Merry Christmas To You & Your Family ❤

@jarviss.tv.4895

7 ай бұрын

They should of save some food for you! It is not right! Dam!

@Agnes_Mugambi

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! What language do the Suriname people speak? Like in Kenya we speak Swahili as a national language and English as an official language. How about them? I've just come to know Suriname through your videos

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

​@Agnes_Mugambi Dutch is the official language because we were a colony of the Netherlands. But our creole is called "Sranan" or "Sranan tongo, meaning Surinamese tongue/ language. It's a lingua franca mixture of the European languages and African languages. Suriname is a multi ethnic country so all the other also have their own languages, for example the Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Jews, Lebanese etc. Also the Native Surinamese, the indigenous Surinamese folks. They are called American Indians, They are the real Caribbean. Because of them the region is called the Caribbean.

@cellinakangaijulius5015

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas our in-law Maya and our Queen Trudy..may the Lord bless you as as you continue exploring in that country...from Meru Tharaka Nithi County❤❤❤❤🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

@emeliatanihu

7 ай бұрын

Interesting video to watch 😍🎉 Maya, I think it'll be nice if you own a property like a house in the carribean to build more and strong bond with them.❤

Wow I am so proud of Suriname who would have known that they KEPT Africa closer than any of us in the Carribbean.Thank you Wode Maya.

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

Because of the escaping of our ancestors 2 the Amazon rainforest we could keep our culture. Thanks to them.

@m-jay356

7 ай бұрын

You act like we had a choice. The maroons were the only ones, and thats because they ran in the bush. The rest of us got beaten to accept Western religions and customs. Don't disrespect what our ancestors endured. Respect to those who were able to maintain the african culture.

@jojolove3415

7 ай бұрын

Yessss beautiful.

@MRSZ5440

7 ай бұрын

@@m-jay356 That was a genius move to escape to the bush sir.

@kwabenalauriston7581

7 ай бұрын

Our islands are too small to have preserved anything and of course Christianity has made what we had bad!😢

If you asked an African who hasn't watched the video, he will say this is Africa

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Exactly 😂

@elianedorelle2950

7 ай бұрын

I am telling you!

@elianedorelle2950

7 ай бұрын

These people must be from my country Congo, they were taken from Congo. Jut look at the way they are shaking their ass and the folded cloth attached around their waist to help them shake their ass properly, we do the same in Congo. Oh my God, my brothers and sisters, I am crying of joy 🥲

@joejulian617

7 ай бұрын

You did not lie.

@africaine4889

7 ай бұрын

​@@elianedorelle2950as a congolese I was amazed. Same thing 100%

They are 100% authentic Africans, I must visit Surinam in my lifetime to witness this African cultural masterpiece

@janjacob2259

7 ай бұрын

Please do! It is a very beautiful country. More dan 80 procent is Amazing rainforest. And the food is Incredible. You will not be disappointed! ❤️

@MSSHARIII

Ай бұрын

💯💯💯

This is the reason Africa should get their act together ASAP and get our people across the world together in culture,open travel, business, etc

@comahsamuel3969

7 ай бұрын

No they'll go back home, all of them.

@nwananka

7 ай бұрын

@@comahsamuel3969 african countries can have programs that will enable them visit the continent not necessarily move back

@jazariareid7250

7 ай бұрын

Real talk man 🇯🇲💯

@TheLocalStandard

7 ай бұрын

​@@comahsamuel3969No! We most strive to colonize the world in all nooks and cranny, others do it with guns, we Africans most do it with calm and culture.

@comahsamuel3969

7 ай бұрын

@@TheLocalStandard 😁😁👍

They haven’t left Africa in the mind one bit. That was exceptionally incredible!! I’m in awe.

@tulsacaupain2882

7 ай бұрын

I myself love that we haven't. Altough it's not all Black people in Suriname appreciate this..

@sabri1913

7 ай бұрын

Yes it’s truly incredible. They look so good as well. It’s that sun and feeling of being authentic. I admire those that do

@MSSHARIII

Ай бұрын

💖💖💖Love it!

Inbelievable !! As an african woman i am shocked. This Peoples in Surinam is like africans People. The same oufits , the same songs, same dance. Same culture. Like we are in africa. They did not lose their ancestry's culture..Travel to Surinam is like travel to Africa

As an African I am so proud of my people in Suriname.. must travel there. They kept our tradition closer than any other Caribbean country. So proud of bro Maya for showing this. They even speaking the language. Tears flowing 😭😭 love from Canada 🇨🇦… must travel there

@latinsista

7 ай бұрын

You are most welcome!

@FAMD4SH

7 ай бұрын

@Sidratulafluer2307 if you know nothing about the Caribbean keep quiet!! There are other islands who have kept aspects of different African country culture. Please don’t forget that Africans sold us into slavery and the white man ( whom many of you love so much) enslaved us and stripped us of our mother language(s).

@yanikeonpurpose

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. As a Jamaican mi shame. This is so much rich culture! Especially their hair. The only place you’ll potentially see this kind of stuff is in the Marroon villages of Jamaica, but having never witnessed marroon culture, I can only assume.

