Fortune Seekers in Gambia | VPRO Documentary 

Why do Kenyans leave their country?

@@laurymakesaway6695 I haven't heard a single Kenyan dying in the ocean to cross the Indian Ocean. Kenyans mostly leave legally. Hence why the documentary is not based in East Africa.

@@hoverboy I asked why do they leave?

​@@hoverboybeach boys exist in Kenya as well just go visit Mombasa and see.

As Kenyan West Africans just shock us.... climbing a boat to cross the ocean for grenner pastures 😂.. pathet..i.c

Biggest illusion!! I want to move to Africa my mom is Moroccan but we are raised in Holland

I am a European native. I have never been in Africa so I do not know more about it than what I have seen in documentaries such as this one. The only thing I can say is that even if we have very comfortable material lives here, I do not think it is a good place to come to for African people. Everything is declining here and I believe we are not in a state to properly welcome people and insure they will have a better life. In our cities we can see countless African men and women living in bad conditions and having crappy jobs or no jobs at all, or even worse falling into poverty and drugs in the streets. This is not a life that I wish to anyone. Unfortunately as long as Europe does not stand back up economically I do not think it can welcome people. It makes me very sad to see people losing their life in the sea whilst chasing an illusional dream that only work for a few people. I wish the best to everyone and good luck to all African people

@@zwartepeat3552 what a beautiful statement 🤲🏽❤️ It comes from a sincere place and as a European citizen myself I agree with you

​@@zwartepeat3552I agree 💯

The question should be what are we doing to change this situation?

@@SC-uv5le Currently nothing.

he has training, he was working in Germany as a skilled person, what he doesnt have in Gambia is opportunity

African parents most of them want to use their children to give them pension. Do they know the kids also have a life to live. They just want to relay full on their children so disappointing.

@@smilyachy8630 completely agreed with you especially in Gambia.

It's beyond words how Europe still using African people as cheap condoms that once used they throw away like nothing. It is beyond words that your stupid comment lacks so much thought and reflection.

How about the Europeans pressured and encourage by their Kings and Queens to come to Africa to steal and use Africans to build their countries? Are you thinking with your a$$ or brain? The catastrophic situation is caused by Europeans, they should fu*king leave Africa ALONE. The fu^kers will not because the raw material resources are in Africa they'd steal are worth trillions of dollars, it's a negative impact on their morality if they have any at all.

Agree.

Exactly....

When you dont have anything to eat you to would think of leaving. Waking up in the morning without employment or food and then you spend the day trying to get some small money to be able to maybe get something to eat in the evening. Your comment sound like they are greedy which is very far from the truth.

Yes, let us HOPE and PRAY that he and his people have MUCH better days! 👍👍🙏🙏❤❤

Don't forget, the parents emptied their purse just to get the children out there. Thank you.

With this money they could have either try to start a business or buy visa and flight ticket. You just need someone to invite you. They just make those human traffickera rich while once they have their money, they don't care if they die in the desert, in prisons or in the sea.... 😔

So it's OK to go to Africa and live off someone else is garden,,,,cry me a river.He already has said all white People ALL. We hate you but can i please let me in.

May the souls of the people murdered by those coming to Europe find peace too. Their names are hardly mentioned, they are put in graves with no celebration by their friends and families, because German government doesn't want to disclose the number of victims.

I need to also add that Europe has been overly welcoming to foreigners, even to the extent that German people were forced out of their homes to create space for people from abroad. Also the poor people in Germany get less money than prior coming from other countries. Our schools are ruined because there is no money for schools. Life in Europe has enormously changed because so many people were taken in, who all brought their problems to Europe as well. If you can't make it where you are from, do, ou really believe you can make it in foreign places that are crowded with masses of people from other countries, who being along their personal share of problems? People coming to Europe don't even try to learn our language and expect money for nothing.

Sister ensi ogilabye

Bro forget we need to rescue ourselves nothing like God is coming.. we have to make the moves for ourselves. Some people just like things easy and simple..

