"No land has boring history, we just have a lack of evidence." Goddamn is African history understudied around the world. Thank you for this

@john3v16grace9

3 жыл бұрын

But this is surface gist

@draco_1876

3 жыл бұрын

@@john3v16grace9 wdym?

@Iloveicecream_

2 жыл бұрын

So understudied-

@notinterested8452

2 жыл бұрын

The history of how America used special forces in secret to destabilise the region and introduce islamic state so that they can control the mineral rights in a neo colonial dystopia?

@distinkt88

2 жыл бұрын

compare this heap of shit to rome, to greece, to egypt and then come back

Holy crap, a main stream history channel covering africa outside of Egypt??? Wow, im surprised! Thanks so much Epimetheus :D

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it ! I originally got fascinated by the Benin bronze/copper plates with the amazing depictions of Warriors and nobles...then kept reading and found a really awesome history that I do not think gets enough credit. There are a couple other African countries that hopefully I'll get to make videos on too :)

@hiddenhist

6 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it! And Alex Y, you'd be surprised how much stuff was going on in Africa. Im no professional historian or anything, but I've heard of a ton of ancient cities spread across west Africa.

@sakogekchyan7366

6 жыл бұрын

Epimetheus Ancient Nubia!

@Jojohumf

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah unfortunately most people think us Africans lived in hunts until the Europeans came, this video shows obviously not

@phar0ahad3

6 жыл бұрын

How about the hebrews ?

As a Nigerian, I’m super proud that we’re being recognized as having well over 5000 years of civilization before being colonized. We also traded with Egypt, Mali and the rest of the world. Naija for life

@blademanx

Жыл бұрын

Its a shame we never got Gun Powder like the Turks. Blast the English ships from the shore. 👀

@Redcyral

Жыл бұрын

Naija for life

@BarthDGreat

Жыл бұрын

🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

@muhamed7955

Жыл бұрын

Who is we?

@littlet-rex8839

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to 23&me , I know Nigeria, west Africa and Egypt are part of my genetics.

Some people REALLY get triggered when talking about Africa and/or African civilizations. They get really angsty for seeing Africans had their own great civilizations.

@Aquascutum-gn2oe

2 жыл бұрын

100%, I’m white British and it’s weird to see all this white fragility in response to impressive African civilisations

@Aquascutum-gn2oe

2 жыл бұрын

@Nikolan Gladowski not according to British law…if you’re not from the UK you may be unaware of British laws and conventions

@dinamothupi996

2 жыл бұрын

They just can't believe anything good can be associated with African countries.But then they claim to be the onesthat go by the facts.

@lawrencebello6177

Жыл бұрын

I’m Nigerian, grew up in Ireland. Never knew there were people like that

@YouTube_Enjoyerlol

Жыл бұрын

I scrolled down the comment section I didn’t see a single comment from people who were “triggered”. West African history isn’t talked much about but anyone who likes history knows about their accomplishments.

From the bottom of my heart as a person with Nigerian blood, I thank you for this quick and fascinating history of 🇳🇬!!!

@johnihuaku7178

5 жыл бұрын

The brief history of Nigeria

@tomcruz8615

5 жыл бұрын

@Não Consigo Pensar Em Um Nome weak jab, snowchimp

@Michael-mh4vr

5 жыл бұрын

@Não Consigo Pensar Em Um Nome speak Portuguese?...your ancestors must be slave owners

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

@Sundiata Keita The difference is that Epimitheus has a much larger audience which he can reach compared to you

@storrho

5 жыл бұрын

What the fuck is going on in this thread.

It's refreshing to see a history channel actually include Sub-Saharan Africa as a worthy topic of discussion. It's sad that Africa is almost always brushed aside or ignored as if it doesn't belong, despite it's rich and ancient history. Great work. I make videos about African history as well.

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

I have seen several of your videos, love your channel man! I am glad you liked my video :) High praise coming from you. Seeing pictures of the Benin bronze plaques of warriors inspired me to start researching for this video, really amazing craftsmanship

@FromNothing

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's funny because one of my subscribers messaged me in my discord telling me to check out this video. Then another one of them said that he saw you comment on one of my videos before and said "I wonder if your videos inspired him to make this one." You have some good stuff too man. I subbed and you did a great job on this one. Nothing is watered down or half-done, you did Nigeria it's full justice in this video and all of your facts are precise.

@TruthfulAndHumble

6 жыл бұрын

Epimetheus Are planing doing Somalia? Thanks

@markw410

6 жыл бұрын

From Nothing 👍

@nikolavideomaker

6 жыл бұрын

Well as you see the whole history of one of the major nations in africa is covered in 6 minutes and half of it is european influence. So yes their history is not that rich. And just not as rich as european or asian history. Not saying I do not appreciate videos like this, just saying that sub saharan africa has little history

As a proud Edo and Nigerian guy, I'm really honoured and grateful for this exposure... It's crazy to think that growing up all I learnt in school about my country's history started from 1914... Thanks a lot for this🇳🇬🇳🇬

From Ethiopia 🇪🇹, to my Nigerian 🇳🇬 brothers and sisters. - WE LOVE YOU -

@hailemichaelnegesse6770

2 жыл бұрын

እኛ እርስ በራስ እንገዳደላለን፦ አፍሪካ ከጥግ እስከ ጥግ አንድ ናት

@alaromukhtar2127

2 жыл бұрын

We love Ethiopia too, our Solomonic dynasty brothers to the east. 👍🏾

@SammyPlayzRoblox

2 ай бұрын

One love 🇪🇹❤️🇳🇬

When you think about it, it becomes apparent why Africa is suffering from near constant conflicts. People tend to forget how huuuge it is. Nigeria alone is bigger than France. But then, most of the civilizations that emerged inside of that area were of different ethnic origins. Modern France had only Gauls and then Latin speakers inside of it, while in comparison, Nigeria could be compared with putting Russians, Italians, Swedes and many others side by side. And that's only one country. All in all, general public needs to learn about this. Africa had their share of sophisticated civilizations. Some of those were more advanced than European ones in some aspects. Most people, when thinking about Africa, are seeing a continent that was full of some naked tribes until Europeans colonized them. But it's far from the truth. Spreading the knowledge is the way to go.

