Without the support of my patrons this would not be possible. So I would like to thank all my patrons for your support of this channel and especially the creation of this video. If you like the direction this channel is going you can help create this content on Patreon: www.patreon.com/HomeTeamHistory Also, the source of this video is the book "A Military History of Africa" by Timothy J. Stapleton. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in the military history of Africa! Thanks guys
Hey dude, I know this is asking too much because you are already killing it but, I would love if these could also be translated to Portuguese, Spanish, French so some other of our family can also enjoy these videos. Like, anyone in the comments that speak any of these languages should do voice overs and send him the sample
Love it learning more about my tribe and glad to be a born American and speak the Mandingo dialect as well glad I can share with my children our history
All fake history ,no written evidence . .these people had no written culture . .This is pure conjecture . .Sorry guys its an attempt to give Afro Americans some sense of history .. Its pure fiction . SORRY !
@@georgemichaelduffy37 actually my guy it was south and east africans who had no written culture west africans were most advanced in african,have you ever heard of timbuktu(dont know if that was spelled correctly) the first university in the world was in gambia so yes west african and some parts in central had written culture
Personally, I prefer less side effects to listen to the message clearly. But this served it's puropse well to see the military moves. Someone should make movies about African generals in history.
Yeah, the richest man that ever lived was from Mali. "Mansa Musa" and he had real money ( Gold, Silver, Diamonds all kinds of precious stones.and minerals) not this fake fiat paper money!
@@farafyn2770 and as a Muslim like him we don't believe it as the sunnah tell us it's king and prophet Solomon (AS) that was and will remain the richest man in history.
Hello everyone. For those who are interested i would like to tell you the story of soundiata keita, the way it was tolf me by the elders in Guinea when i was a child. I think it can be interesting for those in the Diaspora and if you can share it with your kids, it is a good thing. What i am going to tell you in the legend with the magics behind Long time ago, the prince of mandé was told that he had to marry a very ugly woman. This woman would give him a child that would be a great ruler. Therefore the prince agreed to marry the princess sogolon the ugly. Songolo gave birth to a a child named soundiata. To the king horror, the child was disabled. I could not walk. The king was very upset and him and his family and other wives would mistreat the poor woman and her child. One day, soundiata was so angry at the kids that would be mean to his mother that he managed to stand for the first time and cut a huge tree to defend his mothers honor. Eventually soundiata and his mom left the mandé and soundiata joind the Donzo hunting society. He became a great warrior and worked for another king. Unfortunately his mother died and he had an argument with his king. By that time, the mandé had become a vassal of the sosso king dome. The weak half brother of soundiata was a puppet in the hands of the feared sorcerer king soumaworo Kanté. Soundiata decided to take back his kingdom and with he created and army. He was joined by the donzo hunting society. They fought soumaworo but failed every time until a woman gave them the secret to destroy the sorcerer. It was believed that no weapon could hurt or kill the king because of his magics. Only an arrow made with a cock lug could kill him During the last battle of kirina, soundiata manage to face soumaworo and to hit him with the arrow. To this day, it is said that soumaworo vanished. Some say he became an eagle, other say he became smoke. After that, soundiata became the king of the prophecy. He initiated the mali kingdom that will become one of the greatest empire of human history and the land of the richest man in the history of mankind "kankan moussa". It is said that following his win, soundiata created the first law framing "human rights". Home team story gave the historical view and i wanted to share the legendary side with magic and the epic that is sang by the griot in mandinka culture to this day. Another side of the story show that soumaworo was to the evil that his depicted in the traditional version of the story. But this is another story.
Honestly I love African folklore from different countries 💕🌌.... I'm going to watch the Soundiata Keita film that was directed by Abel Kouame. He's from the Ivory Coast and makes animated films from an African perspective. I hope in the future someone does more animated and live action films and tv shoes about these historical figures and just about folklore too.
Thanks for posting the full story! I'm so annoyed that Disney twisted the story and tried to mix it with Shakespeare to create their lion king film. But I'm not surprised they would do that.... instead of just making an animated film about actual African folklore.
I think Nollywood would greatly improve their international profile by making high quality movies based on West African historical events. There is considerable demand for this content.
