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A trio of British friends have been flipping the YouTube travel genre on its head by visiting their immigrant parents’ homeland.
Mirror reports that in a bid to make their travels their full time job, they’re planning to release “the best series yet” and it’s set to come out in early September.
They saw an opportunity to learn about themselves and each other and show their ancestral culture through a non-Western lens through Bangladesh, Morocco and the self-declared republic of Somaliland.
The friends spoke on their channel name’s origin: “Kids of the Colony”. As te child of Somali immigrants, Abu, who was studying at Oxford University wanted to explore the ex-colonial countries he and his friends came from. Kayum is from Bangladesh and Zad is of English and Moroccan descent.
Abu said, “I wanted a name like “children of immigrants”. Kids of the Colony had that ring to it. He attempted to pitch the idea to several media production companies but it was ultimately rejected. They were told it was because their idea “only normally works with celebrities”.
But the trio gathered some friends annd set off to Bangladesh to begin the series. They travelled through the streets of Dhaka and met ayum’s grandfather, who insists he’s 120 years old.
Their chatty vlog style, immersive film and core message captured over 100k viewers. Their channel now has almost 30k subscribers and their social media videos rack up hundreds of thousands of views.
