I actually started the research process for an open world African game set in various time periods to help teach our children about the different civilisations of the continent and what they had to offer. I'm on the Great Wall of Zimbabwe and the structure is massive and impressive
I SWEAR my husband and I were talking about this a few months ago. I'm so happy we aren't the only ones. We were talking about it because he was playing that Assassins game and they always have it during a different time period in different place BUT Africa. There may be one set in Egypt but I'm not sure. Anywho you are supported my guy.😊
Excellent video! Keep this up sister. They have been bashing African architectural achievements for too long now. It is high time we Africans slay the lies and bring out the truth.
Thank you both for what you do. It's amazing to me how in tune we are with each other in regards to this enlightenment period. I've been absolutely consumed with the topic of us. Thank you both!
For real! I'm Filipino, and the last 20 years has been that journey for me, realizing how colonized my thinking has been, and slowly breaking it all down. I'm glad we are here together to learn from each other and go through it.
Please continue the work you’re doing. As Africans we need to be re-educated back to the previous values we had to establish new architectures beyond western trends. Your work is inspirational. Thank you!
I greatly appreciate your work. The Khami Ruins in Zimbabwe, "h" is a silent letter so you pronounce it like Kami ruins. Please continue doing this it will open our minds and souls to understand and value ourselves and what we can do on our own.
Some of the best photos I have seen. Highly recommend a trip to The Museum of Traditional Architecture in Jos, Nigeria and the three volumes they produced on Nigerian Architecture.
I always wondered about this issue rightfully raised by you. How can the place from where we all humans originated not have progressive achievements in all areas of life, culture and civilization? Glad that you have initiated this. More power to you. Looking forward to your future research.
Very nice and inspiring video even though I’m not African. I hope Africa does it !! I have been to several places including villages and the inspiration is there !!
Hi! This channel came up in my feed probably because of the algorithm. I’m glad I found you! This video was so informative and you made some very brilliant points! I’m African American and I have always been interested in how my ancestors lived before European and Arab invasions. I’m subscribing to your channel and I’m so excited to learn more! I’m wishing you so much success!🙏🏽💕
There is nothing wrong with mud construction. Francis Kere is certainly showing its value now. If properly maintained, it can last for centuries. I think it is much more beautiful than concrete boxes.
Thank you for this fine video...I've long been interested in African architecture & Funiture. So much has been lost & destroyed. One of the reasons I was excited about the film, Women King is I knew we would be able to get a peak of the architecture of that time period in Dahomey ..Historical films are a great way to get a chance to see from different periods.. The Western world has always had this advantage in their films,,, I bought the DVD so I had a chance to see the set designer who was African American Akin Mckenzie talk about the research that went into his set designs .. which their is a video here on You-Tube of him taking about this project The Women King..So as African film making along with the diaspora grows hopefully we will be able to see more historical films about Africa including it's architecture. Love your channel..
The Kingdom of Dahomey was responsible for capturing and exporting the majority of slaves who were sent to the US. Read the history. "Da" means "snake" in the Ewe language. "-homey" means "Land of...". So, Dahomey is the land of the snake. The capital of Dahomey is Cotonou, which, in the Ewe language, means "Death River Bank", probably in honor of the thousands of people killed by the Snake King.
🤣🤣🤣...I was having the same logic, then you mentioned it. Given the design prowess of Africans in general - I can only imagine the flamboyance and science behind the architecture. Pyramids - mic drop lol
Again, wonderfully put. Yes we are capable of taking the past to bring us forward and this is as you said we should consider. Thank you for your well valued research it is much appreciated. Do continue to make us think about our past, now and our future.
I have been inundated with content from mostly white male thinkers... and I am glad to have found an Afrikan women content creator to balance out the narrative... and I appreciate having found this channel that is dealing with some of the thoughts I am exploring around eco-architectural concepts of the indigenous cultures. Colonialist thinking has done a lot of damage to our ways of thinking and being, We appreciate you.!❤
I am from the US and am very interested in the architecture of Africa because it is amazing to me. I would love to learn more, hopefully you will do more videos of the architecture in Africa.
Honestly, the only thing school and the news taught me about Sub-Saharan Africa was (extreme) poverty, apartheid and the trans atlantic slavery. I had to "discover" the continent of Africa on my own, by watching History-, Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Those channels taught and showed me how beautiful, rich and vibrant the continent was and still is.
Thank you...Thank you...Thank you is not enough...God bless you...i wish you and your lineage good grace, may your path be prosperous. Amen (Love from Nigeria)
We as a people are waking up to the beauty of the human mind, for which each of us individually and collectively possess. The challenge therefore, is to believe in ourselves and the artistic and practical accomplishments of our kin. This is sooo hard to do, as we are constantly marched towards the path of consumption and war. All civilizations die. A fact. But some can be reborn by turning towards that narrow path which leads to knowledge and truth. So we must withstand the ridicule of others and keep plugging away. Plug away until we are able to fully live and profit from our individual and collective creations. Its time to turn away from false and unsustainable creations and walk towards the sun.
