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    Kingslee James Daley, better known by the stage name Akala, is an English rapper, poet, and journalist. Originally from Kentish Town, London, his older sister is rapper/vocalist Ms. Dynamite. In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards.
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Комментарии • 10 тыс.

  • @Nishasquisha
    @Nishasquisha 2 года назад +457

    "People cannot be blamed for their ignorance if they are genuinely ignorant. People can be blamed if they've had a different set of information and still CHOOSE to remain ignorant" I love it!

    • @rooks4ever
      @rooks4ever Год назад +8

      Of you choose not to seek out knowledge, and remain ignorant that also not right

    • @t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21
      @t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21 Год назад +8

      NESCIENCE vS. IGNORANCE
      The CONTEXT of Not Knowing
      Nescience
      From the Latin verb nesciere:
      "to not know because knowledge was absent or unattainable.
      Ignorance
      From the Lotin verb ignorare:
      "to not know even though necessary information I present, because that information has been willfully refused or disregarded."

    • @sammcdermott78
      @sammcdermott78 Год назад +1

      @@t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21Thomas Aquinas created a similar theory but from a theological standpoint, Vincible and invincible ignorance with regards to knowledge of Christianity.
      The concept of ignorance is a truly interesting one to discuss

    • @t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21
      @t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21 Год назад

      @@sammcdermott78 It tiss

    • @babystagg5847
      @babystagg5847 Год назад

      🖤🖤🖤

  • @DemoTrucking
    @DemoTrucking 7 лет назад +2006

    I'm 45 I learned more in this video than 16 years of American education Thank You

    • @jeannetteduette6704
      @jeannetteduette6704 6 лет назад +29

      Leaning is an ongoing process. You learn something everyday if you open yourself to new learning experiences.

    • @lukeshaw3375
      @lukeshaw3375 6 лет назад +14

      Demo B he also does grime music and is a lyrical genius 👍🏻

    • @CrowdPleeza
      @CrowdPleeza 6 лет назад +42

      U should fact check everyone including Akala.

    • @EdwinaLondon
      @EdwinaLondon 6 лет назад +1

      Demo B Amazing!

    • @joshuafaulkner7345
      @joshuafaulkner7345 6 лет назад +27

      Don't assume that the information in this is accurate. Many of his biggest points of conjecture are summarized with quips like, "that would be nonsensical to think that." Missing evidence is the causeway to understanding the nonsensical. Keep learning yourself. All spirits have the ability to seek and uncover self-evidence truth. Our spirits, when cultivated for knowledge, have a filtering system to root out misinformation.

  • @mibrahim7507
    @mibrahim7507 8 лет назад +3232

    Whether you agree or disagree you have to commend the effort this man has gone to to educate himself. He is an example to us all that you are never to old or knowledgeable to learn.

    • @a.jwickerman8106
      @a.jwickerman8106 8 лет назад +105

      Absolutely, i would talk too him for hours.

    • @daviddoherty7624
      @daviddoherty7624 8 лет назад +135

      Global history is relevant to everyone now

    • @daviddoherty7624
      @daviddoherty7624 8 лет назад +69

      I dread to think what you would classify as being of the 'highest' relevance. Incidentally ssshhhh, Pablo, stop commenting on this video. Not everyone who watches it wants to deal with your damage. The expression of that damage through racism is in no way relevant to the topic of global history, and it's directly antithetical to the project of acknowledging racialised historical bias.

    • @daviddoherty7624
      @daviddoherty7624 8 лет назад +60

      ...why are you revisiting this page? Comments from today; 1 week ago; 2 weeks ago...you've called the information in this video irrelevant...what are you doing spending so much time on it? Why aren't you concentrating on more relevant historical artifacts, documents and discussions elsewhere?....what is your project here?

    • @mibrahim7507
      @mibrahim7507 8 лет назад +34

      Pablo Rages Pablo you got absolutely exposed for the fraudulent that you are. Take the "L" and pipe down

  • @fatmataevelinabangura1923
    @fatmataevelinabangura1923 2 года назад +156

    I can't get enough of Akala! I find myself rewatching his talks and rereading his book every year. His articulate and eloquent teachings are like medicine for the soul. What a privilege to learn from someone so passionate and wise.

    • @alexgibson2871
      @alexgibson2871 2 года назад +3

      rather than re-read i would seek out the counter arguments - the evidence is not on his side unfortunately.

    • @harryshearer992
      @harryshearer992 Год назад +11

      @@alexgibson2871 "Seek out the counter arguments, he is wrong"...proceeds to....not...provide evidence of that.

    • @lenwilkinson672
      @lenwilkinson672 Год назад +1

      Any one can put up a screen and show pictures. This bloke would havre been a a great protege of .Goebells

    • @claudiiusmaximus652
      @claudiiusmaximus652 11 месяцев назад +1

      ⁠@@alexgibson2871he used the same arguments, bunch of quote out of context, arrogant mumbling something..no egyptologist take this guy seriously, very shame of a school such as oxford to invite him

    • @claudiiusmaximus652
      @claudiiusmaximus652 11 месяцев назад

      @@harryshearer992you can literally google it, this guy is a joke of a “human”

  • @yolandasoto6110
    @yolandasoto6110 7 лет назад +74

    I am so impressed with this young man. I wished more schools would bring in guest speakers such as Akala. Keep striving for the truth and knowledge of the past.

    • @jordank1489
      @jordank1489 5 лет назад +7

      That might have the history department looking a bit red in the face

    • @shaneshankly4518
      @shaneshankly4518 5 лет назад +8

      No they are to busy lying about their history. The shameful history of Britian s imperialism past is never taught in school . The education system is where racism starts

    • @cccpkingu
      @cccpkingu 4 года назад +1

      Because his theories don't hold up at all.

    • @paulclayton9825
      @paulclayton9825 4 месяца назад +1

      @@cccpkinguthey’re not theories, he literally quoted the greatest minds of philosophers of the times.

  • @TheAlmightyRedPillNation
    @TheAlmightyRedPillNation 3 года назад +148

    I met him back in 2013,very humble guy and intelligent. Good to see how far he's come along, good lecture also!

    • @sonquatsch8585
      @sonquatsch8585 Год назад +4

      we need his intelligence now. where is he.

  • @MrLedymendes
    @MrLedymendes 9 лет назад +273

    Akala is a true inspiration in today society, brother may you live long.

    • @fizzbitt
      @fizzbitt 9 лет назад +6

      +Adam Adams Seriously... what's your issue? He doesn't promote any such thing. Either you're stupid or you're trolling.

    • @786humaira1
      @786humaira1 3 года назад +1

      Ameen.

  • @lisahobbs2312
    @lisahobbs2312 3 года назад +207

    I wished the camera person could have hone in on the power point so I could have gotten a better view of the illustrations!

    • @ElliottBrandel
      @ElliottBrandel 3 года назад +4

      Me too!

    • @pharoah-ahmose6075
      @pharoah-ahmose6075 3 года назад +19

      That was done on purpose to suppress knowledge.

    • @jillgreene9225
      @jillgreene9225 3 года назад +5

      Correct the videographer did a poor poor job...not ONE Close up on NOT ONE SLIDE🤯

    • @WealthyThomas
      @WealthyThomas 3 года назад +3

      Never 👎🏿… any trick in the book 📕 they’ll do

    • @rutavitello8320
      @rutavitello8320 3 года назад

      he's let me goo because he's like me pay him 900 to pay his fun for woman his lovers I am not that's why he mad but 8 don't care god he's always bless me I am not worry amen and amen

  • @thandolwethusomdyala8252
    @thandolwethusomdyala8252 4 года назад +116

    Proudly African and thanks for the knowledge off which I'll be sharing it with my kids and friends. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

    • @leaderx687
      @leaderx687 3 года назад

      @Mzansi Queen Thank you for this valuable info❣

  • @peterjessiman7005
    @peterjessiman7005 6 лет назад +1421

    Man Id love to see Akala do a High Budget History documentary series with all the bells and whistles

    • @DADAMANism
      @DADAMANism 6 лет назад +68

      300 pyramids in Africa, 220 in Sudan and 80 in Egypt. 0 in Europe.

    • @gol.drodger5261
      @gol.drodger5261 5 лет назад +28

      Phalo Tshawe so 600 pyramids in Africa? Since all those places are Africa

    • @DADAMANism
      @DADAMANism 5 лет назад +9

      @@gol.drodger5261 Yes I agree with you. Most ancient pyramids are in Africa.

    • @jordank1489
      @jordank1489 5 лет назад +2

      Well he talks with his hands waving around all over the place, so he's halfway there.

    • @douchebagel93
      @douchebagel93 5 лет назад +13

      A We Wuz Kangs fantasy show would be pretty great LOL. I'd definitely watch it. HBO's gonna need a show to replace Game of Thrones pretty soon...

  • @mrssantana6530
    @mrssantana6530 8 лет назад +12

    Imagine disliking this video. Being brought up in London and going to a school where most of the students where predominantly black or of colour we didn't learn any of this. I however I already knew about half of what he said through my own personal research. I'm so happy he has done this talk and this is on RUclips so it can encourage people to actually learn about history and not what only your teachers teach you. Global history needs to be somehow included in the school curriculum because like I said in my school there were so many people from different backgrounds and we never learnt about their cultures/history.

  • @mhgh6759
    @mhgh6759 3 года назад +71

    The chain of events that lead me to your talk, I cannot explain, yet I will remain forever grateful. I am African, grew up in Africa yet what you spoke of was new to me but resonated so profoundly. WE ARE ONE. Thank you. All love and respect🙏🏾👊🏾

  • @oneafricaseries1090
    @oneafricaseries1090 4 года назад +111

    Mauritanian here,
    African first but I loved how many times he spoke about Mauritania because many people are not familiar with my country.

