I would love for you to show a top ten Ancient African cities that are still alive and successful today like Kano and Mombassa. Giving a brief of the history followed by a brief of the current city's economy and culture.
Zanzibar is worth a mention. It was like Timbuktu in that it was very important to world trade and had and almost mythological mystique associated with it by people outside of Africa.
i love how informative this channel is, especially given how under represented african history is. so much of what i have seen on this channel is wholly new to me. hope to see more of this series of classical cities and cultures
Ikr this video make me want to become a teacher so I can teach history In a schools here in Nigeria using his video as inspiration. I know if video like these were available in my childhood I would have been very willing to accept and love my rich in melanin skin and African heritage.
Maybe, but we would need to rid ourselves of the self destructive colonial mindset first. Check out CyHi Tha Prynce- NuAfrica for a musical idea of what that might be like.
African Americans live in the USA. Africans never built ships and declared war to come and rescue us. I am an American. I build where my family is buried...the family that cared for me.
@@lydiaedwards8100 um alot of africans actually did but as you know europeans had advanced weapons...and even in africa, africans fought europeans and tried to stop europeans. And Europeans didn't just take africans and leave, they stayed and committed multiple genocides. there was even a german man who killed and tortured twelve thousand Africans in Africa. What your spewing is division driven by resentment that is misplaced and this is coming from a Creole african American woman. Africans we suffering just like us but best believe they tried.
Thank you so much for covering the ancient city of my people- Benin and the Oba’s Palace. The English came and sacked the town burning it to the ground and exiling our Oba before stealing our Palace bronze artefacts which are now all over the world in museums and people’s private collections. I’m very proud of my heritage from both my father’s and mother’s lineages. I’m from the Edo or Bini tribe and it’s unfortunate our language is dying out because people aren’t teaching their children their language, only English. My brothers are guilty of this even though my dad banned us as from speaking English in our house when we lived in Switzerland as a diplomat. I live in NYC now and most of my family is still in Benin city and I do go back whenever I’m able to.
Yeah many have great kinds of roofs, walls, doors, fences, gates, windows, fortresses, pillars, chimneys, chairs, stools, beds, benches, couches, and more
I would argue the loss of Alexandria's library is worse considering the time it was lost set the world back centuries at least. Still a shame it was lost to fire. The goid news is the library of Timbuktu could possibly still exist hopefully it is found be amazing to see what we could all learn of the African history preserved in it.
Timbuktu did not go through the multiple fires and pillaging that destroyed Alexandrian library time and again. I think it was burnt down or pillaged 5 times before it was gone.
During the Meroitic period, the Kushites used war elephants, depictions such as these are found in Al - Musawwarat, some of these elephants were traded with the Carthagians who they used during the Punic Wars. Should of added Kerma, Napata, Meroe, Adulis, Dhar Tichitt and Axum since the title is called "History of Classical African Cities" not "History of Medieval African Cities".
Nubians we’re not part of the same racial group as black Africans. Nubians including Somalians, Ethiopians and northern Africans are actually extensions of the Caucasian race
@@melvinskdkj8536LMAO 🤣 No they're not, they're black Africans, especially the Nubians since they spoked a Nilo-Saharan language, which is the only language family spoken in Africa and no where else, and the Nilo-Saharan language family is spoken in Mali, Sudan literally means land of the black people! and they are not Caucasians since they did not originate from the Caucasus mountains, that's a completely outdated term, that's like me claiming that the Olmecs were black Africans.
@@melvinskdkj8536 Nubians were jet black Africans. They were called Aethiopia to denote their jet black skin. You have forgotten most East Africans like the Absysnians were an admixture between black Africans and people from Yemen.
Love your work! The European visitors, observers, speaking on similarities to Europe lands(west) Italy(south) are mere conformation of the fact that African Civilizations, prior to the slavery interruption, was a prime example of a society well-functioning, flourishing, highly economic, well connected, wealthy with Royals. I had zero knowledge of these sources’ statements before now, but my own study of “art & symbols” of Benin and same European locations mentioned, shows, in my opinion, a direct link, a sure presence, and sure influence in Europe society and its designs.
@@melvinskdkj8536 Egypt isn't Arab mate, its Coptic North African, Arabs only make up 17% of the population in Egypt, and people of African descent can study any parts of African history, just as much as a Swedish person can study any part of European history, not just the history of Scandinavia.
@@melvinskdkj8536 People of African descent can study and be proud of any parts of Africa just as much as a Swedish person can study and be proud of any parts of Europe, not just Scandinavia.
Do you think the should show chinese history in class or Semoas history.? It's up to us to teach or on history . can't be waiting for American schools to teach us about African history atleast in grade school. In college you take African history classes.
Twenty classical cities I'd include are the following: Old Dongola Faras Njimi Massenya Khami Danangombe Kano Mogadishu Kumasi Zeila Zazzau Koumbi Saleh Abomey Igbo-Ukwu Ile Ife Aksum Mombasa Gao Musawwarat es Sufra Djenne Jenno
@@melvinskdkj8536 culture vulture trying to claim east African Ethiopian achievements are Arab lol typical euro centrists claiming every culture is their own from Persians to Egyptians to even now Ethiopians wonder what's next
@@benschein9713 well yes these groups all belong to the same Caucasiod family tree and are all genetically related to one another. You will not see not one multi story building in sub Saharan Africa no writing system or sophisticated agriculture no indigenous tamed animals or really any civilization at all.