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

Well said, greetings from an African

@hazzmati

6 жыл бұрын

Vitalis france was quite varied back in the time. After the fall of rome multiple romance languages emerged in several regions which differed quite a lot from each. It was pretty divided and had its shares of political and religious civil wars from the middle ages up until the 16th century. Centralization helped make the country more homogenous

@hiddenhist

6 жыл бұрын

Centralization was less hard in these regions though, as all these people shared a common origin point. For many in africa, extreme ethnic diversity means that two populations bordering each other could be completely distinct. You mention how multiple romance languages popped up in France, well thats cool and all, but they were all romance languages, and were all thus somewhat similar. Now, imagine that all of those languages were from completely different families. Romance languages and Germanic languages and Sino-Tibetan languages all spoken in the same small region. Only in Africa.

@Vitalis94

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, various Romance languages spoken in France pale in comparison with the situation present in Africa. It all comes down to the fact that the human race had (allegedly) began there, so there was more time for different language families to emerge. Compare that to Europe, where Indo-European speakers had only spread there recently.

@Thugforlife333

6 жыл бұрын

there were countless different languages and cultures/tribes during that time in France, the Romans just decided to call the peoples west of the rhein river as Celts/gauls, with no respect to the large ethnic, cultural varriety. Calling them "gauls" is just like calling all people in Africa simply africans. It was not until the end of the 19th centuries, under napoleon, that French became the predominent language of France spoken by the large majority of its citizen.

Those metal sculptures are impressive, considering how long ago they were made!

@I.KUchiha

6 жыл бұрын

Linfamy yeah true

@ubuntumike5794

6 жыл бұрын

Linfamy we do this in Haiti 🇭🇹

@Linfamy

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Raymond wow that's awesome too!

@ubuntumike5794

6 жыл бұрын

Linfamy yeah

@thomasmaxfield8953

6 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind this was at the same time as Greek sculptors, so they weren’t the best imo

Love Nigeria from Ethiopia 🇪🇹❤️🇳🇬

This is why KZread is 10x better than anything I learned in school. I grew up in a small town Kansas and when I was in school I was told that areas in Africa had no history. However after learning online and traveling I’ve learned so much. Thank you for spreading true knowledge

Massive respect for doing pre-colonial & pre-atlantic slave trade African history!

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

KingCribble Agreed, we need more of these!

@KingCribble

6 жыл бұрын

Decriminalize Darwinism Sorry that I didn't say "pre-trans-atlantic slave trade" whilst talking on my phone, my semantics obsessed friend.

@shawtchurchjr

6 жыл бұрын

KingCribble dont worry we will remind you

@102830189291

5 жыл бұрын

well it was Nothing speacial realy

@FakeCou

5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by "pre-slavery"? There was no "pre-slavery Africa", only post-slavery, but that is disputed since there still exist modern slavery.

This was really interesting, thank you! I've asked my parents about the history of Nigeria, but neither of them really know much (despite growing up in Nigeria). My mother told me that in her day they learned British history and not Nigerian history in school...which to me is just crazy!

@soyegemichael7712

6 жыл бұрын

Lexa Karlyn Vlogs that is not true.. History is taught in classes,your mum just doesn't remember which is quite sad

@soyegemichael7712

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to say but your summary is wrong in several places

@beecdee01

6 жыл бұрын

Back when Nigeria was a British colony and in the years after, they were taught British history. But that’s not the case anymore.

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

It’s very true! My parents were born and raised in Ghana, they didn’t learn African history either....

@Dutch3k5

6 жыл бұрын

Wow you are gorgeous

I'm proud to be Nigerian 🇳🇬 we are Kings 🤴🏾

The UK definitely destroyed some serious world heritage, they sacked and burned the Benin empire to the ground, looted historical bronze sold some at auction and kept other in their museums and still won’t apologize or return the items to this day.

@Soril2010

2 жыл бұрын

A peaceful British party was slaughtered by the people of Benin, which lead to the sacking of their city. The looted items were sold by the victors to pay for the campaign which was the global norm at the time.

@Joker-yw9hl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Soril2010 buT bRiTaiN is eViL

@elmaestro9593

2 жыл бұрын

@@Soril2010 really? that's ur justification?

@Janiiya

2 жыл бұрын

Destroyed, erased and stole. They’ll never return what they’ve taken or sincerely apologise for what they’ve done and what they continue to do.

@matthewnunyabusiness5085

2 жыл бұрын

@@elmaestro9593 yes.

Love Nigeria From India...

@princessdisfanpage.7445

5 жыл бұрын

We love you from Nigeria.

@Munareactions

3 жыл бұрын

❤

@ivanvera7039

3 жыл бұрын

Love Nigeria from latinamerica, my country México.

@francisnwadike9505

2 жыл бұрын

From India with a french name haaa

@SammyPlayzRoblox

2 ай бұрын

Thank you😊

They really cut up Africa badly. It really effects Nigeria and other countries till today. I guess they call it ‘divide and conquer’. I am a proud Nigerian 🙏🏾 loving being Yoruba too

@sholasholade6531

5 жыл бұрын

@@OsundairoBrothers Thank you :)

@sunofshangoihate45thihated85

4 жыл бұрын

Shola Sholade can you teach me the Yoruba way, I think my ancestors came from Yorubaland

@nword1380

4 жыл бұрын

@@OsundairoBrothers damn g i see you shooting your shot

@aesha8689

4 жыл бұрын

Yesss i love being yoruba!!!

@sayedfarhan5859

4 жыл бұрын

U should not call self yurubo just say najerian tribe or ethnic only make your country less power

I'm from Ethiopia and my husband is Nigerian and I wanted to learn more about his history and this is great! We're both american born and still learning our history but this is simple and really easy to understand. Thanks!!

Love to our Nigerian brothers and sisters from South Africa. Love to all Africans and our family in the diaspora.❤️❤️

@Soul-gk3iu

2 жыл бұрын

@Charmaine Thank You❤️

@seanmikaeel90s50

Жыл бұрын

🤝🏽💪🏾

Those metal sculptures were breathtaking! Thanks for introducing me to some African history.