    • @josephinebournes8212
      @josephinebournes8212 3 года назад +5

      Sis, you're gorgeous 😍

    • @niani_mansa
      @niani_mansa 3 года назад

      Thanks for commenting, I was able to find out that you had a channel, keep it up. Gambian 🇬🇲 / 🇺🇸

    • @sbf254
      @sbf254 3 года назад +3

      Mauritania, Cartridge - what these Europeans called the Barbary states cause they didn't speak their corrupt Latin. Dido, who was a Phoenician Canaanite, black woman from Tyre, Sidon established Cartridge with along with black Hebrews. Contrary to the corrupt wiki, she wasn't a European, Greek. A lot of the Arab & Hebrew moors came out of this region. Hannibal, who was originally from Libya - then it was all black people. These same people from this region not only conquered the Iberian Peninsula also moved into the Isles of Briton, Ireland, Wales, Scotland. Here they were now called Silures. When they went there they saw the first inhabitants of those islands Eutherians, Minoans. These people were also black, descendants of Japheth. These are just a few, I left out a lot regarding where you're from. You've to interrogate your history by using old books to learn the truth. Most of these contemporary books after the first world war are filled with lies. FYI. Europeans are not white, they're red, let's get that on the record. Black people are not black - various shades of brown. Plus, so-called blacks are actually groups of nations, Hamites, Cushites, Hebrews, Phut etc. Anyway, the Redman put their faces n into our books to suppressed African excellence n pushed his lies to brainwash the world cuz of his anxiety, fear knowing that we ruled them for a thousand years in Europe.

    • @tomatoeseed3608
      @tomatoeseed3608 3 года назад

      I am one of these people who are not familiar with your country

    • @hermespsychopompos8267
      @hermespsychopompos8267 3 года назад

      We Greeks named your country, too. Mauros in my language, Greek, means Black. An other other name for a nearby area was Abyssinia from the other Greek word, Abyss ( the Dark chasm you can't even count ). Anyway, this guy is not be taken seriously as he touches Greeks to tell his story. Many did that. Whoever wants to create history of his own, uses us, the Greeks. I mean, Φck you at the end of the day. You don't even know who we are and what we did. The other fairytale: we all come from Africa 🤣

  • @haid3r88
    @haid3r88 8 лет назад +726

    A perfect example of a man who grew up with little physical possessions but gained a great amount of knowledge. Take note all the materialistic youngsters out there (our future to be).. you don't exactly need those stupidly priced headphones or tablets to be successfully minded.. you just need to have the willpower to differentiate and excel, after all.. this man is way ahead of his peers that he grew up with. Take notes.

    • @anpdm1
      @anpdm1 8 лет назад +25

      Where did you get the idea that he grew up with few possessions?

    • @anpdm1
      @anpdm1 8 лет назад +14

      The information might be new to some people but for others like my parents, this information was known. Thanks to the internet, those with access to tablets can find the info for themselves. Why would you believe he's ahead of his peers instead of also learning from his peers? Hopefully you've taken note.

    • @haid3r88
      @haid3r88 8 лет назад +24

      ***** what are you, the thought police?
      He grew up in a inner city council house, and to be quite frank it's well known he wasn't exactly flossing in materialistic goods growing up.. hence why I said a few possessions.. should I have said a few physical possessions instead?
      So being ahead of one's peers is an automatic assumption that you can't also learn from them? I think you need to assume less.. no offence to his clique.. his neighbourhood brothers etc. But I'm not the only one to say this, put his intelect up against one of his home boys, even they would agree Akala is on a different level to them.. that doesn't mean I'm calling others around him stupid, no he's just invested his time more wisely than others. Thanks for trying to school me ..don't need no PC/thought police.

    • @IphiaCarlene
      @IphiaCarlene 8 лет назад +12

      +Haider Ali just out of curiosity why would you assume his peers (homeboys) would not be of the same intellectual level as him?

    • @haid3r88
      @haid3r88 8 лет назад +8

      +IC Henry because people know about them. I'm not exactly assuming in this case. although yes, probably not the peers he associates more closely with now ..but his peers from 10 odd years ago. After all he's a real person from a real place.. this is all observable. Go ask someone who knows Akala on a more personal level. They might just say the same.
      Now I'm not saying I know this dude inside out ... all I'm saying is that it's a small world and one may be surprised to realise the mutual links that exist.

  • @m00plank90
    @m00plank90 6 лет назад +260

    Great talk. He's moved me to learn more. Rattling round my head was the thought : "
    it's not black versus white, or women versus men. Outlined by the opression after the Haitian revolution, it's greed and power versus ordinary people. Greed and power are colourblind."
    We would see all people as our own, and pull together to keep the power in check. To fortify this belief we need to educate ourselves.

    • @thisblackgirloverhere9013
      @thisblackgirloverhere9013 6 лет назад +24

      Matt Chapman No, if it was just that , the Atlantic slave trade would’ve had poor people of other races on it. I hate when white people do what you did...tried to take the blame of the evil, that is slavery, off of the white man. No it was about Race and money and power.

    • @thisblackgirloverhere9013
      @thisblackgirloverhere9013 6 лет назад +16

      NOne I’m not a comment bot. Lol. Whatever that is.🙄. What I was referring to what’s that his conclusion was that it was greed and power vs the ordinary people. And it’s not. It WAS about race and it is still about race. It’s not over. Now, if I misunderstood what he said, let me know respectfully, but don’t be rude to me again by calling me names...asshole....

    • @thisblackgirloverhere9013
      @thisblackgirloverhere9013 6 лет назад +8

      NOne You called me a comment bot and doesn’t expect me to get defensive?? Really? 🙄

    • @thisblackgirloverhere9013
      @thisblackgirloverhere9013 6 лет назад +14

      NOne We black people don’t want you to be color blind. We hate it when other races say that they don’t see color. We WANT you too see our color. We love being black! But we want other races to see our color and respect it . That’s all. Being colorblind is an insult to us it’s like trying to make our color invisible and like everyone else.

    • @thisblackgirloverhere9013
      @thisblackgirloverhere9013 6 лет назад +5

      NOne I’m talking about the majority. No one can speak for ALL. But if you like people trying not to acknowledge your blackness just so they will fit you in somewhere that’s your prerogative. There’s black people accepting all kinds of crap just to feel like they’re accepted by others. So, yeah. Do you man.

  • @mercedezlopez3662
    @mercedezlopez3662 3 года назад +88

    This was of the most important lectures I’ve ever heard.

    • @bintf4345
      @bintf4345 3 года назад

      @Liam Hopefully so you lot built everything that was in Africa right ?

    • @acquariavarese5059
      @acquariavarese5059 3 года назад +1

      Same here! It changed things, writing, thinking, a real refreshment to me.

    • @missqt48
      @missqt48 2 года назад +1

      @BintF
      YES WE DID!
      And those facts will forever give you chest pains aka Rayciiism

  • @CharlotteMike88
    @CharlotteMike88 4 года назад +41

    Wow, I grew up listening to Ms dynamite and her brother Akala.. the grime scene back in the day.. respect to two legends from the same family!

  • @shonnyNOR
    @shonnyNOR 7 лет назад +144

    What a lecturer! Brilliant presentation and tongue-in-cheek in a most informative and impressive combination.

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 6 лет назад +3

      @Germania Kuoni lol would specifically did he lie about?

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 6 лет назад +9

      @Germania Kuoni I've been to that Nazis video's and laugh my ass off. He shows pictures off dynasties after invasions but never the 1st. I want your evidence that he lied about the hieroglyphs and show what they actually mean by academic sources. Show one legitimate egyptologist (not hawass) that says the first dynasties in Egypt weren't black African. I can list African kingdoms before invasions and the ones that had pyramids. You know for sure those were African so why when it comes to Egypt all of sudden Africans had no part? Why lie to yourself to make you feel superior? Can you atleast admit there were rich African kingdoms before any invasion, or are you just a racist who isn't open to learning?

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 6 лет назад +2

      @Germania Kuoni What happened? Cat got your tongue? Since you won't respond hopefully you actually research without the hate and stop using debunked, outdated, racist scholarly ideology to come to conclusions about a race of people. If your German I'm surprised your even are racist. I thought Germans were smarter and more educated then racist whites in America. Thank God most Germans don't think like you.

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 6 лет назад +1

      @Germania Kuoni ruclips.net/video/CpuGTr0p9dM/видео.html and since us blacks are just cray afrocentric's here's white people telling you the face of the sphinx is black African. I bet super Egypt won't show this.

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 6 лет назад +1

      @Germania Kuoni make sure you watch all of it and learn for yourself.

  • @kyj1s449
    @kyj1s449 6 лет назад +125

    The way this man articulates his points is exceptional. It's not offensive to those who usually are by Black excellence nor is it boisterous chest thumping often seen by poorly spoken partly informed people who wish to to convey what Akala does. His sarcasm is well placed and timed as he demonstrates the hypocrisies in racist ideology using history and fact with his comparative format. We can't have it both ways. This was a Very well put together lecture one of the best I've seen on the subject in awhile.

    • @chukuamorfam9819
      @chukuamorfam9819 2 года назад

      Anyone taking offense to any fact based perspective on world history is a sensitive, triggered, supremacist snow flake… and exemplifies the lowest human type which brother Akala speaks of generously.

    • @lucsambourd1525
      @lucsambourd1525 3 месяца назад

      Which ways can't we have both of?? Doesn't mean anything. Sarcasm doesn't prove any case. Demonstrating colonial hypocrisy doesn't prove his theory. Why would current Egyptology be part of a conspiracy to deny the "real truth" that native Egyptians were of dark skinned subsaharan type while accepting that they were not of European descent anyway? Racism and colonialism collapse in either case. Think with your brain not with your guts. Just because an presentation is nicely presented doesn't make it correct.

  • @gailknox6202
    @gailknox6202 3 года назад +224

    I realize this video is a few years old but I just came across it now extremely inspiring & uplifting. Inspiring in the sense that we all individually or as a group effort can have a part as human beings in mapping out truth in history , learning it and getting the story out there.uplifting in the sense of knowing people are participating actively in making it happen lighten my heavy heart on the matter. Short & Sweet !!! The young man wow quite a breath of fresh air.

    • @burroughsw5058
      @burroughsw5058 3 года назад +10

      He is a consumate academic. Intellectual prowess, delivered sincerely, well researched and free of emotion, despite the contentious issues. He is a man, gifted.

    • @Osman-mj5rf
      @Osman-mj5rf 2 года назад +4

      Blessed sweet pea

    • @cts-video
      @cts-video 2 года назад +6

      Truth and facts never get old or can be denied

    • @evelyncurenton2160
      @evelyncurenton2160 2 года назад +4

      Absolutely awesome. He needs to be heard globally in all venues of academia.

    • @polylyth
      @polylyth 2 года назад +1

      It's a load of poorly researched, error laden codswallop.

  • @elauadeinsf
    @elauadeinsf 4 года назад +33

    This is just really great, and yes, this guy should talk in schools and in documentaries. It's the most education I have received in an hour ever.

  • @Torisho
    @Torisho 8 лет назад +166

    Truly one of the most enlightening lectures I have seen in all my life. To be educated to post-degree level and not know, or even have access to, almost any of this body of knowledge is a crime.

