. To San Cofo Shangri-La. We have food for you, entertainment, and a lot of love and hugs, and a lot of sisterhood. Big ol' because she titties the most. Did you, did y'all want to introduce yourself individually toward the mile while we're here? Did y'all want to tell you where you're from briefly? Anybody want to do that? I told everyone in here lives in front of them. No. No. Well, my name is LaShawn Rainey. I'm a briefly from Detroit, Michigan, but I live in Columbus, Ohio, but I've been here for a year and three months now. Yeah. So I'm a philanthropist and entrepreneur. So that's who I am. I'm Diana Kimball, and I've been straight here. It'll be a year April 1st, and I've been coming back and forth to down every year since 2014. I think I missed 2018 with a broken ankle. And I am here mainly because ancestors sent me here when I started finding out about who I was and studying African culture. I knew I needed to come, found out my family history, direct connection. My fifth generation grandmother was taken from here. And I'm just enjoying life. I don't have a mission. I have a student though. I have school fees. Yeah, I got a student, Timoraw Tema in Timoraw School. I have a student there, and I get my school fees in, I get it paid, and my daughter Jacqueline is doing grade in school, and I will follow her until when she finish. So that's it. And then I'm just partying having a good time and enjoying my life. And I didn't have to buy land. I was invited to come and stay with a friend, and it's just wonderful in Prom Prom Village. I am in Prom Prom, in the village, in walking distance from here. So a lot of us are walking distance of each other when I say it is walking distance. My name is Luca. I'm from the UK. So I've moved here. Been here about a year and a month now. Just wanted a new chapter. I wanted to start something fresh and be home. So I'm setting up a few businesses, fingers crossed, you'll see me. My name is Olivia. I've been in Ghana for a month and a half now. I love it. I got called to come to the African continent after I had a spiritual experience with Vassar. He came to me and called me to Kimit. And then I went to Kimit and I came to Ghana. And I've just been absolutely embraced while I've been here. Right now I'm doing ghost writing and web development for quite a few organizations in Africa and diaspora. And it's been absolutely amazing. But my passion is with women who listen to killing and spiritual healing. So that's what I do a lot of in the States. Right now I'm just traveling abroad. I'll probably be in Africa until May-June. But originally DC. So we'll see one-way ticket for right now. My name is Diane Davis, but everyone calls me Auntie Dee. And really like Vera, I got the call in 1992. After going through some life transitions, right, I was praying one day and I said to the universe, if there's something else that I'm supposed to do in life, let me know. And I actually heard a voice say, go to Africa. And it wasn't something that I had ever planned, but I followed the voice. So I came here in 1992 on a visit. And I came every year until the year of 2012 when I had an opportunity to get a job working in Ghana. And I took it, right? And I've been here since 2012. I am Glenda Sampkins-Gonyay. Everyone calls me Peaches. My birthplace is Mansfield, Louisiana, but I spent 40 years of my life in New Orleans. I am a retired educator. I came here in 2011 with my sister Cassandra, my brother-in-law, Otis. We moved to West Lagoon. I moved here to Pram-Pram the next year. So I've been in Ghana for 11 years in June. Now, one thing you must have to come here is patience. Now, if you truly lead this, it's going to be difficult to adjust. But it's a laid-back place, a laid-back people. And I'm living a very stressful, not stressful life. And I'm stress-free like that. And I want to help people come here, come to the motherland, see what's over here. And I never met anyone who came here, so they weren't going to come back. So come see us. My name is Deb Carson, and I'm originally from South Carolina. My first time coming to Ghana was 2018, and I came with my mom. At first, we just wanted to go to Egypt because everyone wants to see the pyramid. So let's go to Egypt. But the person that got us to come said, why not do Ghana as well? So we did Egypt for four days and then Ghana for seven days. And I have to admit, I was disappointed when I went to Egypt. I thought, I'm in Africa. This is my first time. I should feel something. And it was kind of an empty feeling. So when I got to Ghana, when I landed, it felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulder. And I can't really explain it, but everyone I talked to that has come to Ghana, they've had that same feeling. You know that weight that you carry being African-American in the U.S., that you don't realize until you come to a place that embraces you. And that's what Ghana did for me. So I've been coming back every year since. And I've been here for about a year. I actually live in a crowd, but soon to