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we lose our culture we lose our market

No just use the words in your Afrikan languages.

Huts can be made of any material, by any culture. No one associates the word "hut" solely with African construction. Also, "African" is not a monolithic culture. There are many distinctly different cultures in Africa. Get the chip off your shoulder.

So the “proof that Africans never lived in mud huts” is the fact that the English word hut has European origins? A mud hut by any other name is still a hut made of mud.

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original architecture. That's the world I'll use

Lady, those are hovels... not pyramids, like the very much not black Egyptians built at Giza, nor domes, like the one Brunelleschi built in Florence. You have no culture.

Cope harder, Africans... nobody cares.

Cultural plagiarism is one of the major features of western civilisation. This is nothing new. We as Africans have to accept this as a reality as address ourselves to respecting our cultures and build upon them.

Beautiful,id love to learn to build mud homes

My people (Blacks) are at their best when we are let alone.

This is for all people who don't know why Black people hair is made the way it is (what we call nappy) Black people hair is design to hold sweat( straight hair sweat will run down it) when the slightest breeze blow it will cool down the hold body. It work the same way a swamp cooler work in people homes in the state Arizona ( a fan with a motor blowing on water inside the cooler , Black people originated from hot and tropical climate land. God is good all the time.

The USA and other european countries told African leaders that if they wanted to send their exports to their countries, then used textile will have to be imported back to African countries. That's the deal that was made and african countries who have tried to get out of the deal, have been sanctioned. I think Uganda and Zimbabwe are examples.

I grew up in the northwestern part of cameroon call Wum. As a kid, the villagers had mud houses with thatch roofs. I don't know why they abandoned the thatch in favour of corrugated zinc roofs. It was cool seeing that.

Lets build the institutions and scale it across africa,I'll put my money where my mouth is

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

Volcanoes 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 but they were all over the world.. not just in Africa 🌍

With due respect, I believe the first issue favoring the use of the dome shape pertains to meeting the demands of the rainy season and the dry season. In some locals the home is primarily used for sleeping or as shelter from significant rain storms. The lack of windows is partly to save on cost and keeping the structure strong. The temperature difference inside and outside is very significant.

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.

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.

Wake up you were 500 years behind.

We need people like you to teach in our African schools

With less measuring modern instruments. That floor 👏

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.

i wish i could find someone to build my house in mudbrick but there are just no african companies doing it. I do not want to hire some northern company to build african in africa. Shame :/

if anyone is a traditional builder or knows any around west africa, please reach out. We also should trian more people to build like this, now is the time. The only thing stopping us is us and our pathetic leaders who are paid from overseas accounts.

i wish i knew mudbuilders who would do this for me in ghana

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

Excellent Information shared! It’s indeed a challenge to mix traditional values with modernity but it is possible to do without compromising our identities. What are steps that you think Africans can do to make that possible?

This info was really informative! This is a subject that’s not touched on enough and isn’t easily understood by African peoples sometimes

What the name of your channel on Facebook?

Im not against mud homes if they have style and updated modern and look like Ndomo buildings in Mali and Ndbele motif mud homes in South Africa

Africa has the best architecture. Europe looks like Europe..Asia looks like Asia. Africa looks like the west

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I think a tent can be decorated verry welllll

Summary of the Video: Traditional African Dome-shaped Homes Introduction The video discusses the traditional African architecture of dome-shaped homes and the reasons behind their unique design. Characteristics of Traditional African Dome-shaped Homes - Many traditional African homes feature dome-shaped roofs or entire structures without windows. - Examples of dome-shaped buildings from the Musgum community and the Dingurai Mosque in Guinea are highlighted. Ventilation in Dome-shaped Homes - Dome-shaped structures naturally regulate temperature, as demonstrated by an experiment with pepper under a dome or pyramid shape. - The design allows for natural air circulation, aiding in cooling during hot weather. Benefits of Mud Houses - Mud houses are known for their ability to keep interiors cool during extreme temperatures. - Natural ventilation achieved through dome or pyramid shapes contributes to the overall sustainability of traditional African architecture. Importance of Utilising Indigenous Knowledge - Embracing traditional architectural designs can lead to more sustainable and environmentally friendly homes. - By incorporating indigenous knowledge, modern homes can be built in a more natural and sustainable way. Call to Action - Viewers are encouraged to experiment with dome shapes to understand their benefits. - Conscious consumerism is promoted, urging individuals to consult with experts in traditional architecture before building homes. - Architects are challenged to incorporate African architectural designs into modern buildings, leading to a preservation of cultural heritage and sustainable practices. Conclusion The video emphasises the importance of utilising local materials, embracing indigenous knowledge, and challenging the status quo in architectural design to create more sustainable and culturally rich living spaces in Africa.

I have no issue with African architecture, the issue is that we as Africans haven’t improved on it very much. It’s still treated as an after thought, we need to figure out how to infuse modern elements into our traditional architecture. One great strength our architecture has is colour and style, we need to play on that strength and improve on the structure itself. I don’t care what Europeans think, my concern is how we should improve on what we have .

Well spake! We need solutions like this now. We need to implement them now.

Raised African grainaries are millennias old not centuries old. They are depicted in Hatshepsut's tomb showing the homeland of the Pwenet (Puntites) which would have been in modern Eritrea/northern Ethiopia and align with ethnic groups such as Hamer who still raise their grainaries.

The experiment suggested at 3:44 the explanation given isn’t accurate no fault to the author as the truth to that mystery is a heavily guarded one even in this age of information the science of vibration is still obscured by mystery to the majority of the human population. To learn and understand the phenomena you must understand the mechanism behind what the French scientists term shape caused waves which the they rediscovered the purpose and function of many of the Egyptian tools and hieroglyphs. Specifically louis turenne the French radiasthesist. Yet most of his work are extremely hard to come by so would recommend you look up biogeometry to get a good sense of the science of Africans which is still employed till this day though mainly in secrecy for reasons unbeknownst to me.

Absolutely love this architecture, no pollution and when no longer used can go back to the Earth . All people need to build this way for world wide affordability. Let's face it African people have built this way since the dawn of time. Many standing for hundreds of years. Thank you

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 ❤️🖤💚