Sir, brother, I am always amazed at the level of your scholarship. Your contribution to our understanding of the world is immense and crucial. Thank you.
As an African I know we had our ways from government structures, commerce, spirituality, our education was practical learning, we have abandoned our ways to follow their ways which leads us to dead ends 😢
@@UpliftedUprisingI agree with the initial comment. I think a lot of people don't see the bigger picture. Adhering to western customs will eventually lead to Africa's demise. Then again, that's just from my perspective.
@@SSDJ816 I feel you are right, and I'd also like to add the reason I believe you are. It's more about the "why" this would lead to our demise rather then the "what" the western idea actually is. In other words it would lead to our demise because it shows we can be limited in our sights and manipulated to such degrees not so much as what is contained in the information we actually have picked up. Its the principle of it thats sickening. We allow the complexity of our minds to be subdued, thats the evil
Why is the western way a dead end? You are on the Internet, using a phone or a computer to send this message, you are on RU-vid, using a written language, probably wearing clothes in a European style, eating food grown with European agriculture science, etc.... if you want to build a home of mud and grass, live off the land, have no written language, no wheel, etc... you can do that... or you can follow all of humanity(which has adopted European culture) and keep up with the rest of the world.. The next step for humanity is space travel, don't you want to be apart of that? Or would you rather grow okra and raise cattle in a mud hut with illiterate children?
@kevinsuggs1 It is a dead end, firstly the western way has caused climate change, on the verge of world war 3, gmo food that causes cancer, junk food for obesity, feminism and modern lifestyles, consumerism and materialism that causes depression and anxiety, that's no way to leave. All the resources that go into making phones, laptops, electronics devices comes from Congo and the rest of Africa. Stop assuming that I wear European style clothing, the mud huts, are found all over the world in remote villages, only in Africa this seems to be an insult, plus their environmentally sustainable, and suitable for the hot climate. What's embrassing and shameful is being part of a group that has committed genocide, colonialism, slavery, stolen entire continents, and still show no shame. Your trying to go to space to coloniser it of course, very typical of your type, after you have destroyed earth, now you want to escape. Now, so-called modern people in the west are now choosing to live off the grid, which we call in Africa village living. Africa has a history of having written scripts, have you heard of ethiopia?? Most of our written scripts were abandoned due to coloniser pressures
Yeah many still think or believe that the giving and education as well as sharing and knowledge was only one way with Euros enlightening Afros but not as much in the roller sider or in the center yeah.
Exactly, it's funny that bigots love to talk so much about so-called superior European knowledge and technologies, but, in many cases, Europeans were forced to adapt to African cultures and techniques as you've demonstrated. This even goes back to antiquity, mind you. The Ptolemy Greeks, during their war with Kush over some regions of Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia, adopted the quilted cotton armor called they called Stolas Piletas. According to historian Agatharchides of Cnidus, 500 Greek horsemen were equipt with the armor of the land called "hoi kata ten choran". They adopted this as it was used to defend against the lethal archery skulls of the Kushites and surrounding people. This same armor style spread in the Sahel and seems to be related to Eueopean Gambeson armor.
@@mikegreen8938 Around 275 BC Ptolemy II invaded and managed to take the region known as Triakontaschoinos (parts of Lower Nubia and Upper Egypt). The control collapsed with Hugronaphor's rebellion in 205 BC where Upper Egyptians and Lower Nubians joined together to rise up against the Ptolemy Dynasty, Kushite briefly took control of Lower Nubia but, after Hugronaphor passed away Ptolemy V would defeat his successor in Upper Egypt and also push back the Kushites out of Lower Nubia. The Kushites eventually took back Lower Nubia again when the Ptolemy dynesty was weakening.
@@admirekashiri9879 The sad thing is, some historians still believe that the Greeks and romans didn't conqueror sub-saharan Africa due to nothing of worth being found there. When in truth it was due to the strength of Kush that they were pushed back.
@@thevisitor1012 The strength of Kush that pushed them back? Yes, yes. Hanibal had a go at Rome. He almost won. But he didn't, in the end. Would Kush have made any difference? None. They were simply too far for the Roman Empire to bother going there. Plain and simple.
@@Briselance Yes despite being next door neighbors they were somehow “too far away”. But not too far away for the empire to try to impose control over Kush? 🤔
Never forget where you came from far as black people we need to wake up stop taking our history for granted and start reading the black history books reading about slavery and we was treated far black people just about every nationality and this nation. 🙏😇🙏❤️👑
Definitely waaay more. Gotta read books like shabakas stone and spirituality before religion Both written by the elder kabakamene…we go Back to the Beginning of humanity thats what we gotta start learning
i've heard this twice in your video now, so i thought i would make a note of it. Sedentary is the opposite of people who move frequently. i think you mean nomadic.
