Documenting the Diaspora: African Americans in South Africa
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2022
- Since the end of Apartheid, hundreds of African Americans have moved to South Africa for opportunity to participate in one of the worlds youngest democracies. The country offers a variety of landscapes which include major metropolitan cities to safaris. The relatively cheap cost of living and the opportunity to be in the majority, has made South Africa the homebase for African Americans looking to live on the continent.
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Fantastic work Dr. Asad and Team. Proud of all that you’ve done and are doing for the Diaspora!!
If I was an African American sitting on the fence about Africa and I heard the last speaker's ad commercial, I will immediately book my flight and come see for myself. Well done Dr. Asad and your family. Thank you for shining light on our beloved country. Truly, our efforts to create a safe space for all black people is surely paying off. This is beautiful.
Beautiful work, I spent the month of September 2022 in South Africa, it was my second time in Africa. I was in Zambia in 2012 and in both countries, the sun warmed my spirit. I remember standing in the market in Zambia talking to a seller that asked me who I had purchased an item from and I told him, "I got it from the black man over there." He looked at me strangely and place a hand on each of my shoulders and said, "look around, every man here is black." It was that moment as I looked around that I knew what it felt like to not be identified by the color of my skin, but as the unique human God created me to be. I will be coming back to SA next summer for an extended writing hiatus to work on a novel. I am so thankful that I can tell my ancestors, "I made it back." Thank you for sharing your work.
Whilst jogging, I met one tourist (a black brother) last Sunday in Hout Bay. He was with his wife. He was happy looking at the natural beauty of the motherland.
Meanwhile the *Indigo Traveller* is currently in *Ghana 🇬🇭* showing the slums to the world. These *Europeans* are so motivated to keep the negative views and narratives of *Africa* alive. The mere fact they walked past the obvious developments to go seek out the worst developed area to further enforces their own stereotypes.
*Dr. Asad, Wode Maya* and *TRSA* I want to say thank you all for continuing to change the narratives, and hopefully rewriting history for the next generations to be proud of...👏
There are slums and shantytowns in Europe….
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I am so proud of you. This is a beautiful documentary that has truly opened my eyes regarding my perception of Africa❤
Thanks cuz. You have to make a trip.
I’m a South African, I love the humble spirit of AAs & their willingness to learn about us, it makes it easy for SAns to welcome you.
Thanks Dr Asad for this insightful and compelling documentary, we need this type of real life stories to open minds and hearts of the diaspora. Brick by brick lets build a strong AA community in SA🌅
Amaaaazing!! Now this is television worthy, hope it makes it to US-African screens.🔥
Dr. Asad this is beautiful, I wish you and other fellow African American brothers and sisters a successful life. Let’s build this country together thank you
WOW this was excellent.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Watching again… Really appreciate the voices you brought forth.. My dream is still alive… See you soon SA 🇿🇦
Indeed the intro profound. Enjoyed it very much
This was beautiful😭 I have watched 3times on my phone, then computer and now TV😄This legit can be a series. Thank you for doing this work and shining a light on the beautiful country and people❤
Phenomenal video. I've never been more convinced i'm on the right track. Visiting in September 2023 and planning to move there for good in 2024. Can't wait.
WELL DONE MY BROTHER!! WELL DONE ✊🏿💪🏿
I'm in tears...WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE !!! 🙌🏾
Who else has watched it many times and thought it was short and wanted more 🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️
We want more. We want more 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
You just communicated to an unborn child in the diaspora. 40 years to come they'll be watching this documentary and they'll yearn for africa particularly south africa.
Your can take us out of africa but you'll never take out africa in us. Thank you for mapping a way back home. It is clear, evident with live testimonies. No more excuses.
Brother Asad, get hold of the Brand South Africa and SA Tourism representatives in New York and ask those offices to partner with you. This doccie can go a long way to expand the tourism market and also just to break into the black American market.
WONDERFUL!!!! See you in SA in February Dr Asad.
Great documentary brother, i was just in Johannesburg in July and loved every moment.
Well done to everyone who contributed to this. This is brilliant. That's the thing about the truth, you can't keep it underground forever, at some point it will surface.
We appreciate this excellent work Dr Asad and sister Adrienne. What an honour to have people like you on our midst and invested in this country and the continent of Africa the way that you do. I wish you and your family nothing but the best in making South Africa your home. Thank you for your bravery. Re a leboga (we thank you)...💕🙏🇿🇦
Inspiring and engaging. Awesome production. Thank you. I shared on my FB platforms. Everyone, please share this.
Thanks for sharing!!
