I have been following all of the history of every country in Africa. I was amazed to find out about the Bassa and Gola tribes and how they spread all over most of West Africa and part of Latin America. But listening to Dr. Burrowes on Liberia before 1847 really lifted me more as a 🇱🇷. Just want to say thank you both for the subject well narrated .

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

I will pass the kind words to Dr. Burrowes. Thanks and please subscribe.

This was a very enlightening conversation. As a Liberian in the diaspora and who didn’t grow up in Liberia, I’m always looking for ways to learn more about my country. I’ll be buying the book. Thank you, continue the great work.

@octaviusobey299

18 күн бұрын

Always a pleasure. Thanks for the kind words. It encourages us to keep on. Please spread the word.

Wow... Liberia is always first in everything. I need this book and I look forward to rewarding discussions like this on your channel.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Jimmy! Between The Kola Forest And The Salty Sea: A History Of The Liberian People Before 1800 by Carl Patrick Burrowes is available on Amazon.com

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

We will do our best to keep the conversation interesting.

Very interesting and important Octa! You have started something good here. Thank you so much Dr. Burrowes. Keep it up!

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Amazing job, Octa and Dr. Burrowes, I learned a lot from this session.❤👏👍👍👏❤

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Hey Octavius!! Long time. Thanks for the program. I'll make it my duty to listen all of the time. Keep it up Octa..

@octaviusobey299

8 ай бұрын

Very, very long time Varney! Get my number from the LBS chat and hit me up. Please subscribe, turn on notifications, like and share the video.

Very informative Octa, keep up the great work!

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Love it! Great info

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Just fantastic discussion makes me dream back to my upbringing in Liberia. Love it, Love Mamma Liberia….

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Where are you now and which part of the country do you hail from or you grew up in?

Wow. Thanks Boy Blue for sharing this with me. I myself don't know much. Living in Cape Town for nearly 24 years, this is good for me.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Sam. Welcome aboard.

Great show very informative

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million Bobby.

Great job here on these topics gents! I can tell you this...those "spider stories" were entertaining & they also helped shaped how I am up to this day. My deep/mixed roots plays a huge role in how/why I connect with all things Afraka. Glad u guys touched on Afraka's soul/greatness before the colonizers disrupted us. With this age of information, we will unite & rise again... hopefully in our lifetime. Keep up the good work here & know you are playing a big part towards forming positive mindsets. I'm curiously suggesting a topic for your next vid: (if possible, invite folks from both camps to discuss this topic in a open minded logical style) Should we believe ACS's agenda for their Liberia as it is being thought in history books??? OR??? Open our minds for a sec & see the ACS as the perfect Trojan horse for colonialism 2.0? 🤔

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Noted.

Very informative

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We have much more in the way.

Love this

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Charlotte, thanks for the kind words.

This was a great discussion brothers. #NewSubscriber

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and double thanks for subscribing. Next in that series is the Mid 1800’s. Hope you get to see it. Please share with everyone. Thanks again!

Interesting to hear of the region before Liberia was established

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Sure is…. Thanks for the feedback.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Teewon.

@Animeedits1736

2 жыл бұрын

Ethiopia and musicalia

Thanks so much for this valuable history. If you don't mind and please don't take offense, my observation is that you interrupted your guest too often, it would be nice to allow your guest to complete their thoughts

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

No harm, no foul. Thanks for the observation. I will do better next time - promise! I am looking for future program ideas. Any thoughts?

@creecree2060

2 жыл бұрын

@@octaviusobey299 thanks for your understanding. Regarding future thoughts/topics and I am just thinking out loud here - what do you think about a topic on "how can we motivate our children born overseas to get involved with the future of Liberia?" I struggle with this topic with my own children.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

The producer is aware of your program idea. Thanks again for the constructive input. Please subscribe, like, and share the video.

i just got schooled :) more please!

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

More to come, stay tuned.

So, was it the finding of Liberia which had an initial and profound ending of slavery or essentially a powerful movement in the ending of slavery? In other words, those who were mainly involved had their eyes opened - so to speak, wide opened because of such movement and how things were going.

It's time for the truth my people. Bless those that are bringing the truth ❤

What is the name of the professor speaking? Hiw do you get on contact with him?

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Carl Patrick Burrowes is a Liberian historian, academic, author, journalism professor and public intellectual. CEO of Know Your Self Press. He was born in Liberia to Jamaican parents who migrated there at the beckoning of Marcus Garvey! - Now retired -VP for Academic Affairs, Cuttington -Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Professor of Journalism Marshall University

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Post your contact info here and I will pass it on to Dr. Burrowes. He likes to interact with people.

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

cpburrowes@mac.com

We as African learned during the time of the Babylon when kings were visiting the Babylon in showing what they have, where they came from and the educational level

The interviewer interrupted the chronological flow and went on to a topical flow.

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Noted

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the interest in the channel. Your feedback will help us get better and do better next time.

We need a chronological history.

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

I need to speak with Dr. Burrowes

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Will, I will forward your request to Dr. Burrowes.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

What is your email address?

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know him?

@vaimende

2 жыл бұрын

@@octaviusobey299 is he americo liberian

Give event that happened in Liberia before 1822

@octaviusobey299

18 күн бұрын

See the book, Between The Kola Forest And The Salty Sea: A History Of The Liberian People Before 1800, by Carl Patrick Burrowes.

Foccart, Houphouet, les diamantaires D'Anvers.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Désolé je l'ai raté, quel est le lien?

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Faites-vous référence à l'image?

Fyi: sub 395 😉

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

You know what was also in west africa, the capital of Atlantis

@TheneoLIVE

Жыл бұрын

The richat stricture

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Can you please send me some info on that?

I will disagree with some of the information given. The region of west Africa was long ruled by the Milan empire 💯 percent

There was no Liberia before 1800.Liberia as a geopolitical entity was formed by returning Africans and the other ones on the coast who signed treaties to join the colony

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Technically correct!

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Pre-1800 Galinas or Melegueta Coast might be more apropos; the country was formed by returning Africans AND those who were there. Happy New Year!

@Kalagenesis

2 жыл бұрын

@@octaviusobey299 say people of the coast don’t limit it to red coast line of Liberia 🇱🇷.No such area existed as a collective.Most tribes were isolated from each other and numbered only in the hundreds

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kalagenesis So when and where would you like to begin a general discussion about the place we now call Liberia? ….

@Kalagenesis

2 жыл бұрын

@@octaviusobey299 to be less divisive you could have talked about the coastal migration in the 1100’s the migrants from Islamic kingdoms in the 1600’s or the Bassa migrants 1000 AD from Sudan.You keep talking about 1800 shows you have an inferiority complex about the people who created Liberia as a modern geopolitical entity

These titles are rubbish. It gives the appearance that most people have issues with who created the Liberia we know of today.

@octaviusobey299

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! So what’s your suggestion? What do you think the titles should have been?

Wrong history. Kissi , Gola are Mande language.

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kebba, but we respectfully disagree. Google it!

@ZoluXolu

2 жыл бұрын

No they aren’t. Do you speak any of those languages ?

@yayanimely9734

Жыл бұрын

Very well spoken.Pls keep these videos up.I love to hear our history.Iron sharpens iron

@octaviusobey299

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@vaimende

Жыл бұрын

​@@octaviusobey299 may I ask are you.and this man from americo liberian families?

Love this

@octaviusobey299

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks