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Mr Lumumba I am from Sapele City in Delta State Nigeria you spoke about slavery and how it plagued Africa and her Children but what about the slavery still going on today in Mauritania the majority Black Haratin that make 40% of the population in Mauritania are all descendants of slaves during the Arabs participation on the Trans Atlantic slave trade and prior to the Trans Atlantic slave trade but the Haratin tribe have not been given their freedom till today they are still use as slaves without pay by the white Arabs of Mauritania they work their living conditions is not good they are force to work I read of a report when a lady was rape by his white Arab master till this day the white Arabs still haven't abolished slavery because they know that if they do the blacks will be the majority of Mauritania because they are 70% of the population 40% Haratin and 30% fulanis, wolof etc so what about those people suffering everyday due to ignorance and illiteracy the white Arabs are taking advantage of them what about them they did nothing wrong to the Arabs they all converted to the Muslim religion when I saw their living conditions I cried I literally shed tears how can people who look like me even though we don't speak the same language which is meaningless as they speak Arabic how can they still be in bondage why because of the worst sin on Earth which is being born black
The man is a living library....But unfortunately his wisdom and knowledge does not land on fertile soils. Most Africans chose not to listen. I am glad I came across this precious information.
Very intelligent person. He taught my sister in University of Nairobi. Professor PLO is one of most intelligent human ever lived my sister can prove this
No one should have a religion. Everyone should have a relationship with Yah (GOD, my Father, through HIS SON YAHAWASHI, sealed by and fire baptized in The Holy Spirit. We are called The House of Israel, and for none Israelites, gentiles are all believers and followers of THE WAY! If anyone desires to enter into The Kingdom of Yah, you must be born again! Don’t let man and satan’s religion cost you your soul. The Bible is the truth and only trust in Yahawahshi. Amen.
I still have a copy of my GG Grandfathers Bill of Sale when he was about 11 years old in 1812 he wzs sold for $270. He had 13 children by 4 different women during slavery here in the US 10 were sold before freedom came in 1865.. We know the 7 different places they were sold too but still have not been able to find all his descendents. He wanted to find them all before he passed away!!
@JTM1260 Most of the large plantions kept thorough financial records that included the birth of enslaved children and their parents and their value. They needed to keep track for tax and insurance purposes. These records also tracked slaves bought and sold. Along of the records have been donated to colleges but some are still owned by descendents of the slave owners.
This is a powerful history lesson about slavery. I did not know the history you presented about the Arabic people. I will continue my research. Thank you.
African American historians Dr. John Henrik Clarke wrote about it, and Dr Chancellor Williams in "The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race Between 4500 BC and 2000 AD. did as well.
This father deserves our ears for sure. This is the little truth under the sun which should make us emancipate our mind from mental slavery but sadly it's impossible to be united due to selfish African political leaders 🌍🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
In all honesty, Prof lectures helped me throughout my undergraduate days. I have also been undergoing some research to contributed my quota to the pan African crusade. You work have been a motivating factor and I wil appreciate it if you can guide and mentor me sir. God bless you Prof 🙏
This lecture couldn't have come at a better time, as it serves as the perfect starting point for our collective journey as people of African descent, particularly in light of our ongoing #STOPTHEHATEAGAINSTBLACKPEOPLE initiative. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to PLO for providing us with this insightful reminder. Understanding our origins is crucial; it not only helps us comprehend where we come from but also guides us in determining where we should be heading. Thank you once again, PLO, for your invaluable contribution to our shared cause.
Yes, slavery is an old practice that is still going on to-date through brain drain, export of domestic workers to Arab Emirates, switching of nationalities by athletics to play for the wealthier countries.... Have you seen how Africans are dying in the Mediterranean just to reach Europe for a better life? Long ago people were coerced onto leaving, not any different now when circumstances force people to leave their continent to slavery.
Awaken indigenous Yoruba citizen stand no chance with deceitful society, zero tolerance to coercion practices,Yoruba ppl pledge allegiance to full transparency and maximum responsibility towards progress & accountability! This is message to all peace loving society, Youruba indigenous citizen have emancipate themselves from mental colony, reconnect back to Grassroot structure for a better and promising future. This message is brought to you by the Yoruba-Nation Leader- Mrs Modupe Onitiri Abiola.
