INDIAN AFRICANS THE REMEMBERED PEOPLE OF INDIA 🇮🇳 

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Thanks for showing this side of India to the world Imani! Keep going best wishes from Tamil Nadu✌️

Siddhi people are our people. We love them. They are an integral part of our culture.

Great job Imani, Indian Africans, we love you from Africa.❤ May God strengthen you & shine his face upon you & bless you.

I am of Indian descent living in Trinidad, West Indies. My great grandparents were brought here as indentured labourers, by the British. We have 40% African descendants, 40% Indian descendants and 20% mixed, Chinese, whites, Hispanic and others. I would love to visit the Siddi people of India, as lots of my friends here are Afro-Trinidadians. They are very resilient and humble people, and India should treat them as a great asset to its diversity. Respect and kindest regards to the Siddi people. Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.

I’m a South African of Indian descent. Our ancestors were brought by the British in 1850 to South Africa as indentured labourers. The British took Africans n Indians to various different countries as labourers. Interesting video.

Beauty of India. No country like it! All kinds of people and religions are living in India since very long. Unity in Diversity! Amazing!

I am Indian 🇮🇳 i talk in marathi also Sunanda talks in marathi, feel very proud to be an indian & very happy to meet my Indian brothers & sisters in Africa. ❤from 🇮🇳

I am Indian origin holding Kenyan citizenship. Very happy to see east african origin indians living in india.

Siddhi people were brought to India from East Africa, Bantu community, starting with Arabs n later by Portuguese n British. They have been accorded Scheduled Tribe status in India. These communities are settled primarily in Gujarat, Karnataka n Goa. They have adopted religion of Christianity, Islam n Hindu. Government of India had special programs for their Education, Health, nutrition and livlidlhood. Special laws to protect their rights as Scheduled Tribe.

They are 100℅ Indian. Look at their body language, listen to their way of communication.

Siddi community is very adaptive. They know a lot of languages especially of the state of India they live in. Peaceful, hard-working, simple and very patriotic Indians.

Really surprised to know that these people whose ancestors are from African countries have taken mother India as their land. We are really proud of our fellow Indians whose ancestors belong to Africa. Humanity is same. Hats off to you for bringing this video. 🎉 From Tamilnadu.

How cool! I’m from Trinidad and Tobago. We’re a cosmopolitan society with about 40% East Indian descendants and 40% African descendants. I’m a mixture of the two races, so this is lovely to see🥰. Thanks for sharing 😊

I am an Indian entrepreneur operating in Africa, and I have a deep appreciation for African culture and the warmth of its people.

What a great video! I am Jamaican and I have been aware of these African-roots Siddhis/Shahidis dotted around India, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other Gulf states. I recall that some 2 decades ago there was one such cricketer in Pakistan who was overlooked for the national team despite being the top batsman. Great to see that their status is being regularised in India. Nuff love and all the best to the tribe. --Æ.

Siddhi people are a great source of inspiration for all African countries

Hats off to Margaret. Even after going through such hardships she got herself educated and has become successful professional. She is much more articulate in English compared to many other Indian lawyers I have talked to.

India is truly diverse country

They are now integral part of Karnataka, they speak Yellapur Kannada... Hard working people

How can she be "African ", if she was born in India.....it's a very diverse country..... Thanks for bringing these people to the rest of the world....♥️♥️🇺🇸

Hi African, you are lucky person because you could settled South India in India. South India is very advanced in Economics ,education and technology. The people of South Indian are very talented, clever, hard worker, sympathetics , kind hearted, truthful, free minded and not proud. South India is a better place to live a happy life.💝👍💖💝

Wow! Thanks man. Aren't we all from Africa! Hope we Indians embrace our Sidi brothers with the same love that they have embraced India.

ಸಿದ್ಧಿ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಸಮಾನ ಅವಕಾಶವಿದೆ. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಶುಭವಾಗಲಿ.

A" Siddi National Sports Academy" should be established for the Siddi community with full financial support and residential facilities.

So amazing i love it very nice to see our people my grandparents from India but i was born in South America Guyana 🇬🇾 but i live in Canada

You are getting us know more about our History and people of India. Great work. Stay blessed always.

Siddhi peoples are sooooo polite & theese community needs some more support from Govt. & other Indian origin Communities too. ❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Language boundary and cultural differences is the only thing that holds humans back from mingling with foreigners, not appearence. These people blend in as any other indian they speak the language and have the same mindset and mannerisms as indians. As an indian, i would love to interact and be friends with them, they seem like really nice and interesting people it makes me proud of our country and that they speak our language!! They belong with us. Love siddhi brothes and sisters from fellow Indian ❤🇮🇳

Great knowing about Siddi people in India. Blessings to you all

I'm from Nagaland India.....and I love African people thank you ❤

Thank you for showing so much in to the lives of Siddhi people. I would never have known about them hadn't it been for your videos. Thank you once again..