They kept the African spirit alive. They really look like our brothers and sisters from West Africa (Descendants). Thanks Wode Maya for bridging the gap.

@kxcabral

7 ай бұрын

We came from the same ship…spread all over the world.

Suriname: congratulations for remaining authentic! I am loving and living for your natural skin tone and natural hair! You are shining like the tropical sun and you stand out in natural beauty!

They really keep the African culture alive

Thank you Suriname 🇸🇷 for keeping the African tradition, we in Guyana 🇬🇾 had it but we keep slowly losing it.

@pacherno4417

7 ай бұрын

Thank you all

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

True freedom is to be shackled to your identity

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

There nothing devastating than African with European mind

@studiostudioline7487

5 ай бұрын

Don't worry the spirit of Philip moore will refresh it.

My beautiful Country Suriname 🇸🇷 thank you for putting Suriname 🇸🇷 on the map ❤ Wodemaya ❤

@RoselineNoku-dv6fg

6 ай бұрын

Where is Suriname ??? I'm in Zimbabwe my first time to hard this country name

@hurtin0108

6 ай бұрын

@@RoselineNoku-dv6fg don't be lazy and search the internet

@rotimikayode1072

5 ай бұрын

They are dancing like some ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria.

@nuellubisTV

5 ай бұрын

​@@RoselineNoku-dv6fg South America, near Brazil. Little country, but I guess, that's a very pretty country. I think, I am going to enjoy to live in Suriname.

Wode Maya, you are doing some great work. These African people in suriname are more authentic traditionally than some of our people on the continent. We must also remember that enslavement brought us here 400 hundred years ago. Wode Maya, your work is educating all the African people worldwide. You are building a bridge and forging links between all of us wherever we live. All this work you are doing will go down in history. Thank you.

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@comahsamuel3969

7 ай бұрын

Is Jah work, their time is near to go back home.

@niecylanae33

7 ай бұрын

Yes to all of this 👏🏾 Very well said

@Ntuthu-ZA

7 ай бұрын

Just about everything I’m seeing here resembles what we do in the Nguni cultures of South Africa, especially the Zulu and Xhosa people. I am amazed. Did not expect it at all. It’s a lot of fun, a time when we put our westernised selves aside and become proper abantu for that day, in our traditional outfits.

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

So many of the problems that melanted Carbonated people in the world today are due to the assault in our minds, by those who captured us and removed significant numbers of us to the western hemisphere.this also included the mind damage caused by the tempering with our spiritual system ( African sacred science) and culture's.

I wish African women and black women in general would come back to styling and rocking their natural hair. It's looking so beautiful on these Suriname women. I want to marry one of them.

@LG-universe

7 ай бұрын

Go get your queen, love and treat her right, and she will reciprocate. Blessings.

@merlinelouissaint2421

7 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@panafrocanam2100

7 ай бұрын

Lmao u can make judgments from watching one video that women there are certain way. Secondly, it's up to dudes to stop incentivizing women to adorn what they do now. You can't say one thing when majority complement bad behavior now.

@panafrocanam2100

7 ай бұрын

​@LG-universe lmao u keep thinking that...

@mpimando6345

7 ай бұрын

try your luck and god bless Respekd🙌

I'm glad you got the chance to see how the diasporas of the Americas was taken out of Africa but the Africa was NEVER taken out of them...Especially those in South America and the Caribbean...Their navel string is still connected to Africa.

I never thought I would see a more African and blacker country outside of Africa other than Haiti. This is educational and really beautiful. They seem like they did not lost much of their culture.

@rochekalifa2074

7 ай бұрын

Yes because they freed themselves just like Haiti did. The saramacans escaped very very early and were like 200 years free before abolishment of slavery and they are a very close community

@miguelcazal721

5 ай бұрын

even more incredible it was done before Haiti and we have Paramount chief (Gaanman 6) since the 1700s until today with our own living customs and 14 languages ​​while in Haiti this is not the case...

@miguelcazal721

5 ай бұрын

even more incredible it was done before Haiti and we have Paramount chief (Gaanman 6) since the 1700s until today with our own living customs and 14 languages ​​while in Haiti this is not the case...

Lovely to see our people being themselves and thriving. Is like a piece of Africa outside Africa

@CHAPPAJANVISION

7 ай бұрын

One love my global African family

@georgetteboateng5211

7 ай бұрын

Exactly

@proverbalizer

7 ай бұрын

​@@CHAPPAJANVISIONone love fam

Wow! I thought Jamaicans were the most African people culturally in the Caribbean. Now I know that the Maroons of Surinam are culturally the most African people in our region.

@Cln2023

7 ай бұрын

Come to My Country Suriname 🇸🇷❤️👌🙏

@Queen_Amenarina

7 ай бұрын

Jamaica has Maroons to that ran away from slave plantations and began living in the mountainous . Cuba has a maroon community to.

@goldbluetears

7 ай бұрын

there are also marron people in colombia who live like that!