I love that West African military history is finally getting charted on maps the way Kings and generals do so for European & Middle eastern history. It really adds visual depths to our military tactics. I also enjoy that the symbol for Calvary used wasn’t the western sign, but rather based off the artwork from artefacts of the Mali Empire that represented horsemen. It’s the small details that can go a long way 👌🏿 Excellent work once again brother, been watching since 15K subs, can’t wait to see what’s next
@@ThePawciosIk it’s been too years and you seen the type of person to be curious enough to look for some so have you found any sources yet? If so may you please give me them
I love and Adore everything that you do. The enthusiasm and passion you put into it. You've taught me more about myself and our history than i have ever learned in school and I am a Black man from South Africa. Never Stop!
Lindani ntanzi,they Will NEVER teach you the TRUE about our History,and our leaders are sooooo useless,even in Africa WE don't learn our own History!!!!.
@jakiiz jambeze this histories are very well known in countries like Mali Senegal Niger Guinea , Burkina Fasso ,ivory coast,Sierra Leone , Mauritania .it's more beautiful when the griots talk about a history at the same time playing music.
Well, this was not expected. Love these types of videos, and I think they are critical for spreading African history to general audiences and history buffs who are obsessed with their battles and all that ;).
My name is Hassan souare. I'm of the madingo/madinka ethnic group from the Mande speaking people. Though I am a Liberian currently in the USA, I'm a direct decedent of the mali empire. Thank you for the beautiful presentation.
I like this ; My group play's west African music and it's from the old Malian empire and we tale the story of Sundjata Keita and other legends of west Africa.
I’m kind of envious of the black diaspora tbh. They are actively trying to reclaim their history, and in the process now famous historians acknowledge at least tiny bits of true African history. I’m on the other hand from the Indian diaspora, indians have absolutely no national consciousness, our history is distorted and we still believe that everything we have was a gift from whites, something Africans debunked immediately after independence
I have witnessed something really sad. I know an Indian Fijian girl who in college felt she wasn't accepted by Indian cliques. I also once asked an Indian friend of mine about Indians in the diaspora and he flat out told me they were too different now. I couldn't believe it
Sundiata is one of my favorite historical figures; first discovered him in high school, where world history focused on the gold-salt trade as an example of how global trade works. In college I took an African Empires class, and since the professor specialized in the Sahel empires, we spent time on Mali as well. “ In a trice, Sundiata was in the middle of the Sossos like a lion in the Sheepfold. The Sossos, trampled, under the hooves of his firey charger, cried out. When he turned to the right, the smiths of Soumaoro fell in their tens and when he turned to the left, his sword made heads fall as when someone shakes a tree of ripe fruit. The horsemen of Mema wrought a frightful slaughter and their long lances pierced flesh like a knife sunk into a pawpaw”-The Epic of Sundiata Keita, complied by D.T. Niane.
@@ousmanealycoulibaly8250 I fuckin live in Kenya and they air 'Afrosinema' on almost all major channels... What makes you think I have never heard of Nollywood? Nollywood compromises quality for quantity. If their perspectives shifted then the movies there would be far much greater. I can't argue that they cannot afford it because they actually can.
@@willarroz6703 Church isn't ubiquitous or synonymous with religion. But I clearly said spirituality & knowledge. Which is also separate from church. So why don't you two look up the meaning of each before you shoot off oppinions.
@@eritrean752 You have a African name, with a profile picture of a white blonde cartoon character. And your trying to preach to me about what African history is. You should never talk in public again.
Michael Naz first of all my profile picture had nothing to do with this topic and secondly this video has nothing to do with spiritual knowledge for you to bring church into this and church is part of a religion in case you didn’t know. Point blank period.
Oh my god! This has got to be a new masterpiece for your channel. The music is very atmospheric, the animation and art style depicting the various African settlements, kingdoms and icons are beautiful to look at and naturally your narration makes it all the better. I would really love to see more videos in this style.
Brilliant narrative! More so, using audio-visuals to tell the story. Some of us are visual thinkers, esp when explaining complex historical battle formations. Glad U thought about this, it's enhanced my understanding. I'll continue to tap into your font of knowledge, Big ups!!
I believe it's Wagadou, and you should at least mention that today it's often referred to as The Ghanan Empire. Even if you find the term inaccurate, disambiguation is always helpful for those who wish to learn.
