What Sub-Saharan Africa Really Means 

@The Wolf Heart The know it all European so called scholars who invented 'race' see north Africa (especially ancient Egypt or Chem)as populated by west Asians. It's a code word for white.

@gringo it’s separate based on an arbitrary line tho. Like the vid points out, it’s a bit weird how this descriptor is only used for black Africans.

​@@yoboiboy4182 gringo?

It's a term deemed not to be offensive, but it most likely is. I've noticed in the USA when people take a blood test, if a person obviously is black or possibly looks black, that person will be asked a series of questions mostly from a white person whether the person has origins from sub-Saharan Africa or Haiti or even from Jamaica. If the person is white, that question doesn't exist even if a white person immigrated from south Africa since that person can state that their true ancestral origins are European even if their family ancestors dwelt in that region for centuries. Basically, if a person does not appear to look white, you will most likely be asked a series of perhaps uncomfortable questions when donating blood. I know genetics and other stuff play roles in blood types despite the fact that we all bleed red. We're all miserable when we break things down.

Not everything is racist

Yeah, North Africa, and North East Africa are commonly grouped with the Middle East. MENA Middle East/North Africa is a cultural zone rather than a strictly geographical category. Honestly, if we were going strictly on geography Europe wouldn't count as a continent it would just be a peninsula of Asia like India.

Indeed bro

@@nouveauscripter1718 it should be considered a part of Asia

​@@nouveauscripter1718 that's why the "strict geographical" continent is called eurasia. however in terms of further political, historic or geografical granularity, it makes sense to sometimes speak of "western europe", "eastern europe" or "scandinavia/nordics" as it might make sense to speak of sub-saharan africa, western africa, eastern africa or SADC

North Africa has black people to

I just looked at your videos and saw your channel has only made videos for one year?? My what a year 2020 😂 nevertheless that means I’m been here from the beginning either way knowledge is currency my brother and you’ve paid me a lot ❤️‍🩹

He is Kenyan, I believe someone asked the same in one of the videos comment section and he answered. I like his in-depth research, 👌🏾 top notch.

@@taban6795 do you live in south sudan?

Kenyan

He sounds like an Indian.

I am algerian we north africans are more close to middle east and Europe I mean look at that massive desert between us. I never traveled south of algeirs I either travel east or west and I went one time to Tunisia

@@HadouOfRivia i agree but were still africans

Nope. Your sub seharan. The superior part of africa is in the north where all the arabs and amazighs live. Peace ✌️

@@HadouOfRivia thats why your handsome because your skin is glowing white and fair

@@IsmailKhan-fg9tj You're weird like he said the whole continent is Africa regardless north or west of the landmass that's a solid fact stop being ignorant don't assume all Africans called themselves ''sub saharan African''

Absolutely shocking!!, as an academic, I am shocked!

It was designed to confuse us from each other, black code words from colonialism. There wasn't a barrier in Africa and Asia either, it was too break our unity from Colonialism. Salaam🇲🇦🇺🇸☪️ descendant of Moroccans, American born

As a Somali, I can easily tell you it’s a indirect racist colonial term when they use “SUB” to describe people who live central and southern part of Africa. I love history and I’ve also noticed minorities in America are not automatically given the title American since that term is reserved for white Europeans. Black Americans who’ve lived there hundreds of years are referred to as, “African Americans” but a European who just becomes a citizen is automatically identified as an American. Not to mention, the indigenous people are literally called, Native-Americans. It’s insane.

@@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 none of it makes sense because our Land is occupied no different than Palestine and Afghanistan. American originally applies to the copper tone nations found here by Europeans and later was applied to Europeans after colonization of the Americas and now they make it as if they're the default American. Shukran for pointing that out. We have to heal our national heritage and identity from the inside out. ✌🏾💚☪️ America is a continent like Africa is a continent with many nationalities, and it doesn't belong to Europeans alone, etc.