So true and sad. This really should not be the reason to have children.

💯💯💥💥 Latin America/Caribbean is the same its so annoying listening to full blown adult expecting their children to take care of them like that .. "I brought you to this planet, you are my ticket to be rich " like what the hell . Want his son to pay his bills . That's very disturbing. I feel bad for those young men to have such burden .. The father had no ounce of shame and look like he is pissed with his son instead of encouraging

@@bbpersonalpage1613 the father wads so awful. He’s angry at the young man instead of being sympathetic . He’s saying he’s old. What the hell, he’s not that old to be sitting at home fully dependent on his son

You all here was never witout

@@user-zt6uh1ys9z What's your point?

Chinese control the Great African continent

Chinese control the Great African continent

Chinese control the Great African continent

Chinese control the Great African continent

Chinese control the Great African continent

It's hard to take it, maybe it's last good bye she doesn't know when the boy is going to come alive or dead

The blumber went to Germany as a minor so there is possibility having residency

Gambians are known in Germany for beeing criminals and liars.

And how did you know that, were you there with him?

If he was illegal he wouldn't have been paying tax......

@@Bas-zw3pf The lawyers are the winners

and it´s a pity for their country that they leave :´(

They should build up their country.

Deniliquin?

Well,[ Well, THE DUTCH PEOPLE MADE THEIR FORTUNE BY ; [MURDERING - RAPING - PILAGING - KILLING - STEALNG - FROM INDIGENIOUS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ]

He saw it s business and not exploitation

He's not wrong. I'm the descendant of both African slaves and European slave owners. My family has lived in Mauritius since 1640s when my French male ancestors colonized it and took African women as their wives (and concubines) creating my race, there were no white women in the early colony (all Creole cultures share this history from Africa to the Americas). African Kings depopulated Africa and in doing so left it defenceless and without an adequate labour force. Slavery was big business for Africans. This is a fact. Whatever history you have "learned" is factually incorrect. Maybe you have some African ancestry, if so then go back to the continent and learn your history instead regurgitating whatever it is that you absorbed in whatever book you got it from.

​@@tapesharkSTOP THE CAP 🧢😂

If you ask that guy what the middle passage was, he cannot tell you. Because in European books and schools things like that are not taught. What he is saying is what Europeans happily write about and teach in their schools. That Africans proactively participated in the slave trade. And that is all BS meant to cover their tracks and justify their atrocities. We all know the atrocities that the west is causing in different parts of the world in recent times and how they are using the same methods as back in those days to cover their tracks and control the narrative. In the Caribbean, the states where slaves were transported to, there were plantations, cotton fields etc , how many of those were in Africa and in which countries before they came? The viciousness, torture, lynching and medical experiments the slaves went through under the Europeans, where in Africa was it happening before they came? But they are more than happy to spread the BS that Africans were already labouring their people as slaves before they came. In Africa, there was some form of servitude where poor people worked for the rich and those in the upper class. Happened in every society during those periods. But the vicious and inhumane form of slavery in which racism was an integral part of it was introduced by the Europeans 100%. Some very gullible Africans read the European narrative from European authors and call it a fact, very sad!

Stay at home and build with what? Build with grass?

Build with your vote and trust yourself !@@winmugaru6347

@@winmugaru6347 grass?? Africa literally has every raw material you can possibly think of so shut it

Won't ever happen while there is so much corruption up the top...

YOU CAN BE ABROAD AND BUILD IN YOUR HOME MORE THAN SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING AT HOME DONT DECCEIVE THE PEOPLE

Fat ,ugly cash rich Europeans seek love in Gambia, the female equivalent of Thailand.

OK. Let's write it in capital letters so everyone can understand it.

@@sunce0072 BOSS THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS

Love? We call it fuck

Who is behind this documentary?Soros ngo' s? Better title is: how to destroy europe' s culture !