@kuyahkudey3217

7 ай бұрын

@@Cln2023 Thanks for welcoming me! I hope to visit one day. 😊

@kuyahkudey3217

7 ай бұрын

​@@Queen_Amenarina Yes we have Maroons here in Jamaica but I don't think their culture is as African as these people.

I personally as a Jamaican think that we in the Carribbean need to go back to African traditions as farcas family, marriage & childrens discipline ...its just a better way of life...And the women's hair..Wow, you can see they love thrmselves...beautiful

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@simonmanley6257

7 ай бұрын

Yardies shame of dem ancestors culture dead ina Jamaica No history taught in a de wicked Island

@charmainethompson1319

7 ай бұрын

Stop writing crap..do you think Africans see Blacks that were not born in Africa, as African. Most Africans hated Black Americans and Caribbeans, especially those Africans in the despora.. God never make mistakes, He chooses where you would be born and raised, so be thankful. And stop wanting to be like people who don't think you have a culture and think they are better than Black Americans and Caribbeans. Their women adopting and copying western culture and dressing now half naked and if other Blacks do it they criticized them, and if blacks that were not born in Africa, wear head wraps or African clothing, they said people want to be like them. But only fools would want to be, anything other than themselves and not proud to be who they are. Africans don't like you, so get that in your head and stop this stupid comments. And be proud of who you are

@Cici_mimi

7 ай бұрын

@@simonmanley6257 But why Haiti culture is still strong?

@simonmanley6257

7 ай бұрын

@@Cici_mimi Becuse the Haitians adore and venerated their ancestors and built their own spiritual systems The African Jamaicans split and abandoned the African practices because of the overwhelming acceptance of Christianity. And its total control on the slave colonial plantation Island. The European dominance over the slave Island institutions was totally entrenched. Mental slavery also took hold over the population. So anti- African sentiments runs very deep into Jamaican population psyche, which in it self is paradoxical considering the Island is solidly Black country.

Africa and Suriname are like a mother and child. Thank you Woda Maya❤

@user-rh4rc2oq2c

6 ай бұрын

Suriname is Doughter of the Motherland

@GodfreyForrester

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-rh4rc2oq2c❤

What I like about them none of them bleach 😊and know heavy makeup 💄 just with the natural flow ✨️

@mishapatter9049

7 ай бұрын

Natural Beauty!💯

@rosam674

7 ай бұрын

They are original Africans. No racial mixing. Everything about them is African.

@kelvinkenproduction1449

7 ай бұрын

That is a very good observation. Nice one.

@panafrocanam2100

7 ай бұрын

All what u say is a product of Western media and dumbing down of African values. We the people have to put stop to it but sadly many encourage it.

@onojaaudu4194

6 ай бұрын

That is exactly my perspective

The connection I felt with the people of Suriname in this video was simply magical. Love from Zambia.

Hi Wode Maya, I'm a typical Ghanaian living in America for twenty six not been to Ghana all these years. I come from the central region of Ghana, but I can tell you the Suriname village wedding makes me feel like I'm in the Volta region village in Ghana. What a surprise. Nature is wonderful. After 400-500 years that our people were shipped against their will to the Americas and the West Indies as " SLAVES" the core traditions have been passed on from generation to generation to date, or to the present. Anyone who was born and raised in Africa can surely say these are my people. The way they prepare their food, dress,dance and interact with each other reveal the real African gene established on a different continent. It makes you feel these are my people and I can put some of them in my suitcase and take them home when I'm going back to Africa right? That's the same feeling I get, just like your trip to Brazil. I watched that one too. I didn't mean to write an essay here but I'm getting there. This is my prediction, someday we as Ghanaians will have a new President who will send a ship to go and bring them back home to Ghana. My eyes are all filled with tears watching them over and over again. Good luck with your program, and the good Lord will help and bless you always as you travel the world finding our lost people and promoting African unity. Thank you.

@user-jy4np7nw1n

7 ай бұрын

Oh my God charter a Cruise ship and i will be the first to make get on board to make the journey over and i wont be returning to the Caribbean.

@user-mc9so4ts1e

7 ай бұрын

Hiring a ship to take our people back home is reminiscent of the Honorable Marcus Garvey’s “Black Star Liner” and philosophy “once you are a Black man you’re an Africa!”

@nelsonhotor7116

7 ай бұрын

What at all are you doing in the state for 26 years without visiting home?

@Ntuthu-ZA

7 ай бұрын

@@nelsonhotor7116 mind boggling! Hoping to hear the response.

@jameso

7 ай бұрын

​@@nelsonhotor7116maybe he couldn't afford it?

Oh my God this is real in america! It's like cabinda or tchokwe culture from Angola, the way of dancing is the same. Suriname people thank you for keeping the african culture of our ancestors in america, you are our brothers from far away ❤.

@rda-gama2567

7 ай бұрын

Yes , we are all mixed up in the same pot !

@kxcabral

7 ай бұрын

We came from the same ship. 🥹 and spread all over the world.

