THE BALANTA PEOPLE 🇬🇼✊🏿
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This is THE overview of the most prominent ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau, the Balanta. Their name means "Those who resist". They migrated to West Africa from the Nile Valley some time ago....these are all attributes of my paternal ancestry that is the BALANTA.
Thank you/Abeneh to all who made this possible.
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I'm Haitian and I just learned that I share paternal genetic ancestry with the BALANTA PEOPLE LIVING IN GUINEA-BISSAU!
I'm Haitian too, and share maternal ancestry!
I just found out I'm Balanta on my Maternal Side! I wanna dress, eat, pray, and speak Balanta! We should connect!
He, b'ndeemba (Yes, family) connect with your people! www.balanta.org
I'm from Guine-Bissau Balanta from my mother side and Mandinga from my father side.
I'm a balanta based in Germany Munich
I am from Guinea Bissau, born and breed I can help
Am a proud Balanta born in Gambia 🇬🇲 to Bissau Guinean 🇬🇼parents am a full time Balanta 💯❤️
Just found out I am Balanta. I have been on a Spiritual Journey for years. From the Nile Vally to West Africa. It only makes sense.
Just found out my lineage comes from this tribe. All my life people told me I was rebellious lol. I love it. I hope to visit one day. This is a great start to understanding
Me too! (no lie) I’m watching the video because my mother JUST told me the news. My entire life we believed our roots were from Ghana.
What up cousin⁉️🤗✊🏿🇬🇼
So where are you located
Just found out that I am a decendent of the balanta people off my mother side... And I wanted to do research and find out more about them... Hopefully one day I can go to Guinea bissau and learn even more... And hopefully I will be welcomed
Welcome, my dear, you are all welcome to your motherland. And I am a balanta, my mother side, I was born and raised in Guinea-Bissau. Our mama Guinea-Bissau, with its development problems in all sectors, but we are happy.🇬🇼🇬🇼🇬🇼
You will be welcome
You are welcome, sister! ✊🏾
@@nhapodebuli7664 I'm from Guine-Bissau too and Balanta from the mother side and Mandinga from father side
Me to, Im on my mother's side. ✊🏾 ❤️ ☝🏾 🧬 🏠 ✊🏾
I just got my DNA results back from African Ancestry I am 100% Balanta of Guinea-Bissau! I am so excited for this knowledge! ONE Africa!!
Ma'at Hotep..... Ase'
YOO BIAFA, FAYEH (YEA BROTHER, POWER) ✊🏿
My ancestry traces back to Guinea Bissau too! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Big up yourself Ra
That’s so awesome 👏🏾 we welcome you to our country 💚❤️😭
Im Balanta and i live in Guinea bissau currently, 80% of Balanta are christian protestant or traditional religion and 20% catholic and Muslin.
I did an African Ancestry. I share a genetic ancestry with Balanta people. Thank you for this video
Hello! My name is Fatou. I am so glad I have found this channel. I am balanta Mane born in Spain but absolutely proud of my roots. May Allah bless all of us. Ameen🤲🏿
N'sumna sof da (Greetings my sister)! N'sumande lem anwbo (I'm also glad you are here) on this channel. Abinteh (Welcome)! Nghala ndan
JUST FOUND OUT IM FROM THE BALANTA PEOPLE OFF MY MOTHERS SIDE NOW I MUST LEARN MY BALANTA CULTURE BECAUSE THIS IS WHO I AM
I just received my results back from African Ancestry letting me know I am apart of the Balanta People
Grand Risings my revolutionary blood Brotha!! This is absolutely phenomenal!! Congratulations on being apart of this beautiful tribe and sharing this beautiful knowledge with us!! Ase and bless up King!! 🌞👑🖤✊🏿
ABENEH! Bontch kunduna bendenbah (THANK YOU! Pleasant rising family)! It is my pleasure to learn and share my culture with its lost descendants. Feel free to share the video with friends and family 💯. Fayeh Queen ✊🏿
@@rasaroots6309 Thank you for this information. I just found out my dads ancestry is of the Balanta people also.
