Africa will rise again believe that

I alway was interested in learning early African history before European colonialism. Very helpful and entertaining video on the subject

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

That was the GREATEST 14mins 12seconds of KZread that I've had in a while! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent lecture, I love how he interweaves the history of different parts of the world, something I missed in my history lessons. It’s all connected, we are all connected.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Just recorded another lesson. Should be up next week.

In my opinion, I do think the downfall of Africa could have been avoided. The Wagadu empire( Also called the Ghana empire) had much contact with the islam world, but never converted themselves which history foretold. So what if, in an alternate timeline, the Ghana empire sent diplomats to the swahili coast which had direct contact and trade with Asia! The swahili were excellent ship makers, which would benefit the Ghana empire immensely. Soon enough, the Ghana empire would create their own ships to travel to Asia, have more connections with the rest of southern and eastern Africa, and that way they wouldn't have to depend on the saharan trade routes! Now with an easier way to get to Asia, west Africa would develop way more faster before the Europeans would even arrive in the 15th century!

@joannaansah4957

5 ай бұрын

Huh? You re-writing history, DeSantis?

I love your analysis. Great focus on the importance of that trans-saharan/“silk road” nexus in rise/fall of empires. Also fantastic analysis of the formation of the slave trade. This lesson you give here should be far more widely known

@sandraguzman4394

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

I’m a history nerd myself and learned some stuff. Excellent work here!

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I have a new video coming out tomorrow afternoon, I hope you find it interesting.

My man did it again! I find your works incredibly informative. Thanks!

Great video :) I was looking for just this kind of video for my inquiries and I came out learning a lot more

Absolutely nailed it! The synthesis of major world events and how they culminated within one another was seamlessly woven. Loved this analysis

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! More content coming soon.

Wow, It would take me a long time to come up with questions that you answered by this great lesson!

Thank you Darius for your time and knowledge. Wish I had more teachers like you. Learned more than the article before coming here. You gave full context as to what was going on around the world. Sad there is a decimal behind the 2 in number of views. Thanks again.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching, and for your comment! It's all good. I'd love more views, but I'm honored that the views in getting are largely from educational institutions. I really think this curriculum should bev freely available to everyone. The fact that they're using it and it's also out for the general public is really the position I want to be in. It means people are getting for free what other folks are paying thousands of dollars for.

I love how you are able to give information on how everything in human history is interwoven. You gave an understanding of how what happens in one part of the world affects another. Wonderful and understanding teaching, thanks.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! More content is coming up...

@harry.flashman

Жыл бұрын

i concur. great teaching

@stratospheric37

Жыл бұрын

Seconded!

Terrific video! You did an exceptional job of describing the cause-and-effect relationships. We, humans, tend to look at history as singular events without considering the circumstances that led up to and contributed to future connected actions and responses to such actions.

Thankyou so much for this informative and stimulating lecture. Has certainly given some window of light into Africa before European colonisation. Also the underlying principles you apply offers such a wide sweep of understanding to the rise and fall of cultures, empires and nation states.

An outstanding and well-paced survey. Have a subscription. Looking forward to learning more.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Todays topic was well versed , bless for sharing this content 🙏🏿😎

I really enjoy listening to you I .afrockan American and I've always loved researching history I general but especially African history it's the begenimg off humanity keep up the good work brother

Man I thought I knew some history but you just blew my mind. Thank you. Subscribed.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great video!! I was just think that like about how Eurocentric world history is often presented and showing how everything is interconnected is really interesting!

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Kind regards from Montevideo, Uruguay!

@AfricanElements

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you so much!

Very nice video. You presented a lot of history but in a interesting way, thanks.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks much! I should have a new video dropping next week on the Black Panther Party. I hope you find that one interesting as well.

An amazing lecture! Very truly, history is far from being a straight line of parallel but distinct swimming lanes. Rather, it's a web of interconnected and interdependent socio-economic and cultural ecosystems. With highly recursive patterns, as Giambattista Vico said. Such a powerful tool for interpreting the disruptive events that are taking place around us in these strange but exciting days. Knowing history can also allow us to peer over the fog that blurs our immediate future...

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! I appreciate your comments!

This was phenomenal. Thanks so much for sharing this valuable information.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

Very well composed and some very interesting points here, thank you for your hard work.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

This was a really well presented lesson in African culture, and I learned a good bit. I am subscribing. You deserve a larger audience.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Teaching full time is really hard to publish regularly, but that's my goal.

@sylviasworld9397

2 жыл бұрын

No such thing as "African" culture though.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

@@sylviasworld9397 every culture that exists on the African continent is an African culture.

You put it in a way I can understand. Good video, bro

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank You for this video. My son and I are (re-reading) Dr Chinua Achibe: Things fall apart. Your video really helps with putting the books environment the context

@joannaansah4957

5 ай бұрын

I just finished the video . Thank you for your channel. You've answered so SO SOOOO many questions ..even b4 I asked them (some I didnt know J needed to ask). Lol

@memestar6404

Ай бұрын

Pls be cautious to know things fall apart is not real Igbo history & culture, its genre is “historical fiction”. Thanks

@joannaansah4957

Ай бұрын

@memestar6404 Generally, we are already aware of this fact! But, Thank you for your generosity in sharing this insight (indeed, there may be some who were confused by the genre?)