@mr.ifeoluwa4591

4 жыл бұрын

Benin Bronzes

@templekanu6740

4 жыл бұрын

You can Google Benin art and. Igbo Ukwu art and Ife. The igbos believed in a creator God, a supreme God before the Whiteman came. They also have a creation story from a certain kingdom: this kingdom was seen as the origin of all igbos, the king was revered and never seen yet he never fought a war, he was a priest king who had no slaves. If a slave escapes to Nri, they are no longer slaves. Blood shed was forbidden

Love Nigeria 🇳🇬 from Somalia 🇸🇴 🙏🏾

@shzarmai

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

@bobsburgers8497

2 жыл бұрын

Love Somalia and it’s people 🇸🇴from NY

@devinstreater1763

2 жыл бұрын

Are you a pirate

@Abdirahman_ali17

2 жыл бұрын

@@devinstreater1763 thank you 😊

@ma2443

2 жыл бұрын

@@devinstreater1763 please tell me this is just an unfunny joke

I am grateful for this because Nigerian history taught to me in school started from the year 1914 when we were colonized and pretty much centred around the British history than real Nigerian history

@the_unconventional_Indian77

2 жыл бұрын

Same here in India and many colonial countries of British

@siulapwa

2 жыл бұрын

Same here in Zambia it's so annoying that we define our selves ( flags national anthems etc) based on our brief but horrible interaction with the whites, I wish we could forget that stuff it's all associated with feelings of inferiority, we have a greater past to be proud of

@ohno8774

2 жыл бұрын

Thats so interesting! My country was colonised in the 1600s by Britain and got its independence 100 years ago. But still to this day in our schools all we learn about is how the British beat us and thats why we speak English, we learn nothing about the peoples and cultures that existed before or after

@OhyesSofresh

2 жыл бұрын

They wanted to destroy your culture and identity because they felt superior which we know is false

@ohno8774

2 жыл бұрын

@@OhyesSofresh Very true, it was classic colonial strategy and they did it all over the world

Thank you so much for sharing this🙏🏾

Love Nigeria from Somalia 👍😁🇸🇴

@qgnfs5363

5 жыл бұрын

Love Somalia from Nigeria 🇸🇴😘🇳🇬😁

@princessdisfanpage.7445

5 жыл бұрын

We love You, too.

@EDCHlNA

4 жыл бұрын

🇸🇴

@sepulcher8263

4 жыл бұрын

Hope Somalia gets better man. Love from America

@sumosami

4 жыл бұрын

do you have internet in somalia?

I’m a British Nigerian🇬🇧 🇳🇬, I’m from the Edo tribe and I’m so proud. My ancestors were innovators and royalty.

@kie9372

5 жыл бұрын

I’m from Jamaica But found out my ancestors are from edo (Benin) and Togo

@yumyum8552

5 жыл бұрын

Adesua Dynast why u come to Britain ?

@dumezart

4 жыл бұрын

The time frame given to the Benin empire was actually wrong. The Edo people have actually occupied the south southern region of the country for hundreds of years before Christ existed. Great exposé by the way.

@Isaac_blingz

4 жыл бұрын

@Mwaniki Mwaniki Okay,so u guys learn about Nigerian tribes in ur schools? I don't think we are thought about other African tribes in Nigerian schools

@Isaac_blingz

4 жыл бұрын

@Mwaniki Mwaniki Okay nice

Love Nigerian from east Africa Ethiopia 🇪🇹 God bless

To my Nigerian 🇳🇬 sisters and brothers, LOVE from Romania 🇷🇴❤😃

As an Edo Nigerian, I thank you for making this.

@uwadiaeerickson3715

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Edo too...maybe we could link😄

@promisejoshua2345

3 жыл бұрын

Matilda, Igbo build Benin kingdom, tomorrow you will say you are not igbo, read history, you know who you are, leave British and their evil government and lies, only to oppress us, they carry 3 kingdom but together, ndi ara ndi are everywhere?

@emmanueligho4253

3 жыл бұрын

@@promisejoshua2345 You're a fool

@Cindy99765

2 жыл бұрын

@@promisejoshua2345 What on earth are you talking about

@desiicakess

2 жыл бұрын

@@promisejoshua2345 yeah don’t call me no damn igbo ☠️

Bro love you men, talking about my country. Respect

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! Glad you liked it :)

@ripyungbruh8157

6 жыл бұрын

Lol as soon as i seen the vid trump saying shit hole countrys was floating around my head.

@davidking6242

6 жыл бұрын

Nigeria has a very rich history that deserves to be discussed more. I'm of Ghanaian origin myself but I've found Nigerian history very interesting too!

@cincybest

6 жыл бұрын

Samuel Aguda I love your country and it's people.

@isaacfrancis4901

6 жыл бұрын

cincybest we love much more.

_I met a bunch of Nigerians in the army, and they were really cool and humble. Respect to my nigerians homies from a fellow Colombian_ 🇨🇴🇨🇴 🇳🇬

@tyaler9805

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

It should be noted that the images of walls you show when talking about the Walls of benin, around the 2:00 mark are actually the walls of eredo a different city state. The walls of Benin aren't really a superstructure but rather a many different structures that that were built over a very long time and eventually interlinked.

@bb1111116

2 жыл бұрын

From Wikipedia which also has an etching that has an image of the walls in the background; “The Walls of Benin are a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches, called Iya in the Edo language, in the area around present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. They consist of 15 km (9.3 mi) of city iya and an estimated 16,000 kilometres (9,900 miles) of rural iya in the area around Benin.[1] The 'walls' of Benin City and surrounding areas were described as "the world's largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era" by the Guinness book of Records.”

as a Nigerian I’ve gotta say this was really well done. subbed.

@chinonsoibe2384

6 жыл бұрын

Missing-nin it is I kinda wish they pronounced the word Yoruba or even Lagos right but meh

@hizboo7670

6 жыл бұрын

Missing-nin when was that wall built

@Missingnin

6 жыл бұрын

Dreama Dreama construction began in 800 and stretched into the mid 15th century en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin?wprov=sfti1

@hizboo7670

6 жыл бұрын

Missing-nin i heard lagos is beautiful, god willing i will visit one day and stay at some beautiful resort. Much love and success for Nigeria from Ethiopia.