I'M SO PROUD AND GLAD TO KNOW A BIT WHAT WAS/IS OUR STORY SINCE THE ARRIVING OF THIS PEOPLE IN GUINEA-BISSAU, SPECIALLY WHAT THEY HAD DONE DURING INDEPENDENCE WAR PROCESS, TILL NOW THEY ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO G-BISSAU. I ADMIRE SO MUCH THIS ETHNIC GROUP WHICH I'M A PART OF IT, BY THEIR COURAGE, DETERMINATION IN THEIR POSITION AGAINST PORTUGUESE REGIME. THEY HADN'T ECCEPT ANY KIND OF PROMISE FROM SUCH REGIME, SO THAT COULD TURN THEIR HEART TO GO BEHIND THEM AND KEEPING IN THE DOLOROUS PUNISHMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK U SO, BUT SO MUCH BY THIS INITIATIVE, PLEASE KEEP ON WITH IT, YOUR PEOPLE WILL FEEL HOW GREAT AND SO SPECIAL THEY ARE, SO THAT THEY CAN KNOW THAT WHAT THEY DID FOR G-BISSAU IS TO PROUD AND CONSIDER..."ABENNY BIAFA, N'GHALÉ KI NA WAGNA KI FAYE".
Abeneh nbebabah. Nghale N'dan. Fayeh!
@@rasaroots6309 peace love and light I just did my African ancestry got results today find that I am from the balante people I have a question what language is that you were speaking at the end of your statement
@@iam6638 That is the Balanta language. I have other videos on it on my channel as well.
@@rasaroots6309 thank you, I will subscribe to your channel
I found out in 2021 that I was 99.7% Balanta. I have always been one to resist. I am a Libra who appreciates balance. I want to know more of where my mother came from. She hid it for years. I understand so much of me now
Well done. My dad's side for me. Mom's side is Cameroonian. Looking forward to learning more and visiting. Joined the US-based group. Continue sharing.
I am proud to be a balanta
Faiyeh! ✊🏿💯
Are you in Guinea bissau, I want to visit?
Are
@@rasaroots6309 I seen in your other videos, you visited Guinea bissau, can you give me some tips, I want to go visit in February (God willingly).
@@Y12354 No, not at the moment. But I will be returning soon, ancestors willing. Feel free to reach out to me on Instagram or Facebook. I will most likely just do a video on it since a lot of people including yourself have asked.
Got my African Ancestry results a week before my birthday (about two weeks ago). My maternal lineage is the Balanta of 🇬🇳. Those who resist...explains so much in my life. #Brassa #L1C1
Faie sofda (power to you sister). It did for me too 💯.
Happy to all of you. Anyone who wants to meet Balanta I am here to help. Living in the UK.
@@si3672 Join the Balanta group on Facebook called "Binham Brassa"!
@@rasaroots6309 I am going to join
Request to the group Binham Brassa has been sent
I did my African ancestry and im an descendant of these people
Yo bia'fa, tchéhé (Ok, peace brother).
Check out www.balanta.org for more info on our biñam B'rassa (Balanta people).
Just learned today that I am Balanta on my Mother's side. Good to meet you all family.
Dude you know more about the balanta then I do and I was born in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
they are very kind.nice to hear more from them and to know they are related to the egyptians.
Great video. I’ve learned that the Balanta or Bassa are part of the makeup of my maternal ancestry. It makes sense also from some of the things that my mother told me before she died.
Proud of being Balanta, KESSANA MANE SENEGAL
Fayeh!
Mine !!
Just found out my maternal side is Brame and Balante. This makes perfect sense, as I have always had a rebellious spirit as do all the women on that side of the family.
Yo, Fayeh! (Powerful!)
Do you have any information about the brame people ?
😂 there's no human being that they're afraid of , if someone brings it they definitely will finish it . Beautiful people , they tribal name define who they are.
This is an in depth narration by someone that has a connection to the content. TY!
Abene (thanks) for the acknowledgment brother. Look out for more content soon on my strong people. Faiyeh
Dope video . I am learning a lot about this amazing powerful tribe . Thanks for sharing the knowledge .
I am proud balanta, my mother is from. balanta tribe
I knew the Sudanese came up with wrestling. This was an awesome video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Are you Sudanese?
Arasa Malik no I’m African American. I love reading about East Africa or Africa in general
@@downtownon7thavenue That's awesome! Well stay tuned for more African content 🌍
I just tumbled on this video. I am a South Sudanese (Dinka), google this tribe and you will discover that Balanta and Dinka shared one ancestor. The Dinka language is similar to Balanta language. I was listening to Balanta video where a Balanta old man was doing dome offering to a deity at a shrine... I was so so surprised to discover that the processes of offering and words use when talking to ancestors were so similar. Though, I have never been to West Africa (leave alone Guinea Bissau) I have heard some few Balanta words from the old man. This is amazing. Dinka called God "Nhialic" and Balanta called God "Nighale"...the writing is different but pronouciation is the same. The Balanta, like Dinka and other tribes, are Nilotic (people of the Nile). The famous Nilotes are the Dinka, Nuers, Luo (people of Barack Obama's father), Masaai etc etc...most tribes in East Africa (Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tamzania) are Nilotic people.
I got my results last week and learned that my father was a Balanta! May the Creator bless you for providing these resources for our People who are finding our way Home!!! I have subscribed, checked out the Balanta org and I am learning our language!!!
@kofitalks if your Father was Balanta like mine then that means your probably related to Pharaoh Ramses III like I am. I did my DNA on 23andme and found out.. which makes sense.. because we came through Egypt.. we once inhabited Israel before we fled the Romans.
@@TurboTRock Yes, I share DNA with Rameses III as well.
Your sharing is valued. Kudos! - B'rassa Balanto
Greetings my brothers and sisters!! I found out today that i share the DNA on my Father's side. This is an awesome video of our ancestors!! Thank you sir for taking the time to give us an introduction into the past. Our history is so deep and this connects the dots for me because it confirms the fact we came from Egypt/Sudan, to Guinea Bissau in which my DNA shows I'm related to Pharaoh Ramses III through my Paternal side whom ruled those areas. Also makes sense in why we are the People Who Resist!! He was a Israelite that took over the throne of Egypt and won 3 significant wars!! We don't play! Love you all!! Blessings!!
Dude I’m a balanta so I came here, thanks for making this video
Dope video brother. Been doing my own ancestry research. I came about the Balanta people about 2 years ago. Ironically, Balanta is my last name and the paternal linage In colombia. Not too sure if I’m a direct descendant of the Balanta people but I do know, my latin family with the Balanta last name are the dark shade of colombians in my family
You know, the Balantas of Columbia really had me thinking when I first started researching my people. There is a big Columbian futbol star who's last name is Balanta. Maybe you all descend from the Balanta, and kept the name. You should take the African Ancestry test to find out though. Abení (Thank you) for watching, brother.
@@rasaroots6309that's exactly what it is!!!"
Very good introduction to the people.
Thank you...So much for this video..Proud to be apart of the balanta nation...ASE' king.✨👑
My pleasure bendembah (family). FAYEH ✊🏿
Arasa Malik what? You know how to say that? I only know how to say” if you have slept well” mind you I was born there 🤣🤣🤣
Such beautiful people.
Thank you for watching. They truly are.
this is so accurate it's scary! Well done!
Hahaha, we should not fear ourselves! More Balanta cultural videos coming soon!
Seriously am I the only bissau Guinean 🇬🇼 here ?
👍🏾
No I'm from Guinea Bissau too
I'm also from Guinea Bissau
@@ednaidatipote5602 are you balanta ?
@@Badjuda are you balanta?
Thank you for the video Arasa!!!!! I did my African Ancestry 2 years ago and found out my mother's lineage is of the Balanta in Guinea Bissau. Were you able to visit? I need to check out your other videos.
Thank you for watching! Iaglanteh (congratulations) on your discovery! I just got back from Guinea-Bissau last month actually. I will post more videos about my trip so definitely stay tuned!
thank you for the video.
proud to be balante
Thank you so much for this. You did a great job,please let me know when your going to see our people,I want to come. Thanks for this! One love
My pleasure, thank you for watching. I am going tomorrow if you want to come 😁
@@rasaroots6309 i wish i could. im so interested to know my people. too bad i cant come. please enjoy and post pictures. one love
Tamiko Touchlife dude honestly you should definitely visit Guinea-Bissau everyone is so welcoming, people there from the same area treat each other like family especially if they are from the same tribe.
@@vanessasanha528where u from?
