As an black educator I am committed to making this a reality. The my students are Black and Latino through art I teach them about Ancient African and Ancient Mesoamerican history. I use this channel to guide my teachings often. Keep up the excellent research my brother.
Yoruba man here. Unfortunately a lot of our beautiful art is either in foreign museums around the world or in the homes of rich foreigners who treat them like trinkets.
@@Theemumi They have things from all great ancient civilizations and NO they will NEVER give them back. They stole them for a reason. The only way to take them back is by force, as in war.
@@AntonyMaridakis yeah, that is one way to get things back, but have you seen what usually happens after that? Artifacts destroyed, history lost. Just look at whats been happening in the middle east with their artifacts.
Sometimes in 1995, as a young man of 27 years old, I was working in the hospitality industry and a young Briton came to Nigeria for the first time and lodged at the hotel I used to work. One of the things he loved to do was stroll around and take in the evening setting sun. One day, as we were walking together, he saw a Hausa-Fulani man, selling some beautiful artifacts and souvenirs and he was bargaining in English, to which the Hausa-Fulani man had little or almost no command of. Then the man started speaking Hausa dialect and Jason, turned to me and asked, "what's he saying?" And I responded that I didn't know. He was shocked and I asked him if he speaks French or Italian, to which he said No...then I told him that he cant expect me, a Yoruba man to necessarily understand what a northerner is saying, same as I wouldn't expect him to speak or understand French, Spanish or Italian languages. He understood but was still confused...because, to him, all black people should speak and understand each others dialects. They think we are linguistically homogeneous 😏😏😁😁
@Justin Credible wow! That's so negative and incriminating to say the least. Until we unite as a race, we will continue to be wrongly and unjustly profiled in the negative. So sad.
@Justin Credible well, I guess I can pardon your misconception about me and how and from whom I seek validation from. *Be that as it may, I'm from planet Nigeria and from where I come from, we dont kiss white asses or seek their validation, reasons why they are not here in their large numbers, as you see in several other African countries.* And as far as African Unity goes, I bet you are not an African, living in Africa. Don't be deceived by RUclips and social media rhetorics, we are far from united. Check out how France has been able to derail the unified ECO currency for west Africa, using their coins in the Francophone African states, a concept we have been working on for decades. A unified Africa, wouldn't have allowed such rubbish to happen. Look at how South Africa has been treating Zimbabwean, Nigerian and other african migrants in their country, using xenophobia as a tool of oppressing them. Ethiopia is in crisis with Egypt and so on. Yes, we will eventually get there, but not yet. Cheers.
@@tyronegladden1027one of the first things the Europeans forbade & took away from enslaved Africans, as soon as they got to the new world, was their drums. The sounds of it terrified the white man to hell and it also fuels the rebellious spirit in the Africans....so I can imagine, why the drums and intro, gets you all hitched up.
Kinda shameful that even in predominantly black african descendant countries. They still teach about Africa and African history from a post-colonial eurocentric perspective. And im saying this as someone who lives in The Bahamas.
When I was in highschool back in Nigeria, we had 2 history textbooks. 1. A brief history of Nigeria: which covered Nigerian history from pre colonial times to the modern day. 2. Africa and the wider world: which focused primarily on west african kingdoms and empires and how they interacted with themselves including their conquest by the Europeans.
There are a lot of things about Muslims that need to be taught in schools you don't even read our book ((Quran)) the best book in the world no one can do better book than Quran just read it.
I read enough of the quran to know it's a joke and not worth anybody's time....It must really suck to come from a region of the world that doesn't value equality and education...but hey, I'm not complaining my country doesn't have religious wars and genocide happening every other month....some good that books done, seems that it causes more problems than good.
@@georgeseifert9378 this would imply all of Africa had a kind of common identity of the whole continent. which is as unlikely as all Native American had a sense of common identity of the America's or the Europeans of Europe. If there was commen identity is never streached beyond the tribe or the state. The Netherlands for instance did not have an identity as Dutch before the brother of Napoleon was made king of Holland. Before that they identified themselves with the province of just only with the town they lived in. Names for area's or states are mostly given by outsiders, seldom by the inhabitants. Alkebule appears not before the 1500's in the texts Africa already in the Ancient Greek texts as a classic tri-partite division of the known world into Europe, Asia and Africa, being the northen, the eastern and the southern coasts of the Mediteranean.
Keep pushing and make wishful thinking a reality. I have learned more about Africa from your videos than I ever did in school, starting 70 years ago. Keep on educating.
Well I'm sure if you lived in Africa you would know tons about Africa but since you live in a country that's not Africa why the hell should they teach you about Africa? Wtf?
I'm a 6th/7th grade history teacher in Indiana, and I am happy to report that I cover 8 out of the 10 things on your list! We don't get to go into as much detail as I would like, but we definitely have vocabulary and units that cover the basics. I'll definitely try to incorporate the other two as well into my curriculum.
Lesson one: Africa is a CONTINENT not a country. Can we get that on a t-shirt? Drives me so CRAZY when people lump all of Africa as one. Too much diversity, richness, and abundance to lessen it to just a country. Thank you for pointing that out first✊🏾✊🏾
Same should be applied to Europe. White americans proudly boasting they are from Europe usually raise an eyebrow on the continent. We are not European. We are Italians, Spaniards, Hollanders, Belgians, French, Germans, Scandinavians, Brits, Celts, Slavs, Balts,... Not "European". And that's when we Identify by country. There's even a bigger layer of smaller regions under that with very different cultures. And the same goes for Asia, in even more drastic ways to some extent.
Yeah because the whole time I was in school they didn't teach us anything about Africa. And the Black history that they did teach was that safe Black history, learned a lot about MLK. For obvious reasons. But they're not interested in teaching Black kids about their heritage, the last thing they want is for them to have pride in themselves. That is why if you can it's best to homeschool your kids or send them to an Afrocentric school that is willing to teach them about their culture and heritage and teach it in the way that they will be proud.
@@veve3839 Ok, white girl!!! But it's funny how so much that we learned in this country are lies. I bet you still believe Columbus found this country, huh??? What in the phukkk are you even doing on this channel, troll.
I wish this was taught when I was in school. I may not be from African heritage but I am fascinated by history and all nations. This is fantastic. Thank you for starting this channel. Historical knowledge is essential. Can’t wait to watch more!
Was it a matter of semantics? What I'm asking is if this person truly believed that the continent of Africa itself was a sovereign state and each of its countries are a division within the whole (like US "states"), or was this person arguing some sort of cultural preference in labels?
In my discipline--International relations--countries and states are roughly the same. As GhoulsWinnfield noted, there is a supposition of sovereignty when we use the term states.
