Mother Africa - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 1]
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- In this first episode, Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent examining the origins of humankind; how and why we evolved in Africa - Africa is the greatest exporter of all time: every human being originated in Africa.
During her journey Zeinab is granted rare access to the actual bones of one of the most iconic discoveries in the field of palaeontology, ‘Lucy' in Ethiopia, or as she is known in Amharic, ‘Dinkenesh’, which means ‘you are marvellous’.
Zeinab also spends time in Tanzania with a tribe that is unique in the world because they live in the way our ancestors did, as hunters of big animals and gatherers. This community who have rarely been filmed provide a fascinating insight into how we have lived for most of our history.
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"Until the Lion learns to speak, the hunter will always tell the stories", let us celebrate our history, peoples and stories!
But am seeing it's the lion 🦁🦁 🦁🦁🦁🦁 speaking here!!!!!
@@josephgittamusisi4226 is it
Interviews are made from learned professors of history of African descent.
@@josephgittamusisi4226 lioness 😄
@Joseph Gitta Musisi Mm
As an Environmental Engineer, it’s amazing how the world is trying to be more sustainable by promoting eating insects and not wasting food but our ancestors have been doing this since creation
WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF AFRICA THIS IS HOW THEY SEE IT. I CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE STILL LIVE LIKE THIS.
As an environmental engineer, I would have assumed that would have been obvious to you - not amazing. Here's a revelation they didn't share with you in 'school' - there's no need to live in the desert and eat bugs.
@@JamesBiggar There's no need for anything. These people just chose simplicity and trust me they generally have happier lives. Up north of the same region is a more "civilized" country plagued with depression, rape, terrorism, theft, and suicide. In Africa suicide is almost unheard of. The "1st world" has simple ways of living but complex lives. It's a trade you have to make and there's no better or worse.
Who’s promoting eating insects?! Is that a THING? LOL
@@Lora_M_NY yes it is. There are various organizations that have been established to do just that and research into insects as an alternative protein
Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪 live and die in Africa
Kevoh Wa Pipeline Transami Pamoja
@@jahbless4063 and be sick...
WHY EAT 🐀 THAT'S DISGUSTING !!!!!
@@audreyclarke2228 you're disgusting with the disrespect.
Watching from the Tundra
I am truly African and I love Africa more than anywhere on earth 🌍
@Moor Wakanda lmao "refuse" . which exile order has been issued?
@Moor Wakanda Looool. you're really bored during this quarantine huh
@Moor Wakanda lmao
Mama Africa Mama India
@@kingn8link 👌🏾
Who's here after Zainab published her first book about our great Africa.
This lady is a diamond 💍. Proud being of an African...👏♥️💯
it is not "our" anymore when you are holding an european passport.
that first tribe lives so peacefully without huge inflated bills, social media pressure and greed for paper money
@Judi Grace thats a wonderful message. thanks for sharing your story. A change will indeed come
@Pal Tomori I'd rather die at 45 without diabetes, aids and depression,so yea😂😂😂
Kkkkk true
EXACTLY
@Pal Tomori
They may die around age 45 average but at least they die in peace and not live a miserable long life.
Africa the land of origin
I'm proud to be an african♥️
@Rami Sebit whah do mean arab thief
@Rami Sebit gtfo lol
Rami Sebit she’s not arab u fool she’s somali!!
@@dahir022 thanks wlll
Rami Sebit not all somalis are mixed with arabs ! Also we don’t originate from any arab or white slaves!! We are Cushitic somali🇸🇴
They don't need clothes from charities, they need freedom of movement and us leaving them alone.
Both.
@Sabrina that's nuts. They haven't Only destroyed on the earth.
exactly
Dejan Burnik Ameen brother.
@Moor Wakanda why they need the white man for?
Africans! We're they Gods and goddess in this planet Earth, so respect Africa! May God bless Africa forever!(from USA).
@f you that's right sad because u can too from Africa.and your comments is about white poeple lived in cave due envelopment climate.. in africa lived in mud huts..
So many things were invented in Africa like Smithing with iron while white were still in stone age.
Pottery is another invented in African..mathematics,alphabet,science,giving birth c-section ,making of hard alcohol do I need to go on?
Mind your words.
As for white arabs admixture of many ethnics nobody cared less about brought nothing but chaos and more or less spices which africa had for starter and not many african cared about.yes slavery about forgot guess you understand africa was self sufficient until foreigner came to mess it up.
Africa the Credle of mankind.. Lots of love from INDIA (africa's small brother that separated from this land and collided into Asia millions of years ago)
I am so proud of being African!