Africa is so huge there are many kinds of architectural styles from north to south. I lived in New Mexico our architecture was a blend of Tunisian and Pueblo.
Actually we have mud houses in the Netherlands, Limburg region. I love these traditional buildings. I always imagine someone working hard to build it. They are very expensive and protected. Traditional houding is also better for climate and spread accross the landscape, avoids the drawbacks of overcrowded cities.
Gurrrl, I don't know where you come from in Africa, but as an old chap; I could die comfortable that common sense is now beginning to be ventilated by fellow Africans! When you spoke of making our own things based on our cultures, I was sold. How absolutely stupid to think we can build the West into our landscapes? Imagine if we, humbly, modernized our traditional methods and designs for building; environmental construction, and more? How much new employment, and ways of matching up with our brothers and sisters around the world? Please keep waking our slumbering minds up. Thank you.
You are doing Gods work, we need more education about African history. Our architecture is the most important cultural symbol of our heritage please continue shedding light on this topic
Lady, this is absolutely instructive!! I truly resonate with this position and this exhortation of our people to reach back and learn how rich we are so that we launch ourselves with our own expression of class and quality... And with confidence!! Ahsante sana kwa kutukumbusha vile tuko na utu wa maana sana!!! We have a valuable heritage!!!
We enjoyed this educated Video of view on Afrikan architecture is Ancient and artistic and durable and beautifully detailed creativity of Colour Shapes patterns materials textures and variety in style and great innovation Thankyou for Inspiring and old to new continuation from ancestors to modern day harmony to learn and improve Building future Towns Cities Community that are Organic and environmental friendly for people to live and maintain Natural with Earth Climates Seasons thankyou @African Traditional Architecture
I cannot begin to describe how important this your research is!!!! I have been advocating for education within the context of our cultures for many years now. I am exploring our African storytelling at the moment and am just about to publish a teacher's manual for teachers in my country Sierra Leone. Thank you for this amazing research.
I love seeing all these beautiful pictures and homes. Please note , these transitions between photos are killing my eyes. Contributing to my migraines. Please consider a consistent smooth fade transition between photos!!! Thank you for you work
This is a wonderful summary of high African art and architecture! I am so glad that I found your channel to learn more about the true richness of this deep and ancient world. It makes me personally quite angry at the colonialism of my European ancestors that stole so much, and the modern American/European countries that continue to steal so much. Working with the Earth in a sustainable way is the only method to survive and Africa is the leader here. I feel that reclaiming the deep culture through art - humanity's first technology - is really the way to decolonize our minds and hearts. Thank you for allowing us to see this truth. Much love and blessings.
Power to you, edifying and enlightening.. all that you allude to is absolutely true...continue to challenge and continue to pursue the truth beneath all lies we ve been fed..
I am proud that someone is finally talking about architecture of Africa. I am familiar with such architecture since 2012, yet very few structured resources available. Hope you would fill that gap, and be a brick to the whole facade.
The Oba of Benins palace was said to have used more material than the great pyramid of Giza before it was razed by the British.... I believe it might not have been razed but may sit beneath a lake.... flooding antiquities has always been a favoured method to hide indigenous structures. Great video and research.... we will find and reconnect everything that was lost! 👊🏾❤️
Regionalism is a very good thing in architecture. I guess I was searching for a more rigorous analysis of African Architecture as inspiration. There are a few images but I would like to learn more about how they were made, how they are used, how culture affects the expression of the architecture etc. As an example Dami Lee Arch does a great job at explaining Japanese architecture from a cultural perspective. And David Adjaye has a very inspiring documentary about architecture in Morocco.
I love the African village architecture, there is so much variety depending on location and the use of local building materials... but all are aesthetically beautiful each in their own way, which shows artistic souls. 🥰
Good fortune in your endeavors to uncover great indigenous architecture in Africa and pass this knowledge on to younger generations. People all over the world, in various ways, are throwing off the yoke of corporate oppressors.
Wow I must agree with your video. Spent time in Malindi Kenya and fell in love with Swahili architecture. I asked my then wife at the time who is Kenyan, why was this style of building not capitalized on and spread throughout the country.
