Gullah Roots: How to go to Africa on a Roots Tour 

We LOVED Gullah Gullah island as kids. Nickelodeon was epic for giving us that! I didn't even know it was based off reality, a real place

I thank God that I’m from South Carolina our heritage is finally being told and recognized!!

When I finally found my people in Sierra Leone they already knew who my family was! Connected on 23 and me apparently they are still passing on the stories. I’m 35 and then last girl to be told our history. Now I tell it to my son, I look forward to returning home and meeting my tribe soon !

I went to school with a geechi girl, and one day she was on the phone with her mom, speaking their language, and I was in total amazement, how they retained their culture after so many centuries! And she was beautiful!

My grandmother always claimed she had family that were Geechee by way of Charleston S.C. Then they stayed in Florence S.C. We were young now living up North we never paid her no mind. But seeing this documentary peaks my interest in doing some ancestry searching . Great informative documentary

This documentary gave me chills, as I am a Gullah Geechee in search of info of the rice people, and I am crying because my research has taking me to Sierra Leone, I am from Beaufort SC and was raised in Charleston and Yemassee SC, and I am a Very Proud Gullah Geechee!! I speak to others about our rich culture and as a matter of fact, my grandmother's nicknames was Geechee Gal, and I Love it, I am so honored to see my people embrace who we truly are.🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🤗

Wow!! I'm from The Turks and Caicos Islands, I have been researching and came across the Gullah Geechee. We are so similar in the way we talk, the food and even the music. I've made up my mind that we are family. Great documentary.

I am not a Gullah, not even of African descent, but it gives me a sense of joy and admiration at how the African people have been so resilient facing oppression over hundreds of years, and yet still managing to retain their identity, and be proud of their heritage all the while living in a Western world. I am from Honduras and we have what is known as settlements of the Garifuna people which are also African descendants that came to settle the Caribbean coasts of Central America by way of St. Vincent. They speak a language which is a mix of English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Carib, and West/Central African dialects due to their tumultuous migrations throughout the Caribbean on their way to Central America's coasts. One could only hope that the native indigenous tribes of Honduras could maintain their cultural identities in the face of Western assimilation and eventual cultural extinction. God bless the Gullah people, and all the people and cultures in God's colorful garden.

There are many people in the Caribbean who speak she same way as the Gullah Geechee, like in Barbados, Jamaica and a few other places. An excellent documentary.

I’m from New Orleans and I love learning about the Gullah culture because it’s similar to New Orleans culture

I had that same thing happened to me when I went to Africa. I had a strong feeling that I had been there before, my tears flowed I could not control them. Black First Forever!!!

I loved watching this documentary! My grandmother graduated from Penn School in the 1930s and both of my grandparents were from Sheldon, SC in Beaufort County. Seeing this rich history made my soul smile.

This film touched my soul... I wish I was there to experience it with you all. I hope there will be more of these trips to learn more about the Gullah roots. Thank you for sharing this with us.

It's hard to put into words what I feel just watching this. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live it, to cross the Atlantic & see your ancestors & family in the faces of the people welcoming you. This is a wonderful & moving video, congratulations & thankyou to everyone involved.

I absolutely loved this! Coming from a family where they do not want to know the history of our people (we are not Gullah at least that I know of), this video just makes my heart swell with pride. I pray to make it to Africa one day. And on that day I know I will cry tears of pure joy.

Your ROOTS will regrow everything that was taken!

This is MAGICAL. My people are soooooo beautiful. Glowing and elegant and full of grace.

It was with great pleasure that I was part of the documentary. Thanks Betsy Newman for your leadership and experience. I hope y'all enjoy the animations and graphics. I would love to go to Sierra Leone soon.

As one who has taken students to Gullah historical sites in the past, I'm so glad to see these sites and people getting recognition in a documentary of this caliber. Keep up the good work!