@@DaduaMaiga lol honestly you are so right in fact I've seen some of them try to say because empires like Mali and Songhai were Islamic it means that they are Arab meaning that because Arabs are Caucasians in their mind Mali and Songhai were also caucasiod empires honestly I don't know how that logic works but these people are so desperate
You should have a video talking about the king Oba Akitoye.On using the abolishing slavery and how he took back his thrown from his brother Kosoko in 1850.
The current cities in Afrika that I am planning to visit and properly connect with are: (West Afrika) Dakar, Senegal🇸🇳 Abidjan, Ivory Coast🇨🇮 Freetown, Sierra Leone🇸🇱 Accra, Ghana🇬🇭 Lagos, Nigeria🇳🇬 (East Afrika) Nairobi, Kenya🇰🇪 Mombasa, Kenya🇰🇪 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania🇹🇿 Kampala, Uganda🇺🇬 Kigali, Rwanda🇷🇼
Hey love your channel bro. I very recently learned about the swahili boats MTEPE that were quite common until they adopted more the western methods in ship building by the coming of the Portuguese. Have rather unsuccessfully been able to find more about it online. Would love to you see make a video on that if you can come across some information on that.
I love how us Africans are chipping in their historical town in the comment section. That shows you how much history and success we had in the past 💪🏾 🇰🇪. For us it’s Mombasa
The link for afrographics does not work. I really like the Sahelian Sudano with the sword in the miniature and 4:34. Do you have a link for this picture? Thanks.
You should’ve def added kilwa, Mogadishu, Zeila, Koumbi saleh, Loango or old dongola. Ngl I am surprised kilwa kisiwani wasn’t mentioned in this video. I mean kilwa was a very famous city state in the Indian Ocean and one of the biggest structures in all of Africa is in kilwa aka Husuni Kubwa palace.
The poeple who can caste such awe inspiring bronzes and make diverse artistic beads and hair styles are sure not ignorant men. They are sure not first-men hiding in caves, they surely had their own civilisation, systems and structure
Huh, when you said classical, i was expecting Carthage, Alexandria or Aksum - African cities in the time of the Greeks and Romans, the Classical time period for historians, not the Medieval or early Modern cities you discuss.
Heya, great video as usual. I am a big fan of geography and history. Could you include maps indicating where these cities are in videos like this? It gives important context
Great work HomeTeam, don't stop doing this. You've got really amazing content. I'm from Edo (Benin City), and the name 'Ile' Ubini isn't one that was used to refer to the city in the past. Maybe it is could have be attributed to the Europeans, but not the people. I love your channel.
'It was not until the 15th century, during the reign of Oba Ewuare the Great, that the kingdom's administrative centre, the city of Ubinu (or Ibinu), began to be known as Benin City by the Portuguese, a pronunciation later adopted by the locals as well. The Portuguese would write this down as Benin City. Edo's neighbours, such as the Itsekiris and the Urhobos, continued to refer to the city as Ubini up until the late 19th century' ....I copied this directly from wikipedia. His report is pretty accurate
hell, i didn't know about the benin city and how the english knocked it down until recently. But, I remember reading that the English thought Benin City Was "confusing", so I took that as they came up with different math for building cities. Outside of Roman design because all Europeans bite off the Romans design.
Why do we think the buildings there resemble England and Roman, five you a hint it's not because of the people that claim to descend from said places, another hint the artifacts
Just amazes me every single time. Love your videos and the work you put in to share them with us. But that the european scholars of the past are able to say these things and still have descendants that choose to be blind to the truth.
Basil Davidson a modern day white man had a history of Africa in 1980s documentary in England, he mentioned a lot of what is said here, some European choose to focus on Africa…
@HomeTeam History , is ILE - IFE in Nigeria a joke to you? The Europeans that came to west Africa could not make it to ILE-IFE simply because it is in the hinterland and they were scare of mosquitoes. ILE - IFE had long been in existence before ILE-IBINI, the kings of the first dynasty called OGISO and the Kings of the present second dynasty called OBA are from ILE-IFE which has been in existence around 400BC. Please do a thorough research, ILE-IBINI is classic but then where do you put ILE-IFE which most of present west African kingdoms originated.
The Kingdom of Kush wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Aksum wasn't in the stone age. The Dhar Tichitt civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Nok civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of D'mt wasn't in the stone age. The Ghana Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Sao Civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Mali Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Songhai Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Makuria wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Alodia wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Nobatia wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Kerma wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Benin wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe wasn't in the stone age. The Absyssnia Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Kongo Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Mutapa Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Ajuran Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Land of Punt wasn't in the stone age. The Luba Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Rezvi Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Sokoto Caliphate wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Lunda wasn't in the stone age.