Just thought I would add for my fellow medieval warfare history buffs who might be wondering how archers checked a cavalry charge... most African archers at the time used poison tipped arrows and Sundiata's were no different. More importantly, everyone knew that the arrows were poisoned. Now imagine riding in, expecting to hit the rear or flank of a formation and then suddenly being faced with dense volley after dense volley of missiles which you knew very well would kill you in minutes if they even grazed your forearm. I imagine you would rear up and check your charge pretty quickly and retreat. Now when you consider the fact that these volleys did indeed land on most of the oncoming cavalry, it's no surprise that they broke and fled
Great video. If I were nearby I would have corrected your pronunciation of serval words, I don’t mean this in an arrogant way, I really enjoy your videos 😊.
Bro I absolutely love the animations, this reminds me of the kings and generals channel. I know that this is asking a lot of you but it would be really awesome if you could redo your videos (the one's without animations) and give them animations and clear-cut closed captioning so that I (and other hard-of-hearing/deaf people) can properly understand what you are trying to iterate and illustrate in your videos.
Thank you so much that is so inspiring to know these are things that American history won't tell us I want a stylish that they knew I keep it hidden but thank you for this gift🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔✊✊✊✊✊👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💞💞.
There is a mod called OneRulerOnEarth where Mali, Songhai and Abyssinia are added. Is for Medieval II and currently only works for custom battles. There are other mods that add Mali, but this one is the most accurate one by far.
This video was really cool. Makes me want to see the battle dramatised. It would be really cool to see you do more battles, maybe even doing a collaboration with Da’mon stith or one of the other HAMA people.
THE FIRST BLACK MANDINGO KING BEFORE THE BATTLE OF KIRINA BETWEEN KEITA AND KANTÉ WAS SAMMOU FOFANA EMPEROR OF GHANA. To believe our Fofana informants from the circles of Nara, Nioro, Keita and Diéma, the ancestors of the Fofana soninke would be from the town of Oumy created in 104, south of Timbuktu, which they left around the year 211 to settle in the Nema-Oualata-Bassikounou area at Hodh Echargui. My books ("Before the Empire of Ghana" and "The stakeholders of Kouroukanfouga") tell more about this part of the history of the Fofana. In my book "Kings and Peoples of the Empire of Ghana", it is said that when the Berbers, founders of the empire of Ghana lost power in 712, a Fofana was designated by the blacks as the first black king of Wagadou. This is why Fofana means "those who were the first blacks to lead". His name was Sammou Fofana. 13 Fofana rulers ruled the Wagadou. In the time of the Ghana Empire, the Fofana clans were called Fofana Kanindio; those who stayed in the Soninke country became Fofana Boïguillé. The Fofana Guirassy are those who left for Guinea and Senegal. Check out my book "Kings and Peoples of the Empire of Ghana". After the end of the reign of the black emperors called "Ka", the Wague hunt in 892 the Fofana who ruled the region of Timbuktu; the latter left to settle in Mandé, Bélédougou and also in the country stretching from the Niger river to Bani, where they created the commercial town of Kayaro (Ghiyarou). At the fall of Wagadou, the Fofana will prevail in Diafounou then in Diallan. It is these animist Fofana who are at the origin of the creation of the kingdom of Mara. See my book "After the Empire of Ghana". The Fofana later lost the battles against Kaarta and Sosso, the Fofana princes emigrate to Nouga and Kaniogo (mandé), they were called Maraka there; this term has become the name given to all people speaking the Soninke language like the Fofana. Those who went to Guinea to Sansaran and Fouta became the Guirassy, a branch of the Diakhanké. Those who remained in the Sahel became the Kagoro (see our publication on the Kakolo). The Fofana took part in the battle of Kankegnan which opposed the Mandingo coalition against the Kanté of Sosso by giving 812 warriors. consult my book "The stakeholders of Kouroukanfouga". ( The constitution of Africa) Kakolo or Kagorotan was the name of an independent region created in 1448, in the south of Kita in Sirakoro, after the explosion of the Mandé. It was founded by three surnames (Kamara, Fofana and Mounra). The Fofana and Kamara were Mandinka; the Mounra spoke the Soninke language. The country was ruled independently for 13 years through their kings: 2 Traore and a Fofana. The struggle between Fofana and Traore led to the destruction of the country. After the breakup of the country of Kakolo, only the Fofana remained; Traore left to the southwest and Camara to the west. NB: Bathily's books can be bought on amazon, Sources: Youba Bathily, Before the Empire of Ghana, Editions Mieruba, 2019, 80 pages, ISBN: (sale online and in hard copy)
I the berbers didn't found Ghana empire. When the europeans came to west Africa,they could not believe that Ghana empire was founded by the black so they said it should be founded by Jews or berbers. But Ghana (wagadu) was founded by black soninké.
