...not so sure about the control bit...most times that money slips away....strange how this body and mind can deceive us.

Absolutely! this is the best comment....

Perfectly stated

Until she drinks the Kool-Aid… ie, gets scammed..😮

The host is cool I like his POV!!

Its all about cash!

So sad to hear, but the one with the money has it.

Your comment says it all.

Kind of like Asian women marrying a poor Asian man but instead she brings home a white foreigner. :/

Money trumps all things when poverty is taking its toll.

Totally agree 👍. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you".

He built the house

@@fatimaabubakari5695 oh you must didn’t see the for rent sign then

Saw that. But let's assume he really owns according to her she didn't contribute anything to building it that's why I said that

​@@livia8227he said hes an engineer. We can't make assumptions. He should have asked the guy about the rental sign. Maybe he rents it sometimes and lives in a smaller place.

Same in Gambia... children are often targeted

Yea that's so heartbreaking smh but like you stated it's definitely happening and the more money they have the easier it is to accomplish what they really want.

The difference is that these old women divorced their husbands, and took everything from them, to go have wild times. Whereas the old men going to the Philippines has everything taken from them, and are now trying to mend their broken hearts with women who are more caring.

@@AnthonyLauderno! Those men are there abusing children and preying on impoverished young woman. The biggest difference is that these women are probably targeting impoverished adult males.

Keep telling yourself that, dude. How do you know these old women didn't work careers their entire lives, and it was their own money they decided to waste? No differrent than old men who seek brides overseas. You'll see how much those Philippine women "care" about these old men when the money runs out. Men are better at self delusion. Women at least call it for what it is@@AnthonyLauder

We’re also under the impression that all of the young men do this, I doubt that is true.

The local Gambian men will have an entire family hidden from the holiday maker or even have you visit them under the disguise of being relatives.

As long as they’re bringing the money home to them, they’re good with it 😊

@@HoneyBunches100 That’s what they told you, right? 😂

@@humanbeing4368Yep, you are right!!

As a black American woman....same, sis.

😂😂😂

Really 😂 it's been known for years. If it happened back when "mail order brides" became a popular topic, we should assume it goes on all over these 3rd world countries (mainly) and from both male and female. As an American not white or black 😉

Watch the SNL sketch with Adele

@@gbrickcommercialre heehee, thx

Frrr

Yesss😂

Right!!

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Well, if both of them are using each other, and both of them know it and are doing it voluntarily, what is the problem?

Typical symbiotic relationship that exists all over the world, land, air and sea... Humans and all species of animals, feed off of each other....

​@@angelaame6148💯

Both sides are consenting adults. Someone is buying and someone is selling…

No one doesn’t have a visa to leave their country. Get real. Nasty old hags

If something bad happens to a single woman, it has effects on the whole tourism industry. So these women are almost above law even if govt publicly says prostiution doesn’t exist.

@@johnnyharka6609not even in that sense. They don’t care about their health sleeping with men they have no idea what they’re doing

@@TishCane i mean, they already have a leg in their graves 😂

Afraid of what

@@johnnyharka6609 🤣🤣🤣

Yo, I kept yelling "n**ga!!!". He said it with a straight face😂, saying he gets hurt when they leave 😂😂. I wonder how he gets an erection for an 85 year old

Bro is committed to the scam! 🤣🤣🤣 make your money bro!

He is in love. He appreciates what she's done for him. Men in the West can learn a thing from some of these men..

@@artistpr5386 I surely hope you are playing, but if not, go ahead and count yourself as one of the D-U-M-M-I-E-S !

@@commonman711 I''m sure your mama is very proud of you. Your dad as well, of course.

Yep

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😂😂😂😂 indeed

well said

I can relate to Ms p every time im in Africa,my back ache stops and the moment I get to New York pain comes back .Africa is a blessed land .

🛑🛑🛑I WOULD WANT MY OWN MEN. BLK N BEAUTIFUL. IT IS GOID TO DATE UR OWN MEN, N MEN TO DATE THEIR OWN BLK WOMEN.....WHITE MEN LOVE THEIR OWN N BLK MEN SHOULD LIKE THEIR OWN TOO. IT MAKE SENSE.... 😇😇😇👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾

I am in Indiana too 🤗

Its probably the sun and fresh air, neither of which you get in the UK.