Respect to the Siddi community

Thanks to see my indian peoples in south Africa, greetings from the Republic of Suriname, i am also a indian diaspora shipped by the Dutch colony to Suriname to work for 5 years girmithia time 1873

This is eye opening. Ty for travelling and showcasing unique aspects from my own country. Cheers!!

Thanks brother for sharing this .. I know that students from African countries are studying here in Indian universities, but was unaware of the Afro Indian Communities here. Thank You so much. good luck for your Channel . God bless you

There's also a Siddi community here in Maharashtra. What I find interesting about them is that unlike other Indians in general who are slowly shifting towards nuclear family and losing Moral values such as humility and respect, they are very much family-oriented and are less likely to be arrogant.

Siddi people worked in many kannada movies.. They are great people ❤..

Goverment pls provid all that is needed for speedy groth🎉 Jai Hind 🙏🏻 Jai Bharat 🙏🏻

There is Siddi community in Gujarat state as well. You may wish to check them out.

❤Greetings from Africa. We love you all and we know with God all things are possible.❤.

Thanks Imani, for showing this community to the world, If they are Scheduled Tribes as one man says, there is lot of opportunities in education job etc,

India is Mixture of different culture,all are our brothers & sisters, Africa & India

Learn something new everyday. Never would have known this. The accent is also Indian. Nothing new under the sun.Thanks for sharing this

Nice to see African Indians in Karnataka , lots of love and well wishes from our side and we are happy to see that they are educating themselves and doing well and we are all Indians and happy to have our African brothers and sisters in India , we will help them in all possible ways , I'am from Jodhpur city Rajasthan 😎👍.

Welcome to India, Imani. Good job ! You featured this humble community and helped bring their message further into the light. I certainly hope that this social activist gets the radio station, enabling this community's residents to receive the benefits ... OR ... can apply for the benefits which the Indian government offers them. With India's high population density, intense competition in the job market is an undeniable fact. Yet, India's immense diversity and inclusiveness has also been its unique strength .

Thank you for this video - hope they get a lot of support.

Thanks for sharing this video.. Really I did not know Africans are in India.... God bless them they are Indians..

Hello to all the Siddi people of India and around. We ❤ You !

So cool, I also saw an Indian visiting the Romani people. It's really cool to see this kind of stuff.

Lovely. You captured so many things about Siddis. Frankly, as an india i knew a little bit about Siddi’s but not much.

Our brothers and sisters from India I am grateful to hear from you.

What is interesting is they look African, but their demeanour is very much Indian. I would think they are now much more 'Indian' in their mindset and approach to life, than African.

That Social worker guy Ramnath Siddhi is so amazing. I hope he gets his radio station.

The Siddi people feel more Indian, because that is the culture they know. I can see why they don't want to go to a foreign land.

This is a lovely video. I just don't understand the question about "going back to Africa." I mean, they were born in India, so they're Indian. Going back to Africa if they haven't been there soinds a bit strange to me. I'd rephrase it as "would you like to go to/visit Africa?" Saying this with all the love. It is a beautiful and interesting video and I understand that the question comes from pure curiosity. 🙏🏾

Bro they have been in India longer than most Whites in US or Australia. So it's weird asking them about their ancestry. It's like asking a white American how they feel living in America or asking them about their European roots. 😅

The Portuguese brought them to mainly Goa. They staged a revolution in the early 18th Century and fled into the jungles of India in the areas they live right right now. They are Indian now. They came from the 15th Century onwards by the Portuguese most likely from the eastern coast of Africa. Africa is a distant land for them. If you were blind you would never know they were from African. I noticed they are very peaceful and mild mannered. The world chases materialism and we die we have to leave it all behind, we can't take it with us including the clothes we are buried in. I live in the US and it is hell. You never know when you will get shot and killed for your property. One lives in fear here protecting are "things". Unfortunately the super rich push materialism as that is how they get rich. I am sure they see the advertisements on the internet to buy, buy, buy and you will be happy when you buy it. And enough you are happy but only for a few days and they you chase the next thing to make you "happy"...which is a "fake happiness". They live in peaceful villages, I envy them for that but I am happy that they are living in peace and on their own terms.