be impromptu. So I'm going to be a part of the crew, the impromptu crew. So yeah. My name is Nia Yonu Chitinder. I am originally from Jamaica, of course. The name is Jamaica, but I know it's something else anyway. I'm currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. This is my second time here. I came first time with my daughter in timely, in 2016, 17, yeah. And I love the place. It seems to me like Jamaica. It reminds me of Jamaica with food and the people. They are so loving. And I knew that I was supposed to be here because as Marcus Messiah Garvis says that Africa is for African. And if I live in the States all these years, spending all my time there, doing things there, I believe I am supposed to be here. And that's my goal to be here. I am going to have a business here. And I want to, what's his name? I want to present this to you. I'm going to have a business here soon. I am five minutes away from Miss Vera. I'm living up there in some apartments. And I am going to bring this to Ghana. I created this. It's half of my name, Nia Spice. And I am going to present this to you so you can share with your family. Spice is very good. It's all natural. It's no salt in it. It's pretty little salt. For chicken, right? Yeah, for everything. For everything. I love chicken, so I think that's a good question. So enjoy it. And I'm going to call you everything. It's all purpose. It's all purpose. I have one left, but I just brought five. You want to say something to the color? My name is Matthew Knight. And I was recently from Los Angeles and spent a lot of time in San Francisco and Oakland before them, but originally from Pennsylvania. And I'm really into ancient African history. So a couple of months ago I sold my house and I had the opportunity to live wherever I wanted. So I just decided to travel. And I've never been to the continent. So I thought it was a perfect opportunity to come. The states are crazy right now anyway. So it's nice to get away. I'm a tech entrepreneur. I built a talent marketplace and social showcasing space for YouTube and Twitch video editors. It's called Insight, I'm going to market right now with it here in Africa. So I've been working on this for the past four years and been building it for the last year and a half. And so now it's like perfect timing for me to be here and to launch my business. Since you came in here, what is that one thing that you've learned that you love to carry along? What will it be? I see women walking every day here in water. I see children going to paying the bush anymore. It's just vacant land, you know, and having to go to the bathroom. It doesn't bother me. This is just, these people are living. I love it, love it, love it. It's life to me. It's pure life. It's stressful in America, but here everyone is able to just freely be. Do whatever. And they're happy, you know, they're happy like the smallest thing. I see the children, you know, running around with a little makeshift little torque and they're happy. Attire. Mystique. Yeah. So it's just a feeling of just being happy with what they have. You see, for me, it would be that the commitment that they have to being dedicated and loyal to themselves. The family unit is beautiful here. It's something that most of us are suffering from in America now because it has been lost. It has been displaced. You see, when you see the children, you know, they're, they're working in unison, they're playing together, they're laughing, they are very mannerable. The first time I caught a cab, the young brother, I'm not going to mention these things, I haven't had this consent to mention his name. I came out from the apartment and he greets me. I don't want to cry. He greeted me, mom, mom, and I'm like, wow, I'm living in this place for 70 years old and I'm living in this place. I've never had a young brother, a young man like you all to call me mother. And they just take your groceries, you know, mommy, mommy, call him, can you pick me up, take me up here? Yes, mommy, they are so respectful. If that is in the States, well, I don't keep it in the States now because I'm not going to be there, but I'm just saying if that was there, we'd have a better life. And the children are so respectful. They pass by and say good morning mom, mommy. It is beautiful. It's awesome. It's phenomenal. I would take that back to them. There was not one time I went to this street, somebody don't say mommy, the level of respect that they give you is phenomenal. It's a whole lot more, but I see them crying. So it is phenomenal. Yeah, Africa is, like she said, it's warm. The people are warm. They don't worry about anything that is content with what you have. The greed is not there. The family oriented, they are so communal. It's awesome. I would not, when I go back home, like brother said, I'm going to get my stuff together, sell what I have to sell. I will be here. I'll be back. What I needed to understand was that I could actually have a life here. And it didn't require anything but to give up the idea that America