Africa for Africans? Hear Susu’s story as a mixed race from Ghana 🇬🇭
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- After 3 years of living in Ghana I struggle a lot with hate comments and I always wondered how my children will feel in future to be from a interracial parents? that's why I sat down with Susu and asked her to share some of her challenges as a mixed race person in Ghana.
If you had similar experiences please write them for me in the comments.
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I was born in Jamaica 🇯🇲 black skin and never got any problems. Ghanaians accept me just like a family member they haven't met in a while... The love and immediate acceptance let you know they're aware Jamaicans are basically Ghanaians, especially with the dark skin. They always tell me to welcome home...
I think the hate comments come from a place of history. I know you're not Arab, but many will assume you are. Arabs have a notorious history of slave trading. Even the Lebanese have a Kafala system in place and treat African maids like crap. Yet they have a sweet life in Ghana and live in peace. Maybe if Middle Easterners stood up more against racism against blacks, you will have less bitterness shown here. It's not only Africans who have to keep being nice to foreigners. We all have to do our part to make the world better.
Well said! I agree with you. But I find it important to talk about it, not in a nagging way but to acknowledge that it’s happening
Well said
Also the country's former president JJ Rawlings, former minister Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, and Former first female chief Justice just to name a few examples were all mixed (biracial). No one would dare say that they were /are not Ghanaian. Everyone has their part to play.
Tvs
Yeah and he killed a bunch of people and was a dictator. Not the best example. A mixed person running the country of black people with an iron fist?
Former Chief Justice? Nope ! Georgina Theodora Wood is not mix race! Perhaps you are referring to , Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo the first female speaker of parliament. She is biracial.
We are all one family
Thanks for this one. I think mixed heritage is a blessing in the sense that, if you are smart, you take the best of the worlds you come from.
Absolutely!
Very good video 🙏🏼 can relate 200% 👌🏼
Your videos makes us to broaden our horizons. Keep going Ana 👏🏻👏🏻🤍
Happy to hear that! Thanks
I have been following your channel for over nine months but missed this video. I feel bad about such unfortunate comments but know that you are doing a great job. I am sure your years in Ghana tells you about the love and welcoming many Ghanaians are. Unfortunately, there are some in this world who enjoy such negative comments expecting a negative reaction. Stay focused and don’t let anyone distract you.
Am very surprised about this because when I was growing up in Ghana mix race people are highly likeable , I have to be careful next time we are in Ghana about this , thanks for sharing
Even if you go to Mars you will find haters. You just have to focus on the positive ones
TrueMamle
How can you grow up in ghana but throw out your life experience for a 9 minute video? What did they say in the video anyways that was so significant? They simply stated that ghanians notice that they're different. They are different. They're arabs. You know how arabs treat black people in their countries? Should we compare? Noticing that someone is different isn't something anyone has to be protected from. Everyone everywhere notices when you're different. For us they notice that we're black. And they don't just notice that and call us black, they call us much worse. What was the terrible thing that happened to this woman? From the sound of it someone recognized she's arab. It seems like her family didn't even want her to learn the language either yet they say we have to see them as the same as us.
@@michaelmaps2004
Where's the hate? All that happened is they were noticed for being different. If anything the selfhate for darkskin is what needs to stop. There's already enough mixed race worshipping that needs to stop. As far as nationality, you can't go to china and claim china. Why should people be able to come to ghana and claim ghana? Why does it have to be a lopsided situation where they can exploit and enjoy our country but we have difficulty in theirs?
Such a lovely story.Good job Anahita 👍🏼
Thank you laoban
I love your channel! Just looking at you I thought you were Mexican. Thanks for sharing!
Beautifully done Ana!
Thank you
Thank for sharing!
Very beautiful Queen u stay and enjoy gana don't worry about your negative people we African love you and your husband ❤❤❤❤
This was a really lovely watch ❤ I'm a mixed race girl moving from the UK to Ghana and arriving very shortly and I really can't wait 🫶🏾 I've always resonated and been very connected to my African roots so can only see this growing more as I live and settle in Ghana 🇬🇭🧡
l feel so sad watching this...... don't take it too seriously, please! growing up in Ghana, even the blacks that come from the western world we did call them ''OBRONI'' simply because they have copied the western culture. We did not see it as offensive! Ghana is your new home so please own it and don't let anyone tell you ''you don't belong.''We love you and we think you are doing an amazing job!
It is offensive
@@princessknowled What's offensive about it?
Obroni is never meant to be offensive, Ghanaians with both parents indigenous also called Obroni once they are light skinned. Even when Ghanaian babies are born, in that short space when they are lighter skinned, they are called Obroni. It’s not meant to be disrespectful.
@@lilyo.9802 that's really sad
This is a very concise and educative video. Most of us who had the opportunity to travel have realized that mixed race people in Ghana are Ghanaians without doubt.
Her eloquence is beautiful. I could listen to her speak saa
❤ I just saved this video for my newborn baby boy who is half Ghanaian and half Chinese, I think it will help him in some ways of understanding how to live in this world. I’ve always wanted to figure out how to talk to him about such topics cuz ppl are so rude and mean.. now I think I know how to start❤ thanks girl
That’s so sweet. Thank you. I’m sure he will figure out how to take best out of his two worlds just like Susu
@@Anaieta To answer your question, Yes, Africa is for Africans. Respect that.
I’ve been binge watching your videos, love your channel Anahita!
Being British-Ghanaian I’m due to visit home very soon, I don’t go back home enough at all tbh. Taking my wife with me too!
Keep up the good work, love and blessings to you & your husband 🖤
Hope you have fun in Ghana. thanks for your words.
@@Anaieta Thank you so much 🙏🏿 and you’re welcome onuabaa 😃
Also, I really like these conversations. Very necessary dialogues on belonging
Thank you 🙏🏻
You’re a beautiful person and don’t listen to the foolish ones
You are always Ghanian ❤Beautiful 😊.
