Great Zimbabwe & The First Cities of Southern Africa // History Documentary

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@HistoryTime 4 года назад

Watch my latest full length history documentary:- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c3Hq6UaFQqk.html Alright guys please keep the vitriol, lies and wild claims to a minimum. Thanks. This is a history channel and believe it or not history exists outside of Europe. Cheers and see you on the next one. Back to Early Medieval Britain next time.

@ObjectiveMedia 4 года назад

Well said. Apparently being a regressive racialist bigot makes you "far left" now. These people don’t even know what left and right means ffs 😅

@raprice79 4 года назад

Thanks for going into so much detail in this video! Very interesting subject!

@terratremuit4757 4 года назад

@@noneofyourbusiness5803 How is covering African history a far left thing to do? It's history...

@dannymain8993 4 года назад

I like history and find the human story fascinating. So thanks for a good video on a part of it that doesn't get a large amount of quality coverage.

@racialconsciousness6996 4 года назад

I'm not a "White supremacist" just because I understand that race is a reality, and this era is governed by anti-White hatred. I still love your videos. You're a great video artist, narrator, and historian. What you do here is very much an art form.

@jaredjohnson7960 4 года назад

The fact that this kind of unheard history is basically free online is astounding. Love learning this so much. As a black American who loves ancient/medieval history, its so cool to have a grand heritage of my own, yknow?

@charlesspeaksthetruth4334 4 года назад

Facts

@MrMiguelForster 3 года назад

Heritage of your own? Because your skin color is similar to people in zimbabwe? So mongolian history is my heritage too since I got brown skin

@jaredjohnson7960 3 года назад

Miguel Forster I don’t know my heritage, exactly. Most African-Americans don’t because of how jumbled up slavery leaves one’s lineage. But if Europeans who have the barest trace of Italian in them can be proud of Rome (I frickin love Rome), I see no issue with me, being descended from Africans, being excited about an African kingdom even if it weren’t where my ancestors are from.

@MrMiguelForster 3 года назад

@@jaredjohnson7960 I would also be confused at some random european being proud of Rome..

@jaredjohnson7960 3 года назад

Miguel Forster These are confusing times

@mike-waynedjangoii6971 4 года назад

Proudly Zimbabwean. I've been patiently waiting for a modern documentary about great Zimbabwe

@superbruh2371 4 года назад

@Mike-Wayne Django II Theres a couple of more documentaries on RU-vid.Sadly in America and Europe they basically teach people that nothing was build in the continent let alone Zimbabwe.Which is a remnant of the old racism that has served as a way to keep the people divided since the end of Bacons Rebellion.

@katiecoollady 4 года назад

Now that is a great and well-deserved compliment!

@deelite19 4 года назад

@Deborah Meltrozo hurt people hurt people. i hope you stop hurting some day.

@MrCarl2020 4 года назад

It's a wonderful story and history. I can understand why you are proud. Much love from Denmark.

@incognito6625 4 года назад

I am Swedish and this is the first time I am really introduced to this amazing history. I absolutely love it and I am a bit mad we don't get to learn this in school, but then, time is limited I guess. I am floored by this highly sophisticated society but at the same time I really shouldn't be! People have traded for thousands of years, of course people will do trade in Africa too! I am very sorry about the racist Europeans ravaging this beautiful continent, denying the Zimbabwe people their history. So glad that this docu was made.

@latrodectusmactans7592 4 года назад

The crazy thing about Great Zimbabwe’s walls is that it was built with no mortar. Just friction and gravity. And yet it still stands incredibly strong.

@TheStarBlack 4 года назад

Yeah dry stone wall - they're everywhere!

@JosephKulik2016 4 года назад

These stone structures in Great Zimbabwe have lasted almost a millennium, yet the American Interstate Freeway System was built in the early 1960's with a planned life expectancy of just 50 years. Think about it. ... jkulik919@gmail.com

@77936fief 4 года назад

yeah, just a pity it doesn't help the country from falling apart

@croisaor2308 4 года назад

Joe Kulik I love boomer comments like these.

@garyhost1830 4 года назад

@@JosephKulik2016 stacking rocks or bricks on top of each other is one of the simplest form of building and the concept grasped by toddlers..... think about it.. Angkor wat, the great pyramids and this wall, not much comparison. I am amazed they could stop fighting long enough to build them

@tatepasi9519 3 года назад

As a Zimbabwean who loved history, the more I learned textbook history about my own country and the more I looked around my own country, the quickly I realized I was being lied to. It is appalling that so called scholars argued that my fore fathers could not be smart enough to build Dzimba dzemabwe the Shona name for Great Zimbabwe. Pretty much they are too black , broad nosed to be smart enough to build such amazing architecture. What a shame that supremacy makes human beings so crooked & corrupt. I respect and admire whatever different cultures have build historically and have no need to see if their ethnicity and skin colors justifies what they did.

@beaudaniel1370 3 года назад

It's not like difference in skin color matters either, Hutus and tutsi. Hate is Hate and it's ugly.

@Heuwelman 3 года назад

As a white South African born 1996, I am shocked that I was never thought any of this in school, But at the same time I am glad to discover a deeper history behind the land and people who inhabit it, And it makes me wonder what else I am unaware/ignorant of, There is probably an endless supply of history that is still waiting to be uncovered.

@ubuntuguy8274 3 года назад

Bayeyisa - but the truth will prevail. This was built by the native people of Southern Africa

@galoglaich3281 3 года назад

Talenda To me it looks like a cashel .Cashels were structures built in ireland,before the norman conquest who began construction of castles and later native irish began building them.Cashels were fine constructions for there time,but they weren't cities or examples of high civilisation .Irish society pre norman invasion would be considered sophisticated primative even though they were literate and as far as i can see the culture of great zimbabwe is no different. Its not in the class of the Incas ,aztecs or mayans or romans and greeks.

@willycagibulakamenio8861 3 года назад

Same here my friend on our written history in Fiji in the South Pacific. Our history and curriculum written by the white men contradicts our oral history.

@UsefulCharts 4 года назад

Haven't watched all of this yet but I'll be coming back to it. So glad you selected Great Zimbabwe for this collab. Such an interesting topic.

@willmosse3684 4 года назад

Useful Charts in da house!

@ericthegreat7805 3 года назад

Hey!!!!

@admirekashiri9879 2 года назад

You gonna try to do a Mwene Mutapa family tree?