Things like this just make you burst into tears literally from how touching and HAUNTING it all is. Slavery was so cruel & the process of stripping one from home... Absolutely terrible yet bitter sweet.

I recognize the guy voice from the kids show Gullah Gullah Island.

Geechee Gullah born in the north. Every Sierra Leone person I met here in the states opened their arms to me with a heartfelt embrace except for one. I am grateful to have met the friendly families first. The other treated me as if I had the plaque. When I grabbed her to embrace her, her stoic, stiffness let me know without words" get away from me." I still wish her well.

I’m not a Gullah Geechee woman, but this is nice to see. This is beautiful ☺️ My people are from Virginia, My ancestors are from the Igbo tribe. ( Nigeria)

Nova Scotia my wife I'd from the Downey and Clayton and she had famelly roots in seiria leoon and NC me I'm bahamian and I had roots whit the gullah is so crazy how conected we are

I descend from the Littlejohn’s of Cherokee County SC. We have a family book that has our names in it from our African ancestors that came in 1690. My Gilliard ancestors are from St. John and St. James Island Charleston SC. Im a Gullah baby and proud

African people around the world are a very special people,no one compares to the ancient people of the planet

This was a great documentary. In Jamaica we say "oonuh" as well. I hope that more Gullah people especially those who have lost their sense of identity not just the converted will visit Sierra Leone and experience a renewal. The converted must go back and help to build stronger communities one village at a time so that our people may rise out of the ashes of war. What I really liked was how you involved the youth and you could see one young man who showed so much promise. Personally I don't know my roots but this level of preservation of our African Ancestry to actually point out a place and a family is so remarkable.

"Come & lets play 2gether, in the bright sunny weather. Lets all go to Gullah Gullah Island!!!!" My FAVORITE show!!! Love to all yall :)

Fambul Tik is absolutely beautiful, and I do hope to visit Ghana because I know that is where my ancestors are from.

We ALL need our story to move forward and teach our children. I am white but loved the richness and love of this documentary. I just want to get up and dance! Thank you for sharing.

This is so fascinating it’s insane. You definitely can see the admixture between the Sierra native vs the Gullah.

When I went to Africa my tears flowed I could not stop from flowing

Amazing! So glad they could persevere their history ❤️

Yes I am so THRILLED about informed DOCUMENTARY!! I was born in Florence County, SC in the 50s (1950s -to be more exact) they're so much about this documentary that speaks to the inner me..I AM SO MOVED, to tears (happy tears) this is such a powerful and informative beyond words at this moment thanks so very much ❤ Gullah Geechee people, JUST MAY BE MY PEOPLE & PARTLY MY PEOPLE!! THANK YOU AGAIN!! BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!!❤🤍😉🙏🥰

Gullah Gullah island popped in my head soon as the man started singing. Reminded me of the dad from the kids show

This culture was once widespread throughout the islands of The Bahamas.

Its wonderful to realize you have roots!

Love my Gullah culture! 🖤💙💚💛✊🏾

I'm from Louisiana and my husband family are creole and they sound just like the gullah Geechee people...

As a child of a linguist, I love languages and I think it's amazing that they found the Mende song that connected the Georgian and Sierra Leone family tree! So nice to get back to your roots - find out where you come from! :) Thank you Amadu for putting together this wonderful film :) I know people will LOVE to hear more about this :)

I’m from Charleston South Carolina.. This video felt like a family reunion

💖 RON DAISE!!! 💖 I used to love watching him and his wife on the kids' tv show GULLAH GULLAH ISLAND when my children were small. I absolutely loved all the songs and the colorful house. Nice to see that his sweet, singing temperament wasn't an act!! MEMORIES...

My ancestry came back from Sierra Leone this melts my heart this video is greatly appreciate I’m just finding my roots

These are my people am from the Bahamas.