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

Melanted Carbonated family must remember that the slave ships brought no west Indians, no Caribbeans,no Jamaicans, no Trinidadians, no Barbadians, no Guyanese, no Ayitian, no vinccy to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

@rochekalifa2074

7 ай бұрын

Yes this particular group saramacans have predominantly Angola ancestry but also mixed

@africaine4889

7 ай бұрын

I was saying that this wws congolese traditional dance. Even thr music.We also have tshokwe in Congo

I am truly amazed man! I am from Haiti, I never seen that similarity like I see in Suriname anywhere else in the diaspora. I see nothing different between Ghana and Suriname. People in the Suriname don't lose their tradition really, I appreciate that. May celebrate different way but carry the same tradition and the same spirit. I truly admire my families in the Suriname!!! God blesses!

@Cici_mimi

7 ай бұрын

As African, I thought outside of Africa I can relate only Haitians, but now I find it another brothers and sisters. Beautiful how they kept their culture and DNA to themselves.

@jeangermain3621

7 ай бұрын

@@Cici_mimi Exactly what I thought too. They always claimed Haiti as the little Africa, but I discover Suriname even more related in culture, dance, wedding, even look. God bless!

The HAIR! THE HAIRSTYLES!!!! Both the men and especially the ladies! Woooooow 🎉🎉🎉can't wait to visit Suriname 🇸🇷. Love from 🇰🇪 Kenya!

@VeronicaLovesAI

4 ай бұрын

Yes. The hair, the skin…🎉❤

One Caribbean ❤🙏🏽 our special rich culture and beautiful African roots. Unity ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

These people have their ancestral culture after 500 years Wallah, God bless you!!!

@safiadagomber3905

3 ай бұрын

Ameen thuma Ameen my dear brother

Very amazing how our African brothers and sisters in diaspora were able to preserved the Africa Culture , the whites wrongfully enslaved the innocent Blackmen / women but they couldn't wiped away their culture and traditions.....Proudly AFRICAN from Nigeria 🇳🇬

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

Fawaka , na soso lobi gi yu mi Nigeria brada. Wi na wan Afrikan pikin lobi. Yr Surinamese brother saying hi in Surinamese.

@comahsamuel3969

7 ай бұрын

Fawaka na ga u mi mati ? Greetings from 🇬🇭🦁

@user-eh4cl1jb8h

7 ай бұрын

Stop blaming it on the white people if y’all were the ones selling us to them 🙄

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

@@comahsamuel3969 Bun mi brada soso lobi

@jazariareid7250

7 ай бұрын

Right on my brother 🇯🇲💯

Wow that looks so much like Africa, good to see in Suriname they have retained African ways, that's lovely to see.. 😅

Wode Maya, did you notice how the majority of the women and men kept their hair NATURAL. I also noticed they are not bleaching their skin. They look stunning and very beautiful! You go Suriname! Aya maya. Happy New Year!

@Crabtree1844

7 ай бұрын

@@rafaelw8115 ...some are still suffering from the effects of colonialism, self-hate and, ignorance. Skin-bleaching, hair relaxers, cosmetics...etc affect childbirth, cause cancer, some bleached skin look like rotten banana peel, the breath smell bad, they reman poor while enrich doctors and pharmaceutical industries....and so much more. Black is beautiful - that's why whyte people roast themselves in the sun like rottisserie chicken.

@janjacob2259

6 ай бұрын

indeed... in Suriname... they dont do Bleaching .. at all. i never heard about bleaching.. until i met african that did that. i was in shock.

@Crabtree1844

6 ай бұрын

@@janjacob2259 ...aren't Surinamians not Africans? I thought all black people are Africans who were forcefully displaced through slavery.

I love that you visited my country!

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

I had a great time

You will certainly make 1.5 million.From Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 we love you

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Veryyy soon!

This pure our African brothers and sisters. I love you guys

I live in Guyana and have visited Suriname and it takes Wode Maya for me to see a typical Saramacca wedding. Great work!

im so in admiration on how those people fought to keep their culture alive and are practicing it. Black people are really resilient people. May God bless them.

@surinameworshipthelordwith9054

6 ай бұрын

Hundreds of years ago they fled to the bush and they kept their culture because there was noone there who could take it from them or force another culture on them. They lived alongside rivers with a lot of big rapids, so the slave masters couldn't come to get them. That is why their culture was kept for hundreds of years.

The Ijaw tribe in Nigeria dances this way. Waoh awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@mhizummy2091

7 ай бұрын

Even igbos too

Man I most admit I had a nice time watching you Woda Maya. Black African empowerment! Strength and health , love and understanding to all the diaspora of Africa, the final frontier of world trade among themselves and to the world!. James in America Chicago peace be upon you.🤨🤔🧐❤️

I'm so surprised as an African lady who was born in Somalia 🇸🇴 raised in San Diego, CA. I never knew how much Suriname 🇸🇷 brothers and sisters keep their African tradition. Their dance is just like Uganda 🇺🇬 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Kenya 🇰🇪 and Somalia Bantus dance. This dance is all over Africa. Suriname 🇸🇷 you guys are our family ❤for sure!