@@thirdeffect Exactly! Colonials in the 19th and 20th Century used dehumanizing and patronizing talking points such as “savages” and “we’re going to civilize them” in order to kill and take native indigenous lands and homes. Now, in the 21st Century these same colonizers are using the same concept (savage = terrorist) and “civilize them = bringing democracy) in order to kill and steal innocent civilians lands and rich resources in Palestine and around the world. I swear, Shaytan and his minions always use the same talking point concept with each new generation that comes after. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana

BEcause subsaharan Africa IS where blacks live thé slaves of western europeans lol TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE YOU know??

Awesome post well explained

I think your mistaken here .

@@fabbeyonddadancer I think you are brainwashed my Nigga.

A lot of black people are using the term

I second this!

Exactly saxib! I can easily say it’s an indirect racist colonial term when they use “SUB” to describe people who live central and southern part of Africa. I love history and I’ve also noticed minorities in America are not automatically given the title American since that term is reserved for white Europeans. Black Americans who’ve lived there hundreds of years are referred to as, “African Americans” but a European who just becomes a citizen is automatically identified as an American. Not to mention, the indigenous people are literally called, Native-Americans. It’s insane.

Your argument is based on what ? These countries are in the horn geographically and they have some connections like Indian subcontinent countries, it’s like calling EAC community is racist organization to separate non Kiswahili speaking countries.

@@m.a.k1853The word horn is not a directional geographic, it is simply in a reference to a shape, which only the Somali map makes that shape none of the other countries. I never used the Indian subcontinent as I never refer anyone on that hemisphere as such, I simply call them Asian, to be more specific, I will call south Asian. EAC is not a term used internationally as to separate the Swahili speakers from the non-Swahili speakers. It is an economic development initiative to have trade agreement within those countries that are members of. Where as the word horn African are specifically used to refer people of the aforementioned countries. You don't have be naïve not to know the reason behind it.

@@m.a.k1853 And beside you are not defined by the shape your map makes.

Does referring these countries horn african , or calling south Asian countries as subcontinent change anything.?

Applaud your honesty brother. Because I know of Somalian that think they different from other Africans from other countries!

Good laugh 😁 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8w7GY5zFhDI.html

Your country is in the arab league and were involved in slave trade of people from tanzania and mozambique. Spare us your bs.

@@umojapress2857 No, you are wrong. It is not true. The omanis were involved and brought them to Somalia and not by the Somalis self. Somalis were majority nomads and were not sedentary. As being member of arab league, it is strategic alliance out of ancient commercial and trade ties. Majority of african countries are aslo member of Franco speaking league or Common wealth league. Having allieance with other nations based on common interest is strategic.

Yeah it's a eurocentric caste system based on status in the United States more than complexion.

@ Romeo, the Sub Saharan term has always rubbed me the wrong way especially the sub prefix. All the negatives that comes with adding sub to something. I know its done to separate North Africa from the rest of Africa and treat the Sahara as though its a massive barrier when it isn't and people live in the Sahara. I don't use it as I prefer the coordinal directions North, South and East West Africa. I don't see any other continent called Sub south Asia or the Arabian Peninsula called the Sub Arabian Peninsula.

@@aan3 before dromedary camels were domesticated 4,000 years ago no one lived in the sahara desert except by freshwater bodies that bound the sahara like the nile river to the east and lake chad to the south.

Aan B I definitely think the word sub is meant to degrade black Africa and make us feel lesser

The "Sub-Sahara" terminology is designed by white people for one purpose... to denigrate the black race, PERIOD. The fact is that the term has a very racist and derogatory meaning, it is designed to differentiate the so called "non-black" nations from independent black nations. The fact they refused to call the Apartheid Regime nation of South Africa as a Sub-Sahara (even though the black population was more that 90%) that tells you their racist mentality, that somehow the Western white elites and their media/institutions think the White rule of Apartheid regime of South Africa is "too good and too superior" to be labeled with the derogatory word "Sub-Shara" Africa.