Yoruba sculptures belong in Nigeria. They should not have been stolen by colonialists for Westerners to admire because Westerners do not understand the context in which they were made and their function in Yoruba society. To look at them as "art" in a Western sense is wrong
The tools of discrimination, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and hate are used by a person to ensure his or her existence-to continue to climb up the economic ladder of life. In today’s society, like anytime in history, it’s boils down to what one needs to do to ensure one’s survival. As a PEOPLE , I sincerely believe that with self love, self preservation, most especially in maintaining the SAFETY of communities and UNITY, our survival will continue to be ENSURED, despite the facts that forms of inequalities that will continue to exist, almost every where , centuries and decades later! The most important thing is not to be anyone equal, but to continue to have a clear understanding that our survival depends on each other, as a group of people at home and abroad!
I REALLY think that we need a place/a way for this knowledge to be taught in our own community. If we are honest, we all know it's NOT going to be taught in our public schools. This is something WE need to prioritize ourselves! *NO DISREPSECT to what Home Team is doing here!* But Jews go to Jewish School where they learn about Jewish language and culture. The Armenians do the same thing. So do the Chinese. But we, who have of all people, been the most miseducated about our history, seem to have very little outside of the state schools to teach us about ourselves. We might as well be asking why Massa doesn't send teachers out into the fields to tell us about Timbuktu!
As an east african (cushite), knowing we had a queen that fought the romans makes me want to learn so much more about my people, loved this and i will share it with my family!
@Justin Credible thank you, I'm still relative new to it. I'm not sure how it work, I thought that other can help with the process. Apparently I need more work at it and help desperately.
@Justin Credible I'm so grateful for your help. Unfortunately, I can't afford to pay anyone. I hope this could be a casual project for like minded people. I can only ask for favours at this early moment of the project. And if the project ever takes off everyone would be equally compensated, Amen.
African schools should teach it themselves most importantly, if they knew how great they were before it’d play a big part in African development & the view of black people worldwide
Teaching us about us is not their responsibility, if you think about it, what's in it for them? That would be conflict of interest. Malcom X recognized this decades ago when he basically told us that only a fool sends his children to be educated by the enemy!!! It's our job to educate our children!!!
Schools suck even for white people teaching lots of things not of value I will say every community has public libraries the internet is the greatest library ever created and wise old people why not use these properly. A holy place you attend could be an informal school to bolster learning have GED classes and promote areas like African history.
Thank you my brother. My Uncle the Late NWaloro taught African History in Palo Alto College. He had travelled to Lagos Nigeria and brought back books in the early 1960s. One of the first Sociology doctors, from U.C. Berkeley University. You continue with the struggle for knowledge. Thank you for your time.
I will say watching this video really made me appreciate my elementary school teacher, she put in soo much work to make sure we learned about elements of African history (and other lesser known civilizations like in pre-colonial America). She taught us to play African drums, we did mask making projects from different cultures around the world. She even talked to us about racism in a really mature way and her experiences with it. Though she mostly taught this stuff to us out of her passion for it, It'd be better if they taught these things in schools regularly.
The right teacher is a godsend. You never forget them. They become a part of you and so, continue to play the good forward. So called, regular people have more power than we think. We have more power than we think.
This is a beautiful video! I absolutely love it! I learned about my family’s history back in 2008 and I’ve been a better person because of it. We ALL need to learn as much about our family’s history as possible so we can further understand where we’ve come from, where we’re going, and our purpose!
The tools of discrimination, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and hate are used by a person to ensure his or her existence-to continue to climb up the economic ladder of life. In today’s society, like anytime in history, it’s boils down to what one needs to do to ensure one’s survival. As a PEOPLE , I sincerely believe that with self love, self preservation, most especially in maintaining the SAFETY of communities and UNITY, our survival will continue to be ENSURED, despite the facts that forms of inequalities that will continue to exist, almost every where , centuries and decades later! The most important thing is not to be anyone equal, but to continue to have a clear understanding that our survival depends on each other, as a group of people at home and abroad!
@Kamil S what about them arabs? I don't see your point? If you're saying Egyptians are Arabic, sure linguistically they are but the inhabitants are still the same, same goes for the other north Africans, they are majority Berber but converted to Islam and adopted Arabic as a language, doesn't make them any less African
Black Americans need to fight for our history and many just don’t care. I’m biracial and when I try to school my black family about this stuff they act as if they could care less because “it’s not American”, I try and challenge them by saying “but who were we before we got here”, I love learning about this amazing, rich and mysterious history. Shame on the world for denying the beauty and majesty of the birthplace of all civilizations.
@@lorayakone2664 Hometeam éclaire le monde sur la vraie histoire de nôtre mère AFRIQUE, nôtre passé qui a été falsifié et ignoré pendant des siècles ! Je suis très fière de ce frère 👏🏽
Hey man, Nigerian here love your work. You’re helping reach so many people brother. Please if you read this, do you know of any African civilizations apart from west African thst had reliefs, bronzes, carvings of royalty especially queens and spiritual women
we don't need american or europeans story , they never teach or talk about ours it's a tabou .....till today africans are forced to learn their languages and that's horrible such as africaans british used to speak that language and today it's barely spoken by british .....the story are limited ...lots of things are imposed in africa we are not truly free🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️ the presidents are choosen and not voted by their people 🤷🏿♀️
@@cycyk8484 The missionary presence in Africa was a huge mistake. Teaching Africans to read and write in European languages and actually writing down hundreds of African languages for the first time in order to teach them to read about Christianity in their own languages. In pre-colonial times ordinary people did not need to know their history. Their were specialists called griots in West Africa who leaned it all from memory. Westernizing African society was just wrong. Africans had their own ways of doing things
@@cycyk8484 I am saying that the missionaries should never have come to Africa at all. Islam had been in Africa for a thousand years before the missions arrived. An advanced Islamic society was set up in the Sokoto Caliphate in the 19th century. Even during the colonial period many Africans who gave up their traditional religions chose Islam rather than Christianity. Before colonial rule there were documents in Hausa and Fulani that used the Arabic script rather than Western script. Much of the corruption that is in Africa today would not exist if African states followed Sharia instead of some version of Western law
I just hate how every single great building in African history is deemed a temple as if we didn't have ministries, government buildings, private palaces.
The school system as a steady source of information is coming to an end, it will never get better and never worse. It is our job to teach the forgotten knowledge of Africa and I commend you for doing so.
This was excellent!!! There were a few things I learned from my mother. She was one person that always stressed the saying, "If you don't know your history, you have no idea of where you're going." Thank you for this video and all others you put out for our learning and enjoyment!
The best channel on RUclips. I dream you get to do a big budget documentary that will win awards, and influence the next generation to create more content like this.
