Thank you Zeinab , UNESCO and Africa for this remarkable series. I have noticed that most of the people show case their dance, music, stories and visual arts during an interview. As a result, I realize that we have become witnesses to a "living history" not a dead one.
Mehmet suday thank you for your sensible statement, we really suffer from oppression and silencing, but who doesn't when you are ruled by gulf petrol paid and remote manipulated governments
Africa is a very diverse Continent with such amazing culture. As an African American never being there I'm very excited about starting my travels to this amazing place hopefully next year.
There are many reasons to be proud of being African. The African continent is the region that's growing the fastest economically in the world right now and millions are being lifted out of poverty. It's expected because of how fast the continent is growing economically, no African country will be a 3rd world nation in a few decades.
Proud to be amazigh (Bérbér) native speaker amazigh living in my land Morocco ,we are not Arabs not Europeans not black subsharians ,we are simply Amazigh indigenous people of north africa
@@jgogoingthingdozrknhgdfjk9909 >literally wage a war on the berbers, invade their land, and enslave their people = ''just for islam''. you are the most horrible perosn i've ever met and you make me ashamed of being a muslim. in a second note, at least we got you back with genociding arabs in the berber revolt :) just for islam, amrite.
im dead ass done yall stupid as fuck arab are not a ppl its a cultrue if you take a dna test its not going to say arab it will say middle east berber are native north africans also as all of africa islam is not a heritage its a relegion ppl in north africa are black and light skin because of the frensh and the spanish and ppl from the middle east coming to north africa berber ppl in the atlas are brown or lightskin berber ppl in the sahara are black but in tanja next to spain they are white as fuck
As a Eritrean🇪🇷,East Africa... i really love to visit Morocco and tunisia. J'aimerais visiter les deux pays qui sont tres historic!!!!et bien sure j'aime bien les peuples! Vous avez un histoire qui est tres bon long,gardez-le svp! A huge thanks to Zaineb &her colleagues!!!
@Kafala hey my friend be nice to others... not all of them,i have a friends from Egypt,Yemen,Morocco,sudan,... all of them are really nice to me. And one thing I want let you remind my friend that they're not arabs but they speak arabic..... so you can say arabs are racist but not all moroccans, tunisians,or algerians..... I'm not defending them but i know little bit about them,for sure they may have some racists people like any other countries.so we can't judge them all in the same ideology. Libyans have luck of education,the only things they know very well is how to handle gun/kalashnikov and how to shoot.I don't blame to the people of libya but their former leaders.
@Kafala you been to Libya? You know what the fuck going on in Libya you stupid shit? Ghadffi did more for africa than most black leaders watch your mouth. It was algeria who paid afrixas debt after we gained indepence.
Dear Mrs. Zeinab Badawi .... you will definitely remembered in the history of humanity. You have done a nobel documentary that doesn't only offer a contribution to the evolution of humanity, but furthermore, offers a critical evidence that many generations have vanished due to greed for money that escalated to wars and extinction in many forms. This is a starting point to alarm the current generation about the future of humanity. When does that day come when educational institutions, and the world media show the benefits of peaceful coexistence. The humanity is quite thankful to you Mrs.Zeinab..
Thank you BBC for this amazing series. Greetings from my beloved ❤️TENAST❤️ The original name of Tunisia And it means the key in Tamazight language. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@xg835 most of them were Nubians specifically the girl that said the ancient Egyptians were all black. The upper "southern" Egyptians we call them "Sa'idi" they're genetically distinct from the Nubians, they tend to have a little darker skin some even have dark brown skin but their skull structure is caucasoid. According to a recent studying done on 857 sample of Northern Egyptians and Southern Egyptians they mostly (%62) share the Y-chromosome genetic marker E1b1b specifically the subclade V-22 which originated in Egypt and can be found in ancient Egyptian mummies like the Abusir mummies
@@joeel-shazly8326 I'm so called Black and my genetic marker is V22. Ramses 2 is said to be a descendant of this DNA. The orginal genetic marker for Northern Egypt from all my studies says they were Black African who made their way up from the South and some from thr Levant. Could of been Kushtic (Ethiopian, Somalia) in the North, which makes sense in regard to the so called "Caucasion" skull shape. But the evidence and history does point to Black Africans originally inhabiting North Africa with an admixture at some point in the ancient history.
Algeria is a deep country with a very rich history ,and a very beautiful country،you can enjoy sahara, sea, mountains, water falls etc For me algeria is the most beautiful country in the world
@@fazfouzadz4748 yes its true. But there is cardinal problem which is crippled the generation of algeria and its using of cocaine(cannabis) ... u hve to focus how to stop this bad habit that created by french on colonial era.
woow,!! my tribe luo, migrated into Tanzania, my grandmother and her generations backwards used to remove the front teeth, she said was used to pour liquids when people got too sick, that lips where tighten together or just too sick..thanks alot im learning alot about my people our people. its our time,
@Fact Check do you belive that 50000 not fully arabs because they were also people from the lavant invaded north africa changed the demographic of millions of berbers that is stupidity
We are Amazigh not arabs plesae, it's so disrespectful calling us arabs of north africa. We have our own language , features, culture, heritage . We are a nation
@Saed Mohamud lol no you Really should do some Research because you are very very uneducated in Morocco people speak tamazigh and darija speaking darija DOESNT make you 'arab' they are still amazigh their DNA
I'm from Malaysia and im a fan of desert blues ,especially by the berber/tuareg musicians.This is where the Blues genre were born,brought by the african slaves to the Misissipi river,USA! God bless you all!
Actually, many US + English rock musicians since 1960s?70s? held/ hold annual rock concerts (? workshops ? for N African musicians)?) Most US African Americans came from W + Central Africa in 17th + 18th c. Most N Africans in 20th c. though some W Africans were Muslims. use came in 20th c.