African architecture is far more advanced then whats painted in media. It was more then just huts and mud houses. Every continent seems to have ancient advanced architectures covered by mud, soil and jungles. From the pyramids and temple sites of south america, to the monolithic mounds with huge stone block in north america, to the euthipian and african ancient advanced ruins. It seems like our history is far more richer before the times of native americans started building huts and mud houses, as if a pre ancient races all over the world once inhabited the entire Earth only to disappear, but living traces of their rich existence all over for archeologists and explorers to discover.
Your understanding of wealth is different. You may think this is a contrast to affrica or others and far richer than natives to the eye. However, the environment used to build was not the same for all individuals or ppl of our past. it was essential for the climate changes why they moved lightly in such conditions for crops and food seasons changed and only had a short time between to gather and collect enough from fishing, hunting, gathering seeds, and friuts nuts beans corn mushrooms tree sap wood grasses for smudge and herbs for health fat for warmth skins fir for cloths drums shelter tress for carving to use on water and land marks. They were mobile because of this... land ppl water ppl both walked hand in hand and other trades between tribes were essential for growth and educated each others groups in order to keep it valuable and not to distrupt the ecosystem so that they could all benefit even though they were developing differently. They depended on each others knowledge to serve the hot summers and cold winters. They may have seemed to be less educated or advanced, but their knowledge was beyond those who had taken pride in the welth over value of their land. They are to me "earth tribes" who protect and respect plants, animals, and water they call mother earth. Was and is the most valuable and sacred to be protected, not used for weath and gains but was passed down through names and responsibilities and should be protected and prayers made for the past ancestors who also protect the mother earth and blessings for the new generations. Their head dressed, and seads' now beeds and other drums feathers were all made and worn to reflect the environment animals and plants. Modesty was for this very reason and easy to pack up and leave when things got bad or ppl became ill or tribes became bigger and united or worse. When divided cultures clashed and manly because of interference from beyond our understanding later on when they became separated, they had to hide in the hills from colonization. Lost knowledge and over time were driven out of those places, too. The only way out was to give into, and those who did not have been gone and with them most knowledge was lost. However, their knowledge was passed down through stories, drums, songs, and pictographs, and they lost clues told, and now that they are being reopened to these lost ways.Through Dance and singing are how they want you to see them hear them, watch them, and feel them drums, learn how strong and valuable they are, and born again. I am so proud of them to overcome what was taken and never looked back without gratitude. Together, we have found each other and are slowly building what they love. Not all but very many know the importance of mothers' ways of their traditional ways to keep the environment healthy. We have learned how to fish in these lands, plant and harvest, because of them who were and are caretakers and chose to live minimal but very rich in knowledge. More ppl need to understand these ways perhpas that was why those beautiful artists work on solad ground was also lost. Maybe they lost their values and took advice beyond our knowledge that led to things that did not give back but took from too many souls. They lost the value in our Creator, Our Heavenly Father. Perhaps all nations or tribes lost value in each other to sell out on their ppl much like today. Perhpas we can learn how to rebuild but put him first not make the same mistakes as the past. Perhaps that is why no wars or settlements will ever concor the quest to take and prosper when we do not serve him first. Perhpas looking for answers and not salutation will always keep us going through pain and suffering. Perhpas we all were wronged and all have suffered to much loss and this to has to stop. Perhpas, we know the answers and yet have come together and learned from our past. Perhpas Perhpas, perhaps
I nned to apologize if I offended anyone who sees this differently. I do not mean any disrespectful views or want to take away value in any other walks of life. I am not well educated, nor am I good at spelling or grammar. Please forgive my ignorance, and if I have offended you, please know I do not want to hurt anyone. Please forgive me
Wow! I love listening to people ( especially women) who have the same passion and love that I have for my people and continent. Thank you for challening us and I humbly accept the challenge.
Wonderful video,im not African, though i ended up pondering about this topic over the weekend,those ar amazing those building,i think its a agreat idea you brought up, 🌸💚👍
Unfortunately in most of the USA building codes are for to support money not for people,but in New Mexico codes where a lot more open to experimentation so some cool architecture happens. Glad I discovered your site,thanks!
Keep putting out content. Share more content. I am opening a design build company in Ghana where we strive to build indigenous architecture with a modern (non-western) focus.
They built using mud because its what suited their hot environment and when combined with lime it can actually last longer than modern concrete buildings and with stand floods, earthquakes etc. Take the Kerma Deffufa in North Sudan built during ancient Nubia in 2500 BCE for example, its 4,500 years old and still standing multiple stories high. Despite being so old, the structure is still strong enough to support the weight of multiple people without falling through the roof. Mud is also an effective cooling material with the ability to absorb and store heat then dissipates as outside temperatures cool in the evening. Its not that they can't build stone structures because they did in places like Titchitt Dhar but they used what was most suited to their climate and plenty in resource. Even then places like Europe for example were still building using Wattle and Daub until the 20th century and are now increasingly adopting Earth bricks (mixed with little bit of cement) for some homes. So, its not exactly a gotcha moment they think it is.
