THE SUBLIME SURINAME CULTURE: My Conversation with the Suriname Ambassador to Ghana.
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2023
- Suriname is an incredible country in South America with diverse culture, language and so much similarities between them and so many African countries especially Ghana. You'll blown away by these similarities and tales.
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In Suriname, the Maroons held a line in the jungle against the Dutch for 100's of years until the end of slavery...Many Maroons nether knew being enslaved because they ran away to the jungle as soon as they arrived in Suriname.
Wow, I'm in awe
Salutations to our survivors.
You can take the man out of Africa but you can't take Africa out of the man .
Kudos.
Bless up 🙏🙏❤️
It seems the Okanessey clan of Suriname could be related to the Ocansey's of the Ga Adangbe
Indeed
I learned so much!! The similarities are evidence of the resilience of culture in the face of colonization and atrocities.
It is evidence!
It’s always so heart warming watching cultures separated by thousands of miles come together and finding their common root.
One thing I take away from watching this is the fact that slavery completely broke our people to the core, making them forget the essence of what
Made them who they really were, but those who escaped it managed to hold on to the pieces that to this day help them remember who they are and
Where they once came from. Beautiful. Examples to look at: the Maroons, the Gullah Geechee, the Massembos clan in French Guadeloupe, the Palenque, the Quilombo/Mocambo…
🇸🇷✊🏾From Suriname
The Surinam Ambassador to Ghana is the correct way to say it.
Suriname 🇸🇷😍❤️
Ghana 🇬🇭 😍❤️
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@@theDelaMichel
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There’s also a fish called ewrafoa by the Fantis from the central region of Ghana.
From the Caribbean islands: Your work is stella, thank you.
Wow, thank you! This means a lot to me
We also have Nigeria native words in Suriname, such as PIKIN, WAKA, MI DE OOH etc . I also have the name BISATO in my village.
Buukui in ga literally means the protector s , ...osei Asante is an Ashanti name and ashantes were the first weavers of Kente in Ghana...am not surprised, I wish to meet her Excellency to hear more.....I read of kormanti groups in Suriname too
Go deep in your Ga history and you will realize that there are a lot of Akan influences on the Ga names and some words but the Ga twisted some of the letters because the accent Eg. “Sika”(money) in Twi and the Ga added “h” to made it shika, “asafo” in Twi and Ga made it asafoatse, “obrempon”(Twi) and Ga made it, oblempon, “awura”(Twi) and made it awula, koborfou/borko (vagabond) and Ga made it koborlor , nane (leg) in Twi and Ga made says nané, Oman/man (town, city or country) in Akan Twi >man(GA) etc. Also by Ga women having children with Akan men adopted a lot of Akan names like Mensa/Mensah, Bonnie >Bonney, Agyei, Adu, Ankra, Kwadwo/Kojo/Kodwo/Kudwo/Kujo >Ga(Kujoe) etc. Even some of the Homowo festive songs are sung in Twi.
'The ambassador of Suriname to Ghana' or 'The Surinamese ambassador to Ghana'......brofo y3 dur ampa!!! Nice video, I really enjoyed it. Medaase!!!!!!!
Good job Dela
Well done 👏 keep it up
Thank you, I will!!!!
Awesome conversation... Very revealing
Thank you Ernest! Indeed it is
It means Osei Asante
we need to re visit the Ambassador. am loving this.
kudos
Yes we have to and see their country too!
I'm always proud of you ❤
thank you so much and I'm also proud of you.
Niceeeee
Thank you runaway...
This is so enlightening thank you so much. The Ambassadors wisdom is incredible and the host is very knowledgeable and the aura of her questioning and response is very regal. She speaks Twi, Ga, English, and probably Ewe and some more languages.
Thank you soo much! I'm glad you liked it. There's soo much more to come so turn on your notification button for more updates!
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Wow well done her excellency Ma Fide
Amazing person!
My grandmother name is Adwoa Bessa
Dela is doing very well extracting all these info from H.E. However, she should do a little bit of research into Ghanaian names and the folklore surrounding them. She makes a perfect interviewer.
Boni was the Ga king that lead demostrations in Ghana to boycott the British to cause Ghana to gain independence from the British people . This Ga King is called Nii Bonnie, the boycott hene
Boni is the name of the freedom figther who fougth against theslave master
@@deborahvanrijn2275That's in Suriname the halfcase boy.
The Dutchman hostman the listed following Nation during a survey in 1850 :Sokko,Mandingo,Abo,
Fula,Mende,Tiamba,Loango,Ibo and the Coromantin negroes.🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷💯.
Positive vibration still
Always!
