I’m Yoruba born and raised in Lagos. Majored international relations & history And I can say for a fact that you did your research. Thanks for being a beacon of light to those trying to make their way back to their source. Peace and blessings brother
Your teacher is paying attention! This is more accurate than I have ever seen in a classroom...not that there was much African history in my HS classes, in the 1990s! We need to see all of the racism BS, today, for what it is(political agenda) and move on from it for good. Classrooms require a balance of classic, medieval, and ancient history, from the entire world. It's a beginning of building respect and administration for people who are different, or even for your own people!
I am Angolan and proudly Mbundu(mother) and Bakongo(Father) and married to a very intelligent, beautiful strong Bakongo women with Ethiopian mixture (from her father side), I will keep pointing more people in my region to you channel as it is simply amazing and inspiring, not to mention a great source of knowledge and knowledge is the true freedom.
Hello, I am just here to give you some facts, the ones who took you were the participants of the trans-saharan s|ave trade, which was going on for centuries before the Europeans even made contact. The participants were Arabs and large African Kingdoms who ens|aved surrounding weaker tribes and desolated entire eareas. Europeans would then come to the coast, where the participants of the trans-saharan trade would trade their s|aves for Europeans goods.
Africans that had gold would trade gold for European goods, areas that had no natural resources would trade people for European goods. It wasn't until the abolitionist movement and a treatment for Malaria was discovered that Europeans actually entered Africa and established colonies who's main purpose was to abolish s|avery, but of course traders ended up taking advantage of the local popualtion and resources.
Well I'm Igbo and often when people ask where I'm from and I say Nigeria, they go, "really? You look more Jamaican". In my head I'm like, "No shit Sherlock where do you think Jamaicans descend from!??" 🙄
U should see how the island ppl treat African Americans, they act like we aren't even Africans.. They compare our looks and our ways to the max!! While other nationalities watch and laugh in public!!
Thank you...and our parents never shared. The Ancestral pain must have been overwhelming for them. My Mom transitioned last year at age 99. We honor our parents and likewise our Ancestors. What a Legacy! Ma'at
Sounds like Black Washing...listen what he said many slaves went to South America not North because they were run by Spanish hince why people in South America speak spanish
Interesting history concerning the African slave trade. I was aware of it, but didn’t realize there were so many African tribes which were taken as captives/slaves. Thank you for this video, this is history that needs to be remembered.
It’s because Africa (West Africa especially) was actually separated by tribes. The Europeans grouped a lot of them together and called them Nigeria, Ghana etc.
You have used the right phrase of words taken from Africa because we were indeed taken and stolen from Africa and branded and just so many things and you use the right
I'm from the Congo "bakongo" few years ago my grandfather told us of his uncle and his uncles friend who traveled to do business in the neighboring town and never came back. They asked everyone in that neighboring town but they all said that they left few days ago, slave trade was very common during those times so the whole family feared that they've been taken. They never stopped searching for them and up until now my grandfather who's in his early 90s still asks us his grandkids to continue spreading this message hoping that one day he'll hear some good news.
Before you grand daddy transitions, you need to talk to him as much as possible and record his words. Once he is gone, the knowledge is gone. Then you have to pass it on to your generations. The BaKongo was a major population in AA culture. Books: Flash of the Spirit, Dreams of Africa in Alabama, Diouf Exchanging Our Country Marks, Gomez Africans In America, Charles Destruction of the Black Civilzations, Chancellor Williams
Well sweetie this is the age of social media. Start a TH-cam channel and/or a social media page with their pictures and tell their story for them. Have people to share the information and send out prayers. Sharing your story could help bring them home. My prayers go out for them and your families. I wish you all the best!! Prayers from A.D.O.S in the U.S.
Take an African Ancentry test. Tell them your story. They may be able to help get him all the way home with the help of tv. I am sending you all love and positive energy as he finds his way home. 💗💫✊🏾🌬
I've been telling people this for years. Its simple logic. Abyssinians travelled across the continent, tribes were in disagreement etc so not all slaves that were captured originate from West Africa, it's just simple logic. I love when other people mention this. There's alot more that went on.
I can related to your story. I am from the Kongo, Luba-Katanga(we all come from Kongo Kingdom). My mom told me a story that her grandfather had a brother that went on business in a neighboring village and never returned. He said he knew he was sold as slave, till the day he transitioned he was grieving his brother. My great grandfather and mother used to record our history, think those audio tapes are with one of my uncles.
When you started talking about the "Fon" people, my soul tugged at me. . . and i smelled sage. then i hear '...they came from Trinidad/Haiti...' My mother is from Trinindad an my father is from Haiti. This video was amazing, thank you!!
It’s true! I’m not Haitian and I know that most Haitians came from the Fang tribes and they came from Benin/Togo + Nigeria, and some small percentages from Senegal.
That's exactly what I think. EVERY Black child descended from Africans caught up in the Transatlantic slave trade should be taught how strong and exceptional their bodies and minds are, as well as how deep their survival drive is. We're still here. We are the direct descendants of those strong enough and willed enough to live through that horrible journey. Millions died. We didn't.
@@bradfordtechnology-interne3184 Kiya don't be fooled Africans and African Americans are. Not the same people Ethiopians don't even like us the scriptures say they sold us the book of Joel the 3rd chapter Isaiah 20th chapter don't claim the heritage that sold us when we fled out of. Jerusalem .
Jayjay Isaiah Barack Obama's father was Luo Nilotic, but Obama is married to a woman of West African descent and his children are of West African descent but it doesn't mean anything because West Africans are actually of East African origin and they first started settling in West Africa some 7,000-6,000 years ago when the Sahara started drying up.
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate all the work that was out into this video. None of us are never too old to study our history and past down to our youth. Thank you for your contribution.
“I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.” - Half of a yellow sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
@@ayyahwaska So should we excuse them? And how have they been until this day? Haters. If someone kills another, should you do the same since someone else did It too? It's not that simple, and not that easily forgotten. Especially since they are still hateful towards us.
Even though I am a Kru from today's Ivory Coast, I really admire both the Yoruba and Igbo people of today's Nigeria. They are both strong West African tribes with a very rich and highly spiritual culture. African cultures and tribes are strong and beautiful.
I can attest to this I'm yoruba from Nigeria and i can boldly tell you that the Yoruba Ethnic group is one of the strongest and influential ethnic group in Nigeria.. The Igbo ethic group are beautiful people as well
Your name Babatunde means, your ancestor lives in you and you are given birth to reincarnate one of your paternal ancestors. Omokoku means this child will not die. You have a rich name and I'm proud of your dad for so naming you. Us Yorubas attach 1000% importance to names and we never joke with it. All my 3 lovely children have rich Yoruba names, given both by myself, after 8 days of deep reflection and also from my parents too....they have English names, but will never identify with them...those holds absolutely no meaning to me or them. Ensure you learn more about your root...the Yorubas are a special breed of people and most likely the first men in creation. One love brother.
EfemzyEkun You’re exactly right My Dad told me Babatunde means a son born after the death of his Grandfather Reincarnated of my parental ancestors . Growing up in America my name would get laughed at . Thank you for telling me Omokoku means this child will not die . I live in Cobb County Georgia . Cobb County Georgia has lot Nigerian 🇳🇬 Yoruba and Igbos who look out for me . I’m proud of my Dad Dr . Bandele A . Omokoku Brooklyn NY , Retired Physician . More about me : I was born on April 23 , 1998 12:20 A.M. in Brooklyn , NY my single Mom raised me in ATL . Dr . King’s Assassinator James Earl Ray died on April 23 , 1998 . , My birth was DRAMA , had open heart surgery ,Then CONFUSION with his birth certificate . Knowing midnight begins next day . He / She printed I was born on April 22 , 1998 12:20 A.M. I turned DRAMA FUSION into Black Lives Matter Acronym. Africa is named after Roman general Africanus 👨🏼and America is named after Italian Voyager👨🏻 Amerigo Vespucci . Drama’s origin is Greek . In 332 BC Egypt - Ancient Kemet , Northeast Africans 🤴🏿👸🏿was conquered by the Greeks having them go through drama . 1500-1800’s 👨🏿👩🏿were enslaved in Americas going through drama From 1900-1960’s 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👩🏽👨🏽 were segregated and called Colored because we all descend from First 👨🏿 Man and Woman 👩🏿 . Their Genes are dominant 🧬 causing different colors of Man and Woman👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 Knowing Africans were 🤴🏿and👸🏿before enslaved in Americas . Out of all last names ; Dr . Martin Luther King 🤴🏾led Civil Rights Movement because he was tired of the drama . Today 👮🏻👮🏻♀️cause drama to👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽. Africa' is derived from the Greek word 'a-phike.' D.R.A.M.A. Spells Discriminate Roots AfricaAborigine 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 More America Diamonds come from Africa . D.R. Also stands for 💎 Rough . 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 are like Diamonds that have it Rough in United States of America 🇺🇸 . American System - 👮🏻👮🏻♀️ , Racists are focused on causing The History of D.R.A.M.A. They’ve F.U.S.I.O.N. Forgetting Us 👨🏿👨🏾👨🏽👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽 Started Inventions Operated Now . www.black-inventor.comBlack Inventors through American History - Famous Black Inventors m.th-cam.com/video/cluaTAFeFM0/w-d-xo.html Today 👨🏿👨🏾👨🏽👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽 Music Artists invented their own sound especially with the use of autotune which is successful . That shows Black Lives Matter . If 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 is Killed until extinct how will melanin 🧬 be passed on for future generations ?
he did no research, everything he said is full of flaws and lies. he speaks like a European. he actually is calling negros stupid and beast akin to cattle. think about what he said about the aro. he lied and said the aro sold the Igbo. if he did research he would know the aro are Igbo. the aro are the priest of the Igbo. 2nd the aro just like igbo didn't have weapons. so what he is saying doesn't make sense. the aro walked up to a large tribe of their own people and said today I have sold 400 of you and noone did anything, a father let his son just go into slavery and the people sold just followed Europeans as cattle would. does this make sense to you. use your brain when you do research and listen for the lies. noone own people sold them, it was not a slave trade but a slave raid mostly carried out by mohamedans and tribes to the north like the ashanti. a raid capture march to prison(you know them as slave castles) seasoned, primed. then shipped to the colonies in the Americas. have you ever read a slave for sale sign. this is john. he is good with horses. this is mary she is a good cook. how did Europeans know what slaves could do if they just captured them or bought them and shipped them here. the prisons were for training negros what they would be doing when they got here. but don't pay any attention to what I say I have no college degree and im an old drunk who don't know anything
@@jacobstringfellow9718 i agree and disagree with a lot u said but wdym he sounds like a european because he was probably raised in Europe wdym by that?