@@dandan3521 all due respect as an american student we absolutely do learn that south africa is “sub-saharan” and the root word sub means below (south of not less than). this is the same reason “sub-equatorial” is a term, its a common root in geography. i hate europe just as much as you do but you can find thousands of real examples of racist shit europeans have done you dont gotta reach hard on shit like this

"North Africans are just as African as their neighbors in Sub-Sahara" North Africans are not Africans at all, Algeria or Tunisia are more similar to Jordan and Saudi Arabia than Nigeria and Congo

@@amilom007 , You're correct that North Africans are similar to Middle Easterners in terms of ethnicity with exceptions such as the Amazighs (Berbers). But they're still African. "African" isn't a skin color or single ethnic/racial group. It's a multicultural identity (especially at present). Based on my experience, folks who ONLY associate Africa with being "Black" or with race are either from the West (corrupted by racist ideologies), never travelled around Africa, never been exposed to the diverse ethnicities on the continent, and/or simply haven't done any unbiased research on the continent. In fact, the name "Africa" comes from a territory in North Africa once controlled by the Roman Empire. It was King Massinissa (a Berber) who first made the statement, "Africa is for Africans" during his battle with the Romans. Africa is the MOST DIVERSE continent on the planet. Anyone who claims otherwise doesn't know anything about Africa.

​@@mentalandfloss2550 "multicultural identity"? "African" is not an identity at all, it a grouping base on tectonic sections of earth crust , Given 10 peoples from North Africa you will never know whom is from Tunisia and whom is from Morroco Given 10 peoples from "Sub-Saharan Africa" you will never know whom is from Senegal and whom is from Zimbabwe Sub-Saharan Africa is an identity, North Africa is an identity, Africa as a whole is not an identity , just the name of a section of earth crust

@@amilom007 , We can agree to disagree. I've completed thousands of hours study on the continent, have been to a few African countries, have grown up around different African ethnic groups (including family members), and have close friends from each region of the continent. So my perspective comes from my direct experiences. You are free to have your own opinion.

Back then when I was a child, I would question like, why all the bad things are not happening to us, since we are in Africa???

Why not Trans-Saharan Africa?

@@MthokoMpofanaTV To me, that sounds like it might include mean the Sahara and regions immediately both North and South of it, though, with eurocentrism* and more familiarity than I personally have with the use of "trans" to mean "beyond" (as in "Transjordan", "Trans-Neptunian", or "Transcaucasia") rather than "across", "Trans-Saharan Africa" would logically imply the region south of the Sahara. However, given that English has no good suffix for "south of", I think "sub" is definitely the most obvious English prefix to mean "south of" for people used to North always being up and South always being down on a map. *From an afrocentric perspective, it's the Meditarannean that's "transsaharan", just like how "the Middle East" would be "the Middle West" from a sinocentric perspective.

@@Mr.Nichan Trans-Saharan Africa would be for the global perspective which is mainly based in the northern hemisphere i. e. Europe, North America, Russia & surrounds. Here in Africa, we refer to ourselves as Kwatu people.

@@MthokoMpofanaTV No. That would imply that Africans have problems with gender.

@@johncorrall1739 what?

Exactly! As a Somali, I can easily say it’s an indirect racist colonial term when they use “SUB” to describe people who live central and southern part of Africa. I love history and I’ve also noticed minorities in America are not automatically given the title American since that term is reserved for white Europeans. Black Americans who’ve lived there hundreds of years are referred to as, “African Americans” but a European who just becomes a citizen is automatically identified as an American. Not to mention, the indigenous people are literally called, Native-Americans. It’s insane.

Thank you for being this up,I appreciate your truth

THANK YOU I'm a European I stopped using the colour code class system words as they all have thier route in slavery Similar but different subject I've struggled to rename the Sub Sahara for something else but came up wanting I try to identify people by country and tribes but had no word for the collective CENTRAL there it was right under my big nose (probably why I didn't see it) I'm a historion that is trying to use correct linguistics to describe people's and places So after reading your post I thought to thank you for enlightenung me So again I thank you selam

Sub Saharan is used simply to differentiate between the Africans who live north of the Sahara and the Africans that love south of the Sahara, because the ones from the south didn't build the pyramids.