I agree with you 💯. I’m doing my part. Africans we are the genesis of life based on all measures and accounts which means Moving forward let’s use what’s around us in the continent only.
The first thing that come to my mind when we speak about African Architecture is how African figured out what they call Pi today and how we also how invented we invented what is called Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, falsely attributed to Pythagoras, existed in Kemet over 3000 years before he was born. The Greek historian Herodotus makes note that, “Pythagoras was nothing but a vulgar plagiarist of his Egyptian masters,” Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Kemet for 22 years.
Very interesting video. So beautiful architecture. Thank you. I agree. This is all done on purpose. To put African people down. Because if you want to exploit people you must attack their self worth. You must tell them that they are inferior. You must make them feel ashamed of themselves. Take away their pride. I pray that Africa will rise. That people will value their ancestors, their languages, their cultures instead of thinking that the Western WEIRD mindset is something to strive for.
I agree, but sadly the reality is that African leaders sold out to Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Russians, not to mention colonialization. Natural resources were stolen and now they owe and the people must be productive workers and consumers, paying rent or interest on mortgages, taxes, etc. Michel Chossudovsky's The Globalization of Poverty is a good start to learn how the system works: www.worldhunger.org/the-globalization-of-poverty/ I grew up in Germany in the 60s and many Germans were upset because the government spent millions on "Entwicklungshilfe", aid to developing countries for dams and whatever projects nobody needed. MILLIONS were spent on GERMAN companies like Siemens for construction. It was mostly corporate aid. And often had very negative effects on local culture, dams preventing the floods farmers depended on, etc. In the 21st century, the entire world is programmed to create more wealth for the super-rich. And most people have NO clue whatsoever.
We just need to look at the pyramids in Egypt and Sudan to understand that we were great builders. It's in us. The Mangbetu of Kongo were also impressive.
Thank you so much for shearing this. It is great really. I am proud of being black and Alkebulan. I will never change for anything in the world. Love me blacks ❤❤ decolonize your mind people. Speak your Afrika language, L❤e your Afrikan name.
I have always made this argument about Zulu artefacts, we made a choice of what we made beautiful and what we made simple. I would really love to get in touch with you and do a documentary - I am filmmaker based in Johannesburg
I actually started the research process for an open world African game set in various time periods to help teach our children about the different civilisations of the continent and what they had to offer. I'm on the Great Wall of Zimbabwe and the structure is massive and impressive
Wow can I get your info
We encourage you wholeheartedly
Great wall of benin
I SWEAR my husband and I were talking about this a few months ago. I'm so happy we aren't the only ones. We were talking about it because he was playing that Assassins game and they always have it during a different time period in different place BUT Africa. There may be one set in Egypt but I'm not sure. Anywho you are supported my guy.😊
Wow that's so cool. Do have any socials about your game development?
Excellent video! Keep this up sister. They have been bashing African architectural achievements for too long now. It is high time we Africans slay the lies and bring out the truth.
Thank you both for what you do. It's amazing to me how in tune we are with each other in regards to this enlightenment period. I've been absolutely consumed with the topic of us. Thank you both!
I see you comrade
Great to see you here, brother! I love seeing Africans circulating knowledge about our past, present and future!
Yet you deny the Africanity of ancient Egypt.
Deplete your mind of western thinking and regain your true self.
The journey is long but true ❤
And lonely too because everyone thinks you are crazy 🤪
For real! I'm Filipino, and the last 20 years has been that journey for me, realizing how colonized my thinking has been, and slowly breaking it all down.
I'm glad we are here together to learn from each other and go through it.
@@queenwere1Only when you are among them and not the others 😊
I don't know but I think there's a bond that ties Africans south of the Sahara and Filipina. We love you guys ❤@@thenaiam
Please continue the work you’re doing. As Africans we need to be re-educated back to the previous values we had to establish new architectures beyond western trends. Your work is inspirational. Thank you!
Please do ! 🙏 much ❤️
I am a part of the diaspora and I am currently building a rammed earth home in Ghana. It is truly time to go back to our greatness.
Sister, thanks the ancestors for ur heart felt love for who we really are.
Keep it up.
Our ancestors are dead. It is our move now.
I greatly appreciate your work. The Khami Ruins in Zimbabwe, "h" is a silent letter so you pronounce it like Kami ruins. Please continue doing this it will open our minds and souls to understand and value ourselves and what we can do on our own.
Excellent!!!! I agree 100%. The African leadership needs to have this mindset.
Some of the best photos I have seen. Highly recommend a trip to The Museum of Traditional Architecture in Jos, Nigeria and the three volumes they produced on Nigerian Architecture.