@safuwanfauzi5014 2 года назад

@@admirekashiri9879 Wakanda foeva

@admirekashiri9879 2 года назад

@@safuwanfauzi5014 Get over yourself troll. You need to get a life instead of trolling every video associated with black people.

@bobdinitto 4 года назад

I've always been fascinated by the cities and cultures of ancient Africa. Everyone knows about the kingdom of Kush by their relationship to ancient Egypt, but there's so much more to Africa that's completely ignored by classical Western civilization. Thanks for revealing this intriguing and very important aspect of world history to a wider audience.

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

Why would you need western people to teach you about africa? They dont teach about the spanish empire in japan, because obvious reasons

@tompossessed1729 4 года назад

@@algonzalez6853 oh fuck off

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

@@tompossessed1729 very normal not agressive black person

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

@Bill Myers what?

@tompossessed1729 4 года назад

@@algonzalez6853 Very typical response go cry somewhere else if you don't like the content move on.

@keinlanz 4 года назад

This is by far the best docu on African history I've ever seen. Most contain little real information and fill the gaps with racist propaganda toward either Africans or Europeans.

@Peristerygr 4 года назад

And the result is having a comment senction full of race nationalists not believing that blacks are people or that not all whites are bloodthirsty enslavers.

@ttp436 4 года назад

I like seeing like minded People Like myself in these comment sections reminds me there are

@selloledwaba4796 4 года назад

It would be inappropriate to write an African history without mentioning how and who tampered with it.

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

@The Truth about Africa hurts they didnt forget, they simply never knew it

@Linogewillkillallofy 4 года назад

So why do you feel the need too say that? Doesnt make you any different then these kids trying to get some attention online.

@lindomthembu4017 4 года назад

As a South African, I must say I appreciate this collaboration you guys are doing. Really learning a lot here. I'm also particularly amused by the comments here expressing bewilderment over the achievements of Africans. Good job.

@heofonfyr6000 4 года назад

As a South African, I must say I'm embarrassed by your lack of discernment.

@scionofafrica 4 года назад

@@heofonfyr6000 You are not South African my friend, you are European

@lindomthembu4017 4 года назад

@Danny M "Achievements of Danny M. Mystery Man" -There I fixed it.

@lindomthembu4017 4 года назад

@@heofonfyr6000 Sure thing Thor.

@heofonfyr6000 4 года назад

@@lindomthembu4017 why are you calling me Thor?

@keletsonkarabang1849 3 года назад

Zimbabwe is the Land of Gold. May the peace and blessings of The Ancient Days be upon the people of Zimbabwe. May it come to pass in the name of The Creator that Zimbabwe come out of economic downfall and rise to great glory. I m from Botswana. I say peace and one love to the people of Zimbabwe for we are family. Great Zimbabwe was built by ancient Bantu people.

@michaelrowsell1160 3 года назад

Too late ,the ANC have stolen it all.

@teweraijanda2994 3 года назад

We are indeed family and I know we rise as we continue remove Saul's armor of mental colonialization and slay Goliaths with our slings and our God.

@philanisikwili8907 3 года назад

Less did you know that Southern Africa is the biblical Holy land,,,those Zim ruins are biblical known as Ophir part of King Solomon's mines stretching to Botswana and S Africa. Our true history has been hidden till now. ancient Jerusalem is located in the Namibia desert,,,, why do you think you have places like Bethel, Bathsheeba, Gomorrah, Mamrie,Zoar in that part of the world....? Adam's calendar is in S Africa,,,why and how.....My people perish due to LACK OF KNOWLEDGE says SONINI NANINI the Most High...!

@keletsonkarabang1849 3 года назад

@@philanisikwili8907 Very true indeed.

@YPM498 3 года назад

Thank you brother 🇿🇼🇧🇼

@officeoutlaws467 3 года назад

Love this documentary. Always known that Southern Africa has a great history, but was puzzled as to what made it so supposedly unclear and overlooked. Thank you from South Africa.

@GrumpyTinashe 7 месяцев назад

From the Zambezi right down to the Cape we were dojng great things mfo

@jeffreypierce1440 9 часов назад

Africans are lazy and don't record their history. White men have to do it for them.

@jonathanlewis867 4 года назад

Been looking for a good video on southern African history for ages, thanks for the great work you done here

@roubinnick 4 года назад

History Time always delivers amazing documentaries, no matter the topic

@selloledwaba4796 4 года назад

For the first time a documentary is made on an African topic without mentioning the country's poor economic condition. Kudos.

@AOKONE 2 года назад

Which country?

@Nabium 4 года назад

I've heard about the Great Zimbabwe site several times, but because some believed it to be of foreign origin, and since I never heard anything about any other sites(in fact, all the wild documentaries about it praise it for being so bloody unique) - I assumed it existed in a state of vacuum, where it just appeared mysteriously without any similar sites anywhere close. But obviously that was wrong, and I'm glad you chose to focus a lot on all these other sites, they are the testimony of a great African civilisation, the wast complex of sites - and not just one site alone. We're talking about a wide-spread culture linked with other cultures in the region, forming an organic African society with a healthy trade with other continents. They lived in a society.

@marciabryce8451 4 года назад

European distorted the African history with false narrative.

@Nabium 4 года назад

@@marciabryce8451 They sure did. But to be fair, that's exactly what everyone else have been doing too. India, China, Arabs. You'll find distorted history where-ever you go in this world, it's not unique to Europeans.

@cuanmccarogher180 4 года назад

Nabium lol

@vtecnegro85 4 года назад

Some whites went as far as saying the dravidians built Zimbabwe smh.

@vtecnegro85 4 года назад

@@bluebird5173 I don't doubt the dravidians of their excellence but to say they built Zimbabwe is wrong and insulting. As African descendants and such we are entitled to be proud of our contributions to world history. You should check out Bamum architecture of Cameroon in Africa. Similar to some Asian pagodas.

@guillaumerusengo9371 4 года назад

Thimlich Ohinga in Kenya bears a striking resemblance. There are other fascinating sites like Adam's Calendar, Engaruka, Marrakwet and Pokot irrigation, konso stone enclosures and terraces, Sukur ruins, Loropeni, Bouar megaliths, Dhar Tichitt,...

@essr4580 4 года назад

I had never heard of any of these, thanks

@chrismadubi7083 4 года назад

Never heard and Im Kenyan,thanks,lemne look into it.