@@jamesspacer7994 😂😂😂😂Typical

I agree w/you 100%. I see right through their European elitism.

@@rosalynbeatty8310 I'm not sure we agree as much as you think we do.

@@Mr.Nichan Why? Explain please.

@@rosalynbeatty8310 I may actually have slightly changed my position since I wrote that comment, in that recognizing the Sahara as a longstanding cultural border in Africa, perhaps stronger than the Mediterranean (especially in the west*) doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT race, but a general racial difference is one of many things that has RESULTED from this very real barrier. (E.g., the Roman Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate took over the north coast of Africa, but not anything further South. Influences like these probably partially explain the lighter skin and lack of admixture from genetic groups South of the Sahara.) When I said it was definitely just a way of referring to black Africa, I was mostly saying that people group together various ideas about subsaharan Africa, including "blackness"** into a stereotype, and then fitting that stereotype becomes the criteria for including countries in the label "Subsaharan Africa". If that stereotype includes both "blackness" and poverty, people who thought of South Africa as a comparitively rich country of white people would want to exclude, despite geographic logic (kind of like how Greece somehow got labeled "Western Europe", simply because it wasn't communist and was part of NATO). Somalia and Sudan (among others) probably fit stereotypes about "subsaharan Africa" quite well, but they also fit stereotypes about "the Middle East" well enough that they are sometimes excluded from "Subsaharan Africa" for the purpose of being added to "the Middle East". Anyway, the reason why I'm not sure I agree with you is because I don't think these processes really require "European supremacism". Some of the stereotypes I think are actually at play involve negative ferlings about "Subsaharan Africa", but (in addition to the fact that you could just as easily be an East-Asia supremacist or a neutral Africa-hater or even an anti-imperialist blaming it on other people's hurting the region doing this) I can't think of a country whose general classification is driven by that. (In fact, the fact that no-one doubts that Botswana is "Subsaharan Africa" might imply that stereotype gets overruled. Also, if I remember the video, I didn't see Ethiopia being excluded from "Subsaharan Africa", which challenges the idea of shortness of written history being a factor.) Counting South Africa as "white" does under Apartheid might involve a distortion of perspective brought on by white supremacism, though (although imbalances in who foreigners encounter(ed) help to). *I think the Sahara is a very strong barrier in the West (as evidenced by the failure of Morocco to successfully occupy the Songhay Empire, and general difficulty unifying North and South West Africa until the French, whereas the Straight of Gibralter and mid-mediterranean were crossed by Phonecian/Carthagenian, Roman, Umayyad/Moorish, and Spanish Empires), although trade and ideas did cross it in ancient times (notably gold, salt, and Islam; however, agriculture and iron-working quite likely were independently invented in subsaharan West Africa and the region around the Fertile Crescent, though exchange is possible, and if agriculture especially developed independantly rather than spreading from Egypt, it testifies to how good a border the Sahara was, although in the case of iron there might just not have been enough time for it to spread whichever way it would spread). In the East, however, the Nile breaks through the Sahara, and also the Red Sea coast and Arabian Penisula connect the regions North and South of it. Thus, there has been much more influence between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent and Arabia and northern East Africa (not to mention that Indian Ocean trade connected more southerly East Africa to Arab and (other) Asian cultures some centuries before European's began sailing south of the Sahara). Like in the West, neither the Romans nor the early Arabs had much success south of Egypt, but they did try, and others had more success. Both ancient and more modern Egypt took over modern Sudan sometimes, and the Kushites of modern Sudan took over ancient Egypt. Ethiopian cultures like Axum were both closely connected to adjacent Arabia and known throughout large parts of Eurasia and North Africa in ancient times, and of course both Christianity and Islam spread to East Africa very early. I will note that the Afroasiatic language family probably originated either around modern Ethiopia (based on the distribution of language branches) or near modern Israel (based, I think, on genetic evidence) and spread both quite far South in East Africa with the Cushitic branch, and to southwest Asia and North Africa with the Semitic, Egyptian/Coptic, and Berber branches. However, the Sahara wasn't a desert during much of that time, and Chadic languages like Hausa also exist in West Africa, though they might have crossed west across the Sahel rather than south across the Sahara. **Obviously, dark skin is physically real, but it doesn't really signify anything beyond the genes specifically associated with that. Humans probably started out with dark skin and light skin is a more recent innovation that spread through populations in northern regions because it improves vitamin D production (I think) by blocking less sunlight, and sunlight is less of a threat when there's less of it and it passes through more air. Thus populations with vastly different generics and ancestry share the traight of relatively dark skin. Africa itself contains more genetic diversity than the rest if the world combined, and excluding people who aren't "black" doesn't change that, because "Khoisan", "Nilotic", and "West African" populations are different enough for this by themselves. In addition, despite claims by some some (at least sometimes historically revisionist) black nationalists/supremacists that the Austrailian-Aboriginal/Papuan/SEasianNegrito population and (at least sometimes) the Pacific Islanders (who are actually often rather different from each other in ancestry) are "African", these people have no more recent African ancestry than "white" Europeans (less, actually, I suspect), being descended from the earliest grop of "homo-sapiens" to leave Africa (as well as, like all non-Africans, some Neanderthal admixture, and, more uniquely, so-called "Denisovan" admixture, and, in the case of Micronesians and Polynesians, and like most Southeast Asians, a lot of admixture from a later "homo-sapien" group similar tho modern Chinese, etc, whose origin I'm not familiar with). Also, of course, every population everywhere is somewhat mixed, both in terms of different "races" coexisting and in terms of people's genetics being mixed, since race is actually a continuum, NOT a discrete set of races with a few "mixed-race" people in-between