@hizboo7670

6 жыл бұрын

Missing-nin i remember searching for a video about that wall.

Love my African brothers in the West! Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

@shzarmai

3 жыл бұрын

Love you too

@Teesleazey

2 жыл бұрын

Amen my brotha 🙌🏾

@louhawk559

2 жыл бұрын

Love my California niggahs from New York niggahs.

@lamardavis7230

2 жыл бұрын

Love you too from mississippi

There's nothing I love more than learning about African History.

521 different languages that is crazy!!! Goes to show you how old that country is.

@badanelson7876

3 жыл бұрын

Yes we have so many languages

@LuisAldamiz

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the country (polity) of Nigeria has only some 60 years of age, a century if you consider its colonial precursor. What the number of languages show is not so much antiquity but historical diversity (and thus lack of unity), and incidentally it is a problem for the unity of Nigeria, which has been struggling with separatist tendencies since its foundation. To put a counter-example in Europe, Italy is a very old country, founded by Rome in its early expansion and social war (the only part of the Empire that wasn't a province, i.e. not a colony but the metropolis) and what Romans did was actually to erase all that linguistic diversity in favor of Latin, be it classical or vulgar (the direct ancestor of modern Italian dialects, as well as of other Romance languages). So I'd say that an "old country" probably has erased all or most of its original linguistic diversity by imposition of the official language. Maybe that will happen to Nigeria some day and that day they will speak, most likely, a Nigerian variety of English, much like the French speak a "Gaulish" (or "Frankish") variety of Latin.

@udob4939

2 жыл бұрын

Lol Nigeria is younger than my parents. We don’t have over 500 languages. Most are dialects of larger languages. All these groups were their own independent nations until the Europeans conquered them

@leftR-tardation

2 жыл бұрын

Tribes.

@umarb7325

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz the problem with unity and something this video doesnt cover is the country was formed by the british. The individual cultures never wanted to be a country but they weren't given a say in its formulation.

I love my Nigerian Igbo people, respect to all my Nigerian people Igbo or not.

@edoyaka1111

5 жыл бұрын

@Neon Dawn zoo man, you are a fool

@princessdisfanpage.7445

5 жыл бұрын

@@archyarchfiendx2938 Stop the nonsense we aren't Biafra is a word coined by one man- Ojukwu. We are traditionally ancestrally and customarily Igbo. Get your facts right ignorant and gullible youths.

@princessdisfanpage.7445

5 жыл бұрын

We, the Igbos not #Biafra love you dear.

@theduke6174

4 жыл бұрын

You learned from the Yorubas, respect them

@allpraisestoyah5033

4 жыл бұрын

Duke Temz fuck no, I didn’t learn from them folks Lmao fuck outta here boy

Wow! as an Egyptian i see a lot of coverage to my country's history in media but rarely do sub-Saharan African nations get any limelight. i thoroughly enjoyed your video and learned a lot about Nigeria in the process

@soleb542

5 жыл бұрын

Would be great if these black Americans would talk about these western African instead of Egypt and nubia

@nword1380

2 жыл бұрын

People can discuss what ever they like who are you to gatekeep? Grow up

@Gosh..

22 күн бұрын

@@nword1380 ??????

It feels so good to finally see and know more about Nigeria history. Thank you for this 🇳🇬

@cinnamonstar808

Жыл бұрын

its not a real history. not even scratch the surface.

As a Nigerian I commend your excellent work here! However, the Nri Kingdom flourished even earlier than 940AD. Also, the Nok were possibly conducting advanced metallurgical work some 5000 years ago and some evidence of that are currently coming to light.

@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236

2 жыл бұрын

Watch your authentic history here kzread.info/dash/bejne/in-M0JeHgaWohag.html

@kiswahiliworldwide

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Family, I just dont understand how watu so great were defeated by the British. These types of questions keep me stressed out.

@darkseiid

2 жыл бұрын

@@kiswahiliworldwide thanks for asking. It took centuries, the Europeans had literally dedicated their lives to it. It started sometime in the 1200s with the Roman but it came to prominence in the 1400s when the Portuguese took some part of Guinea all the way to Ghana. Ghanaians and banished “Nigerians” were used to fight “Nigerians” alongside with so many psychological games

@darkseiid

2 жыл бұрын

@@kiswahiliworldwide in other words, the Europeans could not penetrate west Africa/Africa in general with fire power, impossible. They had to start off smart let’s say by setting deals with the oyo empire who hates the bini kingdom, they (the British and oyos) would arrive at whatever deal they make and then set off to go fight Bini. Once they defeated Bini, they would convince Bini to help them take revenge on oyo having them take oyo. They did the same with Ghanaians and Bini people against Igbos then marched to the Hausa/fulanis. A very demonic act, it was incredible. No one has ever practiced it in a mass. Two faced personalities is usually practiced by one person or a group of people at best. We’ve never seen a whole nation. Even though all this happened, we black people were just stupidly ignorant. only the Igbos made things hard for the British (till this day). Umuchukwu! Children of light! The fulanis were very smart enough they realized that they should just sign a deal with the British.

Well done Epimetheus 👏🏿👏🏿 I’m so glad that African history is finally being discussed. Too many times the only time Africa is mentioned is in reference to Egypt or Slavery&Colonialism. Hence many people thought that sub-Saharan Africa had no history prior to Europe/Arab intervention. Glad to see more people disproving it and having real historical discussions about Africa! Cheers mate

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

Also the Walls of Benin is an architectural wonder that is underrated af! Took over 600 years to build and is the 2nd (arguably the first depending on how you measure it) longest walls ever made before the modern era, right up there with the wall of china. Benin city in general was just awesome, a dutch traveler said that the King’s court ALONE was the same size as the town of Harleem😳😳😳

@davidking6242

6 жыл бұрын

Hope he does Ghana next

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

kwadwo baidoo True, Although I wouldn’t mind if he does Mali, or Dhar Tichitt before he comes to Ghana. Even though I’m Ghanaian i wanna spread the love all around haha

@jonnysins6866

6 жыл бұрын

We was kangs'nd shiet

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

jonny sins lool you’re so pathetic, have nothing better to do than trotting out old memes eh?