Please never stop your videos, is completely unique from all the videos we see from other Ghana youtubers. Different box
VigilantGhanaian
She shouldn't be speaking for us. That's the problem. She can do her videos from her perspective (as an iranian), but she can't represent her views, preferences and perspective as our own and attempt to speak for us because they're not.
True!
Different point of view!
Thank you, no to haters 😅
@@tjasarener1692
An iranian one not a ghanian one. How can you call yourself ghanian and you don;t even speak a single language? Nevermind not having any ancestry from there
Thank you, so beautiful
This is a very thought provoking peice.... It's unfortunate but every society has narrow minded people who say the most hurtful things either out of ignorance, hate or just sheer insecure. Whether you live in Ghana, China, the US or Iran there are some people who will spew hate. Most important thing is that the people who are related to you, your friends and your acquaintances love you and support what you do. Do what you do and don't let the hate and negativity of a very very few individuals divert or distract the wonderful work you do. Happy NawRooz and a wishing you and Jude a healthy, prosperous and peaceful New Year!
You are very right. Thanks
Happy nowruz
All the best
Profound words
TV Shindand
Would it have been close minded for africans to be careful of the british and french while they did business with them and kept control of their society instead of completely opening it up to them (where they learned secrets, weakness etc) or would it have been wise?? No one has even done anything terrible to this woman but recognize that she's different and some of us are here ready to wipe tears saying theres a problem. How is it a problem?
And as far as preserving control of africa for africans where in the world do they locals allow foreigners to run their country? We need to wise up. Agreeing to everything she says and being passive doesn't make you a good person. It just makes you someone to be taken advantage of. There's nothing wrong with prioritizing ourselves in our country, it's the only one we have. And her emotions aren't more important than anyone else's
I was born to Ghanaian parents in Liberia. Attended most of my elementary and high school in Ghana. My skin tone is slightly lighter than the average Ghanaian, and yet some folks called me “White man” in Ga - one of the local
Languages. As a child I used to wish for a darker skin tone. I am fine now. I have not lived in Ghana for over 40 years and will be visiting in about a week. I will not be surprised if I am identified as a person with a slightly different skin tone. It is okay now. I am still a child of Africa. Live your life.
Don't worry about the haters..... be positive about your stay in Ghana...
They way you are thinking of your kids now. E dey inside anaa😂😂. Forget about the hate comments. U dey here. This is home🎉
Oh Stinguay😂 you know I have to keep future in mind .
Xiexie da ge 🫶🏼
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
One of my best friends is Armenian-Iranian-American! I love her dearly and she is like a sister to me. You have such a good attitude without the condescending attitude which is shown by many regardless of race who consider themselves superior. Keep being you and you will attract good people wherever you are. God Bless.
Thank you 🙏🏻🫶🏼
I think generally in Ghana, people think once you’re mixed or of a lighter complexion, you had it easier than they did. Some also feel Arabs generally come to Ghana to take advantage of the people, and not necessarily to come and take part in the opportunity the land offers; and hence in their effort to push back they say such offensive things like go back. It’s honestly irritating to me. Go back to where? How do you ask someone with Ghanaian ancestry to go back to their country? Luckily those people are in the minority and majority of people are very accepting to people who may look different from them, and once they learn you speak twi, they immediately accept you as one of them. My advice is for you to embrace the culture and learn the language. That breaks all barriers whether you’re Caucasian, Arab, or Asian. The more you reject the culture and the language the more the people see you as standoffish and will also not accept you as one of them. If you’re mixed, this is your home; sometimes our parents are part of the reason we don’t properly mix with the community but once you are old enough, learn to mix. You will be at home.
Just forget the haters. Enjoy your life. It is about making friendships with people who you interact with.
Viva la difference.
I am enjoying your video. Peace and blessings.
Thank you. That was a good reminder
I am a Ghanaian an we accept you. and love you. usually this kind of hate comes from the states. block the haters and live your life
I love her story. I've been called Obroni all my life too even though I'm not directly mixed. As I've grown older, the word doesn't bother me as much but as a child, I would get very angry when someone called me Obroni. However, I always say that most of us Ghanaians are immigrants but we fail to recognize that and it's only the Guans who can claim to be real indigenes to the land.
Some of my maternal ancestors migrated from Benin in the 1700s, settled in Osu and married among the Danes who were already here by that time. So I cannot say anyone of mixed heritage isn't Ghanaian because there were Europeans who had settled in what we know as Ghana as far back as the 1600s. Most coastal people all along West Africa are heavily mixed with European/Asian and you can see it in the names of old families such as Vanderpuye, Olympio, Da Silva, Plange, Brew, Mills, Hutton etc. So no one can say that someone isn't Ghanaian. It takes only one generation to become Ghanaian really. We are a diverse group of people and always have been. People in the North for example are nothing like people in the South. It doesn't mean Northerners are more Ghanaian than Southerners or vice versa.
You explained it beautifully! Very interesting historical points. You are right about the idea of being mixed. Thanks for this
@@Anaieta HOW DO YOU KNOW THOSE WHO WRITE HATEFUL COMMENTS ARE GHANAIANS
The Europeans did not settle in Ghana in 1600 it was from slavery and invasion do your research
@@charlie_remi please stop showing your ignorance. Many of those who were sent here had local marriages that spawned forth children and many did not return home ie they lived out their lives here therefore they settled in Africa. It's not rocket science
Tvs
And see that's the problem. When you can't exercise the same authority as natives, there are people like you who try to put them on your level to dispossess them of what's theirs in order to raise your own status. Humans move around, and when you do you're likely to come upon another group that's preexisting there. But does that mean all the surrounding land belongs to those people or that everything you use your hard work to create should be credited to them?