Thank You for the knowledge you give me in knowing my culture I a senior and I have learned more from your channel than i have in my lifetime about my race THANK YOU
Thank you for this channel, I grew in South America and currently live in Europe, is so hard to get educated about all this. You give a great intro to African History
This was a very interesting and enjoyable video! Born and raised in Belgium, the only things I was taught was a little bit about the pyramids, the horrific events the Belgian kind and later Belgian government did to the people of Congo, and that the continent got divided among France, England, etc. That's all. It's only since last year, with looking stuff up myself, and luckily videos like this popping up on my recommended page that I found out what amazing empires there have been, how many amazing queens there have been, etc. It would have been a lot more interesting and worthwhile to learn more about African countries and cultures, than to have to remember the dates of every war Europe has ever been in.
Having been taught NOTHING of African history in U.S. public school beyond the ancient Egyptians... THANK YOU. I’ve taken this list you’ve laid out to use as an outline for researching and including African history in our World History studies for my children whom I am homeschooling. Just wanted to let you know I appreciated your video and I’m looking forward to learning more about these topics. Thank you for sharing :)
Imagine a show like Avatar the Last Airbender that used mystical and historical elements from various African cultures into an amazing narrative that kids could reference later when learning more about the history as teens/adults. That's the effect that ATLA had on me as a kid and now I'm taking tons of college courses on Asian film and history. I want to learn more about Africa so badly because it seems so rich and cool. A TV show might be a good place for future generations to start.
Excellent suggestions for educational objectives! I think that somewhere near the top of the list should be ancient African Sciences of Agriculture, Astronomy, Mathematics and Medical health. Also, this may be challenging topic, but Cheikh Anta Diop's doctoral thesis on the cultural unity of Black Africa has relevance with regards to the Africa concept of unified duality and political unification of matriarchal and patriarchal principles. Ancient Africa was both diverse and unified.
I plan on using your list as a guide and model of home school courses for my four kids, I feel it's important that our kids have the kind of knowledge and understanding of the African continent Home Team ascribes to.
The reason US history is so Eurocentric is very understandable though, as European culture explains the foundations of the nation and past and current political, social and legal systems. The US is based on historically European Enlightenment principles, which sprouted from the Renaissance, themselves inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. Sub-Saharan African history had little to no contribution to American nationhood, culturally, beyond the transatlantic slave trade and demographic issues of having large black populations. Most nations' history classes focus on trying to explain how the country got to what it is today, and for the US it's through European ideals. African, and Asian history, for example, are naturally very interesting, but haven't contributed significantly to US history beyond demographics. Regardless, it is surely quite beneficial for students to be aware and taught about world history in general, of other civilizations, if not just to let them realize that other civilizations have also achieved great things.
Most students in the U.S. are required to take classes in world history as well as U.S. history. The history of Africa is part of world history and should be included in world history curricula. In your description of the development of the west, you neglect the west's Judeo-Christian heritage, the proper study of which requires some understanding of the ancient near east and the earliest Christian communities, many of which were in north Africa.
Is there ANYONE here remember when you was young....people would say "Where are you going to TIM-BUCK-TO"...It was said to make you feel bad when you didn't know which way to go or when got LOST😣... TODAY I JUST FOUND OUT IT IS A PLACE IN AFRICA....AND IT'S CALLED TIMBUKTU...😁
growing up reading chinua achebe and wole soyinka and other african writers, i was intrigued by Africa. i am british asian but later in life, i had the good fortune of living and working in various parts of africa - kenya, morocco, zanzibar, nigeria, tanzania, etc it is a hugely diverse continent. even within a country like nigeria there are hundreds of tribes each with their own language, dialect, cuisine, hat, costume, etc. it is very cute and endearing and fascinating. i found east africans like kenyans and west africans like ghanians and nigerians to be extremely polite and well mannered. i fell in love with the fusion of arab and african culture in zanzibar and built a house on the beach there. i went to the serengetti and lived for a couple of weeks with the massai mara. it reminded me what it means for a man to be a master of his environment. so fearless and so dignified. morocco is one of the most beautiful and richest cultures i have ever seen. the berbers are a fascinating people and their alphabet one of the most beautiful i have ever seen.
This Channel is interesting. But you should take what it says with a heavy dose of salt. Bec there is no such thing as African history. Just as there no such thing as Asian history. Africa is a continent nearly the size of US + CHINA + BRAZIL + INDIA. It is extremely diverse. Scientists say that Black Africans are genetically the most diverse race in the world. Africa has 54 countries with 1000 tribes speaking over 3000 languages & dialects. Each tribe or nation has its own history, culture & social organisation. This means there is no one African narrative. But 100s of AFRICAN HISTORIES. This Channel is a like a 5 pages introduction to a series made up of 30 volumes of at least 500 pages each. It means well but only touches the surface.
@@ncheedxx0109 Ntate dikgolo, I beg to differ a little, we might be diverse today but historically one and related.. The overly "diverse" mentality is still the colonizer's mentality to separate and create self hate..
@@romeoselatole4734 Believed what you will. But the truth is without colonisation Africa would have at 300 countries instead of 54. SA would be divided into at least 15. Zulu, Tswana & Venda are not the same people. Related yes. But the same nation, no. We are like English, Dutch & German. Whites created borders forcing us into one country. The same goes for almost all African country. Which are not nation states but have many distinct nations within their borders. That's one of the main reasons Africa is so unstable.
@@ncheedxx0109 Also remember that new nations have been formed over time but IF the intention was to create a single state government(keyword - IF), then we can use history to point out relations amongst each other and the ability to unite, with everyone then given privilege to exercise their new formed beliefs and cultural systems without negatively affecting the whole.. This is what most Africans don't get, and what most european nations fear the most, Sub-saharan nations uniting as one.. Funny thing is they know our history of unity better than we ourselves do! They know the history of Africans ruling the world as one people better than we do, and then conceal it from us, how sad...
it`s soo amazing and it fascinates me that i learned these things back in elementary school in english speaking cameroon(anglophones) untill france actually and litterally tampered with our educational system especially what the anglophones are supposed to study in school which alongside other things led to an ongoing civil war for more than four years now. God safe Africa.
I'm a fellow cameroonian from the francophone part. And you're absolutely right. But I hope that the divisions based on colonial languages will stop and that we will soon understand that we're Cameroonians and Africans. It's just a mess due to the lacking patriotism of people at the top
As a double foreigner to this issue (not African or Westerner) I feel like the big reason why you don't learn much about many of these African facts is because they're more of local history. Similarly to like you're not very likely to hear about Scythians who were big right here, but at best you'd know that one time father of Alexander the Great tried to counquer them. These countries and events, while important to local history, did not have a lasting impact on global history of the world. You can draw a direct line from Roman Empire to the Medieval Europe, to the ruling powers of the collonial age, to the global powers of today. But the queen who got away with a raid on Roman Egypt? At some point her legacy fizzled out. And since her location did not later become a center of global power, local history was not exported globally.