Big up from Angola, i'm descendent of Mbundos and Bakongos unfortunately even here in Africa the real story of african kingdons is not studed at schools, the governmants are not interested to raise up this kind of debates...
Well as an African America born and grew up in America, I'm 40 years old at the moment but still searching for my African origin,I think this video can do a lot in my research, thanks so much.
@@TAPSIA.I did take the African ancestry test and it traced my paternal lineage to the Nubian people of Sudan and my maternal lineage was traced to the Dinka people of Southern Sudan
They do favor us and not the typical African however, let’s keep straight, blacks born in America are the biblical Israelites and are not Africans . Can we agree ?
Joseph Valentine blacks in America are indigenous American at birth. Then u can choose a religion to tag them. Born indigenous in America never brought from Africa. When black people in America think their from Africa they become retarded
@@josephvalentine7 we favor african people but indigenous american people we have our own distinct look. We kinda look like eygthian Ethiopian people because we are ancient looking. This is why people flock to america from all over the world and steal our chidren thru adoption agencies , they are doin this now. Taking our children and raising them to act like them and used them. It's been goin on for centuries
Unfortunately me either. Thats why i so luv these channels. Brother plz continue to bring information forth of our african history. I was no taught this is americas schools. But after i got to college and purposely sort out information. I was so proud to be as dark skin as i am. In other words, i didnt feel that shame of my melanated skin as i did in my earlier years. Praise to my most high YAH for coming back for us melanated people.
Of all the African people that was stolen from the motherland you are the only one who really care about our anssistery and what people we are all front. Keep up the good work Bro. I too was born in Jamaica and very proud of my African anassistery. We all should take Bob Morley advice when he says African unit. Rasta man say so.
@@mrcool9084 that's why we love Jamaicans! I am black American and I try to teach the same but if we pay attention to his video they all fell by division!
Adrian NiKo OK and that’s your choice. But that is no reason to put down someone’s looks just because you don’t find them attractive it is more to the content of their character and they’re fighting spirit that you should be concerned with but I can see that you are a racist piece o but that is no reason to put down someone’s looks just because you don’t find them attractive it is more to the content of their character and fighting spirit
Correction...picture @7:18 is of a Babungo man from Cameroon. Go to www.afrographics.com for unique illustrative infographics on African history. All information on African history is compiled for you in simple creative ways!
HomeTeam History so you can reply to someone 10 minutes ago and not address me which I posted something to you 4 hours ago? Check the comment with the 90+ likes. You have some explaining to do.
You're doing an amazing job man. Keep it up. You should check out some guys on TH-cam also doing an African history series... think its called Basic Nigerian History
HomeTeam History I would like to see you do a documentary on how the land was taken from black SA and the reason the land needs to be returned back to them without compensation as previously stated by Julius Malema from the EFF movement.
I'm very Asian American & I'm interesting in learning more about the the African people, cultures. I've learned about the Asian, the American and the Europe but now I want to learn more about the country, people, cultures. I think Africa is beautiful & rich resources continent but lots of the people there don't have the opportunities to better themselves. I used to heard lots of rumor about black people but the more I get to Know them the more positive I think of them. They're beautiful & nice people. Don't judge the book by it's cover and never listen to rumors. You need to know them in person
@1manuscriptman , yes I learned that Africa has 54 countries and that's a lot of countries and it's not right & not fair to them if someone assume that Africa is poor & bad people.
Although I had never been to Africa I had always regarded it as the mother land because there is where my roots are even though I was born in Cuba I regard myself as a Afro Cuban Latin American but as you can see African firsts I take pride in my African heritage and I will definitely preserved until my last breath is exhaled
Not the first people whose leaders sold them out (in this case literally) and won't be the last. Two of the things the Europeans were trading for slaves: guns and booze. Also cotton cloth.
@Y.H.A A yes, and it's doubly a universal law when certain people groups oppress so many other people groups. For example, the U.S. has a history of oppressing Native Americans, Asians, Blacks, and it dropped the bomb on Japan (Hiroshima), stole California from the Mexicans (paid a cheap price for it); don't think these people groups will not turn on the caucasoids when the time is right.
Lol , I’m born in America and my ancestors were brought over on slave ships but guess wht I’m not African and my ancestors were not Africans , they were Israelites Gods chosen nation and we follow the Bible
@armagedon026Be urself brother I can imagine how it feels cause I have been with people of same. But u know what there's hope & u can start the healing by visiting Igbo land. More love to u bro
Hello, Caucasian male here and a long time student of African ethnography. Your video is interesting, informative, and exceptionally well made. Very well done.
@@mirola73 I totally agree. Only when we understand just how we got here fully, then we will be able to move forward. It is a start though and a god start I might add.
@@johnwright9192 Why would we care? Theres enough information about short white history to last two lifetimes over. All we hear about is WHITE HISTORY.
As a white man, I am fascinated to learn history of African people without only hearing about colonialism. There is so much diversity and richness to uncover, from before and after European people terrorised them. We are never taught even the names of the biggest ethnic groups in Africa, and I had to teach myself where the countries all are. Thank you for giving such detailed history to us for free! It is what makes the internet a miracle, and I am very grateful!
As a black man, it's said that the true history of the slave trade is NEVER taught. You know...the part where black Africans, sold millions of other black Africans to the European slave traders. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade would not have been possible without that aspect of it. We need to teach REAL history to people. And that goes for EVERYBODY. We need to teach what really happened throughout history, and stop trying to distort it, change it, or omit it, in order to not offend people, or tell people what they want to hear.
@@Ispeakthetruthify Exactly pal.It was a triangular trade. Unfortunately all the chiefs of Africa had as worthy currency at the time where other enslaved Africans.
@@Ispeakthetruthify the trades amongst African natives already existed and totally different system. The natives served as servants and status could change by marrying non servants, buying, appeal through court or free children etc. it was never by choice and usually by survival. The middlemen were also subjected to deceit. No one was without capture and middlemen from history several rebellious attempts against the Europeans. You may want to dig in deeper and look up historians like Walter Rodney and read sins of fathers James pope Hennessy. You need additional resources to stand on what you said. To help you out direct quote from Walter Rodney "“A racist streak is never far from the surface in bourgeois presentations on the problems of development, because non-European people are equated with backwardness and stagnation, while progress in uniquely European. It would be simple to ignore such a misconception if it were merely held by the bigoted oppressors, but the racist historical experience has implanted the same negative self-evaluation in the minds of many Africans, and especially in the minds of the imitative African petty bourgeoisie.” I will forever quote this historian as well as author. He was assassinated...should assassins you ask you know. There were authors as well forced to change the narrative and Blame slave trade on African chiefs such as James pope Hennessy-"sins of our fathers. Yes a known fact historians were told to focus on the native Africans being the main contributors of the slave trade. It's very irresponsible for you not to state your source when there's plenty throughout history. The irony of who you're responding to with this info is beyond me.
Man, it is very hard to track back our ancestry, you really gave me a light in this matter. I'm Brazilian, so now I can at least have some idea of my possible ancestry. You really made made my day. I thank you from the buttom of my heart.
@Pxer yeah my point was just, that you are you. Not your ancestors. If your grandfather was a rapist or a great human being has nothing to do with how you are as a person ☺
The history of Africans before the contact with the Arabs and Europeans, and also the African diaspora need to be studied in all African schools. In South Africa today there's a push for decolonisation of education in the school curriculum. Hopefully the African history will be taught to our people.
Thanks for sharing. Although I'm surprised that while discussing about the Igbos, you left out the historic Igbo Landing incident in the US. I'm not Igbo, I'm Yoruba but I'm proud to say that incident speaks to the bravery of the Igbo people.
This is so detailed. One of the issues with learning is not having names to even start with. If there are books related to each tribe/country I would like to start reading. Thank you for the time and dedication .
Thanks my brother. I am a Nigeria of the Igbo tribe and a History Buff. This is an outstanding narrative. The only suggestions are ...... Dahomey, Benin, Mali, Songhai, and Yoruba Empires where great participants in the Slavery Trade hence ought to be on top 3. The Long Juju Of Aro Chukwu, the Igbo tribe, surfaced at the tail end of the trade hence short lived. The Fulanis had limited access to the Atlantic Ocean thus their Slave trading activities were mainly with the Arabs via the Sahara Deserts. A Great summary of a Research work. A+
@Osas👌 The Ancestors did what they did. I believe I know why... Don't get upset. We need to stay strong for the Battle of the Boston Tea party 🎉. File for Reparations 🔥
@Osas👌 Since the Queen died. More countries are calling for Independence and Artifact's returned to countries. Diamonds that were stolen. King of Belgium has returned the stolen Masks back to Congo. Removed King Leopold statue's from the towns. President of South Africa is ready to battle for his country. We all must take a stand. Regardless of tribes, language culture and traditions. 🌑⚫🤎🖤. ✊
Another great insight. Sad and interesting at the same time. I'm from Suriname and we have Kromanti (marrons) people that rised up against enslavement. Their decendants still live as free men in the rainforest today. Great work Home Team! Time for me to pledge en read your sources on Patreon.
Publicly applied According to Akan historian, Ayei Kwei Armah, the Akan people, who lived in Egypt, migrated from Egypt southwestward (he is from Ghana)during the time of the Ptolemies. If you read about the Ptolemies you"ll know why.
Kromanti/Maroons were Ashantis of Ghana. If you go to Jamaica, you will see the same people there. Their great Queen Nanny and her family were descendants of Ashanti. Even the present King of Ashanti, Osei Tutu has visited his royals of Surinam before. VWP ❤️
Nice video as a Yoruba person and a Nigerian we don’t even know half of these things I had to go googleing a lot of what I know now. Keep up the good work.
nvm nvm the reason why you do not know half of these things is because the claims such as the Fulani rant he made is inaccurate and misguiding. I recommend that you read my comments on his comment section and the comment with over 131+ likes to understand further information.
I'm Yoruba, and I've been following his channel for years, he does his research. The reason we aren't clued up about history, is because of lack of investment in education and religious dominance and indoctrination, caused by previous Nigerian administrations. I don't think the person telling you to doubt these videos does so, besides for anti Fulani sentiments. "The so-called" Igbo Isrealites work overtime in trying to spread disinformation, hatred and lies.
nvm nvm , That is because of colonialism and modernity most African people don't pay that much attention to their own History they prefer to study European History at school!
