Surinam Meets Ghana, Kromanti Part 1 

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Very profound comment about " knowing more about European history than about our own in the diaspora." Couldn't agree with him more, we definitely need to start linking up.

I am having CHILLS all over when I hear my brother speaking about linking di diaspora!🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

I feel proud to watch this, sabi yu rutu! 🇸🇷

great to see the ancestral languages preserved. I saw family here in this documentary that carries very close familiarity and genetic resemblance.

this is very powerful. I love to see the african diaspora and continental africans learning about each other, there has been alot of time distance n misconceptions put btwn us.

the rhythm of the song in the beginning of the documentary reminds me of my traditional songs from my tribe Fanti from the Akan people

Suriname meets Ghana

This kind of trips should happen more

IT DID NOT ESCAPE ME THAT THE OPPRESSOR WENT FROM BUILDING CASTLES TO CHURCHES SO AFRICANS COULD NOT ESAPE THEM!!!

Akan is not only Asante twi. The kromanti language sounds more of Fante (mfantse) than any of the akan language. But I do get everyone, Asante twi and fante, are more or less like the same language spoken with different accent. But again, in kromanti you hear a mixture of twi, Fante, Bono which all makes up the akan as a language. ... and oh, there's a town in present day Ghana (Cape-Coast) called kormantse

Hi! I just sent this link! Joined before I even watched! Watching now !!!

Geweldig !! mooi ga zo door met het plaatsen van deze filmpjes!

Nice to see this, my fourth parents came from Ghana this brings tears to my eyes 2019 I will be visiting Africa 🌍

I really liked this.

Very interesting I will certainly be visiting on my next visit to Ghana.

Goedemiddag Su-Gh Ik ben Saskia Geboren in NL ik wil iedereen een Fijne Feestdagen en een NieuwJaar Vol Gezondheid en Vreugde Soso Lobi 🌹Mi Do We🌹👸

Fort Koromanti is an English Slave Fort built in Ghana in the 17th century. Coramantee is spelt so many different ways but its a mixture of languages Twi Fante Bono. Maybe just one or two Maroons left in Ja. speak or should i say know a few words. The language is now distorted in Maroon town over the years pronounciation and words are changed. Its sad this was not handed down. Cudjoe and his siblings spoke Koromanti when the overseer is listing his 'enslaved' he would write - eg. Koromantee beside Africans who came from that port. Its not an ethnicity the English mixed up everything. Do a DNA to find out where your foreparents are from i am 41% Nigerian all along i thought i was mostly Ghanian i am only 8%. I am J'can by the way. Congo 38%.

I'm a Jamaican living in the Netherlands with a few Suriname friends - one people!

Jamaican/Haitian people are the same...

Thanks for uploading this.

The Europeans banned ALL Ashanti or any Akans from going to the Caribbean or Central America in 1800's. 1. They were replace by Igbo women/Nigeria ( milder & agreeable tribe ;"will never kill their babies to win a war" #damn). 2. Indians & Chinese to do the slave labor. 3.Germans & Irish as white human shield ( whites were killed on site) = The Ashanti were a nightmare; BUT THE WON. France became broke, sold the Louisiana purchase to their friends the USA, after they lost the war in Haiti; most Europeans fled the Caribbean & their profits dried up. which why slavery ended. = nothing to do with humanity! The massacre of 1804 also sent shock waves because THEY also order mulattoes to die.#war MILITARY they setup 2 military camps. Suriname + Jamaica: Orders were given out only from those 2 places because they were "secured" from spies (Twi coded) or informants. Some of the Orders were : 0 birthrate, sabotage the crops, kill the European farmers, overthrow the European military. A. Military camouflage = was also introduced to the Europeans, British solider often complain Africans dress like trees & bushes |and would suffer heavy losses (it aint the Marines or brigade) B. They also used Vodoo was use as a propaganda (using fake informers) tool scare white solider not to fight ✮ #lol ( they are still scared of it today) C: the British blame the Ashanti for the PROLONGING slavery because they order a zero birth rates, cut profits, and want to enslave whites (LOL) ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️✨👑The BADDEST👑✨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ FYI: there is tons of information on Akans Europe. there was no such thing as "dark Africa" continent. The Europeans knew what each tribe is capable of, their temperament. their class structure, average pop. size. it took them a while to plan & rob the gold 👑✨ ... the last war THE BRITISH came in with the 1st " machine gun" just to fight the imperial class."they also came back to get the golden stool" but failed.. SO THEY burn down the palace, burnt the wood carvings centuries old and JUST TORCHED THE entire kingdom out of spite. #realbeastofahuman

Damn those drums beats were insane!

Woow i'm from Kromanti 😳😳

Interesting origin story as it sounds very similar to that of the Kalabari of Nigeria of the Izon family both have the killing of an elephant by their founding father. Also there is Kru/ama/ town in Kalabari land. Kru and Kro is perhaps only a phonetic differentiation. I have always believed that the coasts of West Africa are one family, fisher men are often semi nomadic and follow the fish or the water the same way a shepherd follows the pasture. The matrilineal element is also a factor, though Kalabari follow both matrilineal or patrilineal descent dependent on the level of marriage like the Akan there is a strong matrilineal culture in the Izon in general!!!!

