What Barbadians Bajans Think of Africans will Surprise you ! 🇧🇧 

No lies told. Tigress just met the good ones. However it is America barbadians love not The uk

We are neither European nor American minded. Like all victims of the undermining and vicious lies told by the oppressors, we were led to believe that the streets of Europe and American are paved with go,d and we should neglect our traditions and forsake our countrymen and strive to be like them and if possible, migrate to live among them as they were more civilised. Knowledge is power and once it is attained by more people throughout the diaspora, these myths, legends and lies will continue to die out and more of us will learn to love and appreciate who we are and how much strength, tenacity and bravery it took for our ancestors to survive, in order for us to sit here on the internet in 2023 and learn from each other

​@@NinjaQweLies told.

@@NinjaQwe That is not true, the US is the biggest economy in the region and for income and work its easy to gain employment there. The UK is welcome for the same reason, so many tourists bringing much-needed income and foreign exchange into the island.

You are speaking appalling ignorance on this post. As a Barbadian child, when my father gave me first globe 🌎 I looked for Barbados 🇧🇧 location and THEN AFRICA 🌍! I am from Barbados and went to West Africa to pay homage in Ghana 🇬🇭 to my ancestors who were enslaved. I saw Barbados 🇧🇧 national hero Bussa was highlighted in Ghana at the slave castle as he was an African man who led a slave rebellion on the island of Barbados. There is a powerful monument dedicated to Bussa. Of course we know we are African 🌍

Agreed, the island looks "spick and span" and appears to be run properly.

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We watch RU-vid and follow many africans around the world That's why we know much about Africa.. .We love them

@dtinymaynartry we appreciate it. We do the same by knowing more about our brothers and sisters around the world too. One love ❤️.

That’s not true. Most people from Bim came from Nigeria, specifically Igbo. Bussa the only rebel from Bim was Igbo. Bim, along with Jamaica and Haiti, has many Igbo names and expressions in their patois. In fact Bim has by far the most Igbo expressions in the Caribbean.

Both Ghana and Nigeria played roles in the transatlantic slave trade, contributing to the varied African heritage present in Barbados. The influence of African cultures on Barbados is diverse, and it's challenging to attribute it solely to Ghana 🇬🇭 or Nigeria 🇳🇬. We acknowledge and recognized the Ghanaian influence, particularly from the Akan people, the Igbo from Nigeria have also made significant contributions to Barbadian culture no doubt we can agree it’s great to see the transformational shift of the Bajans people embracing and loving Africa. 🔥🔥🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥 Rise !

I am going weigh in on this topic. Under the british empire and its 13 north american colonies barbados was the epicentre of slavery . Barbados was the administrative the wing of the british goverment for the western hemisphere,The island was know as litte england . Remember jamaica was spanish just like cuba, puerto rico etc.Slave societies in the anglosphere world started in barbados in 1661 then it spread to the rest of the islands and to north america of course it took many forms ie jim crow however the basis or concept came out of barbados. If you were on an english vessel there was a 99 percent chance that you would end up in barbados. Now I had several X and Y chromosone test. My paternal grandmother is fulani from guinea bissau, my maternal line is from what we now call sierra leone, liberia and guinea, my paternal grandfather is from portugal and maternal grandfather is nigeria/benin. I am actually a citizen of sierra leone, the chief took me into the forest, sacrifice a goat and rename me, this is another story. Barbados went through a lot of changes, the people of north carolina, upper guinea (sierra leone, liberia, guinea,gambia) and barbados are link at the hip . North carolina was known as a colony of barbados. The people of upper guinea are skilled in rice growning, so those people got shifted directly to the southern USA, reasearch the history of carolina gold rice. Barbados is a sugar producing island so the importation of slaves shifted to ghana,benin nigeria in the latter days. Barbados was Great britian richest colony at one time, there was a saying back in the day "as rich as a barbadoes planter" , when liberia was formed, the president reach out to the people of Barbados and asked the to come and build liberia, the reason being that no one could understand how a little island like barbados could generate so much wealth for great britian,again that is another story. I was was in the ivory coast 3 weeks ago with my KRU family as my lineage is there as well, really good time.

@@RB-zr5suBefore I finished reading this, I was about to mention the Carolina’s being from Barbados… 😮I will continue reading 😊

@@RB-zr5suWay to tell it… Even Jamaicans believe it is all Ghana. But Nigeria and others are on that island as well.