Ethiopia
Nas where to are living usa od Uk ?
I’m from Kenya! Greeting brother Ethiopian!
Zainab did a fantastic job presenting this docu-series! A perfect balance presenting Africa by a woman of African descent able to educate Western audiences without pandering to stereotypes and depicting a far more curated yet profound exposé.
Yes, you've said it perfectly. I'm just trying to get people to watch the entire series and do some research before they critique it. She manages to remained focused on the history and providing information that comes together throughout the series and leaves nothing out. Even using her own production company. 😊
This is exactly why she shouldn't she stupid and biased
I believe her name is spelt "Zeinab"
The BBC have been known recently to be biased and left leaning on documentries so I'm never trust everything I watch as I did when they were unbiased years ago. You only have to listen to BBC radio on all the propaganda they come out with to understand this.
EXACTLY. This is so beautiful.
I see people disputing the video, the truth is there different sides to Africa. There are the rich and glamour according to the modern eyes and there are the rich and raw African like these people and another group of people from my country South Africa, who are callee the Koi San. They prefer living a primitive, organic bush life.
I'm a Khoisan sadly I have coloured traits side my mom colored..but the San here in Botswana still refuse modern medicine and they are healthier than us all..I wish I lived with them..I'd be stress free..😂😍
The Koi San are not primitive, and their culture is certainly not primitive. If you put a person from New York or London in the same environment that the Koi San live in, they would die pretty quickly. The 'San are very clever and know every detail of how to live in, and to live sustainably in the wild forests, and find water. Even in Australia, a lady I knew who was married to a anthropologist, said the Ethnic Australians could tell when a so called educated sophisticated person from the big cities had arrived, because they stank of rotting meat, from the sweat that clung to their clothes. The knowledge of peoples that live in the deserts and forests and jungles of the world is tremendous that we in cities have forgotten. In Brazil the greedy people in the cities are trying to take away the land that belongs to the original people who once had a huge city, which was destroyed by drought, and decimated their people. The remains of the city and the art are still there as their heritage, and they do not want to have it destroyed by people who just want to make money from Palm Oil trees. Cynthia McLaglen
The Koi San are wonderful people who can live in hot places that the rest of us have forgotten. Cynthia McLaglen
Its not primitive plus its sustainable and peaceful...this "civilized" life is killing us and the planet
@Janitor Queen my mother has white blood.. It is sad on my part.. Well I had to embrace over time😔
The Baby is cute! What a nice laugh.
Margaret King perhaps you don't think the baby was cute because you judge beauty by the standards of your leprous ancestors.
I thought the same thing; he is so adorable.
I burst out laughing when he laughed... too cute 💛
Nothing brings joy than be able to seat in ur apt in Atlanta while watching this and realised that you can understand the tribe's language..
I love to see Africa in positive light. A beautiful continent. Zainab badawi looks for beauty and dignity to African lives. Lovely videos.
Thank u for the refreshing information. I am from a Xhosa tribe in South Africa, who else speaks a language with clicks? We might be related, who knows 😃
I also speak Xhosa my home language I'm watching from cape town township my parents are from Eastern cape our language has click same as the san people
Are you happy to be African ? It feels AWESOME to be African , I LOVE IT .
Yes i am Happy 🙂
It's good to see a black archeologist telling our history
Yeah, some white people call Africa a country
Not trying to be rude or anything but....that sounded racist..NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE!!
@@theone6017 Cool.
Yes because our story has been told wrong, yet so severally
Yeah , the Algerian archaeologist !!
It’s not only that Zeinab behaves as a good anthropologist (I’m sure she is not one) but her good grace and naturalistic approach to all humans makes her an excellent ambassador. She is funny, profoundly respectful of her subject and destroys any prejudice between a journalist and the reported subject. I never say these things, I consider them cheese and vulgar but I enjoyed her documentary so much, that I can’t be quiet about it! What a joy!
Zeinab Badawi's ancestor's controlled the Arabic slave trade in East Africa. Women were sold as slaves sex slaves in their thousands by her people. Sadly their story is never told.
A proud Liberian from Chicago sending love to all my people. One people. One love. 🇱🇷❤️
So proud to see my African people living free without the constraints of modern living. No social distancing and no corona virus.
😊😊😊
You see that???