By 10th grade, I was hungry for information about #3 - Classical African civilizations, including in Ancient Times. I thought I might learn in our high school's "World History" class (required 10th grade curriculum), but it didn't turn out to be the case. Hence, i appreciate the wealth of info and perspective provided on this RUclips channel.
The omission of African history in schools is an oppressive weapon to support and sustain an "inferior" mandate. When the oppressor develops the curriculums, what should one expect? As we establish and support our "own" foundations and educate/re-educate the purposely mis-educated diaspora, our truth will not be ignored. Good job young man.
As a teacher I find great interest in the value and substance of your work. Much of what you've espoused in your videos I can GUARANTEE YOU are no longer taught in schools, today. Why did I say, "no longer" above. Interestingly enough I was blessed to have had, 3 centenarians in my family. I knew every last one of them!! There were 2 on my mother's mother-side of the family and the other one was my mother's paternal grandfather. If any among your viewers could shed light on why the shift in U.S. curriculum I would love to hear it. So, please do enlighten. When I was a young child in elementary school they would periodically ask me, "What did you learn in school"? or (sometimes they would ask) "What did you learn in HISTORY today? Sometimes one if them would even ask to see (aka: inspect my textbooks for "accuracy" :D ). Interestingly enough, 2 of them said to me (in separate convo's, decades apart) "How come you aren't being taught about things like the "Hittites", "Sudan", "Southern Africa", "Architecture", "Meroe" or even the great King, "Shaka Zulu"? Never having an answer. Just a puzzled look. I think the only answers I could come up with was that maybe it "wasn't important", or "maybe the teacher's just "didn't know". Needless, to say my explanations didn't sit well with ANY of them. He, he, he, he. Getting to he bottom of the answer took years for me to fully understand. All 3 of the centenarians in my family were out of elementary or primary school by the 1940's. So, such information as you have discussed in your video was moderately known IF only on a cursory level. My mother was out of elementary school by approx 1954 / 55. Only some of the African CONTINENT history was touched upon when she was a youngster. Her younger brother and sister who finished their primary education (approx) 1960 or 1961 also had some of this knowledge. However, by the time I reached the end of, my own elementary education sometime around '74 or '75 this information was largely ignored or had all but disappeared from school curriculum and textbooks in any sort of in-depth fashion. The only thing I could determine was that much like the, 'Great Vowel Shift' in literature and writing something must have changed in the school system by the late 1960's or early '70's such that later generations of school children never were exposed to it. My nation's school system must have had some sort of, 'reset' POST Korea(n war) and / or Viet Nam that changed all that. Honestly, I can tell you that by the time my history lessons in middle school and high school really took off, there was nary a mention of Africa save for, discussions centered around its continental / geographical shape, topography, game hunting, the type of animals found, the slave trade, mention of the Boer Republic, and IF we were lucky a few notable figures: F.W. deKlerk, Mandela, (the explorer Livingstone) and J.R.RTolkien. My..... how times have changed.
Not many people hate you from seeing history. It's the failure of the american educational system to fail to teach about every continent in depth, americans are too prideful of being america so their world view is limited to the american continent and not extending far beyond their scopes. Every american victory is taught but not their defeat. Even in thailand we have international day where children will take turns in different groups learning aboutbdifferent continents, their languages, their history, their culture, dressed up to represent other people's culture not just our own
Thank you for posting this. This gave us a bit more to explore. This will be as a parent a subject to bring to my girls' at-home learning. If the schools don't teach it, then we must. Thanks again.
I love this! Excellent idea. I believe we should include study of the geography of the continent. A knowledge and understanding of the natural resources, landscape and changes over time both natural and due to the actions of humans is crucial.
Recent history graduate here and I must say there isn’t a single video of yours that I’m not utterly fascinated by. African history, language and culture is so diverse and overlooked. It truly puts a smile on my face that you’re so passionate in your storytelling and education on African nations and it’s peoples. Information like this is an absolute necessity in modern education.
i have been watching vids on youtube since the beginning of youtube. no channel has ever giving me the urge to put my hard earned money in to their patron until now. I am a first generation Nigerian American. I appreciate you and i thank you for all that you do.
I agree, but we dont have enough political clout to make these needed changes in the us. Lets start by home schooling after school for out kids. Right now we are in control to do this. Lets form an education commission to achieve this.
Yes you’re right there isn’t enough political clout for this to happen in the major state funded school systems. Maybe in charter schools this can be a thing depending on the provider. The main place this should be looked into is the churches in the communities, they preach the gospel that was used to keep them in check now teach the history of the land as well, to have and gain some self pride and some form of identification.
Yeah I would love to get the Meroic side of the story of their border conflict with Roman Egypt. Because there is a mosaic copy, the original was destroyed, of captured Roman soldiers being forced to kneel at a Nubian deity.
@Ebony Goddess yeah like I was saying they taught us safe black history never learned anything about Malcolm X or Nat Turner or the Haitian slave revolt. Of course we had to learn about the French Revolution.
Beautiful!!!!! The music in the background plus your soulful voice has quite the effect! Good lesson lesrned about meore. Liked the images of the architecture with great zimbabwe's mortarless castle. Well done I appreciate what you do fam, it's edifying and enlightening
Well, I was taught about number 10 🙃 It's something? But I would love to hear about the other 9! Especially the ancient civilizations, queen Amanírenas and African architecture. Yoruba art looks beautiful too!
This is what we need in the Western World. We should put in more efforts in bettering the lives of our Kids and enlightening their minds about our ancestors. What y’all think about this?
@Justin Credible u might wanna pass that info to Jamaica. They voted 32% to keep the queen reign while Barbados drops her in 2021. Immigrants can do what they want. 👋
but why? you can't fit their history and your history in the school system and i think it does more sense to learn more of their history and sadly these african nations as interesting as they are don't play a big role in the general world history
You don't know how timely your video is. Recently, we were actively discussing on a forum how best to teach Africa History, even though we agree on a lot of things, the most controversial part was how best to include Ancient Egypt.
Great piece! I beg to differ; it is not wishful thinking but rather an objective of the utmost importance. Knowledge of self thrives by being aware of your heritage. It is these conversations that we need to start having. Your work is truly inspirational.
We need real black schools and universities to not only teach but APPLY these and modern knowledge, skills and abilities to better Africans wherever they are in the world!
And I also want to say thank you for making all these videos. What a knowledge and beautiful ancient graphic displays. What a time you must have put into research, assembling and production. Thank you for sharing what you know about Africa with us.