Yes there's a fish called in Ghana by the fante called Arafua .
🇸🇷 👂🏿👀Freedoms hard-won. Over the centuries we have been able to build, develop a true incomparable community in its own right which continues today, we continue to cultivate this cultural and identity difference proudly affirmed in culture our own languages, traditions, music, cuisines and values... In ethics there are 6 tribes with 6 great supreme customary chiefs. 6 (Gaan Lo) tribes: Pamaka, Aluku or (Boni), Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi or (Djuka), Kwiïnti. The 6 (Gaanman), of the 6 communities (Gaanman Lo) each is made up of its own traditional council: the Gaanman as the main leaders of the community, a certain number of Kabiten as leaders of the different sub-communities (Lo) and a certain number of Basiya as assistants to the Kabiten and Gaanman in each (Lo). And in particular Women can also occupy all these positions we have experienced mistreatment, discrimination, racism all the evil of slavery therefore the woman is in her place as a human woman equal to men. Therefore also in our societal culture we are in a culture structured by the Matrilineal Clan. Consider that each of us is descended from a line of women from Africa called Mamabee
🇸🇷 we Bushinenge (maroon) of Suriname. We have many languages 7 & 7 : there seven contemporary Afro-Surinamese and a bit of european Creole languages: Sranan tongo, Saamaka, Matawai, Okanisi, Kwiïnti, Aluku and Pamaka. 7 other older ones that some of us also practice are : Amanfu, Kumanti, Akoopina, Loanga, Ampuku, Papa and Anklibenda, ancestral African languages. THESE ARE LANGUAGES PRACTICED ALREADY MORE THAN 343 - 500 YEARS OLD. I am extremely proud of what we have, I myself speak 7 of them with other languages from elsewhere like French, English and Créole guyanaise.
6 kingdom, tribes with their 6 Gaanman. Once again don't forget we are the only ones outside Africa who have these specificities of tribal communities with a maroon identity of 6 unique and UNITED kingdoms. But on this note let us never forget the role played by our own African brothers and sisters who failed to protect us from slavery and others who simply gave us to the European slavers, I say this because we Surinamese bushinenge we will always talk about everything without neglect. thank you Ghanaians but come and see what we have built after so many centuries of hardship. Gaan tangi fu wi.
Really insightful and I'm really looking forward to being in Suriname to experience it all.
No; the Surinamese ambassador to Ghana is the right way. She's Suriname's ambassador to Ghana.
We have Kwasi in Ghana and Kouassi in Ivory Coast and Togo, We have Adu too. We have Bonney or Bonny among the Gas too
This is very interesting to know! Thank you for sharing this!
Nii Bonney here,Nii Bonney there,how can I division myself into twice???
Who said this???
Bonny or Bonney is also a GA name.
Remember Nii Kwabla Bonney, Osu Alata Mants3 during the colonial times
Thank you so much!
Kosombo i???somerhing in saramaka
There is a fish called arula Efua
Bisa also can be a ethnic group in the north...
The Ambassador of Suriname to Ghana.
Also the Akan Fante has the actual name Bonnie
No yaba is also Eve's name from togo .
Bonney is also a Ga name
Bonney is a Ga name and Bukom is a place you should know
It is
ABSOLUTELY, & that's my paternal grandfather's name: Nii Kwao Bonney & in fact, our family. And he was one v powerful medicine man from Bortianor & Senya Breku. Really, it can be Ga & Obutu/Awutu name. I'm covered with goosebumps🥺🥺 Wow!!!
@@andromedab902 I'm also half Ga and half obutu/Awutu
@@Atlas24gh awwww. We're cut with the same cloth😅😘
Baya is a Ga dance and Boni is a Ga chief.
Herh so much similarities 😂
So much!!
I think the real name is osei Asante kente.
Bisa could possibly be their effort to maintain the name Besa which is an Ewe male name for the 3rd boy in a role.
Bissa (or Bisa (singular), Bisan, Bissanno (plural)), is a Mande ethnic group of south-central Burkina Faso, northeastern Ghana and the northernmost tip of Togo
The Ewes, Fantes and GAs are the groups who formed the African blood line of Surinamese and the diaspora. Most of them, relate themselves to only Akans, Asantes or Ashanti, they are ignorant of history. Asantes or the Ashanti Kingdom sold them out to slavery. Fante is Akan but not Asante. Their Ghanaian names can be traced to Fantes, Ewes and GAs.