Taharqa LoL Of course they were! Just because you individually type out the names of ancient African Stone Age cultures and say they weren’t in the Stone Age doesn’t mean that it’s true! You people have a hard time with the truth and reality.
Taharqa “Lunda traded with both the Arabs on the Indian Ocean and, from about 1650, the Portuguese on the Atlantic. The leading exports were ivory and slaves; imports included cloth and guns. The empire reached the height of its power by the 1850s”. ~ Wikipedia They couldn’t even make their own cloth and they’re only exports were slaves and elephant tusks! Every sub-Saharan African culture you just mentioned was in the Stone Age and many of their descendants still are! If you had any shame you’d be embarrassed right now.
I respect your efforts. Most of there cities were influenced by Moors with a North African dominance. The Arab domination of North Africa is reflected in the architecture and extends to the cultural accomplishments. These areas have little or no association with the Africa with which most blacks in America identify.
Exactly this guy is being very disingenuous none of these cities besides Benin city was influenced by black people. Northern Africans are Caucasiod not black
@@melvinskdkj8536 Mate, Timbuktu was part of the Mali Empire and was founded by the Mandinka Sundiata Keita in the 13th century who was black, and most North Africans are brown skinned Amazigh people, Not Caucasian since they did not come from the Caucasus mountains, Caucasian is an outdated term, and there are some black Amazighs such as the Tuaregs but most Amazighs aren't, and there are other non Amazighs ethnic groups in the Maghreb such as the Toubous who are also black, even the oldest mummy discovered in North Africa is a black 2 and a half years old boy named Uan Muhuggiag, there's a documentary about the Uan Muhuggiag mummy here in TH-cam.
@@DaduaMaiga none of those so called “sand hut” civilizations ever did a fraction of Europeans, Arabic or East Asian civilizations. There is not one structure like the Taj Mahal,the Egyptian pyramids or any Japanese or Chinese structures. They are all primitive in comparison lol.
I always forget that this channel is made for west, north and South African only, it’s stupid of me waiting for him to mention any East African cities 🤦🏾♂️
He does mention East Africa what are you talking about? Plus this is a series bro he will cover the others definitely. There is no.way he would ignore the likes of Aksum, Adulis Mogadishu, Kilwa, Mombasa, Zeila or Zanzibar just to name a few.
@@admirekashiri9879 no they have a Eurasian origin their language is closely related to Caucasian Semitic languages not the black African Nilo Saharan or Niger Congo languages
America's obsession with color or race is a plague. I blame it for the debilitating confusion it creates in young Afro-american young men longing for strong, powerful, inspiring sub-saharan archetypes. Just because a berber fathered a boy with a dark skinned slave or concubine who by fortune would eventually become king or sultan does not mean you can claim Moroccan history.
Almoravid are Berber not black, the Moroccans architecture cannot be found and ever built in sub-Sahara, only in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Spain and Portugal and developed by Umayyad Arabs, while in Egypt are Fatimid style. no old medieval city in sub-Sahara but it was many in North Africa, Europe, Middle-East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and others Asia. fez old city, Granada old city, old Shanghai city, old Lahore wall city, Rabat old will city, old city Jerusalem, old city Isfahan, Old Agra, Old Delhi, etc these all beautiful medieval old city with grand architecture do not exist In sub-Sahara black Africa. but yes in North Africa and Malta they are many old city even since antiquity. Example Dakar, Nairobi village in 1000-1400AD cannot be compare to London, Cairo, Marrakesh, Toledo, Seville, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh, Rome, Constantinople, Muscat, Jeddah, Damascus, Baghdad, Vienna, Kyoto, Beijing, Bagan, Angkor.
@@safuwanfauzi5014 Latin alphabet is modified Greek, which is itself came from phonecian. South Arabian is abjad. Fidel is Abugida. they aren't the same.
But sub-Sahara African cannot match and equal to European, Middle east, Central Asia, Southeast Asia(Angkor Wat, Bagan, Borobudur), Japan and Mesoamerican no grand sophisticated monuments and building ever built like Colosseum, Taj Mahal Petra, Prambanan, Notre Dame. no writing scripts until European Latin, Arabic and Old South Arabian script, the Nsibidi are not true alphabet nor writing script, but symbol, that is the truth. in Scotland they are many like stone wall like Zimbabwe nobody called it civilization, Great Zimbabwe wall are not precisely made unlike Inca, Aztec, Maya and Olmec, No even like Indonesian Pyramid like Candi Sukuh and Cambodian Pyramid "Koh Ker". Black African try hard to made they have civilization equal to Cambodian, Indonesian, European, Chinese, Japanese, Tibet-Bhutanese, Indian, Arabs, Persian and Egyptian. No black Papuan, Jarawa of Andaman Island and Australia Aboriginal claim they have civilizations they proud of their primitives' lifestyle same with Zulu, Khoisan and Melanesian. Rome, Inca and Khmers(Cambodian) cannot be compared to Sub-Saharan Africa, they in group same with Australian Aboriginal and Papua or Papua-New Guinea. that the fact and must proud of it, don't lies to yourself you know the truth nothing to shame of.
