Hey what’s good everybody thank you for checking me out this is e Simpson I am coming your way with a beautiful conversation with uh one of my sisters one of my what else can I use to describe you okay she’s my Queen Mother and then queen mother of one of the
Awesome asafu companies here in Cape Coast in the central region of Ghana I’ve told you that in Ghana we have 16 regions and we happen to be in the central region so anything that comes out from cap Co central region I I’m happy to let you know uh 2019 yes the
President said all African diasporas can come home and then a sa Chief said hey if you want to come there are 5,000 Acres of free Land yeah so in 2019 the president of Ghana invited the African uh diasporan Community to come home and then join brothers and sisters here in the motherland and then last year I had a phone call like I said from a brother brother who said hey I want you to meet
Uh one of the family members who would be insto as a queen mother here in cap Coast Central Region so yes I mean we scheduled a meeting and then here we are again after a year of her been installed as um a queen mother and also a queen
Mother of development in cap Coast so I have here with me Queen AC give me five hey yes I am always lucky to be you know interviewing talking to Queen mothers and uh kings and queens and all that so welcome to my YouTube channel how are you doing I’m doing fabulous Echo okay
Last year we met it was a beautiful day uh we had a discussion about something you were looking up to and then exactly a year uh we are here celebrating what happened last year now I want you to look into the camera tell the people your name
That you are being called in the US yes and then your name as a queen mother and then how come you came up with this whole uh uh uh instuments at a queen mother here in Cape Coast absolutely well first of all thank you for the question and I’m sitting here tickled
Because I’m going to speak directly to your fans on this one anyone and everyone that does know the station Echo has exposed all of us to the beauty of not only Ghana but particularly Cape Coast so for me when you say you know my
Name so my name in the US um it is Mandy Mullins Williams but I now go by Queen Essie aoma rashin yeah I love that name rash the you have a number to your like the first the first the first okay so she’s the first so uh you’re lucky you know
I’m lucky as well interviewing the first now it’s been a year what has been the experience you being a queen mother from last year to this year so I would say that when you say my experience it’s been beautiful first of all absolutely beautiful um I would say
That honestly I’ve not had anything that aligns all of my past experiences my passions um who I am even within my personhood let alone even spiritually align all at the same time time so for me I think that uh sometimes you know you can go about life doing work and
There’s other times you can go about life and you’re honestly walking in purpose and there’s other times when Destiny hits so I believe that this time in this moment Destiny has kind of collided with me okay and that is how come we find ourselves here I I would
I’ve been following you uh the same way as your family here in Cape Coast someone would say you’ve been in silence for a year but I would say you’ve been doing the work underground I’m saying this because today you are here in cap Coast yes with about more than 60 women absolutely all
The way from the US to Cape Coast yes and interestingly uh we are still projecting Cape Coast that is why we are here today and I love the fact that you went to meet the the Paramount chief of UGA traditional Council cap Co you had a discussion I love it what what triggered
This project of you bringing all these women to cap Coast well first of all as um you asked me the first question about what it’s been like my experience been like I also I guess want to say that you know when you come any of you all that
Have been able to make it to the continent you either know that this is where you’re meant to be or you realize that it may have just been a vacation and you passed through but most of your viewers they know that either they’re dying to get here or they’ve been here
And they just know that this is exactly where they needed to be so for me when I first came um I knew that I was back home okay and I primarily put that towards my gulla Roots my gulla gei Roots back in America and do you know
Much about the gulla people no tell me more about it I shall tell you more about the gulla people so when we left here particularly you know the west coast of Africa within the transatlantic slave trade right the Middle Passage however you want to put it but when we
Left here uh we went went to the new world we knew that we were Landing in an area that uh the whole diasporic Africa diasporic community had to come together okay so when we went we landed within the Carolinas we landed within Georgia primarily and there were some other
Coastal areas but the gulla people particularly we were a diasporic group where we had to come together we had to unify we had to put aside our tribal differences our customs um certain nuances within our spirituality and we chose to focus on what were those things that were still keeping us strong okay
So knowing that I was en raised with this kind of panafrican thinking automatically by being a gulla girl from the Carolinas bont Buford Orangeburg I’m giving that shout out to those that are also the gulla people that are watching um your views in this moment but I
Realize that that is the way to go as us as a people okay we deserve to have this unity and the solidarity and I know that often being here in Ghana especially on the continent you always hear about Africa unite and my passion when I came