@hervem.

6 ай бұрын

The culture so similar to ours in Cameroon It's insane

@modouceesay9793

6 ай бұрын

Can you dance?

Wode, as a US citizen originally from Cameroon living in the US for 2 decades, believe me or not, the wedding ceremonies remind me my home country. Thanks, Wode I must visit Suriname

What! This is outside Africa? Ahmazing, 👏 👏 👏 🇸🇷 🇳🇬 So proud of them, as an African this is very emotional for me

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Yes

@bgreatgraphixxgreat9559

7 ай бұрын

Same culture... Parts of Nigeria do have gift presentation from both parties (Bride and groom family) but more from the Groom... Especially when the groom family has fulfilled the item in the list... Great one

They still do it the African way.They represent.Im so proud of you Suri what what .Its still new to me .

When I see things like this my heart pains me for my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 we barely have any tradition of our ancestors left 😢

@annfisher8811

5 ай бұрын

Bc we have been so brainwashed we think african culture is backward. Dont worry my love seek it out for yourself. I am a jamaican born with Africa in my blood NO ONE can take that away

Your Suriname content brought tears of joy and tears of sadness. I am so proud of the Surinamese people, yet I am sad to see what the rest of us in the Caribbean and Americas have lost. God bless Suriname. And Merry Christmas to you Wode Maya and Miss.Trudy.

@simonmanley6257

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you look at the mess in Jamaica

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Amen!

@hendrikmkvanleesteniv1294

7 ай бұрын

Never too late for us all to connect to our traditional roots and cultural ways! This is the power of technology now we can find out where we are from and then learn from those who know and can teach us what we have lost! We are the lost tribe and will eventually be reunited!

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

Happy Kwanzaa

@missalwaysfortunate

6 ай бұрын

You are 100 percent right. Especially when it comes to marriage. Here in the United States only a little over 20 percent of black people marry. The destruction of the traditional family is destroying us.

The more I see what our people do traditionally, the more I dislike what the colonizers have done to us here in the U.S.

@exquisitecaribbeanqueen7198

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree......

@hazeleugenewonderloveofthe8819

7 ай бұрын

I agree our culture and mother tongue was strip away and hijack

@jaeeluv

7 ай бұрын

💯‼️😤

@ArisDmajesty

7 ай бұрын

Thats the effect of The Wode Maya Pills😂😂😂

@wokeone167

7 ай бұрын

I feel exactly how you feel my brother.

The dancing was the whole vibe🎉. Everything is beautiful there.😍 Sending love from Tanzania 🇹🇿,East Africa.

@user-zu6hm3tl7i

7 ай бұрын

And sending much love to you as well from México ❤

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Habari, Nakupenda. Send some Nyama Chowma over hahahaha. Thanks to some Tanzanians I met some years ago I learned these words. When they spoke I also heard the word Angalia. I as African descent u always curious of Africans, maybe I could understand something

@shyfettymtunda4619

7 ай бұрын

@@user-zu6hm3tl7i Thank you.☺️

@shyfettymtunda4619

7 ай бұрын

@@chaljen That's amazing.Come to Tanzania I'll treat you with nyama choma,lol.😂 Hakuna matata.

@chaljen

7 ай бұрын

@@shyfettymtunda4619 thank you very much nakupenda you already. 😘

My tribe in Nigeria dances more like that. We are 95% coastal in Nigeria. When I saw women carrying plates to the water front to watch I thought it is my village in Nigeria. Wonderful.

@rudynathan8852

7 ай бұрын

Might be true. Im from holland and half surinamese. Most my african dna is nigerian (yoruba) according to two different dna tests. But my mom is not from this tribe tho

@mhizummy2091

7 ай бұрын

@@rudynathan8852yoruba don’t shake waist lol 😂

@TheLocalStandard

7 ай бұрын

​@@mhizummy2091😮Yorubas don't shake waist?! All the 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria shake their waists especially the Yorubas, even the Muslims. And I am from the Muslim majority North. Don't say what you don't know.

@oma7698

7 ай бұрын

@@mhizummy2091They certainly do, just in a different way than this.

@rudynathan8852

7 ай бұрын

I will aks my cousin to do a dna test. She is half Samaaka. I can compare my results with hers.

This makes me feel very good. I love seeing the women with their natural hair and beautiful shining black complexion. The fact that they have retained so much of their African culture is a testament to the strength and resilience of our ancestors and African cultures in general. I am so proud of them. Thank you, Wode Maya! You have gained a subscriber.

Wow how beautiful are those women 😍 I fell in love with at least 10 when he went down the bridesmaid line 😅

Africa should unite and that unity most include all our fellow black brothers and sisters. Wode Maya I hope Ghanaian president will have the courage to have you in the African union summit voicing for One Africa

No make-up, no wigs, just pure beauty ❤❤❤❤

@jazariareid7250

7 ай бұрын

Pure natural beauty no make up 🇯🇲💯

@paulgitau6055

7 ай бұрын

I love that one too,it's natural beauty.