Ghana and the empires before that which have been there for 1000's of years mind you, were created by the hard work and toil of the ghanians you call "immigrants". It wasn't done by the 'guan' and then we settled and claimed it. So you can't exactly compare us to people moving in later who have lands of their own in other places. If that's the case then we should be able to claim anywhere in the world where we haven't even set foot.
There are some people who will never like you. Live your life. Be happy. Misery looks for company.
Ghana bound. 🇬🇭
Hmmm. Similar story growing up but in school more in the neighbourhoods we grew up in.
So sorry to hear about the hate messages. I think that peoples that do that don’t reflect gh as a whole and actually has to do with their own personal insecurities and issues. I’m sure they believe spreading hate / making others feel bad makes them feel a bit better about themselves.
I think I’m general people will always try and but a label on you. Not to diminish mixed people’s experiences but if it’s not because of the colour of your skin it’ll be because of some other physical or personality trait. I was the fatty-bombom growing up☹️
I agree with the part about personal insecurities that causes them to write such comments. Sad but truth
Who's to tell if those "hate comments" are even from Ghanaians?
You should ignore the haters. They are ignorant people who live in a very narrow minded worldview and they are everywhere. As an African born living in US I have encountered them but believe me they are the minority. Most of the people are decent human beings. Just ignore the HATERS!! That’s the best painful dose you can give them.
Obroni is never meant to be offensive, Ghanaians with both parents indigenous also called Obroni once they are light skinned. Even when Ghanaian babies are born, in that short space when they are lighter skinned, they are called Obroni. It’s not meant to be disrespectful. Obroni has its roots in beauty, actually very dark skinned people with silky smooth skin are called “Tumtum broni”, to denote their beautiful skin tone. There’s regular “tumtum” which dark skinned, and tumtum broni, which is beautiful black skin. So don’t get offended when someone calls you Obroni. Immerse yourself in the culture, you will be less easily offended by things which are not meant to be offensive.
My wife is a full blooded Ghanaian and because of her fair skinned nature, she's called Akua broni. Akua is a Wednesday female born and there is nothing wrong with she being call obroni. Obroni is white skinned whiles Obibni is black skinned person respectively. I find it difficult to understand why identifying a person by his or her nature has become a crime for Christ sake. Must we now stop Obroni and Obibini? I believe our brothers in Nigeria identifies a white skinned person as an Oyibo if I'm not mistaken so pls, if anybody is offended by his or her skins natural identification then l apologize coz I believe majority of we Ghanaians mean no harm thanks.
I honestly don’t think the word „Obroni“ is meant as a discriminatory word. For most cases it denotes a foreigner or someone who is more or less fair colored. My twin sister is fair-colored and my relatives usually called her „maame broni „. Though I understand it can be annoying for mixed race Ghanaians, understanding the contest for which it’s been used would soften the hardliner approach or reception. And yes, I agree it’s a terrible experience for those people but please understand that, it’s not coming from a place of hate but naivety and curiosity.
You’re exactly right. Thank you for adding in this comment about your sister. It brings a better perspective for those who do not know the general use of the word.
Hi susu, tnx for sharing, but don't feel bad for being called obroni, this is our way of describing a fair person, this is your home, live your life to the fullest and thank God for being here, you are blessed.
I just want to share this on ur platform, I have a mixed race friend, popularly known as 'half cast' in Ghana. In the year 1999. I wrote my exams in WAEC big hall in Kumasi, as a part-time student. It was Twi. I saw a complete white boy next to me., I asked myself what can a white boy write ✍️ in our local language? After the exam I approached him, started speaking English. He answered me with pure Twi, he told me I'm a complete Ghanaian because my mother is a Ghanaian. We became friends, he even got better results than me. We should all understand that colour of Ur skin should not determine where one comes from.
They may call you Obroni but the label doesn't have hate attached to it unlike in the West/Europe.
I challenge anyone who claims to be 100% of any color or race.
I'm proud to be a Ghanaian.For me being Ghanaian means I'm simply African,and I love that.Also, when people say Obroni it's not meant to offend anybody, it's simply what we call a White Person.Sometimes some people might call a Biracial Person Obroni too not to offend them but it's cause if they look very light skinned they look more like a white person than a Black person.People feel wierd calling someone who looks white but is Biracial Bikini(black person), that's why they call biracial people Obroni.
I wonder why they are talking obroni things personal are ghanaians saint
It is offensive and hurtful
Kate Agyemang
These people don't get offended when they're called "black" even though they're not. So why be offended when you're called white when you're not white? You don't have to be apologetic about it. It's simply an identifier and an accurate one. No one has the right to tell you or ghanian to change that. They don't tell white people to stop calling them black or mixed. That's because a lot of people see blackness as a space they can exploit and are entitled to but see other identities as off limits. Such people simply don't truly respect black people
Why is the root of Obroni trickster? Someone please enlighten me. I understand and speak Twi perfectly and have never heard this.
Anahita dont mind the ignorant hate speech. You are most welcome in Ghana and your children can enjoy dual nationality.
🙏🏻🫶🏼
My sister dont worry about such words they just that.
It pisses me off when mixed race people living Ghana plays victim card. Black Africans adore and love their mixed race relatives. We all know how mixed race people are treated everywhere the hate they have to endure whereas in african and in Ghana they are love so much and still have a gut complaint? Come on.
Bro I was just saying the same thing. Local Ghanaians adore them here and the smoke is from our black Americans brothers and sisters who don’t want white, Arab, Chinese people on the African continent. To them they are escaping the racism in America and want to be at home with only back people.
I tell them online that they are as much Ghanaian as everyone else here and we don’t discriminate and they don’t buy it. If anything we deal with Tribalism here in Ghana 🇬🇭
Deep down she know she is treated very well by Ghanaians here as opposed to a black person like me when I go to an Arab nation.