Excellent content! Minor correction: At 0:26, you refer to "Mande" speaking. But I believe it's "Mande" people but when referring to the language, it should be "Mende".
Here''s an interesting thought. The legendary West African musician Salif Keita can prove that he is of the royal dynasty that goes back to Sunjata. He has referred to the equally legendary musician Mory Kante as his griot implying a subordinate caste status. The ruler of the Sosso who was overthrown at Kirina was Soumaoro Kanté. It suggests to me that Mory Kante may possibly have an illustrious pedigree himself. If so it's unfortunate that his ancestors were on the losing side.
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HomeTeam History love your work but the real warrior was soundjata brother Mande boukary you no that name respect and much love my king
Hey dude, I know this is asking too much because you are already killing it but, I would love if these could also be translated to Portuguese, Spanish, French so some other of our family can also enjoy these videos. Like, anyone in the comments that speak any of these languages should do voice overs and send him the sample
Love it learning more about my tribe and glad to be a born American and speak the Mandingo dialect as well glad I can share with my children our history
Spot on yet again!! As a Nigerian, I hereby pronounce you an honorary citizen:) Where in Africa have you been?
We need movies about this stuff
All fake history ,no written evidence . .these people had no written culture . .This is pure conjecture . .Sorry guys its an attempt to give Afro Americans some sense of history ..
Its pure fiction .
SORRY !
George Michael Duffy okay bro, thanks for clearing that one up for us
@@georgemichaelduffy37 actually my guy it was south and east africans who had no written culture west africans were most advanced in african,have you ever heard of timbuktu(dont know if that was spelled correctly) the first university in the world was in gambia so yes west african and some parts in central had written culture
@@Jefflon_Zuckergates he is wrong
ojthebeast12 777 I know g
I love african history
@Miss Life Lessons That we do
Videos are getting better with the side effects. I see your improvements.
Personally, I prefer less side effects to listen to the message clearly. But this served it's puropse well to see the military moves. Someone should make movies about African generals in history.
Yeah, the richest man that ever lived was from Mali. "Mansa Musa" and he had real money ( Gold, Silver, Diamonds all kinds of precious stones.and minerals) not this fake fiat paper money!
Kankan musa is the richest man ever lived *for his time* but the richest man ever ? We don't really know
@@farafyn2770 top 3
You forgot he also had thousands of slaves.
fiat money used to be a receipt of how much gold you have in the bank. until they started their big scam of saying the paper itself is the value.
@@farafyn2770 and as a Muslim like him we don't believe it as the sunnah tell us it's king and prophet Solomon (AS) that was and will remain the richest man in history.
Hello everyone. For those who are interested i would like to tell you the story of soundiata keita, the way it was tolf me by the elders in Guinea when i was a child. I think it can be interesting for those in the Diaspora and if you can share it with your kids, it is a good thing. What i am going to tell you in the legend with the magics behind
Long time ago, the prince of mandé was told that he had to marry a very ugly woman. This woman would give him a child that would be a great ruler. Therefore the prince agreed to marry the princess sogolon the ugly. Songolo gave birth to a a child named soundiata. To the king horror, the child was disabled. I could not walk. The king was very upset and him and his family and other wives would mistreat the poor woman and her child.
One day, soundiata was so angry at the kids that would be mean to his mother that he managed to stand for the first time and cut a huge tree to defend his mothers honor.
Eventually soundiata and his mom left the mandé and soundiata joind the Donzo hunting society. He became a great warrior and worked for another king. Unfortunately his mother died and he had an argument with his king.
By that time, the mandé had become a vassal of the sosso king dome. The weak half brother of soundiata was a puppet in the hands of the feared sorcerer king soumaworo Kanté. Soundiata decided to take back his kingdom and with he created and army. He was joined by the donzo hunting society.
They fought soumaworo but failed every time until a woman gave them the secret to destroy the sorcerer. It was believed that no weapon could hurt or kill the king because of his magics. Only an arrow made with a cock lug could kill him
During the last battle of kirina, soundiata manage to face soumaworo and to hit him with the arrow. To this day, it is said that soumaworo vanished. Some say he became an eagle, other say he became smoke.