I am a naturalized Canadian originally from Nigeria. When I first moved to Canada there were not to many blacks in the province where I leaved. I could be in a store and be the only black person there. I remember visiting the US almost 10 years after I’d been living in Canada and seeing black people in Detroit. You should have seen me beaming from ear to ear. Just happy to see them. Some were probably freaked out at me. I felt like screaming ‘THESE ARE MY PEOPLE.’
If you're black nobody from Detroit was freaked out by your presence. Black people are use to seeing other black people in a city like Detroit. Canada is not America and I believe the black population there is no more than 2 to 3 percent. and Though America has never been more than 13 percent black,. Detroit is a city that has a high concentration of black folks. So it would seem like there are more than a 12 to 13 percentage of blacks there and that we all live in Detroit, MI in the States, which isn't true. Where you land does have an impact on your perception.
@B45 respectfully, you may wanna rethink this one. When you live in a place where people gawk at you for how different you are everyday, to see a familiar face who's different like you is more comforting than you could ever know. It's not like OP is saying they were incapable of feeling love and empathy for all people, but that it was a relief to no longer be a spectacle among other people. To feel normal in any aspect is a blessing that isn't understood until you lose it.
I love this. It elated me to see a young AFRICAN american out to find his History and spread his wealth of knowledge to the people. We need more of this.
@@brandonh7578 why u talking trash on us? Be quiet first of all its not our fault we were brought here did u also know that some of our own people traded us wow sick!!! So u do that to your own people we are stuck in America i would love to move to Africa but blaming us for being here is not the way to go
Just found your channel this morning and I'm impressed fam. Most pro-black African history channels focus too heavily on Egypt when in reality us "African-Americans" dont descend from Egypt directly. People don't embrace their real culture. It's like a Italian only researching Belgium history. They're both European but both had different cultures
How do we focus on Egypt whites focus on Egypt because they try to tell every us that nappy cornrow hair and dark skin is a caucasian trait they love confusion
Wonderful information. I appreciate your videos +HomeTeam History In viewing the photos I see in the features many of my own family members and Africans dispersed throughout the diaspora. In Malcolm X's last lecture he made a statement to the audience you look about as much as a Congolese as a Congolese does. We are separated by a boat stop. Your channel is truly represents an authentic view of our people. Salute. I will subscribe to your Patreon.
3:03 look at the line up, and hairstyle along with the accessories.. man, we always had a great sense of aesthetics & fashion. That sculpture is amazing, just look at that detail, the expression.. what that sculpture/bust represents. African art is something I love to explore, and collect; especially historical artifacts/pieces(which I will never afford), but would like to see more of personally. The stories those pieces tell, are necessary..
Very informative. I am from Ivory Coast, West Africa. But I didn't know that much about the history of the continent. Thank you for telling us our story. 🙏🙏🙏
Ezethegreat One read my comment thoroughly before giving me a reply. Because you are saying "the assessment was wrong" like my family members (not taken literally as in I am Fulani descent but I speak a similar language branch as them) that they had the power to defend against it or could have prevented it and decided based on their own free will to initiate what has happened. [edit]: And if you want to defend Home Team history on his claim then please I also forward this challenge to you as I did proposed to him.
HEY EVERYONE. PLEASE *SHARE THE VIDEO* IN MY CHANNEL ........ It's about Land Reform in *South Africa.* *Please spread the real message of blacks to everyone.*
Great video! I’m from Angola 🇦🇴, I’m both Ambundu (Mbundu) & BaKongo (Mukongo)... I lived in the USA 🇺🇸 for about 23 years and I’m now back in Luanda (since 2008). I’ve been saying this for many years, but people wouldn’t believe me... It’s true, Ambundu & BaKongo is everywhere in Brazil and USA. True and also very sad.
inovArtesMediaLda inovArtes They didnt believe that they were from the Bakongo? That is weird. That is a generational self hate. You are lucky to come from a country full of black people because you were allowed to preserve your culture whites in America seek to diminiah in culture from black Americans or make a profit from it.
Yaa Moremi Queen yeah but can't put all the blame on them though being a minority can be hard if you're not strong you will lose your identity. That is one of the reason that it's in the benefit of every black people not born in Africa to go visit the continent to help strengthen their identities
@@sarahbeye4199 we are the salt of this earth...God deliberately spread us to give taste to this world. Gradually, all of us scattered throughout the world, as spider webs, will connect, wake up and retake our destinies. God works in mysterious ways. Relax sis...no need to hurt.
I see so many of my African friends in these varying tribes. I was uneducated about all the tribes as a kid and now I find it so beautiful to see how our facial features differ vastly from tribe to tribe. Whoever said we all look the same, didn’t look close enough!
You are right. I am a Nigerian, and I can predict Africans by looking at their features. Most of us Africans have distinctive features different from one another from North Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, East Africa, to Southern Africa.
Awesome. But the temne’s are actually from guinea. But because they are aggressive people by nature they were chased out of guinea and majority of them settled in Sierra Leone. I know this because I am half Sierra Leonean from my father side. Also, you are probably Sherbro Temne as they never got the chance to enter the main land. I am sherbro mende from bonthe.
Meaning you related to the Gullah people of South Carolina who are believed to have come from Sierra Leone and still speak the same language as Sierra Leone krio
This video was really good! Good to hear some discussion of the Congo trade. The discussion often focusses on the West African trade, but Congo was a truly horrific free-for-all of slave raiding and it deserves to be discussed more. Congo had the double misery of domestic slavery after the international trade too, where the Europeans enslaved Congolese people in Congo for rubber
Thanks for the beautiful pictures of my people. Slavery was/is an evil thing. Splitting families, taking their names away, taking freedom, etc. This is all ugly, I get angry every time I think about it. By the by, slaves built America and are never given so much as an honorable mention.
Valincia Pruitt you need to stop letting emotions get the best of you its abnormal for you to be getting so angry thinking about situations from centuries ago. Its not helpful to you. And we aren't given honorable mention? This shows your dissatisfies and negative nature of your psyche and soul. Its not right.
@@veraaddoyobo8482 because for some reason we are chained to the negative and debilitating feelings of rejection, anger, paralyzation, and bitterness that feelings of being enslaved and discriminated against brings. We react as of the past condition is our present condition. We are not bouyed by our past we seem anchored and weighed down by it.
Wrong my sister. Slaves were snatched all over Africa, however do understand you get confused due to the English Language, but you should know when Europeans arrived Africans had their own Languages and Cultures, even Religions, God knew them and they knew God. Christianity and Islam is not Black people's religions, that's why is important to know who is saviour and our Prophet, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi, through him all blacks will be blessed.
I don't know what all over Africa is. Slaves to the Americas came from the west. Slaves from the east and North went elsewhere (Euope and Modern day Middle East) Southern Africa never really enslaved anyone. South Africa's slaves came from Asia and the San tribe
I am from Trinidad and Tobago. My great grandmother was an Amerikin or slaves who fought in the Civil War and were given their freedom and land in the colonies such as Trinidad. I was told as a small child that we were from the Housas Tribe. It was passed down in the family. I didn't hear you mention that tribe.
Yeahh, the Hausa are mostly found in Northern Nigeria, Benin, Sudan, Ivory Coast etc...In Nigeria, they are usually grouped in with the Fulani Tribe as they have for the most part blended in.
Hausa tribe is big tribe in Nigeria and they are spread across Nigeria, Cameroon and some other countries in west Africa. But they more concentrated in Northern Nigeria.
More excellent information, very long on fact, and devoid of anger. You give Black people a source of real pride, and a sense of history of their ancestors. Thank you.
re Von Google keeps files on you that even the Justice department is not allowed by law to keep. It also discriminates against Conservative news outlets. Google may be your friend, but is not mine.
Never forget that your royal! Africa is waiting for your return which shall be celebrated as a great Jubilation 🙏🏿 soon to come! Bwezza Bwezza bwa Ndaula ❤️
@Tea Nelson nah it wasn't like that, there were a bunch of different and unique tribes in Africa (Africans did not all see themselves as one race back then) and these tribes would sell members of their enemy tribes into slavery.
I’m Igbo and I’m proud to be Igbo despite my ancestors role in slave trade im a proud Igbo man not proud of slave trade but I’m proud to be Igbo 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Azeem Alexander stop kidding yourself, you are as much a descendant from townships in ENGLAND as "bakongo &Mbundu". Accept who you are, and go forward, instead of trying to get to "Wakanda".
You're right I might be only a little but thats ok, at least I know where we come from unlike so many. Have you experienced real African culture, spirituality, music? something Afro-Americans should be very proud and get in tune with. you may think it's running backwards but it is about moving forward, my Ancestors smile on me :) .
Are you saying that’s where our ancestors came from if so that’s true . Also add the Congo , and bara tribe of Madagascar. Basically we in Haiti are a mixture of various African regions. As far as the creole language , while certain regions in Haiti speak creole a little more “ raw “ than others who speak it closer to French idk it’s definitely a broken French more than anything , one thing that’s funny though everywhere creole is spoken even African countries etc we can somewhat understand each other.
dave lopes yes I’m Haitian I know this lol. Creole is a mixture of all the languages around us at the time , some words are Taino , some are a broken French , Portuguese , Spanish even English it’s a mixture some words might be from different African tribes.
Oh my goodness, this was so very enlightening! I’m Trinidadian, so I’ve been trying to figure out which tribe my ancestors came from. Has to be either Fon, Igbo or Yoruba or a combination. 💙 (I was born in Trinidad but my grandparents were from other Caribbean islands, so it's a little more complicated that I thought. I need to do an ancestral test.) Thank you for sharing!
Your research and storytelling paints a full picture of Africa as an independent territory with its own history. I'm going to use a lot of this as my own source material when I teach my students. Last year had a bunch of 6th graders (all white, I taught in Finland last year) and I gave them a sneak peak to some of this history, for example by telling them about Mansa Musa and his kingdom, but I knew already that I needed to study a lot more. Thank you for making it easy! Btw, if someone is curious how would a bunch of 50 white kids react to African pre-colonial history, they were HYPED. We had this goal of decolonizing history together and we covered China, India, Africa and South America as much as we could (in the limited time I have with a bunch of sixth graders). They were SO excited to learn, related strongly to the different stories we discussed and I hope it affects their view of the world for the rest of their lives...
