7 Misconceptions Americans Have About Africans 

I am appreciating more foreigners from more developed countries coming to S.A and the rest of Africa.. Coming here with an open mind to learn and experience new things and cultures Keep up the amazing work guys

As a Mozambican, I concur! Look at me commenting on youtube from my iOS device, in your language (my second), straight from the motherland 😉! Great content! 🇲🇿

In future I hope you guys get invited to film the different types of ceremonies and weddings in Africa and get the in depth experience ♥️🇿🇦

I love my country! 🇿🇦 ❤

Thank you, family. Your videos are always on point. Thanks for dispelling some of the myths about Africa. Love it ❤🎉😊

I like the way, you explains to AA about Africa very detailed. Much love from SA 🇿🇦

I hope from now on some Americans will know that Africa is not a country but a continent

I just saw your channel for the first time today. I first watched the SA schools war cries and this is my second video. Very beautiful to watch. Love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 🇧🇼

I often find that young Africans are under a lot of pressure to succeed. They are made very aware that there parents worked very hard to provide them with better opportunities and that they would be ungrateful if they don't succeed. Sometimes the level of pressure to succeed is possibly just a bit to much.

I love your channel. I'm South African, living in the Sandton burrough. I share your videos with my Australian grandchildren. They've never been to Africa/South Africa.

Thank you for this! The lack of knowledge is tiring sometimes so making videos like this is exactly what’s needed. 👏👏👏👏 well done guys!

Africans smell??!! When I was at Uni in the UK I shared a bathroom with about 5 or 6 mostly British students. I took a shower every single day but was horrified to learn that the Brits showered once a week on average. 😱

Very detailed and picked on some very good misconceptions that needed some educational correction. Thank you for these types of videos.

Very correct on Africans' perception of wealth and riches. We are inherently communally oriented hence individualistic accumulation of wealth ain't lifetime goal for many. Everybody is everyone's social safety net and in that set up, people are content with the basics they have. Anything extra apart from a roof over their head, enough food, clothing and tightnit community is just an extra! With capitalism and money economy though, you'll find individualistic accimulation of riches but in the long run, the concerned parties will always say "I'm doing it for my community"!

Thanks so much for this guys your channel has actually educated me and my family a lot more about other African countries and I’m way less ignorant, prejudice is everywhere and as a South African I’m learning alot, hope to run into you guys again and not be so star struck as I was😅

Wow this was eye opening and in depth analysis done thoroughly to debunk what is perceived by western societies when thinking of Africa, we are being denied growth as the Black family in realising how Royal and esteemed we are if only we could nurture and embrace that consciousness

This post is funny and entertaining. You are very positive minded people and put out fair and honest content. GOD bless you.

Interesting........😂😂😂 The people smell part just got me, natural scent😂😂😂😂........ Thanks for the enlightenment.

Thank you for this. We appreciate our African American Brothers and Sisters. When we were going through Apartheid yall were out there fighting the fight too. We salute you! Come to Africa, come to South Africa.

Well said! When I visited the USA in the early nineties, I was shocked how uninformed they were. Now, I am generalizing, but most of the ordinary people I bumped into did not even have an idea where South Africa was. The best answer I got, was that it was on the tip of South America!

YES! First to comment!! Love watching your content. I'd love to meet you guys in person next time you're in Cape Town. Holler @ ya booi! ;-)

Really loving your content❤️ literally watching all your videos 😂

Thanks, for the videos, they're educational in a way. I learn a lot from these videos

Enjoy your stay in Africa. I have watched a couple of your content and you guys are amazing.

We love you. Thanks for always being honest.

Thank you for making this video! I only wish you had called out specific countries by name because just using "Africa" a lot feeds into the same narrative that you've been fighting against. But that's no big deal overall. You're doing a good service because some people would not listen to me (they might call me "uppity" or make fun of my accent), might listen to YOU because you sound like them. Peace and love from Nigeria, USA, and now Colombia! 👋

Most of what you said wasn't surprising and I appreciated your truth and honesty. I can't stand it when Africa is referred to as one country. The "I travelled to Africa" line drives me crazy because where exactly did you go and appreciate about that country so I, as a South African, can be educated and intrigued too. BUT hearing that we SMELL? And fair enough, heartbreakingly I realise this most probably refers to black Africans, but being a white African it offends me too. Our Zimbabwean gardener smells after a hard day under the African sun, our isiXhosa cleaning lady smells after running through our house, my Portuguese-South African husband smells after fixing things around our home and I sometimes smell just from sitting on my butt behind a pc screen all day. And after we wash we all smell fresh again. I mean WHAT? SO disrespectful and surprising.