@vtecnegro85 4 года назад

Marrakwet sounds like marrakech or marrakesh, Morocco.

@marielaveau6362 3 года назад

Also the Bakoni ruins all over South Africa.

@rang3688 3 года назад

Here it is....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CdKD4-fVnyE.html

@dann_mrtins 4 года назад

For those saying that Great Zimbabwe was inspired by foreign influence, this is not possible because we all know that the closest foreign influence they could get is from Swahili Coast. And Swahili architecture is totally different from Great Zimbabwe (Giant circular non-roofed strucures, conical towers built in hills using dry-stone techniques and well-cut blocks, while swahili used corals, built pillars only in tombs, mosques rectilinear buildings and they used mortar - not dry stone techniques - and the mosques were built using irregular-shaped blocks). They were totally different.

@g-rexsaurus794 4 года назад

Not a concnlusive argument, Celtic Oppida were also pretty different building styles and urbanization patterns to the mediterranean but one still can make the argument that it was affected by contact and trade with the Greeks, Phoenicians and Italians.

@GreaterThanGodLike 4 года назад

@@g-rexsaurus794 And yet Great Zimbabwe had no true contact with the Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans at least not directly. The overwhelming evidence points to complete indigenous design. Are you willing to argue against a mountain of evidence?

@fighterck6241 4 года назад

@@g-rexsaurus794 You have basically ignore Occam's Razor at this point to came to those conclusions, which is something one does not usually do unless fueled by internal biases.

@g-rexsaurus794 4 года назад

@@fighterck6241 Not really, using occam's razor leads to wrong conclusion when applied so precisely to single historical phenomenon.

@chuckybonty4191 3 года назад

Africans built Europe and America

@johnsynnott1981 3 года назад

Unfortunately, a large segment of Great Zimbabwe has been destroyed by trophy hunters and greedy explorers. What a crime.

@michaelrowsell1160 3 года назад

No it was the whites who created the Wildlife Parks and Reserves .Mugabe destroyed it all.. In the 1860s this was the most prosperous country in Africa including any Arab state.

@johnsynnott1981 3 года назад

Michael Rowsell Mugabe was responsible for the partial destruction of Great Zimbabwe?

@outlyfe7570 3 года назад

@@michaelrowsell1160 yeah the great Mugabe took the land back from the children of the colonizers.😀

@Byronic19134 2 года назад

Oh yeah Great Zimbabwe was a thriving metropolis before them 😂. It's full of tribes that trophy hunt each other

@sandrabecht4489 2 года назад

Zimbabwe wurde von schwarzen Kommunisten zerstört. Die Menschen verhungern dort, während die korrupten Kommunisten Millionen auf dem Konto haben

@viracocha6093 4 года назад

Great Zimbabwe reminds me a lot of the Mississippian culture, especially cities of those civilizations like Cahokia and Aztalan.

@ahumpierrogue137 4 года назад

It also reminds me of the Europeans who sadly came across these areas. Classic tale of "Europeans come across area where civilization has collapsed and assume there was never any civilization".

@TheLaughingDove 3 года назад

@@kesorangutan6170 same! It seems fascinating

@jumpinglizards69 3 года назад

@Sənnız sakitləşməlisəniz certain events should be blamed on ancestral Europeans though. They traveled out and plunder when and where they saw fit. Countless histories lost because of them

@str.77 4 месяца назад

@@jumpinglizards69As if only they did that....

@qus.9617 4 года назад

For those interested: @ 50:33 the video discusses a commonly brought up question online which was the reasoning behind the Great Zimbabwe enclosure/walled design

@bigand_badd 2 года назад

Proudly Zimbabwean. Proud as proud gets! 🇿🇼

@midwes8192 4 года назад

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the interesting topics you guys cover and the impressive amount of research and dedication that goes into each video. As interesting as Eurasian history is, this is a really nice and enlightening change of pace. It worries me to see all the argument over the “politics” of this video and I think that is just ridiculous, this is history that is far removed from from today’s world and it is disgusting to see people trying to support claims made by those imperialists you mentioned in the beginning of the video, especially when it has been so thoroughly disproven by modern scholars. History is history, no matter where it is from. But enough of that, I just wanted to show my appreciation and support for you guys. Great job as always!

@richardwainina4314 2 года назад

Jcb FCC

@hendrikstrauss3717 4 года назад

What a fascinated assett of historical developement. Thank you for starting my interest in african history! Greetings from one happy german student :)

@sakogekchyan7366 4 года назад

Hendrik Strauss I highly recommend checking out the history of Sudan and the horn of Africa.

@jaywilliams9294 4 года назад

@SA Citizen Its only fake when I don't agree with it or like it

@jonjameson2629 4 года назад

@@jaywilliams9294 You're either trolling or the most arrogant person who's ever lived.

@jaywilliams9294 4 года назад

@Tracy Sharp Why are you telling me this?

@kairuannewambui8456 4 года назад

Jay Williams you dont know whole world history nor is everybody..some of world history and early civilization have not been know yet..we africa love to see not only africa but curious what other poeple were up to..its history.ok.no need to call fake. my tribe kikuyu immigrated from egypt settled in axum kingdom ethiopia with knowledge they had of stone building and working iron and other metal from egypt phyramid building and contributed to geting building jobs of kindoms along the way moving to kenya some remained other kept moving south.. poeple moved in africa exchanging not or trade but knowledge. these are were told to my poeple while coloniel distroyed or hid and stole artifacts to this day they are in western museum sold in christie for million dollars..we are not stupid we know it all who did that are dead to tell the truth but our history was paste to us. saying its fake show how tamahu sydrom has not been breeded out yet..google tamahu.

@silentlessons4221 3 года назад

I am zimbabwean aged 41 and sadly I wasnt aware of this history. I of course know of many mini-versions of great zimbabwe across zimbabwe but didnt really know the detailed history. I know more of european history than my own.

@JohnSmith-qq8tx 3 года назад

Unfortunately it seems it's still up to Europeans to research and build up knowledge of African history. I say **unfortunately**but I supposse we're lucky that someone is doing it. As long as the TRUTH is told and they're not afraid to go against what would be politically incorrect. Native African's are an immensely clever and resourceful people, they have to be to survive. Lots of unintended padding of the narrative here. I would have liked to see the evidence of the blacksmith residence. Usually very easy to find as all the black Slag and burnt fuel is shown in the soil. Lots of unanswered questions.