Love the videos please continue I've watched most your videos and I'm tryna educate my friends they don't teach nothing about Africa but negativity in highschool in canada
Just a teacher sending love from Norway 🇳🇴 these were some great pointers! I don’t teach history right now, but hope to in the future and will certainly revisit these ideas. Ill read up on a lot of it in the meantime. I may also incorporate some of them when teaching about religion and philosophy, which I do currently teach. Thanks for the great video!
I’m in college rn and intend to become a middle or high school history teacher, I’m not black, I’m Asian and white but I already decided that I would do my best to decolonize the history we teach and make students aware of things we don’t normally let them know. These seem like small fixes in all honesty, I think it would very much be possible to do this while still sticking to the existing curriculum. I’ll keep these in mind for when I begin teaching in a few years
There is the History of Africa by Kenvin Shillington and Africa in World History by Gilbert and Reynolds, but both of those are for older Kids. Or even early college level. And then there is the very dense but extremely insightful PRECOLONIAL BLACK AFRICA: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Modern States Cheikh Anta Diop. I recommend the last one to anyone getting serious about pre colonial african History.
UNESCO general history of Africa series is quite comprehensive. Precolonial black Africa, the African origin of civilization myth or reality by cheick Anta diop also good books When we ruled by robin walker
Hey Hometeam, I discovered a 'historian' called Simon Webb who runs a youtube channel called 'History Debunked' who makes videos diminishing African and African American history, making such claims like that Great Zimbabwe wasn't a city, the Mali Empire never existed and that the book '12 Years a Slave' is a Hoax. Perhaps you should do a video debunking these ridiculous
Why waste time with these clowns. Simon Webb and people like him are trolls! Their job is to create chaos and misinformation. Hometeam has done stories about Zimbabwe especially already on this channel. There is no need for him to address idiots like Webb. Their tactics are so predictable!
My high school junior year taught a lot about African History, particularly Mali, Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and The Swahili Coast. I remembered how absolutely blown my mind was. There were fucking castles in Africa. Great Zimbabwe straight up looks like something from a fantasy setting and the Great Mosque of Kilwa is made of coral! Africa is fucking rad. Obviously I'm not saying you're wrong at all, my school was the exception and not the rule and I think every school should teach people about how positively epic Africa is.
This video is great. It's so nice to see a brother taking initiative and teaching what our schools refuse to. I'm about to put you on my Patreon list. Okay, real talk: I'm black and a conservative, but I am *NOT* an opportunistic person and I am 100% pro-black, even if I may disagree with many in regards to what pro-black policies look like. I'm tired of us *only feeling like victims* and the "victim" side of the black experience being pushed to the forefront. As a pro-black conservative, the logical conclusion is that we should ditch the "Critical Race Theory" BS (which was invented by white leftists, anyway) and instead teach the glorious history of the Black Nation in our public schools, with the focus on how our knowledge, culture, and philosophy has always been an essential part of America and is one of the main reasons why this is the greatest country in history.
As an black educator I am committed to making this a reality. The my students are Black and Latino through art I teach them about Ancient African and Ancient Mesoamerican history. I use this channel to guide my teachings often. Keep up the excellent research my brother.
Thank you!
God bless you for reaching the young kids this.💟🕊️
Guess that's better than teaching them about the current events in those places. That would really be a bummer.
Dumb smh ur a teacher an u still don't kno?
Midwest Mayhem know *
Yoruba man here. Unfortunately a lot of our beautiful art is either in foreign museums around the world or in the homes of rich foreigners who treat them like trinkets.
Buy them back!
@@dappadondadda100 They don’t need to buy anything that belongs to their ancestors, they just need to give them back
They need to give it back period!
@@Theemumi They have things from all great ancient civilizations and NO they will NEVER give them back. They stole them for a reason. The only way to take them back is by force, as in war.
@@AntonyMaridakis yeah, that is one way to get things back, but have you seen what usually happens after that? Artifacts destroyed, history lost. Just look at whats been happening in the middle east with their artifacts.
We should teach that there are thousands of African languages. It's a great example of African cultural diversity.
Right !!!
Sometimes in 1995, as a young man of 27 years old, I was working in the hospitality industry and a young Briton came to Nigeria for the first time and lodged at the hotel I used to work.
One of the things he loved to do was stroll around and take in the evening setting sun.
One day, as we were walking together, he saw a Hausa-Fulani man, selling some beautiful artifacts and souvenirs and he was bargaining in English, to which the Hausa-Fulani man had little or almost no command of.
Then the man started speaking Hausa dialect and Jason, turned to me and asked, "what's he saying?" And I responded that I didn't know. He was shocked and I asked him if he speaks French or Italian, to which he said No...then I told him that he cant expect me, a Yoruba man to necessarily understand what a northerner is saying, same as I wouldn't expect him to speak or understand French, Spanish or Italian languages. He understood but was still confused...because, to him, all black people should speak and understand each others dialects. They think we are linguistically homogeneous 😏😏😁😁
This just amplifier need to come together and create our own history book!!!discord.gg/cRH5rXJF
@Justin Credible wow! That's so negative and incriminating to say the least. Until we unite as a race, we will continue to be wrongly and unjustly profiled in the negative. So sad.
@Justin Credible well, I guess I can pardon your misconception about me and how and from whom I seek validation from.
*Be that as it may, I'm from planet Nigeria and from where I come from, we dont kiss white asses or seek their validation, reasons why they are not here in their large numbers, as you see in several other African countries.*
And as far as African Unity goes, I bet you are not an African, living in Africa. Don't be deceived by RUclips and social media rhetorics, we are far from united. Check out how France has been able to derail the unified ECO currency for west Africa, using their coins in the Francophone African states, a concept we have been working on for decades. A unified Africa, wouldn't have allowed such rubbish to happen. Look at how South Africa has been treating Zimbabwean, Nigerian and other african migrants in their country, using xenophobia as a tool of oppressing them. Ethiopia is in crisis with Egypt and so on. Yes, we will eventually get there, but not yet. Cheers.
The intro music always gets me in the mood to be schooled about my people.
That war chant!!! Heyyyy ! Wooooooo!! Heyyyy!!! Woooooo!!!
Lol me too
@@tyronegladden1027one of the first things the Europeans forbade & took away from enslaved Africans, as soon as they got to the new world, was their drums.
The sounds of it terrified the white man to hell and it also fuels the rebellious spirit in the Africans....so I can imagine, why the drums and intro, gets you all hitched up.
Yes indeed I be pumped up!!!
Same bro!
Kinda shameful that even in predominantly black african descendant countries. They still teach about Africa and African history from a post-colonial eurocentric perspective. And im saying this as someone who lives in The Bahamas.