@@rosalynbeatty8310 I guess part of what I really meant with my original comment is that people usually think of Subsaharan Africa as all "black", and that a desire to talk about countries of "black" people (for whatever reaon*) is probably the number one reason why people want to talk about "Subsaharan Africa", although wanting to keep Arab countries, few of which are South of the Sahara, together is another major reason to split North Africa off from the rest of Africa grand schemes to divide the world into parts. *It is interesting to note that I don't see black nationalists spliting the North off much, but I don't encounter their views about it that much (so maybe some do), and that can be explained by a desire to make "Africa" as big as possible and the tendency to use the words "Africa" and "African" and treat "Africa" as a united single unit. This also explains their desire to include Arabia as part of "Africa". The only logical way to do this in terms of physical geography and geology would be to include the fertile crescent also, which would keep the Arab world together (and probably still makes more sense than considering "Asia" a "continent" that doesn't include "Europe").

@Kazeshini Hijacker turns out the teacher didn't even care, so... At least I get bet informed, so it was good

Viva Africa! Cheers!

I’m really confused cause I’m black American’ am I sub Saharan black?

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Neither do black Africans have the right to appropriate history and culture of North Africa which was ALWAYS related with Mediterranean world. Black Africans were NEVER native population in Mediterranean world nor beyond. If subsaharan Africa is insulting then they can use , black Africa or tropical Africa. Africa is a continent not a race or culture.

you could tell race from rock art?? amazing!

@@zombieat Did you even see the art? It’s obvious, buddy. The thing is you can’t fathom the evidence of black Africans in North Africa because if you do then that means you don’t have sub sharan argument, which then leads to um,… Ancient Egypt.

@@devrayne6770 what a coincidence? all of the written languages of africa come from north or east africa only next to iberia, the levant and yemen. nothing from south or west of the sahara where no continents border.

Lol so I'm guessing you saw the rock art and agree that they are black africans and now you're jumping to another argument? Okay, so according to Diodorus Siculus, the writing(hieroglyphics) and culture of Egypt came from "Ethiopians" and that Egypt was a colony of Kush.