    • @MJ-qc2zh
      @MJ-qc2zh 8 лет назад +16

      +Alexander A Air This information is buried deep on purpose.

    • @iJELLYi
      @iJELLYi 8 лет назад +10

      +SG A ikr? the history of our actual world is all hidden from us. something as amazing and deep as this should be shared with pride not conceit. i wish it was all made known worldwide

    • @samono7726
      @samono7726 6 лет назад +7

      It is your supremacist tendencies that renders you incapable of reasoning with any refutation of your sources which have painted your race as superior in all account. It isn't surprising that you easily believe without question those sources of history which paints pictures of history to butter the ego of your race while retarding others, yet you ridicule with ease any source that provides refutations to your acclaimed knowledge of history. The joke is truly on you. While you think smart of yourselves, the truth is; you are simply in the shackles of intellectual poverty.

    • @_MJ07_
      @_MJ07_ 6 лет назад

      What an incredibly ironic and ignorant display I have stumbled on here.

    • @jb411000
      @jb411000 6 лет назад

      Sorry. I grew up in Jamaica and managed to know a bit of this.

  • @tayoidowu11
    @tayoidowu11 3 года назад +19

    Sweet gesus.....this was amazing! I am a mixed race UK born Dr, I have lived in Nigeria and Norway and Akala shamed me... His lecture was fluid, poetical, researched entertaining....I am so thankful that I stumbled across his music which led me here. Brilliant. Inspired and just brilliant. All UK should listen to this. May sound odd,but this should be a mantra of British Afro/mixed education...thank u akala

    • @alimantado373
      @alimantado373 3 года назад

      Black people in the UK of West Indian heritage know this history and don't need to be taught it by Akela. We of a certain generation taught him these facts that were passed down to us. Your African (by the name I guess) How come you dont know this history yourself? Perhaps because you never had your name taken away you didnt have the need to know your own roots.

    • @tayoidowu11
      @tayoidowu11 3 года назад +2

      @@alimantado373 I know a lot of my history,I know origin and meaning of my name,I have lived in my country and been to school,I have pounded yam with the women and butchered the cow with my father.but this lecture showed how much I don't know about Africa..the continent and all the people there.this is the history I am referring to more so than Nigeria. But I am happy that w.indian origin are passing this down and that you don't feel you need this.

  • @burroughsw5058
    @burroughsw5058 3 года назад +86

    He's a gifted, intelligent orator. Respect Akala. Every educational institute would be complimented, supremely, with such an individual. A truly remarkable young man, academically astute and possesses the necessary altruism, what folk warm to.

    • @lucsambourd1525
      @lucsambourd1525 3 месяца назад

      Being intelligent and charismatic doesn't equate with being correct.

  • @willisizm1
    @willisizm1 4 года назад +226

    a fluid presentation with some greater and lesser known facts ... no notes or cue cards ... and so young ...look forward to more from this man

    • @bishbosh1962
      @bishbosh1962 4 года назад +3

      I agree, a brilliant lecture. But not sure what you consider young? I've friends who are university lecturers who're younger than he was when this lecture was given (31). Perhaps you think he looks very young and weren't aware of his actual age?

    • @allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164
      @allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164 4 года назад +1

      @@bishbosh1962 mashallah tbark allah alhamdulillah inshallah better astaghfirullah

    • @hartzldn
      @hartzldn 4 года назад +5

      @@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164 So are you happy or disgusted. Literally no Muslim uses all 5 of the words you’ve just used in the same sentence. Stop being an idiot and delete your comment before you give reasoning for people to justify their islamaphopia, you know nothing about Islam, given you used all 5 of those words in a the same sentence I sincerely doubt your even a Muslim lol.

    • @gracegg5485
      @gracegg5485 4 года назад +1

      @Graham, King of the Britons! 😊😩😳😭

    • @Will_Moffett
      @Will_Moffett 4 года назад

      I take issue with your comment because it implies that you are judging the intelligence if the speaker under a standard reserved for Black people. Even Noam Chomsky uses notes and cards, but I've never heard anyone knock him for it. Your comment reveals your bias. I'm not saying you're a bad racist- you definitely aren't. But you might want to take a hard look at some of your default assumptions about Black people.

  • @Alchemistic88
    @Alchemistic88 4 года назад +675

    I only thought I'd watch a few minutes of this and he hooked me for the whole thing. Very well done

    • @akrammulji3435
      @akrammulji3435 4 года назад +2

      Guys, at 20.32, he says Michael ______________. Please help.

    • @Alchemistic88
      @Alchemistic88 4 года назад +2

      @@akrammulji3435 he said "a man called Gerald Massey"

    • @akrammulji3435
      @akrammulji3435 4 года назад +2

      @@Alchemistic88 Thanks so much. Really couldn't hear that clearly it seems :O

    • @akrammulji3435
      @akrammulji3435 4 года назад +1

      Hi, would you mind helping me out with 27:25. A dutchman called _____________.

    • @Alchemistic88
      @Alchemistic88 4 года назад +1

      @@akrammulji3435 Olfert Dapper

  • @freedomutopuia
    @freedomutopuia 9 лет назад +155

    This was eye opening on many levels. The way in which you articulate and project yourself is inspirational; coupled with your humbleness, there isn't a soul who shouldn't be taking a leaf from you book . Food for thought indeed Mr Akala ...

    • @KillahManjaro
      @KillahManjaro 9 лет назад

      +Adam Adams What do you mean everywhere?

    • @freedomutopuia
      @freedomutopuia 9 лет назад +12

      +Adam Adams You're confused in so many ways

    • @BenNCM
      @BenNCM 9 лет назад +8

      +Adam Adams Fuck off Adam Adamsonson

    • @auto-understudy5716
      @auto-understudy5716 9 лет назад +4

      +Adam Adams you truly are misinformed. Firstly, you would need to explain to me how you think New Zealand was founded by white people. Perhaps if you do so I might be able to understand what you are trying to say. Please also explain how the whites in New Zealand are all going to be killed?

    • @shanicedent4995
      @shanicedent4995 9 лет назад +4

      +Adam Adams interesting approach to a free education. Troll so people try to teach you the error in your ways. Well, I don't mind falling for it. It seems you don't even know your white version of New Zealand history yet you choose to talk about it as if you do. When the whites first arrived they saw these 'cannibals' as civilised themselves and so chose to live alongside them at first. This was for many reasons, but even if you take the most cynical view of the situation you can see that the settlers were not superior. Having superior status is contextual and at the time the settlers were not. It seems that even as cannibals the people indigenous to New Zealand were deemed good enough to live alongside. This decision was made by the colonists themselves. You also don't seem to have an answer as to how you think all the whites in New Zealand are going to be killed.

  • @walterhidalgo5130
    @walterhidalgo5130 3 года назад +24

    To see a young man "of color" spitting this kind of knowledge is living proof of the rich and long standing history of our mother land Africa. #RESPECT

  • @jellosapiens7261
    @jellosapiens7261 8 лет назад +193

    Every time I hear his words I'm blown away.

    • @wilberforcelea8219
      @wilberforcelea8219 6 лет назад +3

      I dont think you'll get any useful information listening to him, we need to determine the future before it is determined for us why think anbout the past how does it your everyday life ...? or your life as a whole!

    • @corneliussmith4907
      @corneliussmith4907 6 лет назад +2

      he's half white, of course he's intellgient.

    • @jeannemeyer3089
      @jeannemeyer3089 6 лет назад

      Hopefully by his stupidity ,

    • @Jay_Bee_Beats
      @Jay_Bee_Beats 6 лет назад +7

      Seems that all of you here arguing about race and using vile racial language towards each other would be a huge disappointment to Akala. The point of educating people of past/recent racial indoctrination/abuse is to enlighten us enough to ensure it doesn't happen again. Its not to spur on racial hatred between blacks and whites, it's to educate us all on the history of our ancestors so we can all work together to improve society, and to break down the social/racial walls that have been built up over the course of hundreds and hundreds of years of racial oppression around the planet. You lot are just pushing us back with all this primitive racial hatred, we need to move past all this bullshit and co-exist working together to improve life for everyone.

    • @Jay_Bee_Beats
      @Jay_Bee_Beats 6 лет назад +5

      I'm not talking to you. Especially after the "So why is black skin the same color as shit?" comment you made. You clearly have some problem with black people so you will never accept anything that doesn't fit your narrative.

  • @sbeav1105
    @sbeav1105 6 лет назад +1683

    I really wish they could've zoomed in on his slides during this lecture

    • @TheHoodmailbox
      @TheHoodmailbox 5 лет назад +33

      Sbeav So frustrating!

    • @desnebula5699
      @desnebula5699 5 лет назад +5

      Read a book airhead.

    • @arlenephipps4405
      @arlenephipps4405 5 лет назад +64

      I also wished they could of showed his video slides makes you wonder if it is or was done intentionally.
      Ms. Phipps.

    • @silasmurphy4886
      @silasmurphy4886 5 лет назад +45

      That was by Design not zooming in on the slides, but zooming in on him instead, using his lips as a distraction from the evidence and facts he came to present.

    • @kobaofbrum
      @kobaofbrum 5 лет назад +8

      Why?research and your find what your looking for

  • @sandramcintosh2231
    @sandramcintosh2231 5 лет назад +136

    I've have continuously heard that African history did not begin and end with slavery. I consider myself to be educated and read widely but today I have learnt more in listening to Akala than I have in my 57years. Thank you Akala, also Amazon have made a tidy profit as a result of this talk.