When I was in highschool back in Nigeria, we had 2 history textbooks.
1. A brief history of Nigeria: which covered Nigerian history from pre colonial times to the modern day.
2. Africa and the wider world: which focused primarily on west african kingdoms and empires and how they interacted with themselves including their conquest by the Europeans.
Ethiopian and Egypt history are not told in post colonial, but in origin
This just amplifier need to come together and create our own history book!!!discord.gg/cRH5rXJF
Its as if we had no lives before colonization, its so annoying.Also there seems to be a romanticization of colonization, idk where we get that from
You might appreciate Alilah S Richards who talks about deschooling and abandoning the colonial schooling model
There are a lot of things about Africa that need to be taught in schools.
And I cant find a sufficient amount of films about ancient Africa.
Yea like well you know
none of which are important.
There are a lot of things about Muslims that need to be taught in schools you don't even read our book ((Quran)) the best book in the world no one can do better book than Quran just read it.
I read enough of the quran to know it's a joke and not worth anybody's time....It must really suck to come from a region of the world that doesn't value equality and education...but hey, I'm not complaining my country doesn't have religious wars and genocide happening every other month....some good that books done, seems that it causes more problems than good.
I love this channel. Africa is a HUGE continent. Everyone should know about African history.
The original name of the land was ALKEBULA, and the people were called ALKEBULANS.
@@georgeseifert9378 this would imply all of Africa had a kind of common identity of the whole continent.
which is as unlikely as all Native American had a sense of common identity of the America's or the Europeans of Europe.
If there was commen identity is never streached beyond the tribe or the state.
The Netherlands for instance did not have an identity as Dutch before the brother of Napoleon was made king of Holland. Before that they identified themselves with the province of just only with the town they lived in.
Names for area's or states are mostly given by outsiders, seldom by the inhabitants.
Alkebule appears not before the 1500's in the texts
Africa already in the Ancient Greek texts as a classic tri-partite division of the known world into Europe, Asia and Africa, being the northen, the eastern and the southern coasts of the Mediteranean.
Keep pushing and make wishful thinking a reality. I have learned more about Africa from your videos than I ever did in school, starting 70 years ago. Keep on educating.
Thank you Garth, I appreciate your comment, I love people who want to bridge the gap.
💪🏾💪🏾much respect to you
Lol! So true!
Well I'm sure if you lived in Africa you would know tons about Africa but since you live in a country that's not Africa why the hell should they teach you about Africa?
Wtf?
@@yerpyaboy Ah, it's called getting a full education, not a shallow endoctrination.
I'm a 6th/7th grade history teacher in Indiana, and I am happy to report that I cover 8 out of the 10 things on your list! We don't get to go into as much detail as I would like, but we definitely have vocabulary and units that cover the basics. I'll definitely try to incorporate the other two as well into my curriculum.
Lesson one: Africa is a CONTINENT not a country. Can we get that on a t-shirt? Drives me so CRAZY when people lump all of Africa as one. Too much diversity, richness, and abundance to lessen it to just a country.
Thank you for pointing that out first✊🏾✊🏾
Same should be applied to Europe. White americans proudly boasting they are from Europe usually raise an eyebrow on the continent. We are not European. We are Italians, Spaniards, Hollanders, Belgians, French, Germans, Scandinavians, Brits, Celts, Slavs, Balts,... Not "European". And that's when we Identify by country. There's even a bigger layer of smaller regions under that with very different cultures. And the same goes for Asia, in even more drastic ways to some extent.
Seems like it should be common sense right
Maybe it should be a country.. United States of Africa
Lol me too, Ashley
Yeah because the whole time I was in school they didn't teach us anything about Africa. And the Black history that they did teach was that safe Black history, learned a lot about MLK. For obvious reasons. But they're not interested in teaching Black kids about their heritage, the last thing they want is for them to have pride in themselves. That is why if you can it's best to homeschool your kids or send them to an Afrocentric school that is willing to teach them about their culture and heritage and teach it in the way that they will be proud.
@@MichaelClayton64 yes that does sound interesting.
Facts!!!
They hate to see us have fun within our own group, be successful, and have pride in ourselves!!!
An Afrocentric school? So you mean a school that teaches them lies? Because the vast amount of afrocentric beliefs aren't true
@@veve3839
Ok, white girl!!! But it's funny how so much that we learned in this country are lies. I bet you still believe Columbus found this country, huh???
What in the phukkk are you even doing on this channel, troll.
@@veve3839 Which lies have you been taught in school. Can you provide examples from Afrocentric history full of lies?
I wish this was taught when I was in school. I may not be from African heritage but I am fascinated by history and all nations. This is fantastic. Thank you for starting this channel. Historical knowledge is essential. Can’t wait to watch more!
You're doing the ancestors proud young Prince . Salute ✌🏾❤🖤💚
I remember arguing with someone that Africa has countries but the other person said I was lying and insisted on calling them states
"A wise man once said don't argue with a fool, because someone from a distance can't tell who is who"
@@kbtitan2464 I will remember this quote today at work
Was it a matter of semantics? What I'm asking is if this person truly believed that the continent of Africa itself was a sovereign state and each of its countries are a division within the whole (like US "states"), or was this person arguing some sort of cultural preference in labels?
In my discipline--International relations--countries and states are roughly the same. As GhoulsWinnfield noted, there is a supposition of sovereignty when we use the term states.
@@ghoulswinnfield4692 He thought Africa was a sovereign state. Just like USA
Omg those Yoruba sculptures are incredible, especially for the era they were made! I can’t believe I’ve never seen them before.
Yoruba sculptures belong in Nigeria. They should not have been stolen by colonialists for Westerners to admire because Westerners do not understand the context in which they were made and their function in Yoruba society. To look at them as "art" in a Western sense is wrong
@@giovanniacuto2688 exactly..they know why they stole them and hid them away from us..but some will be activated.
@@debbiemarquis3231 “activated” well come on then
@Kamil S why are you here?
The African (not African American) Museum was full of art from Yoruba. Visited this year and a lot was missing. Hopefully it was returned
Manners and respect to you on home team history. I love the content
The tools of discrimination, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and hate are used by a person to ensure his or her existence-to continue to climb up the economic ladder of life. In today’s society, like anytime in history, it’s boils down to what one needs to do to ensure one’s survival. As a PEOPLE , I sincerely believe that with self love, self preservation, most especially in maintaining the SAFETY of communities and UNITY, our survival will continue to be ENSURED, despite the facts that forms of inequalities that will continue to exist, almost every where , centuries and decades later! The most important thing is not to be anyone equal, but to continue to have a clear understanding that our survival depends on each other, as a group of people at home and abroad!
