 Back to the YouTube channel to avoid Mr. Garner baby and I'm back again with another eye opening video but hey I'm here with Natural Garner girl. I mean are you team natural team? Of course, team natural all the time, every day, all day. All day? All day, every day, yeah. You've been running out for me for the past two years. You want to talk about Ghana content creators for diaspora? I think she's the first person that started. You, the only way is Ghana. You've gone out to the only way is Ghana and there's another girl. Yes, I am Hamat. Exactly. So I reached out to her in 2018 and she never responded to me to 2020. No, tell the story properly, you're lying. He's lying, it's not like that, it's not like that. Did I reach out to you in 2018? Hold on, you reached out to me and then I didn't see the message because I wasn't very social because I was heavily pregnant at the time. But I got back to you a month later and then he ghosted me. He ghosted me completely. So I wanted to start the Project Africa to the world. I was trying to bring all African content creators together to preach about Africa. So I saw your video, I was just researching about Ghana content creators. I saw your video popped up, then I sent you a message, the same message that I copy and pasted to Ghana. Copy and pasted the same message to Hamat. And I think the only way is Ghana replied in 2019. See, it sounds better. Anyway, tell me, they don't know you, what's your name and where you from? So my real name is Della, but I go by natural Ghana girl. I was born and raised in the UK, but now we live here in Ghana. We've been here for six years and we absolutely love it. And counting. And counting. Six years and counting. And counting. No, you just introduced yourself but I've seen a judge. Yeah, yeah. I'm on my body. My husband called me. Husband. You were based in the UK? Both of us, yeah, based in the UK. Born and raised in the UK? Well, I left here when I was six. You left Ghana when you were six? Yeah. What about you? No, I was born in the UK. That's all I've known is the UK. Yeah. Except for the odd few holidays in between when I was younger. That's it. And I just want to know, I mean, UK is a paradise to so many Africans. UK is the place that, listen, I don't know why anytime I say this to you, I feel like, you know, did you watch the video I did with Manke and E? Yes. Even the comments from Ghana, I mean people that were commenting on the video were like, ah, stupid girl, give us your passport. Yeah. And we'll go to the UK and leave it up to you. They have no idea, absolutely no idea. Tell me. Anyone that says that the UK is blissful, I know you've never been there before. I can tell straight away. It's not true. The UK is there. I mean, I would never diss the UK. And I would never cut my ties with it. But if you want to live real life, real good enjoyment life is Ghana. Yeah. Definitely. You hustle a bit. Once you get into it and you make it, the sky's the limit. It just goes away all the time. And I think as well in the UK, what happens is that you end up in this rat race so you're continuously having to work for money, work for money. When you were there, you worked six days a week. Six days a week. How can you live like from morning, like you leave home at like five in the morning? I wouldn't see him till seven in the evening. That's not living. Building houses. That's not living. That's what. That's like torture. That's called the rat race. It's torture. It's the rat race. Let me know. Let me know. You lived in the UK and decided to let everything go and return to Ghana. Why? It wasn't easy. Kwame, your idea first, wasn't it? We actually came. That was the first time I came. Yeah, yeah. You go first. We were on, I would say, a honeymoon kind of room. Oh, wow. Married. Yeah, so I came here. I've never been to Ghana for a very long time. Like I was raised here for now six. And I've been almost 34 years of my life in the UK. So when I came, I was very surprised. I said, hey, it's Ghana. That was in 2007. We came as a family on holiday. And I thought, wow, is this how Ghana is? So that's what kind of made us even prompt to even come back here. You're saying, is this how Ghana is? No, because, you know, sometimes you have these African parents who will say, if you're in trouble or you get in trouble, I will ship you to Africa. So when you hear things, especially when you hear things about Africa, you have that mindset of famine, drought, people are malnourished, everybody's dying. That was my perception. I'm not saying it's like that, but that's what I was doing. So especially when you're in school, they don't teach you much about black history and history in itself. So when I came out very shocked to see that, wait a second, look at the airports. Wait a second, there are fat people like myself. Yeah, you know, I was shocked. So it really surprised me. I said, nah, this place is amazing. You know, even though, like I said, the