"The third largest English-speaking population on earth..." I've already learned something and I'm absolutely fascinated.

Just did my Ancestry DNA and I’m mostly Nigerian. I’m so happy to finally know and proud to discover that my ancestors were Kings and Queens who were very creative like myself.

@proudafrican9877

2 жыл бұрын

Nigeria is in you king, lead on ♥️

You were God-sent! I’m beyond impressed and equally grateful!

Can make history of Somalia? Please! 👍 Btw this was great video. I love Nigerians cuz they are cool😊👍

@uyuman1

6 жыл бұрын

Love Somalia and hope peace returns to your country.

@TruthfulAndHumble

6 жыл бұрын

uyu man Thank you brother love all the away from Somalia❤ 😁

@TruthfulAndHumble

6 жыл бұрын

uyu man Peace is what every Somali is hungry and looking for. Ask god to help us find it brother.

@zakariyaabdullahi5669

6 жыл бұрын

king Awiye of Somalia Yeah I really want to see this, going back to punt

@TruthfulAndHumble

6 жыл бұрын

Zakariya Abdullahi Me too

This may be the first time I've ever not been disappointed by the comment section.

@Kwamu22

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the book, "Timbuktu Chronicles: Aida and the Chosen Soldier."

@amoun5062

4 жыл бұрын

Check the replies 😂

@nword1380

4 жыл бұрын

Go on any sort of video talking about African history trust me this type of racist behaviour is common 🤦🏾‍♂️

@Goonztz

3 жыл бұрын

Because they envy black/African people

@thefutureisnowoldman7653

3 жыл бұрын

@@Goonztz who

So much history sequenced and well compressed in a 6 minute video..I'm glad to see this. 💪 Thank you Epimetheus. Proud Nigerian

Isn’t it kinda wierd that this is rarely covered in movies, I would prefer this to the 500th troy movie any day

@sskspartan

3 жыл бұрын

then you're an idiot besides there aren't many Troy movies

@MarioLopez-si8jb

3 жыл бұрын

@Supreme Ace because he's an idiot who can't help himself but calling people names to feel better ot smart.

@judaprinxbeatz.8008

3 жыл бұрын

BECAUSE OF PALE FACE RACIST AKA WHITE PEOPLE....DUH

@PeterNjeim

2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Doe being logical proves that white people are racists? Yikes

@PeterNjeim

2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Doe are you speaking English? If so, you need to work on your grammar lmao

I love how you gave good info about the Nok and Yoruba, we often go overlooked even though we have a very rich history.

Thanks for doing history on my country Nigeria i appreciate it

@bobbye.wright4424

5 жыл бұрын

I would love for nigerian scholars to do it

@JusFaithelz

4 жыл бұрын

since you are Nigerian, was the information in the video accurate?

@DEFANSCOTV

4 жыл бұрын

@@JusFaithelz sure

Im so proud we had/have people so advanced on the continent ,love from zim

Thank you for this good history on 9ja, appreciated!

I'm French Guianese and I'm proud to be a Nigerian descendant !

@andyjosiah4951

3 жыл бұрын

My dear, we welcome you to the mother land.

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t know where you descend from just like I don’t as a black American, and that ancestry crap has been proven false.

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

You’re Guianese that’s what you are.

@KingofgraceSARA

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonysparks9453 Why is your anger overtaking you? Get delivered in the name of Jesus Christ!

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingofgraceSARA are you bleaching? You look funny

Those are metal sculptures?! O_O I never would have imagined, those are so detailed!

@destinyovbiebo8988

6 жыл бұрын

Mary Gebbie go to Benin art to learn more.

@lanremodele180

5 жыл бұрын

Shockingly they were the most realistic most detailed and most sophisticated sculptures of the time and Era. The Ife art was described as hyper realistic . Till date no one exactly knows how they mined and melted and cast the art works...at an age before the Italian Renaissance

@TB-oh8zl

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the British stole half of them, they're locked up in museums and the refuse to entertain the idea of giving them back.

@jyranechjm5766

4 жыл бұрын

My family has been passing down our metal arts for generatioms now. I get 3 metal sculptures from My dad in his will.

@tosinojo7310

4 жыл бұрын

@@jyranechjm5766 wow.

Thanks for the succinct, refreshing original content covering an interesting and important topic. Just wanted to say, I noticed some dumb hate in the Reddit comments about your voice, but I think you do a great job -- and I'm a particularly harsh critic of US narrations on Audible etc.

Thanks for making this🙂 . It really helped me out in the school project I had.

Just a pronunciation correction: Lagos is pronounced LAY-gos not LAH-goes, and the ‘g’ in “Igbo” is silent, so EE-bow. 😄😄

@AnnieSpecial92861

5 жыл бұрын

No, the g is not silent

@grandavelwizbeybey5401

5 жыл бұрын

🐅

@AI-tc8fv

5 жыл бұрын

It's Lah-goes, as named originally by the Portuguese, Lay-goes comes from the mispronunciation by English colonizers, same with Igbo, the g isn't silent but the English couldn't pronounce the gb sound

@dingovory

5 жыл бұрын

@@AI-tc8fv Regardless of the etymology, Nigerians pronounce it as LAYgos.

@kingsleyikenna2873

5 жыл бұрын

Pls teacher it's igbo pronounced egbo...the g is not silent

I am proud of my Edo people and our Ancestors, they were amazing warriors, the image with two lines on the forehead shown at the end of this video was the Queen mother and first female Commander General of the Edo people (Igodomigodo's) in 1504 to 1550. The image is our identity to the world. I still have the pendant on my necklace. Oba gha tö kpe re 🙌

@dokorobia8713

4 жыл бұрын

Woiller- Relic we don’t know how to pronounce our own languages? 😂

@dokorobia8713

4 жыл бұрын

Woiller- Relic African isn’t a language and ö is not an accented o that is only used in Germany. Ever since our languages were written in Roman script we had to use accented letters because many Nigerian languages are tonal. It isn’t your creation as you did not make roman script.