Do you know the title of the book?
This is educational and informing. Ingenious architecture
I always wondered about this issue rightfully raised by you. How can the place from where we all humans originated not have progressive achievements in all areas of life, culture and civilization? Glad that you have initiated this. More power to you. Looking forward to your future research.
Very nice and inspiring video even though I’m not African. I hope Africa does it !! I have been to several places including villages and the inspiration is there !!
Hi! This channel came up in my feed probably because of the algorithm. I’m glad I found you! This video was so informative and you made some very brilliant points! I’m African American and I have always been interested in how my ancestors lived before European and Arab invasions. I’m subscribing to your channel and I’m so excited to learn more! I’m wishing you so much success!🙏🏽💕
Time to start designing and building our traditional homes. Thank you for the guidance and inspiation.
Your idea about finding our own way is spot on. Keep the conversation going. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Thanks again.
There is nothing wrong with mud construction. Francis Kere is certainly showing its value now. If properly maintained, it can last for centuries. I think it is much more beautiful than concrete boxes.
Bricks is just burnt mud
Thank you for this fine video...I've long been interested in African architecture & Funiture. So much has been lost & destroyed. One of the reasons I was excited about the film, Women King is I knew we would be able to get a peak of the architecture of that time period in Dahomey ..Historical films are a great way to get a chance to see from different periods.. The Western world has always had this advantage in their films,,, I bought the DVD so I had a chance to see the set designer who was African American Akin Mckenzie talk about the research that went into his set designs .. which their is a video here on You-Tube of him taking about this project The Women King..So as African film making along with the diaspora grows hopefully we will be able to see more historical films about Africa including it's architecture. Love your channel..
The Kingdom of Dahomey was responsible for capturing and exporting the majority of slaves who were sent to the US. Read the history. "Da" means "snake" in the Ewe language. "-homey" means "Land of...". So, Dahomey is the land of the snake. The capital of Dahomey is Cotonou, which, in the Ewe language, means "Death River Bank", probably in honor of the thousands of people killed by the Snake King.
🤣🤣🤣...I was having the same logic, then you mentioned it. Given the design prowess of Africans in general - I can only imagine the flamboyance and science behind the architecture. Pyramids - mic drop lol
Thank you for this wonderful presentation.❤️
Again, wonderfully put. Yes we are capable of taking the past to bring us forward and this is as you said we should consider. Thank you for your well valued research it is much appreciated. Do continue to make us think about our past, now and our future.
Thank you for this upload. You are doing great work.
So much about this channel is refreshing ✨️ ❤
I have been inundated with content from mostly white male thinkers... and I am glad to have found an Afrikan women content creator to balance out the narrative... and I appreciate having found this channel that is dealing with some of the thoughts I am exploring around eco-architectural concepts of the indigenous cultures. Colonialist thinking has done a lot of damage to our ways of thinking and being,
We appreciate you.!❤
I wonder where that "Afrikan women" found her content.
I am from the US and am very interested in the architecture of Africa because it is amazing to me. I would love to learn more, hopefully you will do more videos of the architecture in Africa.
Honestly, the only thing school and the news taught me about Sub-Saharan Africa was (extreme) poverty, apartheid and the trans atlantic slavery.
I had to "discover" the continent of Africa on my own, by watching History-, Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Those channels taught and showed me how beautiful, rich and vibrant the continent was and still is.
News flash: Watching TV programs about Africa is not discovering it "on your own".
You are doing something amazing on this channel, well done 👏
Fantastic work. Well done and thank you for this
Thank you...Thank you...Thank you is not enough...God bless you...i wish you and your lineage good grace, may your path be prosperous. Amen (Love from Nigeria)
We as a people are waking up to the beauty of the human mind, for which each of us individually and collectively possess. The challenge therefore, is to believe in ourselves and the artistic and practical accomplishments of our kin. This is sooo hard to do, as we are constantly marched towards the path of consumption and war. All civilizations die. A fact. But some can be reborn by turning towards that narrow path which leads to knowledge and truth. So we must withstand the ridicule of others and keep plugging away. Plug away until we are able to fully live and profit from our individual and collective creations. Its time to turn away from false and unsustainable creations and walk towards the sun.
Africa is so huge there are many kinds of architectural styles from north to south. I lived in New Mexico our architecture was a blend of Tunisian and Pueblo.
LOVE your Passion MY Sister👏🏽....Keep up the Good Work...peace.
Actually we have mud houses in the Netherlands, Limburg region. I love these traditional buildings. I always imagine someone working hard to build it. They are very expensive and protected. Traditional houding is also better for climate and spread accross the landscape, avoids the drawbacks of overcrowded cities.