Very informative and I enjoyed the discourse. You are the first one I have heard outlining the role that the African leaders played in the enslavement of my forefathers. I am a firm believer that the African countries should also pay reparatiobs. Any man who sells his brother into slavery is cursed under the laws of Karma. Africa has a lot of karmic debts to pay. The Souls of my forefathers cry out to the Lord
Bro ,the government s of the day are not responsible as western states sanctioned it and it was law. May be you need to research on the tribes who were powerful and engaged in the trade ,not the modern countries as they stand. Lots of ethnicities became victims of slavery too, Better come again.
Everything you said exactly lines up with my family history, I'm currently writing a book on my European / Roman / Israelites/ Cannaanites Royal family and every part they played a part of from start to finish.
@@Akanimunti For sure will, It'll be tilted "Katholiko" by Kendal Katholiko if you remember to search for it when its published! (That's my actual last name btw). I'm currently working on a series of video documentary's about each side, The book will explain how it all ties in together in a broader but more detailed aspect. Its def going to one our people need to read!
Just like there is a European union, there should be an African Union of all countries. Imagine the strength of of Africa if they all put aside their internal squabbles and unite as one people. A United Africa would be one of the Premier powers in the world. And this man should be the first elected leader of the African Union!
@@moalkassim7483 before that it was the Asian invasion of the Middle East and Egypt. In 3100 BCE Pharaoh Menes defeated the Asians and kick them out and unites upper and lower Egypt for atleast 800 years. The mixtures of Asians and Africans, Egyptians and Ethiopians over the millenniums became different ethnicities of Arabs, with some mixtures of, Greeks and Romans.
Yes the fear of black man sleeping with their women, when in reality it was Arab men who were raping black slaves, it called cognitive dissonance. The inter racial products of these rapes of these rapes are all over middle East, north and East Africa.
Excellent brief on differences in slavery by whites Vs Arabs. "Arabisation and islamisation" in eastern Africa as distinct from transplanting black people to the west. Castrating by Arabs Vs breeding farms in the west. Islam and Christianity both legimatised slavery👏👏🎉 biggest difference is the scale of violence and commercialisation where TransAtlantic Slave has no equal in modern human history - lasting four centuries😢. No business can last three months if it is not profitable😂
Baba we need you to write book series to be used in the school system, especially here in Kenya. Some of our youth dont even know where, what ans our common history about the Nile. This is a persin from Western Province. These are to be the inheriters of our nation....
Thanks a lot for this opportunity to information about the lost history of where this slavery started. We are all slaves on this earth. Thanks again for this great lesson and may Almighty God bless you.
African Americans fail to learn about the very things this very intelligent gentleman is discussing. Many African Americans play down the role of the Portuguese, who were the pioneers of the trans atlantic slave trade. The Portuguese took more slaves than any other European country, and slavery lasted longer in Portuguese colonies. Sephardic Jews are also excluded from this conversation. Most Africans avoid this subject altogether.
What was impossible, wonderful and not privy to many yesterday in Africa was termed as magical or mystery...but with the knowledge borrowed from those practice has been proven and termed today as science or technology! The wise owls knows the study of mind and was a master of all that was not known to many because all was imagined by it and created by that law.
Dear Professor Lumumba, thank you for your enlightening talk. I would like to respectfully disagree with a few points you made. While it is true that Africans were victims of slavery, it is also true that Africans were involved in the slave trade. Africans enslaved each other and sold their fellow Africans to White and Arab men. Africans dehumanized other Africans, arrested, caged and killed their fellow Africans. Regarding Christianity, it is important to note that Christianity was a driving force behind the abolition of slavery. The Bible so obviously condemns the kind of slavery that was practiced that the people who tried using the Bible to condone slavery found themselves getting rid of 80% of the Bible. William Wilberforce, an English Christian man who was driven by his Christian convictions introduced a law to abolish slavery in the British parliament. When the Royal Navy fought to abolish slavery, they faced opposition from all over the world, including from Africans. It is important to acknowledge that slavery was a terrible evil that all races were guilty of. We need to move forward by acknowledging our past mistakes and working together towards a better future. The victimising of Africans and demonising of white men MUST stop. We are all Humans!