@user-hp4vi4wi7e

7 ай бұрын

No bleached faces? I know they don't smell like rotten eggs

@Nana97651

7 ай бұрын

No, it’s because it’s a Traditional wedding 😂😂

@PositiveVibesOnly82

7 ай бұрын

They don’t bleach that’s wright

My country, my culture, thank you for visiting 🤩❤️ 🇸🇷

❤From Somaliland to wode Maya and our Carebean brothers and sisters

@leongrant2320

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, my people from Somaliland for recognized us as your brother and sisters. We have known this all a while. I'm from Guyana 🇬🇾

@Cici_mimi

7 ай бұрын

Idoor there's only one Somalia and SSC Khaatumo State Of Somalia 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴 Guul SSC Khaatumo State Of Somalia.

@Cici_mimi

7 ай бұрын

@@leongrant2320 **Somalia** Somaliland is a little village inside the great Somalia.

@Businessflip

6 ай бұрын

@@leongrant2320 your ere welcome

Fawaka my Surinamese brothers and sisters. Did I hear "atuuu" when the women welcomed the groom? If I did, that is how we welcome in the Akan tradition of Ghana too.

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Yep!

@selassiesys8794

7 ай бұрын

I thought it was interesting too... In ewe language its the same... we say Atuuu to greet and hug you

@RonaldTangwi-pl5wd

7 ай бұрын

Exactly it is the same thing.

@mojenz1934

7 ай бұрын

yes, we say atuuu in the okanisi language. We also call it akan language

@kwameboadukissi426

7 ай бұрын

@@mojenz1934 Interesting!

I am Indian. melanated american original aboriginal Nottoway Indian. And it feels very good to see videos like this. My soul is being hugged.

@rudynathan8852

7 ай бұрын

The black and natives in surinam actually worked together. You also have mixed native/african tribes in Surinam

@hurtin0108

7 ай бұрын

so why the Morrocan flag though?

@africaine4889

7 ай бұрын

​@@hurtin0108one of those AA who think they are native indian

@CruzRosa-kk1nl

6 ай бұрын

Sadly, many AA have lost their sense of identity. They claim to be everything under the rainbow except from being primarily descendants of West Africans. They claim to be indigenous American Indians, Moors from Morocco, Hebrews, Egyptians etc. It's sad and pathetic 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Many tribes in South Africa we also have the family of the bride gifting presents to the groom as well just like in Suriname.

@norahmvelase5693

11 күн бұрын

What about us native People in South afrika 😢

thank U very much for helping to share our beautiful culture with the world, A very proud Surinamese. ❤❤❤💙 many many blessings to you and your family wodemaya. We hope to welcome you back in Suriname .

@kobinaadaboh4859

7 ай бұрын

You somethings unique form Ghanaian weddings. Very beautiful women you have there❤

@user-tt3hb6xf6t

7 ай бұрын

As a Nigerian I am shocked by what I see. In faraway America? And it's just like attending a wedding in another part of Nigeria.

@ewomavese2490

7 ай бұрын

Hi, greetings from Nigeria, please what language is being spoken ? searched online but the official language says y'all speak Dutch ? also .... what's an interesting fact about your country that i should know, cheers .

@CharLInd12

7 ай бұрын

@@ewomavese2490 Yes, the official language is Dutch. The Lingua Franca is a Creole language , very much like Nigerian Pidgin. It's called Sranantongo, and has influences of English, Dutch, Portuguese and various African languages. Some enslaved people managed to escape slavery and live out their lives isolated in the interior of the country. There they formed various sub ethnic groups, with one of them being the Samaaka who are highlighted in the video. We also have the Ndyuka or Okanisi, the Pamaaka, The Aluku/Boni, the Kwinti, the Matawai.

@Rilia.

7 ай бұрын

greetings.🥰 the official language is Dutch that is being taught in school but the lingua franca is Sranantongo we also speak other native language because we have many different ethnicities and tribes living peacefully and respectful to each other culture in Suriname . 🥰@@ewomavese2490

They can also communicate in english. what an amazing group of people. I am so pleased, The smiles on their faces are so authentic. they are loving and welcoming.

Wode Maya, thank you for puting Suriname on the map, a lot of people in the world had never heard of Suriname. THANK YOU!

What a beautiful culture and their skin color is so so beautiful. The way most of them look and their music and dancing style is a lot similar to that of the Doualas and Bassas of 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲

@africaine4889

7 ай бұрын

Also yes. Especially the waist dancing. Same in Congo

@mikesterk9888

7 ай бұрын

​​@@africaine4889 Ai you speak the true 26:59 e 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤

@mpakempake3235

6 ай бұрын

I heard something similar to Bikutsi 😢😢😢

Wode how possible can we try to organize a kind of Africa cultural festival back home, where we can invite all the African countries and those in the diaspora in one country, maybe make it rotating ( being hosted by different countries every year)

@redhillhero1975

7 ай бұрын

i thought ghana has started with Afrofuture festival

@citylinkproject9901

7 ай бұрын

excellent idea !