Hello...Hello I just came across your RU-vid channel and I'm still watching in between videos 😅

Take time & come and visit Eswatini. It's a paradise & has one of the most friendly people in the world.

Thank you for brining these information forth. Really appreciate it alot. The masses need to know the truth

Very nice and informative clip, please keep it up.

You are a wonderful blessing to Namibia

They don't want you to come home this is your home we love you to the bits you will never run dry here❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Another good video fam.

I love this video guys 🔥🔥🔥 but it seems after the "backlash" you received from ignorant people for that video where you choose S.A your energy levels have dropped and that's not fair to us your loyal fans we want to see you happy and energetic. We love you and we understand your intentions for making these videos so please bring back that energy guys

Very good! How I wish this kind of video can be shown to American grade school or high school students. Or will Governor Desantis accuse me of trying to spread "critical race theory" to kids?

We Americans should return to our homeland and all be the same👊🏾♥️

Thank you for this.

Thanks for sharing I am shocked how they think and treat Africans yet we are same,no matter you are American, Asian, European or African we both undergo birth,we live and we die.

Richest man in the world from South Africa

Thank you!. Tell them!

Man you guys fitting right in. Please visit Durban City next, I think you'll see some big differences.

Well done guys ❤ this is good.

Love this, thanks a lot

I love u guys. ❤ From South Africa

I'm born and raised South African and the first time I saw riot police was in the US before a Red Sox vs Yankees game 😂

Spot on

That was really a cool video,thankyou.

Well said another great vlog today 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿 and you guys are right I'm from the states and I'm super poor 😊

every second car you see is a Merc or BMW

Love this!!!

Great content here. I wish you have a conversation with African professionals in international NGOs and the misconceptions the white colleagues have about African colleagues. It is irrirating but I am ready to give an interview.

Yes it is! 😊

South Africans also need to stop with the misconceptions about the rest of Africa! I live out of the continent and met a lot of other Africans and they aren’t any different from us..We might have different cultures but they are generally like everyone else!

God Bless! 🇰🇪

Thank you.

Informative and educational

5:12 pot calling the kettle black type situation smh.

Great video. Y'all touched on all the misconceptions African Americans have about Africa. And those things are just not true. That's why it's so important to travel outside of the US. Because the US is not showing us a clear picture of the countries in Africa. I did not realize how the US commercials showed Africa on TV with babies that are hungry and never said what country they were in. It made you think that all of the babies on the African continent were hungry. And that's just not true. Every country has its poverty, including the US. Thanks for this video. I have forwarded it on to friends.

Same as Haiti.

Keep up the good work

Danko. ❤ thank you from mzansi...Love ❤ how you gell together. All is true. Joburg is a version of the ethnicity that we have in the City. I'm Swati by Mom and Shangani/Mozambique by father, born in SA 10! October baby ❤.... It was my birthday 🎉 yesterday. Truly love your content. Pretty much True Love you guys❤❤❤❤✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽.

Don't be fooled, South Africans live on credit as well! A lot of people are hugely in debt. On the topic of corruption. Yes, corruption is everywhere, but in Africa (South Africa) its in-your-face, we live with the negative effects of corruption everyday. Money is stolen from hospitals, pensions, etc.

We want African Americans to come and live in South Africa.

Everyday how i wish i could run into you guys.❤

Nice content ❤

Americans had the internet before anyone else. Most African Americans just don't want to research about Africa. How you don't want to know about where you come from no matter how bad it is is really unAfrican. White Americans know about Europe. Best believe

No offense, but as an African American, I never been around any other African American who think this way. I’m curious to know where you two are from in the US. Generalizing all AA in thinking this way only perpetuate this narrative. Maybe stating “What some misconception AA have of Africa,” is a more appropriate title. Let’s continue to educate and spread love!

True

I particularly loved your video about Johannesburg. I sent it to my Australian grandkids, 18, 21, 22. Also to my Durban son. Ignore backlash. Don't change anything and especially because of it. Ddon't pander to the naysayers.