I disagree with you respectfully, your lukewarm view keeps us in mind slavery bondage, we are not liberated by the mindset of Christianity, Islam and any religion that was imposed on us. Both TransAtlantic and Subsaharan Slavery routes were nasty. The implications are still upon us especially in Kenya. Look how confused, oppressed and fetishized Kenyans are to all these foreigners who we allow to disrespect our bodies and lands. Listen to Baba the Elder is speaking towards our liberation. We all need serious liberation medicine without comparing or making excuses for other races, they shouldn't be included in this conversation, neither be part of it. We need healing and education of ourselves first! We have never had the chance to have uninterrupted time to self govern, self determine. Our languages have been stripped from us, and our resources and now our ovaries and sperms.....
And the Africans themselves were also there. The African chiefs would capture their own people and those of other tribes, bind and cage them and leave them on the beaches for the slave traders to collect. So the Africans themselves dehumanised their own kind. Mansour, Tipo Tep, the barbary pirates. The largest slave owners in the USA were actually black owned cotton farms. There was also slave trading of white people. The formation of the Royal Navy was as a result of stopping the slave ships from Africa from taking their people and making slaves of them (so why didnt the Africans do this?). And dont forget, it was the British and USA that stopped the slave trade.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Do not refer to anyone as ‘my slave,’ for all of you are the slaves of Allah. Rather, you should refer to him as ‘my young man.’ The servant should not refer to anyone as ‘my lord,’ but rather he should refer to him as ‘my master.’” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2249b
The Prophet ﷺ said: ’O people, your Lord is One, and your father is one: all of you are from Adam, and Adam was from dust. No Arab is superior to a non-Arab, and no black person to a white person, nor a white person to a black person except by Taqwa (piety)’. (Tirmidhi)
Africans are still killed by africans who see them selves as arabs in sudan, somalia , mauritania, Niger and the whole of north african countries. Sub Saharan countries must make their own union.
PLO Lumumba came to enlighten The Afrikan race if people don't listen Afrika is a domed continent we will be slaves for ever till we bring Christ to our way of life, and start to rule our selves
PLO explains this dark african history with satire. I cant stop laughing 😅😅 at this very sad story. Especially when he stresses arabization....and islamized...I could listen to PLO all day long..
Selamte beloved, remember we are of the oldest people recorded on the planet , While I cannot speak for how all Ethiopians classify themselves today ... I can say we have always been the, Abyssinian, Cushites, Aksumites, Nubian, and Ethiopian, Remember this word african is a very new reference for the Continent. We must reframe these european classifications and return to our God Given Melanin nature and cultures @@lordwilmore8
Some of them were directly taken by European businessmen to South America such as Brazil. Those Africans were from Congo Zambia and neighbouring countries
12:08 - enslaving of non-believers in Islam only permitted in prisoners of war. Islam didn’t permit enslaving what it called dhimmis (non-believer protected people). That being said, Arabs did misuse this that they often waged jehad to disguise slave hunting. When said permitted, it doesn’t mean encouraged. Islam banned all other forms of slave trading as a sin. It just let the one form of enslaving , that is enslaving a non-believer prisoner of war. Also, Islam is the only religion that commands how a slave master has to treat his or her slave. It’s the only religion that prescribes paying the slave before their sweat falls on earth. I do agree Islam ‘s view on slavery has its weaknesses, however, unlike Torah, Quran puts boundaries. Torah defines every non-Jew as born to serve the Jewish nation as slaves… Quran doesn’t do that. Under the same umbrella of Islam, big chunk of those became emirs and sultans were freed slaves….
What happened per Jacob's God is the Israelites of the Bible came under a curse, Deuteronomy 28. The tribe of Judah mainly and other tribes of Israel poured into Africa. The Africans then have suffered with the Israelites their curses in the form of slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism. The Israelites of the Bible have lived out their curses and now are set to be blessed for God loves to bless His creation. Since we as a people are mixed over the centuries, we will all be blessed by God. The land of Israel is on the same Continental plate, so is probably and has always been African.