@silentlessons4221 3 года назад

@@JohnSmith-qq8tx Thanks John smith for your objective analysis.

@silentlessons4221 3 года назад

@Admire Kashiri thanks Admire

@jumpinglizards69 3 года назад

I know that you commented on this awhile ago but you should upload videos with your personal stories and stories that have been passed down to youof Zimbabwe. It would give a more personal and accurate depiction of the country than what most people are taught throughout their educational years And it would save a part of history

@ossie500 2 года назад

Sorry but this was taught our headmaster and avid historian Chigwe gives much detail about this history. The Rozvi and Munhumutapa empires. I have since found books and resources with greater details. Although we still disagree about a lot of things they is far more details to add to this documentary

@qus.9617 4 года назад

This is the most comprehensive and entertaining video thus far regarding Great Zimbabwe. I am in awe, definitely going to share this video online.

@lizeggar2421 2 года назад

There is a wealth of videos on Africa. Start with Adam Tellinger. Keep in mind that the Portugese were on the east coast and the Arabs were also trading for slaves all over Africa.

@ttp436 4 года назад

Lets hope the oral History will be recorded so It is never lost again

@Jellygamer0 4 года назад

@The Truth about Africa hurts proof?

@Thatguyy100 4 года назад

@The Truth about Africa hurts dude chill

@pqt112 3 года назад

This is what I am doing my Masters in at the moment in Europe. Hope to use my skills in back home when I'm done

@admirekashiri9879 2 года назад

It has been recorded I know a guy who teaches it he has alot of written sources on it.

@sicelo9033 3 года назад

African history is rich, from Egypt in the north all the way to the south.

@CENTURION-xs6ky 4 года назад

The earliest known written mention of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was in 1531 by Vicente Pegado, captain of the Portuguese garrison of Sofala, on the coast of modern-day Mozambique, who recorded it as Symbaoe. Those 16th century Portuguese explorers were traveling everywhere, but I don't think anything was ever really "lost", so many nations from so many different parts of the world had knowledge of places like this. I think that the problem was how history has been recorded and taught especially since printing became available. In some way Rome's conquest of the Druids in Anglesey, Britain and subsequent dumbing down of the natives etc in the very one sided, limited history of pre Roman Britain is an example of what "I think" happened here. When one side controls the narrative, not only does truth become distorted, so too does the history. Aside from that though; what fascinates me are those ancient "eagle", or bird statues that Rhodes took from Great Zimbabwe, I've watched some Michael Tellinger videos about very similar artifacts being discovered in South Africa, I wonder what the connection was, if there was one.

@g-rexsaurus794 4 года назад

This theorys is really weird, nobody was trying to hide this, you are really discrediting without a reason early historians that despite having all sorts of opinion are the very people that started the rigorous study of history.

@lewissmart7915 4 года назад

@@g-rexsaurus794 It's not that anything gets hidden, only forgotten. The information was not selected often enough for repetition and it disappeared.

@andybeans5790 4 года назад

I think selfishness also plays a part. Early traders would have kept knowledge to themselves to ensure primacy, unless they gained advantage from sharing. An example is how Vikings kept the Baltic source of their amber secret from the Greeks they traded with to ensure a trade monopoly.

@raprice79 4 года назад

@@andybeans5790 The Carthaginians not sharing their knowledge of Britain is another example.

@sebzhamatv 4 года назад

The ruins in South Africa are called Mapungubwe. By the name alone you can see the relation. Its easy to detail these 2 cities where related, even the gold figurines found there are similar. There are many other ruins like them scattered across Zimbabwe.. The Shona thrived way before the arrival of Zulu of Nguni origin who came in their lands. A series of wars broke out so the landscape and people deplacement happened also. Southern Africa has a rich history. The Bantu people although different tribes have got many untold and told stories

@russelljackson2818 4 года назад

Very good doc, I especially appreciated the time taken to set the city in the context not only of the cultural inheritance from Mapungubwe, but also their relations with the greater Indian Ocean trade network via the Swahilis and Kilwa, which I would really like to learn more about as well. Hope you all explore more of this part of the world in future docs!

@jamesbrennand3181 4 года назад

Every place on earth has a human history a lot of it in non written form but handed down by oral history by untold generations

@ladybluelotus 3 года назад

Exactly! Most of human history wasn't written down. I guess no one every asks themselves why people wouldn't write down history. The obvious answer being it wasn't history, it was just their lives. Hearing my mother tell me a story about my grandparents was always way more fun and interactive than reading one would ever be.

@oluwadamilola6233 3 года назад

Yeah..only like 5000 years worth of human history was written

@smoothcriminal4038 2 года назад

@@oluwadamilola6233 And that’s not even long, we been here that long and have only written down 5,000 years of it.

@Byronic19134 2 года назад

@@ladybluelotus the obvious answer is they had no written language

@lif3andthings763 2 года назад

@@Byronic19134 Even then it can be lost. We learned of Mesopotamia from ruins, and Roman emperors from coins even.

@GeraldOSteen 4 года назад

I wish I had been taught this stuff long ago in school.

@AT-wj5sw 3 года назад

Why ?! Educating yourself is the secret to success. School is a political indoctrination camp nothing more nothing less.

@jumpinglizards69 3 года назад

@@AT-wj5sw wishing for education reform is a bad thing??

@willmosse3684 4 года назад

Great documentary - thanks! African history is a real blind spot for mainstream history presentations, so great to see this!

@michielvoetberg4634 4 года назад

A history I knew absolutely nothing of. Still incredibly interesting and fascinating. I would love the hear more of such unknown histories

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@michielvoetberg4634 3 года назад

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@africariseup1890 3 года назад

There's the Khami Ruins, Thimlich Ohinga, Dar Tichitt, Lalibela Church, Tomb of Askia, Benin Bronzes and Ife statues, all worth checking out

@cuanmccarogher180 2 года назад

😳

@johnsimonkamhara4121 2 года назад

Good research and width and depth. I would urge looking at the religious/ spiritual dimension which is much talked about in Shona oral tradition. It may be difficult though, to get much as it is often protected and treated with mysticism. But, I see it as a great contributor because you hardly find a Shona group without those mystics, of at all there is any. A good number of tribes in southern Africa Zambezi to Limpopo and a bit south had Matobo (Njelele) as a spiritual centre, I believe.