I love India.❤️🇮🇳

They have been in India for generations. They are Indian now.. they are like any other people from Karnataka, in language & culture. Initially people may think they are foreign tourist as many tourists come from Africa, but once they speak, they are completely Indian.

Great Vlog. Watching from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. My ancestors were indentured labourers from India.

Love and respect from all Indian people ,🙏🙏🙏🙏

Not many people know this: The Arab Slave Trade was bigger and and lasted longer than the Transatlantic Slave trade. Long before the White arrived in Africa the Arabs were capturing Slaves in Africa. The Arabs did convert a lot of the Africans to Islam forever ending the beautiful African religions they belonged to. And then came the Christian missionaries to Africa and sadly the African religions that sustained them for millennia, lost forever. The Arabs were the middle men in the trade selling from the African chiefs to the White ship captains. Sometimes they bought them from rival African chiefs or sometimes they captured them, themselves as they had gunpower trading with the Chinese. Yes, the Chinese traveled all the way to the Middle East in their boats to trade.(In Kenya a group of African living on an island north of the town of Lamu claimed that they had Chinese ancestry. It was long disputed before the advent of DNA analysis. When the Chinese decided to invest in Africa/Kenya they visited these people and conducted DNA analysis and sure enough it was confered they were telling the truth. Sometime around the 17th Century a Chinese trading ship encountered a fierce storm and ship wrecked on the island. Since there was way of contacting anyone they lived the rest of their lives on the island.) The reason you don't see the descendants of Slaves in the Middle East is because they were all castrated. This was done to make sure they don't mix with them. Mecca was one of the largest Slave trade market in the world! These are all FACTS that you can research yourself. Saudi Arabia only ended Slavery very recently in 1960 from pressures from Britain. GOOGLE ALL THESE FACTS!!! There is a great movement to suppress this information from getting out. So make sure to spread the TRUTH!!! I think it is worse than the Transatlantic Slave trade and they forbid them to have families or children. I think that is incredibly cruel. And it took so long to abolish Slavery on that part of the world. Remember it was 1960 when it was ended in Saudi Arabia. Very sad. That was a very cruel part in human history. In the US we have the wealthy grand Plantation homes which serve as a venue for weddings, wine tasting parties, and many social events including operating as a bed$breakfast, so that Southerners can relive and romanticize that time. To me these Plantation Homes are Holocaust sites and they should be honoring the lives of the people who were sold into this awful system instead of literally dancing on the graves of Slaves. Most Slaves were buried right on the Plantation grounds in unmarked graves. Today a large tent will be put up over this sacred grounds for rich folk to dance away for a wedding reception). And maybe it is better, if it even possible to say that, that they were at least able to have offspring and today their descendants live a much, much better life, and the sacrifices were not in vain. Sadly in the Middle East that was not the case. Sadly some say a form of Slavery exists in that area even today. Employers hold the passports not allowing them to leave and they have to work long hours for little pay when you consider how wealthy their employers, Arabs are. Not long ago I read of a Kenyan woman that was desperately trying to get away from her employer. She had left Kenya a few months after giving birth to a child. Her employer in Saudi Arabia owned an expensive breed of dog. He demanded that she breastfeed the puppies and he enjoyed watching her do it. Since she didn't have any money for a ticket home as she sent all her home for her family, she was pleading to the Kenyan government to bring her home. Her owner was also holding on to her passport. Once the story broke and I believe the owner videotaped her breastfeeding the puppies there was outcry in Kenya to bring her home immediately. It is so sad that people do such cruel things. They say a few thousands of people dies when building the stadium and the other buildings for the World Cup. Many were from Nepal. Sadly Nepal is very poor but the people are kind, generous and very gentle people. Oops! Sorry I got carried away...I was supposed to post a comment not an essay. 😂 😂 I hope the Siddi will prosper. I wish some rich folks will contact the young man and donate for him to get his radio station going.

People should know that The republic of India runs a quota system for people of minority communities like these which means government jobs are reserved for them as are places on courses and they are also given free education. Even despite this it is difficult as they are so socially and academically disadvantaged. But I doubt there are other countries in the world that take such a draconian postitive discrimination steps to protect their minority communities. The reason for this is that the person who wrote the Indian constitution was from a minority ( scheduled caste: low caste community himself) he was a genius actually I think and a gift to India.

I'm almost 50 years old and I never knew a community of people of African descent actually reside in India. Thank God for RU-vid! From their accent to body mannerism, they're 100% Indian. I don't know where their ancestors were originally from, but I definitely know for sure they must've been shipped to India from parts of East Africa bordering the Indian ocean. Thanks Inspire To Travel for this video. 🙏

I m from Goa looking forward to help siddhi community with financial support when and where required for education and entrepreneurs. Also help them to job placement free of cost.