Ankor wat is not a city there is only one building there. It actually looks just like a trading center or a village . Not gonna lie. There weren't many civilizations in South East Asia.
The world's largest earthworks prior to the mechanical era was situated in Benin. Built from 800 to 1500 AD. Reported in the Guinness book of records (1974 edition) to be four times longer than the great wall of china. You can look it up yourself. The whole Benin Kingdom was a wonder of the world.
@@safuwanfauzi5014 The Benin moat is something else it's actually a hole that goes round the whole city. (some parts still stand today) dug so deep that it forms 2 massive walls. that aside, the Benin city was so advanced at 1500 memoirs say it was way more advanced than Europe and cities like Lisbon. the city had a housing structure that all houses were the same with their houses being kind of linked to each other. (can't really explain on here but it's quite stunning) they are also unarguably the most advanced bronze casters in history. I quite agree with your point on the rest of Sub Saharan Africa but Benin was something else.
Great Benin empire history is so fascinating, filled with cultures and traditions. Still remain the greatest bronze casters worldwide.
…Of course, most of their goodies were carted off by the British.
India pretty good at it too
@@user-si7ig6ul7l who cares about India here? This is African centered content
@@AfriPrincess411 This somewhat hostile response was a bit unnecessary.
No was was attacking African history, calm down.
@@AfriPrincess411 I believe @V is trying to say IDIAH of Benin kingdom
"We in the diaspora.."
Sounds boss. I'm gonna have to start using that one.
I would love for you to show a top ten Ancient African cities that are still alive and successful today like Kano and Mombassa.
Giving a brief of the history followed by a brief of the current city's economy and culture.
What parts are they located
@@samg2590 Kano is in Nigeria, Mombasa in Kenya
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I expected Kano to be mentioned.
Zanzibar is worth a mention. It was like Timbuktu in that it was very important to world trade and had and almost mythological mystique associated with it by people outside of Africa.
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That sounds much more like kilwa
CL yep massive slave centre
@@menamilad3199 Could apply to both. They were both big trade hubs along the Swahili Coast.
Zanzibar was one of the biggest slave Ports in history.
Mama Africa, her history, diverse cultures and ancient innovations of government, Architecture, economic and social structures.
i love how informative this channel is, especially given how under represented african history is. so much of what i have seen on this channel is wholly new to me. hope to see more of this series of classical cities and cultures
Ikr this video make me want to become a teacher so I can teach history In a schools here in Nigeria using his video as inspiration. I know if video like these were available in my childhood I would have been very willing to accept and love my rich in melanin skin and African heritage.
You know what would be awesome? If some of the rich Africans and African-Americans could rebuild these cities. Africa is booming.
Maybe, but we would need to rid ourselves of the self destructive colonial mindset first. Check out CyHi Tha Prynce- NuAfrica for a musical idea of what that might be like.
African Americans live in the USA. Africans never built ships and declared war to come and rescue us. I am an American. I build where my family is buried...the family that cared for me.
@@lydiaedwards8100 um alot of africans actually did but as you know europeans had advanced weapons...and even in africa, africans fought europeans and tried to stop europeans. And Europeans didn't just take africans and leave, they stayed and committed multiple genocides. there was even a german man who killed and tortured twelve thousand Africans in Africa. What your spewing is division driven by resentment that is misplaced and this is coming from a Creole african American woman. Africans we suffering just like us but best believe they tried.
@@lydiaedwards8100 Africans never had ships lol
@@larrylarry6928 look up the Mali empire ships
Thank you so much for covering the ancient city of my people- Benin and the Oba’s Palace. The English came and sacked the town burning it to the ground and exiling our Oba before stealing our Palace bronze artefacts which are now all over the world in museums and people’s private collections. I’m very proud of my heritage from both my father’s and mother’s lineages. I’m from the Edo or Bini tribe and it’s unfortunate our language is dying out because people aren’t teaching their children their language, only English. My brothers are guilty of this even though my dad banned us as from speaking English in our house when we lived in Switzerland as a diplomat. I live in NYC now and most of my family is still in Benin city and I do go back whenever I’m able to.
My list :
- Agadez
- Axum
- Foumban
- Kumasi
- Zaria
- Kano
- Lamu
- Zanzibar
- Mogadishu
- Zinder
- Niamey
- Dongola
- Kerma
- Oulatta
- Chinguetti
- Suakin
- Antananarivo
Yeah many have great kinds of roofs, walls, doors, fences, gates, windows, fortresses, pillars, chimneys, chairs, stools, beds, benches, couches, and more
The Library of Timbuktu is at the top if not above the Library of Alexandria which they can't even find the remains of.
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏿💪🏿✊🏾 "Thank you!
I would argue the loss of Alexandria's library is worse considering the time it was lost set the world back centuries at least. Still a shame it was lost to fire.
The goid news is the library of Timbuktu could possibly still exist hopefully it is found be amazing to see what we could all learn of the African history preserved in it.
Timbuktu did not go through the multiple fires and pillaging that destroyed Alexandrian library time and again. I think it was burnt down or pillaged 5 times before it was gone.
@@ario4795 That may be true but any written account of African history will be priceless.