@@tymanung6382they migrated to west Africa to flee because the emperor of Morocco signed for the americas to have dark skinned moors and berbers. I’m African American my family were slaves in Mississippi and Maryland after going to the West Indies first in the 1600s. I’ve proven mine through dna test and haplogroup sites where archeologists have extracted dna from those regions in Africa and Grenada
Fortunately, Zeineb did a great job in bringing the most accurate details concerning this very sensitive issue of North Africa... some people used to claim they're the natives of my country Algeria but this episode proves them wrong and pays no attention to their fabricated claims.
Looking forward to watching all your other documentary have been watching you since I was a child on the channel 4 news Great serious journalism mashallah 👏 👍
@@MrLion0121 you're not going to teach me my own family, my grandmother is settled Tuareg speaks Tamasheq besides Darija, her village Tisserdmine is now an army base and a resort.
@@ilyaas01 Sad to see people dont know African well, Tuareg people are nomade they moved all over African a some must have settled in Morroca some left to settle elsewhere or they dont at all settle and keep moving around. This is simple logique.
@@ilyaas01 "In southern Morocco and Algeria, the French met some of the strongest resistance from the Ahaggar Tuareg. Their Amenokal, traditional chief Moussa ag Amastan, fought numerous battles in defence of the region. Finally, Tuareg territories were taken under French governance." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
I visited Timgad when I was 10 years old when I was in elementary school ... and I spent eight months in Tipaza, believe me, you must visit Tipaza and Timgad when you come to Algeria ... Algeria welcomes you.
North west africa is far less mixed than the mainstream tries to tell people... Most people are berbers and share the same ancestry. Go take a look at Y haplogroups of north africa and compare them to other parts of the world... you will find that north west africa is much less mixed than most other parts of the world...
People need to shut up and watch this series! it is about Africa this is not the time to argue about colour of skin or who is true African and who isnt. Massinisa of the Numidian Empire told the Romans " Africa is for the Africans"! he didnt specify the colour , the language nor the religion. Our shared continent unite us all. North Africans are Africans and will be Africans regardless of their colour, no one in Algeria or Morocco said they were Europeans they are all proud of their African heritage. Enough of the pathetic hatred! P.S. I was named after St. Augustine of Hippo in Anaba, Algeria and i am proud . Power to the Africans!
Dr Rhida Bousafarra” This area needs further study” That says it all, history as communicated can never be complete or tell the whole story from everyone’s perspective.
thank you bbcafrica thank you zeinab ive learned alot about african history,culture,moral values,ethnic,religeous belief.....you are my greatest all time worlds journaliat zeinab badawi
I am black subsharian American proud of my Bantu west Africa ancectors ,our black brothers are losing the control to claim everything , unfortunately don't wanna face the slaves market history ,so instead of that they deny it by claiming to be Berber,viking ,Greeks, Egyptians,native Americans lol
too bad they're not aware of their rich West and Central African history. It was as amazing as the Vikings, Native Americans, etc. The Mali Empire and Ghana Empires, Benin, Kongo all were major trading hubs for European and Middle Eastern traders. Timbuktu was a world center for education and had it's own university called Sankore. There are thousands of manuscripts which have survived to this day that were written and compiled in Timbuktu, Mali.
@@marielaveau6362 The Ghana and Mali Empires were also Slave Empires they trade almost entirely in slaves, ivory, and gold. Yes Timbuktu had a university, they also had the largest slave market in Africa.
Timgad was the capital of the Berbers over the history and place of the warriors , intellectual , varieties of science and acknowledged over the centuries
32;11 keep in mind the term africa in punic and roman era was used to call tunisia and north africa excluding egypt . so when masinisa says "africa is for the african" he means only north africa that was inhabitited by the same people.
@@MacrobianNomad it survived in the canary islands as well, but the spinards ''almost'' killed them off, so you're kinda right in the colonism part, it's just not arabs, europeans too, berbers always getting attacked by all kinds of people for some reason
Its amazing to listen to French in TV from the 60s. They sound like Algerians sound to me. That's probably what we sound like to them. Because that's when it was.the same civilisation or state.
Kafala true , but in that time slaves are sold from both side , Ethiopian kings colonized many parts of Yemen Saudi Arabia , and brought many arab slaves In general comparing to the west , The west are 1000% times worst
The map at 4:a5 puts the Grotte des Pigeons in the wrong place. It is (as is correctly stated in the audio) in northeastern Marokko (Berkane), close to the border with Algeria.
"Hannibal is one of the great figures of the history or Carthage, but it's sad that he was a military man, a figure of war." At last I hear an archaeologist saying that all those "great" conquerors and warriors like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great or Napoleon were, in fact, people who should not be praised for that! They are not heroes but violent invaders, robbers, criminals. We should learn to pay more attention to what is really valuable in human history.
I didn't like the coverage of Morocco so much, it was my least favorite because it was very superficial. i don't think marrakech is the right direction to understand more of its history, they're so many places in the south east where the amazigh people are based, they could made the link between the history of the Berbers from Tunisia all the way to Morocco and their path to be based more in the end of the Atlas mountains and the desert side intel this day. But still my favorite series of the documentaries i've ever seen in my life so far.