I love my Africa,from the horn of Africa
I REALLY think that we need a place/a way for this knowledge to be taught in our own community. If we are honest, we all know it's NOT going to be taught in our public schools. This is something WE need to prioritize ourselves!
*NO DISREPSECT to what Home Team is doing here!* But Jews go to Jewish School where they learn about Jewish language and culture. The Armenians do the same thing. So do the Chinese. But we, who have of all people, been the most miseducated about our history, seem to have very little outside of the state schools to teach us about ourselves. We might as well be asking why Massa doesn't send teachers out into the fields to tell us about Timbuktu!
Miseducated how.
Yes, I agree. Let’s do something ourselves for once 😅
@@nhnj7543 by the fact that you don't even have a clue about what the comment is implying...you seem lost or most likely an unmelanated troll.
To be fair black people believe alotta nonsense like the egyptians and Moors Being black , so that would probably just mislead black kids
@2nd Exodus Stop with your lies 😐
As an east african (cushite), knowing we had a queen that fought the romans makes me want to learn so much more about my people, loved this and i will share it with my family!
This needs to become a reality & made mandatory.
We can do it ourselves. Let create our own history book book!!!discord.gg/cRH5rXJF
@Justin Credible thank you, I'm still relative new to it. I'm not sure how it work, I thought that other can help with the process. Apparently I need more work at it and help desperately.
@Justin Credible I'm so grateful for your help. Unfortunately, I can't afford to pay anyone. I hope this could be a casual project for like minded people. I can only ask for favours at this early moment of the project. And if the project ever takes off everyone would be equally compensated, Amen.
African schools should teach it themselves most importantly, if they knew how great they were before it’d play a big part in African development & the view of black people worldwide
@@MrMisanthrope_ Can you repost that link? Just seen it today & it expired when I had clicked on it.
they are not in the business of teaching what you NEED to know, but what they WANT you know (which is not much).
Teaching us about us is not their responsibility, if you think about it, what's in it for them? That would be conflict of interest. Malcom X recognized this decades ago when he basically told us that only a fool sends his children to be educated by the enemy!!! It's our job to educate our children!!!
@@omokaroojiire True.
Teach yourself read a book once in awhile
Schools suck even for white people teaching lots of things not of value I will say every community has public libraries the internet is the greatest library ever created and wise old people why not use these properly. A holy place you attend could be an informal school to bolster learning have GED classes and promote areas like African history.
Talking about businesses, African economy growth and opportunities today should be tough too 🙋🏻♀️
Thank you my brother. My Uncle the Late NWaloro taught African History in Palo Alto College. He had travelled to Lagos Nigeria and brought back books in the early 1960s.
One of the first Sociology doctors, from U.C. Berkeley University. You continue with the struggle for knowledge. Thank you for your time.
I will say watching this video really made me appreciate my elementary school teacher, she put in soo much work to make sure we learned about elements of African history (and other lesser known civilizations like in pre-colonial America). She taught us to play African drums, we did mask making projects from different cultures around the world. She even talked to us about racism in a really mature way and her experiences with it. Though she mostly taught this stuff to us out of her passion for it, It'd be better if they taught these things in schools regularly.
The right teacher is a godsend. You never forget them. They become a part of you and so, continue to play the good forward. So called, regular people have more power than we think.
We have more power than we think.
This is a beautiful video! I absolutely love it! I learned about my family’s history back in 2008 and I’ve been a better person because of it. We ALL need to learn as much about our family’s history as possible so we can further understand where we’ve come from, where we’re going, and our purpose!
What is your purpose Brother? :)
They need to teach that it was more then just Egypt And Nubia
@Kamil S Yeah it is just not Sub Saharan African
The tools of discrimination, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and hate are used by a person to ensure his or her existence-to continue to climb up the economic ladder of life. In today’s society, like anytime in history, it’s boils down to what one needs to do to ensure one’s survival. As a PEOPLE , I sincerely believe that with self love, self preservation, most especially in maintaining the SAFETY of communities and UNITY, our survival will continue to be ENSURED, despite the facts that forms of inequalities that will continue to exist, almost every where , centuries and decades later! The most important thing is not to be anyone equal, but to continue to have a clear understanding that our survival depends on each other, as a group of people at home and abroad!
@Kamil S Egypt is in Africa so it's part of African culture, it doesn't need to be sub Saharan for it to be African
@Kamil S what's "thtemarabs"?
@Kamil S what about them arabs? I don't see your point?
If you're saying Egyptians are Arabic, sure linguistically they are but the inhabitants are still the same, same goes for the other north Africans, they are majority Berber but converted to Islam and adopted Arabic as a language, doesn't make them any less African
Home Team, you are the Man!🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
Black Americans need to fight for our history and many just don’t care. I’m biracial and when I try to school my black family about this stuff they act as if they could care less because “it’s not American”, I try and challenge them by saying “but who were we before we got here”, I love learning about this amazing, rich and mysterious history. Shame on the world for denying the beauty and majesty of the birthplace of all civilizations.
Love and blessings to you from the Ivory coast 🥰
Me too.😀
@@lorayakone2664
Salut ma soeur !
@@maatatoure9602 salut ooh. On dit quoi?
Je comprends pas anglais mais façon j'aime sa chaîne là. ...
@@lorayakone2664
Hometeam éclaire le monde sur la vraie histoire de nôtre mère AFRIQUE, nôtre passé qui a été falsifié et ignoré pendant des siècles !
Je suis très fière de ce frère 👏🏽
I will bring Africa back to its glory!!!
We are with you my brother!
I hear you, let do it together and create our own history book!!!discord.gg/cRH5rXJF
@@MrMisanthrope_ The problem is im kinda broke lol
@@spacestationearthdefense7651 everyone is. Im asking for your time to collaborate respectful. If we ever get it publish you get your slice.
@EJ Aru I am a powerfull creature, all the information you need is available in my channel
Hey man, Nigerian here love your work. You’re helping reach so many people brother. Please if you read this, do you know of any African civilizations apart from west African thst had reliefs, bronzes, carvings of royalty especially queens and spiritual women
I’m glad that this YT channel exists to teach people about the unknown and hidden historical greatness of our homeland
An important thesis Home Team. Thanks for putting this out to the world. Peace and love 💕💚🌍 from Canada 🇨🇦
All of African History needs to be taught in school......
It's just as important as American/ European history.......
we don't need american or europeans story , they never teach or talk about ours it's a tabou .....till today africans are forced to learn their languages and that's horrible such as africaans british used to speak that language and today it's barely spoken by british .....the story are limited ...lots of things are imposed in africa we are not truly free🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️ the presidents are choosen and not voted by their people 🤷🏿♀️
Lerone Lee Move important!!!