@radhiaAndromida 4 года назад

This is amazing i love this whole series. Im both Zimbabwean and Tanzanian this is probably my fave . thank you for making this its pretty cool.

@lisajackson1476 4 года назад

With all due respect, why don't you learn the history from your people so that you can teach on the beutiful structure.....It's time to cut out other nations from teaching African History; remember "Until the lion learns to write the hunter will always tell the story"....

@donovangumbo388 4 года назад

@@lisajackson1476 I am Zimbabwean and I completely agree with you. I was inspired by this video and making it a mandate to find people who know my history and tell it ourselves!

@jumpinglizards69 3 года назад

Thats so silly to think history should not be a shared, multicultural system. That is how entire sections of history are lost to the ages

@Leo-uq8ch 2 года назад

@@donovangumbo388 The largest African language in terms of its native speakers is Shona of Zimbabwe probably the only country with one native language for more than 90% of its population We the shona originally came from Mpungubwe and settled in Great Zimbabwe

@lavettacannon3138 3 года назад

Well researched and thoughtful docs about African history are so needed for us in the West. This is so lovely. Thank you🙏🏾

@111squire111 3 года назад

its bullshit darlng, name one thing africans have built on their own?

@Catlily5 2 года назад

@@111squire111 Great Zimbabwe...

@vawsunmedia9334 2 года назад

@@111squire111 😂😂😂 this video was too complicated for you to understand i guess. On the other hand, you comment usually comes from a man who hasn't done anything for himself and thinks the achievements of other men his race are also his achievements.

@111squire111 2 года назад

@@vawsunmedia9334 You should start any reply with a capital letter Sir! Henceforth I will ignore your poor grammar and any further comments!

@vawsunmedia9334 2 года назад

@@111squire111 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 says a man whose first comment in this thread starts with a small letter. You need to teach youself grammar first before you try to appear sophisticated in the comments section you dummy. Just scroll up a lil bit and see your first comment 😂🤣😂. Maybe you are just stupid... so many possibilities 🤔🤔🤔

@MKfanmomo 4 года назад

Greetings. Thank you for covering this part of our human history.

@prophetpassionjava5933 3 года назад

@raloniusmaximus 3 года назад

@@prophetpassionjava5933 i hope you're not a scammer. but amen

@mikenunz 4 года назад

Wow, Pete...Amazing stuff! Really interesting and thanks for putting all the time and effort into giving this topic the awareness it deserves!

@jumpinglizards69 3 года назад

The African continent is the cradle of humanity, this section of history should be better known. Incredible video

@SilverEye168 4 года назад

Very informative, thanks for taking the time to make this.

@littlewoodimp 4 года назад

Loving more African ancient history being uncovered (in many case recovered!) every year. Such a fascinating, diverse, creative continent. It's no surprise to find it's history is one rich with wealthy and civilised empires rising and falling, trading with faraway countries!

@catherine7083 4 года назад

So awesome to see a video detailing cultures and histories from outside Europe :) this was so informative, I knew nothing of African history before this video

@amphionification 4 года назад

Thank you for your hard work. I knew a bit about iron age Africa, but this is truly an eye opener.

@amphionification 4 года назад

@U Toob you're a troll with a slow roll. Stfu moron

@aaronm8143 4 года назад

African history is really something I know the least about. Excited to begin learning about the empires, and history of the land. I’m a few credits shy graduating RU-vid university :)

@aaronm8143 3 года назад

Jack Chan yes it’s a real shame :/ Instead of writing the Incas used a knot system as a substitute for writing, and we never were able to decode it. I wonder if a lot of the sub Saharan African Kingdoms used something instead of writing for record keep; and what not. So much history lost in either translation, or lack of.

@africariseup1890 3 года назад

Nsibidi, G'eez and Adrinka were the most common communication forms used

@jarrodcosler9226 4 года назад

Found this extremely interesting. An area rarely touched upon. Hope to see more.

@72mak51 3 года назад

Maybe I'm just a ranch kid from Montana,, but at 46:56 in, The Great Enclosure looks like a sweet corral with chutes, pens, and gates.The tower would get you up high where you could count the animals coming in, and possibly direct. Those trees would offer nice shade, too. Why would the walls be so high? Keeps the big cats out, or makes it easier to kill them if they try. That tower kind of reminds me of Gobekli Tepe - I mean Jericho.

@dopeyfx1783 4 года назад

Remarkable! I had no idea urban development in Southern Africa was so extensive during the medieval era, nor that they were smelting iron. Thank you for such a wonderfully presented informative video

@tedtheobald2588 4 года назад

I worked in Zimbabwe between 1985/1989 and visited there. Absolutely astounding.

@TheObsidianOrderSector001 4 года назад

Built by the Bantu during the Bantu migration. This was only one of many built by the Bantu. Some examples of such Bantu states include: in Central Africa, the Kingdom of Kongo, Lunda Empire, Luba Empire of Angola, the Buganda Kingdoms of Uganda and Tanzania; and in Southern Africa, the Mutapa Empire, the Danamombe, Khami, and Naletale Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire.

@jojomojo508 4 года назад

Geria Wright What the fuck are you talking about you incoherent boomer

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

What makes those empires?

@algonzalez6853 4 года назад

@@jojomojo508 they call those empires when they call societies like that "cultures" if its europe or asia

@TheObsidianOrderSector001 4 года назад

al gonzález read my write up again, I mentioned to who built it there. So I don’t understand why are asking me this question even though I clearly stated it in my write up.

@croisaor2308 4 года назад

al gonzález An empire is a single polity that includes many different cultures and usually one dominant one. There are exceptions however but that’s the usual measure of an empire.

@BonganiMagadu 7 месяцев назад

My people. Proudly Zimbabweean wirh a beautiful mix of Manyika dad whose family travel origins to Swaziland to Swaziland as a Maphosa and a Nguni ndebele mom These stone ruins are all over Zimbabwe and Mozambique. There are some in Manicaland Rusape, there are many in Mash West near our farm and there is an ancient Portuguese burial ground near Trelawney and an old Zimbabwe ruin We need to preserve our heritage 🇿🇼🇿🇼

@Alex_Plante 4 года назад

I'm fascinated by the African civilizations of West Africa (Benin, Ghana, etc.) and also by the great Bantu migration into Central and Southern Africa. The culture of the Zimbabwe plateau was probably at or near the southern limit of the Bantu expansion as well as being at the furthest limits of Indian ocean trade networks, so it was truly a frontier civilization. I'm intrigued that genetic testing shows that the aristocrats were of Koi-San ancestry. I suspect that the Bantu migrations occurred in waves, and that probably the earliest waves were by small bands of Bantu men who married local Koi-San women, and their descendants became the local aristocracy ruling over later waves of Bantu immigrants, that were perhaps larger and came with Bantu women. So you may have ended up with a ruling class that was culturally Bantu but of mixed Koi-San / Bantu ancestry ruling over a largely Bantu population.

