The Lies About African Architecture 

I actually started the research process for an open world African game set in various time periods to help teach our children about the different civilisations of the continent and what they had to offer. I'm on the Great Wall of Zimbabwe and the structure is massive and impressive

Deplete your mind of western thinking and regain your true self. The journey is long but true ❤

Excellent video! Keep this up sister. They have been bashing African architectural achievements for too long now. It is high time we Africans slay the lies and bring out the truth.

Please continue the work you’re doing. As Africans we need to be re-educated back to the previous values we had to establish new architectures beyond western trends. Your work is inspirational. Thank you!

Sister, thanks the ancestors for ur heart felt love for who we really are. Keep it up.

I greatly appreciate your work. The Khami Ruins in Zimbabwe, "h" is a silent letter so you pronounce it like Kami ruins. Please continue doing this it will open our minds and souls to understand and value ourselves and what we can do on our own.

Excellent!!!! I agree 100%. The African leadership needs to have this mindset.

As an African i noticed our spaces were also colonised with ugly square European architecture, in Africa i love our circles styles 😊

I am a part of the diaspora and I am currently building a rammed earth home in Ghana. It is truly time to go back to our greatness.

This is educational and informing. Ingenious architecture

🤣🤣🤣...I was having the same logic, then you mentioned it. Given the design prowess of Africans in general - I can only imagine the flamboyance and science behind the architecture. Pyramids - mic drop lol

I always wondered about this issue rightfully raised by you. How can the place from where we all humans originated not have progressive achievements in all areas of life, culture and civilization? Glad that you have initiated this. More power to you. Looking forward to your future research.

Very nice and inspiring video even though I’m not African. I hope Africa does it !! I have been to several places including villages and the inspiration is there !!

I have been inundated with content from mostly white male thinkers... and I am glad to have found an Afrikan women content creator to balance out the narrative... and I appreciate having found this channel that is dealing with some of the thoughts I am exploring around eco-architectural concepts of the indigenous cultures. Colonialist thinking has done a lot of damage to our ways of thinking and being, We appreciate you.!❤

The path you are pointing to Madam, is what the Chinese cultural Revolution was about. Now, see where they are.

Thank you for this fine video...I've long been interested in African architecture & Funiture. So much has been lost & destroyed. One of the reasons I was excited about the film, Women King is I knew we would be able to get a peak of the architecture of that time period in Dahomey ..Historical films are a great way to get a chance to see from different periods.. The Western world has always had this advantage in their films,,, I bought the DVD so I had a chance to see the set designer who was African American Akin Mckenzie talk about the research that went into his set designs .. which their is a video here on You-Tube of him taking about this project The Women King..So as African film making along with the diaspora grows hopefully we will be able to see more historical films about Africa including it's architecture. Love your channel..

Keep doing what you do

With less measuring modern instruments. That floor 👏

So much about this channel is refreshing ✨️ ❤

Thank you for this wonderful presentation.❤️

Time to start designing and building our traditional homes. Thank you for the guidance and inspiation.

Your idea about finding our own way is spot on. Keep the conversation going. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Thanks again.

Thank you for this upload. You are doing great work.

Hi! This channel came up in my feed probably because of the algorithm. I’m glad I found you! This video was so informative and you made some very brilliant points! I’m African American and I have always been interested in how my ancestors lived before European and Arab invasions. I’m subscribing to your channel and I’m so excited to learn more! I’m wishing you so much success!🙏🏽💕

Fantastic work. Well done and thank you for this

African architecture is far more advanced then whats painted in media. It was more then just huts and mud houses. Every continent seems to have ancient advanced architectures covered by mud, soil and jungles. From the pyramids and temple sites of south america, to the monolithic mounds with huge stone block in north america, to the euthipian and african ancient advanced ruins. It seems like our history is far more richer before the times of native americans started building huts and mud houses, as if a pre ancient races all over the world once inhabited the entire Earth only to disappear, but living traces of their rich existence all over for archeologists and explorers to discover.

You are doing something amazing on this channel, well done 👏

Honestly, the only thing school and the news taught me about Sub-Saharan Africa was (extreme) poverty, apartheid and the trans atlantic slavery. I had to "discover" the continent of Africa on my own, by watching History-, Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Those channels taught and showed me how beautiful, rich and vibrant the continent was and still is.

We as a people are waking up to the beauty of the human mind, for which each of us individually and collectively possess. The challenge therefore, is to believe in ourselves and the artistic and practical accomplishments of our kin. This is sooo hard to do, as we are constantly marched towards the path of consumption and war. All civilizations die. A fact. But some can be reborn by turning towards that narrow path which leads to knowledge and truth. So we must withstand the ridicule of others and keep plugging away. Plug away until we are able to fully live and profit from our individual and collective creations. Its time to turn away from false and unsustainable creations and walk towards the sun.

Great work as always

Again, wonderfully put. Yes we are capable of taking the past to bring us forward and this is as you said we should consider. Thank you for your well valued research it is much appreciated. Do continue to make us think about our past, now and our future.