@emmanuelozuru5097

6 ай бұрын

Nigeria bankrolled FESTAC in 1977. They even built a brand new city for it. Later the country suffered heavily economically. Let's just open up our bothers and do some cross-pollination of African cultures. Just my opinion, though.

I am surprised OAU has not given Wode Maya an award ? I am going to petition them ! We need to update our educational systems across the world, there must be an Inter African educational summit not only on education but economics, medical research, history, defense and more. Let’s get to work.

@Johnsonsetwithjustinthem-hm5nq

7 ай бұрын

Where have you been ? OAU seize to exit long time ago. Africa now has AU(Africa union).

From Sierra Leone, happy to see my people from Suriname. I have been to Guyana but not Suriname even though I knew they were next door, there was not time to travel across borders. Beautiful Africans 100%❤

Very nice i am happy to see our brothers and sisters from suriname love from Burundi 🇧🇮 in East Africa

Suriname is amazing. Wonderfully festive wedding.

Hey. I just like how Wode brings our African brothers and sisters closer to us..... Surely it's gonna be a dream come true to get to meet all these people as my brothers and sisters one day 😊

Wodemaya ..you are true son of Africa...bring this pple home. ..This is our tradition... even..here in Malawi..Zimbabwe..kenya.. South Africa.

@surinameworshipthelordwith9054

6 ай бұрын

Oh, we like Ghana, but in 500 years time Suriname became our home. Suriname is not the USA where white people are the majority. There are no white people in Suriname. Black people are the majority and after the Amerindians the first Surinamese people. We have also Indian and Indonesian immigrants here since 1875 and Chinese since 1853. The Dutch immigrants who came to Suriname long time ago died of malaria or were married to black, Indonesian or Indian people. There are only a few white families left or maybe none. One white family I knew some of them went to the Netherlands and a white colleague of mine married a Javanese.

Wow!! They're even eating fufu the Afrikan way, so happy to see they have kept Afrikan tradition ❤❤❤

Africans are gorgeous!

I m senegalese the surinamians look like the manjak ethnie group from the south of Sénégal in the west Africa you are amazing

After reading all these comments from people recognizing their culture and villages fprom different African countries, I'm starting to see Suriname as the United Africas outside of Africa. Ancestors from different tribes created a melted united beatiful mixed African descented culture 🙌🏽 Bigup Suriname 🇸🇷 the country is a united treasure

I hear them singing kwadwom, the recitals made before the Asantehene speaks. I have goosebumps all over me!

I admired this culture because, culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn. Thanks for sharing

WODE MAYA NATURAL BEAUTIFUL LADIES ❤KEEP THE CULTURE ALIVE ❤WHO AGREE ?

This is incredible Maya..Desprite the stressful drama brothers and sisters went through, they still managed to preserve our African culture. Thanks brother Maya for another historical, and educational eyes opening video and at the same time, to keep us informed that African culture is well and alive l in South America countries. Great job Maya and best regards to our African queen -our wife 'Trudy'. Please take good care of her.

They are more like the Sawa People in cameroon. Their way of dancing is very much like the Ewondo People of Cameroon. ❤

@bowgate3817

7 ай бұрын

You find similar in Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin.

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Interesting

@LG-universe

7 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment.

@geniusg811

7 ай бұрын

The Ijaws in Nigeria also has a similar dance 🙂

@africaine4889

7 ай бұрын

Same in Congo.

This is wonderful I wish we had something like this in 🇯🇲we have a lost culture. I never knew Surinam was so African.

@simonmanley6257

7 ай бұрын

That because Jamaica is an anti African society history and preservation of black culture is demonized on the Island

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Really????

@melanin7977

6 ай бұрын

If you attend our cultural events you will see african traditional dances eg. Kumina, dinky mini, quadrille, bruckins, maypole, jonkunnu etc they dress in african traditional clothes when performing these dances too. Those are african traditional dances prserved in jamaica, you need to visit St. Thomas they have a village with elderly people speaking in an Aftican traditional language. The culture is still there but most people nowadays wants to be americanize.

From the UK. I keep watching your travels and you must keep up the work - this is a mission you are on and you are the chosen one uniting the scattered family of Africa. And what was shattered you are piecing it back together again. I'm send you love and respect from the UK of Jamaican descent. Thank you

@africanjamaican7365

7 ай бұрын

Amen the chosen one to piecing the broken family. Yes yes blessings.

They kept the traditions 100% without letting gentrification override their sense of common ethics, mannerisms, and their culture. God bless the land of 🇸🇷

Incredibly great and amazing seeing Afro descendants in replica West Africa culture with a bit of flavours, of local identities and European influences... Love it!

@zazabrown732

7 ай бұрын

Central African culture not West African. the dancing is from the Congo region

Woodeee!! Excellent content. I wish our sisters on the African continent who bleach their skin and use blonde wigs and weaves take note of the natural black chocolate Surinamese queens. They rock the natural hair, naps and all and appreciate our “blackness. Beautiful black natural beauties like me, a Caribbean natural black beauty.