@@ario4795 Evidence?…
During the Meroitic period, the Kushites used war elephants, depictions such as these are found in Al - Musawwarat, some of these elephants were traded with the Carthagians who they used during the Punic Wars. Should of added Kerma, Napata, Meroe, Adulis, Dhar Tichitt and Axum since the title is called "History of Classical African Cities" not "History of Medieval African Cities".
Nubians we’re not part of the same racial group as black Africans. Nubians including Somalians, Ethiopians and northern Africans are actually extensions of the Caucasian race
@@melvinskdkj8536LMAO 🤣 No they're not, they're black Africans, especially the Nubians since they spoked a Nilo-Saharan language, which is the only language family spoken in Africa and no where else, and the Nilo-Saharan language family is spoken in Mali, Sudan literally means land of the black people! and they are not Caucasians since they did not originate from the Caucasus mountains, that's a completely outdated term, that's like me claiming that the Olmecs were black Africans.
@@melvinskdkj8536 Back off culture vulture.
@@melvinskdkj8536 err no their not and plus what do you mean by black Africans seriously euro centrists would literally just claim anything
@@melvinskdkj8536 Nubians were jet black Africans. They were called Aethiopia to denote their jet black skin. You have forgotten most East Africans like the Absysnians were an admixture between black Africans and people from Yemen.
Love your work! The European visitors, observers, speaking on similarities to Europe lands(west) Italy(south) are mere conformation of the fact that African Civilizations, prior to the slavery interruption, was a prime example of a society well-functioning, flourishing, highly economic, well connected, wealthy with Royals. I had zero knowledge of these sources’ statements before now, but my own study of “art & symbols” of Benin and same European locations mentioned, shows, in my opinion, a direct link, a sure presence, and sure influence in Europe society and its designs.
Kinda off topic, but I enjoy looking a t Sahalian-Sudano architecture for more than any pyramid in Kemet.
Legacy of the brilliance of West African architecture
Worry about west and central Africa quite worrying about the Horn and Northern Africa. Egypt is more Arab
@@melvinskdkj8536 Egypt isn't Arab mate, its Coptic North African, Arabs only make up 17% of the population in Egypt, and people of African descent can study any parts of African history, just as much as a Swedish person can study any part of European history, not just the history of Scandinavia.
@@DaduaMaiga ignore these jokers they are not relevant
@@benschein9713 cope harder boyo
West Africa stand up!
Exactly black Americans need to only worry about west and Central Africa only
@@melvinskdkj8536 just please shut up
@@melvinskdkj8536 People of African descent can study and be proud of any parts of Africa just as much as a Swedish person can study and be proud of any parts of Europe, not just Scandinavia.
@@DaduaMaiga sure they can but don’t steal none of these civilizations history because you lack a interesting complex history
@@larrylarry6928 What are you talking about?
Great timing, just got off work.
Great video. Wish they would show this channel in schools
I ❤ 😍 this!! 👏🏾👏🏾💪🏿👍🏿✊🏾
Do you think the should show chinese history in class or Semoas history.? It's up to us to teach or on history . can't be waiting for American schools to teach us about African history atleast in grade school. In college you take African history classes.
Twenty classical cities I'd include are the following:
Old Dongola
Faras
Njimi
Massenya
Khami
Danangombe
Kano
Mogadishu
Kumasi
Zeila
Zazzau
Koumbi Saleh
Abomey
Igbo-Ukwu
Ile Ife
Aksum
Mombasa
Gao
Musawwarat es Sufra
Djenne Jenno
Aksume is an Arab city not African
@@melvinskdkj8536 culture vulture trying to claim east African Ethiopian achievements are Arab lol typical euro centrists claiming every culture is their own from Persians to Egyptians to even now Ethiopians wonder what's next
@@benschein9713 They're going to claim that Mansa Musa was an Arab next, or maybe Sonni Ali was a Scandinavian.
@@benschein9713 well yes these groups all belong to the same Caucasiod family tree and are all genetically related to one another. You will not see not one multi story building in sub Saharan Africa no writing system or sophisticated agriculture no indigenous tamed animals or really any civilization at all.
@@DaduaMaiga lol honestly you are so right in fact I've seen some of them try to say because empires like Mali and Songhai were Islamic it means that they are Arab meaning that because Arabs are Caucasians in their mind Mali and Songhai were also caucasiod empires honestly I don't know how that logic works but these people are so desperate
You should have a video talking about the king Oba Akitoye.On using the abolishing slavery and how he took back his thrown from his brother Kosoko in 1850.
The current cities in Afrika that I am planning to visit and properly connect with are:
(West Afrika)
Dakar, Senegal🇸🇳
Abidjan, Ivory Coast🇨🇮
Freetown, Sierra Leone🇸🇱
Accra, Ghana🇬🇭
Lagos, Nigeria🇳🇬
(East Afrika)
Nairobi, Kenya🇰🇪
Mombasa, Kenya🇰🇪
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania🇹🇿
Kampala, Uganda🇺🇬
Kigali, Rwanda🇷🇼
Good line up👌🏾
Are you gonna ask for reparations ?