Exactly! These are talking points pushed by all sorts of far right conspiracy hacks and frauds, they have no idea of history or context and just want their prejudices affirmed and strengthened…

Stupid man justifying slavery..What a mockery to humanity!Africans wake up.Some of these fellows would love to go back to the old times of slave trade

South Africa is now 30 years in democracy and look at how the black government destroyed the country. Everything that worked in the apartheid government is now broken. Corruption is their biggest problem...this is the way of Africa and its very sad to see this happen repeatedly...

​@@RG-jr8ymreally?How has RSA been destroyed by a Blackman?I bet it ain't good to generalize.

@@RG-jr8ym And who installed every puppet government in Africa and in the rest of the world? Rich white man’s club. They are responsible for all the problems/ evil in the world.

There has always been poverty and there will always be poverty.

Slavery is an African hobby tradition custom and culture. Whites participated in merely 3% of African slavery. 97% was and is intern. Whites abolished slavery way earlier also.

Old fat white women kick them too

💯 they want to protect the white groomers

But many Gambians have been blurred! Didn’t you see the scenes at the airport? What I find sad is that the political situation doesn’t seem to improve, whether you have a dictator or a more ‘democratic’ leader…

@@arnowillekes7979 Well the airport scene is different. It’s mainly the Gambians with other Gambians expressing themselves. The beach scenes are the ones that concerns me as it’s depicting the sexual tourism scene which is an ongoing issue. Two wrongs don’t make it right but we have to be fair to both parties involved as they are adults too. Let’s show their faces or ask for their consent simple. Gambians can do better, I blame poverty. If this wasn’t an issue, I don’t think most of these folks involved in sexual tourism would degrade themselves to this level. In a normal circumstance would a young Gambian date the “elderly “ not to say marry someone old enough to be their grandma? I don’t think so. Praying and hoping for a better Gambia. We are indeed the smiling Coast. Don’t think so? Ask our neighbors. The peace one gets in Gambia is rare to find in some other places. This is an eye opener and I respect the work put in to make this documentary.

Toni, i can't see how different it is for them than anyone else traveling to new places in the hope of making it. and lol! Poverty is never a state of mind when your goods are controlled by a small minority of people

Their are no real prospects. How torturous must it be to be a healthy capable person with nothing to do! It’s maddening, do not blame these people it’s our governments who are selected by the west to sell out the country and leave nothing for the youth

Every country in the world has gone through strife. Stop voting the scumbags into power and fight like men. Running is the coward way out.@@logicali9575

Every country has folks who work abroad...going abroad to work ain't abnormal.But it's true African leaders in need to work harder to create jobs to make life easier for the young people...Do value addition to agricultural produce for instance.

😂😂why were you created ,if you don't know what to say just shut the f**k up.

You are right

So very true, this is what IMF is doing around the world looking for most vulnerable and most corrupted governments...doing their dirty jobs...it's not only IMF there are other so called Leaders n governments n organizations do the same dirty businesses....It's time Africa, Asia South America come up with their own solitary solutions n be empowering powers....educate their people with socio economical n geo politics n bring to power Right Leaders not Corrupted Leaders...🙏♥️🌄

Your joking ? The Nigerian niarah fell like stone

Africa migration has nothing to do with climate change, it has a lot to do with the explotation of the African Economy, due to the Western infactructures put in place, like the IMF and World Bank.@@KaiSellgren

Magatte Wade is worth full to watch. She gives a nice inside about why African countries don't succeed. She is from Senegal.

YOU ARE VERY STUPID

african people believe that the only way is europe , they dont believ in africa

Doesn't really matter.

😂😂😂😂😂

Agree with you

He told a lot of lies too!

Shameless young man...he needs to read history on slavery quite well

It was really a 2 star!

No it won't your just saying that so you can get the resources. There's no proof low birth rate would end poverty. They just have maybe one or two kids. If you have a county where it's more old than young you just destroy your own country.

