I am glad that African history in general not just North Africa by the Mediterranean but western Africa middle of Africa cuz it's a continent South Africa they have a history the people who know that history are the people who are from there peace and love to all people
Mali/Songhai history and culture is my favorite topic by far👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!!! Mali/Songhai forever👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!!! FBA all the way, everyday🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!!! Yera💧.
I have watched all of your posted videos. Very well done. I have posted and shared these videos. I am looking forward to more. These short videos should be taught in schools with younger African children.
@@HistoriaAfricana 100%. If I may, I will share these videos ans use them as teaching tools if that is OK. When you do more videos on like rhe Medjay, Kings of Egypt [ Ramsss III] Military, Weapons, and Tactics. I would love to use then in teaching our Warrior arts [ Kemetic] Egypt system of Pan Kau Rau Shen..
@teanistillmon3341 working on the battle of kadesh. Takes time to create historical maps and animation sequences. Will be doing more of those types of videos.
I would love to introduce my book "Griots Tell No Lies" to you and perhaps have it feature in your channel. Just in the intro you spoke about the vibrant history of west Africa and that's what I did by writing this epic retelling of the Mali empire, mansa Musa and their war with the Mossi Kingdoms. I really hope you see this! 0:13
The Great Capt. Traorre appears to embodie the powerful spirit of his Great ancestor, Sundiatta. May he rebuild the greatness of this empire once again through the Sahel Federation States of Burkino Faso, Niger, 🇲🇱 Mali, and beyond Ameen.
The empire that has its origins in the conquest of the casamance and Senegambia area by one of Sundiata's greatest generals, Tiramakhan Traore! The story of imperial Mali is so fascinating and would make for a great TV series. Check out my book Griots Tell No Lies if you want to learn more brother
It was generally informative, however some misnomer, the proto Ghana or Wagadu did not came from migrating Egyptians or Nile valley folks although they developed around the same time, if you meant the Songhai then, that's more true , however they shared the Tumulus graves from Senegal to the Nile, as the green Sahara was a cultural incubator. Titchitt neolithic civilization and the Ghana empire which emerged from it remain one of the most enigmatic but pivotal chapters in African history. This ancient appearance of a complex society in the 3rd millennium BC west Africa that was contemporaneous with *Old-kingdom Egypt, Early-dynastic Mesopotamia and the ancient Indus valley civilization* , The guns, and the failure of the Songhai to obtained them in time, I think the military leaders including the kings, were laxed in that regard and have nothing to do with an arms embargo with Arabs or Europeans, because their neighbor, the Kenam Bornu obtained not only fire arms, but slave soldiers purchased from the Mamelukes and Turks, they survived right up to the late 19th century.
I agree with you on (some) misnomers within the video like originating from Egypt. Or migrating from Egypt. It is debatable. But what is established knowledge is them originating from the fezzan. And mixing with Berbers(Garamantes) and “Jews”. I think the narrative of them comming from Egypt stems from the name “sonninke” people of sonni (Aswan). It is documented that Jews settled in Aswan so this is most likely the reason.
The failure to achieve guns was due to internal negligence and later civil war within the Songhai Empire, whose weakness was exploited by the Sephardic Jews of the Moroccan Saadi Sultanate, after the Jews were expelled from Timbuktu by Askia Muhammad in 1492. This led to the rapid rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and end of black imperial control over trade routes in the Sahara Desert or elsewhere...
I got mad respect for historia africana for even trying. But at the same time it has Egyptian connection which is the same meaning within the Hebrew which both mean “Ruler”(Ghana Hebrew) and “Chief”(Khen,Medu neter)
Correct. Ghana empire is a misnomer. The empire name was Wagadu. The Arabs heard the people saying "Gana" which was the title for kings and incorrectly recorded the empire with the name "Ghana".
Well done. The Soninke are, however, a fully West African people, speaking a Niger-Congo language that developed around the Niger Bend in the far west of the West African savanna. The Tichitt Culture, which the ancestors of the Soninke built, is practically as old as Ancient Egypt. I'm saying this because it is time we begin to deconstruct the old claims, which past historians accepted uncritically, that civilizations in West Africa were built by people who came from Ancient Egypt. God bless Cheikh Anta Diop, but we must now begin to move on from some of what scholars of his generation wrote. They didn't have the wealth of information from linguistics, archaeology, archaeogenetics, etc, that we now have. We shouldn't keep holding on to this Egyptocentric view of African history that he and some of his colleagues had. It does great disservice to other solid African achievements. Egypt was great and influential. But Africans elsewhere on the continent were fully capable of creating remarkable cultures and societies without necessarily receiving inputs from migrating culture bearers from Ancient Egypt.