So good to hear these stories, thanks for sharing with us all.
Hey love your channel bro. I very recently learned about the swahili boats MTEPE that were quite common until they adopted more the western methods in ship building by the coming of the Portuguese. Have rather unsuccessfully been able to find more about it online. Would love to you see make a video on that if you can come across some information on that.
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. A must see video for everyone.
Huh, I am surprised Djenne-Djenno did not make the list, I mean it is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest cities.
Maybe but benin in Nigeria is 2058 years old and that's where I'm from
I love how us Africans are chipping in their historical town in the comment section. That shows you how much history and success we had in the past 💪🏾 🇰🇪. For us it’s Mombasa
Great work once again, I always learn something I can use for my videos.
You should have mentioned Oyo the land of Alaafin the next in command to the gods.
The link for afrographics does not work. I really like the Sahelian Sudano with the sword in the miniature and 4:34. Do you have a link for this picture? Thanks.
Great video as usual brotha!✌🏾💙🙏🏾
Talking about classical African cities , I am wondering why you didn't include Great Zimbabwe, Agades , Walata , Bacongo etc
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Jesus bruh it's a 10 minute video.
@@ayinstrumentals7731 i was thinking the same thing. 🤔 we are so hungry.
You should’ve def added kilwa, Mogadishu, Zeila, Koumbi saleh, Loango or old dongola. Ngl I am surprised kilwa kisiwani wasn’t mentioned in this video. I mean kilwa was a very famous city state in the Indian Ocean and one of the biggest structures in all of Africa is in kilwa aka Husuni Kubwa palace.
Hi brother can you make a video about São tome and principe islands in Africa please. That would be good. Thank you
The poeple who can caste such awe inspiring bronzes and make diverse artistic beads and hair styles are sure not ignorant men. They are sure not first-men hiding in caves, they surely had their own civilisation, systems and structure
How about Djenne from the west and Ta-Seti from the east?.....Looking foward to more 👍🏿
What? Timbuktu means well of Buktu? This sounds so familiar. And it lines up with what is shown on some maps.
I intend to travel to Africa when I can, I hope to do so soon
You should check “Great Zimbabwe”. It was really remarkable.
Thank you for all you do to educate your people ❤👑💐💯
There were so many gems and treasures in this video that proves that Africa is the land of book as they once said. How can we deny it?
Huh, when you said classical, i was expecting Carthage, Alexandria or Aksum - African cities in the time of the Greeks and Romans, the Classical time period for historians, not the Medieval or early Modern cities you discuss.
I LOVE THIS SERIES
I love the song at the begining of the Video! I can listen to it all day, What is the name of these music please ?
Thank you for sharing this informative video ✊🏾
Heya, great video as usual. I am a big fan of geography and history. Could you include maps indicating where these cities are in videos like this? It gives important context
Thanks for sharing
U should do The city of Mapungobwe in the province of Limpopo in South Africa
Great work HomeTeam, don't stop doing this. You've got really amazing content.
I'm from Edo (Benin City), and the name 'Ile' Ubini isn't one that was used to refer to the city in the past. Maybe it is could have be attributed to the Europeans, but not the people.
I love your channel.
'It was not until the 15th century, during the reign of Oba Ewuare the Great, that the kingdom's administrative centre, the city of Ubinu (or Ibinu), began to be known as Benin City by the Portuguese, a pronunciation later adopted by the locals as well. The Portuguese would write this down as Benin City. Edo's neighbours, such as the Itsekiris and the Urhobos, continued to refer to the city as Ubini up until the late 19th century' ....I copied this directly from wikipedia. His report is pretty accurate
@@vcofyoutube Yes, Ubini is the correct name. Ubini ne' opkevbo
@@vcofyoutube yeah. I'm not arguing that. I'm saying the prefix 'Ile' is not one I've heard of.
It is one used with the kingdom of Ife, not Benin.
Instant likes for you brother. I know its gonna be good off rip.
Great list, I am glad channels like this are giving Africa her fair shake. It's a crime for us all to not know history.
Hey the link to books about African History is broken in the description. Can you update it?
I don't know if it has been mentioned, but, "Memphis" is one I remember.
U sholu do The city of Mapungobwe
Thanks for sharing ! Ma tondo.
Excellent.
cities like Cairo,Addis Ababa,Kano,Zazzau,Zanzibar,Accra,Agadez ,Khartoum,Nairobi,Capetown,
You can do a video on a Manjack people ?
What's the name of the song played in the video
Does anyone know where to find the picture used in the thumbnail?
Point of correct is Ile Ibinu.. Land of vexation... Not ile ubini... OK
Appreciate the correction
I want you to do a piece on Doctor oybo one of the greatest man that ever lived a Nigerian please
Thank you
So many in africa
Damn this guy really makes a lot of videos
The great Benin Kingdom Oba ghatorkpere ise
Anyone know where the thumbnail image came from
hell, i didn't know about the benin city and how the english knocked it down until recently.
But, I remember reading that the English thought Benin City Was "confusing", so I took that as they came up with different math for building cities. Outside of Roman design because all Europeans bite off the Romans design.