Yous speaking faxxx bro. I’d go even further and say that indigenous Africans love the mixed race folks to a fault. SMDH.
Let the truth be told because all you mentioned are racist as hell, don't let them fool you!!!
Sister you are Ghanaian Iranian in my book
I am happy you are talking about this. You are Ghanaian, and you should not listen or stay for this. The question I have for you is if the roles were reversed, what do you think will happen in Iran or Lebanon? With countries like Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt thinking they are not really Africans, even though these countries are on the continent. I think this is where the animosity is coming. Even the Tunisia president said something that sort of caused tensions. One point also is that most Arabic countries ( I said most not all) look down on black Africans, and this is something that needs education in those countries. Having said all that, Africa is not for only black Africans it for all because we all came from Africa before the great migration.
Very well explained. I literally wrote the exact same thing as you. I hope she will talk about racism towards blacks in the Middle East to balance out this argument. Or else, her whole video is pointless to me.
I need to once again remind you that we are not “arabs”. The countries you mentioned are Arab countries with different culture than us. In Iran we have afro-iranian communities that existed for hundreds of years. Im not neglecting the fact that there are racist people everywhere, but I think as a nation its not a severe problem as those countries you mentioned.
Yeah, they are all from the same Asiaic family and are racist towards blacks. I do know!!! Iranians are no different.
For many years, the most popular ruler of Ghana was Jerry John Rawlings, a half-Scottish and black Ghanaian. Another popular Ghanaian politician, Hannah Tetteh, the former Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry is part Hungarian ... which proves that Ghanaians are agnostic when it comes to issues of race or mixed-race Ghanaians.
I’m talking about the current situation. Not the past
Omg seriously!! Don't listen to negative comments dear Ghana is your home
Medaase 🙏🏻
Some Black Diasporans have similar name calling. A dark skin person being called Obroni.
Human are free to stay anywhere
My mom is bi racial from Ghana with Syrians. Can’t care about my Ghanaian bloodline since it’s already tarnished ☹️.
Don’t allow anyone to ruin your day
Not gonna lie this narrative is becoming a bit disturbing for me. I don't mean to discredit her experience but I grew up with mixed people in my family. They'd see to almost remind you always they're are not 'full' Ghanaians. Of course some grow up and get well rounded in their identity and I don't want to deny them that. But let's all be honest both mixed and non-mixed Ghanaians
As mentioned in the video. This is her individual story. I could sympathize with many things she said
I want to add to others' comments. The word 'obroni' is not meant to be offensive at all. If anything, it's a word of endearment. We don't use obroni to mean you don't belong. We rather put you on a pedestal when we use that word. Even full blooded Ghanaians who are light skinned can still be referred to as such. Peace 🙏
Please don't bother your self about them. You will be surprised those people are not even Ghanaians .
In Ghana no one will tell you that accept social media .
We love you stay blessed in Ghana
How are people not Ghanaians in Ghana it's not Carribbean ?,Africa is the original motherland
@@charlie_remi there are.millions not Ghanaians in Ghana, don't be ignorant .
If you want believe and live in bitterness that's your business not my .
@@Akos885 people with your mindset is why Ghana is the way it is your not wanting to accept accountability for how messed up the nation is
Come to east Africa and we will call you mzungu!😀 I think we Africans can only identify 4 races (mzungu/white, Arab, indians and Chinese). Most of the time we fail to see a foreigner at individual level. This is because of our roots linked to slavery ,colonialism, neo-colonialism and it's spiritual too
Meant not in school but my hoods
Madam don't mind those who are saying that. Just live your life. Ghanaians we are not or represent those people.
There are Lebanese Ghanaians, so why not Iranian Ghanaians.? You have Egyptian Ghanaians, and other varieties of Ghanaians. Things are changing in the cities. Some people like to "pull rank on others" - and will use any excuse to do that, just ignore them and move on, you will encounter the nicer welcoming ones.
Interesting conversation. I am Zimbabwean so I thought Obroni meant jst white people similar to how we say murungu or mzungu in bantu languages. She added something which is that is also means "trickster" so that is a negative stereotype and I can see how offensive it is to someone born and raised in Ghana.
The way i look at is this lady is 100% Ghanaian. However at the same time I have to acknowledge because of European race constructs people look at the visual and immediately think she does not belong or is not from here. I think a black person born in Russia would experience the same until he speaks Russia so on a surface level saying Obroni to the people saying it may not be a big deal but the real issue is how does it make the person receiving it feel. I really wiish we had free from adverstising Public televison channels in Africa where social issues can be discussed so people can understand the power of words.
Since this wonderful lady quoted Maya Angelou, I will also add something attributed to Maya Angelou - people will forget what you sayid to them but they will never forget how you made them feel. As people we should always be cautious with the language we use. We are all human beings and there is bad and good in all nationalities.
Muchi T
It does just mean white. At least in it's usage. The literal translation goes to something like 'foreigner'. Mixed people and non-black people just make a fuss over a lot of things. Very easy to play the victim and have the dark skinned people be the bad guys. We've always been the villains. Like how some mixed people say "mulatto" is a terrible offensive word (and they always use the white man as the reason it's bad) all in attempt to claim blackness even though they're not. Fine, if you truly think a term is offensive come up with a new one, don't coopt and claim black people's identity when you're only half black. Everyone needs their own representation and space and there's already a preference for mixed people to battle against.
And how is this woman a 100% ghanaian? Just by moving there and having someone stamp her papers? That's all there is to being ghanaian? Seems pretty hollow to me and disrespectful to people who've been ghanaian through ancestry that's been there for 1000's of years. I didn't know documents had some much cultural substance and identity in them. Africans will complain all day of foreigners hating them, controlling their country or owning everything, but at the same time be the first ones to rush to create a space for them in their country. Should the people living and originating in the country control and manage it or should foreigners?