Your ancestors went through the same demographic issues. What you're asking of these people has never been done before. Moreover an unnaturally fast decline in birth rates would actually keep Africa poor

Poverty has a high fertility rate sadly it’s reality 😢

@@marianaguriras7722 correct, poverty means low education investment. Low education investment means high birth rates, which begets more poverty....

​@marianaguriras7722 Poverty has nothing to do with solely fertility rate. That's a rather ignorant way to think.

In the absence of social benefits, the children are their insurance. Until there is a system put in place for retirement and health services their children will continue to suffer.

sadly yes, it's still very selfish of them to put so much pressure on their children @@Tefera-hf8fw

​@@Tefera-hf8fw fact bro, the system is the problem n not the parents.

In our culture and religion, we are obliged to help our parents, especially in their old age. They sacrifice everything to see us through. When they are no longer capable, it is our responsibility to take care of them, and that is why we don't have care homes for the elderly as you do in some European countries.

not at the risk of your life or mental health@@baboucarrloum7219

Keep waiting for God to create your future.

This is why Africa is poor. GOD GOD GOD

Don't be delusional how will things change when there is not even progress in the slightest sense.

How many millions of Europeans went around the world killing and occupying lands and counties for reaches?

@@terenceambangTwo wrongs don’t make a right.

​@@terenceambang je hebt gelijk bro

​​@@josimpson7999 Of course you don't want karma. Perhaps you should preach that to your people instead. Don't tell black people to not retaliate when you have NOT told your people to stop being a Pos

​@@terenceambangAllways the same rethoric.....we are 2024 wake up,

What that tourist was reacting to was the total lack of decent infrastructure, you could see the depression in their faces. That said I notice you don't dispute that it was Africans who caught the slaves for resale.

@@johnsmith1474 I sincerely hope you’re response is not to debate me. My comment was put to highlight the ignorance that exists on the nuanced history behind slavery. That many Europeans don’t bother to understand. Because hey, everyone was doing it right?

Well,[ Well, THE DUTCH PEOPLE MADE THEIR FORTUNE BY ; [MURDERING - RAPING - PILAGING - KILLING - STEALNG - FROM INDIGENIOUS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ]

@@stackstradingllc Expect a reaction when you post a comment.

@@stackstradingllc Where did all the African Royalty of Guiana, get their modern gold & wealth from? It was from the slave trade, many of the political elite of these countries, have their origins in the save trade.

So true!!

In a lot of other countries pay is lower then Europe, for example Asia. And still these people don't go to Europe.

Peggy. that is worth of a LOL

I really would like to have such a positive mindset but often it's not easy, thank you for writing it 🙏🙏🙏

Than go to ANC run South Africa and walk around Johannesburg at night after that you can see their warm welcome

​@@banukasilva6153 To your twisted wisdom, ANC and SA are the summary of all Africans!?

Let them work in their own countries & build THEM up.

​@@anneofgreengables1619why give him residency and work for so many year and suddenly kidnap him back to his country without any procedures? Racism is what it is.

@@Madoobe87 Nope It's the law & he didn't meet it.

@@anneofgreengables1619 how is it possible that he have been there 7 years with residency and paying taxes then?

@@Madoobe87 how could you possibly know that?

So true, then again, all other systems we have tried suck even more....

The greed makes people unhappy. Stop to want things and your suffering will stop. People are just too greedy, they want more and more, no matter how much you have, you will always want more, it’s never ending vicious circle that causes suffering.

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Something got wrong nobody knows.....

Because residence needs to be renewed. At some point he might have gotten a 6 months or 1 year contract. That's how he got his tax number and paid taxes then he was just working illegaly or still working some company that was deducting his taxes because it's their duty and the guy still trying to renew his recidence permit.

Because these are not real relationships.

The women are to old to have children

These are old woman that can't produce anymore. Go to see major European cities.

The woman are in post menopause age 😂