Please does anyone have a source that backs the fact that the Kingdom of Benin invented street lights and lightening rods?
Yes, I do, so do you have problems with that?
@@letsjustdoitdoit8614 Can you please share it especially if it is a book.
Why do we think the buildings there resemble England and Roman, five you a hint it's not because of the people that claim to descend from said places, another hint the artifacts
Univesity of Karueein oldest University
@@ario4795 lmmfao. A simple Google search will help you.
@@ario4795 859 a.d. was when it was founded my friend
@@ario4795 like 👍🏾 I said founded in 859 a.d.
@@ario4795 #realtalkfrfr #facts older than Timbuktu as well.
@@ario4795 like I said oldest University
I wish I had a time machine
Just amazes me every single time. Love your videos and the work you put in to share them with us. But that the european scholars of the past are able to say these things and still have descendants that choose to be blind to the truth.
Basil Davidson a modern day white man had a history of Africa in 1980s documentary in England, he mentioned a lot of what is said here, some European choose to focus on Africa…
All indigenous Africans should research and practice kemetics
Who has that art
The Great Mosque is in Djenne, not Timbuktu
Ile Ife, Ilesha, Owo
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Pamphilya
@HomeTeam History , is ILE - IFE in Nigeria a joke to you? The Europeans that came to west Africa could not make it to ILE-IFE simply because it is in the hinterland and they were scare of mosquitoes. ILE - IFE had long been in existence before ILE-IBINI, the kings of the first dynasty called OGISO and the Kings of the present second dynasty called OBA are from ILE-IFE which has been in existence around 400BC. Please do a thorough research, ILE-IBINI is classic but then where do you put ILE-IFE which most of present west African kingdoms originated.
You're big fool for lying
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@@Derekmark Like you dey craze , must you drop your shiit reply on my opinion. idiat , your fada 🖐🏽
@@AIupclose bro I just want y’all to get your dumb facts well before commenting children of misinformation lai Mohammed protege..
Ancient African diaspora like kaduna a city in Nigeria the (Nok culture)
Great BENIN kingdom are the best
Yeah ok. It seems a bit far fetched but if having a successful history can make positive change in people then I guess we'd all be better off.
It's Ile Ibinu
You're mad
Khartoum nubia
Zheng he travelled to Mombasa durinh his world trip
Colonialism did do a number on the African continent...... it brought it out of the Stone Age!
Did it bring Egypt out of the stone age?
Piman Mann Jaques stop being obtuse.... you know we’re talking about sub-Saharan Africa.
The Kingdom of Kush wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Aksum wasn't in the stone age. The Dhar Tichitt civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Nok civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of D'mt wasn't in the stone age. The Ghana Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Sao Civilization wasn't in the stone age. The Mali Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Songhai Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Makuria wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Alodia wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Nobatia wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Kerma wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Benin wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe wasn't in the stone age. The Absyssnia Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Kongo Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Mutapa Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Ajuran Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Land of Punt wasn't in the stone age. The Luba Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Rezvi Empire wasn't in the stone age. The Sokoto Caliphate wasn't in the stone age. The Kingdom of Lunda wasn't in the stone age.
Taharqa LoL
Of course they were! Just because you individually type out the names of ancient African Stone Age cultures and say they weren’t in the Stone Age doesn’t mean that it’s true! You people have a hard time with the truth and reality.
Taharqa
“Lunda traded with both the Arabs on the Indian Ocean and, from about 1650, the Portuguese on the Atlantic. The leading exports were ivory and slaves; imports included cloth and guns. The empire reached the height of its power by the 1850s”. ~ Wikipedia
They couldn’t even make their own cloth and they’re only exports were slaves and elephant tusks! Every sub-Saharan African culture you just mentioned was in the Stone Age and many of their descendants still are! If you had any shame you’d be embarrassed right now.
I respect your efforts. Most of there cities were influenced by Moors with a North African dominance. The Arab domination of North Africa is reflected in the architecture and extends to the cultural accomplishments. These areas have little or no association with the Africa with which most blacks in America identify.
What if?
There is no Benin City like place anywhere, just as there was no Rome anywhere else even though Greek influenced.
Exactly this guy is being very disingenuous none of these cities besides Benin city was influenced by black people. Northern Africans are Caucasiod not black
@@melvinskdkj8536 Mate, Timbuktu was part of the Mali Empire and was founded by the Mandinka Sundiata Keita in the 13th century who was black, and most North Africans are brown skinned Amazigh people, Not Caucasian since they did not come from the Caucasus mountains, Caucasian is an outdated term, and there are some black Amazighs such as the Tuaregs but most Amazighs aren't, and there are other non Amazighs ethnic groups in the Maghreb such as the Toubous who are also black, even the oldest mummy discovered in North Africa is a black 2 and a half years old boy named Uan Muhuggiag, there's a documentary about the Uan Muhuggiag mummy here in TH-cam.
@@DaduaMaiga none of those so called “sand hut” civilizations ever did a fraction of Europeans, Arabic or East Asian civilizations. There is not one structure like the Taj Mahal,the Egyptian pyramids or any Japanese or Chinese structures. They are all primitive in comparison lol.