Good presentation! Very interesting & makes sense! Thank you!

This was hugely helpful and insightful video! Huge appreciation!

@AfricanElements

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

I’m currently reading Trevor Noah’s book Born A Crime and wanted to review African history for better context. I’ve learned so much with your video! The Texas public education system left out a lot in world history, and it can be hard to find real history content on KZread. I appreciate your dedication to putting the information out there on this open platform. Thank you! Immediately subscribed! I’m looking forward to learning more from your channel overall!

Thank you for this. It would be nice if I learned this at my high school 5 years ago.

Keep up the good work !

I love that you explained why slavery was prevalent during conquest. There is no emotional tie to labels people did not self identify with. I am not sure if the collapse of the Saharan slave trade was avoidable bc it’s business. Leaders are always finding ways to be on top or “survive”.

This is a great video. Thank you for making it!

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

History Teacher:Ok Class,What Led To Colonialism? Me:Greed and Envy

Thank you very much for your hard work sir! Greetings from Sweden:)

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

There is an excellent video of Thomas Sowell who explain how Africa have so few access to the sea. Your video make an excellent job of describing the shift from land power to sea power, and Africa loose his advantage. In Europe easy sea access was a plague during Viking raids, but later become a net advantage. Good job.

Great job keep it coming.

Nice informative content very accessable. Subbed.

Exellent video. No political agenda…just plain history. Very nice job

Man! Eye-opening video! Congrats! Amazing! Thanks!

Thank you for doing this research, so insightful!

Thanks man I really learned a lot. I’m gonna check out more of your videos. I was gonna call my friend and ask him questions and you save him a lot of trouble

@AfricanElements

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I wonder how things would be different if West Africans started building ships for trade back then.

Thanks for the information! I hope you can work on the voice quality, otherwise everything is perfect! Thanks again mate!

This was so packed dense with history I had to stop it at each verse and meditate on the meaning of each sentence.

This is very great work of history which people who look like me are included in world history which never mention it in history class.

13:10 Thank you. Some people don't understand this part for some reason.

@joannaansah4957

5 ай бұрын

I agree. Just as I was never considered Hispanic until I came to the 🇺🇸... in my home country we don't call each other Hispanic. Lol Also, Igbo, Hansa, Yorba etc ARE ACTUAL KINGDOMS. Each Tribe can distinguish themselves from each other (physically and through other attributes). Spoils of war/ debt/ orphanage are spoils of war/debt/ orphanage. Prisoners of war still exist in 2024

Thank you for the very insightful presentation!

Thanks for your video. Would love to see some article so I can read more around this topic

Excellent lecture. Very insightful.

Thank you for this video, it was very informative!

Good Stuff! Thank you for this!

Well researched and informative perspective

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Be sure to catch the live stream next Thursday on the African Roots of Black music.

Thank you for making this video!

@AfricanElements

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks a lot for this, Prof!

That was great ...very informative

Great pieces of work.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

Brother this documentary was excellent

Great vid👊🏻

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! There's a new video dropping next week (it's already out on Patreon).

Great video. But not mentioned is the impact of technology on cultures and their continuing advancements.. The Europeans had refined ancient war & exploration technologies and that gave them a competitive advantage. Africa's stagnation in the technological arena was a MAJOR contribution to its decline imo.

@davidlloyd-jones8519

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, technology.. Nothing he mentioned could have happened without shipping and navigation technologies that sidestepped the sahara trade routes.

@grendahramjee9643

Жыл бұрын

The ignorance is embarrassing. Before commenting get an education

@Erica-ls7bp

Жыл бұрын

@@grendahramjee9643 Yes, your ignorance is astounding and I wholeheartedly agree, you could benefit from an education. If you'd like I could recommend some great resources on 16th & 17th century war and naval technology. The Europeans quite literally outgunned the Africans, that's not up for debate.

@grendahramjee9643

Жыл бұрын

@@Erica-ls7bp well I recommend you read it and educate yourself you need it. Probably never even heard of many wars won by Africans with spears and shields. But then again being non African you probably have never been educated by diluted history.

@Erica-ls7bp

Жыл бұрын

@@grendahramjee9643 The fact that Africa was colonized for 100 years...Africans may have won some battles but ultimately lost their wars to technology. Just as the Japanese lost to America due to atomic bombs, technology won. This isn't a disparaging comment, it's just a fact to learn and grow from. And yet instead of learning that lesson, African leaders continue to fail to make science and technology a priority. A mistake the Asians took to heart and look at their societies now,, more technological advanced than those that once subjugated them. That should infuriate you not arguing with me.

Keep on going bro thanks so much

Helpful stuff 👏🏻👏🏻 I don’t know what to say but just helpful. Would you like to recommend some books on African history to me?

@AfricanElements

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! I would check your local community college bookstore. If they have a Black Studies section, they likely have some good used to textbooks that you can buy on the cheap.