@@blackblaze5271 I hear what you saying. If you say it means white then in what world is this lady a foreigner. I can agree there is racism involved when white people use the one drop rule to relegate mixed people to black. If a mixed person chooses to identify with her black side I have no problem with that. Do you think your former President Rawlings was any less Ghanaian as you are or Kofi Annan who married a white woman.
We need to have grace in these conversations and not necessarily assume the evil mentality of Europeans. I hope we don't engage in a race to the bottom.
Everyone deserves an identity. It is disheartening you would think someone mixed has less claim on being Ghanaian. For all I see being called Oblong has not led her to disown Ghana. She was born in Ghana at least from what I have heard or at least has lived there the majority of her life.
She has a right to voice her frustrations just as a new immigrant to the US has a right to voice their own frustrations. These are rights that should be guaranteed to everyone.
@@muchit3629
That can't be a serious question. What makes her a foreigner? The fact that she's from a foreign land (iran) and she descends from a foreign non-ghanaian people makes her a foreigner. Obviously.
Yes they do have less claim, just like they have less claim in iran. Please go argue with the iranians on how iranian their mixed diasporans are or do it anyone else for that matter. They have less of a stake in the country, they have different interests, a different culture and different priorities. They are and will be sending money to their family in iran, and probably doing funerals there just like the father of this lebanese woman did. They swear he was ghanian but he never learned the language, didn't have any interest in his daughter learning and actively taught them arabic instead. And when he was dying he went to his true home that he loved. Clearly they have an identity. Access to our country isn't what's going to give it to them. The rest of her family left and lived in other places and some went back home so it's no like they're lost. They've well aware of who they are, and that's why she's mostly arab and not mostly ghanian. They've married in a specific way to separate themselves as they often do. How do you claim to one of us but still keep yourself apart with a different culture and priorities etc?
Situations like this just create a space for exploitation of africans and african national identities like we've always seen. And there are always africans who are more than willing to oblige because they have a colonized mentality. They think it's cute, but most countries don't do any of this cause they know the actual consequence and real outcome. There are countries you can never be a citizen and countries where you lose your nationality the moment you are out of the country nevermind being foreigner.
Ghana isn't america. It's our country and we won't allow it to go into the hands of foreigners with one great great ghanian grandparent. We weren't founded like america and yet even america will deport you in a heartbeat. They have free speech but as an immigrant if you say something they feel is a threat to national security back you go to your country. Voicing your "frustration" is one thing but being entitled to a country as an immigrant is another. It might sound cliche but, don't go. If there's a place you go to and you don't like, don't go there. Unless they're abusing your human rights there aren't many arguments you can make that don't just make you an entitled and self important person who thinks a whole nation has to conform and change their thinking for you.
The worst things they mentioned in this video is apparently being called 'white' and also being seen as foreigners. I'd support them in the idea that people randomly saying it to them isn't nice but i won't because some people are just entitled. You give an inche people will take a mile. Being called 'white' or 'foreigner' is just something that happens with ghana, accept it or dont. People have terms for everyone anywhere in the world you go.
@@muchit3629
Rawlings was a dictator and killed a bunch of ghanains, 😄 of course i don't consider him ghanian. Infact growing up i wondered why no one assassinated him. This is a common thing with african dictators, people outside the country know little about them and think they're great and only hear from those that support them but don't know how the people in the country actually see them. People used to borderline worship him saying he looks like jesus etc. How ghanian do you think he was? And what did kofi marrying a white woman do for us?
Why have 'grace' when you have history and contemporary examples? All over the world ethnic groups battle for power, all over the world other groups prioritize their own no matter how long they've lived around black people and how friendly they act toward them (including in ghana). They still establish themselves as an economic class. We're the only ones who actively invite these ethnic battles and have outsiders contest with us over our claim and only land, while they have their land in another place and you have no such power there.
I don't have grace with a scorpion, i assume it's poisonous and if i find out it's not then i can treat it as such. But that's not even the point; to act any particular way with non-black people. They deserve it don't get me wrong and treat us the same in their country, but these are simply common sense attitudes to have no matter who you're dealing with, black red or white. It's not specific to anyone. You don't wait till you're harmed to protect yourself, again, especially when you already have examples and many of these people *currently* behave like that themselves
Obroni does not mean trickster. I have a very good command of the Twi language and there’s nothing about being a trickster intended by the word. I would like anyone with information about that “meaning” to bring out their source. People call their lighter skinned siblings and relatives Obroni, even Aunts and Uncles. It would be very disrespectful in the “over-respectful” Ghanaian culture to call your elders Obroni / Broni if that was the case.
I would say it’s not so easy growing up in Ghana mixed after a certain age, being called Obroni is extremely annoying although Ghanaians who are fully indigenous may actually mean it as a compliment 🫠
Ghanaians are more hospitable than many other places if you are well traveled. It is annoying to be called Obroni everywhere, it makes you feel as if you do not belong. To me, the key is to embrace the culture and learn the language. That’s all I can say works. The moment someone hears you speaking Twi, they don’t continue to call you Obroni.
If you’re a full Ghanaian reading this, it would help if you can just find out the person’s name and use it, instead of saying obroni. Even hello m’adamfo sounds better. If you’re mixed, as you grow up, you get used to it. I know we’re all not the same, and our experiences are different, but embrace the culture. When you live in America, you learn to assimilate the culture, in the same way, assimilate the Ghanaian culture.
Come to Iran Mazandaran see to Heaven
I don't think those who sent you those comments are Ghanaians. Because Ghanaians love foreigners, especially when you are married to a Ghanaian so ignore those comments my dear.