You do an amazing job. Keep spreading that light into the darkest patches of the misinformation the system wants to remain a norm. If there’s a way we could stay connected pls lmk. We should be friends. 💚
@@monik3929 "You" who?? If you're talking about white people then then you are on the absolute most ironic video to do so, because it would also mean according to that ridiculous logic that you enslaved yourself as per all the information that just got disseminated by this video.🤦🏾♂️
''An'' ''independent territory'' with ''its own history''. And you teach history? The idea of ''Africa'' as anything resembling a political, economic, ethnic, or social unit, ever, is about as real as Wakanda. Or Middle Earth. ''Decolonizing history''? Did you start in any particular region? Did you point out every known human community, and all humans, have historical antecedents in colonization? Or did you go with; ''Everyone was a happy vegan, with brown skin, until....WHITE SKIN ARRIVED.''?
No in Jamaica we are not called komanti we are called "Maroons" and are mainly of Ashanti tribe from Ghana also we have alot of Igbo tribe mixed in with us down here.
Jamaican money cartel true a lot of island cultures have that mix I was born on the islands I have a lot of people telling me I look Ethiopian Kenyan an all of these races but I want to look farther into my roots
I’m Yoruba born and raised in Lagos. Majored international relations & history And I can say for a fact that you did your research. Thanks for being a beacon of light to those trying to make their way back to their source. Peace and blessings brother
But the Yoruba and the Igbo were the largest ethnic groups carted away in the transatlantic slave trade.
@@abiolaboldnessayoola2336 exactly
@@abiolaboldnessayoola2336 The Yoruba put more black slaves into captivity than the English.
White people also was slave in barbary slave trade and arabs enslaved White and blacks in arab slave trade
@@NoahBodze I can believe that.
I know this video is 4 years old but I am actually proud that your video is being used in my current history class. Keep it going!
Seems like your school may need to cut this brotha a check!
@@Realtalk3345right or something 😭
Lucky for u it would never be seen in Florida schools
Your teacher is paying attention! This is more accurate than I have ever seen in a classroom...not that there was much African history in my HS classes, in the 1990s! We need to see all of the racism BS, today, for what it is(political agenda) and move on from it for good. Classrooms require a balance of classic, medieval, and ancient history, from the entire world. It's a beginning of building respect and administration for people who are different, or even for your own people!
I'm proud that you are doing this..im so sick of black history starting at colonialism
midnight star True!
We need a black future not just a black history.
Exactly!
Starting before colonialism. We were already here
The Europeans didn't invent/started slavery in Africa .
I am Angolan and proudly Mbundu(mother) and Bakongo(Father) and married to a very intelligent, beautiful strong Bakongo women with Ethiopian mixture (from her father side), I will keep pointing more people in my region to you channel as it is simply amazing and inspiring, not to mention a great source of knowledge and knowledge is the true freedom.
In Angola many people there don't like west African people
@@alphaomarbarry6511 Not even from Congolese, Rwandans, and some Central or East
Hello, I am just here to give you some facts, the ones who took you were the participants of the trans-saharan s|ave trade, which was going on for centuries before the Europeans even made contact. The participants were Arabs and large African Kingdoms who ens|aved surrounding weaker tribes and desolated entire eareas. Europeans would then come to the coast, where the participants of the trans-saharan trade would trade their s|aves for Europeans goods.
Africans that had gold would trade gold for European goods, areas that had no natural resources would trade people for European goods. It wasn't until the abolitionist movement and a treatment for Malaria was discovered that Europeans actually entered Africa and established colonies who's main purpose was to abolish s|avery, but of course traders ended up taking advantage of the local popualtion and resources.
Learned that I’m 48% Nigerian and 26% Ghanaian, Liberian. I’m from Jamaica. Thanks for this video, very informative.
Hi I'm also from Jamaica. How did you find your ancestry percentage?
@@Lucky_ness ancestry
im Liberian 😁👋🏾
I am Liberian
Liar you are German
Well I'm Igbo and often when people ask where I'm from and I say Nigeria, they go, "really? You look more Jamaican".
In my head I'm like, "No shit Sherlock where do you think Jamaicans descend from!??" 🙄
Lol ppl
Yeah bro!, if you want I will take you to Igbo land, we are great people.
k2datrack i am from jamaica
k2datrack Sp many people have told me I look Jamaican or Haitian🤦🏾♀️😭😭
U should see how the island ppl treat African Americans, they act like we aren't even Africans.. They compare our looks and our ways to the max!! While other nationalities watch and laugh in public!!
I am 70 yrs old. I never had any of this
History. The CHILDREN should learn this at 5yrs old.
Thank you...and our parents never shared. The Ancestral pain must have been overwhelming for them. My Mom transitioned last year at age 99. We honor our parents and likewise our Ancestors. What a Legacy!
Ma'at
thats sad how they hide things from us but they go pay whit there life i feel sorry for them cuz they dont no
And these fools voted for Biden who will vax/chip and enslave everyone
@@curtleesoreal82 Who's going to pay and how are they going to pay?
I agree!! but these yt ppl are trying to keep whitewashing history and we need them out of power/office!!! We need to fight for iy
I'm a Jamaican-born and I'm new on your channel but I'm happy to have discovered it thank you and continue to bless us with knowledge
This is the type history lessons that should be taught to our children not the Europeans white washing versions.
I totally agree
Sounds like Black Washing...listen what he said many slaves went to South America not North because they were run by Spanish hince why people in South America speak spanish
Big Daddy wow. You are an evil human being.
Big Daddy you will get sick soon I promise you
@@BigDaddy-xx1gk yes for you ALL...THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 14 21 PREPARE SLAVERY FOR WHO? YOU ESAU
Anyone noticed how beautiful all those black women are??
something that you generally dont get
@@elisemueller9967 something that you generally don't get? 😒
Real truth power
@Julie Sprik
Wise
Indeed Beautiful ❤❤❤
1.Mbundu
2.Yoruba
3.Igbo
4.Bakongo
5.Fon
6.Mande
7.Fulani
8.Abron
9.Wolof
10.Chamba
You're welcome.
pocapaypay
Thanks
👍👍 Mandingo, Mende, Wolof.
Thanku darling
Love my peoples every where fullanis
Proud Mbunbu or Umbundu
Interesting history concerning the African slave trade. I was aware of it, but didn’t realize there were so many African tribes which were taken as captives/slaves. Thank you for this video, this is history that needs to be remembered.
It’s because Africa (West Africa especially) was actually separated by tribes. The Europeans grouped a lot of them together and called them Nigeria, Ghana etc.
I thought they were complicit in the selling of slaves, Thomas Sowell.
@robertg9052 the vast majority were not complicit.
You have used the right phrase of words taken from Africa because we were indeed taken and stolen from Africa and branded and just so many things and you use the right
@@oneinamillion8769According to whom?
I'm from the Congo "bakongo" few years ago my grandfather told us of his uncle and his uncles friend who traveled to do business in the neighboring town and never came back. They asked everyone in that neighboring town but they all said that they left few days ago, slave trade was very common during those times so the whole family feared that they've been taken. They never stopped searching for them and up until now my grandfather who's in his early 90s still asks us his grandkids to continue spreading this message hoping that one day he'll hear some good news.
Before you grand daddy transitions, you need to talk to him as much as possible and record his words. Once he is gone, the knowledge is gone. Then you have to pass it on to your generations. The BaKongo was a major population in AA culture.
Books:
Flash of the Spirit,
Dreams of Africa in Alabama, Diouf
Exchanging Our Country Marks, Gomez
Africans In America, Charles
Destruction of the Black Civilzations, Chancellor Williams
Well sweetie this is the age of social media. Start a TH-cam channel and/or a social media page with their pictures and tell their story for them. Have people to share the information and send out prayers. Sharing your story could help bring them home. My prayers go out for them and your families. I wish you all the best!! Prayers from A.D.O.S in the U.S.
Take an African Ancentry test. Tell them your story. They may be able to help get him all the way home with the help of tv. I am sending you all love and positive energy as he finds his way home. 💗💫✊🏾🌬
I've been telling people this for years. Its simple logic. Abyssinians travelled across the continent, tribes were in disagreement etc so not all slaves that were captured originate from West Africa, it's just simple logic. I love when other people mention this. There's alot more that went on.
I can related to your story. I am from the Kongo, Luba-Katanga(we all come from Kongo Kingdom). My mom told me a story that her grandfather had a brother that went on business in a neighboring village and never returned. He said he knew he was sold as slave, till the day he transitioned he was grieving his brother.
My great grandfather and mother used to record our history, think those audio tapes are with one of my uncles.
When you started talking about the "Fon" people, my soul tugged at me. . . and i smelled sage. then i hear '...they came from Trinidad/Haiti...' My mother is from Trinindad an my father is from Haiti. This video was amazing, thank you!!
@bradfordtechno1
Haitians are not only From Fon Tribe. But, a bunch of other Tribes. Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Ewe, Ashanti. Etc...
It’s true! I’m not Haitian and I know that most Haitians came from the Fang tribes and they came from Benin/Togo + Nigeria, and some small percentages from Senegal.
@@jonasalexandre1297 Hatian= Benin/Nigeria= Yoruba
Man.... i just loveee being black, it is a huge honor all this melanin glorious
@Bo Zi I am proud to be black not because of my skin but because of my rich history of endurance against the most evil
Are 'u married? Me Giriama from mombasa Kenya.
Fine!! If there is one not married plz tell me.
@@kazungukakiyo8560 there is no marriage
Dee ooh my God!!no true marriage in your country
MAKE MORE OF THESE PLEASE, YOURE SOME OF THE ONLY SOURCES THERE ARE AND IM STUCK STUDYING ILYY🎉
“A product of survival” underrated quote
@bradfordtechno1
That's exactly what I think. EVERY Black child descended from Africans caught up in the Transatlantic slave trade should be taught how strong and exceptional their bodies and minds are, as well as how deep their survival drive is. We're still here. We are the direct descendants of those strong enough and willed enough to live through that horrible journey. Millions died. We didn't.
@@Camie1076 Love this comment
@@bradfordtechnology-interne3184 Kiya don't be fooled Africans and African Americans are. Not the same people Ethiopians don't even like us the scriptures say they sold us the book of Joel the 3rd chapter Isaiah 20th chapter don't claim the heritage that sold us when we fled out of. Jerusalem .
We still have people over there read Isaiah 11 verse11 kjv
West Africa stand up! ✊
Proud descendant here!
Aaron Thompson west Africa what. Slaves were taken from allover Africa.
Tishidiv lol this is nothing to be proud of dude
Tishidiv West and Central African with some East African.