I guess this thread will continue, as a result of the African Ancestry DNA test my maternal line is to the Balanta people of Guinea Bissau, and my Paternal line to The TSOGO people of Gabon.
FAYEH!!
Yooo!! Thank you for putting this together brother! I just learned today that my father was descended from the Balanta! This is very helpful info! I subscribed too!
Yooo bendemba (family)! Abeni ndang (Big thankhs) for the support! I just got back from Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 , so I have more Balanta content coming soon! 💯
@@rasaroots6309 That's great to hear! I've had time to check some of your videos and the content is awesome! I'd like to learn more about naturalization and the culture and language. Everything really! I'm so excited
Thanks for researching and sharing this information. I see similarities in this culture in my husband, who recently received his certificate.
Thank you. Bless
Respect brother !
✊🏾
I too just received my results yasssss Balanta. Can't wait to visit.
My African Ancestry results came back as Balanta or Madinka from Guinea Bissau.
its great history man brother
WOOWW NICE EXPLANATION!!! you gave me more insights
Peace brother, do you have any knowledge of how the names are chosen for our people there in Guinea bissau / Sierra Leone, I also have lineage in Sierra Leone with the Temne people, so I have a lot a research to do on both areas Thank you
Yes brother. I will be releasing a video on my naming ceremony in Guinea-Bissau soon. I also received a Themne name, but it was in a more unconventional way haha. I can say that in Sierra Leone, they often name people after deceased relatives/ancestors.
I found out that I am from the Balanta tribe as well. Paternal
I am Balanta and Fula. Paternal.
Hello brother thank you very much for the Video we are very proud of you guys welcome home. But You forgot to mentioned my name.🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha thanks for this video I am mandinka people but I am speak this lingua from Guinea Bissau
Thank you for watching!
yeah its my biafa i,m also so much balanta history about relate my people ethn group
I’m Balanta on my paternal and maternal side.
Lol, your voice is really cute!
Thank you
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There are many African Americans who have taken that DNa test saying they are Balanta origin. My question is, were Balanta captured and sold or did other tribes sell Balanta as slaves?
Great video brother! Just one correction, balafon and bombolum are not the same instrument. Balafon is similar to a xylophone, whereas bombulum is a drum with far reaching bass sound that is used most often to communicate important events between different “tabankas” (villages), such as a death of an elderly person, or even played at their funeral proceedings.
Mantenhas! ✊🏾💪🏾
Yes, the Balofon and Bumbolom are indeed two different instruments. At the time of making this video, I did not know, but now I know better. Do you know the B'rassa name for both instruments?
Abené bia'fa ✊🏿
Arasa Malik the bombolum is named m’bombur, or n’kilin for the smaller ones. The balafon is called by the same name, i believe.
Peace love and light family just received my results from African ancestry and my roots go to the bolante people. I am so happy, is there a specific language that everyone is learning on this site? Peace
Iahglanteh mbebaba! (Congratulations brother!). Yes, the language I teach on my channel is the Balanta language itself.
@@rasaroots6309 I just found out that my Ancestry is of the Bonanza peoples. I need your chanel to learn my ancestral language.
Just found out that my family is from this tribe!
I meant the Balanta people.
Can you do manjaco mandjaco Guiné-Bissau
This is typically among the original description of the Balanta ethic group.... I'm a descendant of the Balanta from mother's side. Thank you for the research!!
Abeni a'bik na (Thankh you for watching)!
Look at my beautiful people 🤎✊🏾🤎
Amazing video, thank you for sharing brother.
Ps: Amilcar Cabral comes from the Fula tribe in a small village in Bafatá from his biological mother side. His African name is Abel Djassi 🙂
U Know He's Both Parents Cape Verdean Right?
@@SHANNY13_96yes his father and his adoptive mother are capeverdians but his biological mother is Bissau Guinean, from a small village in Bafata. His biological mother was from the Fula tribe that’s why Amilcar Cabral “African Name” is Abel Djassi. Do ur research!
@@yahnessahyahsharel6777 shii It's So Many Sayings So He's Mother Really From Guinea Cuz people Cape Verde Santiagu Island Sais They From Somada Country Side They Santa katrina But Any Way Do You Know Anything Bout Nalu Susu Basari Baga Jallonke Tenda Kokoli Cuz We Got That In Our Dna Too As Well and fulani temne and mende In Our kriole mali Bambara& Mauritania Them And Kru People In Liberia That Was Doing Business With Cape Verdeans?