I am a Gullah-Geechee mixed with white. An old Gullah umon(woman), on Ain't Thelna (Saint Helena) said l was a kitchen baby (chile of the massa)

I was just on Hilton Head and I remember the childrens TV Show and it was low country and I saw a sign that said Historic Gullah Neighborhood. So fascinating next time I’m down there I’ll check out the museum!

God bless all the people. I love the Gullah. Beaufort, sc here.

I absolutely love learning new things about the Gullah Geechee culture

The Gullah language is very similar to Patois 💪🏾🙏🏽🙌🏽

Thanks for the Historical Lesson. Now, I know the history of my people.

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

This is wonderful. I feel like I found my people.

How beautiful! I didn't know anything about this until I stumbled on your video. Thank you for sharing and educating! I want to make it down to see some of the beautiful culture in SC! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 I use to watch Gullah Gullah Island as a small child and now at 28 I discovered the meaning behind the AMAZING culture. Thank you Mr. And Mrs. Daise! They planted the seed!

Beautiful documentary! I can't wait to visit. My matrilineal line comes from Sierra Leone, the Limba tribe. I hope to join you all one day!

Ah! This was so amazing to watch. I also, enjoyed seeing the Daise family. They were so instrumental in my children upbringing when they were little. Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I cannot wait to return to visit the Gullah Geechee Islands.

I just came back from Charleston, SC. I probably will go back to the opening of the museum.

I would really like to see the Gullah Geechee, Bahia, Siddhi... and such Afro- communities around the world soon. Love from a Niger-Delta, Naija girl from (our) West Africa ❤ 🇳🇬 ❣

Beautifully documented!!!!!! 😍

Yessss my family, it's 2021! The time has come again fa us ta unite & teach us youngens! DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, SC DESCENDANT!

Such A Great Documentary it bring tears to my Eyes & Heart. Thank you for Sharing 🤗🥰❤️😇🙏🏻

I love my people!! Lady's Island, SC

Beautiful documentary hope many others will follow this trend and make this journey back to their origins.

All of this is so familiar that it lifts my Spirit High every time I see or hear this music these people wow it's heartfelt

I'm Gullah ,my grandfather's grandmother was a Gullah slave in the low-country (tidewater area),his other was that of Yammassee, I knew this as a boy.I knew also that Edmond Bellinger-an John Bull were my grand fathers of Charleston an Savannah.

Great video, my people are gullah/geechie from sandy island south Carolina. It was a rice plantation. I’ve been trying to link everything to a specific place and tribe in Africa and this just may be it.. i have also done my African ancestry; it reads that my paternal is MBUNDU PEOPLE LIVING IN ANGOLA And my maternal is BUBI PEOPLE LIVING IN BIOKO ISLAND (EQUATORIAL GUINEA) TIKAR, HAUSA, AND FULANT PEOPLE LIVING IN CAMEROON

Outstanding!!!!! Thank you for such an informative film.

Powerful documentary.. thank you to all who made this possible.. there's surely no place like home🥰

I asked my mother where my great great grandfather and grandmother came from. Her response was an island but we ended up on Carolina border. We are original geechie gullah. Raised in Holy hill, Santee and eutawville all slave settlement outside the Hilton head area because of high taxes when redevelopment started by white folk. My grandmother worked for whites on the island my mother never healed from this lifestyle that's why she never talks about it but if she gets mad nothing but geechie comes off her tongue.

I'm here because Gullah Gullah Island existed. Thanks Ron Daise!

You gave me goose chills for some reason... I am on a search too. I wonder why?

I remember dude from Gullah Gullah Island on Nick Jr from waaay back..loved it come to find out my grand father was always saying he was geechee and I just looked into it so now I’m realizing a lot now and been researching and letting him know where it comes from because he only knew what his father told him

Yes alot of slave from.seirria Leon to the bahamas and NC SC gorgia went to the bahamas we are them bahamian are also gulla geeche but gulla geeche have they own native land is warm my heart to know we have such connection some said Barbados but bahamas has to be one of the most conected people whit the gullah geeche people

It's so amazing the Gullah people sounds just like My Bahamian family. Mainly like my grandfather when he was living. I can see & hear the connection between us as a people...