Ok , but if that is true then in whose name did Egypt enslave Israel at least we know it was not in God’s name and in what god’s name were the Chinese enslaved because they didn’t believe in the Christian God so Saying Christianity promoted slavery is not a well thought . The Bible never affirmed slavery .
I would challenge the historical narrative given about slavery and Islam. He lumps slavery with Islam but fails to mention that The Quran opposed slavery and mentions the rewards for freeing slaves. Additionally, he fails to mention how some African languages become “Arabized.” Now he goes way to far in accusing Islam of being a religion that used slavery. He is wrong! Some Arabs may be guilty of slavery but Islam the religion provides the remedy for ending slavery. Islams primary belief is that God-All is the only One worthy of obedience, worship or slavery. Either he is not giving the whole story on purpose or he needs to look at the history of slavery among Muslims again. I am disappointed that his scholarship is either lacking or purposely tainted. This brings shame to his scholarship!
@@vianneyjones4638 Dahomey. Mansa Musa. You think white man came into the interior of Africa to steal blk man. They wouldn’t live 2 weeks. The English outlawing slavery, collapse most African countries economy, along with selling their ppl for guns and horses to fight tribal wars. It’s in the pages of history .
@@Nkosi766 Do you mean Tippu Tip? He was an Omani Arab slave trader who was stationed in Zanzibar and traded slaves in East Africa. His trade was not lucrative to Africans. It was about enslaving Africans to enrich himself.
It strange that somany of the people have been cut off from this truth. What have somany of you being doing and would you say most of you are neo colonials? Just a thought.
But why do you always blame colonialism and slavery? Africa has got all the resources to develop so i find your presentation irrelevant becoz of your historical refrences always
I define domestication as the caring of living things for exploitation. Slavery is the domestication of humans. Domestication/Slavery was only possible after humans settled down and could care for lives exploited. The relationship between the genders also descended into domestication. The transatlantic breeding of slaves was resorted to after capturing fresh slaves was illegal. Recognition of slaves as the most valuable commodity is similar to Mwalimu recognizing humans as the greatest resource. The Romans used captured Greek intellectuals to educate their children.
All other forms of slavery before the trans-Atlantic did not strip people of their humanity. They were about indentured servitude for petty crimes that someone would work their way out of. The trans-Atlantic slave trade started with dehumanization. Once humanity was removed, the people became "livestock". Farm animals bred, worked, and paraded at shows. And because they had human form, slaves were also used for sexual entertainment.
Yes, Africans were enslaved in the name of God, Read the letter sent to the letter by King Leopold ll of Belgium, to the missionaries in the Congo! as a prime example.
The God worshipped by the enslavers in the name of Christianity is different from the Most High God worshipped by the enslaved. The enslavers worshipped materialism which is their God up-to-date. The Europeans did not really bring true Christianity to Africa. True Christianity was already in Africa through Ethiopia before Europeans had contact with Africa during their age of discovery.
Slavery was long before the church. And most African converted because Christians don’t enslaved Christians, that only worked for Ethiopia, and queen Nzinga used it well.
@@malualmarengajou5359 . What war ? What was the war of adwa about? When did Ethiopia ended slavery? More than 100 years after the British. You mean institute slavery 😂
Bilal is well known in Islam as free slave...he was free as islam came ...he was married UND had children....u just want to mixt it 😂 As a professeur u shall make more research about that...
I got new knowledge, that's y in Arabs yu can not black people, I thought there was no slave trade there. Aha this Arabs wewe bad people compare to others.
Slavery was ordained and legitimized by the Catholic Church through the "Papal bull" on 4th May, 1493 by the then Pope Alexander VI to allow the Spaniards, Portuguese and other European nations to enslave Africans because they were infidels and were regarded to be "outside of the grace of their Christian lord Jesus Christ". One of the first slave ships was even called "The good ship Jesus".
The bad thing you were dug deep in accepting that the Bible is Right. Wake up from the stupid religions and go back to the roots of African Ancestral worship
Me too. I don't want to be affiliated with the white man's religion anymore. I am on a journey to rediscover the African spirituality of Ancient Egypt, which was the source of all 3 Abrahamic faiths. Those people stole the African belief system that held together our ancient civilization for thousands of years and corrupted it to create the mess we have witnessed in the past 2000 years, culminating in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism.