Gabrielle Union’s Birthday Journey Across Africa

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week, Lale chats with actor Gabrielle Union about her new docuseries, Gabrielle Union: My Journey to 50, a two-part special on BET+. Listen in as Gabrielle shares how she traveled with her family—and many friends—to Zanzibar, Ghana, Namibia, and South Africa in honor of her 50th birthday, reflecting on the beauty of Namibia's spectacular desert, the emotional experience of visiting sites like the Assin Manso River and the Memorial Wall of Return in Ghana, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and welcome to a new episode of Women Who Travel.
0:11.4	My guest today is none other than Gabrielle Union, an actor who's been gracing our screens since the 90s,
0:18.4	starring in movies like Bring It On, 10 Things I Hate About You,
0:23.2	Love and Basketball, The Inspection, and so much more.
0:29.2	Now, she's celebrating a milestone birthday with a new docu-series,
0:33.7	Gabrielle Union, My Journey to 50, a two-part special on BET Plus.
0:39.7	It was like nothing I've ever experienced and beyond what I had hoped to experience for my birthday.
0:47.5	Over the course of two episodes, Gabrielle travels to Zanzibar, Tanzania, the coast of Ghana,
0:53.4	at Tosha National Park in Namibia, and Cape Town.
0:57.1	The trip to her felt like a homecoming.
1:00.9	It feels like being welcomed home after being forced away.
1:07.7	It is a part of our resilience and our survival as a people. You know, Africans who are now
1:13.2	across the diaspora, it's that feeling of home, of being seen truly and being understood,
1:20.5	truly, that is priceless.
1:23.6	Gabrielle traveled with her almost four-year-old daughter, Cavia, Mum Teresa, and her husband,
1:29.6	former NBA star Dwayne Wade, as well as a revolving group of extended family and friends.
1:35.5	I assumed no one would be able to take off work, no one would be able to use their vacation days.
1:40.4	It's expensive. It's an, you know, it's an expensive trip.
1:43.3	Even if you plan it, you know, a year in advance, it's still, you know, it's an expensive trip. Even if you plan it, you know, a year in
1:45.3	advance, it's still, you know, expensive. But I liked how scrappy my friends are. Like, we will find a deal.
1:51.5	We will use our points in miles and, like my husband's points in miles. It allowed us to extend
1:57.6	this trip to other people who might otherwise not be able to afford it.
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