@@zombieat The confiscated west African ancient Ibo writing script hidden by the British.

how does your statement make sense?

How about central africa?

@@kofisam9650yup 😂😅

Webale muno mwana wefwe --how we say it in luyia language of western Kenya.

@The King Anubis All ancient north Africans were brown-black skinned. Ancient Egyptians claimed descent from south east Africans. 'In God's eyes there's no such thing as black or white.' -- BAHA'U'LLAH. notice 'I' said skin color not race. As race is a lie. It is a fabricated hierarchy based on differences of human features. U'd do well in looking to the creator as guidance in judging others. Rather then being consumed in stereotyping people based on their complexions.

Kemet actually means “black land” which means the land itself was black, due to the flood from the Nile river. Just like another part in Egypt was called “ land of red” because it had red terrain😂 African Americans live in a false fantasy it’s comedy😂

@@jayclutch6533 who told you they are African Americans. Get real and stop the lies.

Sudan means Black not Egypt

@@BanCommies_Fascists Nope...Egypt is a Greek name which means Black.

Many thanks @Yasser Zahmoul

Look up the moors they conquered most of Europe between 700s and 1492 that’s why they hate us

An age old ploy to keep Africans divided in order to emasculate and exploit our natural resources and to destroy the history of our past existence.

@Enchanted Ambience potent piece.I agree

@@MyGragg Can you stop stealing my history lol?

You are welcome @face.. Glad it was helpful

Hello racially North Africans are not the same race sub-Saharan if you look at the native people it's even Niger or Molly they are berber. Which is Caucasian technically not black. But mostly black people inhabit those places so basically they have mostly immigrant populations. If you are from the natives of those countries then your Caucasian

@@divestedkonservativekarame4269 Berbers are basically recent arrivals from outside Africa. Also the north Africans in the Nubia and Upper Egypt are not Berbers, they were Nubians. This is not a mystery and the Egyptian stated it clearly. The Egyptians stated the Libyans clearly as different from them. So sorry, Egyptians were not berbers and berbers are relatively recent Arrivals to the continent, about ten thousand years ago. Before that all that areas was sub saharans and Nubians

@@2naija genetic testing has actually shown that the natives of Egypt have a relation with the berber. That was kind of obvious though. No as far as the berber. They were the original people of Mali Niger Algeria Libya Tunisia Morocco Mauritania and west sahara. No the sub-Saharan people are not native to those places you guys are immigrants. So when you get those countries as your native countries that means you have Berber in you. The Sahara desert includes everything all the way up down to Northern nigeria. Which means that the berber who are native to the Sahara kind of go all that area but not Northern Nigeria obviously is I think Northern Nigeria is kind of like the point where they have the in-between thing and then they go all the way down to Southern Nigeria Southern Nigeria is just you know very Igbo Yoruba a very Western central Africa I guess you could say no Niger and Mali obviously have majority sub-Saharan African populations. And you can also see that Mali itself most of Mali is not inhabited by most of its people it's only inhabited in the southern portion but if you're mapped shows the northern region and you should probably ignore the southern region. Niger basically is covered by the Sahara so that's why the native people of Niger end of story is generally the bird. Now with that all in mine they're still going to be people in Niger for the most part that are of the immigrant population and it does seem like a lot of the population that is similar to its native people are very mixed so this is why you don't see Niger on a DNA test too because they have too many people there that they're native people where their native people it's almost like native Americans in America it seems like native Americans in America aren't really native they're mixed you know but we did have a native people so when you get native America don't expect it to mean why American or black American obviously even though it's that's the majority of what America is. You would think it would be native American but that thing is what is a native American so then you wouldn't test native American from American native Americans cuz they're too mix you know. It would make more sense to test native Americans down south and not really go off the native americans. That's I think what's going on with Niger that's why you don't see them as a DNA result because they are you know they're native people aren't really there like you see they'll talk about their native people and they'll talk about their two poo their house and their no they're Fulani and they're who was the other one I think it's they talk about hasa and they all talked about I think Tuareg?if you look at the tomorrow there there are so mix. Like they don't really look to work anymore they don't look Berber anymore. But if you look at the natives of Niger it was originally berbers the original tuaregs