@eyobassey5106

3 жыл бұрын

@@dokorobia8713 lmao tell him.

@janiceiyonawan

3 жыл бұрын

Ise !! ✊🏽🇳🇬

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I’m not African, the tribalism is disgusting.

Thank you for this video, i had an assignment about nigeria and this helped me so much with learning some of the history. :)

Love to my Nigerian brothers from Mesopotamia Baghdad you have awesome cultures and music 🇳🇬 ♥️ 🇮🇶

Nok culture and civilization was in the interior of Nigeria circa 9000 years ago, the problem for archaeology in west Africa is the climate and rainforests which degrade archaeological evidence much quicker compared to other regions

@safuwanfauzi5014

4 жыл бұрын

that true.. that why Aztec, Maya and Malaysia-Indonesia stone city dont survive long, included thailand, cambodia, burma, vietnam only in Indonesia few palace ruin still exist like "Keraton Kaibon Banten" and " Ratu Boko" some wood palace dont survive at all. Angkor wat is huge city, with stone road, stone bridge, many temple, palace but few ruin and temple survive. the best preserve in China in Datong, Beijing, Middleeast, North india, Europe, North Africa because on climate. jungle easy take over southeast asia, central and south america and also in rainforrest africa in south nigeria, ghana, and benin.

@francisarinze6928

3 жыл бұрын

@Naija guy where please? I will be glad to research this.

@strpth414

3 жыл бұрын

The Nok thrived in the Northern part of Nigeria though, which isn't covered by rainforests, but Savanna (Sahel, Sudan, Northern and Southern Guinea Savanna) instead.

@lif3andthings763

2 жыл бұрын

@@strpth414 Back then it was covered in forest and is probably underground.

@Cindy99765

2 жыл бұрын

@@strpth414 The climate changed immensely throughout the world in the last few thousand years, such as the volume and cleanliness of various rivers that were documented by historians, that are now dried up valleys or barely streams today.

I like Nigeria

@helmutschmidt84

6 жыл бұрын

Elias Frahat how come that i see you everywhere Are yiu stalking me or am i stalking you? o.O

@idanzamir7540

6 жыл бұрын

STOP BEING EVERYWHERE

@eliasfrahat7074

6 жыл бұрын

Just luck ;)

@hazzmati

6 жыл бұрын

It's not luck when it happens everytime

@hazzmati

6 жыл бұрын

Nigga what nah I see him on every channel I visit

Thanks for this concise, yet robust video. It means a lot 🙂

A generation of Nigerians were taught history of Nigeria AD 1000 to present day but from the year 2000 many schools stopped teaching history. History was meant for the arts students in classes of senior secondary only. A lot of people in Nigeria don't know their history. I believe this is deliberate and it has benefited the modern political elite.

Love it man, can you do a history of Ethiopia?

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Very likely at some point got it on my list :) Very interesting history, would love to visit the old churches there one day

@shawtchurchjr

6 жыл бұрын

Tedros A. Balema no

@ilijeganu273

5 жыл бұрын

Nahom Alem most? You know the capial of ancient Axum is in Ethiopia (Tigray). I thought Eritreans hate Ethiopia and want no part in associaion of Ethiopia?

One word "Amazing " Proudly an Igbo... God bless Nigeria

@evanschika9126

Жыл бұрын

Mumu

@evanschika9126

Жыл бұрын

@@crypt2732 your name be mumu?

Not going to lie, this is the best video on KZread regarding the Nigerian history. Thank you for this!

I'd just use this opportunity to reiterate the fact that I'm proud to be Nigerian!!🇳🇬🇳🇬💪✊

@easymoney7007

2 жыл бұрын

Why? What makes you so proud to be a Nigerian? And are you living in Nigeria somewhere?

Edo state. My dad is nigerian we have a rich history. Go super eagles!

@LordNuDTru141

4 жыл бұрын

AND NOT A SINGLE TELEPHONE COULD EVER BE FOUND THERE...HUMBLE THYSELF!

@agbaya5314

4 жыл бұрын

Lord NU you hear him referring to 1800 BC, did telephones exist then? Stupid fool

@LordNuDTru141

4 жыл бұрын

@@agbaya5314 Coming from you, that's a compliment...so keep it coming why not?

@agbaya5314

4 жыл бұрын

Lord NU me insulting you is a compliment? What a comeback

@emmanuelabiola1871

4 жыл бұрын

Lord NU dumb you

Well done, this was brilliant. I’m glad you gave the north of Nigeria fair coverage.

I loved it! Thank you. Africa's history needs much much more time in the sun, again... because I just learned that it was once a very sunny subject filled with artisans and great kingdoms

@easymoney7007

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, this was a video on the country of Nigeria's history...not the continent of Africa's history..

Those sculptures are incredible !

As a Nigerian l have learnt so much about my countries history thanks

@johnp4734

6 жыл бұрын

Kabir Iposu how the hell you don't know about your country history

@kabiriposu9886

6 жыл бұрын

Because when I was just baby when my parents moved to New Zealand and they didn't tell me about the history of Nigeria

@johnp4734

6 жыл бұрын

Kabir Iposu o ok my apologies

@WilliamGarrow

6 жыл бұрын

Kabir Iposu You should check out Home team history channel. Covers a lot of Africa history.

Those metal portraits were amazing. I had never heard of them before.

@nigerdeltamirrortv9311

3 жыл бұрын

Visit the British museum in London, there's a whole floor dedicated to Benin artworks ( bronzes) looted by the Brits during the Benin invasion of 1897....Some are over a 1000 years old

Love Nigeria 🇳🇬 from Ghana 🇬🇭😘

God bless you for this amazing video and God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬

Proudly Nigerian and Igala as well as urhobo

@LordNuDTru141

4 жыл бұрын

TRIBE NONSENSE...BACK AWAY BADGER!