Shared too! On my WhatsApp contacts
@@thandiedollar4789 thank you
They have bought some really beautiful homes here. That one up in the hill with glass 👌🏽
I was looking at that. Even the sofa gives that relaxed look like it can just swallow you in.
I love this documentary...We welcome our brothers and sisters from America
Welcome to SA to the AAns community, lets build this continent
Well done great man!!! This is motivating us to do a documentary as well as book our next flight before the move!!
Go for it!
To quote the brother El Haj Malik Shabazz said "You've been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray. "
Thoroughly enjoyed the entire document. Especially poignant mark 5:24, "We were busy staying alive, trying to stay alive, with those...". Plan to make my first trip to SA in spring 2023. Many Blessings to you and family.
I’m so proud of you for putting this together. It was beautifully done.
Loved it!❤❤❤
Bam bam bam dr asad excellent
Wow this is very good, i can't believe you have produced this documentary at long last, from complaining about your editing skills to this marvel, Bravo Dr Asad. Your love for us is amazing we really love you too Dr. Your narration was on point, very eloquent, Intelligent, Smart and clued up.
This is great work and I'm glad to be on the sidelines (front row) to watch this journey unfold. EPIC
My brother, this is beautiful, well done, and I look forward to more still to come, Africa has gained one more family adding value to who we are, Africans inside out, Thank you brother Asad and your beautiful wife.
Please monetise it, put it on Amazon or something.
Greetings brother Asad and your lovely family and greeting to brother Malcom X my erternal hero,Mdu-Soweto
Well done Dr Asad.......I may not know you personally but I'm so proud of you for documenting such a positive, beautiful experience.
Wow !!! Great documentary best so far for me I’ve enjoyed, pity it was a bit short. Shared on my FB post.
Well done Doc, history will remember your name indeed.
It's only a matter of time before this document spreads like wild fire, I believe this will be more better than the Blacks without borders documentary. Well done brother Asad and kudo's to you
I visited South Africa and I’ve had an overwhelming feeling to move there every since I’ve been back. I get down sometimes just thinking about it!! My daughter is in high school and I hate to move her with 2 years left but I feel like if I had the opportunity to uproot now I would in a heartbeat! Signed, desperately trying to find my way back!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I know the feeling .
Serious stuff🦾
Hoping to see more african americans visits in South Africa
This is powerful, and it can be hired on national TV
Great Documentary Dr. Asad Bam, bam, bam, just like that!
A very heartwarming and insightful production fam,thank you for sharing this with all of us.
The document was so well put together and inspirational to an extent that I was ready to pack my bags and go to the motherland. After a minute or two later, I realised that I needed to chill, as I remembered that I am in South Africa already 🙂. I guess that is what an excellent piece of work can do to your mind! Beautiful, that is all I have to say!
You are not Dr for nothing. This is great. More people should see this. I hope everyone who commented here also liked this video. Well done brother
I know I'm not the only one who didn't want this to end 🥲 I hope for part 2. Thank you brother Asad.
Absolutely great documentary and I'm so happy that have a community already over there 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Wooooooooooooow Dr. Asad, this is a very beautiful and educative documentary. Dr. Asad, you can be a documentary producer and director. I encourage you to use your African American Studies' background to produce more of these documentaries about the African continent as a whole for the African diaspora. Try to enhance this skill. It's well put together.
Great work, D r. Asad. Greeting from Slidell, Louisiana. I'm making plans to visit SA next month. This documentary is on point. I wish to document my visit and show my people what they are truly missing.
504 in the building. Hit me up when you get here
This is such a great and informative documentation Dr Asad. Step by step we will bridge the gap and mend the walls of our broken Black nation. I hope this is only the beginning of such inspiring works, be it cultural, economic or social. It could have been at least an hour long, Lol.
Extraordinary film Dr Asad! I’m getting my proverbial “ducks in a row”! My commitment to visit is PROFOUND…just awaiting my passport(long story)😮😂😊❤
Well thought off documenting and powerful
Watched again! The Intro with Bro. Malcom was 🔥 🔥🔥. This should have been an hour😂.
WOW. Top quality 👏👏👍
Stunning 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 outstanding 👏🏽👏🏽
It's 3.29am and I'm up just finished watching this doccie that I've been looking forward to for the past three days. I literally lost my sleep and exactly 3am and now I understand why 😭
Congratulations Dr Asad and the Malik Family for this job well done 🙌🏽
Hahahaha! I like your sense of humour brother. Also, you really took me back with that Shaft clip 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dr. Asad I met your channel during covid-19 , but this documentary is superb
You have done an incredible job with this, my wife and I really enjoyed it. The conversation has had us excited and ready to pack our bags today. We are visiting Johannesburg next year. We would love to contact you guys.