Gurrrl, I don't know where you come from in Africa, but as an old chap; I could die comfortable that common sense is now beginning to be ventilated by fellow Africans! When you spoke of making our own things based on our cultures, I was sold. How absolutely stupid to think we can build the West into our landscapes? Imagine if we, humbly, modernized our traditional methods and designs for building; environmental construction, and more? How much new employment, and ways of matching up with our brothers and sisters around the world? Please keep waking our slumbering minds up. Thank you.
You are doing Gods work, we need more education about African history. Our architecture is the most important cultural symbol of our heritage please continue shedding light on this topic
So happy to find you!
I’m constantly looking for our contributions to the design world.
Of course, it’s amazing! ❤
When I tell you I LOVE LOVE your work. My inner anthropologist is loving all of your work.
Nothing about us says primitive or poverty!!!! I see coloful, alive, creativity, and summer time always 🥰🥰🥰 I'm in love with us, the ancient us❤️💛💚✊🏾🖤
Lady, this is absolutely instructive!! I truly resonate with this position and this exhortation of our people to reach back and learn how rich we are so that we launch ourselves with our own expression of class and quality... And with confidence!!
Ahsante sana kwa kutukumbusha vile tuko na utu wa maana sana!!! We have a valuable heritage!!!
Great exposition on African indigenous house architecture. Let us develop our culture.
We enjoyed this educated Video of view on Afrikan architecture is Ancient and artistic and durable and beautifully detailed creativity of Colour Shapes patterns materials textures and variety in style and great innovation
Thankyou for Inspiring and old to new continuation from ancestors to modern day harmony to learn and improve Building future Towns Cities Community that are Organic and environmental friendly for people to live and maintain Natural with Earth Climates Seasons thankyou @African Traditional Architecture
@africantraditionalarchitecture, You have said it, so we must do it. Brilliant 👏🏿
Keep doing what you do
I cannot begin to describe how important this your research is!!!! I have been advocating for education within the context of our cultures for many years now. I am exploring our African storytelling at the moment and am just about to publish a teacher's manual for teachers in my country Sierra Leone. Thank you for this amazing research.
I love seeing all these beautiful pictures and homes.
Please note , these transitions between photos are killing my eyes. Contributing to my migraines.
Please consider a consistent smooth fade transition between photos!!!
Thank you for you work
African designs always have meanings, I wonder what that amazing looking floor and wall could tell us?
This is a wonderful summary of high African art and architecture! I am so glad that I found your channel to learn more about the true richness of this deep and ancient world. It makes me personally quite angry at the colonialism of my European ancestors that stole so much, and the modern American/European countries that continue to steal so much. Working with the Earth in a sustainable way is the only method to survive and Africa is the leader here. I feel that reclaiming the deep culture through art - humanity's first technology - is really the way to decolonize our minds and hearts. Thank you for allowing us to see this truth. Much love and blessings.
Power to you, edifying and enlightening.. all that you allude to is absolutely true...continue to challenge and continue to pursue the truth beneath all lies we ve been fed..
With less measuring modern instruments. That floor 👏
I m happy to find you, you doing a good job, what you say is really true. You open my eyes.
Thank you for sharing your revelations!
Great work as always
Thank you so much for this! -Your sister in the diaspora
❤whew! This channel is a breath of fresh air!!!!!
I am proud that someone is finally talking about architecture of Africa. I am familiar with such architecture since 2012, yet very few structured resources available. Hope you would fill that gap, and be a brick to the whole facade.
The Oba of Benins palace was said to have used more material than the great pyramid of Giza before it was razed by the British....
I believe it might not have been razed but may sit beneath a lake.... flooding antiquities has always been a favoured method to hide indigenous structures.
Great video and research.... we will find and reconnect everything that was lost! 👊🏾❤️
You are correct, they created the Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe and flooded many ruins, including important ancestral graves!
Regionalism is a very good thing in architecture. I guess I was searching for a more rigorous analysis of African Architecture as inspiration. There are a few images but I would like to learn more about how they were made, how they are used, how culture affects the expression of the architecture etc.
As an example Dami Lee Arch does a great job at explaining Japanese architecture from a cultural perspective. And David Adjaye has a very inspiring documentary about architecture in Morocco.
I love the African village architecture, there is so much variety depending on location and the use of local building materials... but all are aesthetically beautiful each in their own way, which shows artistic souls. 🥰
Good fortune in your endeavors to uncover great indigenous architecture in Africa and pass this knowledge on to younger generations.
People all over the world, in various ways, are throwing off the yoke of corporate oppressors.
Thank you, Sister for enlighting and engouraging us !🎉
The author has this beautiful, tinkling calming voice and sophisticated accent. Nice to listen to. Following!