After that, soundiata became the king of the prophecy. He initiated the mali kingdom that will become one of the greatest empire of human history and the land of the richest man in the history of mankind "kankan moussa".
It is said that following his win, soundiata created the first law framing "human rights".
Home team story gave the historical view and i wanted to share the legendary side with magic and the epic that is sang by the griot in mandinka culture to this day.
Another side of the story show that soumaworo was to the evil that his depicted in the traditional version of the story. But this is another story.
Honestly I love African folklore from different countries 💕🌌.... I'm going to watch the Soundiata Keita film that was directed by Abel Kouame. He's from the Ivory Coast and makes animated films from an African perspective. I hope in the future someone does more animated and live action films and tv shoes about these historical figures and just about folklore too.
Thanks for posting the full story! I'm so annoyed that Disney twisted the story and tried to mix it with Shakespeare to create their lion king film. But I'm not surprised they would do that.... instead of just making an animated film about actual African folklore.
Wow.. this is amazing.. i love the lendends behind it.
@ssissi gui, Thank you for sharing. These are the stories we should be passing on to our children.
@@AfriasporaFilms indeed. It is very important. You can start with the kids around you today 😉
Thanks home team. Finally I get to see documentaries of African battles and empires. There isn’t much of this out there. Keep up the good work.
I think Nollywood would greatly improve their international profile by making high quality movies based on West African historical events. There is considerable demand for this content.
I love that West African military history is finally getting charted on maps the way Kings and generals do so for European & Middle eastern history.
It really adds visual depths to our military tactics.
I also enjoy that the symbol for Calvary used wasn’t the western sign, but rather based off the artwork from artefacts of the Mali Empire that represented horsemen.
It’s the small details that can go a long way 👌🏿
Excellent work once again brother, been watching since 15K subs, can’t wait to see what’s next
Where can I find some sources describing the tactics?
@@ThePawciosIk it’s been too years and you seen the type of person to be curious enough to look for some so have you found any sources yet? If so may you please give me them
@MadaughtaUcheetah Epic of Sundiata, it's oral tradition passed down but English translations are there online
I love and Adore everything that you do. The enthusiasm and passion you put into it. You've taught me more about myself and our history than i have ever learned in school and I am a Black man from South Africa. Never Stop!
Lindani ntanzi,they Will NEVER teach you the TRUE about our History,and our leaders are sooooo useless,even in Africa WE don't learn our own History!!!!.
@jakiiz jambeze this histories are very well known in countries like Mali Senegal Niger Guinea , Burkina Fasso ,ivory coast,Sierra Leone , Mauritania .it's more beautiful when the griots talk about a history at the same time playing music.
Also most of those kings have their own song by the griots .songs that last centuries
It’s not your history your history is your ancestors your ancestors aren’t from west Africa so 🤐
This channel is mandatory viewing for all descendents of Africa. You are doing a nation's work brother. We are very proud of your. God bless
Indeed he is. A lot of seeds are being planted by this channel.
@@beanabong2896 100%. This guy deserves the utmost respect.
Well, this was not expected. Love these types of videos, and I think they are critical for spreading African history to general audiences and history buffs who are obsessed with their battles and all that ;).
My name is Hassan souare. I'm of the madingo/madinka ethnic group from the Mande speaking people. Though I am a Liberian currently in the USA, I'm a direct decedent of the mali empire. Thank you for the beautiful presentation.
Souare is from Cisse Manding Mory
Proud Mandinka here✊🏽
I like this ; My group play's west African music and it's from the old Malian empire and we tale the story of Sundjata Keita and other legends of west Africa.
Wait you can play Kora'(thats what its called right) music? Nice
West African pride!
I’m kind of envious of the black diaspora tbh. They are actively trying to reclaim their history, and in the process now famous historians acknowledge at least tiny bits of true African history. I’m on the other hand from the Indian diaspora, indians have absolutely no national consciousness, our history is distorted and we still believe that everything we have was a gift from whites, something Africans debunked immediately after independence
I have witnessed something really sad. I know an Indian Fijian girl who in college felt she wasn't accepted by Indian cliques. I also once asked an Indian friend of mine about Indians in the diaspora and he flat out told me they were too different now. I couldn't believe it
That's what having a warrior spirit do fight in every field the enemy lied.🔥🔥🔥
I feel like black people are often hated more in the media bc we are rebels. I think indians should also rebel.