@@divestedkonservativekarame4269 Wow, that was a lot of incoherent writing, sorry. Think you are trying to say, Berbers are native to the Saharan desert region. What you failed to realise is that Sahara was once green like Nigeria, guess which population is more adapted to living in wetter climate, definitely NOT Berbers. If you check West Africa today, you will find over 1000 languages. The reason for this is because of migration down from the Sahara region. So the Berbers may or may not be native to somewhere in North Africa but I can assure you they were not a majority. They barely are adapted to the region because most of them have light skin now. The current population of North Africa are basically immigrants from Europe and middleeast. There are many stories in the bible and history book showing continuous immigration from outside Africa. Funny you used native Americans as an example. The same analogy applies to North Africa. The people there today did NOT evolve there with such light skin. The would die of radiation diseases. Also you seem to forget the Sub Saharan Africans created the population that in turn created the Berbers. Egyptians clearing depicted themselves are difference from Berbers. Egyptians were far more related to Nubians that Libyan. That is clear from the belief systems, writing and religion.

@@2naija you seem very ignorant. Because the native people of Niger valley and Southern Algeria or tuaregs. Which were the original berbers

It IS a term used by thé british french and portuguese and spanish and especially GERMANS BECAUDE OF THE SLAVERY IF THE BLACKS TOBBRING COTTON ZND SUGAR CANE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

Much appreciated @Young Malcom.. Cheers

Can you please tell me how calling out Racism, bad effects of colonialism and economic exploitation is bad? We call out our leaders, racist Europeans and exploitive corporations all the time. This video is talking about a particular word used to describe a specific group of people and a fake ( Divide and conquer geography). All of Africa is AFRICA. There shouldn’t be any Separation just because of what a delusional specific group of people think the world should be. If you are butt hurt by this video, you might as well LEAVE.

@@jaybee4577 Thank u!!!

That's a lie. EGYPT was once & had the same people as the "Sub-Saharan " one they are the same people they mixed later with invasion

🇲🇦🇺🇸👳🏾‍♂️🧕🏾✌🏾 nature knows no color line. White/black/red/yellow is status, not complexion, which is why I don't use those terms or yellow people. My complexion is brown🟤, but that doesn't determine my cultural heritage and nationality. I'm the descendant of Moroccans and born in America, Moorish by blood, American by birth. Peace Salaam

There are 50 m living in algeria (3 m black 2.5 algerian blacks others are immegrants) and the rest are 46 m white algerians (arab looking too) and a lot of middle easterns immegrants too especially syria and Palestine immegrants

@@thirdeffect ew your black your not arab or a real north african

@@HadouOfRivia it's even less then 1 million if we took out the immigrants.

You are right. every time I go on a debate about ancient Egypt I always get the term Sub-Saharan Africans. And it gets so ridicule to point that call Kushites Sub-Saharan Africans 🤣🤣 ignoring the real English meaning of the term which is just a geographical location in Africa not a racial group of people .this is how desperate they are. Not do they forgot that the Sahara desert dint stop the Nile river to flow from Sub-Saharan Africa to North Sahara Africa. And it is well written by the ancient Egyptians themselves that they walked along the Nile River from the South to the north 🤣

The 'idiots' try to "pull' their theories that it must have taken pale people from far off the African continent to have developed Egypt. They will list --- west Asians', central Asian 'caucasions, mid easterners or light/tanned Levantines as Egypt's ancestors. When 'they' see their arguments go no where-- then 'they' argue that so called black people were a recent subrace. Such misguided attempts. When 'we' know that ancient populations of north Africa, the mideast, & the Levantine Mediterranean areas started off w/ brown-black people. Worse still, is when they bring up 👽👽👽👽👽👽

Yup, in a nutsgell

@@kaderdao1335 another thing that makes me laugh when I here people say "oh the desert was so hard to cross Africans did not cross it" But yet Arabs/Natives Americans/ Mongols/persians were able to cross it but for some reason Africans were to scared give me a break 🤣

I’m from Iraq 🇮🇶 and Somalia are Arabs please come to iraq 🇮🇶

@@mohamedwaititi6192 Huh? How are we arabs of we are not semetic and dnt have dna J1?

