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CYPRIAN and Sarah embarked on a long-distance relationship when they connected online. Cyprian told Love Don't Judge, "I replied to her story and said 'beautiful'." With Cyprian in Nigeria and Sarah in Germany, they relied on calls and texts to keep the spark alive until Cyprian relocated to Germany so the pair could be together. Since being a couple, Sarah has acquired a Nigerian accent. "I didn't notice that my accent changed until one day I was speaking and my friends said, 'Sarah, what are you speaking? I can't understand you,' " she explained. Their relationship is subjected to scrutiny online. Cyprian said, "They say, don't trust African men. Somebody said, disgusting." Despite the judgement they face, the pair remain unfazed. Cyprian reflected, "For those judging our relationship, I pray you find healing."
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My biggest dream was to always go to Africa
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I booked the flights to Benin Republic. And after two weeks, I found out that I got pregnant
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In two years, she will be a single mother. Black men hate weave on black women
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but will let white women parade in black aesthetics, black hair and black accents
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I didn't notice that my accent changed. My accent turned Nigerian when we fell in love
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Who was going to tell her? Tell me what. My name is Sarah and this is my partner, Cyprine, and my accent turned Nigerian when we fell in love
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In 2021, I saw this beautiful lady on the story post of an artist in Nigeria, Olamide
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She was vibing to the song with her then boyfriend. I saw she loved horses and I was like, ah, this is really my person
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And I saw his page with dancing and dancing to Afrobeat. I think in 2022, we started to keep more contacts because then she was not in a relationship anymore
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My biggest dream was to always go to Africa, to any country in Africa
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I booked the flights to the Benin Republic and I think from the first day that we met, we were just together
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We never said, are we together now? We're together now. At the beginning, of course, when I went, I did not tell my family actually that I went
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to Africa. I just traveled alone. And I only told my mom like five days ago, I said, Mom, I'm actually going to Africa. What
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You're going to Africa? I said, yeah. I did not tell anybody because I knew that people would come and say, ah, Sarah, I don't
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think you should go. It is too dangerous. It is too this. And I was like, no, I just want to do what I want to do
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This is a dish I ate for the first time in Benin called Banga Soup This is the palm cream We have already cooked meat ingredients for it Banga spice Okay show us the dish
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We will eat all the food before it's finished. After we met, I actually went back home and after two weeks
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I found out that I got pregnant. It was not planned, it was not intentional
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And we said, okay, but we are sure that we want to keep the baby
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We said, okay, if that's meant to be, it will be. But he could not be with us while I gave birth, because they didn't allow him to come
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The visa took too much time, and I had to give birth alone
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I had to see everything on the video call. It was very, very emotional
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But now you're here. Yeah. I'm proud of you. Oh, buddy. Ah
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There it goes. One minute now. One minute. No. It does. It doesn't like this
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It's all finished. We met after one year again. After one year
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I flew with our newborn baby, four months old. I flew alone to Africa, to Benin
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and we met us then again. I actually met our child only the second time I'm meeting Sarah and me not seeing
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him in real life till it got to four months. It was something I never thought. I knew I
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wanted to be a father someday but I never thought that was how everything was going to come out
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or pan out. But yeah, and since then she's been visiting till we could actually reunite
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in Germany. Voila! My darling wife made us a nice Nagyandish. I can't wait to start
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While learning to make bangas online I also learned and picked up some pidgin and Yoruba words and somehow Max had also turned Nigerian It just happened Follow me baby To the streets Okay
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I did not taste before. Mmm. So sweet. Our TikTok page started growing
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It was there that we got a lot of judgment. Judgment like, in two years she will be a single mother
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I'm with her because of the German passport. They said, don't trust African men
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See this one, please don't come back to Europe. Somebody said, disgusting
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Oh, wow. Who's going to tell her? Tell me what. Somebody said, African men are gay and she just trust me
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I know for real. Oh wow. Single mother incoming. I like men as now gold diggers
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Oh wow. Really? Am I digging gold? So what is it? Black men hate weave on black women
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but will let white women parade in black aesthetics, black hair and black accents
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And you have the Nigerian accent. She should keep crying. I think we are strong people
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We don't care. Like we just live our lives. I like the judgment because it makes us viral
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Oh, gentleman. We're about to show you some African attires and Greek traditional attires
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This amazing Ankara material in the western part of Nigeria. We are the Yorubas. I'm a Yoruba boy and we live here in Ankara for events like weddings
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Weddings, naming ceremony. I think I speak Nigerian English for like since 2019 now, so six years
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She's a prof. I'm somebody when I speak, I can adapt to the language then
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When I speak Greek, I adapt to Greek. When I speak German I adapt to German She picks up the accents everywhere she goes And this is my Greek traditional dress Can you hold this please
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It's very heavy. In Greece, each area has their own kind of dresses
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their own language, their own dances. So this dress is now coming from the area Pontos in Greece
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Shout out to the Greek family. I didn't notice that my accent changed
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until one day I was speaking. and then my friends came and said
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Sarah, what are you speaking? I cannot even really understand you. Are you speaking English
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I said, yeah, I think it's Nigerian English. It is heavy because this was usually for the people
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that were a bit richer. They would wear this on their head like this
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But now we wait for dancing, our Greek traditional dances. What I love about Sarah is determination to get things done
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And I think as a man, you need a woman who is driven
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I love that she has a very beautiful eyes. It's amazing, you know, three years of long distance and finally, yeah. Yeah
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What I love most about Cyprien is he's passionate about wanting to have a family
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and passionate about wanting a good life. And for those judging our relationship, I pray you find healing
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Keep on. Keep on. We are here. Hopefully you find healing. Because if you are not..
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Love don't judge