    • @stew360
      @stew360 4 года назад +5

      Well do proper research , since my young age i have always been pasionate by egyptology and this man is just a crackhead on steroids Verify the facts not on " blackpower dot com " but on reliable egyptolgy sources materials you can even visit tomb in 3d 18:78 He pretend Museum will display " Nefertiti " because she was more " NON AFRICAN LOOKING " Yet Nefertiti daughter of Akhenaton Egyptian pharaoh reigning circa 1353-1336 BC, and Nefertiti lived 1370 - c. 1330 BC 16:37 Here once again he lied ... Ramsees III or 3 actually reigned from 1186 to 1155 BC wich is almost 200 years after Akhenaton aka ( the sun worshipper pharaoh) adn century after his daughter Nefertiti wich compleatly defeat his arguments ... ALso the Picture he show off isnt the true representation of Ancient egypt races .. you have a copy and paste two time of the Nubian while the original of this as 1 Nubian black , 1 Asian white , 1 Libyan white , and 1 egyptian "redish tanned "and woman depicted as yellowish while nubian woman as dark brown and nubian males as Dark black ... These " race image " were found in Seti I tomb wich reign between with whithin the range of 1294 BC to 1279 BC or 1290 BC to 1279 BC wich again would still be holder than Ramsees III reign .. all his THeory are bollucks and the picture he show of the race as been taken from a black supremacist website propagandist ... LOOK UP all the information i have given and search in egyptology work and you will see this guy is full of shit and dont know anything of what he talk about .... Every piece of evidence we have about race proove that Egyptian were neither black african Neither white european neither Asian .. they were most likely metiss or well Mediteranean ? but their features and skin complextity was a thing ... also after the conquest of Nubia .. Nubia black have indeed adopted the cultural and way of life of the egyptian and became powerfull wich should make him happy prooved that " black african " were as capable as non black or at least partially non black egyptian .. Nubians also ruled as pharaoh for about a century but then loose power ...etc..etc.. then centurys after that Egyptian loose to persian then to roman and so on

    • @eddieamoakuh2480
      @eddieamoakuh2480 4 года назад +9

      @@stew360 If maybe you had an English speaker edit your comments what you're saying might have made more sense. I've read many of the books he talks about and listened to many live lectures on the topic and he's actually spot on.

    • @Johnb.78
      @Johnb.78 4 года назад +7

      No one ever mentions how the Barbary pirates used to sail up to Britain and snatch whites to be sold into slavery in the Ottoman Empire, before the european slave trade even started

    • @elmztana1201
      @elmztana1201 4 года назад +4

      @I plead the 5th loool u guys and your lies . what are u talking about ? he got all A's In his GCSEs how did he drop out . He shouted Aristotle and other famous scholars of that time. But hey yall cant accept that . It's more believe that they were black africans instead of white Europeans. Just saying

    • @HeLpLOstGOdAny1
      @HeLpLOstGOdAny1 4 года назад

      @@eddieamoakuh2480 if you're going to refute someone do not criticize merely based on English being someone's 2nd language; back it with substance, but here's the thing, you won't be able to

  • @kanepreton9588
    @kanepreton9588 2 года назад +49

    I come back to this at least once a year, such a great talk

    • @sarahreid48
      @sarahreid48 Год назад

      I actually think it is terrible ruclips.net/video/B--gQVANKCE/видео.html

  • @rayneozier
    @rayneozier 7 лет назад +166

    I am a 20 year old black male, and this was very enlightening. #StayWoke

    • @ChanceSherwood
      @ChanceSherwood 6 лет назад +2

      Funkadelic-Mothership, continue your education. Afrofuturism is not a new invention, we're remembering who we are

    • @ChanceSherwood
      @ChanceSherwood 6 лет назад +4

      @WAFFEN COLLIDER Have you never heard of colonialism? Have you ever heard the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence? Do you have anything to say from yourself, or are you just repeating 'facts' that you yourself had no part in the verification of?
      It's silly to think that 90 people in a graveyard couldn't represent but a small proportion of the population. The proportion that was mummified. The elite. The COLONIZERS. Use your head, and try not to reply with another link. I'm curious if you understand logic. Besides, Egypt goes back another 2,000 years before this.
      Also, to hoist you on your own pitard: "90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypt’s New Kingdom, and ad425"
      You serious? 90 corpses from a stretch of 1800 years proves anything? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA STAY IN SCHOOL, KIDS.

    • @ChanceSherwood
      @ChanceSherwood 6 лет назад +2

      @Bo Pick Notice how I give examples and back it up with reason. You just cry and call me a liar. I wonder who has the authority of intelligence and research here? HMMMM.

    • @ChanceSherwood
      @ChanceSherwood 6 лет назад +2

      ​@Bo Pick Others? You mean white people? So you're giving me a race here, eh? and that's relevant to your argument?
      Are you seriously basing your assertion on the skin colour you've decided I have? It's the internet and besides, there's only one human race, you goof. If your whole point revolves around somebody's skin colour, you have no ground to stand on, you just look racist.
      I'd love to see you try to prove one "lie" authoritatively.

    • @ChanceSherwood
      @ChanceSherwood 6 лет назад +1

      @Bo Pick You're delusional and racist. You have said nothing you can back up with your own words. Do you have your own thought-out opinion, or do you need to borrow someone else's brain to come up with one? Want to link something else that proves you can't think for yourself?
      Notice how I'm not calling you a liar? I'm not reducing myself to your tactics, making shit up, I'm calling you what you are, delusional.
      The burden of truth is on you. You can say I'm lying all day long, but the burden of truth is on you to prove it. If you can't, well, you're just proving me right by showing the weakness of your position. And I mean prove it in a couple sentences, not through a video or article someone else wrote. I'd be amazed if you had an opinion and it was more developed than a caveman's. Please, amaze me.

  • @ayoabe
    @ayoabe 8 лет назад +64

    I keep coming back to this brilliant speech! So satisfying and enlightening! One Love Akala!

  • @zions-i589
    @zions-i589 6 лет назад +49

    That was brilliant. Learnt more on history in this 1 hour than I did in 5 years plus of high School. Respect to Akala and his mentors

  • @adamndaw1041
    @adamndaw1041 3 года назад +220

    Akala is so incredibly knowledgeable. I wished I had a teacher like him growing up.

    • @forret
      @forret 3 года назад +3

      Almost none of what he said is historically true, so it depends on what you are looking for in a teacher... his book is equally cretinous

    • @mikesand5732
      @mikesand5732 3 года назад

      yes Adam , I am 60 years of age in my research and Akala blew me out of my stance so much of our strength and level of perception has not been possible without truth. and to be honest , inside im hurt deeply because of it but all i can do is to be sure teach this truth to those that are under my care

    • @tokayanazolana9543
      @tokayanazolana9543 3 года назад +1

      @@forret I pitty your kind... choose the kind of world you want for the next generation, because your white washed history spreads hatred... you better believe that this time, or we shall all be respected equally and our history restored or we shall all perish! Gone are those days when you white washed everything 😪😕😩

    • @tokayanazolana9543
      @tokayanazolana9543 3 года назад

      @@forret I pitty your kind... choose the kind of world you want for the next generation, because your white washed history spreads hatred... you better believe that this time, or we shall all be respected equally and our history restored or we shall all perish! Gone are those days when you white washed everything 😪😕😩

    • @yuutonosuri772
      @yuutonosuri772 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/TrjLNpfDTi0/видео.html

  • @caramelfish1307
    @caramelfish1307 4 года назад +40

    Great talk and great questions, I have never had my mind blown to this extent in a single 1h lecture.

    • @cccpkingu
      @cccpkingu 4 года назад +1

      Imagine what you could do if you understood formal logic and had a grasp of genetics and history.

  • @Trixxine
    @Trixxine 4 года назад +33

    The fact that Prisoners who heard this lecture from him years before asked better questions and were more engaged makes me feel sad for Oxford Students.

    • @JordanWilliams-ix2td
      @JordanWilliams-ix2td 2 года назад +4

      The truth hurts lol

    • @nathanielrichards3494
      @nathanielrichards3494 7 месяцев назад

      You already they didn’t want to hear that shit because that means what they actually learning in that university is propaganda biased bullshit and that institution will never teach real history or give the black scholars their credit!! lol!! I’m surprised they let him present that!

  • @susiq1121
    @susiq1121 5 лет назад +322

    My children will speak with such eloquence, and have that amount of passion and knowledge for their history.

    • @iamnotinvolved1309
      @iamnotinvolved1309 4 года назад

      Amen.

    • @originalrbp2869
      @originalrbp2869 4 года назад +1

      Your children: "meh"

    • @chelseacomps829
      @chelseacomps829 4 года назад

      shlomo goldbergstein Ok Groyper

    • @joshuasole5989
      @joshuasole5989 4 года назад

      He doesn't pronounce his 't' properly.

    • @blackmirrorball3084
      @blackmirrorball3084 4 года назад +2

      @@joshuasole5989 yeah, he does. It's his accent. He comes from a part of London that has a very specific accent. There are quite a few accents in London. Across the UK there are LOADS of different accents. Go and have a listen. And it's 'T's not 't'!

  • @joannaharrison7368
    @joannaharrison7368 2 года назад +34

    This talk has inspired me to learn as much as I possibly can. This brilliant man absolutely rocks! Every school on our beautiful planet needs an inspired teacher like this...educating and telling the truth to the youth and Inspiring the future!

    • @marlostanfield582
      @marlostanfield582 2 года назад +4

      For further research, listen to dr sally ann ashton, dr rebecca futo jenny, dr martin bernal, dr ivan van sertima and many more if i remember i’ll add it on to the edits

    • @alexgibson2871
      @alexgibson2871 2 года назад +1

      a lot of what he is says is conjecture, even among historians of africa, and notice every time he uses the 'malicious'. its all a bit off..

    • @joannaharrison7368
      @joannaharrison7368 2 года назад

      @@marlostanfield582 thank you, THANK YOU so very much for taking the time and writing those down for all of us!!

    • @joannaharrison7368
      @joannaharrison7368 2 года назад

      @@alexgibson2871 ok, I will pay more attention for the argument on both sides!! Thank you Alex!

  • @rawthawt
    @rawthawt 5 лет назад +797

    He doesn’t even have cue cards! He knows his shit man love this!

    • @brendakabanda2181
      @brendakabanda2181 5 лет назад +27

      When you read African history in its entirety, you will see that it is a story and you only need to read it once and it makes sense. Plain and simple.

    • @melanatedwoman3760
      @melanatedwoman3760 5 лет назад +5

      Raw Thawt ...this is what he dies for a living. I wouldn't need cue cards either.

    • @rawthawt
      @rawthawt 5 лет назад +8

      @@melanatedwoman3760 its obviously passion too cos I seen people do things for a living and they still need some type of cues haha

    • @truthxposed8975
      @truthxposed8975 5 лет назад +4

      😂 you dont need em when you make shit up. 7phoenician7 debunked everything he said so severely he should go into hiding.

    • @NickyM_0
      @NickyM_0 5 лет назад +20

      @@truthxposed8975 There is always 1 and you are that ONE!

  • @ebonyg2244
    @ebonyg2244 4 года назад +890

    Akala has inspired me to start a pan African Saturday school in Baltimore, Maryland

    • @julietcharles668
      @julietcharles668 4 года назад +3

      @funbot Well if that's your belief is not easy in this day and age to fact check? Just asking the question!🤔

    • @tommorgan7599
      @tommorgan7599 4 года назад +1

      @funbot could you give me an example?