@amarachiamuwa8297

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordNuDTru141 What

I’d like to visit Nigeria. All those historical figures and art looks so fascinating

@WilliamGarrow

6 жыл бұрын

martins freimanis They are. Unfortunately some of these are not in Nigeria anymore. The Benin Bronzes for example are in the British museum. But the Ife bust are there and are definitely worth seeing.

@deliaz8626

5 жыл бұрын

Nearly all of our Benin culture has been stolen

@user-to6hl1kh7d

5 жыл бұрын

I suggest you visit the British museum, they stole everything.

@iyaiiya-wawg3657

3 жыл бұрын

Their in the British Museum, all our stuff was teefed.

@michaelanthony4949

3 жыл бұрын

Go to Europe if you want to see them cause they were all stolen

Thank you for one of the most informative video of my people I ever seen in my 59 yrs on this earth!

I’m Nigerian, I’m Edo. This was so interesting to learn

Edo we stand I love benin

You are something else man. I'm happy i found your account when I did. I can tell you're going to grow.

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Just note that this is a very small percentage of Nigerian history, All 300 tribes have their own history and just five out of them were mentioned.

@bigboijoni4328

4 жыл бұрын

Well then it woudnt be a 6 min video

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

That’s ridiculous

@easymoney7007

2 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the main reasons the British were able to conquer and colonize it so easily. A unified people makes for a strong country.

@easymoney7007

2 жыл бұрын

@Josef Smonkin funny how it tends to work like that. Almost like an old playbook. Have people divided, no national pride = easy to conquer or destroy. Ahhhh history, such a fickle old teacher.

@maximillianafrancine1451

2 жыл бұрын

The video is 6 minutes 🙃

I'm super grateful for this video, I'm a teacher and I needed to teach Nigerian history to my class but I had no idea of what to say because I wasn't taught. This video has given me a lot to talk about with them and I hope I can make it simple enough for kids to understand 💕🇳🇬

@54356776

2 жыл бұрын

That's terrifying. You're a teacher and your excuse is that you "wasn't taught" and now you gain knowledge from a youtube video. Maybe, just maybe you could research the subject that you are required to teach. God help your class.

@maximillianafrancine1451

2 жыл бұрын

If you are going to base your class on a 6 min video no matter how accurate maybe it's time to get your school to employ a history major who knows what the word 'research' means. The person who prepared this wasn't born with these facts in his or her head. Sorry for your students

@maximillianafrancine1451

2 жыл бұрын

@@54356776 I hadn't even seen ur comment before I pointed out the same thing. How on earth is she qualified to teach any subject at all?

@54356776

2 жыл бұрын

@@maximillianafrancine1451 I try not to judge but going off the comment she isn't qualified to teach this subject at all. Personal responsibility is sorely lacking today it seems.

@maximillianafrancine1451

2 жыл бұрын

@@54356776 the thing is even Africans often think that the more ignorant they are about there own identity, the whiter they can be (in their heads,). This is someone whose name is Enitan. A more typical York Yoruba name is hard to find. She was probably hired as the token African but to be more like the Westerners, you cannot be too African and bother to actually learn anything to teach a class of curious kids. It boggles the mind that in this century there are still Africans like this. Meanwhile, so many Afro Westerners are dying to know their real identity

It's sad that I was only ever taught European history at my school and not really about my own country

@tolua7255

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, it was very informative

@EpimetheusHistory

6 жыл бұрын

I am glad you liked it :)

@deviljho4260

5 жыл бұрын

Tolu Abatan I don’t think Nigerians know much about their own country enough to teach about it in schools.

@kwame1410

4 жыл бұрын

@Tolu , No one supposed to teach you your own history you have the duty and responsibility as a human to find out for yourself who you really are As the old saying goes “ ignorance is the tool the enemy uses to control the world

@francisnwadike9505

4 жыл бұрын

@@kwame1410 you are right if you want to learn about your history go learn it your self

Yes, I'm so happy, someone is talking about Nigeria❤❤❤❤❤

I was born in America. I recently did a ancestry, DNA test and it said I was 40% Nigeria wow so I am here gaining all the knowledge I can and researching about my ancestors I am so happy right now

This is beautiful. Thank you for the videos

Imagine an armor made by these blacksmiths who made these incredible sculptures.

@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051

3 жыл бұрын

I mean i know what you mean but practically I've used in Combat not really effective since those would not protect against Blow weapons

@LuisAldamiz

3 жыл бұрын

Armors were not that useful in tropical heat, I've read of certain West African monarch (can't recall the details) who was gifted a full European plate armor and spent all day under the sun in it, dying of suffocation. At the extreme it's basically a solar oven and you don't want to cook yourself alive, really.

@cryp4life509

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz So what about Spain and Southern Italy? Not to mention Greece, Malta, and the multitudes of Mediterranean islands which all have hot weather? All of these regions used armor and they are no less hot than African countries (Sahara region notwithstanding). It's a common misconception that Africa is unusually hot. Armor in Africa was not used not because of the heat (or because it's tropical which is another misconception). The average temperature in the region in question is 25 degrees Celsius (78 Fahrenheit). Sicily could Certainly match that. Armor wasnt used because horses werent used and armies travelled entirely by foot. Armor is a lot easier to cope with if you're on a horse. And it's the case in Europe as well. Foot soldiers and bowman are either lightly armored or not at all. This idea of heavily armored soldiers in multitudes marching across the land is purely Hollywood, It just didnt happen. Knights who were generally of the upper classes and could afford a horse would be the only ones in a kings army with full plated armor. As for the story of the African in full plate armor well yeah, thats understandable seeing he was on foot wearing that full plate armor (which no foot soldier in Europe would wear). If Africans had horses perhaps they would have worn armor but seeing that horses werent native to Africa and most of the ones imported would catch diseases and die (unlike how they thrived in America after the Spanish bought them there), horses and armor were never a part of their military history. I've often wondered how Africa would have developed over the millennia if horses had been native to the continent.