Ohh Woow! I’m certain you will love it here

You welcome! You should visit my country you'll get great videos there! One day I will visit Kenya!!

Bajans i read were also the most oppressed and brutalized by the British of all Caribbean blacks. in the 1700. Look how strong they are today. 👍🏿

Agree. Little England

We were not favoured by those oppressors. The slave codes were written right here in Barbados. Our enslaved ancestors throughout the Americas were treated horribly by those monsters. My wish is that we could learn to dispel the myths, propaganda and lies that we have been told about each other in the diaspora. I abhor that moniker “little England” 🤢

​@@lisaboyce9246Thank you! A lot of these people believe that stupid propaganda. Little England my rass, don't know any black Bajan who like the term Little England. I hate that term.

Little England was a term coined by and for the British, just like "Bimshire". We really need to stop propagating the myth that Barbados was favored by the British.

I was listening about Lumumba on BBC radio back in the 60's bajans are from Ghana background

I am a Bajan and he is one of my hero’s. I enjoy listening to his speeches and it would be an honour to actually sit in a room and listen to him one day

Awesome happy that at least everyone knew something

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All real rastafarians are aligned with Africa. They consider Ethiopia to be their spiritual home.

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@@AFRICANTIGRESS Sure

Yes 🙌🏾 Sings Peter Tosh

Thank you

I guess you were surprised

Thank you so much

Well said

You are welcome

You should join me here 🇧🇧🇧🇧. Thank you Randy

Hahahha

Thank you Kim ❤️

Yes we knew him. Caribbean people always look to the Mother Land

@@cavernedmochache4455 that was a great leader who cared about his people - well people could have different opinions

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Why are you swayed by the opinions of others..? .....a lion is a lion no matter what part of the world it may be in

Some Africans are still stuck in the dark ages… we just need to ignore them as not all can be emancipated

Exactly l am not a lion

lol..FYI in Barbados we are thought African history…Those who are ignorant to the facts are perhaps the youth…Every year many seniors groups take trips via UK

Yes

Why is it strange bajans know of Julius malema

lol I know right, Barbados has one of the most highest literacy rates in the world😊we are not only kind but we are also very smart people to.

I am Bajan. Melema may be my favorite African politician. I agree with approach to put stolen land back in the hands of those from whom it was stolen. I also like is call for one united Africa. I hope he wins as president next year. Ramaposa is not too bad, but Julius is much stronger and pro African.

Why are you surprised, do you know every home in Barbados have high speed fiber internet access

lol…glad you have finally realize not to believe second hand news

@@cherylholder930 The "news" wasn't "second hand". I grew up in London (England) and met a number of Bajans and at that time. Asking them if they were African was tantamount to an insult and they were best pleased to be linked with Africa in anyway.

@@oceejekwam6829 meeting one or two people from a country does not speak to how everyone in the country think. That's the problem we have as a society. Wrongly judging a whole country because a few people did this or that. Those are individual behaviors and thoughts not how everyone from that country think or behave.

@@marciastx4540 Agreed.

Typical, sounds like someone from the UK, exposed to only a handful but assumes everyone is the same. Great, you see the difference now

Where did you get that from. Africans from all over went to Barbados. Many Alan were brought there. Why the need to drag tribe into everything?

I think Bajans more seem like Ghanaians, in terms of features and temperament. Least like Nigerians. When I meet Ghanaians it's like looking in a mirror. I don't get that primal feeling when I interact with Nigerians. By the way, I get warm feelings when I meet South Africans, Zimbabweans and Ethiopians. Don't know why.

My mother is from Barbados and you are right most Afro Bajans ancestors where from the Igbo in Nigerian and it is documented fact. My father is from Trinidad and most Afro-Trinidadians ancestors where from Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and Yoruba religion Orisha is widely practice and and is big in Trinidad and was brought to Trinidad by the Yorubas during the slave trade and lost contact with the Nigerian Yoruba Orishas for over 400 years until recently about 50 years ago. Googe Trinidad Orisha

These people are Africans by colour only but culturally they are western definitely they are aware that they descended from Africa western Africa

I know people from most of the countries mention and all I had great experiences with them. One of best friends up this day is from Nigeria when I first came to the US.