Wow I must agree with your video. Spent time in Malindi Kenya and fell in love with Swahili architecture. I asked my then wife at the time who is Kenyan, why was this style of building not capitalized on and spread throughout the country.
African architecture is far more advanced then whats painted in media. It was more then just huts and mud houses.
Every continent seems to have ancient advanced architectures covered by mud, soil and jungles. From the pyramids and temple sites of south america, to the monolithic mounds with huge stone block in north america, to the euthipian and african ancient advanced ruins. It seems like our history is far more richer before the times of native americans started building huts and mud houses, as if a pre ancient races all over the world once inhabited the entire Earth only to disappear, but living traces of their rich existence all over for archeologists and explorers to discover.
Your understanding of wealth is different. You may think this is a contrast to affrica or others and far richer than natives to the eye.
However, the environment used to build was not the same for all individuals or ppl of our past.
it was essential for the climate changes why they moved lightly in such conditions for crops and food seasons changed and only had a short time between to gather and collect enough from fishing, hunting, gathering seeds, and friuts nuts beans corn mushrooms tree sap wood grasses for smudge and herbs for health fat for warmth skins fir for cloths drums shelter tress for carving to use on water and land marks. They were mobile because of this... land ppl water ppl both walked hand in hand and other trades between tribes were essential for growth and educated each others groups in order to keep it valuable and not to distrupt the ecosystem so that they could all benefit even though they were developing differently. They depended on each others knowledge to serve the hot summers and cold winters. They may have seemed to be less educated or advanced, but their knowledge was beyond those who had taken pride in the welth over value of their land.
They are to me "earth tribes" who protect and respect plants, animals, and water they call mother earth. Was and is the most valuable and sacred to be protected, not used for weath and gains but was passed down through names and responsibilities and should be protected and prayers made for the past ancestors who also protect the mother earth and blessings for the new generations. Their head dressed, and seads' now beeds and other drums feathers were all made and worn to reflect the environment animals and plants. Modesty was for this very reason and easy to pack up and leave when things got bad or ppl became ill or tribes became bigger and united or worse. When divided cultures clashed and manly because of interference from beyond our understanding later on when they became separated, they had to hide in the hills from colonization.
Lost knowledge and over time were driven out of those places, too. The only way out was to give into, and those who did not have been gone and
with them most knowledge was lost. However, their knowledge was passed down through stories, drums, songs, and pictographs, and they lost clues told, and now that they are being reopened to these lost ways.Through Dance and singing are how they want you to see them hear them, watch them, and feel them drums, learn how strong and valuable they are, and born again. I am so proud of them to overcome what was taken and never looked back without gratitude. Together, we have found each other and are slowly building what they love. Not all but very many know the importance of mothers' ways of their traditional ways to keep the environment healthy.
We have learned how to fish in these lands, plant and harvest, because of them who were and are caretakers and chose to live minimal but very rich in knowledge.
More ppl need to understand these ways perhpas that was why those beautiful artists work on solad ground was also lost.
Maybe they lost their values and took advice beyond our knowledge that led to things that did not give back but took from too many souls.
They lost the value in our Creator, Our Heavenly Father.
Perhaps all nations or tribes lost value in each other to sell out on their ppl much like today.
Perhpas we can learn how to rebuild but put him first not make the same mistakes as the past.
Perhaps that is why no wars or settlements will ever concor the quest to take and prosper when we do not serve him first.
Perhpas looking for answers and not salutation will always keep us going through pain and suffering.
Perhpas we all were wronged and all have suffered to much loss and this to has to stop. Perhpas, we know the answers and yet have come together and learned from our past. Perhpas Perhpas, perhaps
I nned to apologize if I offended anyone who sees this differently. I do not mean any disrespectful views or want to take away value in any other walks of life. I am not well educated, nor am I good at spelling or grammar. Please forgive my ignorance, and if I have offended you, please know I do not want to hurt anyone. Please forgive me
Wow! I love listening to people ( especially women) who have the same passion and love that I have for my people and continent. Thank you for challening us and I humbly accept the challenge.
Well presented… thanks for your work… please provide more of this content
Wonderful video,im not African, though i ended up pondering about this topic over the weekend,those ar amazing those building,i think its a agreat idea you brought up,
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I enjoyed this sooooooo much! thank you.
The architecture is stunning, in all of africa, I wish there was a video showing it in more detail😊
You can go on Google maps and street view nearly every building in Ghana. Report back with your findings
Unfortunately in most of the USA building codes are for to support money not for people,but in New Mexico codes where a lot more open to experimentation so some cool architecture happens. Glad I discovered your site,thanks!
The path you are pointing to Madam, is what the Chinese cultural Revolution was about. Now, see where they are.