I am from Jamaica but migrated to the USA many years ago. Yes you do feel pain free when you go back home. I love the beach

I mean she was also black herself AND seeking men closer to her age, at least middle aged men, and so gotta be a bit of a different situation from these white women tourists robbing the cradle with male gigolos....

Nope - the "big houses" belong to Gambians selling drugs in Europe for MANY years! 😅😂🤣

I’m not going to excuse the European slave traders, but according to my reading, most of the capturing of slaves was done by the native Mandikas who traveled inland using the Gambia River as the corridor. Neither Islam nor Christianity would condone the lifestyles of the “male prostitution” that is taking place in this documentary. The decay of morality is not going to elevate the society and quality of life in the Gambia. Investment in infrastructure, education and industry will facilitate the rise from poverty. Exploitation is exploitation and no one wins in the end.

Except now the men have a choice. They are willing participants.

@@charlotteschreiner2305 oh.... I thought he said slave traders in the video. My mistake!

Yes, it's like you're sleeping with your slave owner. You're on the other spectrum in of it and it's filthy and nasty. This is not what God called for a relationship. Where are the women of Gambia? I don't want to hear a black Gambian. Man. Say I don't want to marry a poor Gambian woman. Then build her up. Because getting with a slave owner is sickening.

Am really not sure where the appreciation is coming from. Sad and embarrassing definitely yes

Bc U. Are. Nasty!!!!

⁠@@charlesosimeon6375I agree. The European women are sad and embarrassing. 🙄🙄

I have worked, in the US, with people from The Gambia and from Ghana. I would love to work always with such committed, intelligent, dedicated, problemsolving souls. That's the simple truth. The respect you received is respect you deserve. All through history, people everywhere on the planet have needed to rely on relationships in order to live. People get jobs because of who they know, as often as because they are truly suited for those jobs. People get into schools because their parents went there. People marry for many reasons, love being one among them - will he be a good provider? Do we both want children? Will she be there for me even if disaster strikes and I lose my health? Many reasons. There is no more shame in this, now, than there was in American women choosing among suitors on the basis of who could best provide for them. My heart went out to all involved. A world where all people have enough, have what they need, would be a lovely world but we aren't there yet. If that is what we dream of, we must keep trying.

No respect at all..

Exactly

yay find it with fucktons of lube

Yes, but is it happiness? Or is it using the situation that someone is poor?

@@k.h.7575 You know, these men cannot have the respect of their families if they have no money to help look out for them. A wife of whatever age who understands their committment to family would be a great help to any man who wants to fulfill his role of protector.

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fool

@@brigittgraves What do you mean? Who is the fool? That is my assessment of the host. Deal with it.

​@@brigittgravesu 're the biggest one

and his accent

you could argue that for any women seeking her "handsome prince". What i the difference between this story and "Cinderella"? WHy is it only OK when women are seeking a man to pay for them and transform their life?

​@@SimonSverigegreat argument

The difference between those two examples is the european women being scammed think they’re talking to rich european men, if they knew they were talking to poor african men they would want nothing to do with them. In this case the women know who the men are in person, and it’s who (what?) they want.

It works both ways. Female African scam artists search for lonely older foreign men to scam money from while promising to meet them. A friend of a male friend of mine came into contact with a Gambian woman years ago and has been sending money to her for years. She makes up some fake excuse. She promised many times to visit him, but never has. He has sent her tens of thousands of dollars, but has never met her. All his friends have tried to tell him that she is a liar and a scam artist, but he keeps sending her money! He's in too deep.

Right this is horrible

Because then he can make sure she's dead and get the loot.

​@@Mantras-and-Mystics😂😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂 that way he can get that inheritance 🤣

My last partner is also 21 years younger than me, but he is German as I am. We're still close friends, yet we both didn't actually search for someone with that age gap, it just happened. We were together for more than 9 years.