    • @tommorgan7599
      @tommorgan7599 4 года назад +10

      @funbot Herodotus and Aristotle both wrote that they had dark skin, what do you think of that?

    • @tommorgan7599
      @tommorgan7599 4 года назад +3

      @funbot But I'm not sure that the claim is that they we're genetically black, but that they had black skin?

    • @georgemckenzie6117
      @georgemckenzie6117 4 года назад +11

      @@tommorgan7599 he won't discuss things that are evidenced against his line of bs....this guy's been bombarded and shredded on every opportunity ....truth and facts=kryptonite to his kind....please allow them to simmer in thier own self imposed sickness....

  • @markfablesmurphy
    @markfablesmurphy 4 года назад +280

    I wish someone at the BBC would commission this lecture to be remade into a full documentary, with imagery that could match Akala's powerful words

    • @sirtrollalot7762
      @sirtrollalot7762 4 года назад +14

      nah, half of what he is talking about is pseudoscience anyway

    • @markfablesmurphy
      @markfablesmurphy 4 года назад +21

      @@sirtrollalot7762 It isn't science, it's history.

    • @sirtrollalot7762
      @sirtrollalot7762 4 года назад +5

      How a Camel Smiles not true but whatever you say

    • @kellymm7630
      @kellymm7630 4 года назад +6

      @@sirtrollalot7762 ouch you sound a tad silly ,

    • @Ray-uk3um
      @Ray-uk3um 4 года назад +1

      @@kellymm7630 a tad?

  • @otisadonisbeats
    @otisadonisbeats 3 года назад +3

    DAMN!!!! Do you know how long RUclips suggested this video to me? Three YEARS! only now have I watched it and my God I should've watched it way back. Great Assessment from Akala and bringing up this perspective of knowledge and History and Teach history in its purist form.

  • @magnusdanielsson2749
    @magnusdanielsson2749 8 лет назад +71

    Very interesting. In Sweden we had a big debate in the 90s regarding our image of the Vikings. The swedish kings who came after the Vikings wanted to distance them self from the Vikings. As such we had a very poor understanding of the Vikings and the best sources of the history was for a long time German, French and English sources.
    I recently saw a documentary about anarchism and realized I had a very poor and very biased view about what anarchism is and what their role in history was. How one of the biggest most popular human rights movements of the time could be so suppressed even though they were so important in the advancement of the workers movements and the Unions is just amazing, and its quite recent history..
    And it all continues today were certain world views (opinions) are being put forth by old and new media, politicians, populist writers (blogs etc). Instead of having a open objective debate based on facts.
    Regarding older history it seems we lack a lot of knowledge. Especially since every effort weve made at understanding our history have been made through a "white" filter based on ideas of social darwinism. Many researchers have been and still are so indoctrinated in this world view that they cant even accept simple facts based on logical and rational thoughts or even common sense..
    Reading the books by Graham Hancock or listening to Robert Bauval it becomes clear that theres is alot we dont know about history. Even more is the amount we seem to not know we dont know yet..

    • @infallibl
      @infallibl 8 лет назад +5

      I enjoyed reading that brother..

    • @Meccarox
      @Meccarox 7 лет назад +3

      Exactly.

    • @weareallbeingwatched4602
      @weareallbeingwatched4602 7 лет назад +4

      I find this reasoning highly agreeable.

    • @patrickholt2270
      @patrickholt2270 6 лет назад +5

      An awful lot of the old racial theory of history and Eurocentric history was based on bare-faced ignorance. The more you know, the more you know. Widening your interests is a choice you can make to escape ignorance, and the progress of research, like translating Malian documents, and of archaeology are developing people's understanding despite their prejudices, including among the kind of very posh, very white historians who tend to dominate history programmes on TV. And there there is definitely a need for political struggle, to force media elites to broaden their content.

    • @kevinanith2713
      @kevinanith2713 6 лет назад +1

      @Reason 1234 Moron spotted. Stalin, Cortez, Columbus, Churchill, Hitler etc have killed millions are your here calling blacks that have not killed up to a million. Your an IDIOT is understatement. Fooooooooooooool!

  • @aboubacaramine8689
    @aboubacaramine8689 4 года назад +374

    Shoutout to the Black dude who raised his hand first in the Q&A section but never got picked by the host.

    • @darrellpeebles2300
      @darrellpeebles2300 4 года назад +54

      Shout out to you for calling that out. What the heck was that about? Maybe he caught him in the bar??? Anyway, I hadn't seen that level of insightful info put together and delivered so well in many years. Googling this brother is a pleasure.

    • @user-tk4qd8dj1p
      @user-tk4qd8dj1p 4 года назад +16

      caught that. first hand up right at the front and ignored wth

    • @Abp169
      @Abp169 4 года назад +3

      @@user-tk4qd8dj1p doesn't really matter does it lol

    • @sandraroberts7406
      @sandraroberts7406 4 года назад +7

      @@user-tk4qd8dj1p : IT'S CALLED THE WILLIE LYNCH SYNDROME, @ STEPHEN DARBY MINISTRY CHECK HIM OUT.

    • @janewwu1063
      @janewwu1063 4 года назад +4

      I wonder what that was about?

  • @foxxybrown291
    @foxxybrown291 9 лет назад +246

    Thank You Akala... I hope more people find the courage to share their knowledge. And I was born in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo then lived in Harare till age 9 then came to Manchester UK. But even as a child I felt how special/magical a place Zimbabwe is. Seeing the stone carvings and statues. I wish I could see the slides. You and Chakabars make my IG timeline worth watching lol xx

    • @samyoe
      @samyoe 9 лет назад +32

      +Adam Adams that already happened when it was colonised in the late 19th century by an Englishman.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 9 лет назад +9

      +B Apps Yes and they have all been kicked out now, I'd know as some of my neighbours are white zimbabweans, the country has also gone to shit now.

    • @MJ-qc2zh
      @MJ-qc2zh 9 лет назад +4

      +NO because of illegal sanctions by Imperialist UK and America, thank God for China and Russia for their support.

    • @MJ-qc2zh
      @MJ-qc2zh 9 лет назад +8

      +Adam Adams Unfortunately white AngloSaxons always seek to suck the blood and resources whenever they come to Africa, they show a lack of respect and seek to impose white supremacist rule on the majority. So yeah, history proves it has not been a good idea.

    • @MJ-qc2zh
      @MJ-qc2zh 9 лет назад +6

      +NO They got kicked out because they wanted to impose white supremacist minority rule whilst hording all of the resources and making the lives of the native rightful people of Zim their servants...I hope you are not a butt-hurt closet racist EDL thug!

  • @harveywitt4444
    @harveywitt4444 2 года назад +95

    I am so glad I took time to listen to this history lesson. Absolutely profound. Very enlightening 👌

  • @LeveledHeadGamer
    @LeveledHeadGamer 8 лет назад +32

    this was so beautiful... I truly appreciate this video!!

  • @itsJDarts
    @itsJDarts 9 лет назад +426

    After all of that, the questions were about grime and using Nigga SMH
    Was they not even listening? Damn kids

    • @calmdown15
      @calmdown15 9 лет назад +16

      +JD Arts
      trust me lool
      Akala dropped so much knowledge and he wants to ask about common skepta...

    • @timpullen398
      @timpullen398 9 лет назад

      +Paul Charles Thank you for the

    • @timpullen398
      @timpullen398 9 лет назад

      +Paul Charles Thank you for the link.

    • @EelizaGee
      @EelizaGee 9 лет назад

      +Tim Pullen is this the link for the lecutre slides? if so could you send it my way aswell

    • @Bigbaby071
      @Bigbaby071 9 лет назад +7

      True! And more to the point she seemed pissed off as Akala was dropping that Afrikan knowledge cold!

  • @Mrdonny908
    @Mrdonny908 8 лет назад +161

    This dude is very intelligent! Salute to this man!!

    • @cccpkingu
      @cccpkingu 4 года назад

      Care to enlighten us as to why that is?

    • @MO-vy1ri
      @MO-vy1ri Год назад

      ​@@cccpkingu I'm from Egypt we are black that's a fact you don't know history 😂😂😂.

    • @paulclayton9825
      @paulclayton9825 4 месяца назад

      @@cccpkingu4 years later and your ignorance has been permanently etched into time 😂 how embarrassing

  • @kjersey6781
    @kjersey6781 3 года назад +122

    THE TRUTH HURTS SOMETIMES BUT IT DOESN'T STOP BEING THE TRUTH.

    • @russellbeverly94
      @russellbeverly94 3 года назад +2

      Great point 👉

    • @badseedzontop5687
      @badseedzontop5687 3 года назад +3

      Facts.

    • @DirtyLifeLove
      @DirtyLifeLove 3 года назад +13

      As a whitey, it doesn't bother me, but does shed light on my racist subconscious, created by a life in systemic racism.

    • @jacobmarley2966
      @jacobmarley2966 3 года назад +1

      Almost none of what this man said is historical truth the only truth here is history being revised and twisted as a cope for black insecurity. Black therapy if you will.

    • @hiswillbedone642
      @hiswillbedone642 3 года назад +7

      @@DirtyLifeLove I can do nothing but respect this statement…..

  • @dorothygriffiths649
    @dorothygriffiths649 4 года назад +17

    Akala I thank you for allowing this wealth of knowledge to be shared in this medium, and on this platform. You are a gift to mankind. I honour your mother- well your father too! I studied in the UK, and I wasn't made to feel like my opinion mattered. I did insist on being heard, by addressing issues that were presented in various forums. Right now my University claimed they can't find my records which were from 1999-2000. I plan on finding my other colleagues to check in on their records to see if theirs is missing too. I want to fact check because I was the only Black Caribbean female among 7-8 white/persons (well there was 1 Greek, 1 Singapore, 1 Spanish ) I was still outnumbered in terms of equality.

    • @Jojayoh2011
      @Jojayoh2011 3 года назад

      WOW...I trust that your records are found. I also trust that you brought given a voice....

    • @pathughes8902
      @pathughes8902 2 года назад +1

      Are you sure it was a University and not one of these fake colleges that was disbanded. 11 seems a very small class. What were you studying? 1 year course???

  • @ARBAN30
    @ARBAN30 3 года назад +364

    This guy is a gifted scholar.....why didn't I get someone like him in my school years ....the passion is just top notch

    • @cognitionup5211
      @cognitionup5211 3 года назад +3

      Absolutely!! The filthy dranco dem neva waa wi fi kno nuthun!!