Black folk need to wake
Never forget your history
That is if you know yrself
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I love Iranian women and I want to marry one of them
No offense we all come from somewhere according to the History. This Lady’s Mother was mix and father was mix but she grow up in Ghana. Regardless of the color of her skin. But she belongs to there. What make the People think she is different? African we discriminate People like foreign countries. Stop telling People Africa have one Love. This is good example of discrimination and not one love. You can look black by color but your offspring from North or South African descendants. The Color is not determined or justify to be treated different Sad sad.
You are a Ghanaian Persian.
I’m just checking …. but you do realise that the word “Persian” is a softer way of saying Arab. Don’t you? And Arabs hate Africans with a passion. You do realise that don’t you? I’m pointing this out because I’m getting the feeling that you think that this “love and respect” goes both ways. As we speak, people who look like you and I are being enslaved, graped and murdered because of the colour of their skin… in Persian/Arab countries …. where these so called lovely women are from. Wake up.
I’m surprised Ghanaians normally very welcoming…I’m guessing the comments are mostly trolls or non Ghanaians…
Ghanaians are very welcoming. But there is always the kind of people who want to discriminate
This so so sad,you see most of these things came from America people all over the world learned this and cannot tell where they learned it from,yes America the most wicked Country in the world,as for Africa i have no words for them or if they will ever learn any thing,may God help us.
- NO, that has NOTHING to do with America.
- Just like India's caste system HAS NOTHING to do with America.
- America DOES NOT own hate.
- EVERY country has its atrocities and no county's history is squeaky clean.
- Educate yourself....
Firstly the word obroni as much as is used particularly for white people doesn't mean white. Secondly as sad as my sisters story may be the truth of the matter is this, I'm sure no where in Ghana has she every been under the threat of physical violence because of her skin tone. Now to the question of why Africans have become as defensive as we are... Just a few weeks ago the Tunisian president who is himself a descendant of invaders to this continent stirred up anti black/African sentiment in Tunisia which lead to the physical assault of subsaharan African's in Tunisia not just verbal. Where was your sympathy and outrage video?
Just last year on this very continent an African sister did a video of a Chinese man who came all the way to Malawi to abuse young children by mocking them and making derogatory video's of them to sell in China, Where was your video of outrage for those children? When this Ukrainian war started Africans lives were intentionally and directly put in danger so they could be used as human shields, I have searched your channel still no outrage video. There is another documentary called Maid in Hell: Why Slavery? Lebanon is featured. Please go ahead and watch it if you haven't. Just a few years ago in Libya black Africans men and women were beig sold like cattle as slaves, where was your outrage and sympathy video's? The difference between your sob stories And ours is that our lives are literally in danger from every other group of people from the east and the west.
Funny enough I watched your video on Kwadwo Sheldon's channel trying to get Ghanaians to be sympathetic to your fellow Iranian peoples issues with your government. And the irony for me is we as Africans just seem to be all you other ethnicities floor mat you always expect and want us to treat you well when we clearly receive zero sympathy from you. Again where are all the videos you did chastising Chinese the Africans were made to sleep on the streets in China during the pandemic? Or any of the other examples I gave above? For people like you you can say you are Ghanaian through naturalization etc because it costs you nothing you can take on/off that nationality and it won't literally mean life and death for you. But for us our visible features means our very lives are in danger, yet for all this I am yet to even see 1 just one video from you defending us Africans while your expectations of us are to cry for you/Chinese/Indians and whoever else who feel some way because somebody said something to you that puts you in zero physical danger.
K O
It's not even sad. People are just acknowledging that she's a foreigner which she is. And also pushing the concept that we as black africans should control and run our countries, which we should. There's no shortage of instances of foreigners taking advantage of africans and funneling wealth to their groups. No calls that out or judges that. Labanese in ghana don't share their wealth. They distinguish themselves and look out for their own and many people (including the ones in this very comment section) would defend that as only natural. So why can't we do it? You can't go to her country and get any of the things she's asking for / complaining about in this video. We can only get in trouble when we start to allow the truth to be "offensive"
@@blackblaze5271 chale, your response is exactly the example of why we as Ghanaians and Africans are as backward as we are. This same woman will condescend to us about how a growing number of us perceive non Africans and you are here ready to defend nonsense yet when she's deafeningly quiet about the worse mistreatment of Africans abroad you won't hold her to the standard she's setting by preaching to us? It's not as if we ourselves are not looking for better leaders and to improve our condition. The funny thing is you mentioned yourself that the Lebanese and other groups look out for only themselves. That's exactly my point if they can do that then why should any of us be bothered with their supposed lack of empathy from Africans? We should follow suit and only be bothered with our own situations after all in your own words it's only natural. And for the record if Lebanon for example was such a shining beacon of good management why are so many Lebanese scattered all across Africa and the world at large? And for the record I was really not addressing the mixed lady in the video but rather the creator of the video who seems hell bent on trying to condescend to Africans.
@@KO.....
My friend did you read my comment? I was agreeing with you. 😄😄 The people who support these kinds of things are just pushing nkwaseasɛm. No one is doing anything to these people but recognizing the fact that they're foreigners, but they want to create a larger issue out of that because that alone means they might not be able to act with impunity or without questioning. They want to mitigate any chance of people asserting themselves as the true authority in their own country. If you go to a country for the most part you have to answer to the people.
I just saw another fool posting a video talking about 'indian ghanians' (on ghanavlogs). Have you ever heard of such nonsense? An indian ghanian. Where are the ghanians that can claim india? Mostly everything you said was true. Most countries in the world don't behave in this. Where in iran can you go and just claim you're iranian? Everyone protects their nation and people but some of our people think our country is for sale and inviting in all the same people that abuse us globally to come have cultural and economic dominance in our country. They don't treat us like anything in their country, what makes these people think they will be better if they come in our country and run things here like they do over there?
Obroni isn't an insult just a term for fair or white person period!!!
Sometimes the message you carry around is terrible and needs to stop. Who cares what you are or who you are as far as you don't harm anyone nothing gets triggered.