Tishidiv: Barack Obama is not of West African Decent, his daddy is from Kenya 🇰🇪, He African American
Jayjay Isaiah Barack Obama's father was Luo Nilotic, but Obama is married to a woman of West African descent and his children are of West African descent but it doesn't mean anything because West Africans are actually of East African origin and they first started settling in West Africa some 7,000-6,000 years ago when the Sahara started drying up.
❤️❤️❤️ Am from Nigerian, Igbo tribe. Your research and documentation are facts and very close to what we learnt growing up. Good job!
Thank you for your confirmation.
same :)
Major groups were generally protected, minority groups where those who were raided and sold
Your the ones that were sold slaves so stop talking
@@werewolf2969 yh like she did it her self and like you were on the farms yourself huh?
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate all the work that was out into this video. None of us are never too old to study our history and past down to our youth. Thank you for your contribution.
Lookin at these beautiful faces. I see myself in all of them. I wish i knew my ancestry
Take the test. Find the pieces. You won't regret
Take the African Ancestry test...
So do I...
What test
Take the ancestry test. One love to Mother Africa
“I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
- Half of a yellow sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
MAMA AFRICA ....Wonderful!!
White man is always trying to rewrite history
@@4chukwuebuka True true
What does Moor mean? How many of us are Moors?
@@ayyahwaska So should we excuse them? And how have they been until this day? Haters. If someone kills another, should you do the same since someone else did It too? It's not that simple, and not that easily forgotten. Especially since they are still hateful towards us.
Even though I am a Kru from today's Ivory Coast, I really admire both the Yoruba and Igbo people of today's Nigeria. They are both strong West African tribes with a very rich and highly spiritual culture. African cultures and tribes are strong and beautiful.
Thank you
Nick Pop kru people , you guys r a mystery to me
Kru people are also located in Liberia! The “scramble for Africa” separated us.
Thank You Nick Pop! I have Kru blood flowing through me.
I can attest to this I'm yoruba from Nigeria and i can boldly tell you that the Yoruba Ethnic group is one of the strongest and influential ethnic group in Nigeria.. The Igbo ethic group are beautiful people as well
My name is Babatunde Omokoku .
My Dad is Nigerian 🇳🇬 from Yoruba Tribe .
My Mom is Trini 🇹🇹 .
Babatunde, I am Debola, a Yoruba man like you. Bawo ni? E Ku Ogun Odun
Your name Babatunde means, your ancestor lives in you and you are given birth to reincarnate one of your paternal ancestors. Omokoku means this child will not die.
You have a rich name and I'm proud of your dad for so naming you. Us Yorubas attach 1000% importance to names and we never joke with it.
All my 3 lovely children have rich Yoruba names, given both by myself, after 8 days of deep reflection and also from my parents too....they have English names, but will never identify with them...those holds absolutely no meaning to me or them. Ensure you learn more about your root...the Yorubas are a special breed of people and most likely the first men in creation. One love brother.
DRAMA FUSION your name is 🔥
DRAMA FUSION...that's amazing because Yoruba culture in Trinidad is prevalent. Your mother may be of Yoruba descent as well.
EfemzyEkun You’re exactly right My Dad told me Babatunde means a son born after the death of his Grandfather Reincarnated of my parental ancestors . Growing up in America my name would get laughed at . Thank you for telling me Omokoku means this child will not die . I live in Cobb County Georgia . Cobb County Georgia has lot Nigerian 🇳🇬 Yoruba and Igbos who look out for me . I’m proud of my Dad Dr . Bandele A . Omokoku Brooklyn NY , Retired Physician .
More about me : I was born on April 23 , 1998 12:20 A.M. in Brooklyn , NY my single Mom raised me in ATL . Dr . King’s Assassinator James Earl Ray died on April 23 , 1998 .
, My birth was DRAMA , had open heart surgery ,Then CONFUSION with his birth certificate . Knowing midnight begins next day . He / She printed I was born on April 22 , 1998 12:20 A.M.
I turned DRAMA FUSION into Black Lives Matter Acronym.
Africa is named after Roman general Africanus 👨🏼and America is named after Italian Voyager👨🏻 Amerigo Vespucci .
Drama’s origin is Greek .
In 332 BC Egypt - Ancient Kemet , Northeast Africans 🤴🏿👸🏿was conquered by the Greeks having them go through drama .
1500-1800’s 👨🏿👩🏿were enslaved in Americas going through drama
From 1900-1960’s 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👩🏽👨🏽
were segregated and called Colored because we all descend from
First 👨🏿 Man and Woman 👩🏿 .
Their Genes are dominant 🧬
causing different colors of
Man and Woman👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽
Knowing Africans were 🤴🏿and👸🏿before enslaved in Americas .
Out of all last names ;
Dr . Martin Luther King 🤴🏾led Civil Rights Movement because he was tired of the drama .
Today 👮🏻👮🏻♀️cause drama to👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽. Africa' is derived from the Greek word 'a-phike.'
D.R.A.M.A. Spells
Discriminate
Roots
AfricaAborigine 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽
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America
Diamonds come from Africa .
D.R. Also stands for 💎 Rough .
👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 are like Diamonds that have it Rough in
United States of America 🇺🇸 .
American System - 👮🏻👮🏻♀️ , Racists are focused on causing The History of D.R.A.M.A.
They’ve F.U.S.I.O.N.
Forgetting Us 👨🏿👨🏾👨🏽👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽 Started Inventions Operated Now .
www.black-inventor.comBlack Inventors through American History - Famous Black Inventors
m.th-cam.com/video/cluaTAFeFM0/w-d-xo.html
Today 👨🏿👨🏾👨🏽👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽 Music Artists invented their own sound especially with the use of autotune which is successful . That shows Black Lives Matter .
If 👨🏿👩🏿👨🏾👩🏾👨🏽👩🏽 is Killed until extinct how will melanin 🧬 be passed on for future generations ?
You have done our African Ancestors and we of the Diaspora proud! Thank you for your research and for sharing this history with the world.
he did no research, everything he said is full of flaws and lies. he speaks like a European. he actually is calling negros stupid and beast akin to cattle. think about what he said about the aro. he lied and said the aro sold the Igbo. if he did research he would know the aro are Igbo. the aro are the priest of the Igbo. 2nd the aro just like igbo didn't have weapons. so what he is saying doesn't make sense. the aro walked up to a large tribe of their own people and said today I have sold 400 of you and noone did anything, a father let his son just go into slavery and the people sold just followed Europeans as cattle would. does this make sense to you. use your brain when you do research and listen for the lies. noone own people sold them, it was not a slave trade but a slave raid mostly carried out by mohamedans and tribes to the north like the ashanti. a raid capture march to prison(you know them as slave castles) seasoned, primed. then shipped to the colonies in the Americas. have you ever read a slave for sale sign. this is john. he is good with horses. this is mary she is a good cook. how did Europeans know what slaves could do if they just captured them or bought them and shipped them here. the prisons were for training negros what they would be doing when they got here. but don't pay any attention to what I say I have no college degree and im an old drunk who don't know anything
Jacob Stringfellow Um ... Ok
@@jacobstringfellow9718 i agree and disagree with a lot u said but wdym he sounds like a european because he was probably raised in Europe wdym by that?
Jacob Stringfellow people like u make me ashamed to have a father of the same race
@@jacobstringfellow9718 If anything, you’re the disrespectful one, calling us “negros” and all that 60s shit.
Big up from Angola, i'm descendent of Mbundos and Bakongos unfortunately even here in Africa the real story of african kingdons is not studed at schools, the governmants are not interested to raise up this kind of debates...
Edson Lourenço why can’t we Africans learn more about Africa and other African tribes besides us.
With love from Zambia. We are lost Angolan's here in Zambia
Well, in some countries we do just that the stories aren't always complete
What history do you study in Angolan schools?
Dani de Janeiro in africans countries who was colonized by Portugal unfortunately we study portuguese imperialism since 1492
Well as an African America born and grew up in America, I'm 40 years old at the moment but still searching for my African origin,I think this video can do a lot in my research, thanks so much.
Take an African ancestry test and find your country and tribe. And wear it with pride 💪🏿
Thanx for the ourstory and not history
@@TAPSIA.I did take the African ancestry test and it traced my paternal lineage to the Nubian people of Sudan and my maternal lineage was traced to the Dinka people of Southern Sudan
Bravo my brother ❤🎉
Mauritanie 🇲🇷 too have a a lot Fulani
Black America looks like every one of these tribes!!
Exactly what I said!
Jerry Rice nope were already n America dont look African in America. We have our own look. But we do business with the african continent
They do favor us and not the typical African however, let’s keep straight, blacks born in America are the biblical Israelites and are not Africans . Can we agree ?
Joseph Valentine blacks in America are indigenous American at birth. Then u can choose a religion to tag them. Born indigenous in America never brought from Africa. When black people in America think their from Africa they become retarded
@@josephvalentine7 we favor african people but indigenous american people we have our own distinct look. We kinda look like eygthian Ethiopian people because we are ancient looking. This is why people flock to america from all over the world and steal our chidren thru adoption agencies , they are doin this now. Taking our children and raising them to act like them and used them. It's been goin on for centuries
I love how engaging this was and the music was a nice touch! I didn't know 80% of this history. Thanks for this. 🙌🏽
Unfortunately me either. Thats why i so luv these channels. Brother plz continue to bring information forth of our african history. I was no taught this is americas schools. But after i got to college and purposely sort out information. I was so proud to be as dark skin as i am. In other words, i didnt feel that shame of my melanated skin as i did in my earlier years. Praise to my most high YAH for coming back for us melanated people.
I have a Hispanic name but I'm proud of my African decent 💪
Of all the African people that was stolen from the motherland you are the only one who really care about our anssistery and what people we are all front. Keep up the good work Bro. I too was born in Jamaica and very proud of my African anassistery. We all should take Bob Morley advice when he says African unit. Rasta man say so.
Huh? I am African with an English name. I am an African.
@@mrcool9084 that's why we love Jamaicans! I am black American and I try to teach the same but if we pay attention to his video they all fell by division!
@@mrcool9084 he is not the only one care about our ancestors
sad how all current black Americans don't care at all about there African ancestry
You just gained a subscriber. I appreciate this video. Salute on behalf of Haiti 🫡 🇭🇹
Black people are Kings and Queens... the most interesting and best looking race in the world. Love your black skin.... I love mine.
Adrian NiKo that's amazing because we don't want you to date us!