@LuisAldamiz

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryp4life509 - It's not a misconception that the Tropics, not just Africa are generally hot year round, and that's even more serious near the deserts like th Sahara. Also the most extreme temperatures are by the interior of continents and not by the coast, that's why the Mediterranean region is warm but seldom really hot (when it is it's towards the interior, Seville, Skopjie, Ankara, places like those rather than Athens, Istanbul or Cádiz). I really don't know, I read that story once and it implied the guy sturdily posing with his shiny new armor for the whole day... under the Sahelian Sun, which is probably one of the hottest on Earth. People do die every year all around the world because of heat shock, so maybe it was that rather than "being cooked alive" literally. I would guess that heavy armored knights had tricks for the heat waves, like fighting with less armor or not fighting at all, I really can't say. But considering that we evolved our hairlessness and sweatness in order to survive the Sahelian heat, I woild think it's a bad idea to use heavy armor in such a context unless you really know what you're doing. Tropical Africans had horses in some cases at least but, much like China in their difficult wars with the Huns (Xiong Nu), they had to import them often enough and generally relied more on infantry instead. IMO the problem here is that horses really did not spread to Tropical Africa until rather late and the contexts in which they existed were heavily reliant on Muslim allegiance and also probably favored the camel better (arid zones near the Sahara). Armor was not invented for horsemanship anyhow, but for all purposes but primarily infantry (hoplites, legionaires, stuff like that). Of course the "terminal" knight armor was not apt for infantry: too heavy. Eeven in the 12th century, when it was not so extreme yet, the almost unarmored Almogavars, forced knights down their horses (by killing the mounts AFAIK) so they had to fight at a disadvantage on two legs, sometimes with a broken leg, I guess. They won many battles against the Byzantine cataphracts that way before being defeated by Basque and Gascon pikemen at Thebes (Pyrenean mercenaries in Greece are often overlooked but they seem to me quite important in the development of infantry as dominant in the Late Middle Ages, even before the famous Swiss and Scottish pike formations).

@uyilol4557

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryp4life509 Africans wore armors.

A Benin prince founded the Yoruba kingdom now called the "oduduwa "

@ajura8926

3 жыл бұрын

Oduduwa means our morning in the Igala language.

@publichealth9470

3 жыл бұрын

No, it was the other way round. Oranmiyan, an Ife Prince actually founded 'Ile Ibinu' or Ibini (corrupted to Benin by the Portuguese). That makes Benin a Principality of Ile Ife.

I just LOVED the PRESENTATION !! It gave us quick, short FACTS and you stayed on.the dang POINT !!! 🤓 AWESOME 💯💥

Thank you so much this research was very informative

My name is Babatunde Omokoku - Yoruba Tribe 🇳🇬 . My Mom is Trini 🇹🇹. Btw Lagos is pronounced : Lay - go ‘s

@Golden_Girl7123

2 жыл бұрын

EKAARO bawo

@kenthtv6016

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually lay gus

@tonysparks9453

2 жыл бұрын

You’re Trinidad and Nigerian mixed? Let me guess, you live in America?

@davidasehinde4236

2 жыл бұрын

Lagos isn’t pronounced like that, it’s called Eko

@NaMi-ob7qp

2 жыл бұрын

It's pronounced lay-gos but La-go's is the Portuguese pronunciation cos the Portuguese gave it that name

Those are not the walls of Benin in the picture in the video. The picture is of Sungbo's Eredo in Yorubaland

@bryanbridges2987

6 жыл бұрын

Tomiwa Ade Dang. You must be a major buff to know that.

@tomiwaade7937

6 жыл бұрын

I'm yoruba myself so I recognized it immediately

@bryanbridges2987

6 жыл бұрын

Tomiwa Ade Lol, wow.

@bryanbridges2987

6 жыл бұрын

Tomiwa Ade That didn't even cross my mind.

@MKRex

5 жыл бұрын

Fact

Excellent video thank you🙏🏾

Awesome video thank you so much - Italy

Well done. You're doing what nobody else does, in a a way everybody can appreciate.

Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge of the Nigeria's history from the beginning until present in 6 minutes, good explanation. I see that the ancient Nigerian civilization was sophisticated along with its counterpart Egypt.

Awesome and Informative Thanks !

As a direct descendant of victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade on both sides of my family, it is quite depressing to hear that these people actively sold perhaps my ancestors and certainly others into generations of slavery for monetary gain.

@idaraudoh2808

Жыл бұрын

If its helps you could also think of your ancestors as slave traders who got kidnapped as well, there are many ways the slave trade happened depending on the ethnicity, some were sold as prisoners of war by other tribes some were forcefully annexed by the europeans, some colaborated with the westerners to kidnap people and got the same treatment when they stepped out of line. Its a very grey situation, but no matter what it is non of your ancestors were ever born slaves. I do hope that helps

@haatpraat2993

Жыл бұрын

@@idaraudoh2808 I very much doubt it. I'm an easy going, non material, non violent kind of guy. So is my Dad and by all accounts his dad and granddad - my great, great granddad. So are my brothers and cousins. We're not violent. Most of the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade were indeed victims. They had nothing to do with it. Otherwise they would have had access to modern European guns to defend themselves, guns that were indeed used against them. Slave traders are not the kind of people that looked for a fair fight. They attacked people who they seriously believed they would defeat. What typically happened in those days was that a often peaceful village would be surrounded in the dead of night, then at daybreak the huts would be set on fire and the black African slave traders would attack in force with European guns and machetes. They then preceded to slaughter the adults or anyone that put up a fight and enslave everyone else - mostly teenagers and young children and women. There are many accounts from Europeans that the enslaved were both very young and had few 'battle' scars on them. This indicates they weren't even the defeated from a battle. Of course statistically some of the slave traders were indeed enslaved themselves, but considering the numbers that were involved, estimates range from 12 million to 25 million it is highly very few of these victims were slave traders themselves. This figure does not include of course the millions more who died in slave raids and those who died on the forced march to the coast. So, in short it is highly unlikely my ancestors hunted down and sold people for guns, trinkets or alcohol. As such, I do not consider it a grey area at all, but a stark black and white issue with us Caribbean/Americas black people being the victims of black African betrayal, greed, short sightedness, violence and uncivilized behaviour.

@idaraudoh2808

Жыл бұрын

@@haatpraat2993 what ever you consider is fine, as long as it makes you feel better about the history 👍🏾