The big majority of berbers are from morocco and more than 40% of people are still speaking and using berbere languages. in algeria they have only kayle and mozabit in tunisia none speaks berbere so in my opinion morocco is the best place to learn about the berbere culture
@@alielamrani669 Using language as a criteria to define Amazigh culture and Berber communities does make sense but is not enough. In Algeria, for instance, the Berbers are not just to be found within the Kabylia region (Grande Kabylie) in the North and the Mozabite and Tuareg communities within the South but also within the Chawiya who are based in the mountainous region of the Aures that stretch far into the eastern region, all the way into the borders with Tunisia. This, in addition to regions where no Berber vernacular is used (because lost) but which are nonetheless historically Amazigh like Little Kabylia (Petite Kabylie located to the east of the Grande Kabylie) and that includes a series of towns and villages running along part of the north-eastern coast. These details should indicate the importance of the Amazigh stock within the identity of the greatest number of Algerians. Having said that, it would be a mistake, in my view, to believe in the notion of a wholesome Berber identity based on a separate ethnicity as historically the populations of North Africa have been known for their diversity due to the continuous heterogeneity that has marked them through time. So Algerians in their majority do see themselves as Amazigh, which effectively they are, by virtue of this population mixing that characterizes their long history, at least up to the start of the French colonial period, that is, up to 1830.
@@alielamrani669 we have Kabyle chaoui mezab touareg Beni souss …the country is huge that is why you would think Berber occupies small regions but it is actually not the case ..not to forget that 80% is the desert is inhabited
On seconds thoughts you may be right., however if Africa was allowed to flourish in the last few centuries, they might have progressed equally.@@johnmonteiro5825
Yes, we are from North Africa and we are proud that we are from North Africa, Amazigh and Muslims, we are not Arabs and we do not hate Arabs, we love our identity and we are proud of our origin Amazigh and proud
You forgot to mention the vandals and goth who went through and settled north africa, which are also a deep part of this history, and which makes northern africa have a deep european history
Yeah because a handfull of barnarian coming in two region of the north of a whole continent make them europeean, is france also north african because you founded muslim tumb in Rouen? Lok
@@dwaineleso5127 yeah as he sais Who cares ? 😂😂 We made the history of africa nd we make africa proud not you bantuuu 🤣🤣 We have to enter th EU 🇪🇺🇪🇺 cuz we're not black ahahaha 🤣
Probably one of the most important thing about the series was at 26:08, since the name Africa derived from Mediterraneans who conquered North Africa, and had only referred to the continent as such from North Africa due to natural barriers that had them assume that was all the continent had. While we have picked up the name as a whole, the original name of our continent is actually Alkebulan, a continent full of history and culture, and not what Europeans refer to as the 'Dark Continent' with no history or technological advancement.
No we (amazigh) are mediterraneans who named OUR LAND (the land of north africa) as ifrikia meaning land of the goddess ifri. we also call it tamazgha. you understand north africa is on the medditerranean right?
African negroids were never united and never had a name for the continent. They all had different tribes and different cultures and languages. The continent never had a name.
@Gamal Nasser so are you calling the producers of this series afrocentric? Because even they said it and if you look at upper egypt which is by Sudan they are clearly dark skin
Caution: The documentary politely suggests, by piecing together various incomplete fragments, that North Africans of white skin have migrated from West Asia and Europe. For example, it focuses at the beginning on the area around Marrakech, knowing full well that many former slaves from Ghana, known as Gnawa, live there. It shows a musician playing Gnawa music, but does not reveal where the Gnawa come from, to give just one example. She does the same with ancient Egypt, where the pharaohs are said to have been black Africans. These are methods of African centrists.
I think many people refuse to accept the idea of an Indigenous North African ethnicity due to the close proximity of Europe and the Middle East. Which is wrong. Just like the KhoiKhoi (Khwekhwe) are an Indigenous South African ethnicity, who are different to Bantu or Nilotic. They too have descendents who are the product of mixing with Caucasians etc, but that doesn't mean they aren't an ethnic group unique to Africa. Yes, many North Africans are mixed but the Amazigh and other groups are still Indigenous Africans. Not all "Black" Africans look the same and not all Africans are "Black". Let's love, appreciate and support ALL Africans and learn to embrace and enjoy our similarities and differences.❤️
I think they’re called indigenous because of timing. The berbers were there before the Arab invasion. And we know extremely ancient Moroccan DNA has sub-Saharan mixture. So by that context, 10000 years from now, we might be considered indigenous Americans. Or maybe a better example is Mexicans. We can argue that Mexicans are indigenous Americans because of their significant admixture with Native Americans, even though we know they’re European by way of Spain. Ten thousand years from now, no one will care about the admixture. They will just call them indigenous.
Thr bantus didnt migrate from western africa to a recent time the oldest kongoid skull dont go older than 8000 years and mesolithic and paleolithic northern africans was mainly of near Eastern origin and had a robust caucasoid morphology with straight hair cro magnon magnon like Yet these bantus who themselves are mixed of north african man with sub saharan african women and other archaic groups tell other people in the continent youre not indigenous
Enclave communications center But the final outcome is that Massinissa offered the romans (probably unintentionally ) a foothold in North Africa and thus destroying the northern African kingdoms forever...
Enclave communications center I am a fan of the Roman military effectiveness but on the cultural and civilizational levels, they destroyed many good things that were built in Greece, Levant and North Africa.... Still this is history, we can’t undo destiny...
Enclave communications center Carthage already had trade settlements in Mauretania Tingitana (Modern Morocco) like Lixus and Tamuda. Carthage didn’t have the numbers and the mindset of full military control they were more focused on the business... probably that’s why they lost...
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Thank you Zeinab , UNESCO and Africa for this remarkable series. I have noticed that most of the people show case their dance, music, stories and visual arts during an interview. As a result, I realize that we have become witnesses to a "living history" not a dead one.
Zeinab you are an amazing journalist. You will be remembered forever for many things. For me this is probably your best, highly educative, shukran.
I very much liked her as the face of Channel 4 News for many years!