Me to
Adrian NiKo OK and that’s your choice. But that is no reason to put down someone’s looks just because you don’t find them attractive it is more to the content of their character and they’re fighting spirit that you should be concerned with but I can see that you are a racist piece o but that is no reason to put down someone’s looks just because you don’t find them attractive it is more to the content of their character and fighting spirit
Sean Taylor Well said!!!! Adrian NiKo is clearly tiny minded so I don't think he'll comprehend what you said.
Adrian NiKo nobody cares about your opinion
Correction...picture @7:18 is of a Babungo man from Cameroon. Go to www.afrographics.com for unique illustrative infographics on African history. All information on African history is compiled for you in simple creative ways!
Not sure bro...I recommend doing AfricanAncestry.com they can tell you what you maternal and paternal ancestry is.
HomeTeam History so you can reply to someone 10 minutes ago and not address me which I posted something to you 4 hours ago? Check the comment with the 90+ likes. You have some explaining to do.
You're doing an amazing job man. Keep it up. You should check out some guys on TH-cam also doing an African history series... think its called Basic Nigerian History
Great video .. thanks family
HomeTeam History I would like to see you do a documentary on how the land was taken from black SA and the reason the land needs to be returned back to them without compensation as previously stated by Julius Malema from the EFF movement.
This is my first time hearing and learning a collective account of the history you presented.
Thank you for sharing!
Are yoy on ig?
Mine too, and I enjoyed it emensly!
I’m Mende/ Temne Tribe from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱! Got my African AncestryDna done in 2021! Now I can get citizenship ✈️💙🇸🇱🙏🏾🎊
How do you African American people trace your African ancestry? How is the tribal baseline determined? I'm from Uganda, East Africa.
Love from Gambia 🇬🇲 mende brother ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm very Asian American & I'm interesting in learning more about the the African people, cultures. I've learned about the Asian, the American and the Europe but now I want to learn more about the country, people, cultures. I think Africa is beautiful & rich resources continent but lots of the people there don't have the opportunities to better themselves. I used to heard lots of rumor about black people but the more I get to Know them the more positive I think of them. They're beautiful & nice people. Don't judge the book by it's cover and never listen to rumors. You need to know them in person
well first you have to understand all of africa isnt the same.
Amanda Kwong I command you for this thought process and I wish you nothing but prosperity in your future quest🙏🏿
Thank you Amanda 😊
@1manuscriptman , yes I learned that Africa has 54 countries and that's a lot of countries and it's not right & not fair to them if someone assume that Africa is poor & bad people.
@bissy nama, why or what make you say something like that? I'm curious
Although I had never been to Africa I had always regarded it as the mother land because there is where my roots are even though I was born in Cuba I regard myself as a Afro Cuban Latin American but as you can see African firsts I take pride in my African heritage and I will definitely preserved until my last breath is exhaled
Weldone our blood
My culture is Afro caribbean...nationality:American, Ethnicity;Afrikan mix Race:Black.
Que bueno hermano! Somos africanos antes de somos personas de nuestros lugares de que nosotros viven!! (lo siento por mi mal español jeje)
@@andreathesexy1 America is made up of several different countries. IJS.
That's a beautiful thing, you do not deny the African in you even though you Cuban
I'm proud to be yoruba, even though our kings failed us, greed and war resulted to the massive salve trade
Adebari Aderibigbe we sold our selves and we are still doing it, despite end of slavery
@@faidatadeleke6262 Yes, black on black war is just inevitable because of greed.
Not the first people whose leaders sold them out (in this case literally) and won't be the last.
Two of the things the Europeans were trading for slaves: guns and booze. Also cotton cloth.
And these fools voted for Biden who will vax/chip and enslave everyone
@Y.H.A A yes, and it's doubly a universal law when certain people groups oppress so many other people groups. For example, the U.S. has a history of oppressing Native Americans, Asians, Blacks, and it dropped the bomb on Japan (Hiroshima), stole California from the Mexicans (paid a cheap price for it); don't think these people groups will not turn on the caucasoids when the time is right.
GOD bless bless African. I'm proudly African man from tribe of igbo. No place like my lovely continent AFRICAN.
Lol , I’m born in America and my ancestors were brought over on slave ships but guess wht I’m not African and my ancestors were not Africans , they were Israelites Gods chosen nation and we follow the Bible
@armagedon026 From Igbo as well we love you all our Igbo brothers who their ancestors were forcefully taken from us
@armagedon026Be urself brother I can imagine how it feels cause I have been with people of same. But u know what there's hope & u can start the healing by visiting Igbo land. More love to u bro
@@josephvalentine7 Israel is in africa
sundae KJV Galatians 4:26
But you can send me that scripture .
Hello, Caucasian male here and a long time student of African ethnography. Your video is interesting, informative, and exceptionally well made. Very well done.
But slightly one sided, the sad story is so much bigger.
Hi CM, Have you read up on migration of the Celtic or Germanic Tribes or isn't that woke enough for you?
@@mirola73 I totally agree. Only when we understand just how we got here fully, then we will be able to move forward. It is a start though and a god start I might add.
@@johnwright9192 Why would we care? Theres enough information about short white history to last two lifetimes over. All we hear about is WHITE HISTORY.
Mind Your Business, Enough Of Caucasians Interference
As a white man, I am fascinated to learn history of African people without only hearing about colonialism. There is so much diversity and richness to uncover, from before and after European people terrorised them. We are never taught even the names of the biggest ethnic groups in Africa, and I had to teach myself where the countries all are.
Thank you for giving such detailed history to us for free! It is what makes the internet a miracle, and I am very grateful!
As a black man, it's said that the true history of the slave trade is NEVER taught. You know...the part where black Africans, sold millions of other black Africans to the European slave traders. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade would not have been possible without that aspect of it.
We need to teach REAL history to people. And that goes for EVERYBODY. We need to teach what really happened throughout history, and stop trying to distort it, change it, or omit it, in order to not offend people, or tell people what they want to hear.
@@Ispeakthetruthify Exactly pal.It was a triangular trade. Unfortunately all the chiefs of Africa had as worthy currency at the time where other enslaved Africans.
@@Ispeakthetruthify the trades amongst African natives already existed and totally different system. The natives served as servants and status could change by marrying non servants, buying, appeal through court or free children etc. it was never by choice and usually by survival. The middlemen were also subjected to deceit. No one was without capture and middlemen from history several rebellious attempts against the Europeans. You may want to dig in deeper and look up historians like Walter Rodney and read sins of fathers James pope Hennessy. You need additional resources to stand on what you said.
To help you out direct quote from Walter Rodney "“A racist streak is never far from the surface in bourgeois presentations on the problems of development, because non-European people are equated with backwardness and stagnation, while progress in uniquely European. It would be simple to ignore such a misconception if it were merely held by the bigoted oppressors, but the racist historical experience has implanted the same negative self-evaluation in the minds of many Africans, and especially in the minds of the imitative African petty bourgeoisie.” I will forever quote this historian as well as author. He was assassinated...should assassins you ask you know. There were authors as well forced to change the narrative and Blame slave trade on African chiefs such as James pope Hennessy-"sins of our fathers. Yes a known fact historians were told to focus on the native Africans being the main contributors of the slave trade. It's very irresponsible for you not to state your source when there's plenty throughout history. The irony of who you're responding to with this info is beyond me.
You are not welcome here whitey. This is a safe space for black folk not colonizers like you
@@Ispeakthetruthify you mean the native Africans hamites sold the israelites to the European
Man, it is very hard to track back our ancestry, you really gave me a light in this matter. I'm Brazilian, so now I can at least have some idea of my possible ancestry. You really made made my day. I thank you from the buttom of my heart.
Rodrigo Cyrillo your ppl are from Angola
Right mostly all of Black Brazilians are Angolan. They speak Portuguese there as well if you ever wanted to visit
Please check out BHITB which stands for Black History in the bible.
Norma Hamilton Kushites
You must definitely be half Angolan/Yoruba :).
Know thyself, remember your ancestors ✌
Ase’
What if your ancestors where slave traders?
My ancestors are irrelevant to me. What is relevant to me is my Yah. It was our ancestors who caused us to be in this position in the first place!!
my ancestors were probably peasants in Ethiopia
@Pxer yeah my point was just, that you are you. Not your ancestors. If your grandfather was a rapist or a great human being has nothing to do with how you are as a person ☺
Cameroonian here just started watching you yesterday and you gave me an interest in African history I never knew I had,Thank You
The history of Africans before the contact with the Arabs and Europeans, and also the African diaspora need to be studied in all African schools. In South Africa today there's a push for decolonisation of education in the school curriculum. Hopefully the African history will be taught to our people.
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
Know what?🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for sharing. Although I'm surprised that while discussing about the Igbos, you left out the historic Igbo Landing incident in the US. I'm not Igbo, I'm Yoruba but I'm proud to say that incident speaks to the bravery of the Igbo people.
One of the famous Igbo landing was in the present day Haiti. More on that
@@DrDoGood Igbo landing was in Georgia USA
This is so detailed. One of the issues with learning is not having names to even start with. If there are books related to each tribe/country I would like to start reading. Thank you for the time and dedication .
Thanks my brother. I am a Nigeria of the Igbo tribe and a History Buff. This is an outstanding narrative. The only suggestions are ...... Dahomey, Benin, Mali, Songhai, and Yoruba Empires where great participants in the Slavery Trade hence ought to be on top 3. The Long Juju Of Aro Chukwu, the Igbo tribe, surfaced at the tail end of the trade hence short lived. The Fulanis had limited access to the Atlantic Ocean thus their Slave trading activities were mainly with the Arabs via the Sahara Deserts. A Great summary of a Research work. A+
Yep!
@@jesuschrististheonlyway6488 Stfu I hate your name n that u responded to a pure blood that your ppl destroyed.
Circulate a petition to have the stolen Diamonds and Artifact's removed from the British 🇬🇧 museum 🖼️. ⚫🖤🤎♥️🪶💛✊
@Osas👌 The Ancestors did what they did. I believe I know why... Don't get upset. We need to stay strong for the Battle of the Boston Tea party 🎉. File for Reparations 🔥
@Osas👌 Since the Queen died. More countries are calling for Independence and Artifact's returned to countries. Diamonds that were stolen. King of Belgium has returned the stolen Masks back to Congo. Removed King Leopold statue's from the towns. President of South Africa is ready to battle for his country. We all must take a stand. Regardless of tribes, language culture and traditions. 🌑⚫🤎🖤. ✊
Damn, the Fulani women are beautiful😍✌
Fulani is consider the most beautiful women in Africa, my son is half Fulani
@@hannaG5625 lucky him,am goin for a Fulani now😂😂
There all beautiful...
