@@matthewpettway3864 I mean you see examples in the video. Planning on building one myself. The older generations really failed in many ways. Hybridizating African architecture with modern tech was always the way. It's what Arabs and Asians did, while our elders foolishly followed Europeans. African baby boomers were overly impressed by the Europeans.
Your commentary is like music to my ears. Slowly our people are waking up and choosing to shed the very temporary values of the West and embracing the traditional in order to reset and move forward. I would love a traditional home on the continent
There is a lot of knowledge waiting for us to develop back home and secure our existence. No one should have to spend their whole life working to have a roof over their head. It's a colonial and bondage mindset. This is the time to retrieve and save this knowledge before its too late.
4:16 We accept that because we are controled by a spirutuality that not our. If you pray the ancestor of the other, you can't pray yours so you disapear. Our ancestor built these structures in a circule forme for reenforce the society and the culture and with this spirituality we had get the balance. It is with the balance that we had the spirit of hospitality. We have to remember who we are. We have to choice to be "I" ou "We".
Am so so grateful that someone is actually addressing this. I pray many Africans get to subscribe to your channel and hear this. Interesting how just before I watched this video today, was digging through the Internet, looking for inspiration from African architecture for my home. I was struck by how other none Africans try to emulate mud huts and cherish the unique experience of it. And also interestingly it got me thinking, just like you said, of how we melanated people are easily conditioned by non melanated people into believing that our ways are primitive or less valuable. It's like if they told an African that the precious diamond they are holding in their hand is primitive and worthless, the African would throw it away in exchange for a stone! I mean, look at so much of our culture ie architecture, food, dressing, language, etc, that we have thrown away! Just because they managed to convince us theirs is better than ours. 🤦♀️. That's why I cringe when even African vloggers are trying to convince the world that "we don't live in mud huts! “🙆♀️ It brings me back to what the Bible says of us. Bible is actually our history. The Most High Creator said not only are His people stiff necked, they are also a sottish people! But anyway, good news is that He promised to wake up and restore a remnant in the last days.
I wonder how many of those hotels are owned by Afrikans? I will assume that most (if not all) have whyte owners. And they are providing others (majority other whyte's) with an Afrikan experience. It is almost as if, we have swapped places - Afrikans want concrete and metal and they want nature and natural beauty. Additionally, as a side note, I didn't see a single a/c (air conditioner) unit anywhere. Building an Afrikan home leaves a smaller carbon footprint.
Nice work compiling all this! Architect Francis Kere (Bukina Faso) has done extensive work around this. I believe may young minds are starting to appreciate this and shift back. I, for one know this is how I wish to build my own house. Scientifically, there are way more benefits to this organic type of construction as opposed to our rigid modern style. Thanks again!
They move the goal post when we use it but when they use it it all the sudden is luxury . I think they change their mind if black people are around . The most beautiful architecture in Africa is indigenous design. Sudano architecture is my favorite, it stretches from Senegal, the sahel to sudan. . Most people are not into architecture but I am . Many tourist only want modernized resorts and never look at the indigenous resorts.
In the mid 70s I went to the village in western Uganda, my grandfather had a traditional ankole hut he used to sit in during the day, drink his local brew and make traditional mats. The hut was all thatch without walls. When it was time to thatch he would call his friends to help. And they all knew how to do it. They are all dead now with all the techniques
I am so happy to see this video. You expressed my thoughts exactly. As I prepare to return home I think about the house I will build and I fully lean towards a traditional style home implementing modern touches that stay true to our roots but accommodate our current comforts. Thank you. I love this subject.
You ask questions which have a very simple answer. We have a low mentality of African things. We taught these people everything they know but we dont remember the good things about ourselves. It starts with you so my home upcountry is being built with nearly no cement and my roof will be done by women from Teso( my in laws)
t-ankh U for dis channel 🎉🎉 Im hapi someone picked up my thoughts about dis subject.. my dream is to build a village in Indigenous Style( aligned with seasons/stars) Dis Afrikan-Caribbean wumbman is tired of living in EU.
Would it be posible for you to add your sources in the description for all these amazing pictures of African architecture you show while narrating? I wanna be able educate my children with some of these visual aids and they tend to be a bit hard to find outside of your videos.
These, with one exception, are NOT African traditional architecture. They are late 20th Century LUXURY hotels w/African motifs. Built by foreign money, for monied foreign tourist, to attract foreign investors by capitalizing on perceived exoticism. Disney is also quite good at this. Across Africa people build structures they can afford to live in. Traditional methods are expensive, labor intensive, and require constant maintenance . New styles of African traditional structures are being built, but it is much cheaper to build with lower cost European materials from simple European imitative blueprints. All elements of style in 18th & 19th century African architecture is being incorporated into the creation of Modern African structures.
I would love to use traditional building methods in Ghana but the they are all stuck on concrete! Rammed and compressed earth options are not really affordable either.
Hujambo dada.. i was wondering if you been to or heard of Kerma and Doukki Gel in Sudan? Also may i request i video on roads. In pictures of the previously mention places I've notice what looks like mud brick roads. And they seem to have lasted some time since they date back a few thousand years. I belive mud could also be a solution to constructing roads in the villiage over tarmac
I don't see why you shouldn't build your homes this way .I think it feels right . Just looking at this makes me happy. Just imagine ❤. I know there are many things to consider depending on where you will live . The safety of your family , schools, junior high, high schools,college, university, work training, computer cafes, post office , gasoline stations , walking. I can see streets, paths, side walk , lights , electricity, water ,gas, transportation, doctors ,dentist ,hospitals. I'm in California, but I'm so excited for you all. I want to see this happen.
These resorts are designed for the people who visit them, ie tourist , and not local people.The rooms must be carefully demarcated and contain familar items such as sofas,TV screens and beds.
I’m a European living in the sticks of KwaZulu Natal South Africa about to build beautiful beehives because of its air conditioning, sustainability, beauty, lack of straight lines, and it is a community lodge; why do local Zulus build concrete square houses? I don’t believe the victim mentality and colonialism narrative? It’s a choice, as an outsider I appreciate the local wisdom in architecture and the larger spiritual and natural connections. What moves locals to move away from that?
I ask if we where never plundered by your people, who brainwashed us into believing our ways where "primitive" do you think they would have moved away from there culture to emulate your peoples "superior" ways. And now their replicates are gaslighting us into believing that the legacy of colonialism and neocolonialism didn't play a major factor into this.
It's very sad that is preserved only for the tourists and only in very few, rare spots. Every local african architecture might be for all africans, everywere, in every neighborhood. That's the real beauty, not all those "kits" luxurious villas have conquered the Sub Saharan continent.