AND NO CREDIT REPORTS OR MORTGAGES OR RENT !!!
i whant it , to live like them free and happy for ever, tired of civilitation
Zienab you are just amazing, Thank you very much for telling the Africa story the proper way.i'm so so proud of being Africa
I agree. This series is absolutely wonderful. Cynthia McLaglen
As an African American. I am happy and excited to learn more about the mother country.. Thanks BBC
"This is where it all began for us humans". Thank you, mother Africa. You did your part.
Something black people say to feel good
@@pedro55845 ok
th-cam.com/video/Hy8N0Rf4dRs/w-d-xo.html
Fake news.
@f you that's right then prove it wrong
I want to live this way, not knowing my age . Just take away time contraints from my thought process .🙏🏾
I am loving these programs! Thank you, thank you!
Me too, but I would have to become a vegan.....😳
Me too want to live in the bush
none of them is over weight, drink water from the ground. Colonizers bring cameras so they can brutally destroy these beautiful forest by building expensive resorts in Africa.. God will punish them.
@@simplymoonchild3908 I was just thinking earlier today about how there are/were literally no indigenous people living an indigenous lifestyle (in tune with nature) lifestyle that were actually vegan
9:26 when she started yelling to catch it, I heard exact the same thing we say in our Tmazight Language (North Afrifan). I am North African from Morocco and from Amazigh descent which are the original inhabitants of Morocco. She said tfit a couple of times which is the exact word we use to say catch it.
Beautiful 💝
Hello, i want to visit Morrocco, could u tell me how expensive it is to spend +- 2 weeks over there?
Tanzania 🇹🇿 my beautiful ❤️ land,my beautiful people 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🤗🤗🤗🤗
They look so happy and healthy. I love the way they've abandoned the western way and live the way they choose. Admirable.
I love Africa. I’m proud to be African
The only people who are safe from coronavirus please keep away from them nah and leave them alone... indigenous people 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
This was filmed a few years ago.
Too late, The Coronavirus is spreading in Africa but lockdowns are being implemented to limit its spread Now.
Google for the latest info.
Pombe ranked top now
Na mie nilikua nafikiria hivohivo
I totally agree with you.the food they eat is natural medicine..that will keep the VIRIOUS a way from them.
the women and people are so calm, graceful and confident
OMG, the baby is so cute, lovely, happy, and healthy!
Oh Mama Africa I love you.
I can tell he eats very very well LOL
I love mama Africa, I was born in Jamaica but originally am a African and am happy to be e African man
Same and one love!🥳💚💛🖤
Mama Africa to the world!!!
Same so one love.
Omg that baby is too cute
The one who shot the arrow?🥺🥺😫😫😫
Absolutely cute.... 😍
yes indeed
I noticed they really didn't seem to like her touching it.
WE SHOULD ALL WATCH THIS SERIES ON AFRICAN HISTORY. NOTHING BUT FANTASTIC!!!
When we say we don't need them they need this is what we meant!!!!
Love you mama Africa
Respect to my ancestors
Proudly African 👸🏾✊🏾🇹🇿
Hello brother Tanzanian I am from Kenya!
In this quarantine time, it is really a timepass.....
Let us study the entire history of Africa... 🌎🌎
As an African American in Florida it makes me proud to see the lifestyles of our ancestors being maintained on the continent. One love black family ❤️🖤💚
I lived in Niger Republic with the Peace Corps. I visited Nigeria and Benin. I love Africa.
Fascinating to learn that there are people in Eastern Africa that have clicking sounds in their language. Thought that was only in Southern Africa.
I am intrigued to watch more of this production.
There is like hadzabe and sandawe
I came across these videos yesterday and was hooked. Finished the series about an hour ago. Thank you, thank you, thank you Zeinab Badawi and the BBC. This is a good start to the telling of the African story.
Finally the main stream show the truth which has been kept secrets... this is a sure indication of the new African era... #theyearofreturn Those who have ears let them hear... especially during this age where the black man and woman have forgotten how great the African people were. Let us do our own due diligence and further do our own personal research ..
Thank you Zeinab for bringing this to light. 🙏🏿 #sunnypeople
The Psychology of the African people were destroyed by them whites. Is there any one here hating them whites with passion like me?
Thank you, Zeinab Badawi for enlightening us on the early history of the African peoples!! What an interesting and rich history indeed! As a child growing up in the island of Trinidad and Tobago where there is such a multi racial group of people living in harmony to a great degree, I was always fascinated by my African/Caribbean neighbour's and school friends and wanted to know more about their history and culture. But alas, the British Colonials deliberately kept us in the dark regarding the history of both our African and East Indian peoples! These episodes are finally giving millions of people the world over an idea of the beauty and richness of our African brothers and sisters coming from the great Continent of Africa! Many thanks indeed!