@user-vl5lt4xi2p 4 года назад

@Javier Kútulas This comment is incredibly stupid.

@muellerruski9708 4 года назад

Taj adil why? Because it’s true? Africans never invited the wheel....

@Alex_Plante 4 года назад

@@muellerruski9708 So what? They learned how to smelt high-quality iron. Can you do that?

@user-vl5lt4xi2p 4 года назад

@@muellerruski9708 neither did Europe you dimwit. The wheel was invented in the near-east, most likely central Asia, the only reason you western europeans are civilised in the first place is because rome slapped some sense into your empty skulls, it took Germans a while too. Have you read the roman accounts of what the Germans and the Gauls and the Britons would do to their hostages? ABSOLUTELY BARBARIC!!!

@pimpnameslickbag 4 года назад

@@muellerruski9708 but they had pottery, I'm sure you need a wheel to do that, no?

@ganjagriffin4426 4 года назад

Thank you, this documentary was uploaded just in time for my history project on Zimbabwe. It's very interesting!

@foxbat473 4 года назад

All the best on your assignment. From Zimbabwe

@MaryAnnNytowl 2 года назад

This is a really interesting and intriguing series on the history of the African peoples and places! I've already got them all queued up to watch, one after the other, and am looking forward to them all! I love learning about the deep, rich history of places I will never get to visit, so this has been, is, and I expect will be such a perfect series of videos on just that thing! ❤ Thank all of you for coming together and doing this!

@bernardheathaway9146 3 года назад

This is professional quality! Thank you!

@jonlangley1010 4 года назад

What a wonderful documentary . Fair and thorough examination of the history of early southern Africa . Great Zimbabwe is a fascinating place, ludicrous to suggest it was built by anyone other than Africans . Thank you for this film!

@garlandgarrison3739 4 года назад

@The Truth about Africa hurts take long look at yourself bro. You're a fucking idiot.

@JohnSmith-qq8tx 3 года назад

@The Truth about Africa hurts So much missing from their *proofs*. I've written a few comments on this one vid. It doesn't take away from the cleverness of some African's but this documentary is so much politically motivated propaganda instead of archaeological proofs. Even if true....they built a wall and made some carvings. Not exactly the Book of Kell's, s it!?

@rosalynbeatty8310 2 года назад

@@JohnSmith-qq8tx Do NOT belittle this! WHY compare it to Book of Kells?! Zimbabwe was thousands of miles away from the British Isles. (Without Africa there would not be any Celts, because it is the worlds' MOTHERLAND) Zimbabwe was a great civilization & unique. Unfortunately Europeans criticize Africa due to their lack of knowledge of the continents' literature. So--- google or youtube it: "Ancient African Writing Scripts"

@hugorefachinho 4 года назад

Congratulations . Great documentary. Thank You!

@brandonfisher2350 4 года назад

Thanks for putting so much hard work into giving us high quality history. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Sending tons of love and warmth brother!

@brianjackson38 4 года назад

I think an important part of this history that was not mentioned in this documentary is that Great Zimbabwe was built over 400 years by successive kings, and it is 1000 years old. Some of the rulers are Nyatsimba Mutota, Changamire Dombo, Chaitezvi, (the king who thought he was powerful so he deserved to bring down the moon and keep it, killed lots of natives after the wooden trusses fell from great height), Munhumutapa 1 and Munhumutapa II (who had strong links with Portugal). The Portuguese have a portrait of Munhumutapa II.

@brianjackson38 4 года назад

@Dan C They did not go back to a nomadic "hunter-gatherer lifestyle". They were already too advanced for that. The Ndebele happened (1600-1800AD) and they had a deadly warrior force with more battle experience due to Tshaka Zulu's Mfecane wars (the annihilation of tribes). Before they could recover from the Ndebele, European colonization came knocking.This was now after 1800AD. The timeline is very precise and thanks to the Portuguese, historical records have a verification point

@brianjackson38 4 года назад

@Dan C Which people are you talking about?Remember, my comment is only on Great Zimbabwe. The Rozvi Empire was taken over by the Ndebele, most of the people in this tribe who now bear Shona related animal names as surnames (Nyathi---buffalo, Dube---zebra, Nkomo---cattle, Ndlovu---elephant, Sibanda---lion, Moyo---heart, Gumbo---leg etc) follow their lineage to this citadel. I don't like mixing things because every kingdom and country rose or fell due to many different reasons. War, famine, depletion of resources, epidemics, death of rulers, or a combination of them. Historical signatures can only give you pointers but are never definitive.

@brianjackson38 4 года назад

@Dan C Your question was very direct and I understood it, the rest is sticks and spanners. You wanted to know what happened, a record to justify the vanishing of the occupants of the Great Zimbabwe citadel. The Ndebele destroyed the Rozvi society as I mentioned earlier, after a century of Portuguese failure to colonize it. There is no record out there better than what Portugal and Britain have. The gold,beads, pottery, tools and images from the site were collected by the 2 countries through 18th century lootings and legally approved excavations after 1945. The Zimbabwe birds were all returned, except 1. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, so its untouchable for further exploration due to preservation regulations.