And where are the 20M people they murdered?
i resinate with your message. It is encouraging to see that someone else believes that the modern way is not the only way.
That was most interesting, thanks for sharing it. Is there some bibliography you would feel like suggesting in order to learn more about it?
thank your for your work !
Thank you for this very informative video!!!!
Wonderful…….keep the good work…..
Hi from Canada! Thank you for sharing. Love this!!❤❤❤
Good to know that people have started to think beyond the narrative..
Treal!!! Thank's Thank's for the Channel!!!!! very good video!!! namaste Haribol Asewe
Truly compelling and educational
Nice video! For a long time I have been wanting to hold this discussion with someone.
Beautiful!🎉
Keep putting out content. Share more content. I am opening a design build company in Ghana where we strive to build indigenous architecture with a modern (non-western) focus.
Keep up the great work. Subscribed.
This is wonderful video, thank you sister.
I love you so much for the research you've done in this video.
They built using mud because its what suited their hot environment and when combined with lime it can actually last longer than modern concrete buildings and with stand floods, earthquakes etc. Take the Kerma Deffufa in North Sudan built during ancient Nubia in 2500 BCE for example, its 4,500 years old and still standing multiple stories high. Despite being so old, the structure is still strong enough to support the weight of multiple people without falling through the roof. Mud is also an effective cooling material with the ability to absorb and store heat then dissipates as outside temperatures cool in the evening.
Its not that they can't build stone structures because they did in places like Titchitt Dhar but they used what was most suited to their climate and plenty in resource. Even then places like Europe for example were still building using Wattle and Daub until the 20th century and are now increasingly adopting Earth bricks (mixed with little bit of cement) for some homes. So, its not exactly a gotcha moment they think it is.
this is excellent. Thank you.
All we ever needed was info and getting our people into construction and architecture
I agree with you 💯. I’m doing my part. Africans we are the genesis of life based on all measures and accounts which means Moving forward let’s use what’s around us in the continent only.
The first thing that come to my mind when we speak about African Architecture is how African figured out what they call Pi today and how we also how invented we invented what is called Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, falsely attributed to Pythagoras, existed in Kemet over 3000 years before he was born. The Greek historian Herodotus makes note that, “Pythagoras was nothing but a vulgar plagiarist of his Egyptian masters,”
Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Kemet for 22 years.
It was found even earlier in Babylon...Google it.
Very interesting video. So beautiful architecture. Thank you. I agree. This is all done on purpose. To put African people down. Because if you want to exploit people you must attack their self worth. You must tell them that they are inferior. You must make them feel ashamed of themselves. Take away their pride. I pray that Africa will rise. That people will value their ancestors, their languages, their cultures instead of thinking that the Western WEIRD mindset is something to strive for.
I agree, but sadly the reality is that African leaders sold out to Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Russians, not to mention colonialization. Natural resources were stolen and now they owe and the people must be productive workers and consumers, paying rent or interest on mortgages, taxes, etc.
Michel Chossudovsky's The Globalization of Poverty is a good start to learn how the system works:
www.worldhunger.org/the-globalization-of-poverty/
I grew up in Germany in the 60s and many Germans were upset because the government spent millions on "Entwicklungshilfe", aid to developing countries for dams and whatever projects nobody needed. MILLIONS were spent on GERMAN companies like Siemens for construction. It was mostly corporate aid. And often had very negative effects on local culture, dams preventing the floods farmers depended on, etc.
In the 21st century, the entire world is programmed to create more wealth for the super-rich. And most people have NO clue whatsoever.
Most people in Africa are not worried about what outsiders think, so they are not put down. You are projecting your own emotions onto actual Africans.
We just need to look at the pyramids in Egypt and Sudan to understand that we were great builders. It's in us. The Mangbetu of Kongo were also impressive.
I loved this video! Thank you for your research!
Brilliant content. See Malian architecture and his designs for schools and homes.
Thank you so much for shearing this. It is great really. I am proud of being black and Alkebulan. I will never change for anything in the world. Love me blacks ❤❤ decolonize your mind people. Speak your Afrika language, L❤e your Afrikan name.
As an African i noticed our spaces were also colonised with ugly square European architecture, in Africa i love our circles styles 😊
Circles? Like the pyramids?
Thank you so much, the content is inspiring ✨️ ❤
It starts with believing that you have to put down one group in order to feel good about yourself. Low self-esteem.
I have always made this argument about Zulu artefacts, we made a choice of what we made beautiful and what we made simple. I would really love to get in touch with you and do a documentary - I am filmmaker based in Johannesburg
Are there books or websites that show these. Greatful for the algorithm. Would be helpful to find more info.
Yes AFRICA PLEASE DO! SAVE YOUR MONEY! .