@@africanqueen230 Arab league 👀 🤭🙂

@@africanqueen230 Somalia speak Arabic

@@mohamedwaititi6192 We speak first somali ,Somali is our mother language. Arabic is only for quran.

North afrika not black

The black Africans are the remaining of raping and slavery by Europeans so they re Europeans

What do you call people on the sahara desert? Like people from Morocco, Niger, Sudan or Chad?

@@justonetime6179 most of the populations of Niger, Sudan and Chad live south of the Sahara desert while most of Morocco's population live north of it.

sub-Saharan Africa generally have lower human development indicators and lower GDPs. To date this hasn't been reversed by the nation's south of the Sahara.

​@@oceejekwam6829I think you're off topic and stating irrelevant points to what's being discussed, in other words that's just another way of saying wrong forum. Byieeeee😂😊😅

Salaam. Niger Kordofanian would refer to people as a more correct terminology. I'm Afroasiatic/Niger Kordofanian in my family and there's no barriers from us North Africans/South Africans or between Asia. Colonialism made these mental borders to cut our unity 💚🇺🇸🇲🇦

@@thirdeffect salam. The Sahara desert is a barrier between north Africa and subsaharan Africa unlike between North Africa and Asia.

Sub-Saharan does not refer to you or the region you come from. Those directly affected by the terminology perceive it negatively and express the desire to move away from it. Allow those affected to dictate their preferences and bury your presumptuousness.

@@DictumMeumPactum there is nothing negative. We say Indian subcontinent or subarctic either.

you forgot we have black ppl in our countries too right?

Great comment. Well explained

@@hermajesty2165 Your comment is almost entirely unrelated to mine. You're right that Arabs kept slaves, so have Africans. Arabs also kept "white" slaves. The root of the word slave is slav, or someone of slavic descent. I.e. a European. None of this has to do with Geography or Geopolitics, which is what this video is about! Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographic term used because it usefully signifies a region of the world where peoples and cultures have developed distinctly from other areas. A comparable term would be the Indian subcontinent, where the Himalayas and dense jungles created a similar situation.

You are not African !! and You do not Know our History !!Okay, try to Learn about Mansa Musa and Mali kingdom

@@hermajesty2165 I don't dispute that some Arabs are racist, it just isn't relevant to the conversation... They didn't create a boundary, The Sahara desert has been in Africa for centuries longer than Arabs, and the divisions between North and South Africa existed then as well. Look at the history in the Roman period if you'd like. Honestly the level of historical ignorance in this video is mind boggling! It treats the subject as if this division starts with Colonialism. This division has existed as long as the Sahara, which is basically all of recorded history.

@@masjm7278 A quick look at the boundaries of the Mali kingdom makes my point for me... I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It is a sub-Saharan empire. My point is that empires never controlled both sides of the Sahara, for obvious reasons.

@@ethanmolinar1422 there's a kalahari desert in South Africa I don't hear sub kalahari Africa.. this sub sahara term is most definitely racist

What relevant issues should we be focusing on?

U mad because we kno . And we taking the land back ??? Or u mad cuz yo whole history is falsified off of my ancestors because you came from the caves ???

Only a racist person can say they hate it when we are cutting out racism

Ktamb 2007 dumb statement

@@smsofficial4809 Issues facing African Nations: Desertification, dwindling water supply, poor agriculture, high transportation cost, population growth, atrocious governance, ...etc Must I go on. Instead of crying about racism let's focus on actual solutions to our many problems. Thats all I was trying to say.

Great suggestion @Ralton HD