I grew up partially in two mud houses. One thing I remember with nostalgia is that without air-conditioning our house kept us cool in the hot African sun. When freshly mopped and dried, we were delighted to simply lay on the ground. Nothing since feels as soothing as that contact with mother earth. Nothing!
Amazing how ancient building materials and techniques once thought primitive are being used today to build beautiful modern structures. Many of the ancient structures were beautiful and some survived thousands of years. Thank you for this wonderful history.
Shame… shame 😂😂😂 Leave a like people. And subscribe. Mud technology is the future indeed! Our ancestors were the first ecologists. We respect nature, because we know without a good environment, us humans cannot survive. Great content mate!
The continent of Africa (the people of the continent) has always been extremely intelligent people. More will be revealed on how advanced they really were then ( before all their empires / civilizations were destroyed by European nations ) more will be discovered.
@@MH3GL😅 that's like asking if the Greeks were so intelligent and profound than why did they get invaded by Rome, it's also like asking if the Vikings were such a great warriors why did they get defeated in some battles I mean come on bro are you even from Earth at this that's the way it goes empires rise and fall get replaced annihilated the whole nine yards that's how mankind works bro or did you not know that up until now?😅
Imagine the leap forward Afrika will take when our professionals in every industry are humble enough to look for the wisdom in our indigenous knowledge and preserve what we still have and improve on it. Innovation is key
Definitely one of my favorite channels on RU-vid. I appreciate the content. Those conical shape buildings at the 3:13 mark are beautiful. Had no idea clay bricks lasted for 1000 years! Again, great content. Thank you.
Thank you for reminding Africans of their own techniques of which they have been made so ashamed that they turn to cement and concrete. I have been telling relatives this forever. One-room dwellings or palaces have been built from mud for centuries. The French could not handle seeing such a palace in Camerun, and I believe, chose to destroy it. I think you discussed this in a previous video. Thank you again. Not all went or is wrong in Africa. And that continent is the mother of all knowledge in my view. The rest of the world built upon and refined that ancient knowledge, if it did not destroy it.
And nothing does the West ever build compared to anything that ever Africans ever built Africans have structures they have lasted thousands of years !European structures are lucky to have lasted a 2000 years or Less African structures have lasted More than 5000 years Even the mud ones!
I've been following the rediscovery of earthen architecture for the past decade and this video is spot on! We Africans really need to take stock of our cultural artifacts and evaluate their contemporary usefulness. We may find that much if not most of what we were led to believe is primitive and backwards is actually far superior to those of our western contemporaries.
It’s a different cultural landscape. Africans built with natural elements because that is part of what their entire religion and philosophy was centered around.
Oman fort also made from mud, oman alone have 1000+ fort and castle, Morocco also have castle or "mud kasbah' but they made precisely. but in sub-sahara african used mud but not like in oman, arabia, persia, and morocco. Bahla fort for example is the best example of mud building
It looks like Africa is on the move!!! They are looking at the colonizers culture, and may be soon ready to revaluate their cultural ways. We are all happy for this, even those of us in the U.S.!!!! More power and peace to mother Africa!!!
It's so obvious that our ancestors were and are so beyond amazing! Thank you to WITHOUT HISTORY for ALL you DO to KEEP OUR ACTUAL AND FACTUAL HISTORY LIVE! You are inspiring!
Very very simply .... could anything be more creatively liberating and grounded .... than creating a dwelling from Earth's mud with one's very own hands ❤ .
I always thought that imperialism, colonialism, and the various "Scramble for Africa" have retarded civilization. If Africa had been left alone, the world be 2000 years more advanced, technologically, politically, economically, socially and philosophically. Sanity would have prevailed.
It's sustainable we had it figured out. Western houses don't last long without major upkeep. When we rebuild Africa it should be for us by us. With all our designs & ignuity we can make a wakanda in no time
No, Africa would still be undeveloped. When we came on shore in Africa, Africans didnt have the wheel invented yet. Hell...they never developed a written language. U have to have a written language to become a modern civilization.