@@lisasternenkind6467 Ok, you are close culturally. What does a European women have in common with a man from Africa or Asia - nothing

​@@monikam9069 EXACTLY

​@@monikam9069Difference is the spice of life. I've always been attracted to someone from different cultures or different personalities, I find my culture boring and enjoy a personality that complements and balances mine. Only close-minded people stick with their own traditions and their own culture. That's why the world is always in conflict let's blend everybody we're all human ❤️

@@AngieF8”only close minded people stick with their own 😂😂. Sorry we don’t agree with the age gap lmao dating someone who wasn’t even born when you graduated is sick

lol

almost all marriages are like this even in developed countries.

Can’t blame him

Too bad, can’t build together

Sure, every one can be happy

I thought the same thing!!!

Right

Well since the elites are now all communist trash no one bats and eye anymore.

Its a nick name

Because not all of us are nerds. We genuinely don’t care about that.

I agree! Wonderful and rare journalism!

He was a little biased

@@miketdarnellEveryone has biases. But he was respectful and curious. He didn’t try to make anyone look or feel bad and it wasn’t edited in a negative way to make anyone look worse.

They ask for money as one lady says she tells them if they want money they will not see her again

This country would be impossible for young well behaved girls to have a holiday in peace makes the country impossible for family holidays they are loosing out on good tourison

like latin america 🤔

Colonizer effect. The damage is profound and the lingering attitude of superiority, white supremacism is repulsive.

it's all because of government corruption. few gets what everyone needs.

I wonder why???

@@emeraldkaysgarden No military power the big numeral kind I say know more

Hey, free is free at the end of the day. Everybody grown ain't no laws being broken. Then bye Western world🙋🏽

As are most relationships. You get out of it what you put in. Some just put in money.

@@mscptizzy Oh that makes me sad thinking that's where humanity is.

@@ThereseDavidson Always has been.

These people have no culture. It’s been destroyed by colonialism and corruption of their government.

Yes, he's one of the best narrators I've ever seen.

What a nice and senseful person

His cringing face.hahahaha

​@@franziskaklaiber5768 Like 😬

Well said!!

"The only piece of analysis that I wish he’d mentioned is that this same dynamic plays out all the time the world over but usually older men and younger women - this just feels more notable because it’s an unusual reversal of gender dynamics." EXACTLY Normally ...its men That Rule The Roast" Yep TOTALLY AGREE , yep the presenter seems nuanced and ok, doesn t he?

Indeed, and he shows a great deal of concern for his fellow Brits., balanced with understanding of realities of life in Africa for young African men.

I was going to make a similar comment. Seyi is perfect balancing respect and skepticism :)

He asked all the right questions.

Yea I like her too

She’s gorgeous inside and out. Wish her the best ❤

She was glowing , I felt bad when she had to head back to the UK. You could tell deep down she was looking for love and acceptance

Why Philippines only? Those predators are in your own country preying on your american prostitutes which are everywhere left and right. They just go to asia cause it's "cheaper". But in reality they are in your own backyard. You should watch prostitute videos in your own country with your own race prostitutes.

Exactly!!

In the Phiippines , they are underage. Pedophiles goes to the Philippines.

I know it ain't right but it DOES seem worse when us men do it tho!! 😂 Idk y!

It’s the same as men going to Colombia, Thailand or Philippines. Just let these women be happy. They’re in their later years so enjoy the company.

This should be seen as fraud.

​@@Alison-ku5ko It's done everyday in the U.S. by females who want to secure financial security and they aren't prosecuted for fraud. So how is that any different?

I am sorry to say this but most African men, not just the Gambians consider African women to be their true wives/loves. Unless you meet a 2nd generation migrant/ one who has been culturally westernised, you will never be truly loved. I am an African woman and I know our men. They will tell you sweet nothings and all you want to hear but their hearts are back home. It is better to just avoid them. I am sorry for what you went through but we live and learn.

@@Opinlinzit isn’t? And it’s just as wrong. No one is saying it’s ok for either gender

@@annie_xo Well obviously some people do think its socially acceptable in society or I wouldn't have pointed it out. I've seen females everyday cosign this behavior when other females do it. With no regard for the male.

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Nice lady preying on young black men who are in poverty. Very nice lady indeed. This is a predator you call "nice lady".

That's what I thought.... a 50 year old man and 58 year old woman is not exactly a granny preying on a young man!