Thank you...Thank you...Thank you is not enough...God bless you...i wish you and your lineage good grace, may your path be prosperous. Amen (Love from Nigeria)

Some of the best photos I have seen. Highly recommend a trip to The Museum of Traditional Architecture in Jos, Nigeria and the three volumes they produced on Nigerian Architecture.

Thank you so much for this! -Your sister in the diaspora

The Virtuous Noble Lie of the West and the Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent ❤️💚💜

So happy to find you! I’m constantly looking for our contributions to the design world. Of course, it’s amazing! ❤

The Oba of Benins palace was said to have used more material than the great pyramid of Giza before it was razed by the British.... I believe it might not have been razed but may sit beneath a lake.... flooding antiquities has always been a favoured method to hide indigenous structures. Great video and research.... we will find and reconnect everything that was lost! 👊🏾❤️

I cannot begin to describe how important this your research is!!!! I have been advocating for education within the context of our cultures for many years now. I am exploring our African storytelling at the moment and am just about to publish a teacher's manual for teachers in my country Sierra Leone. Thank you for this amazing research.

The architecture is stunning, in all of africa, I wish there was a video showing it in more detail😊

Thank you for sharing your revelations!

When I tell you I LOVE LOVE your work. My inner anthropologist is loving all of your work.

thank your for your work !

LOVE your Passion MY Sister👏🏽....Keep up the Good Work...peace.

Yes AFRICA PLEASE DO! SAVE YOUR MONEY! .

Very interesting video. So beautiful architecture. Thank you. I agree. This is all done on purpose. To put African people down. Because if you want to exploit people you must attack their self worth. You must tell them that they are inferior. You must make them feel ashamed of themselves. Take away their pride. I pray that Africa will rise. That people will value their ancestors, their languages, their cultures instead of thinking that the Western WEIRD mindset is something to strive for.

Good to know that people have started to think beyond the narrative..

I enjoyed this sooooooo much! thank you.

Power to you, edifying and enlightening.. all that you allude to is absolutely true...continue to challenge and continue to pursue the truth beneath all lies we ve been fed..

❤whew! This channel is a breath of fresh air!!!!!

I m happy to find you, you doing a good job, what you say is really true. You open my eyes.

They built using mud because its what suited their hot environment and when combined with lime it can actually last longer than modern concrete buildings and with stand floods, earthquakes etc. Take the Kerma Deffufa in North Sudan built during ancient Nubia in 2500 BCE for example, its 4,500 years old and still standing multiple stories high. Despite being so old, the structure is still strong enough to support the weight of multiple people without falling through the roof. Mud is also an effective cooling material with the ability to absorb and store heat then dissipates as outside temperatures cool in the evening. Its not that they can't build stone structures because they did in places like Titchitt Dhar but they used what was most suited to their climate and plenty in resource. Even then places like Europe for example were still building using Wattle and Daub until the 20th century and are now increasingly adopting Earth bricks (mixed with little bit of cement) for some homes. So, its not exactly a gotcha moment they think it is.

Thank you so much for shearing this. It is great really. I am proud of being black and Alkebulan. I will never change for anything in the world. Love me blacks ❤❤ decolonize your mind people. Speak your Afrika language, L❤e your Afrikan name.

We just need to look at the pyramids in Egypt and Sudan to understand that we were great builders. It's in us. The Mangbetu of Kongo were also impressive.

i resinate with your message. It is encouraging to see that someone else believes that the modern way is not the only way.

Hi from Canada! Thank you for sharing. Love this!!❤❤❤

The first thing that come to my mind when we speak about African Architecture is how African figured out what they call Pi today and how we also how invented we invented what is called Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, falsely attributed to Pythagoras, existed in Kemet over 3000 years before he was born. The Greek historian Herodotus makes note that, “Pythagoras was nothing but a vulgar plagiarist of his Egyptian masters,” Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Kemet for 22 years.

Well presented… thanks for your work… please provide more of this content

this is excellent. Thank you.

I agree with you 💯. I’m doing my part. Africans we are the genesis of life based on all measures and accounts which means Moving forward let’s use what’s around us in the continent only.

I soooo agree with you. It's like the snake, (the West), came into the Garden of Eden, (Africa), and told Adam and Eve, (Africans), they were naked and they believed it. That is what happened to Africa.

This is a wonderful summary of high African art and architecture! I am so glad that I found your channel to learn more about the true richness of this deep and ancient world. It makes me personally quite angry at the colonialism of my European ancestors that stole so much, and the modern American/European countries that continue to steal so much. Working with the Earth in a sustainable way is the only method to survive and Africa is the leader here. I feel that reclaiming the deep culture through art - humanity's first technology - is really the way to decolonize our minds and hearts. Thank you for allowing us to see this truth. Much love and blessings.

Wonderful…….keep the good work…..

Yes , interisting… the truth is fearful to many!

This is wonderful video, thank you sister.

Wowwwwwwww

Love your content....

Thank you much needed

Wow! I love listening to people ( especially women) who have the same passion and love that I have for my people and continent. Thank you for challening us and I humbly accept the challenge.