It's not about whether or not you should "go home" or if you can't live in ghana. Plenty of people move all over the world and live in different places. The problem is your people and many non-black people create structures and social hierarchies within our countries when you come into it. Is it possible for me to go to iran and create a social class of ghanian or mixed ghanian, iranian upper class sitting at the top? Would they allow that? So yes africa for africans and ghana for ghanians because we want to control and own our society and we should. Everyone does the same (they rarely receive criticism).
I suppose our fault is not seeing you as a ghanaian black african??? We're supposed to bend to your wishes and lie about an obvious fact? Living in the country as a foreigner who probably has privileges' isn't enough?
the fact is that you instantly judged me and every other foreigner for being privileged. that's why you don't see an issue with terms "Go home" and "African for Africans".
@@Anaieta
Africa is for africans. Is iran for everyone or iranians? Iran is full of iranians, they are the ones affected by the directions the country takes and because of that they should be determining where it goes and it's future, not outsiders.
Right now they are doing just that with the protests that are going on in the country. Should i be able to go to iran and tell the people i object to the direction they've taken because i married and iranian? Should i be the one controlling it's affairs and saying who can and can't come into iran?
@@Anaieta
And yes you do have privilege by virtue of being fair skinned in africa. It's how the world has been taught through the events that have taken place in history. Africans bleach daily to have a skintone similar to yours. If they think it will improve things for them you don't think you have any kind of privilege?
Look at you now, you've barely been in our country, don't speak the language and you're already making videos on us and speaking for us and what the country should do and how people should adjust their behavior to suit you. Looks like privilege to me. Albeit, you've done some of this is a somewhat passive mostly cautious way (other times not so much). But still entitled
@@Anaieta Why not answer the questions and points she asked you?? I see you completely bypassed every important point that was made and played the victim. The question is clear "Is it possible for me to go to Iran and create a social class of Ghanian or mixed Ghanian, Iranian upper class sitting at the top? Would they allow that? "
You contradict yourself….why are foreigners at the top in Ghanaian society? Who put them at the top? You blaming by comparing doesn’t make sense. If a child is mixed and born in any country, they’re accepted. Stop this xenophobic bias and work to accept what you can’t control.
Ghanaians need more cultural education.
Mr W
You mean we need to start thinking like white people and foreingers? Why do we always have to abandon our ways for others? You think you will be called iranian if you go to iran?
@@blackblaze5271: Well said. Weak minded people always want to shame Africans to change our mindset.
Don’t worry those stupid comments
After all you’re a Ghanaian too
You have no reason even to think about any stupid comments about you
Enjoy your husband to the fullest and let your kids enjoy their lives to the fullest too
@@papypapyrito7080
How is she ghanaian? She literally said she's iranian, and she is.
Why are guys taking things too personal am a ghanaian cos i live in Europe but when i come to ghana my family and friends call me obroni am ok what is the big deal here?stop being too emotional aba
You know it’s totally different meaning behind what your family calls you and what people refer to her as Obroni
Yours has a positive meaning, like you went outside but for her or many other people it simply means I don’t see you as one of us
Obroni means white person
@@Anaieta what makes you the word is negative word? Free yourself my dear
As a Ghanaian her victim story is cap 🧢. In School most of the well treated people where the ones that looked close to white even Arabs, Indians and mixed race. Teachers and disciplinarians didn’t want to punish them cause they were considered fragile and cute and most Ghanaians could attest to it.
Now I believe her when she says people online don’t want her in Ghana . These are mostly African Americans that don’t want to see any other race besides black people in sub Saharan Africa because of what they have gone through historically.
Lastly the Obroni term is used as a term of endearment in Ghana because suggest a foreigner and most Ghanaians think they come with money so in turn they turn to receive better treatment than their local neighbour unless the local also has lots of money and that’s facts.
Listen cuteness, as long as this world rotates and God keeps it spinning there will always be these types of people. All you gotta do is pay them no mind and pray for them. They will be ok in there little mad world. Best silence for a fool is silence. They hate that worse then anything. Just ignore. Unless its the one that try to find u and get physical. Then thats when its time to break the silence.
In Zambia and Malawi we largely live "foreign looking" people live in peace (we also have sizeable population of refugees too who dont want to back to their countries). I ve seen hostility in South Africa towards other Africans (xenophobia), but keep their hands off "whites" for some reason (allege that blacks take their jobs, whites give them jobs?). Im surprised with this attitude especially since Ghanaian politicians champion the pan-Africanism and diaspora agenda - especially in light of the destruction and looting of property belonging to African Americans (who were alleged to practice homosexuality🤔) - better to deport them and compensate them
In terms of safety and hospitality foreigners are well treated in Ghana. There are thousands of foreigners who have built houses and bought property in Ghana and are leaving peacefully. Dig deeper for credible information on the demolition you're talking of and you'll realize you've not heard the true story. You can't demolish a house in Ghana just because of homosexuality. That's ridiculous.
@@nenemens exactly why we are waiting for truth to be quickly brought out by Ghanaian government. They cannt allow gossip and half truths to continue circulating globally. Would-be returnees and tourists need assurance ASAP. In any case, why sanction destruction of real estate property? Could have just confiscated it and then sell it and reimburse the culprits! Destroying property in a poor country does not make economic sense - that is a lost capital stock lost in that one move🤔
@@ernestmwape Many African Americans and other foreign nationals own properties in Ghana, some dating back decades, and no one has destroyed them. One Africa, a popular resort that is just a short distance from the demolished property in question, is owned by an African American and that's just one example. So, one would want to wait for the facts in this case before rushing to judgment. I think people who are using this to push a negative narrative about Ghana already have their own prejudices against the country. And, "would-be returnees and tourists" who choose not to visit Ghana because of this are free to go elsewhere or stay put. That's their prerogative! The government is investigating the case because it is the right thing to do, not because of threats and commands from anyone!