P reminds of people back here in the US in my family. small world filled people looking for love. we all the same out here no matter gambia uk or the states.

But HE doesn’t look 50! He looks younger. But SHE looks 65 and not attractive That’s the difference. Now the man can live without having to ever work again thanks to granny!

It's even worse the other way around. When men go to asian countries to find a wife.

@@ingridakerblom7577 whys that?

​@@ingridakerblom7577lol it's even worse because men are doing it? It's equally F up

@@twisi6318it’s usually done in a predatory fashion that exploits a power dynamic

He's lying. He's doing something else. Probably not even his house, more like living in someone else's house he getting paid to fix up. No kitchen and he's been in it for 2 years. 🤔

I think he is lying and that they agreed not to talk about money on the interview. She's been sending him money under cover. Why would an engineer be painting on the side? And in Gambia, how many "contracts" could he have outside of the government? Yep. They're not being honest.

The grannies may not be prepared for their partners' need to share the bounty with their family members.

I’m curious: what is the law that states that everyone has a right to happiness?

​​@@vincelemaireWell. well as humans. L😢aw or no law , i so believe HAPPINESS CAN BE A RELATIVE word or term .

Beautiful comment ❤

@@vincelemaire you aren’t curious- you are an a&@hole. Positive vibes only. Find another comment thread.

​@vincelemaire -- if the OP is American, then it kinda is law. At least the right to pursue happiness. It's the foundation of our constitution-- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Heck, even Bhutan, such a tiny nation, measures their GDP in happiness. So let people pursue their dream and their happiness. If a woman has the money to support a man, and he has the moral code to keep her happy and loved, then let them be happy. Same as if a rich older man here marries a beautiful trophy wife, or if a European man marries a woman from Thailand or Vietnam.

Both sides are immoral. The women are delusional and the men actors/scammers.

Same here.

The same thing is happening in Jamaica as well.

I heard from the 80’s what happens between tourists and Gambians. Gambian men need to get some self respect and stop being cheap and nasty.

Exactly win win for everyone adult involved

I would feel hurt when I would be so poor to have to sleep with an old man 😅

😂😂

Yup !!!!!

Alka seems like such a great guy. Love that line 😂

😂😂

😂😂

I like the honesty. Don’t call it “love” or a “relationship” if it is not.

@@Shay45 exactly. I don't see men having the same insightfulness when they are in these same situations.

And the lady saying about his Gambian fiance that he's a "human being" 🤦 🫠

@@yes12337 At least. I know people here in Germany who don't consider people beyond a certain darkness of the skin as humans. :(

An opportunity for both parties.

It would still feel degrading.

somehow you are claiming that those women are victims. They are not

No, I am not.​@@adrianmainz2716

@@adrianmainz2716 he's not talking about these wealthy white women, but other countries (including those in the west) where female prostitution is prevalent and equally dangerous, with an added layer or mysoginy and systemic violence towards women.

Like a slave market

Absolutely right bro its like an ecosystem in Gambia

It's prostitution just like how it is in some Asian countries

The fact that some are married

​@@hzlkellyAlka died in 2021 he drowned in the ocean while his wife watched him float away they found his body days later.R.I.P Alka🙏

White women don’t give money…they man want an opportunity to travel abroad not money as white ppl don’t usually give out money

TBH I think the couple in the “Italian villa” house are just renting it for holidays. Why is that sign up saying it’s to let otherwise? You don’t just leave a “for rent” sign up and I doubt as she said “it was up before I came.” That doesn’t add up, nor does the lack of furnishings.

It was… very interesting to watch. 😩, when dude on the beach said he didn’t want to marry a black, that crushed me. I understand the economic drive to be with a financially stable white woman in that type of environment… so so sad.

Passport Girls ❤

Sad is the word. Very sad indeed. Twisted situation where young men think an elderly foreign woman is the key to better living...

None was hilarious if the roles were reversed they’d say we were stealing their women and they needed to protect them.

But really, why is it disturbing? Everybody seems to be getting what they want, and everybody seems to be happy about it. Yes, the principal attraction for the men is the money, but they find no shame (nor should they) in getting it by providing a loving relationship to lonely women who clearly want what they can offer.