Thank you. Asadelmalik@gmail.com
wonderful documentary my Brother, you are such a good narrator.
Thank you kindly
Great job Brother Asad
Thank you
I really enjoyed this as a proud South African
Thank you
Watching your videos is much better than watching TV!
I’m entertained, learning, and being encouraged! Thank u Dr Asad for your great videos, I’m hooked!!!…watching them every day as I count down my days to the end of this month when I’ll be traveling to SA for the first time. I am excited and hope to meet you, your wife, and more good people of the Diaspora!
May God continue to Bless you, your family, and your endeavors to spread the good news to our people!
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Hi Dr Asad big ups to you for the job you doing. We really appreciate it
When I get the goosebumps it means only one thing *its communicating with the inner me* . Dr Asad bam bam bam just like right. I'm happy you are documenting the movement. 'Amashe'
Hey Fam.Brother Asad said he'll love everyone to come 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌Job well done enjoyed 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I've been waiting for this documentary brother Asad 👌🏾 I love it. I like the stories everyone tells. The one thing everyone talks about is feeling at home. I wish it was longer 😂 I enjoyed it.
Oh what beautiful Doc, it touched my soul 🙏🏿
Well done brother Asad. This was beautiful
Ty for this beautiful and informative production brother.
MALIK FAMILY😮🥺❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤✊🌍✊🌍✊🌍✊🌍✊🌍✊🌍✊
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS DOCUMENTARY THAT IS A MOVEMENT IN WAY.
AFRICA IS CALLING ITS PEOPLE HOME 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍.
"THE SPIRIT OF UBUNTU" IS IN OUR DAILY LIVES..WE LIVE IT AND TEACH IT.
WITHOUT IT WE ARE NOTHING...UBUNTU GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE WORD AFRICA AND ALL THAT ATTACHES TO THE NAME AFRICA 🌍 👏.
Yay!!! I had a chance to finish watching it and LOVED IT!! Awesome Job!
And so it begins. Great documentary and it has inspired me to dosument my parents history and just journal their journey. Its a small step but I believe what you are doing will resonate even with Africans who tend to take our history for granted. So Thank you for the reveal...its truly a great effort as its not easy to travel across oceans and landscapes to find an emotional and spiritual homes.
Good job Dr Asad loved it hope that forgot to put part one on the title, and that you will correct your mistake lol
I’m emotional shme coz this is really good ❤
Our people 🥰🇿🇦
This is amazing 🔥🔥🔥
27:48 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 they paid for the 1st trip 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mashallah. A good documentary. U should have added in ur headline: "in conversation."
Those who have ears, they have heard. Nothing to add except to say, "Come home, you are most welcomed".
This is fantastic brother.
I visited South America and I loved it.
Hello Family great Content as always bam bam and another bam just like that 😂👌, Dr Asad for a minute there when you were expressing your notions on how the propaganda embedded within AAmericans have somehow made AA's distant from the continent but now that's the total opposite of a farfetched Idea but I saw Martin Luther King Expressed and echoed in your words
It's crazy how some of us African desperately want to go to America whilst you guys are leaving to come here, welcome to South African my brother hope to see you soon.
Beautiful! Welldone Dr. 👏🏾👏🏾
Great work Doc, I've shared it on my whtsapp contacts...I'm soo proud of your work Sir 🙏🙏🙏👊
Thanks bro 🙏
Beautifully made 🙏🏼 thank you Doc
I wish you could have somehow indicated wherether the footage in the backround was in South Africa or not because there were some nice backgrounds, people need to know where that is.
Everything is in South Africa mainly Jozi
I'm South African and you doing an amazing job breaking down the manipulation most Americans went through.
Excellent content
My brother you must explain something to us here.... Why you make a very short documentary like this. It could atleast taken one hour 30 minutes.
Well done bro 👊
Yes I agree, it should be long.
😆 it's another "quick" video. I'm going to do one on AAs in Cape Town
I’m appreciate the short videos. Keep on presenting your perspective one video at a time. You have us captivated
@@asadelmalikphd ok now I understand, was like no u can’t do this to us ✌🏽👊🏽😁
This is beautiful..
This is amazing and so well packaged,Brother Asad 🙌🏿
Please can we have part 2, 3, and 4
Next part will be focused on Cape Town. This video was heavy on Jozi
Am with you on this one because I was complaining how short it was
@@asadelmalikphd but still it was short Doc, Nd Lot of faces that weren’t shown on video 😁, I mean the usual faces, your Asha, The Blantons, Ashley
You have sharpened your skills on video editing😄😄 nice
I try
Well done . really enjoyed it.
Exquisitely captured, unscripted and organic.