Zeinab has a warm heart and a good sense of humour, she makes watching worthwhile
@@kes2016 Where are her ancestors from ? Somaliland ?
She looks like Sudanese
I love amazigh people,!! They deserve their culture and freedom as much as any ruling governments of any country !
Man Antom séparatiste ?? Maniss arass nix?? Chik amazigh ?
Mehmet suday thank you for your sensible statement, we really suffer from oppression and silencing, but who doesn't when you are ruled by gulf petrol paid and remote manipulated governments
What an entertaining series. Zeinab is such a treasure. Also...
3:14 was hilarious. Thanks for not cutting it out.
Yes! I laughed ...
nHmīuk
Yes love her! Her tall svelte physique her voice just everything about her
Africa is a very diverse Continent with such amazing culture. As an African American never being there I'm very excited about starting my travels to this amazing place hopefully next year.
Welcome :)
Amazing culture erm cultures not just one lol it wouldn't be called diverse its is was just the one
I’m half north african half german ;-;
@@charli7844 which parent was german
@@lucaa.9709 My mom
Africa is such a sacred place
Looks so beautiful and clean. Much love to all North Africans from South Africa ❤️
Boers aren't Africans.
Proud to be a North African 🇹🇳🇩🇿🇲🇦
I'm proud Africa
Me too but Nord Africa is not just 3 country
I'm east africa and I want to visit north africa that's why I came to watch this
There are many reasons to be proud of being African. The African continent is the region that's growing the fastest economically in the world right now and millions are being lifted out of poverty. It's expected because of how fast the continent is growing economically, no African country will be a 3rd world nation in a few decades.
@@abandonedfragmentofhope5415 Sure
Proud to be a Sahrawi Moroccan. 🇲🇦
@Monkeybusiness187 Pfleipflei Moroccans learned Europeans how to bathe. If we stink, then imagine the smell of Europeans lol.
@Monkeybusiness187 Pfleipflei and I would kill myself if I was as racist, disrespectful and uneducated as you
Wakhyart
Hou zelf je bek
@Monkeybusiness187 Pfleipflei how old are you?12?
@carlinhos juaresma 739? If im not mistaking Moroccans were kicked out of Spain in 1492....
Proud to be amazigh (Bérbér) native speaker amazigh living in my land Morocco ,we are not Arabs not Europeans not black subsharians ,we are simply Amazigh indigenous people of north africa
@@hunchohoudini2628 العربان دخلاء ومخلفات مهاجرين وفتوحات اسلاميه فقط في شمال أفريقيا كامله
@@jgogoingthingdozrknhgdfjk9909 >literally wage a war on the berbers, invade their land, and enslave their people = ''just for islam''. you are the most horrible perosn i've ever met and you make me ashamed of being a muslim. in a second note, at least we got you back with genociding arabs in the berber revolt :) just for islam, amrite.
Sami T
im dead ass done yall stupid as fuck arab are not a ppl its a cultrue if you take a dna test its not going to say arab it will say middle east berber are native north africans also as all of africa islam is not a heritage its a relegion ppl in north africa are black and light skin because of the frensh and the spanish and ppl from the middle east coming to north africa berber ppl in the atlas are brown or lightskin berber ppl in the sahara are black but in tanja next to spain they are white as fuck
@Nature Lover they did not came from middile east the berbers and subsharians having the same branch E haplogroup
As a Eritrean🇪🇷,East Africa... i really love to visit Morocco and tunisia. J'aimerais visiter les deux pays qui sont tres historic!!!!et bien sure j'aime bien les peuples! Vous avez un histoire qui est tres bon long,gardez-le svp!
A huge thanks to Zaineb &her colleagues!!!
@Kafala hey my friend be nice to others... not all of them,i have a friends from Egypt,Yemen,Morocco,sudan,... all of them are really nice to me.
And one thing I want let you remind my friend that they're not arabs but they speak arabic..... so you can say arabs are racist but not all moroccans, tunisians,or algerians..... I'm not defending them but i know little bit about them,for sure they may have some racists people like any other countries.so we can't judge them all in the same ideology.
Libyans have luck of education,the only things they know very well is how to handle gun/kalashnikov and how to shoot.I don't blame to the people of libya but their former leaders.
@Kafala first of all, morocco and tunisia are not libya, second of all, we are not arabs we are berbers
@@Brave-Is_Mine1 you're welcome my friend
@Kafala you been to Libya? You know what the fuck going on in Libya you stupid shit? Ghadffi did more for africa than most black leaders watch your mouth. It was algeria who paid afrixas debt after we gained indepence.
@@trippytv1482 you must be a shit rapper
Dear Mrs. Zeinab Badawi .... you will definitely remembered in the history of humanity. You have done a nobel documentary that doesn't only offer a contribution to the evolution of humanity, but furthermore, offers a critical evidence that many generations have vanished due to greed for money that escalated to wars and extinction in many forms. This is a starting point to alarm the current generation about the future of humanity. When does that day come when educational institutions, and the world media show the benefits of peaceful coexistence. The humanity is quite thankful to you Mrs.Zeinab..
Proud to be of berber's descent, thank you Zeinab for this episode!
I am proud to be of Berber descent as well. #Amazigh Great video, Zeinab and thank you! P.S. Gaddafi was an Arabized Berber.
@@tmmartinesq.6216 Your name doesnt sound like it
☕️🫖🤲🏼
@@tmmartinesq.6216
Hhhh you are arab
@@tmmartinesq.6216 we arabs speack arabic
Thank you BBC for this amazing series.
Greetings from my beloved
❤️TENAST❤️
The original name of Tunisia
And it means the key in Tamazight language.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am beside myself with wonderment at how great and informative this series is. Great job, Zeinab!!