Disturbing in what way grown people you talking about ..not kids

FEISTY- DISTURBING- LEAVE IT ALONE- PLEASE

@@AbsentWithoutLeaving see comment below by Lmyrald

Totally agree.

What did you learn from interview?

May God see you through🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Sir, maybe in your native language (not sure if English is your native language) 23 year olds are described as "boys".. But I think in most English speaking nations, we refer to 23 year old males as "men". Having said this, I agree with the other things that you said.

@@kaelsurtour Well, it's very strange if there are cultures where they think that 23 year old males are "boys". UNLESS we are talking about a culture where people live 200 years! However, according to what I found on Google, In Kenya, the life expectancy for males is 58.94 years..So, how are they going to label as a "boy", someone who has already lived around 40% of his life expectancy?.. I also found that in order to join the Army in Kenya you must ""be at least 18 years of age, but not exceeding 26 years of age.".. So, they allow "boys" to join the Army?

This made me laugh😂😂😂

You are judging. One thing about life, we didn't all come to earth to live the same life. Regardless of what that looks like.

Ngl thought that was John Forte in the thumbnail. On some tf?🚬🧐

I notice how conservatively he is dressed. I get the impression he is trying to not "fit in" with the prospective partners. Imagine coping with tropical heat wearing long pants/trousers after leaving winter in Europe.

@@kitiowa I don't recall the man sweating at all🌝

Yup. At first it seemed like she was a victim of her husband's deception. But after a while it seemed like she was engaging in some deception herself... (self-deception at the very least, because it seemed like there was some hidden truth that was starting to rise to the surface, but she didn't want to see it).

I think she wants to build him up to be some kind of "entrepreneur" or capable of his own income bc that way she doesnt get painted as funding his lifestyle.

I bet she's feeding into the lie that this house is all "his" money so she can commit some kind of tax evasion in the UK.

Right

The house was a beautiful place..rented or not

Low self-esteem and competition.

@@AMYP6 they are also selfish and unable to see the other person's struggle

old man + old woman. that is better, a 10-12 year age gap is still same generation.

@@christigoth Old rich men want children though, and old women can't have children. Agape is the only way. Ephesians 5:25✝

​@@MiguelDLewisold rich men already have children 😂 they just have more with younger woman because she doesn't have any yet

Even his age, he was stammering...

@@LaZainabou22:16 my goodness, and check out the old babe too, just chewing away at her fingers. They’re both lying, that man is in his 30s

Theres no way on earth that man erected that building singlehandedly. It's got foreign currency all over it. They both lying through their teeth. For her sake and sanity, I hope she knows what shes doing. When you see the whole family warming up to you, be damn sure you're giving more than you're getting

@@LaZainabouHe obviously has a speech impediment 🙄

​@@Vistacraft82obviously he didn't build it with his own hands but clearly not all of the houses the locals lived in were small. They help each other build

The couple that never fights is a red flag to me. It doesn't mean they have nothing to fight about, but maybe that the man doesn't feel comfortable fighting to defend himself.

I agree

@@jessy1982or that the relationship is so superficial they have nothing to fight about

These women are a particular type. They NEED social interaction. They always NEED, always take advantage of others to fill their own needs, and have never been fully self-reliant, so they are susceptible. But I don't feel sorry for them. They're either gullible or delusional, or both. I highly doubt they've ever been in mature, respectable, romantic partnerships. I doubt they have healthy, appropriate relationships with their own children. The whole thing is sad. But, these situations are not the same as a gold digging, young, WESTERN woman searching for an old rich man. That's absolutely NOT the same thing. Western women have many more opportunities to enrich themselves than people from poor nations do, like these young men, so their gold digging is more predatory than desperate. These older women are definitely taking advantage of people who have no choice about poverty. They should know better and have higher expectations of themselves rather than choosing to use other people as toys. It's healthy to accept yourself as you are, age included. But there's an expectation of behaviour that goes with age. I'm a senior woman, BTW.

There are people saying is mutual? 😂😂😂 wow

Maybe she is even ded😂😂

😂😂😂😂

This mess is SAD. What about the white hair granny with the cane, standing on the curb??! 😂 They deserve to be scammed!