@user-hp4vi4wi7e

7 ай бұрын

Especially N@ rian women They bleach their faces and forget their fingers. They smell funny too.

@joejulian617

7 ай бұрын

So all African women are known for skin bleaching?

@oma7698

7 ай бұрын

What about the brothers on the continent who bleach their skin and hair? Only the women bother you?

Suriname should be a country in Africa. The likeness is so much.

As I had said in other comments before this one, the African descendants in Suriname are a gem for studying. What they have in contributions will in many ways be rewarding in absolute profound ways that connect to us to what had existed before being modified by the impact of outside influences. I certainly believe that there are areas even on the continent that had been impacted and others that may not have tremendously so.

They are doing it like in my country in west Cameroon 🇨🇲

@atemnkeng4660

7 ай бұрын

Almost like asiko in Cameroon

@Nana97651

7 ай бұрын

Bah c’est comme tout l’Afrique de l’Ouest et central

@rychelssassa7866

7 ай бұрын

​@@Nana97651normal se sont des africains

@rychelssassa7866

7 ай бұрын

Je suis camerounaise ils dansent coe 1 peuple ici chez nous qu'on appelle les bassa

Surinam is really Ghana in abroad. I would have to take my vacation there one day.

the colors, the music, the joyful celebration. Thank you for taking us along. It was a delight to watch.

What they’re wearing, is their version of kente cloth. Every Caribbean nation has their version with different colours. The songs they were singing sounds close to ewe.❤❤❤

@davidcomma1930

7 ай бұрын

Most ancestors of Suriname came from Ghana.

Even the music is the same like in Cassamance and Guinea Bissau, I think they might come from Guinea Bissau

@mcamara488

Ай бұрын

I am from Guine-Bissau tooo. 🖤🙏🏿

This people may be far away from their mother land (Africa) but they will never be forgotten. Merry Christmas to everyone. Maya, thanks for bringing your African story to our brothers and sisters taken away from us.

Being from next door Guyana, it’s a shame we did not fight harder to maintain our traditions when the example was right there.

@surinameworshipthelordwith9054

6 ай бұрын

They kept the traditions because they hid in the bush for hundreds of years. We who were in slavery for hundreds of years lost all our culture. I am Surinamese

I love to see that they held on to their African culture and traditions. It is a beautiful culture and language. Now we see that "twerking" is actually an African dance and its origin. These dance moves are done throughout the Caribbean and carnivals called "wining". Wode Maya, thanks for sharing this with the viewers.

@rochekalifa2074

7 ай бұрын

Yeah we just call it ass shake lol "seke gogo"

This is precisely Igbo traditional marriage; the practice of young ladies escorting the bride to her husband's house is called " Udu uno", which means escorting to her new home. I was part of this in Nigeria in the early seventies. Also it is unmarried maidens that participate. In our case we use to sing and dance along the way praising the beauty of the bride untill we get to her husband's house usually at about 7 or 8 in the evening. She starts to cry when we leave at About 9 back to her father's house without her.

@secondexodus9105

3 ай бұрын

This is also Israelite culture

This place is Africa 😢 These Ladies don't have fake wigs👍🏾🇸🇷 🇧🇮❤️

@lonalxaia

7 ай бұрын

It's Amerindian country still.

@burundishallsmile1day109

7 ай бұрын

@@lonalxaia No!is Conquered now😊 Is Africa overseas ✊🏾 Nothing Amerindian about that place 😉

@lonalxaia

7 ай бұрын

@@burundishallsmile1day109 colonizer.

@satepatat2430

7 ай бұрын

@@burundishallsmile1day109you are literally being rude now, it’s still from the indigenous and will always be. And there are more non-black Surinamese people than black Surinamese people in the country

@burundishallsmile1day109

7 ай бұрын

@@satepatat2430 Rude?🤔! No! I m not Rude,I m responsive to the Rude reaction! You are a bad Judge! You did read my comment, everyone understands my Lovely sympathetic Comment nd give Thumb 👍🏾 + a ❤️from MAYA but some1 come with a statement out of the Point ! What had my Comment have to do with Geography and History of the Suriname?you don't see that Rude!I responded to the Rude statement, with same Energy it came with! Yet,you find me Rude?! Mr justice !do you smoke potion number 9??? I m just curious 😉 I m an African,we not RUDE,we only REACTIVE to RUDENESS. This is our Crime in the World!

This is quite amazing and awesome , our own people from Africa maintaining their traditions in Surinam

Big up Suriname, keep the tradition alive, one love!

@WODEMAYA

7 ай бұрын

Always

This is beautiful thank you Wode Maya. As an African diaspora I wish to visit Africans who practice their traditions. Just to visit, try the food, hear to music. I wish to see this on the continent of Africa too.

What a beatiful and traditional wedding celebration🎉❤,Enjoy.🇬🇶

I have never heard of a country called suriname 🇸🇷 not to talk of knowing their Africans. The most beautiful video i have seen this year

you are bringng all African Children together. we thank you and May God Bless you

@lacinabakayoko4634

7 ай бұрын

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