As an African myself.. I never knew where the nama Africa came from.. Thabks
Watch to see how Afrika got its name its not from the North ruclips.net/video/1LyoAlV2iMo/видео.html
Thafaraca means "land"
@Man Antom Ifri is indeed a cave in Tamazighte
@@safuu202 Liar
The old name of tunisia is afriqiya
This is a great travel, history series, not dry and boring at all.
Thank you so much Zeinab for sharing the history of Africa with us. You have done a brilliant job. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️!
love & peace to the people of morocco , i hope you recover soon ...
Miss badawi your documentary are so important and educational to me thank you so much
I found this documentary very fascinating! Thanks to Zeinab for her time and effort put into making this documentary. Greetings from Israel.
i wish she did a similar thing with the egypt episode and focused on more than just the southern egyptians.. this was good and well rounded episode
Ironically enough the Nubians she interviewed aren't related to the ancient Egyptians they had their own separate kingdom back in the day
@@joeel-shazly8326 was she interviewing nubians or southern egyptians
@@xg835 most of them were Nubians specifically the girl that said the ancient Egyptians were all black.
The upper "southern" Egyptians we call them "Sa'idi" they're genetically distinct from the Nubians, they tend to have a little darker skin some even have dark brown skin but their skull structure is caucasoid.
According to a recent studying done on 857 sample of Northern Egyptians and Southern Egyptians they mostly (%62) share the Y-chromosome genetic marker E1b1b specifically the subclade V-22 which originated in Egypt and can be found in ancient Egyptian mummies like the Abusir mummies
@@joeel-shazly8326 I'm so called Black and my genetic marker is V22. Ramses 2 is said to be a descendant of this DNA. The orginal genetic marker for Northern Egypt from all my studies says they were Black African who made their way up from the South and some from thr Levant. Could of been Kushtic (Ethiopian, Somalia) in the North, which makes sense in regard to the so called "Caucasion" skull shape. But the evidence and history does point to Black Africans originally inhabiting North Africa with an admixture at some point in the ancient history.
Sounds like the controversy over
Netflix Queen Cleopatra VII fantasy
miniseries + very contested choice
of allegedly Black Cleopatra.
very historical country algeria.. i admired the last words of this episode:hunting,washing,playing and laughing this is life
Yah there is
Algeria is a deep country with a very rich history ,and a very beautiful country،you can enjoy sahara, sea, mountains, water falls etc
For me algeria is the most beautiful country in the world
@@fazfouzadz4748 yes its true. But there is cardinal problem which is crippled the generation of algeria and its using of cocaine(cannabis) ... u hve to focus how to stop this bad habit that created by french on colonial era.
@@ayuubtalaabo5987 cocaine in all the word
@@ayuubtalaabo5987 Cocaine in Algeria? Are you kidding?
I love how he sang at 13.00 Salam Ala alamira Salam Ala bint alSudan ❤️
woow,!! my tribe luo, migrated into Tanzania, my grandmother and her generations backwards used to remove the front teeth, she said was used to pour liquids when people got too sick, that lips where tighten together or just too sick..thanks alot im learning alot about my people our people. its our time,
Many Amazigh I have talked to have said they are tired of being called Arabs
@Fact Check do you belive that 50000 not fully arabs because they were also people from the lavant invaded north africa changed the demographic of millions of berbers that is stupidity
Me one of them 👌
Yes .. it's because of ideological arabisation. As amazighs we are still fighting to correct what this stupid system did
@@soukainaelbaamrani7400 Absolutely. Ayuz nem
yeah it's true, we are proudly berbers
I already knew all of this but I’m happy for the world to see our history and I’m proud to be Tunsi 🇹🇳❤️
Zeinab is such a treasure.
Thanks a lot Ms Zeinab Badawi. You're the best
We are Amazigh not arabs plesae, it's so disrespectful calling us arabs of north africa. We have our own language , features, culture, heritage . We are a nation
But we speak arabic
@Saed Mohamud lol no you Really should do some Research because you are very very uneducated in Morocco people speak tamazigh and darija speaking darija DOESNT make you 'arab' they are still amazigh their DNA
Yes indeed! North Africans are Amazighs not Arabs!
@@charli7844 Language and religion has absoultely no impact on GENETICS.
@@charli7844 Mexicans speak Spanish but that doesn't erase their native American heritage either.
Zainab ,you are the Africa culture ambassador ,thanks so much for your amazing Documentary.
I'm from Malaysia and im a fan of desert blues ,especially by the berber/tuareg musicians.This is where the Blues genre were born,brought by the african slaves to the Misissipi river,USA!
God bless you all!
Actually, many US + English rock
musicians since 1960s?70s? held/
hold annual rock concerts (? workshops
? for N African musicians)?)
Most US African Americans came from
W + Central Africa in 17th + 18th c. Most N Africans in 20th c. though some W Africans were Muslims.
use came in 20th c.
@@tymanung6382they migrated to west Africa to flee because the emperor of Morocco signed for the americas to have dark skinned moors and berbers. I’m African American my family were slaves in Mississippi and Maryland after going to the West Indies first in the 1600s. I’ve proven mine through dna test and haplogroup sites where archeologists have extracted dna from those regions in Africa and Grenada
Africa is sooooo unique 👌 👏 ❤.
I love my beautiful continent ❤
Fortunately, Zeineb did a great job in bringing the most accurate details concerning this very sensitive issue of North Africa... some people used to claim they're the natives of my country Algeria but this episode proves them wrong and pays no attention to their fabricated claims.
Looking forward to watching all your other documentary have been watching you since I was a child on the channel 4 news Great serious journalism mashallah 👏 👍
There's also Tuareg in Morocco, my late grandmother was from Erfoud.