Gullah tribes stretches all the way from Mali,Burkina Faso,Guinea,Northern part of Ghana,Serria Leone, Ivory Coast

Thank you for sharing this I am from Barbados in the Caribbean some of the dance and many more stuff are a like thank you and the team.

This would be my great grandma's heritage 💯💗

Wow now I realize how naive I was growing up always thought Geechee met people who love rice my grandmother and ancestors are from the Charleston area and they always said they're Geechee and try to explain us the culture and what they went through but never paid no attention now they're going that I wish that I would have gain some of that wisdom and knowledge to understand what the culture meant and what they went through by watching this it seemed like about a timeline of some of the dishes that were cooked even though you are raised from Florida

If you haven't already, please connect with GullahLeone.com and Chief Foday Ajamu Mansaray and his wife Kenya Malinke. They have been doing great work as community organizers in Freetown. My people are from Orangeburg S.C. by way of Walterboro, Colleton County and Charleston County. Gullahs live outside of The Corridor too! This was a fantastic production and we in the Gullah Nation of North America FB group appreciate greatly this documentary being made available. Tenky, tenky, tenky! "Many Roots ... One Fambul!"

I love this history and I love my beautiful Africa

Informative and powerful❤🖤💚😌🙏🏿

Gullah Geechee 🙌🏿🙌🏿 ✨✨ my people #CharlestonSC

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😭😭😭 this is awesome. We’re families & thank God for the unifications. Welcome home

My grandmother was Gullah. This was very informative. ❤

Good job brother masally and the team

This is beautiful. I love that some of us still have such a strong connection to their roots. I find myself emotional, however, because I feel in my soul that we as ADOS cannot heal until we know WHO we are. But WS has done a great job of keeping us from our true identities. In my lineage, the bloodline was interrupted by adoption. Both my mother's parents were adopted and I recently found out that my father was not raised by his biological father. I yearn to know where I'm from but I find it more and more difficult to trace. 😢

My father was from Elloree South Carolina geechee

This is so wonderful!!!!!!

Excellent Excellent Excellent can't wait for my family to return home 🤎💯💥👍🏿

I wish I could have been apart of this connect wow.

This type of Ancestral work must be done by BLACK AFRIKANS ONLY.

My roots ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😢😢

So proud of our young....

Love this I have a grandson Ameer Fofanah who’s Dad is from Sierra Leone and I love to hear them speak. My ancestors came here Via South Carolina.

A lot of these comments about Gullah speech patterns coming from the Caribbean don't make any sense because it implies that a particular way of speaking has always existed in the Caribbean and insinuates that black people have always been in the Caribbean speaking these varying dialectical forms of English. But we need to remember is that all of these are simply dialects of the English language. There is a similarity between all of the dialects of English spoken by the descendants of slavery because all of our ancestors would have been enslaved by English-speaking people in these respective bodies of land ruled by English speakers. The thread that connects these patterns of speech is nothing more than the fact that all of our ancestors were taught the English language well enough to learn how to take orders but not enough to know how to talk bad. That was the one goal of slave masters.

Thank you so much for this information!.❤️

In the Words it said "South Carolina Department of Humanities" or am I wrong? Either way Love this documentary, for I have read the book authored by Alex Haley, and there are African Wisdom I had picked up on that book which is similar also to the South East Asian Wisdom. Love those faces of elders in the Village.

This made me cry😭

10:16 to 15:02 Amazing Connections!

Why no one ever talk about the Gullah Wars? That’s one of the most powerful things that happened in the history and no one talks about it? Lead with the Gullah Geechi freed themselves from slavery and built an army and kicked ass for 120 years helping force the abolishment of slavery then maybe more black people would be interested in their history and finding out if they are descendants and would be proud to represent