infrastructure may not be there and all that, but it's really amazing. I don't know what it is. There's a peace. There's a freedom. There's no one looking to be shocked. That was his experience. That was my experience. No. It was nice to come on holidays. It's nice to come back on holiday. But you've been there all the time. You can't be there now. Yeah, but I was like, when he said, let's come to Ghana to live. I was like, are you crazy? What am I coming to do inside this country here? I was a bit of a snob. I'll take that. I'll take that. Yeah, I was a bit of a snob. Yeah. I said, I'm not coming to live in Ghana. I haven't even had my children yet. I'm not going to go to any hospital in Ghana. What am I going to do there? I said, no way. Absolutely not. I said, no. What made you change your mind? Yeah. And over time, I don't know, something just kind of switched in me. And then at the time, one of my children got sick. And then I was looking for something different. The more I started to research into things, I thought about the health and the types of food that we were eating and that kind of thing. And I just, I felt so, I felt that we needed something more. And so Ghana then, something was birthed inside me. And we started, we started slowly telling people, oh, we're thinking about going to live in Ghana. And people are like, you can't. They say you can't. No way. I said you. I'll give you six months to be back. Who are the people that were telling you this? Friends, family, everybody. Are they Africans? Yeah. Yeah. Someone who has been here and they've, they've relocated. You know what it is? I think UK, when you get there, there's a system of, because things are done. Infrastructure is done. You've got free schooling. The healthcare is fantastic. So you get kind of comfortable. No, but don't you think that it was the people that were saying you can't make it at all. It's not, Ghana's not good. They're the ones that have lived here from the beginning and then later moved to the UK. They're not, those of us that like want something new, like we haven't had that experience of Ghana. Yeah. The new generation. Those of us are the new generation. We're the ones that are coming back. But those that were born here and went to the UK, they're not really interested. They're not interested. And I just want to know how was the transition? Oh, God. Because six years ago, I knew that definitely there was not too much information. Yeah. Yeah. No, there wasn't. Well, I spent a few nights crying here. Yeah. I definitely cried. That was a wound in this moment, man. Honestly. The desert. Listen, there was one day, do you remember? Because we were staying with my dad at the time and there was this one day. It was the middle of the night and then light. Oh my goodness. Oh, and we were all showing a room at the time. And it was hot. I said, Kwame, can you help me? My third born, he was a bit younger. Yeah. He was a bit young. And I said, can you help me? Can you just hold him for me? He said, no. I'm not helping him. He said, I'm going upstairs to sleep with the mosquitoes. He said, I'd rather get bitten upstairs than to stay in this heat. I was sweating, you know? I was on it. Because I was transitioning from, you know, you know, they'll say, hey, just this one. Ice block. Yeah. So the water is sitting like this. Yeah. We had it acclimatised. I was acclimatised. I was sweating. But nobody even touches me. And I was like, man, give me a shower. Yeah. So he was like, no, no, no. It wasn't easy. But, you know, like I said, after a while, you really get to know, even a couple of years ago, when we went back to the UK, I was shocked how cold I was. You know, because, you know, you've been in that country for so long, you got used to it. Meaning in a hot country and then you go back, you realise you're so damn, I'm getting cold here, man. It's really, really freezing. Yeah. So it's really interesting. The transition period was not easy at all. It was, yeah. I feel like the children probably handled it better than we did, actually, which was surprising. I thought, I'm not sure how they would take it, especially in terms of the types of food that we were used to eating and now you can't get, like, yogurts and stuff. It was very hard to get here. They were very expensive at the time. We couldn't afford all that kind of stuff. So, but they actually fitted in easy. They were happy. They were running around barefoot outside and doing all that. Thanks for watching. Me, I was like, oh my gosh, I'm suffering. I can't get this to eat. I can't get that to eat. I was really struggling. We struggled, didn't we? We struggled and... I don't know about you, but I did. I did. I was accustomed. No. I'm going to embarrass him. I'm going to embarrass him now. You know the first time we came and this guy ate banku? He used a knife and fork, spoon and all that. Cut the meat to go and eat it. Can you man? I was just looking at you