@@JohnJones-ky6ki blacks are the most biodiverse group on the planet. Dna 🧬 says it and the vastness of our 9 ether genes means we don’t always grasp blk women intelligence and logic with one another (for example, mix the dynamics as you wish) as we will grasp an asian woman intelligence and logic. Partly the reason i think blk men lust after interracial relationships. But we are beginning to see we are sufficient and dont need or want anything others have to offer. The most high endowed us with soo much. We are truly in a lane of our own. No comparison. Hoped that illuminated your simple parroted rhetoric that sounds like it was regurgitated and was not thought 💭 out the least.
@@JohnJones-ky6ki blacks are the most biodiverse group on the planet. Dna 🧬 says it and the vastness of our 9 ether genes means we don’t always grasp blk women intelligence and logic with one another (for example, mix the dynamics as you wish) as we will grasp an asian woman intelligence and logic. Partly the reason i think blk men lust after interracial relationships. But we are beginning to see we are sufficient and dont need or want anything others have to offer. The most high endowed us with soo much. We are truly in a lane of our own. No comparison. Hoped that illuminated your simple parroted rhetoric that sounds like it was regurgitated and was not thought 💭 out the least. Your propaganda is why we have to undo the lies spread to slander our race, ppl, and culture
Mastery, not just of sciences. Mastery is what we're about. We just forgot. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏🏿 😊 Otherwise, how were our predecessors 'god-kings'? To have a civilisation like khamit/kemet, who considered themselves to be the lowest version of truly advanced civilisations, and what it took daily, over millenia upon millenia, to create, support and maintain suggests to me that we don't have a clue today, about reality and what's possible. It's long gone, and thanks to a combination of eurocentric ideologies and our inability to go all out psycho on the cartel who control the entire low level vibration world we live in, we make it tough for ourselves.
Living in harmony and respect with nature is always best. Trying to outsmart and/or overpower nature disrespects TMH and will lead to sickness and destruction.
Wow, i can honestly say, i learned something more today. Even more proud to be Afrikan right now. Videos like these with priceless information adds to our Afrikan pride. Keep 'em coming fam. Forever Afrikans 1❣️
What a fabulous video- pure genius! Thank you so much for bringing this information into circulation brother! I am looking to buy in Afrika and would like to buy or rent one of these structures or build in either mud or clay! I will pass on Widely, you are deserving of all the support you receive! For those trying to insult Afrika, they would do well to listen, learn and humble themselves! The future Is Afrika and they may well find themselves in the predicament outlined in the fabulous book by Maggie Gee entitled 'The Ice People' where Europeans find themselves looking to Afrika to escape freezing temperatures. We should (If we accept them) house them in... (mud huts) 😂😂
So glad u dont get discouraged by the ignorant. I ALWAYS look forward to new videos on this channel. Its a shame ignorant people spread negativity but suppose it will always happen. Anyway, another great video! Thank u so much n i look forward to the next 😊 keep doing what you're doing!
Wow, very nice. Our Melanated ancestors "rocked." I been talking about building a mud or Cob tiny home for ages. Definitely energy efficient. How do they hold up in cold damp climates?
@@withoutHistory Thank you sooo much for an interesting indepth of the need to build a shelter that is economical and doesn't add waste nor pollute the environment!For you set the record straight for thise small minded people who cast sarcasm what they are not aware of and what is the reason for such a structure.With that being said Thank you once again for an informative perspective of the architectural structures that what is mocked is now coming to light on its usefulness as well as its purpose.PEACE AND LOVE!!KEEP DROPPING BOMBS!!
It's always a wonder to me why things like this would ever be considered primitive. I think it's unwise to dismiss the knowledge and intelligence of people who have learned to live optimally and in harmony with the land around them. Much of the world has been duped for far too long and has a lot of unlearn.
I love these. I watched because I love permaculture design. Mud is a great building tool but the sophistication of these really lends it to a realistic modern build.