    • @thisgame2
      @thisgame2 3 года назад +4

      What a loaded comment

    • @josephineayella543
      @josephineayella543 3 года назад +16

      @@thisgame2 That is what I told myself, highly inspirational and one hangs on every word he says. He made the history lecture really interesting. I liked sciences and not history, I think I was short changed by me history teachers!

    • @Stonefree11
      @Stonefree11 3 года назад +4

      @@cognitionup5211 why do you waste your time with bullshit?

    • @drstevej2527
      @drstevej2527 3 года назад +9

      He is a rapper not a scholar. Where is his peer reviewed research published?

  • @mozeztheman7925
    @mozeztheman7925 4 года назад +135

    As soon as I heard him say John Henrik Clarke, I knew he knew, what he was talking about!!!

  • @Oba_Ewaunfo_
    @Oba_Ewaunfo_ 3 года назад +26

    Talented and gifted scholar. Could feel the energy and presence of Dr Van Sertima and Dr JHernrik Clark all throughout this presentation. Excellent.

  • @julieanderson6532
    @julieanderson6532 5 лет назад +31

    Absolutely loved this! Makes me want to learn as much as possible about all cultures and llanguages, etc...thank you, Akala!

  • @demoscratos4577
    @demoscratos4577 4 года назад +26

    Jeezus ! Love this man’s passion, diplomacy and conviction. I learned more in this hour than I did in all my 4 years of high school.

  • @MADEbySOUL
    @MADEbySOUL 6 лет назад +61

    This man is intelligent, pro-equality for race and sex, and has an amazing voice! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the kind of man we can all admire and support! I don't know how many of you will come here after a certain rapper/artist said "Slavery was a choice" but listen to this man. He will bring to light to a history that we should be ashamed of but never dismiss or forget. That when people try to water down the white washing of films tying together real concerns that hurt communities with people just being "haters," you can respond back of why white washing is hurtful. My mother was black and beloved by my older cousin but even she fell prey to this nonsense that people who brought up the obvious white washing were crying for nothing. She did not see how this could hurt people who looked just like my mother. That not only does it rob people of darker skin of roles in modern Hollywood but it erases their history and roles in the past.

    • @VICTORERIKA
      @VICTORERIKA 5 лет назад

      Sirama is he fuck pro equality. He’s a white hater. Fuck him.

    • @melanatedwoman3760
      @melanatedwoman3760 5 лет назад

      Sirama ...I know you aren't quoting dumbass koonye who called up a white actor and asked that man to play him in a biopic.
      I know u are trying to make a point, but not that spook who sat by the door.

    • @briancole1687
      @briancole1687 3 года назад +1

      @@VICTORERIKA certainly you're not talking about a Akala who's very own mother is white he is simply speaking truth about proven facts of history you're obviously the racist if that's who you are speaking of only your hatred can make you so angry and vile.

  • @gborowme
    @gborowme 3 года назад +4

    Never tired watching Akala talk, our ancestors really lives in each one of us

  • @alfonsowashington7025
    @alfonsowashington7025 4 года назад +68

    I have learned more in this 1:16:34 than I have learned in the 47+ years I have lived on this earth which includes more than 16+ years of secular education.

  • @kappad0g
    @kappad0g 8 лет назад +19

    so much respect for this guy...he's like a computer...he just stores what he reads and research...and puts it across like a boss..

  • @christophersakwa1625
    @christophersakwa1625 2 года назад +8

    I always admire and respect people who do their research and present facts and resources to back up their arguments. There is a lot of emotionalism around history topics, I am proud to see Akala present an otherwise hidden part of history so eloquently.

  • @MaryMary-nj3zy
    @MaryMary-nj3zy 4 года назад +22

    Very intelligent brotha, I really appreciate this lecture. I think we all wanted to see the slides up close.

  • @richardkerver3563
    @richardkerver3563 4 года назад +31

    One of my (few) black friends sent me this video, which I just watched. Was amazed (as a relatively well educated and informed white person) that I knew not one iota of the history Akala presented. Why? Really big question that I believe all white people (and black as well) should ask. Favorite quote: I find a lot of solace in reading, a lot of solace in acquiring great information. Its not just about therapy. Its about learning these things to inform action. As John Henrik Clarke says: "History is a map which tells people where they've been and where they need to go. History is a clock on which people tell their cultural, political and sociopolitical time of day."

    • @cccpkingu
      @cccpkingu 4 года назад +2

      Well-educated where? This is easily recognizable drivel.

    • @fullmetalprism5249
      @fullmetalprism5249 4 года назад +5

      Absolutely, we need to teach our kids and the next generation better. Not just in European nation but in the African continent as well. Our education is nothing but an echo of colonial nonsense
      💯

    • @jasem222
      @jasem222 3 года назад +3

      Because it's not actually true.. No-one has questioned his lack of DNA proof?. There's little to no Black African DNA in over 90 mummified samples over a 1200 year period, from 3 different dynasties. It's damn near all Near Eastern/Levantine DNA.. The reason you knew not one iota of the 'history' Akala presented, is because it's all in his head.. edition.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dna-genome-heritage/index.html
      Noses were not smashed off Egyptian statues because of their African looks, they were smashed off as a snub to the society, culture and gods.. What is it with people just taking this guys word for it?

    • @missqt48
      @missqt48 3 года назад +1

      That’s the way it should be. I would love to have friends like that, to educate me and help me grow.
      Many in the comment section deny what Akala has to say. Yet He was invited to Oxford university, not the keyboard warriors lol.

    • @TheAfrican1
      @TheAfrican1 3 года назад

      @@jasem222 Ouh so there were no black pharaohs? I thought there were complete dynasties of Ethiopian pharaohs.

  • @victors3130
    @victors3130 7 лет назад +90

    What's so interesting is that Somalis knew that Malaria came from mosquitos, and this British man called them mad, (the word for malaria in Somali is mosquito) this British man ran with it and got a noble peace prize.

    • @queensomal9900
      @queensomal9900 6 лет назад +4

      Yes that is true we somali says kaneeco mosquito and he steal it

    • @faithdonovan-layne4670
      @faithdonovan-layne4670 6 лет назад +13

      Bo Pick you’ve just been going round and commented disgusting racist things on all of these wonderful comments! You are a horrendous racist Bo Pick

    • @allpraisestothemosthigh4671
      @allpraisestothemosthigh4671 6 лет назад +6

      Faith Donovan-layne, don’t fall for his bait! He is a racist low life who is heading to his demise along with his kind.

    • @allpraisestothemosthigh4671
      @allpraisestothemosthigh4671 6 лет назад +4

      Bo Pick, shouldn’t that be for me to decide? Do ppl always what to believe or not? As for the mosquito joke, it wasn’t funny. Also, if you don’t like this topic, y r u here? There are plenty WS videos for you to enjoy.

    • @allpraisestothemosthigh4671
      @allpraisestothemosthigh4671 6 лет назад +6

      Bo Pick, oh I do not need ppl to tell me how special I am. I know I am special because I was made in the image of The Creator, Yah, The Most High... take your pick. As for the guy being fake, prove him wrong. I know you can’t, but instead of opening your yap, put your money where your yap is. I know you can’t, but I will entertain your effort.

  • @bernadettekaranja6874
    @bernadettekaranja6874 3 года назад +4

    Wow! And I thought for a moment there - that Black History was lost to a time in the 80s when I was a high school student of African & European History!! This presentation gives me hope! Will share it widely. Congratulations Akala! Simply Brilliant!!

  • @boo4677
    @boo4677 6 лет назад +51

    This talk was brilliant I am white British/Irish but my husband is Cuban. His grandfather was a black man with blue eyes and blond hair. I want to teach our children about their history and it is fantastic to know that the history of Africa is more than just slavery, because it is something that is honestly taken for granted. I would love for them to grow up and want to teach history with the understanding that this man has.

    • @amuncharles7516
      @amuncharles7516 6 лет назад +5

      Amanda Mayoli Alayon CUBANS ARE BLACK... so your children are half black

    • @imnotgayyy8489
      @imnotgayyy8489 5 лет назад +1

      @@amuncharles7516 CALM DOWN DEAR

    • @kayluvsexy
      @kayluvsexy 5 лет назад

      🙏

    • @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk
      @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk 5 лет назад

      EGYPT HAS TO BE SEPARATE FROM AFRICA ITS LIKE MAN FRON ENGLAND GREEK IS MINE ITS EUROPE AFRICA AS MANY CULTURES NOT JUST ONE AS AFROCENTRICS PORTRAY

    • @georgemckenzie1824
      @georgemckenzie1824 5 лет назад +1

      @@ChrisThornburn-ke5xk again learn how to use the cap button
      Egypt in its African Context: Proceedings of the conference held at The Manchester Museum,
      University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009
      \
      Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian Civilisation
      Alain Anselin
      Université des Antilles-Guyane
      In those days, we thought that Egypt was only a gift of
      the Nile…
      In 1974, with the intention of publishing the very first
      Histoire Genérale de l’Afrique (‘General History of
      Africa’), UNESCO gathered scholars from Africa (Egypt,
      Sudan, Senegal and Congo), America and Europe in
      Cairo to participate in the first colloquium linking
      Ancient Egypt with its continent, Africa. In spite of the
      high academic quality of the participants, and the critical
      examination of the iconographic, anthropological and
      haematological data, the colloquium did not reveal all the
      anticipated conclusions about the population of Ancient
      Egypt. What was the culprit? Genetic studies, which
      didn’t come to fruition until after the 1980s. In addition,
      in those days it was thought that Egypt was simply a gift
      of the Nile. For what reason? Until the 1980s, there was a
      lack of archaeological excavation in Egypt’s Western
      Desert. Today, the historical genetics of the Nile Valley,
      which is at one and the same time the ‘crossroad and
      refugium’, and the ‘Saharan affinities’ of the Predynastic
      Egyptians, have begun to be clearly identified (Keita and
      Boyce 2005).
      Since the 1980s, and the renewal of the excavations at
      Kom el-Ahmar (ancient Nekhen/Hierakonpolis) by a
      team directed by Michael Hoffman, archaeologists,
      notably the team led by Fred Wendorf, have given greater
      attention to the African hinterland of Ancient Egypt,
      particularly the Saharo-Nubian area, and have excavated
      a network of sites of ancient African cultures which could
      provide cultural patterns, ideological features and the
      framework for the political organisation of the first
      kingships of Upper Egypt (Friedman 2002a). In this
      respect, Egypt and Nubia were also ‘gifts of the desert’
      (Friedman 2002b).
      im skipping around, but youre free to offer alternative data or read this and verify the scholars..note: they all use their real names.........(if you can read...lol)
      Saharo-Nubian Cultural Antecedents of the Egyptian
      Predynastic Culture
      The discoveries of archaeologists and rock art specialists
      over the last two decades uncover a picture of the cultural
      antecedents or shared characteristics of the Egyptian
      Predynastic culture supplied by its Saharan hinterland
      (Anselin 2006a). Here I consider three key features:
      firstly, in the Gilf Kebir, the rock art can be said to
      foreshadow the Egyptian myth of the aquatic world of the
      Afterlife which I call the ‘Eau-Delà’ (Anselin 2007b);
      secondly, closer to the Nile Valley, the ceremonial centre
      and stelae of Nabta Playa document a conception of the
      Afterlife linked to the key stars of the Egyptian culture:
      Orion (%3H), Sirius (%pdt), and the Circumpolar stars
      (ixm-sk; Wb 1, 125.14); and thirdly, we can follow the
      ‘Giraffe road’ - not the animals, but their pictures
      engraved and painted on the rocks of the Western Desert
      and incised or painted on the Naqadan jars of the Nile
      Valley cultures.
      so inclusion eat a dick ....and then try and grow one....