I will build a school for African history, cultural studies,language and innovation this is my dream,I'll put my own money up and hopefully i can get like minded people on board

I loved this video! Thank you for your research!

Treal!!! Thank's Thank's for the Channel!!!!! very good video!!! namaste Haribol Asewe

Keep up the great work. Subscribed.

The author has this beautiful, tinkling calming voice and sophisticated accent. Nice to listen to. Following!

Truly compelling and educational

All we ever needed was info and getting our people into construction and architecture

What first comes to my mind when I think of African architecture is Petra.

Thank you for this!

Sometimes when you know better, the propaganda can seep in without your notice. I was recently confronted with how much my thinking has been impacted. I was working on a fantasy story and while writing it hit me that everything was white. Everything was white as if no other group of people were around in the medieval settings we tend to use for fantasy novels in the west. I'm so used to fantasy stories based on European and Asian history that I never questioned it till now. I would have argued anyone down had they said to me that Africans were primitive, yet there I was writing as if it were true as if I didn't know better. I'm not a scholar, but I've heard reference to the non-Egyptian libraries and battles and structures. The propaganda seeped in. Next, I tried to justify it. I thought to myself, my characters need armor for the situations they deal with. Then the obvious question was why in the world am I assuming that Africans didn't have armor? I made this assumption while knowing full well that most people in Europe and Asia didn't have plate armor. They armored themselves with padding, hide, and leathers. Why wouldn't any human who goes into battle protect themselves? Just because I have never seen the armor doesn't mean it didn't exist. So I did some research. Not only did I find the non metal armor i suspected, I also discovered that some groups wore mail! The lies got in. But I'm thoroughly enjoying reaearching the battle tactics, military logistics, weapons, and armor that absolutely was NOT primitive. I think I may base my story on that rather than European armor and weaponry.

Thank you so much for this commentary

enjoyed this a lot. Agree with your view.

Thank you so much, the content is inspiring ✨️ ❤

Nice video! For a long time I have been wanting to hold this discussion with someone.

Thank you so much 🙏

Respect

great video

gratitudes gratitudes for you sharing your unlearning relearning learning self awareness and ancestral connection work with us

It starts with believing that you have to put down one group in order to feel good about yourself. Low self-esteem.

It's valued less because wazungu need to keep people thinking that its not. This is so they can steal it, repackage it and sell it to the world as their own.

Africa is one the most powerful feminine energy cultures , they are very tapped in with the rhythm of the earth and very artistic , this is a wonderful and sacred thing. Western culture is very masculine but it's sick, and not in balance by way of trying to dominate everything, and this idea of supremity and materialism ,wars,. It's illness.i hope that African can see their selves for what they truly are as sacred beings of the earth. One can see for themselves the amount of effort and art and harmony with the earth that whent into African architecture. I would live in a mud hut, they are actually very efficient and effective for the type of climate. To be honest I would prefer to live in a house made of Mudd or earth over poisoned lumber , drywall square energy sucking death box that is so common in the west. The is alot more to life and earth than just the material, there are energies that we can't see but sustain us and African culture were very aware and tapped into those energies, and they are very powerful and very healing . That's the truth. I'm not African for at least sevral generations that im aware of, I'm a white ish western American and I tell you the truth the western idea is sick and out of balance, and it will cause illness in all those that live in this mindset . Much love ❤️

5:40 I believe it is an "African headrest" and not a stool, if I am not mistaken.

I love african architecture, we have to revive our heritage.

Khami ~ (car-mee)

Are there books or websites that show these. Greatful for the algorithm. Would be helpful to find more info.

Subscribed.

Thank you so much for a wonderful black sister for awell-done narrative and for exposing the lies about our people and telling the truth God is using so many people in this hour all over the world and even some non-white people to expose the lies and tell the truth about who we really are thank you so much

Many times when people focus on Africa they only focus on North Africa and how amazing built. Which many times Credit don’t go to blk Africans. Sometimes other regions don’t get focused, or enough focus. like West Africa don’t get enough focus for it’s amazing creations.

Loved this

Great work. Much respect! Where can I find architect/builders that are inspired by traditional African architecture to work with for a couple of projects in Togo?

Hello mam. I have watched a little bit of your content and i want to give you my perspective on the little that I've seen. Please take advantage of the music of each individual african country when you introduce it. You need your own theme intro music at the start of the video as it will give spiritual life to your content. Thank you for such inspirational content.

This was a great video Sistah, I would just like to pinpoint something. Paraphrasing what the great Dr. Amos Wilson stated “If we (Afrakan people) want to understand the problems we face globally, we must look at the people who profit from the problems, not who suffers it.” Who’s profiting off of these lies being told about our culture? Who’s profiting off our “miseducation”? Nobody but the global system of white supremacy. Words like “Westernization” or “modernity” are concepts created to allude us from the true culprit…. White people and the system they created. Idk if you are scared or just don’t know but the system of Global white supremacy is and has always been the problem for us as Afrakan people. We have been culturally misorientated and think white ice is colder or better than black ice. We need to return back to our ancestral ways and advance what needs to be advance. Abibifahodie ❤️🖤💚