00:00My biggest dream was to always go to Africa.
00:04I booked the flights to Benin Republic and after two weeks I found out that I got pregnant.
00:11In two years she will be a single mother.
00:14Black men hate weave on black women but will let white women parade in black aesthetics,
00:20black hair and black accents.
00:22I didn't notice that my accent changed.
00:24My accent turned Nigerian when we fell in love.
00:27Who is going to tell her? Tell me what.
00:31My name is Sarah and this is my partner Cyprine.
00:34In 2021 I saw this beautiful lady on the story post of an artist in Nigeria, Olamide.
00:41She was vibing to the song with her then boyfriend.
00:44I saw she loved horses and I was like, this is really my person.
00:50Then I saw his page with dancing and dancing to Afrobeats.
00:55I think in 2022 we started to keep more contacts because then she was not in a relationship anymore.
01:02My biggest dream was to always go to Africa, to any country in Africa.
01:12I booked the flights to Benin Republic and I think from the first day that we met,
01:18we were just together. We never said, are we together now?
01:23At the beginning, of course, when I went, I did not tell my family actually that I went to Africa.
01:30I just traveled alone and I only told my mom like five days ago.
01:34I said, mom, I'm actually going to Africa. What? You're going to Africa?
01:38I said, yeah.
01:39I did not tell anybody because I knew that people would come and say,
01:42ah, Sarah, I don't think you should go. It is too dangerous. It is too this.
01:47And I was like, no, I just want to do what I want to do.
01:54This is a dish I ate for the first time in Benin called Banga Soup. This is the palm cream.
02:01We have already cooked meat ingredients for it. Banga Spice.
02:06It's very big.
02:07Okay, show us the dish.
02:10We eat all the food before it's finished.
02:12We eat all the food before it's finished.
02:14I'm always the cycle when she's smoking.
02:21After we met, I actually went back home and after two weeks, I found out that I got pregnant.
02:27It was not planned. It was not intentional. And we said, okay, but we are sure that we want
02:33to keep the baby. I said, okay, if that's meant to be, it's meant to be.
02:41But he could not be with us while I gave birth because they didn't allow him to come.
02:46The visa took too much time and I had to give birth alone.
02:51Yeah, I had to see everything on the video call.
02:54Yeah.
02:54It was very, very emotional.
02:57But now you're here.
02:58Yeah.
03:04Let me just, one meat now, one meat does it. She doesn't like me testing whenever she's
03:11cooking.
03:11It's not finished.
03:13We met after one year again.
03:15After one year.
03:16I flew with our newborn baby, four months old. I flew alone to Africa, to Benin.
03:21And we met us then again.
03:24I actually met our child only the second time I'm meeting Sarah.
03:30And me not seeing him in real life till it got to four months.
03:34It was something I never thought.
03:37I knew I wanted to be a father someday.
03:40But I never thought that was how everything was going to come out or pan out.
03:44But yeah.
03:45And since then, she's been visiting till we could actually reunite in Germany.
03:53Voila! My darling wife made us a nice Nigerian dish.
03:59And I can't wait to start it.
04:01While learning to make banga soup online, I also learned
04:06and picked up some pidgin and Yoruba words.
04:09And somehow, my accent also turned Nigerian.
04:12It just happened.
04:14That's part of me, baby.
04:16So let's eat.
04:17Okay.
04:19I did not taste before.
04:23So sweet.
04:24Our TikTok page started growing.
04:28It was there that we got a lot of judgment.
04:30Judgment like, in two years, she will be a single mother.
04:35I'm with her because of the German passport.
04:40They said, don't trust African men.
04:43See this one.
04:44Please don't come back to Europe.
04:47Somebody said, disgusting.
04:49Oh, wow.
04:50Who is going to tell her?
04:52Tell me what.
04:55Somebody said, African men are gay and chit-ass.
05:00Trust me, I know for real.
05:02Oh, wow.
05:03Single mother incoming.
05:05I like men as non-gold diggers.
05:09Am I digging gold?
05:14Somebody said, black men hate weave on black women,
05:18but will let white women parade in black aesthetics,
05:21black hair, and black accent.
05:23And you have the Nigerian accent.
05:25She should keep crying.
05:27I like the judgment because it makes us viral.
05:32Oh, gentlemen.
05:35We're about to show you some African attires and Greek traditional attires.
05:42This amazing Ankara material, the western part of Nigeria.
05:48We are the Yorubas.
05:50I'm a Yoruba boy.
05:51And being here in Ankara for events like weddings, naming ceremony.
05:58I think I speak Nigerian English for like since 2019 now.
06:03So six years.
06:04She's a prof.
06:05I'm somebody when I speak, I can adapt to the language.
06:08Then when I speak Greek, I adapt to Greek.
06:10When I speak German, I adapt to German.
06:12She picks up the accents everywhere she goes.
06:15And this is my Greek traditional dress.
06:18Can you hold this paper?
06:20It's very heavy.
06:21It's very heavy.
06:22In Greece, each area has their own kind of dresses, their own language, their own dances.
06:28So this dress is now coming from the area Pontos in Greece.
06:33Shout out to the Greek family, man.
06:36I didn't notice that my accent changed until one day I was speaking.
06:40And then my friends came and said,
06:42Sarah, what are you speaking?
06:44I cannot even really understand you.
06:46Are you speaking English?
06:47I said, yeah, I think, I think it's Nigerian English.
06:51It is heavy because this was usually for the people that were a bit richer.
06:56They will wear this on their head.
06:59Like this.
07:00But now we wait for dancing our Greek traditional dances.
07:13What I love about Sarah is determination to get things done.
07:19And I think as a man, you need a woman who is driven.
07:27I love that she has a very beautiful eyes.
07:30It's amazing, you know, three years of long distance and finally, yeah, yeah.
07:37What I love most about Ciprin is he's passionate about wanting to have a family and passionate about
07:44wanting a good life.
07:46And for those judging our relationship, I pray you find healing.
07:53Keep on.
07:54Keep on.
07:55We are here.
07:56Hopefully you find healing.
08:07Beed.
08:08Fail.
08:15I told you just, you can't do this in the chair.