Erfoud are not tuaregs, i am from the same region of erfoud which called Tafilalet nowadays
@@MrLion0121 you're not going to teach me my own family, my grandmother is settled Tuareg speaks Tamasheq besides Darija, her village Tisserdmine is now an army base and a resort.
@@ilyaas01 Sad to see people dont know African well, Tuareg people are nomade they moved all over African a some must have settled in Morroca some left to settle elsewhere or they dont at all settle and keep moving around. This is simple logique.
@@ilyaas01 "In southern Morocco and Algeria, the French met some of the strongest resistance from the Ahaggar Tuareg. Their Amenokal, traditional chief Moussa ag Amastan, fought numerous battles in defence of the region. Finally, Tuareg territories were taken under French governance." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
@@Ummh25 Not a single Tuareg in morocco, only in Algeria and Libya in North of Sahara and Mali and Niger in south of Sahara
In total agreement with you Solomon. I am learning so much by watching Zeinab's videos. She is a phenomenal lady journalist, Very proud of her work!!!
Am west African but I've fallen in love with North, Bismillah Allahu Akbar ❤❤❤❤
Fall in love with your own culture and people adoon
@@AFDiini1722 what do you mean ?
@@Crow_1860 Don't respond to this troll. You're always welcome in my country brother.
Nice but stay where you are
@@AFDiini1722 ok
This was wonderful!
Shukran
My older ancestors in tunisia was capsian from Gafsa, story more then 15 000 BC in north africa the oldest civilisation find in north africa
Great series. I found North Africa to be so beautiful. I need to go to sub-Saharan Africa
I visited Timgad when I was 10 years old when I was in elementary school ... and I spent eight months in Tipaza, believe me, you must visit Tipaza and Timgad when you come to Algeria ... Algeria welcomes you.
frim to be from mother africa .respect all afrikains from morocco
North west africa is far less mixed than the mainstream tries to tell people... Most people are berbers and share the same ancestry.
Go take a look at Y haplogroups of north africa and compare them to other parts of the world... you will find that north west africa is much less mixed than most other parts of the world...
They're obviously black African.
@@adrianalainez8499 definitely not everyone
@@adrianalainez8499 Never. Buy yourself a pair of glasses
@@adrianalainez8499 again withyou history thieves. North Africa was never black
@@adrianalainez8499 not anymore
Thank you for this amazing documentary mashallah ❤️ 💙 really enjoyed watching ❤
People need to shut up and watch this series! it is about Africa this is not the time to argue about colour of skin or who is true African and who isnt. Massinisa of the Numidian Empire told the Romans " Africa is for the Africans"! he didnt specify the colour , the language nor the religion. Our shared continent unite us all. North Africans are Africans and will be Africans regardless of their colour, no one in Algeria or Morocco said they were Europeans they are all proud of their African heritage. Enough of the pathetic hatred!
P.S. I was named after St. Augustine of Hippo in Anaba, Algeria and i am proud . Power to the Africans!
Well said sister
Ta Hesi where are you from?
@@tahesi7232 what indigenous africans are you talking about? The berbers are (Amazigh) Africans. Or do you think all Africans are black.
Dr Rhida Bousafarra” This area needs further study” That says it all, history as communicated can never be complete or tell the whole story from everyone’s perspective.
thank you bbcafrica thank you zeinab ive learned alot about african history,culture,moral values,ethnic,religeous belief.....you are my greatest all time worlds journaliat zeinab badawi
Numidia preceded Roman presence. It covered the whole present Algeria with some of part of Tunisia and Lydia.
I cannot wait to go to Morocco. I'll be therein August. 😊
Corona virus 🤭
You are wellcome any time if you need someoto help you in morocco plz ask it to me
@@fy1684 Thank you 😊
Welcome
This journalist is very Professional. You made a great job. Thank you.
يوبا الثاني نوميدي جزائري
أفتخر لاني جزائري مدينة الملوك النوميد 🥀🇩🇿🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿🥀🇩🇿
No juba 2 est amazigh vous vous êtes des arabes
طبعا ابن مدينة هيبون هيبو رجيوس عنابة جزائرية
@@fy1684 تكون ثقافتك عربية او امازيغية تاريخ الجزائر يخص كل الجزائريين و سكان نوميديا و ليبيين القدماء جيناتهم حية في كل جزائري اليوم
@@draculaprinkton3208 لا تاريخ نوميديا يخص الامازيغ وحدهم
@@fy1684 لا.. بما ان كل الجزائريين تقريبا من احفاد نوميديين سما كامل عندهم الحق في الامازيغية صديقي
This is amazingly beautiful and diverse
I am black subsharian American proud of my Bantu west Africa ancectors ,our black brothers are losing the control to claim everything , unfortunately don't wanna face the slaves market history ,so instead of that they deny it by claiming to be Berber,viking ,Greeks, Egyptians,native Americans lol
True
I can see you are a smart man, how would you remedy such foolishness ?
TRUE
too bad they're not aware of their rich West and Central African history. It was as amazing as the Vikings, Native Americans, etc. The Mali Empire and Ghana Empires, Benin, Kongo all were major trading hubs for European and Middle Eastern traders. Timbuktu was a world center for education and had it's own university called Sankore. There are thousands of manuscripts which have survived to this day that were written and compiled in Timbuktu, Mali.
@@marielaveau6362 The Ghana and Mali Empires were also Slave Empires they trade almost entirely in slaves, ivory, and gold. Yes Timbuktu had a university, they also had the largest slave market in Africa.
Thanks from Brazil 🇧🇷.
Really nice documentary
Thank you!
