The African Identity of Suriname

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The Afro-Surinamese are the dominant people group in the South American nation of Suriname.
In official records, the Afro-Surinamese are split into 2 distinct groups.
So-called Creole and Marroons. Both are descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans.
In this video, I will give a more concise link of their language and culture to the peoples still living in Africa today. While showcasing the impact of the Dutch and British colonialist.
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Sources for this video:
The Kingdom of Waalo: Senegal Before the Conquest - geni.us/0fyI
• Nyam, a Jamaican word ...
www.dbnl.org/tekst/rutg014bon... - Anansi Reference
surinamslavery.blogspot.com/20...
www.nationaalarchief.nl/onder...
- Fula Woman
Over de beschaving van negers in Amerika, door kolonisatie met Europeanen - F.W. Hostmann - Fula reference
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@haatpraat2993 Жыл бұрын

I'm of Jamaican heritage living in the Netherlands (Utrecht). We also use the word 'nyam' meaning to eat in our dialect, Jamaican Patois.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Indeed. Hopefully this will help you connect some cultural and historical dots. Thanks for watching!

@cmartin5903 Жыл бұрын

West African language u guess. Jamaicans are known to be from Ghana and Nigeria mostly. Possibly Togo and Benin as well. Akan is for Ghana that speaks Twi like Jamaican maroons. We do ananci stories in Jamaica. They also historically have ties to Israel as some of the lost tribes as predicted by the bible. It's something they also express as truth and through my several discoveries. There are a lot of things that add up in their beliefs and practices. I also remember my grandfather said that we came from Surinam as a Jamaican.

@Cln2023 8 ай бұрын

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@Cln2023 8 ай бұрын

@@cmartin5903There where 2 groups from West Africa The Minority was from The Coast of Sierra Leon-East Nigeria The Majority was from Congo-Angola and Mozambique

@thewordsmith5440 6 ай бұрын

The word "nyam" comes from the Fulani words "nyaman/nyama" (they're conjugated based on 1st, 2nd, 3rd person). Gullah African Americans use the word "nyam" as well and 'una' for "you" which comes from Igbo and is used a you in the plural form in Igbo. Gullahs were isolated on the islands of St. Simon and Sapelo and were able to preserve African words from the bakongo, fulani and mandinka.

@maryke1142 Жыл бұрын

My father was a Surinamer and always told us Anansi stories along with stories about Kodjo, Mentor and Present( the rebels who some slaves to freedom in the Suriname Rainforest. They led the rebellion against the Dutch.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Great to hear that he tried to pass down the culture! I almost incorporated that specific Kodjo into this video. But decided to focus more on the Akan specific terms and culture. Hopefully I brought something new to your knowledge. Thanks for watching

@Dutch.fightingfan Жыл бұрын

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@BernardAsare-bh9gp 5 ай бұрын

Kodjo is a name for a male born on a Monday. Anansi was born on a Wednesday hence the name Kwaku Anansi.

@listenup2882 11 ай бұрын

The word nyam, meaning to eat, is also used im Antigua, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Montserrat and some other islands.

@surijoe Жыл бұрын

Heel interessant en duidelijk uitgelegd fam. Ben zelf van surinaamse komaf en op zoek naar dit soort educative filmpjes die uitleg geven over onze identiteit en het wijst allemaal terug naar Afrika. The motherland ❤️.Zojuist ontdekt dat er in suriname 6 grote groepen surinaamse-marrons zijn. Ze spreken ook het dialect van de Djuka volk en de Djuka volk word ook wel het Aukan/Akan volk genoemd. Ze spreken een creoolse taal en dit alles wijst terug naar het Akan volk voornamelijk present in Ghana en de Ivoorkust waarin ze deze taal voornamelijk spreken. Thanks. Keep it up man.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Welkom aan boord, Broeder. Glad I helped you enrich your knowledge. Was je bekend met de Jamaicaanse-Surinaamse link?

@surijoe Жыл бұрын

@@ComingToAfrica thanks fam. Ik zag altijd al wel vergelijkingen tussen Jamaica en Suriname maar dit heeft het bevestigd. Vooral ook de woorden die in de Jamaicaanse en Surinaamse taal sterk overeenkomen. We are one fam!!