@@yahnessahyahsharel6777 Funny Shii I Wanna Share With U One I Was On The Comment This Angolan Mf Coming At me Tryna Me We Are Their Defendants I Was U Done Lost Yo Gat Damn Mind Don't U? Mf Wanna Claim Us To Be It's People I'm We Not No Mbunda Ndongo Or Whatever The name Is nor Bantu We All From West Africa So I Thought This Is Crazy Folks Got Sick🤒 Obsession With Us🤦🏿♀️But Btw Boeh Gorgeous Nha Badjuda ✊🏿✌🏿
wait what!! Amilcar Cabral had Balanta decendence!? I am Cape Verdean and we are not taught this in school. I would like so much to dive into this. where could i find more infos on this.
No he's A Cape Verdean descendant both parents are cape verdean he just happened to be born in guinea-bissau he's parents from somada Santa Katarina!!!"
But What about the balantas in Colombia ????
I want to know.
Its says Balanta PEOPLE but seems to only be focused on the men
There wasn't as much information B'rassa Neen (Balanta Women) available to me at the time of making this video. I've since learned a bit more though. Would you like me to make a video focusing on the women? We have some pretty notable Balanta women.
just found out i'm Brame and Balanta, i cant find anything about brame idk if its one and the same or not?
Add Sheriff Lucius D. Amerson, First Black Sheriff Elected in The South After Reconstruction as also a member of Balanta tribe
My history
I love balatas
Im not really surprised that a lot Áfrican Americans are in the chat 😌, you guys been pointing fingers at the wrong people 🤷🏾♀️ *coughs* Portugal 🇵🇹
Great informative information, proud to be Balanta!
*coughs* Portugal *coughs* *coughs again* France
@@latinyachanner-johns3808 not me :)
I am a genetic ancestor of the Balanta people of Guinea-Bissau.
Im from Guiné Bissau ,and Im also balanta from my Mother side and mandinga from father SIDE ,i can guive you information if you want ,welcome home.
4:38 dude my brother was wearing that hat after he did a like traditional “vasectomy” for 6 months
Me and mother love cashews. I can never eat enough cashew and I need a steak once and a while
i am Bylanta
Mama is Balanta-Guinea-Bissau…Daddy is Teke/Ateke People of Gabon! It’s said they were in the Bantu Migration!
the images of minute 6:12, 6:25, are of PEPEL ethnic group, not Balanta
Yes, they also feature similar cultural elements, like the red beret hat.
We all have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents and so on. The average 30 year old of African descent in North America, the Caribbean, Central/South America and Mexico would probably have had at least an 8th great grandparents born on the continent. We have 1024 8th great grandparents. If only half of your ancestors came from Africa, that's still 512 people. Africa Ancestry DNA companies are only telling you where your one direct maternal and one direct paternal ancestors came from. That still leaves 510 people who could have come from other places in West Africa. Blacks who have been in the diaspora for centuries, have ancestors who came from every group of people in West Africa. I'll claim them all. Not just the two for who a direct maternal or paternal dna test can match with a present day West African population.
they are not only in Guinea bissau senegal and gambia
Yes, they are all over the world in the Afrikan diaspora. But they are predominantly found in those three countries.
But they are originally bissau guinean. Senegal is land of wolof not balanta
@@Djibril1156Sow True statement.
Return to his family as a new men? Man
Ami único Guineense 🇬🇼 li?
Ndjunta k bô... Nkunsa odjal nan
claro que não nha irmã
Ami Guineense tambi 🇬🇼❤
Não 🇬🇼 ✊🏾❤️
Are they from the Tribe of Benjamin?
No.
@@rasaroots6309 They are. Do the investigation..They are part of bantu speaking people - who are the true 12 tribes of Israel.
@@rasaroots6309 czcams.com/video/NdfRKPkWOkM/video.html
7:55 hold up I’m Christian but yeah balantas have more Muslims, there is still a number of Christians
muito obrigado
Balanta on my father's side. The only white that is in me is on my mother's side
They was bainunkas not mandinka bro check again mate 😉
I always found this tribe scary
Every time when I watch Shaka Zulu I remember of them