Great Series, thank you
love morocco coming soon, loooooooove yaw
My generation need to explore more
I'm in love with Algeria especially Timgad😘😘😘
Timgad was the capital of the Berbers over the history and place of the warriors , intellectual , varieties of science and acknowledged over the centuries
Very educational
32;11 keep in mind the term africa in punic and roman era was used to call tunisia and north africa excluding egypt . so when masinisa says "africa is for the african" he means only north africa that was inhabitited by the same people.
our continent is so diverse
She forgot to mention the Tifinagh Amazigh alphabet.
Which survived in the Sahara thanks to the Tuareg despite the Arabisation and colonialism.
Thats Actually Sabean Alphabet, and its origin is the east.
@@user-mq6qv6bi2g no it's actually native
@@MacrobianNomad it survived in the canary islands as well, but the spinards ''almost'' killed them off, so you're kinda right in the colonism part, it's just not arabs, europeans too, berbers always getting attacked by all kinds of people for some reason
It is originaly from arabs
Very nice people I wouldn’t be on this planet without them
Man , u can feel the French did a great job in imposing their language and culture on the North Africans , what a shame
You forgot french west africa but ok
Its amazing to listen to French in TV from the 60s. They sound like Algerians sound to me. That's probably what we sound like to them. Because that's when it was.the same civilisation or state.
Kafala true , but in that time slaves are sold from both side , Ethiopian kings colonized many parts of Yemen Saudi Arabia , and brought many arab slaves
In general comparing to the west ,
The west are 1000% times worst
Billy Enzen not speaking the language does not mean illiterate ,
Kafala EXACTLY!!!!
The map at 4:a5 puts the Grotte des Pigeons in the wrong place. It is (as is correctly stated in the audio) in northeastern Marokko (Berkane), close to the border with Algeria.
"Hannibal is one of the great figures of the history or Carthage, but it's sad that he was a military man, a figure of war." At last I hear an archaeologist saying that all those "great" conquerors and warriors like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great or Napoleon were, in fact, people who should not be praised for that! They are not heroes but violent invaders, robbers, criminals. We should learn to pay more attention to what is really valuable in human history.
I agree but this is the old approach in the teaching of history!
@@malimalou751 Yes, it is, but it still is alive and kicking, unfortunately.
Thank u zenab.. Really what ur doing is game changing.. Africa history has not benefited from good pr despite its rich cultures
@Karen Maynard thanks
Proud to be moroccan Berber(amazigh) , Berber blood running in my DNA ,
Berbère it's not a race, it's a mixed tribes that share the same geography land , with the same culture, language with different dialectal
@@ismaelcherif1418 it's all what you said + DNA ❤️❤️
I didn't like the coverage of Morocco so much, it was my least favorite because it was very superficial. i don't think marrakech is the right direction to understand more of its history, they're so many places in the south east where the amazigh people are based, they could made the link between the history of the Berbers from Tunisia all the way to Morocco and their path to be based more in the end of the Atlas mountains and the desert side intel this day.
But still my favorite series of the documentaries i've ever seen in my life so far.
Agree!
The big majority of berbers are from morocco and more than 40% of people are still speaking and using berbere languages. in algeria they have only kayle and mozabit in tunisia none speaks berbere so in my opinion morocco is the best place to learn about the berbere culture
@@alielamrani669 Using language as a criteria to define Amazigh culture and Berber communities does make sense but is not enough. In Algeria, for instance, the Berbers are not just to be found within the Kabylia region (Grande Kabylie) in the North and the Mozabite and Tuareg communities within the South but also within the Chawiya who are based in the mountainous region of the Aures that stretch far into the eastern region, all the way into the borders with Tunisia. This, in addition to regions where no Berber vernacular is used (because lost) but which are nonetheless historically Amazigh like Little Kabylia (Petite Kabylie located to the east of the Grande Kabylie) and that includes a series of towns and villages running along part of the north-eastern coast. These details should indicate the importance of the Amazigh stock within the identity of the greatest number of Algerians.
Having said that, it would be a mistake, in my view, to believe in the notion of a wholesome Berber identity based on a separate ethnicity as historically the populations of North Africa have been known for their diversity due to the continuous heterogeneity that has marked them through time. So Algerians in their majority do see themselves as Amazigh, which effectively they are, by virtue of this population mixing that characterizes their long history, at least up to the start of the French colonial period, that is, up to 1830.
@@alielamrani669 we have Kabyle chaoui mezab touareg Beni souss …the country is huge that is why you would think Berber occupies small regions but it is actually not the case ..not to forget that 80% is the desert is inhabited
Marrakech was the capital of the almoravid, almohad, saadian empires
she has a good spirit
Non non non be african. Uk be. Amzig. Barebare. Tunisa. Rome ne
But you don't
History is our inherited past.
Really fascinating documentary. I enjoyed this.
European and Asian history pales in comparison to African history, never knew this until we started watching this series.
It really doesn’t.
Asia wins hands down, and only north and east africa can match Europe
On seconds thoughts you may be right., however if Africa was allowed to flourish in the last few centuries, they might have progressed equally.@@johnmonteiro5825
me to from Algeria Constantine
Yes, we are from North Africa and we are proud that we are from North Africa, Amazigh and Muslims, we are not Arabs and we do not hate Arabs, we love our identity and we are proud of our origin Amazigh and proud
You didn't go to tizi ouzou you find more interesting history for you documentry
There aren't any major historical sites there...
@@isaacadkins2344 there are in tigzirt 🤗
wow History in Africa
I like algeria very big history I went to visit numidia
At 20:34 there is a statue of the Egyptian God Bes! Did anyone catch that?
The home of my GREAT hero, Hannibal Barca!.
Zeinab, your British and Arab History(or lack thereof) shines through in this presentation of North African History.
Proud to be from the most fascinating, ancient and Godly land of Ethiopia!!!!