Back I realized that no it’s a little bit bigger than just Africa unite right Africa must unite because this is still the root it is still the foundation but us as a global Citizen and as a people part of my reason of bringing the largest black college educated uh
Professional women organization in the world here uh Delta Sigma Theta sority Incorporated I give a shout out to my soers also who may be watching the line um I knew that uh this is the roof this is the base and until you do come back to where your foundation begins I really
Do believe that you really don’t know yourself so it was very important to me to bring this group back here of to your point of 65 women but our organization um at large is over three 300,000 women worldwide and I’m a national officer as well within the organization
All right salute to the National officer yes um the moment they heard that okay we are making a trip to Africa I spoke to one of the sisters and then she was like this is my first time here in the motherland how was it like for you to
Convince you might you might still convince them even though it’s an organization if the leaders agree that we are going Everybody Must Go but there was this still the moment where you had to convince them that we need to go to the mother how was it like for all of
You to agree that okay we are leaving we are going so one thing I know for certain is that passion is contagious okay and anyone now that has met me behind what I know um that I love so much within this continent and all with what this work does entail I think that
My fire in itself started to then ignite their fire okay their curiosity to say hm you know what I’ve been to Italy I’ve been to Germany I’ve been to China I’ve been all over the world but I’ve never been to Africa and so of course it makes
It easy for me then to sort of poke and say why not a matter of fact let’s go okay so to have this kind of Delegation and and it’s really mindboggling I think even us as a people when you really do think about it again you all have the
Advantage Echo for living here and being here and often times when you are talking about your ancestors I almost think that sometimes you all may take it a little for granted that you can go four five six even seven generations back but for those that are part of the
Diasporic group that was forced to leave many of us recognize that we can typically only go back two to three generations to even name who our grandparents are and so there’s a curiosity that also then Sparks that when one does realize I have not been
Back home okay I have not been back to the root of where my formation starts from let’s go so it made it an easy sell because also in 2021 um my sorority just established their West African chapter okay so we also have our Collegiate arm and we are a Collegiate based organization meaning
That we were founded by Collegiate members that went on to become Trailblazers that has truly changed the world in every regard so again um to get them to come back here it was a pretty easy sell because they realized that wait a second we’re starting our chapters there majority of the
Delegation that has been here has never been and this is the area where you do call the return back home right the doors of no return but yet in 219 you all said welcome back home so Ghana out of all spots it just makes sense and let
Alone Cape Coast this is where my passion comes in yes our seat this is where my passion comes in because I believe that um just like with the Jews they recognize that the area of what they walk in of what they went through I should say within their history um is
Sacred and it’s uh they call it the Holocaust right yeah likewise when we left from here you know a lot of people do want to give the narrative to say that well you realize the Africans they sold you they did this they did that I am so blessed and fortunate that I’m a
Part of a asao a warrior asao so the woman King yeah guess what I’m really sitting in a real live woman King situation because these are the original oapos that were put in place to say that no longer were they going to allow what the colonialized did to us so it gives
Me great pride because I also then stand within Cape Coast to know that they fought very hard to make sure that that was not that could not that would not take place and when you come here right and it is another sacred spot that you meet individuals like yourself and so
Many others that uh continue to push to say come back home and we love you you’re you’re us you’re one of us come back beautiful but for me you asked me also about my vision and uh it’s still being defined but I’m very excited that I have you
Know over this past year because as you also opened up you said you know it seems like I just you know jumped on the scene or came back but the reality is that anything worth uh doing and especially doing it well it does take time so over this past year after my
Installment I also was doing the due diligence to make sure that my foundation and the uh infrastructure of what I wanted to build from was very solid so I’ve established my 501c3 I encourage your viewers please please please go visit African roots.org um the name of the organization is African
Roots worldwide but I also looked at it as a Divine moment what about in this day and age that African roots.org is still even available as a URL well I know afrian Roots African Roots the Simplicity of that so African spelled a
R i c a n Roots R oot ts.org o g and So currently right now we are raising money to be able to connect Humanity back to their African pathway this is a pathway to recognize that no all of humanity comes from mother Africa but in doing so