@metaphysicalacademym.a2580 3 года назад

@IM HO Excellent analysis and excellent thought provoking questions. To answer some of your questions which are indeed a mystery here is my line of thought. I think those Great cities and Empires are much much older than the time frame mentioned in this documentary and all history books. I think the inhabitants of these people were very ancient and possible had a direct link or were part of the Nubian/Egyptian lineage. Judging from the architect of the buildings which is not as sophisticated as the Sphinx or the Pyramids of Giza, my best guess is that these earlier inhabitants possibly predated the Egyptians..... Or another hypothesis is that they are descendants of the Egyptians and Nubians after their civilisations have been destroyed and long forgotten way past their Golden age..... And yes you are absolutely right that for a very complex society with such complex buildings of great architecture, geometric mathematical precision, surely there must had been a complex standard of written knowledge, laws and civilised form of governance with organised law and order. I suspect there is more into this story than we are made to believe. And also remember almost 3000 years ago there was Great Northern to Southern migration of the Bantu people after the Sahara became inhabitable. Who were these Bantu people.... Could they had been the ancient Libyans / Egyptians???? Moreover also in Egypt Horus was also depicted almost the same as that Zimbabwean Bird that you see at Great Zimbabwe. Lastly, an archaeologist had recently found out that the Great Zimbabwe was built with geometrical and astrological alignment with the Orion Belt which once again was held sacred to Ancient Libya/ Egypt.

@Catlily5 2 года назад

@@metaphysicalacademym.a2580 If they were from Egypt why didn't they bring written language?

@kanamesuzaku1138 4 года назад

Thx for teaching my people’s history

@ObjectiveMedia 4 года назад

Kaname Suzaku humans are one people

@rjc2630 4 года назад

The people of Africa should be telling their own history

@kanamesuzaku1138 4 года назад

Critical Thinker I know

@anonymousalias.5059 4 года назад

Finally a leftist in these comments, also a ml here

@kanamesuzaku1138 4 года назад

@@anonymousalias.5059 i feel your pain, when you look through history channels comments and its nothing but reactionaries

@coffekihlberg 4 года назад

made my thesis on great Zimbabwe, good to see this historic site and other African sites get more recognition because they deserve it. history is a complex matter and sad to see vitriol and sheer ignorance stand in the way of learning and obvious historic facts. very good documentary.

@MaxArturo 4 года назад

Spain in the 3rs cenury was just a Roman province

@coffekihlberg 4 года назад

@Jau Jo not been to one of your American universities, it's called folkhögskola where I am from and great Zimbabwe has a unique signature style compared to architecture from that time period. and to think that black people can't build something like that is pretty racist.

@coffekihlberg 4 года назад

@SA Citizen this was in the early 90's when we all hated liberals. it's not even from an American university, so stop whining.

@coffekihlberg 4 года назад

@SA Citizen that has nothing to do with 16th century history. but there are a lot of factors as an oppressive dictatorship, economic socialism that simply doesn't work and crippling debt towards China. it's not comparable to studies about 10th - 16 century history.

@tompossessed1729 4 года назад

@SA Citizen Rhodesia was a military regime they gived the natives basically nothing in terms of formal education also India is In the same camp of failing to maintain what was given and yet you're not shiting on them.

@BigMeech1 2 года назад

For once something positive and special about my country. I love Zimbabwe.

@Angayasse 4 года назад

This broadened my horizon so much! And I am happy that this was so extently shown.

@miamidolphinsfan 4 года назад

Just fascinating !!! THANK ALL YOU GUYS FOR THIS SERIES !!! It's about time the Story of Africa is told to the whole world.

@danielslilaty 4 года назад

Excellent work, as usual!

@metafuel 4 года назад

Born In Zim 1970, Living in lock down South Africa 2020. I learnt more history in this 61 minutes than I was ever allowed in the last 50 years of my life. Really impressive work. I have the strong urge to visit my homeland again. I lament for all that lost history though. Excellent research and detail.

@dexter111344 3 года назад

Very cool documentary. Learned a lot about sub-Saharan African pre-colonial history that I didn't know. It's a shame that more of their oral history didn't survive over the ages, especially the names and histories of the people. I think the first video on your channel I saw was your epic on the Sea People, but I had seen a few of your brother's videos before. Y'all are awesome. Keep up the good work.

@guillervz 3 года назад

Amazing! Finally something clear and well explained about African history. Lots of excellent work! Thanks!!! I would love to see one about Shaka's time!

@zachbowman296 4 года назад

This is fantastic! Thanks for exploring history that's so neglected in the west and in the English language. Great work!

@michaelrowsell1160 3 года назад

The video is in English dummy.

@zachbowman296 3 года назад

@@michaelrowsell1160 What an insightful reply. I was thanking History Time for a video that explores a topic that gets almost no air time in English language sources. I see that, though you recognize the video as being in English, you don't understand English sentence structure OR how not to be a pratt. Thank you for you comment.

@robmitchel5166 4 года назад

Such great videos that you've been putting out. I've always loved your channel! I really appreciate your hard work. Thank u for great, informative/educational, and interesting videos. Also from Voices of the Past!

@benjaminkeyrose4294 4 года назад

Here for it! Great work and contribution.

@dainahchikwizo5130 3 года назад

Proudly 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼

@Coffee_break514 4 года назад

Im so happy I found your youtube Channel. Great stuff!

@myeyeswentdeaf6213 2 года назад

I’m an Irish American from Brooklyn NY. There’s something about Africa, idk what it is, but I have always wanted to travel there. Hopefully I can get there one day.

@tatendamotsi5093 3 года назад

I'm 13 yes old during lockdown I learnt history

@shanewalkingdead8258 3 года назад

There was a ruin that was destroyed in the 1920 near marondera that was twice as big as great Zimbabwe

@shanewalkingdead8258 3 года назад

@Admire Kashiri the name was lost to history but my grandmother new about it. Don't get it confused with tsindi ruins. I heard it was twice as big as great Zimbabwe for the first time it's walls where uses for defence it was a fort.

@shanewalkingdead8258 3 года назад

@Admire Kashiri it was a fort made for defence. I heard the British where the ones who disembodied it. I tried to google using the national archives of Zimbabwe website to see if I could find more information but you now how the site wasn't even working properly that's ZIM for you. I think asking a Zimbabwean archaeologists get more answers I cannot get hold of one because I don't know where to look first. It seems a lot of people new this place i went to school at PHG in marondera a few teachers actually mentioned it's existence note they where not refering to tsindi ruins.

@zdrug3676 3 года назад

@@shanewalkingdead8258 something like that cant just dissapear. Atleast there would be scattered stone everywhere lol

@koiue.g8709 Год назад

@@zdrug3676 exactly, in my country many things are destroyed everyday LMAO but we have evidence of it

@Brandazzo22 4 года назад

I've seen a lot of great History Time videos but this one is my favorite.

@luminair11 4 года назад

Brilliant video & thanks for the education!