Yes a land of famine, ethnic cleansing, extreme poverty and a AIDS/HIV epidemic a real "Land of Milk & Honey"
@@brenthartley8822 AHAHHAHAGHAHAHHH
@@brenthartley8822 I agree
I love your documentary.
You forgot to mention the vandals and goth who went through and settled north africa, which are also a deep part of this history, and which makes northern africa have a deep european history
The vandals were in North Africa between 429CE and 534CE. They were not even called Europeans. Rome called them barbarians.
Yeah because a handfull of barnarian coming in two region of the north of a whole continent make them europeean, is france also north african because you founded muslim tumb in Rouen? Lok
they dont have european dna as such
Zeinab is so intelligent!!!
Zeinab just did the usual morocco tourist trip.
true
Still here; 😊😊😊😊
Africa isn't just BLACK, Asia isn't just CHINESE or Indian, Europe isn't just Vikings and Romans...
Your not African and never will be.
@@dwaineleso5127 Who cares?
If u knew about the dark ages its was all dark/ dark brown
@@dwaineleso5127 yeah as he sais
Who cares ? 😂😂
We made the history of africa nd we make africa proud not you bantuuu 🤣🤣
We have to enter th EU 🇪🇺🇪🇺 cuz we're not black ahahaha 🤣
@@m.n6063 Lol. North Africa would never enter the EU. Deluded.
Great video series! Thank you!
Probably one of the most important thing about the series was at 26:08, since the name Africa derived from Mediterraneans who conquered North Africa, and had only referred to the continent as such from North Africa due to natural barriers that had them assume that was all the continent had. While we have picked up the name as a whole, the original name of our continent is actually Alkebulan, a continent full of history and culture, and not what Europeans refer to as the 'Dark Continent' with no history or technological advancement.
No we (amazigh) are mediterraneans who named OUR LAND (the land of north africa) as ifrikia meaning land of the goddess ifri. we also call it tamazgha. you understand north africa is on the medditerranean right?
@@csx3180 you are not making sense
@@kofisam9650 correction: you don't understand what i'm saying.
African negroids were never united and never had a name for the continent. They all had different tribes and different cultures and languages. The continent never had a name.
I am not sure why but Ms. Badawi seems more at ease in this episode than when she was in Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Caspians tall with some African features...... arent they African?
That's exactly my thinking. Some of these episodes are doing their best to downplay African's presence in Africa.
@@tahesi7232 facts this whole part is full of bs
@Gamal Nasser lol shut up no one said anything about sub Sahara etc etc Ancient Egypt was Black get over it
@Gamal Nasser so are you calling the producers of this series afrocentric? Because even they said it and if you look at upper egypt which is by Sudan they are clearly dark skin
@Gamal Nasser yes they did you can lie all you want to feed your ego btw the host is Sudanese
Caution: The documentary politely suggests, by piecing together various incomplete fragments, that North Africans of white skin have migrated from West Asia and Europe. For example, it focuses at the beginning on the area around Marrakech, knowing full well that many former slaves from Ghana, known as Gnawa, live there. It shows a musician playing Gnawa music, but does not reveal where the Gnawa come from, to give just one example.
She does the same with ancient Egypt, where the pharaohs are said to have been black Africans. These are methods of African centrists.
I think many people refuse to accept the idea of an Indigenous North African ethnicity due to the close proximity of Europe and the Middle East. Which is wrong. Just like the KhoiKhoi (Khwekhwe) are an Indigenous South African ethnicity, who are different to Bantu or Nilotic. They too have descendents who are the product of mixing with Caucasians etc, but that doesn't mean they aren't an ethnic group unique to Africa. Yes, many North Africans are mixed but the Amazigh and other groups are still Indigenous Africans. Not all "Black" Africans look the same and not all Africans are "Black". Let's love, appreciate and support ALL Africans and learn to embrace and enjoy our similarities and differences.❤️
Also, Arab is a culture. Like Latino. Not a race. So it's not accurate to equate many North Africans' Arab heritage with their ethnicity.
In the beginning all Africans were Black. At one point everyone was Black. Europeans were not in Africa when the Pyramids were built.
I think they’re called indigenous because of timing. The berbers were there before the Arab invasion. And we know extremely ancient Moroccan DNA has sub-Saharan mixture. So by that context, 10000 years from now, we might be considered indigenous Americans. Or maybe a better example is Mexicans. We can argue that Mexicans are indigenous Americans because of their significant admixture with Native Americans, even though we know they’re European by way of Spain. Ten thousand years from now, no one will care about the admixture. They will just call them indigenous.
To accepte or not to change nothing for the Amazighs bécasse we are very very Goodyear fighter in the story🤣
Thr bantus didnt migrate from western africa to a recent time the oldest kongoid skull dont go older than 8000 years and mesolithic and paleolithic northern africans was mainly of near Eastern origin and had a robust caucasoid morphology with straight hair cro magnon magnon like
Yet these bantus who themselves are mixed of north african man with sub saharan african women and other archaic groups tell other people in the continent youre not indigenous
Thank you for note cuting
Massenissa betrayed Hannibal and caused the destruction of Carthage
Yes betrayed him over a woman
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But the final outcome is that Massinissa offered the romans (probably unintentionally ) a foothold in North Africa and thus destroying the northern African kingdoms forever...
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I am a fan of the Roman military effectiveness but on the cultural and civilizational levels, they destroyed many good things that were built in Greece, Levant and North Africa....
Still this is history, we can’t undo destiny...
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Carthage already had trade settlements in Mauretania Tingitana (Modern Morocco) like Lixus and Tamuda. Carthage didn’t have the numbers and the mindset of full military control they were more focused on the business... probably that’s why they lost...
the best series produced on Africa. Thank you.
North Africa*