@mysteryman3479 9 ай бұрын

THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE NEVER HAPPEN MISTER.THE SURINAM PEOPLE ARE THE TRUE DUTCH PEOPLE,THE DJUKA'S AND THE NATIVE SURINAMS WERE ALREADY THERE THATS WY THE DJUKAS STILL SPEAK THE AFRICAN LANGUAGE. BEFORE THE DUTCH WERE THERE THE ENGLISH WAS HAVE SURINAM AND THOSE ENGLISH SLAVES WERE THE ORIGINAL INGLISH INHABITANTS, THAT'S WY YOUR LANGUAGE IS A MIX OF ENGLIS AND DUCH. BLACK PEOPLE RULE EUROPE FOR A 1000 YEAR BEFORE THE MODERN EUROPIANS.THE BLACKS TAUGHT THEM ENGLISH. AFTER A FEW HONDERD YEARS THEY HAVE TAKEN OVER EVERYTHING AND START TO KILL THE BLACKS ,AND WHITWASH THE WHOLE BLACK HISTORY. EUROPE NEVER BELONG TO THEM , THEY STEEL IT FROM YHE BLACKS.

@user-sb5mh5cu8y 7 ай бұрын

They are called aukaners because to this day they still lives at an old plantation Auka, during slavery time, not because they are Akan peoples. They are not runaway slaves, they were set free peoples to spy on the Samaakas but they succeeded partly because the Samaakas were very brave.❤🇸🇷 .

@situationsixtynine8743 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, i'm always in for learning more about my roots ✌🏾

@ComingToAfrica 8 ай бұрын

You are very welcome!

@la.reine.zairoise51 Жыл бұрын

Dit is zoo interresant!!. In de Congolese cultuur kennen wij ook Mama Wata. Wij noemen het hem Mami Wata.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

What's unique to Mami Wata as I understand is Is that many West and Central Africans had waterdeities. But somehow Mami Wata became dominant and absorbed the characteristics of the local water deities. It is also interesting to note that Mami Wata used to have a serpentlike body but nowadays I assume due to Disney and the like. Mami Wata gained a mermaid like appearance.

@amalyusuf788 Жыл бұрын

Ase Brother African we are one

@jaytypat963 Жыл бұрын

Love your channel. ♥🇬🇭

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate your comment a whole lot.

@queenm7042 Жыл бұрын

THANKS FOR SHARING FAM ❤💯🔥🌞

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

You're 1000% welcome!

@guillaumerusengo9371 Жыл бұрын

"Nyama means meat in many african languages, all the way down in bantu lands.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen that mentioned before. It might have acted as an secondary addition to Nyam meaningto eat in some diaspora languages.

@guillaumerusengo9371 Жыл бұрын

@@ComingToAfrica Could be! I've also frequently heard "Tooro" or "Nyoro amongst the fulani. They tend to use these words for places. It could be a coincidence but it's uncanny that Great lakes kingdom of Tooro is an offshoot of the much older and bigger Nyoro or Bunyoro to the North.

@selestineroberts7638 Жыл бұрын

Zeer belangrijke informatie

@adj1206 Жыл бұрын

🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🔥🔥🔥🔥Motherland 🙌🏽✨👑🙏🏽and Motherland Africa 👑.

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@adj1206 Жыл бұрын

@@ComingToAfrica your welcome ✨and keep doing ur thing on bringing us back to us 👏🏽🙌🏽🥳

@selestineroberts7638 Жыл бұрын

Informatief. Thank you

@LR24134 6 ай бұрын

Suriname 🇸🇷 😍❤️

@kingmozes9454 Жыл бұрын

Hey is my country I'm so happy

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

I hope you found it informative and interesting 🙌🏿

@lesleyfelida3540 Жыл бұрын

Very nice and interesting history, my brother.🙏😇🙏🥃

@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

I’m very glad you like it!

@listenup2882 11 ай бұрын

Ananse stories are told throughout the Caribbean or at least they were in the past.

@ComingToAfrica 10 ай бұрын

Hopefully there’ll be preservation acts on each island. It would be a major loss to lose that connection to Africa.

@lindelwanothandongcobo8863 Жыл бұрын

Nyama means meat in Zulu ❤️

@fandesport10 9 ай бұрын

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@68Libra Жыл бұрын

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@ComingToAfrica Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@quabenamonster3137 Жыл бұрын

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@edoudavid9256 Жыл бұрын

Even iteso of uganda call eating food nyam could there be alink.

@chaljen 8 ай бұрын

Not only that in one of the Maroon languages burning/ burned means "Tjuma" and I was watching some Kenyan documentary and spoke of nyama chowma meaning something BBQ meat. For me that was a link. Tjuma and Chowma for burned/roasted.