I always forget that this channel is made for west, north and South African only, it’s stupid of me waiting for him to mention any East African cities 🤦🏾♂️
He does mention East Africa what are you talking about? Plus this is a series bro he will cover the others definitely. There is no.way he would ignore the likes of Aksum, Adulis Mogadishu, Kilwa, Mombasa, Zeila or Zanzibar just to name a few.
Quit your jealous whinning.
@@admirekashiri9879 that’s because East Africans are not actually black but Caucasiod
@@melvinskdkj8536 🤦🏿♂️ Swahilis are not Caucasoid. And even if the Horners are caucasoid so what? Are they not African because of their phenotypes?
@@admirekashiri9879 no they have a Eurasian origin their language is closely related to Caucasian Semitic languages not the black African Nilo Saharan or Niger Congo languages
America's obsession with color or race is a plague. I blame it for the debilitating confusion it creates in young Afro-american young men longing for strong, powerful, inspiring sub-saharan archetypes. Just because a berber fathered a boy with a dark skinned slave or concubine who by fortune would eventually become king or sultan does not mean you can claim Moroccan history.
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@@melvinskdkj8536 You cared enough to reply, doofus. 🙃
@@YacDiesel quiet you
@@melvinskdkj8536 You first 🤡
Earth is flat
Almoravid are Berber not black, the Moroccans architecture cannot be found and ever built in sub-Sahara, only in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Spain and Portugal and developed by Umayyad Arabs, while in Egypt are Fatimid style. no old medieval city in sub-Sahara but it was many in North Africa, Europe, Middle-East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and others Asia. fez old city, Granada old city, old Shanghai city, old Lahore wall city, Rabat old will city, old city Jerusalem, old city Isfahan, Old Agra, Old Delhi, etc these all beautiful medieval old city with grand architecture do not exist In sub-Sahara black Africa. but yes in North Africa and Malta they are many old city even since antiquity. Example Dakar, Nairobi village in 1000-1400AD cannot be compare to London, Cairo, Marrakesh, Toledo, Seville, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh, Rome, Constantinople, Muscat, Jeddah, Damascus, Baghdad, Vienna, Kyoto, Beijing, Bagan, Angkor.
Who hurt you?
@@Zeyede_Seyum Old South Arabia script = Geez
@@safuwanfauzi5014 that's like saying Greek is Latin, work on your examples next time.
@@Zeyede_Seyum Greek are Greek, Latin are Latin, go find library origin of Semitic in Ethiopia n Eritrea they from Arabia that fact.
@@safuwanfauzi5014 Latin alphabet is modified Greek, which is itself came from phonecian. South Arabian is abjad. Fidel is Abugida. they aren't the same.
But sub-Sahara African cannot match and equal to European, Middle east, Central Asia, Southeast Asia(Angkor Wat, Bagan, Borobudur), Japan and Mesoamerican no grand sophisticated monuments and building ever built like Colosseum, Taj Mahal Petra, Prambanan, Notre Dame. no writing scripts until European Latin, Arabic and Old South Arabian script, the Nsibidi are not true alphabet nor writing script, but symbol, that is the truth. in Scotland they are many like stone wall like Zimbabwe nobody called it civilization, Great Zimbabwe wall are not precisely made unlike Inca, Aztec, Maya and Olmec, No even like Indonesian Pyramid like Candi Sukuh and Cambodian Pyramid "Koh Ker". Black African try hard to made they have civilization equal to Cambodian, Indonesian, European, Chinese, Japanese, Tibet-Bhutanese, Indian, Arabs, Persian and Egyptian. No black Papuan, Jarawa of Andaman Island and Australia Aboriginal claim they have civilizations they proud of their primitives' lifestyle same with Zulu, Khoisan and Melanesian. Rome, Inca and Khmers(Cambodian) cannot be compared to Sub-Saharan Africa, they in group same with Australian Aboriginal and Papua or Papua-New Guinea. that the fact and must proud of it, don't lies to yourself you know the truth nothing to shame of.
Ankor wat is not a city there is only one building there. It actually looks just like a trading center or a village . Not gonna lie. There weren't many civilizations in South East Asia.
You can also be proud of your primitive lifestyle 👍🏿
The world's largest earthworks prior to the mechanical era was situated in Benin. Built from 800 to 1500 AD.
Reported in the Guinness book of records (1974 edition) to be four times longer than the great wall of china.
You can look it up yourself.
The whole Benin Kingdom was a wonder of the world.
@@steeeloo ram earth is not stone, it more easy to made unlike great wall of china
@@safuwanfauzi5014 The Benin moat is something else
it's actually a hole that goes round the whole city. (some parts still stand today)
dug so deep that it forms 2 massive walls.
that aside, the Benin city was so advanced at 1500 memoirs say it was way more advanced than Europe and cities like Lisbon.
the city had a housing structure that all houses were the same with their houses being kind of linked to each other. (can't really explain on here but it's quite stunning)
they are also unarguably the most advanced bronze casters in history.
I quite agree with your point on the rest of Sub Saharan Africa but Benin was something else.