H.E. Fedelis looks like some Ga people I know, even the way she sits
Edgar Davids and Seedorf were both Surinamese origin they probably Ghanaian by blood interesting
@@tlfa5554I have cousins in Keta,Volta Region called Edgar
How dumb could you be to call Asantes ignorant of history. Which tribe in Ghana has the most history? You are the most useless being on earth. Asantes fought to save Ghana and don't your dumb brain tells you that Asantes could be captured and sent to Suriname as well? Wagyimi paa.
@@mahalallel2012you are right, but one thing that confuses many or many people are ignorant of is that the GAs and the Eves are one people. In fact GAs, were Eves before becoming GAs.
Ga's have ataa Adu.
Togo benin and they all name Akwasi not just Ghana land of my birth.
The Ga names occur a lot in maroon stories it is just for pronunciations that many has tried to Akanize these names like Prince Akrashie from Accra and Elmina they call Akwashie the leader ofNani army, Prince Kojo name of Jamestown kings the say kujoe, etc Bonny is name of kings in Jamestown as well and the Ga man that Surinam call kings could be Gamei. The Ga fought in Ghana, Togo, Benin and even for Oyo in Nigeria and by their nature they and their Obutu and kin were very likely to maroon given their in your face ready to fight attitude
Wow. Thank you Maurice for sharing this. Really insightful 👏
Go deep in your Ga history and you will realize that there are a lot of Akan influences on the Ga names and some words but the Ga twisted some of the letters because the accent so don’t be poking at the Akan to make yourself feel good. Eg. “Sika”(money) in Twi and the Ga added “h” to made it shika, “asafo” in Twi and Ga made it asafoatse, “obrempon”(Twi) and Ga made it, oblempon, “awura”(Twi) and made it awula, koborfou/borko (vagabond) and Ga made it koborlor , nane (leg) in Twi and Ga made says nané, Oman/man >man(GA) etc. Also by Ga women having children with Akan men adopted a lot of Akan names like Mensa/Mensah, Bonnie >Bonney, Agyei, Adu, Ankra, Kwadwo/Kojo/Kodwo/Kudwo/Kujo >Ga(Kujoe) etc. even some of the Homowo festive songs are sung in Twi.
@@missbabyloved7531 you made an inciting comment but, it’s rather the opposite. GAs and Ewes are from one blood line. Ewes, GAs and Akan-Ewes (known as Chakosi)all migrated from Dahomey/ Benin and Oyo in Nigeria to Togo, note that these areas are all Ewe dominated regions. The GAs, Akans, and some Ewes expanded beyond the river Volta. GAs and the Akwamus, Akyem etc are cousins to the Ewes. From the Ewe, GAs and Denkyiras we got the fantes. Ewes, GAs and Chakosi people gave rise to all these Akan groups mentioned above. We have the Chakosi’s people in Togo and Benin as we communicate.
A mixture of the Chakosi-Ewes and the Northerners (who came from Burkina Faso) gave rise to the Bono people, Denkyira and Asantes.
The culture of all Akans were inherited from Ewes and GAs, it’s not the other way round. The origin of Akans(Bono) is trace to the Oyo people in Benin and Nigeria, who are Gbe speakers . Oyoko clan come from Oyo people. The Europeans messed up the relationship between all these groups. The sow tribal identity, classification and greed between them, which lead to separations. We were all one people in the past.
@@missbabyloved7531 you can do more research on the origin of all the groups in Ghana on Wikipedia and JSTOR. Research more on all the tribes or groups then you will know more. Many Akans, especially Akans don’t know they origin. They think they are originally from Ghana, that is false. We all migrated or expanded from Nigeria to Ghana. If we trace further, you will know that we all come from the central region of Africa. Congo, Kenya etc. The origin of man started in Central Africa. From there we expanded to the North, South, East and West. The Northern Africans gave rise to the Arabs, Europeans and the Asians.
Even today in Ghana, when a Ga man says he is going to fight you, he is not joking...
Bissa is a name of a person
You forgot to say Ewurafua can be a fish in Ghana too
I don't have all the knowledge, so we learn and grow
The Ga's pronounce it Adu and the Akans pronounce it Edu
That’s a lie because my Akan Akyem inlaw’s family name is Adu and the spelling is “Adu” and not Edu. Maybe the Fante might spell it as Edu
People move to different places and recall the names they know. The Suriname itself is of an Akan origin too
No it’s literally from native Indians! Also there is not only black people there
Actually mix of many origins Yoruba, ewes and Fantis …..
DELA MICHEL are you Ghanaian
yes
@@theDelaMichel ooh ok
She is Ghanaian from the Volta Region
Yaba is a nzema name and not fanti name.
YAABA is an Nzema name and not Fante cheers.
thank you
@@theDelaMichel for a female born on a Thursday