This Channel is an eye opener for Indians who always travel to the same old places.

Great documentary. You are wonderful skills in asking relevance questions

Nice to see them talking in Konkani!

I live in Delhi i didn't know they are our brother sister.. govt should help them..

One of the best RU-vid video I've watched in so many years. I just felt connected to the Siddhi people almost immediately.

I am from Trinidad ,but has been living in Canada for over 50 years ,visited India and never new about these people,would had love to visit them I grew up with 40% Indians and 40% people of African decent and we got along very well.❤❤Thank you for this info.

Love from tamilnadu ❤️

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - meaning the world is one community - is the fundamental principle of Sanatan Dharm. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

wow great to know they speak konkani..that's the mother tongue of us goans and mangaloreans..will be nice to hear them speaking konkani

Thanks for sharing. There are many more colonies based in all over India from all over the world and we respect them all.

It is nice that Indians call them Indian Africans meaning they belong to India. As opposed to African Indians. They put the Indian first!!!

Siddis are sea warriors they came from Africa with various kings of their clan. The chhapu known as Malik amber came from Ethiopia and ruled most of the central maharashtra state and set the benchmark how a common sailor can become highest commander in the kingdom

I love that they want to preserve their culture ❤

Thank you Sir making such a nice video

Informative video, very interesting to see them, supper sharing Imani 👍

I appreciate the video, but I have a differing opinion from our social worker friend in it. In my view, mobile phones are the contemporary equivalent of radios; they can both receive and transmit signals. In India, even the remotest areas now has reliable cellular coverage and decent internet access. You can even conduct a two-way live presentation using a RU-vid channel instead of a traditional radio station. It seems that our social worker friend in the video has a deep-seated interest in radio communication technology and electronics, which explains his aspiration for traditional radios and radio stations.

Thanks Imani for the well informed video. Thanks on behalf our sisters and brothers from Siddhi community. I didn't know anything about them . Your interaction with the activist is the crowning glory of your meetings. The community could not have found a better person to lead them . He has very deep knowledge and scholarly in his presentation of community's problems . I am sure under his leadership the community will achieve it's goal and flourish gloriously in a not too distant future. Siddies are our own .

Siddhi people true indians please suport this beautyful people love and respect from Telugu state ,Andhrapradesh💜❤️💖💜❤️💖🇮🇳

Thank you my brother for doing this and sharing with us. This ranspatency in the lives of this community is absolutely essential. These people are human beings who have suffered at the hands of those who think they are better than them but I'm glad the Indian government have made the hunting and persecution reduced so these people can live in peace and treated like a citizens of India which they are. Why has it taken so long for the government to do the right thing?

Way I look at this video, this community is so damn humble, from the way they talk, mannerism and watch the body language. Margaret speaks so modestly eventhough she's a lawyer. Also with Nithya.

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing it. I’m from Karnataka and I didn’t know about this community living there.

Wow Imani you beat me to it . I always wanted to visit these brethren. Have safe journey brother.

It is amazing , my parents (indian) migrated from India to kenya in 1935 and now we are African Indians born in Kenya. But we African Indians migrated from Kenya to UK, so my our children are now indian British, what a small world!

Respect to the siddi people.❤

Thanks for showing us this video. These african people have come to india and mixed in so well. They are Indians now. Very nice.

Thank you for showing this, iam from Suriname, my great great grand parent are from Africa. Iam glad to see how the Siddi are threated by the Indian Goverment. Youre doing great work my brother. One world one people.

quite insightful. Not to be acknowledged or recognised in what you consider your country must be very challenging and cannot imagine what they have to go through on a daily basis. I can only pray that Almighty keep you safe.

We are welcoming them back to East Africa ❤❤❤

They have the head movement, so they are definitely Indians.

Never knew there are so many Africa originated Indians. This is very new. Thanks for sharing this and enlightening other Indians.

What a great country India is. Unlike most countries that discriminate against minorities for eg, Romanis in Europe or South Asians in the Arab countries, these people of African descent are fully integrated and given special benefits. India being a poor country this is excellent inclusivity

Very inspiring and insightful ❤

Thanks for this blog.first time i am hearing about siddis

Great Job my Brother! You introducing the world,the Shiddhi community. Govt has declared them ST which will enable them to get in to the quota system, which is reserved for them. The current honourable president of India is also from Indigenous community.