❤❤❤ you family

In my opinion, Afrika is indeed a country. Most of the national borders on the Continent were created by Europeans at the Berlin Conference. NONE of the current "Nations or Countries" are older than 70 years old, not even Ethiopia (It was Abyssinia prior to WWII) Ethiopia is a Greek word and was applied differently in ancient times than it is today. The U.S.A. has 50 very powerful STATES (Each governor has more power over their STATE, than the President has over the U.S.) I think this is the way that we need to start viewing the Continent in order to unify our minds and spirits and be more successful on the global stage. Let's focus on what we have in common more than we focus on our differences. Last note, Australia is BOTH a continent AND a country, so being a continent does NOT prevent a place from being a country. Peace and Love.

Another misconception, maybe only in some white circles, is that it is not safe for white South Africans to travel through Africa. Many do without any problems. As for your experience in Kenya, a friend who is working there always say the people are amazing. Natural smell is one thing, my son after hockey practice is bad. Thank you for sharing!

Watching from Uganda...

Africa is so big that even Africans experience culture shock when they visit other African countries, Africa is so big that languages across south, north, east, west arent similiar! Africa is so big that when other africans visit other countries they cant bear the weather of that country

A little more open minded, Absolutely!

Yoh! Thank you for this, but as an African, my opinion compared to say Europe, we are waaay more overt about our corruption, BUT, I appreciate the nuance with which you present it here. There's corruption everywhere.

Nice depiction

Corruption is the US is called lobbying 😅

I didn't know we smell😂😂😂😂😅😅😅

Another great video as always! Maybe the misconceptions Black Americans have about Africa stems from being privileged! I mean an ordinary Black American in the US is more privileged than an ordinary black African in any African country! For example ,We have situations where people just disappear off into the bushes or the grass,dug pits on the ground or a hole near running stream for sanitation purposes While in the US majority of Black Americans have flushable toilets for basic sanitation

7:45 well the corruption is too much here. That cannot be defended.

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You guys were here? 😮Wow

Which African country is your favourite?

Let's speak of the " stay away from the akata!" Groups!

Elon Musk is South African

I think you meant Africa is a (continent) at 3:49 time stamp.😊

...and their degrees mean NOTHING here!!!!

Average salary in Africa is 769 dollars a month. Think about that for a second. That's not even the median...

Not bad. Was a little surprised myself to see cities in Tanzania like what we have here is SA. Although yea it's true. We are educated... enough so to realize when you make silly statements like "stole our ancestors"... well sure I don't doubt some were indeed stolen... but in general and by a massive majority, slaves were bought from other Africans tribal leaders who enslaved the people from the other waring tribes. After all, it's not called a slave "trade" for nothing. Also, yea the whole thing about smell... well stink is after all a word to describe a smell that is not pleasant to the senses... so if something or someone stinks... well, they stink. That however is not something that is relevant to Africans only. Anyone can stink. But in truth the people who stink are generally those who either are too impoverished to be able to bath and wash clothes and buy deodorant, or those who just don't practice good hygiene. So don't be so offended.

I thought there were still many indigenous Americans living in the U.S was I being lied to? But who lives on the reservations then?

I hate to be that guy but, contrary to popular belief about "being stolen", Africans sold each other as slaves like after winning a war, you'd sell the captives. Slavery was the biggest trade in Africa several centuries ago and Africa was actually at per with the world economically. Then industrial machines happened and the slave labor wasn't needed as much. Without any other relevant business to fall back on, the entire place started lagging behind. Its a whole untold side of history, with tons of literature on it.

"Africans smell" is wild😂 do Americans smell like roses or something? I need more clarification

We hope more black Americans come back home

Lol! I find it so funny that you guys think or have been told (even experienced ) we hate you because we think you hate us and are averse to Africans. I think most Africans don't hate you guys, we are just tired of the ignorance and the attitude that flows from that ignorance. So videos like this will go far in educating everyone.

😂😂😂 Kenya, Kenya, Kenya 😂😂..

One must wash regardless of culture

Shh! The wrong people will come ❤ the kind that like to take over LOL

We were told that black Americans hated Afrixans and that they kill Africans too. But it was all a lie due to my own experience traveling 😏