  • @rue80
    @rue80 4 года назад +719

    I just disagree a little about the mud huts. My aunts still live in them, it's a sustainable way of living and i really hope it persists over skyscrapers. You can be intelligent and modern and live in a mud hut the same as you can be ignorant and old fashioned in a skyscraper.

    • @globalcetzen5271
      @globalcetzen5271 4 года назад +63

      @rue80, I agree. Mud huts are still steadier and more resistant to severe weather conditions than those plastics western buildings.
      There are 400 year old mud huts in Ghana today. Despite that, we remain the experts and only authentic Masons in the world.
      Everywhere we went, we taught masonry skills. Every stone and mortar building/monument in America was built by Afrikan slaves because, they carried their masonry skills with them.
      Europeans have ‘Builders’, we have Chief Masons who work with apprentices. This practice is still ongoing in Ghana, Nigeria, and many other Afrikan nations. In Afrika, Young men are sent into apprenticeship by their fathers after fees are paid. They are equipped with tools like trowels, plain, level, mortar pans, spades etc. They graduate after completing practical tests of mixing mortar, grading various sand textures, stones, pebbles, used for block- cutting, and which ones were appropriate for plastering and finishing.
      They also pass tests in digging/setting concrete foundations for a wall and a single/storey house/ how to set intricate pillars, as well as displaying brick/block cutting skills.
      As a child, I usually watched the Chief Mason, his apprentice and labourers, my parents hired to maintain and improve our properties. I was very fascinated by their skills and precision, even though I was female.
      Wherever Black people reside, masonry skills abound. Afrikans in Jamaica and other Caribbean nations, are very skilled Masons because it is within them.

    • @whatithoughtyouwere
      @whatithoughtyouwere 4 года назад +121

      while i thoroughly agree with this, i believe the point is that there is an over projection of 'mud huts' in africa as indication of lack of development. This creates the idea that there couldn't have been anything more or less in terms of development. Rather than explaining that mud huts are actually a functional and sturdy invention in direct response to the resources readily available and the weather conditions in hot and tropical climates, we get the perception that there is nothing more to africa than this. I think this is a problem. Though i completely see where you're coming from.

    • @georgemckenzie1824
      @georgemckenzie1824 4 года назад +4

      rue80-and mud huts dont deplete resources, ravish rain forests, pollute land sea and air and call it civilization and progress.

    • @georgemckenzie1824
      @georgemckenzie1824 4 года назад +3

      rue80-in fact thats how africans lived in africa for all these years, while euros trashed europe in 5k years....

    • @cashclan7
      @cashclan7 4 года назад +4

      Amen!

  • @shyshy8788
    @shyshy8788 5 лет назад +25

    I like this man. He has such a calmness and endearing energy. Goodtalk#

  • @jamesvzfighter
    @jamesvzfighter 3 года назад +7

    Black people are extremely special to survive this long and be able to overcome so much.

    • @sherrimanco8472
      @sherrimanco8472 Год назад +1

      We are all Gods people
      Those against God are against his people.
      Many things have been hidden from us and stolen from us
      God will restore
      All will be exposed
      The Truth shall set us Free
      God Bless Us All…

  • @koolbreezeuk
    @koolbreezeuk 8 лет назад +9

    I could listen to this man talk forever. His level of intelligence and talent for putting articulate thoughts across in an informative, amusing and resonating way is incredible. Thank you for the knowledge Sir.

  • @maudreyb438
    @maudreyb438 4 года назад +34

    "For me I find a lot of solace in reading." I so agree with this quote. Reading has been my solace since early child hood. I was a precocious reader. Now fifty or so years hence I augment my reading with videos such as this.so I am comfortable in my black skin and unprocessed tresses. Knowing and constantly learning of the accomplishments and abilities of Black people I have no feelings of inferiority. I reflect on a saying of my country "People only pelt stone at trees that have fruit." My Black people are beautiful, gifted, talented, and fruitful but maybe a little too easy to decieve. Thanks Akala, I bow to you.

  • @chazdbo1
    @chazdbo1 4 года назад +160

    One of Britain's most instrumental and talented speakers, thanks bro

    • @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr
      @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr 4 года назад +7

      This guy is a standard afrocentric pseudohistory revisionist Schvartze. Why are his bizarre conspiracy theories better than any other antisemite's?

    • @chazdbo1
      @chazdbo1 4 года назад +1

      @@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr because your not black that’s why

    • @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr
      @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr 4 года назад +6

      @@chazdbo1 If you're sub Saharan, then academic fraud is accepted as "talent"? Wow, you don't think much of sub Saharans.

    • @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr
      @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr 4 года назад +4

      @@chazdbo1 Lol, this is Affirmative Action privilege, lol, Oxford is promoting bums. Akala has an lQ hovering around 60, if this isn't a program to give those with special needs a platform, then I'm confused, because this guy is just a deranged Schvartze with an axe to grind.

    • @uzairdegmaster156
      @uzairdegmaster156 4 года назад +3

      @@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr wtf are you onbabout

  • @TM-by5ir
    @TM-by5ir 3 года назад +9

    This lecture is awesome! I enjoyed the thought provoking information about Africa’s history.
    I was disappointed that the camera person chose not to zoom in on the visuals that Akala provided on the tall screen. Clearly Akala wanted everyone to see the screen because the visuals were an important part of the overall lecture, and they were referenced often. The camera person zoomed in on Akala multiple times (so the capability was available). So, why not zoom in on the slides…
    hmmm 🤔

  • @xzemt310
    @xzemt310 4 года назад +261

    "You can't claim ignorance on someone who is genuinely ignorant, but you can if someone has been taught something and still claim ignorance"

    • @dumbthings7800
      @dumbthings7800 4 года назад +1

      Mmmm.mmmm.mmmm indeed

    • @juancarlosdavid5629
      @juancarlosdavid5629 4 года назад

      Das Rit

    • @xzemt310
      @xzemt310 4 года назад

      @Whisper-that truth-shss correct but I'm guessing he meant taught correctly, then they have no way of claiming ignorance, that is how I interpreted it, but your point is a valid, at the end of the day, it come down to individual perception and interpretation and who influences them!

    • @xzemt310
      @xzemt310 4 года назад +1

      @Whisper-that truth-shss same goes for you, the way I see it, people find it easier to let others think for them in modern society rather than researching and listening to people, and by doing that they hinder the chances of society moving forward! They just resort to saying things like "educate yourself" which immediately disenfranchises people from the discussion, causing further divisions! You too stay safe 👍

    • @xzemt310
      @xzemt310 4 года назад

      @Whisper-that truth-shss you are very much correct, I hope change comes I really do! Stay safe friend stay hopeful 👍

  • @KillahManjaro
    @KillahManjaro 9 лет назад +182

    Speechless. Akala continues the tradition of a real Emcees, Entertain and enlighten the listener.
    Akala should have added the The Lebombo Bone and Ishango Bone: World’s oldest math tools.
    This is Hip Hop!

    • @scottscott232
      @scottscott232 9 лет назад +10

      Wow, I just looked up the Lebombo bone to discover that African women might have been the world's first mathematicians. See Wikipedia.

    • @katrina374
      @katrina374 9 лет назад +2

      +Mitch Hunter Butthurt white boy?

    • @katrina374
      @katrina374 9 лет назад +2

      ***** Butthurt white boy.

    • @katrina374
      @katrina374 9 лет назад +3

      ***** Are you mad you can't play victim anymore?

    • @katrina374
      @katrina374 9 лет назад

      ***** Blap blap.

  • @zarahislam
    @zarahislam 6 лет назад +123

    Thank you Akala for sharing your infinite amount of knowledge with us!! My mind is blown and I'm ashamed to say that I never really considered all of this before. You're making the world a better and more educated place 😀

    • @davidtuer5825
      @davidtuer5825 5 лет назад

      You mean infantile amount of knowledge!!

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 5 лет назад +2

      Zarah Islam
      all that he said can easily be refuted if he was a man enough for a debate tho.
      especially his historical fabrications claiming Egypt was black

    • @Ash_is_Wild
      @Ash_is_Wild 5 лет назад +6

      @@GORO911 how so? It's hard to debate against fact and first-person accounts

    • @JBSCORNERL8
      @JBSCORNERL8 5 лет назад +1

      @@GORO911 lets see what you got..

    • @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk
      @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk 5 лет назад +1

      GORO911 you can show them evidence can’t penetrate the fantasy if you had time machine it would still be lies delusions of the ignorant

  • @makayla71399
    @makayla71399 3 года назад +5

    Awesome!!!! I need every book he mentioned!! I will be rewatching this and taking notes!!!

  • @FB-mw5gv
    @FB-mw5gv 8 лет назад +132

    I've watched this about 5 times now! I watch everything of akalas about 5 times so the info can actually get in my head. Lol

    • @olehs6201
      @olehs6201 8 лет назад +5

      That's why you are a brainwashed idiot, this is nothing more than black resentment of white people.

    • @FB-mw5gv
      @FB-mw5gv 8 лет назад +1

      Olay

    • @FB-mw5gv
      @FB-mw5gv 8 лет назад +10

      Your name is "white male".
      I'll leave now

    • @qal-hatmi4615
      @qal-hatmi4615 8 лет назад

      same bruv

    • @olehs6201
      @olehs6201 8 лет назад +1

      UR3ANFISH why are you triggered? Lol

  • @2005peasah
    @2005peasah 6 лет назад +17

    John Henrik Clarke is one of my favourite African scholars along with Ivan van Sertima, Nana Baffour Amankwatia (Asa G. Hillard III) and Frances Cress Welsing.