Yeah, cast the #Brits as the bad guys. #Pantomime history has to have a #villain, after all.
@@aclark903 if the shoe fits?
@@MJ-hg1mk 99% of Brits alive today never have & never will oppress anyone in the Caribbean.
Zeinab Badawi's ancestor's controlled the Arabic slave trade in East Africa. Women were sold as slaves sex slaves in their thousands by her people.
You were not accused personally. A lot of people of African ancestry were not told much about African history. @@aclark903
What a beautiful culture and people I love that they chose to stay to the ancestral ways I have the up most respect for that 💯
Wish my ancestors had stayed in beautiful Africa :( This is how I've always dreamed of living. So free!!!
We will right the wrongs our ancestors. We will build Africa and every descendants will be eager to come back home
The Hadzabe, Khoi, San and Batwa are different branches of one family. Even linguistically.
I am Xhosa, a Nguni tribe that is very intermixed with this people group.
They are part of me, and I am part of them.
I'm xhosa also I'm.watching from cape Town township south Africa
Me two
im from Mozambiquean tribe, i forgot to speak the language for my shame
Hello Mama Africa how are you. I am feeling fine and I hope your fine too. RASPECT.
🔥🔥🔥🇰🇪🤝🏿
The baby is so cute. 10:25. He is just enjoying himself. ❤❤❤❤😍😍😍
@Moor Wakanda or just happy people. You go on and be great.
It was strange. I even enjoyed watching the baby munch on the piece of root. So adorable.
It's the little things that make life enjoyable, like a baby's laughter.
@Moor Wakanda what is wrong with you your literally everywhere giving snide remarks go somewhere else please
@The Flex you're an asshole. gtfu
So beautiful how it would be nice to live like this once again. Mother nature provides all our needs
Zeinab is the luckiest person alive to have first hand experience of such history it is something so beautiful and rare im honestly jealous
I am African and im so Happy to be..i am from the Gambia 🇬🇲
This was so refreshing to watch
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for since the lockdown started!
Thank you BBC !
Olamide Niyi-Afuye there’s another interesting 4 part series by DW on history of slavery - th-cam.com/video/InQvC9c-3K8/w-d-xo.html
@@ChooseU4ever This half of the story is a lie. A mix of truth and lies
Mali Key what are the lies?
@@ChooseU4ever I am from Tanzania. Those hadzabe were not offered houses to live. That's a big lie. Second she hasn't gone to search the truth from maasai, gikuyu and other tribes and here there history. That's why this is some bull💩BBC nonsense. And never will the people funding this help you tell your true story. The history of evolution to some of us isn't 100% acceptable. Cause where did lions evolved from. Let us go find our own stories. And we know where to find the story.
Mali Key Oohhbi see.. Thank you!
omg they just true people live in peacefully without noting.
12:32 was a beautiful moment, humor reaching across cultural boundaries
This is an extraordinary series. I have been engaged for two days soaking in all this new knowledge and exploring a beautiful part of the world I will probably never see firsthand. I am sharing this with everyone I know. This is a truly important piece of work. A true masterpiece of history. And especially timely.
Well Said!!!
Thank you for this series BBC!
Fiiinally! I’ve bem trying to get to this series for ages.
Yes quite a revelation, waiting for the second series. Would love to read all the volumes, but each one is around 1,000 pages 😀
@Akheem Afari yes i found them online, called the general history of Africa
@Akheem Afari don't know how many pages, it's in PDF format online
tudo bom com voce?
Proud to be African 💪
I traveled alot in your documentry
Love this and plan on watching and sharing the whole series.
live n die in Africa is my Motto
I love you Africa
Wow! nice to be an African. I'm from India and my family live almost near the THAR DESERT (of Rajasthan)
You can see the majority of people live in harmony with the nature.
This is soo cool I’m watching this for my Africana studies course I’m so glad I’m taking it.
i like the way the kid is laughing
Thanks for all your series
Thank you. Mrs.Zeinab. for this documentary.
I enjoyed each episodes of this documentary last year during the lockdown and all are just Amazing!
Thank you BBC Africa....please keep it coming your educational documentaries for the people like me....
Wow. Beautiful documentary. Thank you
What a wonderful long waited program on my continent! Thank you so much BBC and Zainab!!
Thank you Zeinab Badawi for this informative episode.