was everything. And the only way you could actually thrive. There was a system bigger than me that had something in store for me. So it was the Africans, a Liberian brother from Nigeria and the Ghanaian. They all, it was various people, but these three invested online. And they sent them because they saw my speeches and my talks and this and that. And they said, if you was any place else in the world, you would be respected. And then the Ghanaian said, but Africa needs you. And I don't know if, because up until that point, Africa was just a bucket list. It was like, if I get to it one day, I'm gonna see a draft up close. I never, I don't even want to lie. I'm serious. And I was never, I've always been African ethnocentric. I've always been a natural girl, but I never was that person that was like, oh, I'm going to learn Swahili. And I'm doing Qantas. I was not her. They're not synonymous. So he said, okay, don't have no expectations. Find your country somewhere in the middle. And land. Make yourself comfortable with common people because the reason we're attracted to you is that you're a common person. And I did that. So G and I always are in the villages. We live in the villages. We've never lived in the cities. We visit the cities, we hang in the cities, we do work in the cities, but we never, we always with the common people. So I kind of follow the footsteps of a Kwame Turek. You know, I like, so I've never had a place where I couldn't find a place to sleep or food or anything. Africa takes good care of me. But the agreement now is that I had to take all my skill sets, my talents, my gifts, everything, my network, everything and transfer it to Africa. So when I go back home, the US has to pay me. But what I do for Africa, I do for free. So I teach, I counsel, we do all kinds of, you know, philanthropy, helping to get water, help whatever the community, different communities have different issues. And so we keep a pause on what is the issue of that community. And then we work there. That's one, two, my baby. This is the last baby. My best friend, my travel buddy, my nemesis, she all love it. My other three children are not interested in Africa. And they don't have to be. Okay. This one she is. So with her, I said, with all of my assets, the only person I can pass this to is my daughter. And so she has to be equipped to receive Africa on her own time. Because I told Gia, I said, Africa don't owe nobody an apology for being right. She will tell me, mommy, when they do like that, they're telling you that your mother they said something about your mother. If they do like this, when they throw their hand like this, it means shut up. She tells me various things about community because she's into a new town. I'm in Palm, she's into a new town during the week. I let her live with the family who lives in basically a shanty, okay, which I didn't know until I knew. And she never complained. She goes to the community, communal bathroom. She goes to the communal toilet. She gets her own food. What else do you do, Jipu? I go out to the community. I go to the store, I go to the market, and I all do with my family at my house. But it is, it's a different thing when you live in a small house. But when there's love there, you can stay there forever. Because they took care of me. They always made sure that sometimes when I'm not even hungry, they ask me, gee, won't you eat in the food in front of me? And they'll be like, no, I don't want to eat. But even I live some days, I would not even call you. You'll be wondering like, what is wrong? Why isn't she calling me? Because I'm busy with them having fun. You know what I'm saying? With the school corporate punishment, it's, I mean, you can't run away from them. They say it all the time, no matter how far you run, I'm still gonna be at the school. So when you return, I'm gonna get you. So, I mean, I just have to deal with it. What is something that you do in America that when you came here, it felt so different? Oh, I feel like some of the school rules, like you can't paint shoes, you can't wear your hair in certain styles. In fact, they actually wanted you to cut your lock, didn't you? Yeah, I know, I do. Final question before I go. I think I interviewed the Jerry and he said, Africa is the future of Black people. Brother Jerry from Anselstraho, he said Africa is the future of Black people. Now that you've been in Africa, what do they say about Africa? Oh, Africa is the future of Black people. Period. Period. You know, I was in the U.S. Look, in the U.S., Blacks don't have the population, they don't have the resources, nor do we have the land. So if you don't have the population, the resources in the land, you're never going to be in charge and you will always be at the mercy of the people who do. Do you all not agree with him, though? Some. Some. I agree with Garby. All of us can't be there. Exactly. We just can't. I just wanted to know if the food is ready, though. The food is ready. Let's go eat and I will see you all in a minute. Thank you.