Great video! I agree that mud is the future of architecture. 1 small issue in the video: At the 6:57 mark the image is an Indus Valley reconstruction, not Benin.
As a person who has studied architecture and aware of both mud brick “San Juan Capistrano as well as straw bale and timber frame construction, but your video brought a new awareness to African mud brick. One more thing, mud brick don’t have the toxic chemical residue as in stick frame homes.
All these 21st Century "hippie" types (I'm not hating on 'em) all laud strawbale, rammed earth, cob, earthbags, etc, but typically give preference to European historical examples, despite The Mother Continent's architecture pre-dates those cute quaint cob half-timber thatched roof English cottages.
The soil in Africa is that hard red clay like you see in states like Alabama. It is this red clay that is best suited for making bricks. The red coloring is because of the iron in the soil. Not only does this soil have an abundance of iron but gold is known to be found in red soil.
People used whatever they have available for thousands years. Stones, mud,sand, straw.... In Serbia people still making full modern houses from mud and straw
Now it makes sense why people sit either on the floor or near the floor. The cool air enters the building near the floor and the warm air is forced out near the ceiling. Natural air conditioning. When I saw the clay and mud brick buildings, I immediately thought that those materials could be gathered by digging a basement first to store food and water is a cool environment. The clay and dirt from the basement could be used to make bricks for building the house. I could also see origins of the earth houses that are being built in the U.S.A.
As someone who lived in both a mud and concrete houses will experience the great difference between the mud house is much more cooler in Trinidad where I live there are two leafs to use as roof one is highly flammable The Carat leaf The Other is Timit which almost fire proof,these mud houses are exactly as you describe it.
Thank you for compiling such wonderful history. May you be blessed with an infinite abundance of goodness. I surely will share with pride and inspiration.
Thank You @ Spectacular and Brilliant all at once! This is among the answers the Continent is looking for in the years to come with is expected population growth, the need for not just adequate housing but housing for the people of the Continent as a whole have been pushed aside, ignored and mistreated. This ancient technology will take us back to the future, and it seems to me everyone outta be able to get their portion of it, with no exceptions. Thank you for the resources listed below. Keep up the good work no matter the challenge, your reward is greater than you can know. Again Salute (144k gun) and Thank You
😅 they're already doing that especially in areas like California and in the Southwest, to be truthful the Southwest cultures have always made things with clay and mud material
@@SeanMichael-yt4ps yea but the problem was Wakanda is a fictional advanced city and people thought Africans couldn’t build anything advance the jokes racist would say if you go back to Africa we will build you Wakanda. See how Dahomey Kingdom proved how advance Africans were.
@@suprmekai5 yeah I understand what you're saying, I wouldn't really use that Kingdom that you brought up to prove African technological achievement just because of how recent that kingdom was established. That kingdom was established not too long before the transatlantic slave trade so it wouldn't even make the list of medieval let alone ancient African kingdoms, Oyo the kingdom they had beef with was definitely older and more established than Dahomey by the way.
@@SeanMichael-yt4ps well then we need a movie about the Oyo Kingdom get an idea of how advanced it was. For years they said they would make a movie about Nubia yet we are still waiting for that.
@@suprmekai5 yeah I guess that can happen I would advise writing some black directors and see if that idea goes through. Also there are loads and loads of kingdoms way older than both of these kingdoms mentioned, some are well-known some not so but yeah 💪🏽💪🏿💪🏼💪🏾
I think if we want to beat the west civilization we should start with our architecture, all should be build with this pattern in new way. By then they would know we're not just ordinary people we're the being of this modern stuff. We're not poor... We just have to think and value our own thing first for recreating purposes, all Africa student need this. Thanks for the publishing 👍🏽🖤💯
Native Americans such as the Pueblo People in North America in the south west also used mud as a building material and many of these structures are still in existence and are cool during the summer heat.
I've lived in stick and cement block homes in mid-US, the cost of heating and cooling is insane. Needless to say a 30 year mortgage with interest and the maintenance is also insane.