Thank you, this video was dope. Please keep them coming. I like the way you narrate too. You remind me of Neil DeGrasse Tyson a little bit. I’m diggin your style fam. peace

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Nice video, learned a lot from it.

👌🏾good points, well explained

1850 BC Pharaoh Senusret III attempted to build the equivalent of the Suez canal unfortunately he gave up on it which was a great pity would have made Egypt very difficult to attack. I was born in Europe the narrator is being rather understated about the level of violence that was in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. With the Black death 1300 ending Feudalism and a new system coming in maybe we are going through the same thing now with Covid19 who knows.

Very informative learned a couple new historical facts

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

great video!

Beautiful video

Love this video and your channel, your not bias and not trying to have an agenda.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

Excellent summary!

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm going to be premiering a video later today along with a live Q&A. If you'd like to check it out, I'd love to see you there! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqiauM6nmcSric4.html

learnt a lot from this thank you

I have seen this video a couple of times and I like everything bit of it.

quality video good job

Very good presentation. :)

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Be sure to catch the premier on Thursday.

Great work!

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More to come...

You're very good. I'm writing a musical based off your video. It's clear, concise & accurate. Where are you based...? Julius

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I'm based in San Diego.

Great video highlighting the importance of trade routes and money. Always money. Take it away and any empire or land will fall into disarray and cut itself from inside out.

you need more followers and subscribers! great video thanks

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Good job!

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Honestly you can start the timeline where you please it just matter who is telling the story to choose what period they wanna focus on. But history can't be changed but it can be twisted to fit someone's person narrative.

Thank you so much bro

All kingdoms rise and fall. As in The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Britain (no longer GREAT Britain) and America itself is now "going through the change". Voluminous thanks to you for your information 👍🏿

The bigger picture of interconnected dependencies such as the effect of the fall of Rome or Constantinople on both Europe and Africa are taught far too little in history classes I think. The natural ebb and flow of empires and civilisations obviously happened the same in Africa as everywhere else and all of us here in the old world have been linked by trade and travel all throughout Asia, Africa and Europe since the neolithic. What made the last 500 years different was the perfect storm of rising empires combined with technological development at a pace that never occurred before. This made the world a lot smaller all of a sudden. The modern reading of our shared history quite often seems to suggest there was malice and a great plan involved, when in reality it was millions of big or small decisions by individuals as well as patterns way beyond the control of individuals or even nations.

Many thanks Professor. Certain things you mentioned were taught at some stage but so much has been glossed over or completely removed from our history books. it makes me question my country's education system even more than before. To this day, the country I was born in (South Africa), is suffering the after effects of colonialism. Some colonial countries have paid reparations or issued apologies to their respective colonies albeit very few, yet here we are, at the southern tip of Africa, living side by side with the descendants of those European thieves. Granted, they can not be blamed for the atrocities of way back when, but at least an apology would suffice. For all the suffering they have inflicted on my ancestors and many others, it would perhaps change the mindset of the poverty stricken, mentally abused masses. Nevertheless, thank you so much for information regarding this vast continent, Professor. 👍

I used to be a little unhealthily obsessed with European culture and its ‘preservation’ in my teen years, especially in regards to our African immigrant population, this is largely my own fault and I regret it immensely, but I feel my lack of knowledge of Africa played an enormous part in this. I am so happy to have found a good history channel that focuses on dispelling the exact kind of misinformation that turned me from a young history lover to a narrow minded nationalist. I wish you the best of luck in this channel and will be sure to recommend it!

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

You Teach.. King! Thank U for the Knowledge!

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Redesign the way people learn about African History by creating a panel within the Dept of Education.

New subscribe. Great content.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out next week's 2K subscriber live stream special.

@HebrewApologetics

3 жыл бұрын

@@AfricanElements what times the livestream?

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be posting an announcement probably tomorrow, but most likely Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

Love this info

Brilliant 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Good video Please, next time put some african music on the background to really feel the vibe as you explain things. Good job

Wow,really changed the way I think about colonization. It's a spirit,a force prompted by dominance and control. It's also business and a tool to rise to the top

Why didn’t the Europeans travel to other nations inside Europe and colonized those countries instead of Africa???

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

The whole point of colonization is that Europe was not resource rich. If they had the resources, there would have been no need for colonization at all. That's why China, for example, wasn't a colonial power. Everyone was trying to get _to_ China. They didn't need resources from elsewhere. Ironically that was also part of China's downfall. Since China didn't need to develop trade routes to get what they needed, they had no need to develop a Navy to protect those trade routes. That left them vulnerable.

@the2ndcoming135

3 жыл бұрын

I think that’s what the purpose of the Vikings were to some degree or another. They were once a major problem to European stability.

This is quite an interesting video, but I do have one question. What was the role of gold in the decline you describe? Was it simply that the gold mines became less productive, or did mining stop, or something else? When you say that slaves were the only valuable commodity, I wondered what had happened to all that gold that was so prominent earlier.

This is very interesting.

@AfricanElements

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank u so much

That was wonderful.

@AfricanElements

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!