Hi Hometeam. I was just wondering whether you've read/given any lectures about queer theory from the perspective of post-colonial studies? The reason I ask is because I've been noticing that the very same western nations that criminalised same seggz relationships between colonial subjects are now trying to define and essentially project their current "progressive" worldview about queerness/same-sex relationships, onto world majority peoples (Global South). As usual, the West is unable to comprehend that the world isn't the West, so it seeks to homogenise the world by universaling western theories. Despite the fact the same-seggz relationships in the West largely has it origins in pederasty and their disdain for women which led to the institutionalisation of patriarchy, I'm shocked to observe that some world majority cultures/nations are openly accepting western definitions of homosexuality. These nations/cultures/individuals fail to analyse the practice from their own unique cultural and historic lense. It'd be great to analyse these issues from a post/pre-colonial perspective. Do kindly share your thoughts.
Weren't the Africans really the first homo sapiens and displaced the Neanderthals of Europe? Wasn't the story of David versus Goliath a parable of this clash and ultimate absorption along the path of humanity?
The Nubian Empire worked alongside the Egyptian Empire. The Mali Empire worked alongside the Middle East system. The Benin Kingdom was developed and worked with others. Both sides gave, impressed and learned. If this is the case Africa was as developed as the Middle East, Romans and Greeks in many parts. Just because the Europeans came in with their savage ways, destroyed, stole, took and re-wrote evidence it does not mean Africa was backwards at all. The Europeans are just mass murderers, they have done the same to Aborigines, American Indians, Mexicans, Polynesians, Africans and more. Came across the name Malik Ambar, have you done a video on him?
"The Europeans are just mass-murderers" Sir, Wakanda doesn't exist. Was it all sunshine and rainbows before the Africans even knew of the white men? Did the Africans wait for the white men to arrive to mutually enslave and subdue each other? They sure did not. "Their savage ways"? That one is rich. Who put an end to slavery, by the way? Aye. The Brits and the Froggies. I don't know why in particular you have a beef with Westerners/Euros/Crackers/etc., but facts won't change just because you don't like them.
Africa was more a lot more developed than them. When they came they were so impressed by what they saw that they concluded that an alien species lived amongst Africans. It's art, people, idols everything they pillaged are still with them till this day
@@Briselance "Who put an end to slavery, by the way? Aye. The Brits and the Froggies." You mean the very people who practiced it? Also, the British did not end slavery in America, neither did France.
@@falloutboy1379 how. ? And lets keeo things in modern times and m9t he stuck in 1955. Show me a RU-vid channl thats constantly comparing Europe to Africa?
West africans had no writing, no roads, no stone buildings. Their civilization was comparable to 3000BC Egypt (except that they did use some iron). They were 4000 years backward. Europeans simply needed a few thousands men to conquer the whole continent. Africa's backwardness in the modern age is undisputable.
The West Africans were one of the most centralized areas south of the Sahara. Their government’s systematically expanded commerce, instituted taxation of goods, hosted a litany of Quranic schools and private libraries, lived under assigned administrative provinces and districts, built large stationary settlements capable of supporting 100,000 or more people, invested in public architecture, devised ways to manage various peoples under a single state, hosted plantations to maximize production, and sourced metals from various mines using logistics. As for stone architecture, Koumbi-Saleh (Dhar Tichitt, Mauritania), capital of the former Ghana empire, employed stone architecture, and such images are easily available online. In southeastern Africa, Great Zimbabwe was also constructed from stone, and remains a famous example even acknowledged by UNESCO. It took a religious war in the highest echelons of the Songhai empire between Muslim and traditionalist backers to weaken the Songhai military. Only then did Morocco, their northern neighbor, have the confidence in an invasion after extensive spying. Even today west African nations are some of the most capable and organized of the continent. Nigeria built the largest oil refinery there to date, and it will be active shortly, having been set to receive its first batches of crude oil. What you type is a devaluation combined with blatant falsehoods and disgusting enthusiasm for the scramble for Africa.
Most black people in America aren't even from Africa. Most are Chippewa, Seminole, Cheektowaga, Cherokee, Iroquois or hundreds of other native American tribe's. If you are interested read a book call 'The Observations concerning the increase of mankind and peopling' by Benjamin Franklin published 1738. In this book and many others from the time and earlier they describe the Indians in America. Many time's as "really dark, flat wide nose, to their heights". Black people were just reclassified. But being black doesn't mean Africa. Black is from all over the world.
your videos are so pointless because you literally say nothing in them... only out of context quotes and random, mostly wrong facts that have nothing to do with each other :( so sad
Black is an American ethnic identity. Before social media, Africans had no knowledge of such an identity. We identify our racial group as Africans. Before foreign invasions, all native Africans were deeply melanated people. The invaders don't call themselves Africans to this day. In fact, they are deeply offended when you call them Africans. And the word "sub-Saharan" is offensive. A lie coined to separate native Africans from the northern territories we once inhabited.
@lisear2926 Strawman argument Everyone knows the history of America On the other hand, black people say all the time that Africa is black Why don't you try answering the question