@ironhand9096 4 года назад

Thank you, I was drawn to this by your recent upload about the abhorrent comments. I’ve got to say I’m almost glad you got those comments so I could be recommended this, how sad though people want to dismiss a clearly important part of world history and culture. Thank you 🙏

@Ireallylikeeggs 4 года назад

I'm not sure that you could've made a better video for what I've been wanting to learn about lately. You're the goddamn best bro.

@charlesspeaksthetruth4334 4 года назад

@SA Citizen What makes this video hogwash? Explain yourself.

@Peristerygr 4 года назад

@@charlesspeaksthetruth4334 It says that blacks are people -deeply offensive to any africaneer.

@charlesspeaksthetruth4334 4 года назад

@@Peristerygr Lol true.

@raprice79 4 года назад

It must have taken a huge amount of research to make this video - over an hour! Much appreciated.

@HistoryTime 4 года назад

raprice79 I loved making it. Thanks for watching

@antonella923 4 года назад

Fantastic video more please!

@clique5077 3 года назад

Thank you for this video!

@jaythompson5102 4 года назад

Love it! Only partways in and am super interested in learning about Kilwa. Any chance we can get Voices of the Past to find some of Ibn Battuta's words about this land?

@jaythompson5102 4 года назад

@Derek Adjei thanks I will absolutely be checking this out. This is part of Africa I am super interested in.

@HistoryTime 4 года назад

We will definitely cover Ibn Battuta. He’s one of the greatest historical sources of all time fo sho.

@koketsomokone2975 4 года назад

Check out PBS' African Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates Jnr. Great source of info, with commentry from contributors

@nanphx2038 4 года назад

An excellent presentation. Thanks especially for the maps which illustrate the information so clearly.

@HistoryTime 4 года назад

Thanks for watching !

@cthornton0706 Год назад

I absolutely love learning about Africa, it’s history, cultures, tribes, and archaeology. It’s so fascinating

@theelaavar 4 года назад

Thank you for all the work you do! My husband and I are loving your channel! On weekends, we are watching together in order, starting from your first video. While I'm at work, I'm watching whatever RU-vid suggests from your channel! We are learning so much!!🥰🖖

@Irishhamsterman 4 года назад

Great video. You've annoyed the racists Pete, keep up the good work!

@user-db1cd3ry3t 4 года назад

I don’t think he annoyed any Zimbabweans at all actually

@user-db1cd3ry3t 4 года назад

Nobility Is A Must agree... with your username

@user-db1cd3ry3t 4 года назад

Nobility Is Indeed A Must

@zigzag1able 4 года назад

@@user-db1cd3ry3t yeah sure buddy... :/

@HistoryandHeadlines 4 года назад

We recently covered Great Zimbabwe in my class, so it was nice learning some more about that site! :)

@jaywilliams9294 4 года назад

@@dreamdiction What video did you watch?

@valhalla9688 4 года назад

Well done bro!

@ishxyzaak 4 года назад

@@dreamdiction wow you are really arrogant. Facts don't change your mind

@anyurhiranur6022 4 года назад

@Upgrayedd The biggest wall in human history was in west Africa 😊

@jaywilliams9294 4 года назад

@Upgrayedd it was 15,000km long

@jasongriffin7966 2 года назад

I just found this. I love the unassuming style. This is by far the best documentary on medieval southern and eastern Africa I've ever watched. More please!

@mikejong1696 2 года назад

this is so refreshing, thanks again for another great documentary!

@PAAKWAMEPAA Год назад

Oh my gosh! This is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing this inspirational story teaching us about the complex and beautiful history of Southern Africa. What a educational video, teaching us about new things that we were never taught in school. Thank you so much and please continue.

@foxbat473 4 года назад

I am Zimbabwean & I would love to thank you from deep my heart for not being biased❤️

@metaverseplayer 2 года назад

Same 🇿🇼❤️

@Leo-uq8ch 2 года назад

The largest African language in terms of its native speakers is Shona of Zimbabwe probably the only country with one native language for more than 90% of its population We the shona originally came from Mpungubwe and settled in Great Zimbabwe

@philswede 2 года назад

Greetings from Sweden. This is one of the top 3 of channels on RU-vid! Feels like Xmass everytime a new upload shows up on my notifications.

@sarala9794 4 года назад

Eye-opening and mind-expanding!

@sjappiyah4071 4 года назад

Great to see some more Sub-Saharan African history on this channel! I was so impressed with your impartiality in the Mansa Musa video I was excited to see you cover more ! Despite what the “nathionalists” and “euro-centrics” are saying in the comments, this is a fascinating civilization. If their ancestors had to lie and claim Zimbabwe was made by Europeans or Middle Easterners, that’s how you know that it was a sophisticated place! Can’t wait to see more on Sub-Saharan Africa in the future, great work

@HistoryTime 4 года назад

Great! Thanks for watching.. more African history on the way for sure.

@shaunpatrick8345 4 года назад

It's not a lie to claim [Rhodesia] was created by Europeans. They bought the land, they created a civilization greater than anything the Africans created, and then it was stolen from them and destroyed. Why do people feel a need to undermine the achievements of any group of people?

@sunnya2203 4 года назад

@@shaunpatrick8345 They 'bought the land'

@shaunpatrick8345 4 года назад

@@sunnya2203 if you've got a problem with that, take it up with the descendants of king Lobengula.

@NoName-be8vp 4 года назад

Shaun Patrick O'Jameson it’s not like Rhodesia was gonna last 😒 the natives hated them from the start they were eventually gonna forcefully take it back.

@jackdelaney6633 4 года назад

great doc, thanks

@vespelian5274 4 года назад

Fascinating and illuminating. I'm going to revive much of my thinking about African history.

@atomic_wait 4 года назад

Thanks for uploading! Good to learn more about a time and place I've sadly been so ignorant of.

@Bubsisbubs 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video guys. As someone from Zim who knows little to nothing about my country pre-Rhodesia this video is extremely important, not just to me and my identity but countless others. Would love to see more around this topic, keep up the good work 👏🏾

@Leo-uq8ch 2 года назад

@philanidladla3406 3 года назад

Africa is a beauty😍

@YuliJade 2 года назад

Incredible doc. Thank you for making it. I learned so much.

@Ironfurnaceroom 2 года назад

Very well done. I mean it, this was a first time ever for me. Excellent, non biased, observational information. Very much enjoyed the video and pace of info.