WOW WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING LOL THEY WERE GETTING IT IN 👊🏾💪🏿💯 LOVE MY AFRICAN PEOPLE 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I watched this by TH-cam on TV as well excellent series episode one that started it all
Nice one, thanks for inspiring me to start teaching an African language, precisely a Nigerian language ( hausa language)
I am proud African from Kenya, Africn culture is very diversy, with 54 countries which have different tribes . We love you mama Africa
We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯
Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!🤴🏿👸🏿
Africa where all life began and rich in natural resources and eat sea and organic foods,there's no one obese
You've seen EVERY1 in Africa?
cannot stop watching these. Very amazing.
Great! i've been waiting for a series like that for years. Thanks from Brazil, where the biggest afro-diasporic population in the world lives!
This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A multi part series on africa. Thank you.
Don't believe a lot in this series..it is low key white supremacy proganda
I need same living style..no religions, no education no nothing...just wisdom
I met Louis Leakey when my mother took my sister Katharine and I, to the Museum in Nairobi, which the Leakey family had begun called the Coryndon, but we children called the Nairobi Museum. He was putting up a skull that was found in the Olduvai Gorge. My mother knew all about him and had also bought books about Urang-utans and Chimpanzee. She knew that Louis Leakey and his wife Mary, and other African Anthropologists like Kimoya Kimeu, were looking for ancient skulls in Olduvai Gorge. He explained that he and his team was looking for links in the fossils between Apes, Hominins and Humans. I was always very impressed by this meeting and have loved ancient natural history ever since then. I spent with my sister the first 10 years of my life in Kenya, East Africa. My mother's passion for knowledge was given to us. Some of these people in the video are sometimes using Swahili words as well as their own language to make it easier to understand. I will never forget Africa, or the Kipsigis, Kikuyu and Luo people we lived with and I loved them. Cynthia McLaglen
an amazing tour of Africa, and its cultures & history.
I love the clothing and prints to women wear and their beadwork is beautiful. Very efficient and skilled crafts people
I truly believe that this documental series need to be translated or at least subtitled to other languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and many more for the importance for human history and culture.
THANK YOU ZAINAB BADAWI AND BBC
It's long series documentary i ever watched iny life and i appreciated how it possible to make like this project.
However, i get alot of things before i don't have any ideas, like the beautiful countries in our continent Africa, different languages, religion's, cultures, music, dances, songs, stories, art, tourism, rivers and also communities.
And the biggest fact that contributed in the debate says (AFRICA IS THE MOTHER OF OTHER CONTINENT) that is; "the people are still rural alse have or protected everything are they get fathers/grandfather's like the Culture, religion, how they hunting and ruling themselves.
proud to be Zeinab "Badawi" our pride to ever am An Afghan from GRRAT AFG+93.
The music instrument they are using at the beginning of the vedio. In Ethiopia we still use it. Mostly in traditional music and orthodox church. It is called " Mesinko"
Do you know where to get the music...I think I will just record it
@@boyishqofficial4193 searh as Ethiopian traditional music such as masinko music, Ethiopian flute music, Getatchew Mekurya classical music, Amhara dance, ...
I love this omg! So cool! They must be so acquainted with nature
African History, Written and Told By Africans. Thank you so much for this video, I'm grateful. Beautiful Mother Africa Indeed. 🙏🌍🙏
Africa is continent so united Africa Never existed and never gonna exist.
Thank you for this series!
I don't believe in Darwin's theory, but good documentry over all. Zeinab is beautiul and eloquence is superb!!
sadiya, Does Zeinab ever change her blouse?
Darwin was a ras clot liar.and some take his guessing as gospel
But evolution is real we can see this in the fluctuation of human height throughout documented history we can see that certain plants and animals were different 2000 years ago if you can somehow prove that evolution doesn't exist without mentioning god that would be impressive
@@24spoce8 Arguing with these types of people who are anti-science is like arguing with someone who believes that the earth is flat, don't waste your energy trying to give a scientific explanation to these clueless people.
I believe in God and that there was still evolution. That may seem like a stark contrast to some but that’s my personal opinion.
reality of life is this , the best survival methods.
Enjoying the show very much👊🏾
Thank you BBC.
So come visit Africa, to experience it in your eyes.
Am somali from African 💕👈
If ur are Muslim and African then why do u hate Somali bantu ?
EVERY human being needs to watch this, the truth is the only thing that will stop hate and discrimination, we are truly all the same. We have evolved so much in terms of science, we can choose the truth or ignorance but the facts are there
I truly believe all mankind and animals came from Africa. We have different races and colors due to migration and climate. Africa is the Mother of all.