​@@tinastardust7793 I think of it more as End of Life Care

LMAOF!

Bad mouthing his own friends. ??????

@@marcoprolo1488 bad mouthing whom?

He is too medling. He needs to keep out of the business of others. If you are trying to find out something do your research but don't try to influence the outcome of others. Mind yoir business and allow others to live the lives they choose. On the other hand, does he really know these people? And what does he really know about them?

He intentionally stirs up drama and pretends it was by accident.

That's not true...because in Gambia there was no slavery

​@@unbalumbaMaybe so, but the fact is many people, especially whites are very much in the master-slave, superior/inferior concept. One of the reasons why whites go around the world to Asian and black countries seeking to fulfill their flesh at the exploitation of the vulnerable - men, women and children. Open your eyes and face reality. Whites think black and brown people are on earth to serve them, including sexually.

I don’t agree. They come to get laid, because caribean men would lay them.

The power relations. They get the left over European women.

@@briopalumpus8676 the demon of lust has control over these women

Yes exactly, you can tell shes also getting anxious and nervous so much that it sounds like lies😭

That was perfect! I've always wondered why can't people accept and acknowledge that they're easy prey

I thought that was nasty. It seemed to me that he was young and immature.

People like you are the worst kind of racist. Those men are adults who choose to do that. They're not children who are manipulated just because they're poor.

Glamour? I don't think that's the right definition of this situation. 😂😂

In this scenario -- NO ONE IS PREYING- GROWN PEOPLE- it is what it is

@@pierrerochon7271 I agree.. but, would you be saying the same thing if the genders were reversed? People seem to react very different when it's an older, wealthy man with a younger, poor woman.

They are predators no diffrent then men

The "Engineer" aka "Plumber" aka "Painter", She's also a liar. She lied about his age, then the rental. Every time she was caught she'd bite her nails or get defensive

Yes, that one is an interesting situation. I think she will end up very vulnerable.

Yeah, there's clearly something wrong with Michelle. She and that dude she married can't even keep their lies straight.

I’m worried for Michelle too.

@@zamo9266i hope she is not their slave somethings are off with that situation. I hope her family sees this and gets her help. The guy tried helping her showing her the picture of the rental. She lies like a victim.

I gathered that he is pure in heart. Gorgeous Soul!

Not at all. This operations is a scam run by grown men, taking advantage of old and lonely women for their money - yet this fool tries to convince you of the opposite. Insanity.

​@@partridgefamilybus2021 A fool? You're the fool! He did nothing of the sort---he questioned their motives all along! How stupid of you that you don't have enough brains to follow the story!!

Flip the sexes around

Wow you're incredibly misinformed.​@@partridgefamilybus2021

Gambian women dreaming for white man too

Why is that? Lmao. They don't need to. They're counting the cash earned by their brothers and boyfriends from naive old women.

Took the thought out of my brain girl!!

But these are woman and not men, race is irrelevant.

Normally I would agree, but this documentary is obviously thinnly-veiled anti-yt-ism. It's a joke to think that grandmas, in a foreign country, are somehow "predators".

​@@Morrosoy28 Gender is. Race? Not so much... quit being wilfully oblivious. It's ALWAYS about race. And by the way, you can thank the Europeans for that.

Your comparison is a little off. Older men with money date younger women from all over the world, not just old white men and not only the Southeast Asia. Rich and old men date more white women than Southeast Asian. Sugar daddies/mommies is the frequent term used in the scenario. Both the sides enjoy their reason for the relationship. If old British women dating young Gambian women is frowned upon, then all relationships in the world where older men date young women should be too. If your reason of comparison was that western men are seeking wives abroad, that is a totally different scenario, they find love, marry, and together start a family where they can be financially stable. No one exploits the other in that relationship, and many a times both the partners earn.

Adorable? Hes a grown man, granny.

@@user-oh4et5lc7n He's still adorable ...and a decent man. Nothing wrong with appreciation. Don't be mad that he has no interest in a sour puss.

​​@@user-oh4et5lc7n Yes, a grown and adorable compassionate Brit.. One can see that age will never be an issue for you. That sour tude will fuel your own broom for a lifetime. 😂 😂