  • @patwicksted7114
    @patwicksted7114 4 года назад +46

    I just found Akala today, by chance, and I am utterly mesmerised by him. I feel a binge coming on.

    • @tommy2972
      @tommy2972 3 года назад +4

      Akala is a great thinker and skilled artist. Binge away.

    • @phillybulphillybul4319
      @phillybulphillybul4319 3 года назад +3

      He’s a free thinker , his light is shining

  • @AmazingAmazing12345
    @AmazingAmazing12345 3 года назад +8

    Akala, is definitely a knowledgeable king in his own right,more power to him 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿.#tooblacktoostrong

  • @calAKAbigJohnson
    @calAKAbigJohnson 4 года назад +276

    If akala was my teacher in school I would have listened and possibly learnt something.

    • @johnnygunz800
      @johnnygunz800 4 года назад +1

      :,-) lmao same

    • @squarepeg9484
      @squarepeg9484 4 года назад +6

      And now we can read and listen as much as we like, as long as we like. He’s my favourite teacher and I’m loads older than him. He’s just brilliant!

    • @squarepeg9484
      @squarepeg9484 4 года назад +7

      Gareth Atkins He has an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brooke university, so he’s over qualified. I used to be a teacher myself, and to qualify in teaching the specific subject (that I already have a first class degree in), only took me a year. I taught at degree level, and I think Akala is smarter than me, so I’d say...he would easily qualify.

    • @anthonybrowne3942
      @anthonybrowne3942 4 года назад +8

      @@garethatkins450 Jealous aren't we? Akala gave you enough sources now go check them out.

    • @squarepeg9484
      @squarepeg9484 4 года назад +9

      Gareth Atkins Yes, I know what ‘honorary’ means. He’s obviously an intelligent man, who could easily qualify in teaching at degree level, with or without that. OB Uni doesn’t need the publicity, it’s already a very well ranked uni. If you can’t deduce his level of intelligence from his written work, and public speaking over several years, then I can’t help you. ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink’...stay thirsty, Gareth, no one is forcing you.
      I said before, that I have a first class degree, and have taught at degree level myself, for several years, part of that, as a historian. But you knew that, and tried to patronise me instead. Stay thirsty, eh 😉

  • @dancingcloudlew4311
    @dancingcloudlew4311 4 года назад +23

    Exceptional presentation. I enjoyed moving through history with you. It's refreshing to know we share many personal opinions.

  • @yolandaw.1257
    @yolandaw.1257 4 года назад +77

    Any one else watched this twice back to back? I wanted to make sure I didn't miss a beat. Take 2 sets of notes.!

    • @cccpkingu
      @cccpkingu 4 года назад

      I lasted 11 minutes, and didn't want to humour myself any further, because it is sad he is even in there with those accolades.

    • @1964Msgypsy
      @1964Msgypsy 4 года назад +3

      I watch this video everytime it comes up in my feed. And I only wish we could see the slides better. 👍🏾

    • @anthonybrowne3942
      @anthonybrowne3942 4 года назад +1

      @funbot You''re scared because your time is up. Repent while you can.

    • @areationstexture839
      @areationstexture839 4 года назад

      @funbot the scientist who actually did the DNA test disagree... They themselves say it is impossible, I believe them because they literally run the tests. Never believe everything in face value, always go to the source
      www.livescience.com/15388-discovery-channel-tutankhamen-dna.html

    • @areationstexture839
      @areationstexture839 4 года назад

      @funbot oke, from who? Because the people who literally did the DNA test disagree... So evidence and facts from the scientist who took the DNA and analysised it vs?

  • @derrickk22
    @derrickk22 3 года назад +6

    I'm literally in Awe.....Share this with as many people as you possibly can

  • @DominicGudgeon
    @DominicGudgeon 6 лет назад +52

    I am conservative and right-wing on most issues and I approve this message.
    Update: I am no longer conservative and right wing on most issues.

    • @MrSqilz
      @MrSqilz 5 лет назад +1

      Dee Gee why wouldn’t you? He’s stating facts

    • @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk
      @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk 5 лет назад +1

      K.O.B no ramesse 3 tomb wall makes no mention of kmt he says it says first Egyptian this is not case

    • @MrSqilz
      @MrSqilz 5 лет назад

      Chris Thornburn what? Make sense dumbass

    • @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk
      @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk 4 года назад

      Harrey potter you know when you suffered your brain trauma did doc say you be a total imbecile or vegetable

    • @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk
      @ChrisThornburn-ke5xk 4 года назад

      Harrey potter you need dr if you think akala the arse is speaking fact

  • @etnoobanga5902
    @etnoobanga5902 3 года назад +139

    Absolutely One ☝🏾 Of The Best Lecturers I have seen Thank You “Akala And Truth”

  • @marcusflowers9218
    @marcusflowers9218 6 лет назад +17

    Simply Awesome!!!! I went to an ancient Egypt exhibit in Atlanta about 10 years ago.. Every statue in the exhibit looked like me or my friends and family.. It was undeniable that these people were BLACK!!! Not one statue looked like an European.. Their cheek bones, nose, and lips..., looked just like mine... It had been evident that the modern history scholars had simply LIED!!!! Thank God, those brilliant ancient people left amazing art depicting how they truly looked... Just like me...

    • @mariussielcken
      @mariussielcken 4 года назад +1

      @@ahmosethemelanite9325 Nefertiti is relatively late and Egypt was very mixed by then.

    • @marcusflowers9218
      @marcusflowers9218 4 года назад

      @@mariussielcken ... Doesn't matter.. She still was black.. A biracial person in America is what?? Black!! The only difference between a light skinned person in Egypt is language.. They look just like a light skinned person in America!!

  • @o.m.8737
    @o.m.8737 3 года назад +6

    You are so necessary my man! For this generation, and the next! Kudos!

  • @Mimi-nr6jx
    @Mimi-nr6jx 8 лет назад +41

    Thanks Akala. As an African, I've learnt a lot

  • @sholaebofin6090
    @sholaebofin6090 8 лет назад +31

    this guy wakes me up every time..

  • @Indefenseoftheafricandiaspora
    @Indefenseoftheafricandiaspora 3 года назад +225

    This is one of the best lectures on the topic of Africa's place in the world I've heard in a while. He's even better than his mentor, who's also pretty good

    • @danielturner9027
      @danielturner9027 3 года назад +2

      It's ok, mediocrity.

    • @mikeb3811
      @mikeb3811 3 года назад +12

      @@danielturner9027 yours was better 🤣

    • @T.image79
      @T.image79 3 года назад +1

      Who is his mentor?

    • @mikeb3811
      @mikeb3811 3 года назад

      @@T.image79 No idea

    • @T.image79
      @T.image79 3 года назад +1

      @@mikeb3811
      Ok.
      I was asking Aziza Cummings because he/she mentioned it.

  • @willieware1007
    @willieware1007 3 года назад +43

    This your man needs a world tour hope meet him one day

  • @charlesedward313
    @charlesedward313 5 лет назад +29

    This shows us that knowledge is definitely power!! Thank u

  • @freetruth6265
    @freetruth6265 8 лет назад +102

    I have to admit I was expecting better questions .. I'm actually shocked. 😳

    • @domju4970
      @domju4970 8 лет назад

      Like Catsu in Sudan, I didnt know about...

    • @infallibl
      @infallibl 8 лет назад +1

      So true..lololo

    • @ibexlove7009
      @ibexlove7009 7 лет назад +10

      Just goes to show the gap in the knowledge of history between the presentation and whats thought to the students

    • @hotties3v3n
      @hotties3v3n 6 лет назад +5

      Where did he say you can't ask him questions?? He brought facts, and quoted scholars, all you do is bring white washing and racial bias!

  • @KKG3388
    @KKG3388 6 лет назад +13

    As a child born in the mountains of the moons where gods Ngai lives, our history was written in the Ancient Papyrus by our ancestors who went on to develop one of the most amazing civilisations in history!
    Massive Respect to Akala for this well researched information. 👊🏿💥💪🏽

  • @lisaspencer7832
    @lisaspencer7832 3 года назад +38

    This was most brilliant inspiring lecture I've ever listened to. Akala YOU ARE AMAZING!

    • @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr
      @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr 3 года назад +1

      You're a troll. There is nothing brilliant about afrocentric pseudohistory revisionism, it's a bunch of sub Saharan people who are so ashamed to be black that they began to try to take credit for every single Caucasian culture. There's something very shameful and sinister about the thinking patterns of those involved in the afrocentric pseudohistory occult extremist groups.

    • @knowledgewind
      @knowledgewind 3 года назад

      Yes I watching again rn very inspirational , I c u didn't reply to this illiterate shit trying to call you out it's good you're not phased by him everyone watching this knows it is truth, every race of people in every time period knows this as true general knowledge his ignorance an stupidity shows

    • @roxiet7016
      @roxiet7016 3 года назад

      @@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr …. Reverse what u said.. then u wil have truth!…
      Obviously truth is rising!!💫
      Accept the horrific though that so called whites have not succeed in
      Abolishing the Truth!!!
      Ashe’

    • @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr
      @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr 3 года назад

      @@roxiet7016 It's so sad that the only way sub Saharans think they can feel empowered in the 21st century AD is by taking erroneous credit for something that ancient Caucasians did. 🤔

    • @VSBattlesYT
      @VSBattlesYT 3 года назад

      @@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr You're so clueless as to what "Real History" is your brain is filled with pure racism you're a failure to everyone you know.

  • @goldraceformerlyknownasbla474
    @goldraceformerlyknownasbla474 3 года назад +258

    He deserved a standing ovation...

    • @Laura-sg6ss
      @Laura-sg6ss 3 года назад +5

      He deserves 10!

    • @forret
      @forret 3 года назад +4

      He deserves the Magical Unicorn Award for creative history.

    • @skysthelimitforeveryoung3437
      @skysthelimitforeveryoung3437 3 года назад +5

      @@forret and you deserve the award for The Most Fragile White Supremacist.

    • @cloroxbleach9237
      @cloroxbleach9237 2 года назад +1

      @@PhanTasmGoriA based

    • @FactsOnlyPlease.
      @FactsOnlyPlease. 2 года назад +1

      @@PhanTasmGoriA
      If Blacks have no genuine potential, then why does it take a nation of millions to hold them down? The intelligent argues the points not attack the person, Einstein!