What are you talking about. India literally has a cradle of Civilization while Europe has none. You also have dravidians
Sundiata is one of my favorite historical figures; first discovered him in high school, where world history focused on the gold-salt trade as an example of how global trade works. In college I took an African Empires class, and since the professor specialized in the Sahel empires, we spent time on Mali as well.
“ In a trice, Sundiata was in the middle of the Sossos like a lion in the
Sheepfold. The Sossos, trampled, under the hooves of his firey charger,
cried out. When he turned to the right, the smiths of Soumaoro fell in
their tens and when he turned to the left, his sword made heads fall as
when someone shakes a tree of ripe fruit. The horsemen of Mema wrought a
frightful slaughter and their long lances pierced flesh like a knife
sunk into a pawpaw”-The Epic of Sundiata Keita, complied by D.T. Niane.
Love from Somali brotha to OUR Mali African ppl
Riveting! I got chills. I hope Nollywood turns this into an epic.
Lol... Nollywood??
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 Yes Nollywood from Nigeria. You need to do some research...
@@ousmanealycoulibaly8250 I fuckin live in Kenya and they air 'Afrosinema' on almost all major channels... What makes you think I have never heard of Nollywood? Nollywood compromises quality for quantity. If their perspectives shifted then the movies there would be far much greater. I can't argue that they cannot afford it because they actually can.
@Dirt Law502 😂😂😂😂I am weak
Nice content thanks brother wow I really appreciate your work . The Mali empire is the greatest in west Africa no doubt.
Benin made more important cultural contributions and left more remarkable artifacts.
@pokezee king-wolf True... West Africa is a gem of African empires.
I can't believe I'm just NOW finding your channel. You have no idea how excited I am now! Good job and good narrating.
May our ancestors always be with you🖤🖤🖤
Love this ❤️
Man this should be a movie!! Amazing work good BROTHA✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
More videos on African military strategy like this please.
Love Soudjiate Keitat's story since I was young now I am very pleased to know more.
Thank you bro, may our ancestors keep looking after you 🙏🏿
Who needs church when I've got Home Team for spiritual knowledge.
Even these people had a religion. This is just history
adiam Kidane right ... tht commwnt made no sense
@@willarroz6703 Church isn't ubiquitous or synonymous with religion. But I clearly said spirituality & knowledge. Which is also separate from church. So why don't you two look up the meaning of each before you shoot off oppinions.
@@eritrean752 You have a African name, with a profile picture of a white blonde cartoon character. And your trying to preach to me about what African history is. You should never talk in public again.
Michael Naz first of all my profile picture had nothing to do with this topic and secondly this video has nothing to do with spiritual knowledge for you to bring church into this and church is part of a religion in case you didn’t know. Point blank period.
I loved this one showing all the military tactics
Oh my god! This has got to be a new masterpiece for your channel. The music is very atmospheric, the animation and art style depicting the various African settlements, kingdoms and icons are beautiful to look at and naturally your narration makes it all the better.
I would really love to see more videos in this style.
@Deshone Robinson Lol... Nobody cares about your belief. We are just watching African history here.
@Deshone Robinson 😂😂😂😂😂😂Looool. Okay. Even my people were originally in Europe.
This channel is such a gift!
What are the sources of the tactics? Is is described somewhere?
Bro I LOVE your videos !!!! I always look forward to them 👍😎. It makes me so proud to be a black man.
In-depth and very informative👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
This is so perfect please make more war documentaries about African kingdoms.
Thank you for your videos! They rarely teach African history in America, so we (African Americans) have to seek it out for ourselves.
@Deshone Robinson Lol... And I'm an alien.
Brilliant narrative! More so, using audio-visuals to tell the story. Some of us are visual thinkers, esp when explaining complex historical battle formations. Glad U thought about this, it's enhanced my understanding. I'll continue to tap into your font of knowledge, Big ups!!
I love home team work. history is so good to learn, great work guy's may goodness and blessings be with you always
👏 I like this production and my kids understand it...Yall did good!!! Man y'all keep doing what you doing, appreciate y'all 🙏 💯 👏
This was a dope animation Hometeam! Reminded me of the Kings and general channel...Keep up the good work!
The visual and vocal put together, make this a wonderful lesson to learn. Love all that you are doing.
The quality of your video is something else,
💓💞Sundiata keita, no wonder he has diata/jata in his name which means 🦁 lion in mandinka.