R.I.P Mr. Korsah.

Another section of enslaved people were taken from the Ga tribe in Ghana to suriname ...i read about the chief Amu and ocantey family ( from labadi tribe , also gas) in Ghana. They were all carried to the suriname , also the Aka tribe

Wow the man talking sounds like older jamaicans when they speak english

Trots op onze voorouders

Coromantee or Kromanti is derived from the name of the Ghanaian slave Fort Courmantyne built by the British between 1635 and 1645 in the Central Region of Ghana. Coromantee is also the English name originally given to Ashanti slaves in Jamaica.

Wow!

I heard a suranimese Karina sing almost this same song!

goed gezegt er zijn een paar die echt hun roots kennen,wat we op school hebben gehad en krijgen is maar 1% van wat er werkelijk is gebeurt,en nog iets onze roots(nakomelingen van de slavernij)begint niet bij aankomst in suriname het gaat ver terug en daarom zeg ik altijd ik ben een afrikaan die geboren is in suriname.maar de groote deel suri sisas en braddas van mij kan het niet schelen en daarom totaal geen vooruitgang die kant,je weet pas waar je naar toe gaat als je weet waar je vandaan komt.

It was Portuguese that came to Ghana first in 1471 not the English. After the Portuguese the dutch took in 1598 over before the English came in 1867 and were the last colonial masters till 1957.

Super❗

I hear because of geography now. Anyone else?

Suriname ( and other Dutch west indian possesion), US Virgin islands (formerly a danish possesion), Barbados, Antigua etc

Can we have translate un English or French please,

OMG! My Maternal Grandma was a FISH-MONGER!!

I will travel to West Africa to teach about the Caribbean/American end of our story!! Ase!

The slaves were said to have come from different parts of the country. Kromantse was just a transit point.

Fascinating

Ghana was the last point of slaves to the Caribbean and the Americas for over 500 years,90% of European Castles and forts are located in Ghana.

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This is wonderful.

The Dutchman hostman the listed following Nation during a survey in 1850 :Sokko,Mandingo,Abo, Fula,Mende,Tiamba,Loango,Ibo and the Coromantin negroes.🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷💯.

This is very good history.

I found out today that im from here

Moving documentary. Does anybody know the name of the choir in the beginning?

Fa waka mi godo!

♥️

What is the name of that beautiful song at the beginning?

I lived in Africa for a year unfortunately Africans no very little about us children of the diaspora.

I'm from Ghana..Akan and simply meaning of koromate means ..."hope you understand what I'm saying " that's the meaning in my language called Twi ..Akan language in Ghana ...all maroons..koromate are Akans

what year was this

Dog je moet nog veel leren, in die tijd waren der geen immigranten in Ghana toen waren er alleen Ashanti's en Fanti's (AakanNdyuka) roots. Er waren ook terug gestuurde slaven van brazilie komaf naar Ghana verscheept, vandaar dat je in ghana veel braziliaanse vlaggen tegenkomt.

Weet je hoeveel echte Ghanezen (Ashanti's) er zijn weggevoerd meer dan 40 miljoen en dat alleen met Fort Amsterdam. We hebben ongeveer 57 forten in Ghana staan Fort Elmina is daar een van

Can you expound a bit more on your Dutch heritage, if you don't mind me asking?

Ben het deels met je eens. Alleen denk ik niet dat mijn roots in Ghana liggen. Wel hebben mijn voorouders in Ghana geleefd, net als dat we nu in Amerika, of Europa leven. Dit wil niet zeggen dat we daar van origine vandaan komen. Check mijn andere comments onder deel 2 van deze video om te zien waarom ik dit zeg. Peace.

ai ba,

Why are you still following European interpretation of God?

TRIBE OF BENJAMIN......A LOT OF US WERE TAKEN TO JAMAICA ALSO THEY BECAME THE MAROONS.

surinam french guyana obia me klasiva

nah not really

This is a microcosmic view of a really large socio-cultural matter! That town near Cape Coast called Kormanten is just a nickname. A pseudonym. Kormantin has a significance that is linked to the Ashanti state. Disclosing the details is tantamount to treason. So anyone who wants to know the real meaning of Kormanten and what it means can inbox me.

150 - 200 years ago there were only Ashanti nd Fanti people in Ghana

Awkward , the enslaved ancestors children meting the children of those who enslaved en sold their ancestors . What faith these enslaved would have encountered not being sold to the Europeans and went in diaspora ???

Fanti's are the most stubborn of all the Akan groups in Ghana.

Your origin is Israel

u are on every youtube video spewing garbage. who told u 80% of accra is not accra native. please be quiet and dont comment on what u know not about or better leave the thread

Thank god there was slavery, otherwise slaves from africa and ghana wouldn't be in surinam.. but yeah thanx for sharing this video..

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