The Lost Cities and Amazing Heritage of Kenya

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2022
  • The coast of Kenya has a series of impressive medieval ruins. Amongst the monuments are tombs, grand houses, mosques, and palaces. East African archaeologists date the high point of this heritage to the 13th century. The Kenyan museums contain impressive, reconstructed artefacts that animated the urban life of these lost cities.
    In this lecture, Robin Walker will present this heritage and put it in its proper place as a powerful chapter in Africa's history.
    A lecture by Robin Walker
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Комментарии • 110

  • @debrajohnson3851
    @debrajohnson3851 Год назад +12

    Sixteen cities are listed under Ham in Genesis 10 of the Holy Bible. We were the first to be civilized and this video manifests our ancient reality. Slowly, the lies from the West are crumbling!

  • @NaderAbedrabbojanineh-nh1kr

    If You Go To The History of East Africa ... You Can See That This Culture was So Great even During The Egyptians Times ... Africa was a Cradle of Cultures that influénced even The Universal Culture ...

  • @georgeoguda9644
    @georgeoguda9644 Год назад +19

    I know and have visited all the Kenyan Swahili cities with my favourite being Gede. I love Jumba la Mtwana in Mtwapa especially in the evening. The Swahili are Bantu and African to the core with later Arabic influences. By the way, Vasco da Gama was navigated to Cochin in India on his first voyage by a pilot donated by the Sultan of Malindi. Something the history books and Vasco da Gama never acknowledged.

  • @challalla
    @challalla Год назад +14

    I was fortunate enough to wander the Gede (Gedi) ruins as a teen and remember wondering why it wasn't more famous

  • @davidblush

    Surely I speaker knows that the Jamaicans are not all the product of an enslaved people, but rather were the indigenous inhabitants of the 'island', which included people sent to the west indies islands from the Americas - North and South - indigenous Americans with Afro phenotypes millennia before Cristobel Colon arrived there in the 15th Century

  • @tuomasronnberg5244
    @tuomasronnberg5244 Год назад +4

    Kenya, where you can see lions

  • @mariahamilton5305
    @mariahamilton5305 Год назад +7

    Really enjoying this so far, but the mention of chillies in 13nn food, is that a mistranslation, or did they get traded from S America earlier than previously thought?

  • @lisak9361
    @lisak9361 Год назад +3

    The Mijikenda actually found the Swahili at the coast. The Mijikenda migrated with the eastern Bantu movement from central Africa and no scholar actually "believes" or would even suggest that the Mijikenda became the Swahili. That's absurd!

  • @realitytube6290

    Zanzibar minted the first coin before the british pound ajd electricity was available on the islamd before England had any at the time.

  • @barbararowley6077
    @barbararowley6077 Год назад +11

    Thank you Sir, for a fascinating and educational lecture. It’s such a travesty that there was ever anyone who thought ancient African monuments couldn’t have been built by the local cultures - much worse that those thoughts still exist.

  • @ArtDocHound
    @ArtDocHound Год назад +12

    Thank you, professor.

  • @felixotuoke5419

    Brilliant historical facts. Excellently educative and informative. ❤

  • @ralami6183
    @ralami6183 Год назад +3

    One of our Great teachers that is still around. Thank you for everything you do Brother!

  • @maggieadams8600
    @maggieadams8600 Год назад +8

    Thank you, it was so interesting to learn about the rich heritage of Kenya

  • @bjrnryrvik3498
    @bjrnryrvik3498 Год назад +5

    Thank you for a fascinating lecture.

  • @jasondiasauthorpage615
    @jasondiasauthorpage615 Год назад +7

    Thank you for this.

  • @carolrhoden5370

    thank you for shearing your pictures and knowledge.

  • @RHampton
    @RHampton Год назад +4

    Great lecture.

  • @andrewjohnson8232
    @andrewjohnson8232 Год назад +4

    Superb lecture.

  • @mattdavis4937
    @mattdavis4937 Год назад +1

    Thank you!