Hello Dr. Oyinson. Art historian - but not an Africa specialist - here. I'm always happy to see a scholar doing her best to educate the public! It's important work. I still worry about the protection of Nok artifacts and archeological sites. I've always been told that it's one of the worst cases of looting in modern history. Now that the economies of a number of coastal West African countries have been improving (finally!), I would be very interested to know if you're finding that this problem is starting to be better handled by the authorities. Are the sites better protected? Is there enough of a crack-down on looters and the black market for antiquities? And is Nok archeology salvageable? If you did a video on this subject - perhaps with a West African audience in mind - i think it might help to draw public attention to the issue. People need to know that their heritage - and their ability to know about it - is being stolen from them, right? I wish you well
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Some will say the Nok were “Tan-colored Asiatics” that came to the Niger Delta region to seed civilization to the Africans. …😂😂 They’ll probably ignore the fact that the Nok’s art work reflected the way they look down to the braids in their hair.
I have no skin in the game of these cultural politics, but I do have to point out - objectively - that hair-braiding is found in many cultures and does not depend on the genetic traits you are thinking of in West Africa. I would also point out that if someone did find evidence of a migration out of the Nile River valley that moved west across the Sahel, it would be a huge discovery that would increase the historical importance of the Kushite Civilization in Nubia and likely the Sao culture as well. There aren't any bonus points earned for an ancient/medieval civilization having innovated without contact with prosperous or powerful empires. They might have done so on their own - like the Olmec and Chavin. Maybe! Or, subsaharan Africa could have been connected to ancient civilizations in the same way countless others in Afro-Eurasia were. Either way, we need to see the evidence. I am more interested in uncovering the true history than politicizing it. Shouldn't we all be?
We need to audit this use of "advanced" we are seeing these days. That and civilization are misunderstood clearly. Culture and civilization are not mutually exclusive terms.
Sure. However, when I am teaching ancient history, I find that modern people underestimate the abilities of ancient and medieval peoples. "Advanced" is a good rhetorical device to get others to understand that they WERE advanced relative to their predecessors.
Point of correction other parts of the continent/inspite of all this information which well regarded I was wondering if mellinated people would have bring to light ower culture in a sense documented history from ower perspective it seems like only the Europeans wor only wons doing documentation I wonder if we wor not disturb what would be ower sivervlisation
"Melinated people" strikes me as such a strange word used outside anything but a medical or genetics context. There's really not much that Nilotic and Bantu people share with southern Indians or Melanesians, is there?
Hello Dr. Oyinson. Art historian - but not an Africa specialist - here.
I'm always happy to see a scholar doing her best to educate the public! It's important work.
I still worry about the protection of Nok artifacts and archeological sites. I've always been told that it's one of the worst cases of looting in modern history.
Now that the economies of a number of coastal West African countries have been improving (finally!), I would be very interested to know if you're finding that this problem is starting to be better handled by the authorities. Are the sites better protected? Is there enough of a crack-down on looters and the black market for antiquities? And is Nok archeology salvageable?
If you did a video on this subject - perhaps with a West African audience in mind - i think it might help to draw public attention to the issue. People need to know that their heritage - and their ability to know about it - is being stolen from them, right?
I wish you well
Thank you
Wow. I'm from Nok village. This is so cool to see. ❤
I enjoyed this video
Greatest lady of our Time !!!!!!!!! I hope,tinubu Will give her some help ! Please ! Im not from Nigeria but this lady is a Legendary greatest lady of the modern time ! Welcome to australia !
Fantastic info..black people must wake up and unite
Nok Civilization was CO-OPTED by chollywood in the Stargate Series, the exact way cholly made that whiteboy in a robe, the Christ!
Some will say Nok were from Europe 😊
😲Oh yes! Everything originated from Europe 🫢
@@JD-zw5osJust like everyone....came...out...of
..'Africa'....😒😮💨
Please mama can u go to visit mragih traip of Adam aww ,yola gulak,.then u will find some nuk
🌎💡❤
Some will say the Nok were “Tan-colored Asiatics” that came to the Niger Delta region to seed civilization to the Africans. …😂😂
They’ll probably ignore the fact that the Nok’s art work reflected the way they look down to the braids in their hair.
😂😂
I have no skin in the game of these cultural politics, but I do have to point out - objectively - that hair-braiding is found in many cultures and does not depend on the genetic traits you are thinking of in West Africa.
I would also point out that if someone did find evidence of a migration out of the Nile River valley that moved west across the Sahel, it would be a huge discovery that would increase the historical importance of the Kushite Civilization in Nubia and likely the Sao culture as well.
There aren't any bonus points earned for an ancient/medieval civilization having innovated without contact with prosperous or powerful empires.
They might have done so on their own - like the Olmec and Chavin. Maybe!
Or, subsaharan Africa could have been connected to ancient civilizations in the same way countless others in Afro-Eurasia were.
Either way, we need to see the evidence.
I am more interested in uncovering the true history than politicizing it. Shouldn't we all be?
@@Robespierre-lIbro your need to shut tf up. You will never know anything about real ancient history. You’re a genetic mutation.
.🔥❤I hear you....Place KOM KINGDOM CAMEROON alongside.... RIP FON NDI [1926-1954]...... "LONG STEPS NEVER BROKE A BACK" 🇻🇨🇻🇨🇬🇧
We need to audit this use of "advanced" we are seeing these days. That and civilization are misunderstood clearly. Culture and civilization are not mutually exclusive terms.
Sure. However, when I am teaching ancient history, I find that modern people underestimate the abilities of ancient and medieval peoples. "Advanced" is a good rhetorical device to get others to understand that they WERE advanced relative to their predecessors.
Don't get me rong they destroy a lot of documents
Point of correction other parts of the continent/inspite of all this information which well regarded I was wondering if mellinated people would have bring to light ower culture in a sense documented history from ower perspective it seems like only the Europeans wor only wons doing documentation I wonder if we wor not disturb what would be ower sivervlisation
"Melinated people" strikes me as such a strange word used outside anything but a medical or genetics context. There's really not much that Nilotic and Bantu people share with southern Indians or Melanesians, is there?
Define 'Advanced '.When anthropologists and historians only look for comparisons with white European culture, their arguments don't hold up.