I believe it's Wagadou, and you should at least mention that today it's often referred to as The Ghanan Empire. Even if you find the term inaccurate, disambiguation is always helpful for those who wish to learn.
Respect
Awesome video! I've been waiting for someone to make a video like this of Kirina. Tondibi next? Maybe Tabkin Kwotto?
Just thought I would add for my fellow medieval warfare history buffs who might be wondering how archers checked a cavalry charge... most African archers at the time used poison tipped arrows and Sundiata's were no different. More importantly, everyone knew that the arrows were poisoned. Now imagine riding in, expecting to hit the rear or flank of a formation and then suddenly being faced with dense volley after dense volley of missiles which you knew very well would kill you in minutes if they even grazed your forearm. I imagine you would rear up and check your charge pretty quickly and retreat. Now when you consider the fact that these volleys did indeed land on most of the oncoming cavalry, it's no surprise that they broke and fled
Love the Kings and Generals-style imagery. Very helpful visual understanding of some West African warfare. Much appreciated.
Wow! What an incredible story! Loved the narration and, the visuals!!🖤🖤💯✊🏿 Also, I actually really like the name, Sundjata... sounds great!✊🏿
My favorite empire!!! West Africa stand up! It's all love though!
West African pride!
@@AfriPrincess411 proud mandinka proud west African.
@@bintudampha4855 proud mandinka proud west African 😤
The bully runs away after one blow 😂🤣😁 typical
Bro these type of videos are amazing please do more 🙏🏿
I really think you should make an Empire game like the few total war has.
Love it, continue sharing the knowledge and education.
Great video. If I were nearby I would have corrected your pronunciation of serval words, I don’t mean this in an arrogant way, I really enjoy your videos 😊.
Your videos have always been amazing, and are only getting better!
Excellent job brother💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Your voice is so relaxing
Amazing video as always
As a lover of military history, this is my favorite video thus far!
You are a Blessing bro ✊🏿
If we donate money, will you be able to turn your stories into animations?
Awesome storytelling as usual!
Oh my more like this on battles and rise of kingdoms this was awesome
In fact Soninkes dominated Mandinkas , berbers , fulanis and more . Sumanguru Kante was himself a Soninke from the Diarisso clan .
Pls can u do more vids like this usually because i like these types of vids
Mighty prince defeats an evil wizard is absolutely my jam. Good job.
Bro I absolutely love the animations, this reminds me of the kings and generals channel.
I know that this is asking a lot of you but it would be really awesome if you could redo your videos (the one's without animations) and give them animations and clear-cut closed captioning so that I (and other hard-of-hearing/deaf people) can properly understand what you are trying to iterate and illustrate in your videos.
Battle of the three kings, watch on TH-cam... moors history 1578
I thought he was a young king he was born in 1190 so in 1236 he was 46 💀 he’s still the best African in history tho
We definitely need a movie about this
Someday I will 👍
Thank you so much that is so inspiring to know these are things that American history won't tell us I want a stylish that they knew I keep it hidden but thank you for this gift🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔✊✊✊✊✊👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💞💞.
This would make a great Total War battle. Pity none of the games have Mali as a playable faction AFAIK.
There is a mod called OneRulerOnEarth where Mali, Songhai and Abyssinia are added. Is for Medieval II and currently only works for custom battles. There are other mods that add Mali, but this one is the most accurate one by far.
mashallah, yours looks just as good as that channel kings & Generals Great video!!
I just found out I’m part Malian so I’m learning my people’s history
I did not like this video, I LOVED IT.
More Battles histories
Mor visuals like this please. Perhaps the Battle of Mbandi Kasi next?
1st and here lets go
Yall killed this one. Keep em comin
You leveled up with this one
the borders are a bit small , Mali and Wagadou were definitely bigger then two villages and a tree
Brilliant video, keep up the good works 👍
Keep up the great work. HT 🤴🏿
Does anyone know what Mandinkurufaba translates to?
It's like kings and generals
Exactly my thoughts
nice video with a lot of details.Really appreciate your effort
Great history my country
interesting timing .... especially whats going on in Mali now
This video was really cool. Makes me want to see the battle dramatised.
It would be really cool to see you do more battles, maybe even doing a collaboration with Da’mon stith or one of the other HAMA people.
Wow thank you. I was not expecting that!
Do the war between Mali and Songhai
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Another great video 👍🏾
That was beautiful
Your graphic production provided an excellent illustration of the scope and dynamics of the battles. Keep up the great work.