@@py20 i heard true reason for demolishing the challets is that the area was meant for 5-star hotel. And they wasted over 20 years putting up those challets?! Indeed it is Not fair to community and Ghana
@@ernestmwape I sympathize with our brothers who owned the chalets for their loss. But agreements must be followed and IF it is true that they violated the terms of the lease agreement, for as long as they allegedly did, then the authorities have the right to reclaim the land and develop it to benefit the community. You don't get to operate by a different set of rules because you are from the Diaspora.
Africans is For Africans doesn't reflect on all instances for example in my country Kenya in the city of Mombasa we have the half Persians half Africans descendants omani arabs half Chinese half half African and all civilizations of Asian continent that happened to reach here .....
By the sounds of it, you are sleep walking into neo colonisation and you are too stupid to even realise it. SMDH. Your comment makes it sound like the changing of the demographics of your country is a good thing. SMDH.
Don’t you realise that every non African that arrives in your country and puts one foot on your soil is immediately seen as a superior human being to the indigenous Kenyans and therefore deprives, especially working class Kenyans, of opportunities such as jobs and status? Wake up.
Depends on the context you use it. Many people use it in a discriminatory way
People sent you such comments? Surprising
On every video🥲
@@Anaieta Ghana is not even a beautiful or developed country. It's not a place of choice for many. Why anybody will send you such comments is shocking. As if there's something so good here you are going to take away. Let them visit Iran and compare and see how far back we are.
@@aureliusmarkus9139 you are right. Ghana is a ugly nd horrible country. Bravo . Go see how Africans are treated in Arab nd middle eastern countries but u still don't hear Africans/ Ghanaians sending hate to anyone. U can hate on my country all u want. Butbine thing about us is that We are very welcoming people nd we don't hate anyone.
@@Anaieta do u think those comments are from Ghanaians?
@@flavorsofthecontinent7195 I can’t confirm as I only see their id on CZcams. But I believe it could be mainly coming from Ghana
You really got those hate comments? 😟😟
All the time
I am mixed race(Black,Italian and Hispanic) and I am married to my Iranian husband... Do not let others control your happiness... I love mixed couples..Your children will be gorgeous like you Anahita..💞
So lovely of you to write this ❤️
@@Anaieta You are beautiful Anahita and Jesus loves you..John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”🙏 I pray that you have a beautiful relationship with your husband and you have health, happiness and beautiful kids.. I am mixed and my hubby is Iranian and I will be cooking Ghormeh Sabzi this week..The way of the future is like a salad bowl with mixed and different ingredients..The new generation is mixing with diffrenent ethnic backgrounds and it is beautiful ...💞
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This is my question can a Black African go to Iran or Lebanon, and their black children be considered Lebanese or Persian? Will the people accept them as Lebanese or Persian? Black skinned people have been oppressed, subjugated and their stuff stolen for centuries, all because of skin color. Arabs and white people have pillaged through Africa over the centuries. So, you can’t feel mad because they perceive you a certain way because you’re mixed race. Mixed race people have contributed to the oppression and subjugation of Black skinned people as well. Check the history of Mulattos in Haiti.
If you have an issue with how they perceive you I say grow some tough skin and deal with it. Because you are in their land, and based on their history they have every right to feel they way they do and be suspicious of non-black people and mixed race people coming amongst them.
I have another question for you. Have you ever been to middle east or that’s just your perception according to news?
Another question, did you even watch the video fully and try to get what the point was ?
@Anahita in Ghana 😅 if you had some dignity you would gave started your question by answering the first question that was asked..let me repeat it for you : CAN A BLACK PERSON GO TO IRAN AND BE ACCEPTED AND CONSIDERED AS AN IRANIAN ?
@@imhotep1613 did I make this video in Iran? Do they pay you to come and write nonsense?
@Anahita in Ghana 😀😀I see. When you are UNABLE to answer the question you irritate yourself. THIS IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS.
If I were you ,I wouldn't have acted this way . I would have made a fake story about how a black person can be treated in IRAN.
Your response is IRELEVANT and DISHONEST
@@imhotep1613 get a life! I’ve answered that question many times on this channel. Do your research before writing nonsense! I never claimed there’s no racism in Iran! We are talking about a different topic here, do you get it?
When most Ghanaian’s call you obroni, they don’t mean to offend you. In their minds , they are complimenting you. They admire your skin tone. !
Takes this from an indigenous person. They actually mean no harm. The only disadvantage is that you may pay for things at higher prices which sucks.!
I understand your point. but there's an idea behind it that many especially mixed race Ghanaians don't like it very much
VERY UNFORTUNATE ABOUT THIS UNCIVILISED INCIDENT. IT LOOKS LIKE SOME PEOPLE ARE IGNORANT. THE SAME THING COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN IRAN. THE WHOLE WORLD IS DIVIDED INTO TRIBAL LINES AND THIS IS BIBLICAL. HAVE A GOOD DAY
True. This can happen anywhere. But it’s good to question that
Forget it we dont need them .
Need who?
Black is not a race, nationality, or ethnicity, it is the color of a crayon. You are whatever your father is despite your mother and DNA bears this out. Your race is determined by your father not mother and has nothing to do with the color of your skin.. Even the women who want to find out what there race is has to go through one of the males in their Paternal line. Scripture also bears this out as it clearly testify that ones race is through there Paternal line. I am not suggesting that the original people of this is not so-called black, but, that they now come in different shades. Stop with the ignorance already it is beyond ridiculous in this the Information Age....Grow Up!
You need to take that Hebrew Israelite BS and spit it out on some New York street corner because it don’t apply in Africa. SMDH.
The mothers DNA will always overpower the males, for she has two xx. The male only has one xy, so when it comes together, the three xxx will take over the Y!!! So it's through the mother.
Man to man is so unjust.