@@hannaG5625 girl bye your not even African
Uh thank you hahaha
Another great insight. Sad and interesting at the same time. I'm from Suriname and we have Kromanti (marrons) people that rised up against enslavement. Their decendants still live as free men in the rainforest today. Great work Home Team! Time for me to pledge en read your sources on Patreon.
Cool C great information. I"ll look into the Akan language. Thanks!
Publicly applied According to Akan historian, Ayei Kwei Armah, the Akan people, who lived in Egypt, migrated from Egypt southwestward (he is from Ghana)during the time of the Ptolemies. If you read about the Ptolemies you"ll know why.
Maroon is not a tribe. It's a lie told in Jamsica
Afro Suriname are mostly Ghanaians
Kromanti/Maroons were Ashantis of Ghana. If you go to Jamaica, you will see the same people there. Their great Queen Nanny and her family were descendants of Ashanti. Even the present King of Ashanti, Osei Tutu has visited his royals of Surinam before. VWP ❤️
Marcus Garvey famously wrote: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”
I’m reading and learning now ‼️💫
Nice video as a Yoruba person and a Nigerian we don’t even know half of these things I had to go googleing a lot of what I know now. Keep up the good work.
nvm nvm the reason why you do not know half of these things is because the claims such as the Fulani rant he made is inaccurate and misguiding. I recommend that you read my comments on his comment section and the comment with over 131+ likes to understand further information.
I'm Yoruba, and I've been following his channel for years, he does his research.
The reason we aren't clued up about history, is because of lack of investment in education and religious dominance and indoctrination, caused by previous Nigerian administrations. I don't think the person telling you to doubt these videos does so, besides for anti Fulani sentiments.
"The so-called" Igbo Isrealites work overtime in trying to spread disinformation, hatred and lies.
Alagramz Art stop trolling white boy.
nvm nvm You never ever hearing of these stories might mean a lot. Think about it. American leaders are always making up stories.
nvm nvm ,
That is because of colonialism and modernity most African people don't pay that much attention to their own History they prefer to study European History at school!
I'm proudly Cameroonian!!! Though British by nationality. Love my roots.
Shout out to my brothers and sisters...
Wow interesting! What tribe are you from in Cameroon?
I'm Cameroonian/burundian but South African by Nationality
@@msg653 I'm Cameroonian too a mix of the Bamiléké and Bamoun tribes 😊
ingrid Ng ♥️
Welcome among us. Cameroonian too and bamileke
Cameroon here as well 💪🏿🇨🇲 massa. Yagoua 💪🏿
I am a naturalized Canadian originally from Nigeria. When I first moved to Canada there were not to many blacks in the province where I leaved. I could be in a store and be the only black person there. I remember visiting the US almost 10 years after I’d been living in Canada and seeing black people in Detroit. You should have seen me beaming from ear to ear. Just happy to see them. Some were probably freaked out at me. I felt like screaming ‘THESE ARE MY PEOPLE.’
If you're black nobody from Detroit was freaked out by your presence. Black people are use to seeing other black people in a city like Detroit. Canada is not America and I believe the black population there is no more than 2 to 3 percent. and Though America has never been more than 13 percent black,. Detroit is a city that has a high concentration of black folks. So it would seem like there are more than a 12 to 13 percentage of blacks there and that we all live in Detroit, MI in the States, which isn't true. Where you land does have an impact on your perception.
@@massagemodality366 I think they meant that they freaked people out by smiling randomly, not being black
@@massagemodality366 Typical asshole. The brother was excited and you tried to still his joy.
@B45 respectfully, you may wanna rethink this one. When you live in a place where people gawk at you for how different you are everyday, to see a familiar face who's different like you is more comforting than you could ever know. It's not like OP is saying they were incapable of feeling love and empathy for all people, but that it was a relief to no longer be a spectacle among other people. To feel normal in any aspect is a blessing that isn't understood until you lose it.
@B45 ok
I love this. It elated me to see a young AFRICAN american out to find his History and spread his wealth of knowledge to the people. We need more of this.
I am Fulani from Nigeria 🇳🇬. Very rich content, and highly educational. 👊🏽
Jarama
Fulani bandit abi? We will divide that country soon and leave you guys with your Buhari
@@hayeslloyd4002 😂😂. Peace my brother
Your ancestors were slave catchers.
I wish they banded together to rid their continent of the colonizers
@bradfordtechno1
They say the same thing about black folks in america. But in america, these folks love their colonizers smh
@@brandonh7578 they had profits when they had partnership with the colonizers, selling other tribes.
@@brandonh7578 why u talking trash on us? Be quiet first of all its not our fault we were brought here did u also know that some of our own people traded us wow sick!!! So u do that to your own people we are stuck in America i would love to move to Africa but blaming us for being here is not the way to go
@@brandonh7578 traitors dont ever blame us for being brought here when some of u also traded us!!!
Thanks!
Just found your channel this morning and I'm impressed fam. Most pro-black African history channels focus too heavily on Egypt when in reality us "African-Americans" dont descend from Egypt directly. People don't embrace their real culture. It's like a Italian only researching Belgium history. They're both European but both had different cultures
No Egypt was the African climax
J U C H E N ...I agree...
How do we focus on Egypt whites focus on Egypt because they try to tell every us that nappy cornrow hair and dark skin is a caucasian trait they love confusion
Wonderful information. I appreciate your videos +HomeTeam History In viewing the photos I see in the features many of my own family members and Africans dispersed throughout the diaspora. In Malcolm X's last lecture he made a statement to the audience you look about as much as a Congolese as a Congolese does. We are separated by a boat stop. Your channel is truly represents an authentic view of our people. Salute. I will subscribe to your Patreon.
3:03 look at the line up, and hairstyle along with the accessories.. man, we always had a great sense of aesthetics & fashion. That sculpture is amazing, just look at that detail, the expression.. what that sculpture/bust represents.
African art is something I love to explore, and collect; especially historical artifacts/pieces(which I will never afford), but would like to see more of personally. The stories those pieces tell, are necessary..
Thank you for this! I am showing all my acting kids this and they love it so! Now the youth are able to develop scripts around this topic. X
Don't know how your video appeared in my news feed. I've never heard of this channel before but I'm so very happy I came here. You have a *NEW SUB*.
Very informative. I am from Ivory Coast, West Africa. But I didn't know that much about the history of the continent. Thank you for telling us our story. 🙏🙏🙏
I'm ivorian too! It's so nice to see a brother/sister randomly like that 🇨🇮
Wow! I am amazed! I am Fulani and from Africa , you have enlighten me ! Thank you!
Akinyemi Olusegun 🤫
Akinyemi Olusegun wtffff. lies all lies
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Fulani are the best ❤️ Let the igbos hate, they ain't got shit do to anyways 😂😂 hell they even think that they're Hebrews 😂😂😂
You are from the Gambia, am I right?
This was incredibly interesting and informative. Thank you so much.
We’re human beings and we should be treated with RESPECT just as anyone else too. UNDERSTOOD!!
Don't got nothing to say other than Love you brotha
I SUPPORT YOU SERIOUSLY.
Much Appreciated
HomeTeam History reply to me here please
Ezethegreat One read my comment thoroughly before giving me a reply. Because you are saying "the assessment was wrong" like my family members (not taken literally as in I am Fulani descent but I speak a similar language branch as them) that they had the power to defend against it or could have prevented it and decided based on their own free will to initiate what has happened. [edit]: And if you want to defend Home Team history on his claim then please I also forward this challenge to you as I did proposed to him.
HEY EVERYONE. PLEASE *SHARE THE VIDEO* IN MY CHANNEL ........
It's about Land Reform in *South Africa.* *Please spread the real message of blacks to everyone.*
Ezerthegreat One I like HomeTeam's videos but this one is highly misinforming and inaccurate. I agree with you.
Great video! I’m from Angola 🇦🇴, I’m both Ambundu (Mbundu) & BaKongo (Mukongo)... I lived in the USA 🇺🇸 for about 23 years and I’m now back in Luanda (since 2008). I’ve been saying this for many years, but people wouldn’t believe me... It’s true, Ambundu & BaKongo is everywhere in Brazil and USA. True and also very sad.
inovArtesMediaLda inovArtes They didnt believe that they were from the Bakongo? That is weird. That is a generational self hate. You are lucky to come from a country full of black people because you were allowed to preserve your culture whites in America seek to diminiah in culture from black Americans or make a profit from it.
Yaa Moremi Queen yeah but can't put all the blame on them though being a minority can be hard if you're not strong you will lose your identity. That is one of the reason that it's in the benefit of every black people not born in Africa to go visit the continent to help strengthen their identities
I am in also from Angola living in Angola, can we meet up to discuss some of this history?
Sure no problem... Hit me up on Messenger / Patrice Ngangula De Lemos
Knowledge is power. Keep the power going.
Thanks for sharing 👍🏽
Most of the slaves taken are igbo or Ghanaian i suspect they are the same people although some different cultures . Many are the same
I am from Senegal, my father is a Wolof and this hurts my heart!
Why??
If your father he is a wolof then what are you? 😂🤦🏾
Samuel Bilesanmi Because our people was ripped apart
@@sarahbeye4199 we are the salt of this earth...God deliberately spread us to give taste to this world.
Gradually, all of us scattered throughout the world, as spider webs, will connect, wake up and retake our destinies. God works in mysterious ways. Relax sis...no need to hurt.
Effemmzy Well said.
I see so many of my African friends in these varying tribes. I was uneducated about all the tribes as a kid and now I find it so beautiful to see how our facial features differ vastly from tribe to tribe. Whoever said we all look the same, didn’t look close enough!
IKR ‼️‼️‼️♥️
very true
You are right. I am a Nigerian, and I can predict Africans by looking at their features. Most of us Africans have distinctive features different from one another from North Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, East Africa, to Southern Africa.
Facts!
Sad
I took the African Ancestry test for my mother’s side. We are from the Temne people in Sierra Leone. I finally know where my ancestors are from.
You can get a citizenship all u need to do travel there and show your results that's it go in Sierra Leone
Awesome. But the temne’s are actually from guinea. But because they are aggressive people by nature they were chased out of guinea and majority of them settled in Sierra Leone. I know this because I am half Sierra Leonean from my father side. Also, you are probably Sherbro Temne as they never got the chance to enter the main land. I am sherbro mende from bonthe.
Please tell me how to do this please..