THE FIRST BLACK MANDINGO KING BEFORE THE BATTLE OF KIRINA BETWEEN KEITA AND KANTÉ WAS SAMMOU FOFANA EMPEROR OF GHANA.
To believe our Fofana informants from the circles of Nara, Nioro, Keita and Diéma, the ancestors of the Fofana soninke would be from the town of Oumy created in 104, south of Timbuktu, which they left around the year 211 to settle in the Nema-Oualata-Bassikounou area at Hodh Echargui.
My books ("Before the Empire of Ghana" and "The stakeholders of Kouroukanfouga") tell more about this part of the history of the Fofana.
In my book "Kings and Peoples of the Empire of Ghana", it is said that when the Berbers, founders of the empire of Ghana lost power in 712, a Fofana was designated by the blacks as the first black king of Wagadou. This is why Fofana means "those who were the first blacks to lead". His name was Sammou Fofana. 13 Fofana rulers ruled the Wagadou.
In the time of the Ghana Empire, the Fofana clans were called Fofana Kanindio; those who stayed in the Soninke country became Fofana Boïguillé. The Fofana Guirassy are those who left for Guinea and Senegal. Check out my book "Kings and Peoples of the Empire of Ghana".
After the end of the reign of the black emperors called "Ka", the Wague hunt in 892 the Fofana who ruled the region of Timbuktu; the latter left to settle in Mandé, Bélédougou and also in the country stretching from the Niger river to Bani, where they created the commercial town of Kayaro (Ghiyarou).
At the fall of Wagadou, the Fofana will prevail in Diafounou then in Diallan. It is these animist Fofana who are at the origin of the creation of the kingdom of Mara. See my book "After the Empire of Ghana".
The Fofana later lost the battles against Kaarta and Sosso, the Fofana princes emigrate to Nouga and Kaniogo (mandé), they were called Maraka there; this term has become the name given to all people speaking the Soninke language like the Fofana. Those who went to Guinea to Sansaran and Fouta became the Guirassy, a branch of the Diakhanké. Those who remained in the Sahel became the Kagoro (see our publication on the Kakolo).
The Fofana took part in the battle of Kankegnan which opposed the Mandingo coalition against the Kanté of Sosso by giving 812 warriors. consult my book "The stakeholders of Kouroukanfouga". ( The constitution of Africa)
Kakolo or Kagorotan was the name of an independent region created in 1448, in the south of Kita in Sirakoro, after the explosion of the Mandé. It was founded by three surnames (Kamara, Fofana and Mounra). The Fofana and Kamara were Mandinka; the Mounra spoke the Soninke language. The country was ruled independently for 13 years through their kings: 2 Traore and a Fofana. The struggle between Fofana and Traore led to the destruction of the country. After the breakup of the country of Kakolo, only the Fofana remained; Traore left to the southwest and Camara to the west.
NB: Bathily's books can be bought on amazon,
Sources:
Youba Bathily, Before the Empire of Ghana, Editions Mieruba, 2019, 80 pages, ISBN: (sale online and in hard copy)
Make a video then
@Cracka Killer It actually is the same.
I the berbers didn't found Ghana empire. When the europeans came to west Africa,they could not believe that Ghana empire was founded by the black so they said it should be founded by Jews or berbers. But Ghana (wagadu) was founded by black soninké.
@@diawaraoussey9091 your name literally looks like those from that area that I used to see in my history text book.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 yes I'm a soninke. Diawara (Jawara in english).
This was awesome!😍
I love the animation/graphics used in this video. Makes it easy to to learn who is who and where and get a sense of geography.
Proud to have Mali in my blood.
VERY INTERESTING. KEEP THEM COMING 👍👍👍
Excellent content! Minor correction: At 0:26, you refer to "Mande" speaking. But I believe it's "Mande" people but when referring to the language, it should be "Mende".
what about the cloud stuff?????
Good start history is the most interesting
Here''s an interesting thought. The legendary West African musician Salif Keita can prove that he is of the royal dynasty that goes back to Sunjata. He has referred to the equally legendary musician Mory Kante as his griot implying a subordinate caste status. The ruler of the Sosso who was overthrown at Kirina was Soumaoro Kanté. It suggests to me that Mory Kante may possibly have an illustrious pedigree himself. If so it's unfortunate that his ancestors were on the losing side.