like, this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. I know all of you are enjoying this. You have a YouTube channel, yeah? I do, I do. The name is... Natural Ghana Girl. The link will be in the description please. Subscribe to our channel. Let's continue the whole session, yeah? Right now you're building a house in Ghana. Yes, we are. It's incredible. I mean, I'm so proud of both of you. I appreciate that man. Thank you. It's really beautiful. But I just wanted to know somebody who is moving to Ghana for the first time. Do you think the person need to buy a house or maybe build a house by himself? I think building is more cheaper, definitely, than buying. And you've also got... When you're building, you can choose what you want to kind of put in. And you could also check the quality. But if you're like someone who don't know building, it's always better to try to get someone who's an expert, like a contractor or maybe a project manager to check over stuff. But it's far cheaper. Far cheaper to build into. I think even aside from even the cheaper thing, I think the fact is that you can build what you want here. We're so used to buying a house and you make do with what you've got. You try and make the rooms work. But if you build, you have exactly what you want. That will work for your family because every family is different. You might want a big living area. And so I think building, you get to have all of that and fit it in how you want over buying. That's interesting. I just want to know, is it expensive or cheaper to live in Ghana? I think it depends on the kind of lifestyle that you want to live. If you don't like going to the market, if you don't like local foods, then yes, things can get expensive because you can buy potatoes here and you can cook all the British foods or the American foods that you want. It can definitely get expensive. But if you're willing to compromise and you don't mind eating local sometimes, then things can be cheaper. A lot of it depends on your lifestyle, what kind of person you are. So it's up to you. We're not very lavish. We don't go to lots of posh restaurants. We don't do that many things because of where our focus is at the moment, which is on the building. But I think if you come here and you're not in holiday mode, then Ghana is definitely cheaper in that respect, definitely. Do you think Africa is the future? Absolutely, without a doubt. And I'm telling you now, if you are planning on coming to Ghana, don't waste time because nothing here is going to get cheaper, only more expensive. When we came to Ghana in 2007, we looked at some lands and that land now in East Lagoon Hills, we cannot afford it. We wish we had bought back then, we cannot afford it. I wanted to buy it too. She didn't want it, she said bush, she said bush. You want to sleep on the couch tonight then? She said bush. I'm a bit more tunnel vision. He sees things, the more of the bigger picture over me, which gives a nice balance. And you've been in Ghana for the past six years. If you have the chance to change anything in Ghana, what would that be? For me, corruption. Corruption. I hate it. I'm not going to go into too much details, but I absolutely hate it. When you learn things like if you're doing a job, you're paid to do that job, why do you want something extra? That mentality, not everybody, absolutely not. Not everybody's like that, but there are a few things and it can frustrate you sometimes when you want to get something like that and I feel like that slows down certain processes. But if not for that, Ghana. But like I say, we're still living here, so it can't be that bad. If I could change things, I wouldn't go back. This is my home, absolutely. This is your home. If you're living in the West right now, if you have an advice for people like that, what would it be? Okay, have an open mind. I really feel that I have an open mind. Don't kind of take on what you hear about Africa. Yeah. And just take your time, digest it. Little by little, you get there. And that's what it is. Just take it small steps. Don't come in and think that, you know, I'm not going to go into too much detail about Africa. Don't come in and think that, you know, I'm from the West or I'm from a better developed area. I can come and change Africa. No, you can't change Africa. You adapt and you learn with Africa. You make you improve things. You're not here to change things. You're here to improve things. And everything is day by day. So take your time. Learn to slow down. That was the hardest thing for us. Learning to slow down. Stop expecting things to happen so quick. You know? Don't forget to subscribe to natural girls. Natural Ghana girls. Natural Ghana girls. How many subscribers do you have now? Oh gosh, I have like 8,000. Almost nine. How many do you want? What's the heights of the sky? Don't hide the heights. Don't hide the heights. Make sure you subscribe and support them. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you.