Kushe ✋🏿
Meaning you related to the Gullah people of South Carolina who are believed to have come from Sierra Leone and still speak the same language as Sierra Leone krio
First time turning in.. thank you so much for this upliftment of knowledge.
One love Jamaica 🇯🇲
I always wondered about the tribes that were taken and what area they were from. This was very enlightening. Thank you for posting this.
This video was really good! Good to hear some discussion of the Congo trade. The discussion often focusses on the West African trade, but Congo was a truly horrific free-for-all of slave raiding and it deserves to be discussed more. Congo had the double misery of domestic slavery after the international trade too, where the Europeans enslaved Congolese people in Congo for rubber
You have only documented slavery carried out in the west and central Africa a century ago, what about those Africans from the east african coast?
East Africa slave trade went on 700 years before European ships landed in West Africa to buy whatever African chiefs were selling.
More slaves actually came from Angola and Congo than west African
MtDNA Tested 06/2020: Yoruba & Hausa!!! It really feels so good to know! Currently learning both languages.
Hi 😊 My wife is Nigerian Igbo. I'm African American are you African American also?
How do you learn this?
@@mosesmoses9017 yes I’m African American…
@@yayayaya7733 thanks for responding I am now curious to know if whether or not I am Nigerian as well
Where did you find this information please help!
This was a fantastic video I really appreciated it and I'll keep on watching
Your voice is very soothing which made this an enjoyable listening experience. Thanks for sharing this knowledge sending you love & peace ❤🙏
Proudly Oduduwa, known as the Yorubas, we have beautiful culture . I love my tribe, we are Omoluabi👸
♥️♥️
Ok
Except for the ones who betrayed their own people.
Kind of a retarded thing to be proud of
@Daniel Enrique Hernandez your a whole old man and if your not you definitely look like one get off of this app and get a life
Thanks for the beautiful pictures of my people. Slavery was/is an evil thing. Splitting families, taking their names away, taking freedom, etc. This is all ugly, I get angry every time I think about it. By the by, slaves built America and are never given so much as an honorable mention.
Valincia Pruitt you need to stop letting emotions get the best of you its abnormal for you to be getting so angry thinking about situations from centuries ago. Its not helpful to you. And we aren't given honorable mention? This shows your dissatisfies and negative nature of your psyche and soul. Its not right.
Make you wanna Bomb a town.. "LL Cool J"
@@veraaddoyobo8482 because for some reason we are chained to the negative and debilitating feelings of rejection, anger, paralyzation, and bitterness that feelings of being enslaved and discriminated against brings. We react as of the past condition is our present condition. We are not bouyed by our past we seem anchored and weighed down by it.
Mon Ember is a troll..ignore it, he/she/it talks as a fool
@@monember2722 u must not be black with crap u just said
I'm a Ghanaian-German and my ancestors were the Ashanti people. They weren't mentioned in the video.
As an African I think African Americans do show a strong resemblance to Africans from West Africa. ❤️
Wrong my sister. Slaves were snatched all over Africa, however do understand you get confused due to the English Language, but you should know when Europeans arrived Africans had their own Languages and Cultures, even Religions, God knew them and they knew God. Christianity and Islam is not Black people's religions, that's why is important to know who is saviour and our Prophet, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi, through him all blacks will be blessed.
I don't know what all over Africa is. Slaves to the Americas came from the west.
Slaves from the east and North went elsewhere (Euope and Modern day Middle East)
Southern Africa never really enslaved anyone. South Africa's slaves came from Asia and the San tribe
Out of Africa theory bull shyt
Thembi Tabata of course they will look like West Africans, because that's where all the slaves in America came from.
Not me
I am from Trinidad and Tobago. My great grandmother was an Amerikin or slaves who fought in the Civil War and were given their freedom and land in the colonies such as Trinidad. I was told as a small child that we were from the Housas Tribe. It was passed down in the family. I didn't hear you mention that tribe.
Yeahh, the Hausa are mostly found in Northern Nigeria, Benin, Sudan, Ivory Coast etc...In Nigeria, they are usually grouped in with the Fulani Tribe as they have for the most part blended in.
Hausa tribe is big tribe in Nigeria and they are spread across Nigeria, Cameroon and some other countries in west Africa. But they more concentrated in Northern Nigeria.
Hausa tribe. We have them also in Ghana.
I am also from Trinidad and my family were also Amerikin. The land given is called the companys in Moruga. Princes Town to 6th Company.
Fulani and Hausas are close tribes
I'm from the Ìgbo Tribe this the first class true documentary I have ever seen concerning slavery. You're absolutely correct, my opinion
Extremely powerful and useful information in this video,King....keep your head up and be true to your Kingdom
More excellent information, very long on fact, and devoid of anger. You give Black people a source of real pride, and a sense of history of their ancestors. Thank you.
tom jackson Tom, you said it. “Devoid of anger” that’s why I love it.
re Von Google keeps files on you that even the Justice department is not allowed by law to keep. It also discriminates against Conservative news outlets.
Google may be your friend, but is not mine.
Never forget that your royal! Africa is waiting for your return which shall be celebrated as a great Jubilation 🙏🏿 soon to come! Bwezza Bwezza bwa Ndaula ❤️
@Tea Nelson nah it wasn't like that, there were a bunch of different and unique tribes in Africa (Africans did not all see themselves as one race back then) and these tribes would sell members of their enemy tribes into slavery.
I’m Igbo and I’m proud to be Igbo despite my ancestors role in slave trade im a proud Igbo man not proud of slave trade but I’m proud to be Igbo 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
same
The igbos were taken as slaves not the selling of other tribes your ok...hebrew
You have nothing to be proud of. You’re descended from people who sold their own people into slavery, hahaha.
Igbos where The number on e black slave traders, working with whites, it pains my heart
Igbo princess 👸right here.
Truly wonderful, Impactful and necessary work you doing on this channel. Love your content keep up the great well.
Afro-American of Bakongo & Mbundu descent! Yes my brotha, we have our Kongo connection!
Azeem Alexander stop kidding yourself, you are as much a descendant from townships in ENGLAND as "bakongo &Mbundu".
Accept who you are, and go forward, instead of trying to get to "Wakanda".
stephen carter Chill, brother. 🤣
You're right I might be only a little but thats ok, at least I know where we come from unlike so many. Have you experienced real African culture, spirituality, music? something Afro-Americans should be very proud and get in tune with. you may think it's running backwards but it is about moving forward, my Ancestors smile on me :) .
Descent of Bakongo is descent of Bakongo, no matter if it is 10, 50 or 100%. Come to Kongo, the home of all !
What's up brother. I'm Kongo too. At the end of the day we're all brothers though.
The Haitian Creole is from the Fon, Igbo, Wolof, and the Congolese language.
Tga Dega Garrencha ❤️
Are you saying that’s where our ancestors came from if so that’s true . Also add the Congo , and bara tribe of Madagascar. Basically we in Haiti are a mixture of various African regions. As far as the creole language , while certain regions in Haiti speak creole a little more “ raw “ than others who speak it closer to French idk it’s definitely a broken French more than anything , one thing that’s funny though everywhere creole is spoken even African countries etc we can somewhat understand each other.
dave lopes yes I’m Haitian I know this lol. Creole is a mixture of all the languages around us at the time , some words are Taino , some are a broken French , Portuguese , Spanish even English it’s a mixture some words might be from different African tribes.
Creole isn't from Igbo at all. I'm st lucian and we speak Creole
@@connormurphy683. I'm from st lucia and we speak Creole. It's similar to Haitian creole
Oh my goodness, this was so very enlightening! I’m Trinidadian, so I’ve been trying to figure out which tribe my ancestors came from. Has to be either Fon, Igbo or Yoruba or a combination. 💙 (I was born in Trinidad but my grandparents were from other Caribbean islands, so it's a little more complicated that I thought. I need to do an ancestral test.) Thank you for sharing!
The ancestorial tests are FAKE!
You need to do the test to be sure of your root?
Try African ancestry, that how I know where my family are in that list.
I spent time in Cuba and Yoruba culture and religion are very much ingrained into the arts. It's amazing!
Very well done! As a proud Igbo woman, I was really interested to watch this video
God Bless You Brother for making this report! I am a big lady from the Congo and this is the kind of report I have been looking for. Good Job!!
I'm Fulani from Northern Nigeria. Thank you for creating this video.
Merci!
Your research and storytelling paints a full picture of Africa as an independent territory with its own history. I'm going to use a lot of this as my own source material when I teach my students. Last year had a bunch of 6th graders (all white, I taught in Finland last year) and I gave them a sneak peak to some of this history, for example by telling them about Mansa Musa and his kingdom, but I knew already that I needed to study a lot more. Thank you for making it easy!
Btw, if someone is curious how would a bunch of 50 white kids react to African pre-colonial history, they were HYPED. We had this goal of decolonizing history together and we covered China, India, Africa and South America as much as we could (in the limited time I have with a bunch of sixth graders). They were SO excited to learn, related strongly to the different stories we discussed and I hope it affects their view of the world for the rest of their lives...
You do an amazing job. Keep spreading that light into the darkest patches of the misinformation the system wants to remain a norm.
If there’s a way we could stay connected pls lmk. We should be friends. 💚
@Esther Com When ?you debate about World War 2 do you debate on thé monstriosity you did in Africa،, America, Caraibed ané elsewhere
@@monik3929 "You" who?? If you're talking about white people then then you are on the absolute most ironic video to do so, because it would also mean according to that ridiculous logic that you enslaved yourself as per all the information that just got disseminated by this video.🤦🏾♂️
That's how you know they weren't American white kids.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
''An'' ''independent territory'' with ''its own history''. And you teach history? The idea of ''Africa'' as anything resembling a political, economic, ethnic, or social unit, ever, is about as real as Wakanda. Or Middle Earth. ''Decolonizing history''? Did you start in any particular region? Did you point out every known human community, and all humans, have historical antecedents in colonization? Or did you go with; ''Everyone was a happy vegan, with brown skin, until....WHITE SKIN ARRIVED.''?
No in Jamaica we are not called komanti we are called "Maroons" and are mainly of Ashanti tribe from Ghana also we have alot of Igbo tribe mixed in with us down here.
I noticed you have certain two word in maroon.
You are right. Kofi, Kudjoe, Acheampong (Accompong), Taki and all the names of the maroons are Akan/Ashanti names
runaway slaves were called 'maroons"
Jamaican money cartel true a lot of island cultures have that mix I was born on the islands I have a lot of people telling me I look Ethiopian Kenyan an all of these races but I want to look farther into my roots
Ashanti were the shorter people