As well we’re inviting individuals to join us in various different programming so as I’m sitting here in this backdrop you see the view that we’re looking at the viewers can’t see it but we have the ocean and the breeze and the beautiful trees and the greenery all around us but
I also recognize that due to a lot of the pillaging that is happening right we recognize that there’s a lot of different companies that are taking away from our oil and gold and things that are releasing a lot of carbon gases in the atmosphere so I do look forward to
Addressing a lot of the environmental and carbon footprints that are happening right now that is eroding our fishery and again as you know Cape Coast this is a fisherman community and it’s worth protecting because often times when we come here and especially dipor people that are getting away from various areas
Um to come to more natural and holistic areas we want the fresh we want to know that our fish are not polluted with chemicals and all other kinds of things so I’m very passionate to make sure that that type of programming is leading out and I know that it will be strengthening
Also my anao asao company 2 community and also all of Cape Coast as well but likewise uh various things too such as education you are a product of the Premier education here in Cape Coast um I believe that our children here in Cape Coast should also have that type of opportunity
You do know that it is a large poverty rate that is here of the citizens that live here in Cape Coast so I do look forward to how we are able to do scholarships to make sure that the children are able to maximize and to be
A part of the Premier schools that are here within Cape coast and again I just encourage the viewers to go to the website because there’s various other type of programming that we are setting up and like I said we’re raising money in this moment to be able to make sure
That you know it directly impacts the people here but also after AF Roots just as the name says is worldwide we’re equally setting up programming in various other areas so South Africa is another area that we’ll be going to okay Kenya is another area that we are now
Building relationships to make sure that we are then preserving and building these um programming that we know that need to be protected particularly around our cultural preservation so I know that was a long answer but yet that’s why I’m saying also to go to African roots.org
Yes so I am encouraging everybody to go to Africa roots uh.org and then read more about what is happening right now uh before we end this you have made the decision to come and then live like us you go and come you live like us what message would you give to someone who
Has been skeptic about moving to the motherland trying to whether live here build here do a business here or connect with the people in the M what is your message to those people oh Echo that one I almost have to pause because you said that I’ve made the
Decision to come to live like you all right and I think that this is an exchange experience okay because by coming here I also recognize how much as I mentioned also about my gulla Roots okay that I was already being raised with so much that has allowed this
Experience to be so easy and so adaptable okay I believe that that is one of the issues that most of us as dark melanated African people we really do need to take the time to have the full immersion experience to get to know one another yeah we have been so
Miseducated misguided and so many things on where we don’t know um what is really the truth often times is when you experience it personally that no one can then tell you any differently so you remind me of my cousin’s back home and uh the fact that like I said the value
Systems of the we the US the collective right you mentioned about the what what did you call it uhuh yes so the suu right my grandfather and my grandmother I remember when they moved from the south and migrated to um upper state New York and also you know to Michigan with
The railroads and many of your especially American diasporic uh community and I believe the community worldwide will relate to this but it was one where you always took care and brought your siblings along okay right so my grandfather was one of 11 my grandmother was one of nine and they
Literally brought Brick by Brick to make sure that each person had their homes and likewise we cherish our parents that is a core African principal so even with that you know as our parents get older the more sweeter and more valuable that you realize that they are so again with
Me coming back within Ghana and watching the context of what really drives still the culture and the principles it’s me it’s you so it’s not like I’m really exactly embracing besides me trying to work at my fany besides that part besides that part but the spirit the love um you know when
It’s you know likeminded we sometimes do say that all skin folk ain’t kin folk but when you do find them it’s a matter of fact that we speak the same language even if we don’t speak the same language I am glad you’ve tuned in to watch this
Video uh I mean he a conversation with myself and then a fan yes she’s my fan you are not my fan I am your fan so she’s a fan uh Queen ESS of uh anaf asafu number two company here in K Coast Central so thank you very much for
Checking us out and don’t forget go to African roots.org check it out you know just make a donation so that we can have this Vision you know come into reality um thank you very much for being on my channel you’re looking beautiful in your African everything everything thank you you’re welcome
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