Keep up the great work. I’m not too happy with the title of “imperial” because Africans didn’t practice forcing other populations to follow our language, culture, traditions, clothing etc.
Was Dinga, the ancestor of the Soninke, of small height ? (Or by metathesis, of very high height?). It reminds of the Egyptian word dng: midget, pygmy. In kikongo, we have dondya (short), donga (height), ndenge (new born), ndengi (young). As for Kumbi Saleh, according to Aboubacry Moussa Lam, a Senegalese egyptologist, Kumbi derives from the Egyptian Kmt (the Black country, or the country of the Black). And according to my own research, Saleh derives from the Egyptian srkh: a rectangle design of the facade of the royal palace bearing the Horus name of the king and/or the falcon. The word Ghana or Gana derives also from Km(t).
Dingar also means “Gods” in the Sumerian. It is the Sumerian/mesopotamian way of saying “neter” or “neteru”. Originally the same view you had in was off until I furthered my studies. Also that would explain his heritage going all the way back to the “Middle East”. That’s if you are informed about “Khore Dinga” heritage
Gana or Kana originates from the Hebrew word Gana (war chief,Ruler) and does not mean “Gold”. nonetheless the title is also used within kemet and is “Khenit”(Chief). The “G” and “K” are interchangeable. But the actual usage “Gana” used in wagadu originates from the Hebrew. As the founders of ancient Ghana was kushite berber(Garamantes)Hebrews
Am Soninke from The Gambia Dinka mean something big or high height. Ganna in soninke mean what you wish it to be, like good things or blessings opens. Kumbi is a name and salah is feast or happy place or moment.
Medu neter 80% of it,soninke language ,upto today nothing changes. I easily understand the hieroglyphics (medu neter). I = nke You = anke Life = anke or yonki Amun ra = hides power Ra = sun Ancestors = xoxonu
It is almost the same in Kikongo, a Bantu language spoken in Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Cabinda (Angola), DR Congo and Angola. I = i, mono (Egyptian i, wi, w, ink, kwi, k) You = u, aku, nge, ngeye (Egyptian k, tchu, tu, ntk, ti, t) Life = lu-zingu (Egyptian ankh) Amun Ra = Nzambi ( metathesis: Ra Imn) Ra = nza (something brilliant. As for the sun, Kikongo uses ntangu, from the Egyptian itn) Ancestor = nkaka (Egyptian kHkH, nxx)
Oh my god love it ❤. But it's insane Africa has more empire than I can count, keep up the work . I live in Ghana and our school system the WAEC is controlled by the USA nothing about our history is taught.
@@HistoriaAfricana Am from Nigeria and my ethnicity is Igbo . I never learnt the full details of the Biafra War until i finished WEAC, and started learning on my own. I've learnt a lot of African history by myself cause am an enthusiast and wish to reground myself in African ways
@@TV-Spankyshow this is a self-loathing lie to say that Ghana never taught its own history in its schools because the USA controls the education system? It's even embarrassing to hear you speak that way of your own country. The fault must have been the school you attended. Almost every school in Ghana at junior high level, gets introduced to the old empires of West Africa. School exceptions include those that run on the BES and AES.
Emperial for who? I am very sure that there was no history about Africa invading white race, how did Arab came in being white. What is the histroy doing without the black people knowledge of it? What year are we talking about? Why would someone take name of a country that belongs to another people to name his country. The Ancient Ghana has nothing in common with modern Ghana yet name of Sudan to mean Ghana of today. We know that Sudan are part the ancient Egyptians and somany otherregions of Africa.
Do you know the meaning of Gana? If you do you would not be surprised about the relationship with the Gold Coast and most of its dominant ethnic traditions. Geographically they are not the same but demographics may speak differently. Also, the central kingdoms in modern Ghana played an image role as the old empire by mediating between the salt and gold trade in the then Gold Coast. These all are shadows of the old empire so why not give that name the continuity it deserves?