@@cycyk8484 The missionary presence in Africa was a huge mistake. Teaching Africans to read and write in European languages and actually writing down hundreds of African languages for the first time in order to teach them to read about Christianity in their own languages. In pre-colonial times ordinary people did not need to know their history. Their were specialists called griots in West Africa who leaned it all from memory. Westernizing African society was just wrong. Africans had their own ways of doing things
good, but colonization was wrong .
@@cycyk8484 I am saying that the missionaries should never have come to Africa at all. Islam had been in Africa for a thousand years before the missions arrived. An advanced Islamic society was set up in the Sokoto Caliphate in the 19th century. Even during the colonial period many Africans who gave up their traditional religions chose Islam rather than Christianity. Before colonial rule there were documents in Hausa and Fulani that used the Arabic script rather than Western script. Much of the corruption that is in Africa today would not exist if African states followed Sharia instead of some version of Western law
I just hate how every single great building in African history is deemed a temple as if we didn't have ministries, government buildings, private palaces.
you think it's a conspiracy?
God bless you my brother am from Kush Keep going
God Bless Kush.
HomeTeam is the best. Keep doing what you do! Love it!
This is not even taught in Africa. I love your videos and as an African I'm learning alot
Where in Afrika are you from Moses? :D
As far as I know, there are African countries that teach it
The school system as a steady source of information is coming to an end, it will never get better and never worse. It is our job to teach the forgotten knowledge of Africa and I commend you for doing so.
This channel is way underrated.
This was excellent!!! There were a few things I learned from my mother. She was one person that always stressed the saying, "If you don't know your history, you have no idea of where you're going." Thank you for this video and all others you put out for our learning and enjoyment!
We need to teach this in our homes now! Home is the first learning institution that our children will be introduced to. Bless up!
The best channel on RUclips. I dream you get to do a big budget documentary that will win awards, and influence the next generation to create more content like this.
Thank You for the knowledge you give me in knowing my culture I a senior and I have learned more from your channel than i have in my lifetime about my race THANK YOU
Thank you for this channel, I grew in South America and currently live in Europe, is so hard to get educated about all this. You give a great intro to African History
This was a very interesting and enjoyable video! Born and raised in Belgium, the only things I was taught was a little bit about the pyramids, the horrific events the Belgian kind and later Belgian government did to the people of Congo, and that the continent got divided among France, England, etc. That's all. It's only since last year, with looking stuff up myself, and luckily videos like this popping up on my recommended page that I found out what amazing empires there have been, how many amazing queens there have been, etc.
It would have been a lot more interesting and worthwhile to learn more about African countries and cultures, than to have to remember the dates of every war Europe has ever been in.
Having been taught NOTHING of African history in U.S. public school beyond the ancient Egyptians... THANK YOU. I’ve taken this list you’ve laid out to use as an outline for researching and including African history in our World History studies for my children whom I am homeschooling. Just wanted to let you know I appreciated your video and I’m looking forward to learning more about these topics. Thank you for sharing :)
The kindom of kush is also the secpnd longest running empire ever
Imagine a show like Avatar the Last Airbender that used mystical and historical elements from various African cultures into an amazing narrative that kids could reference later when learning more about the history as teens/adults. That's the effect that ATLA had on me as a kid and now I'm taking tons of college courses on Asian film and history. I want to learn more about Africa so badly because it seems so rich and cool. A TV show might be a good place for future generations to start.
Excellent suggestions for educational objectives!
I think that somewhere near the top of the list should be ancient African Sciences of Agriculture, Astronomy, Mathematics and Medical health. Also, this may be challenging topic, but Cheikh Anta Diop's doctoral thesis on the cultural unity of Black Africa has relevance with regards to the Africa concept of unified duality and political unification of matriarchal and patriarchal principles. Ancient Africa was both diverse and unified.
I plan on using your list as a guide and model of home school courses for my four kids, I feel it's important that our kids have the kind of knowledge and understanding of the African continent Home Team ascribes to.
The reason US history is so Eurocentric is very understandable though, as European culture explains the foundations of the nation and past and current political, social and legal systems. The US is based on historically European Enlightenment principles, which sprouted from the Renaissance, themselves inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. Sub-Saharan African history had little to no contribution to American nationhood, culturally, beyond the transatlantic slave trade and demographic issues of having large black populations. Most nations' history classes focus on trying to explain how the country got to what it is today, and for the US it's through European ideals. African, and Asian history, for example, are naturally very interesting, but haven't contributed significantly to US history beyond demographics.
Regardless, it is surely quite beneficial for students to be aware and taught about world history in general, of other civilizations, if not just to let them realize that other civilizations have also achieved great things.
Most students in the U.S. are required to take classes in world history as well as U.S. history. The history of Africa is part of world history and should be included in world history curricula. In your description of the development of the west, you neglect the west's Judeo-Christian heritage, the proper study of which requires some understanding of the ancient near east and the earliest Christian communities, many of which were in north Africa.
Really appreciate your videos - I'm from Brazil.
Is there ANYONE here remember when you was young....people would say "Where are you going to TIM-BUCK-TO"...It was said to make you feel bad when you didn't know which way to go or when got LOST😣... TODAY I JUST FOUND OUT IT IS A PLACE IN AFRICA....AND IT'S CALLED TIMBUKTU...😁
Wow you just learned that.
To be fair Timbuktu was founded by Arabs but the blacks eventually took it over
Timbuktu was an ancient capital City of mali empire .It was said that the empire was richer in 13th century and mansa Musa was the king at the time.
@@blackpablo22_ it was founded by the caucasian Arabs taken over by the blacks
@@veve3839 to be fair, it was started by a Afreekan woman and the original Arabs were black any way...what's your point.
growing up reading chinua achebe and wole soyinka and other african writers, i was intrigued by Africa. i am british asian but later in life, i had the good fortune of living and working in various parts of africa - kenya, morocco, zanzibar, nigeria, tanzania, etc it is a hugely diverse continent. even within a country like nigeria there are hundreds of tribes each with their own language, dialect, cuisine, hat, costume, etc. it is very cute and endearing and fascinating.
i found east africans like kenyans and west africans like ghanians and nigerians to be extremely polite and well mannered.
i fell in love with the fusion of arab and african culture in zanzibar and built a house on the beach there.
i went to the serengetti and lived for a couple of weeks with the massai mara. it reminded me what it means for a man to be a master of his environment. so fearless and so dignified.
morocco is one of the most beautiful and richest cultures i have ever seen. the berbers are a fascinating people and their alphabet one of the most beautiful i have ever seen.
I’m whiter than mayonnaise. Even so, I’ve always been very curious about African history. I’m so happy that I found this channel
This Channel is interesting. But you should take what it says with a heavy dose of salt. Bec there is no such thing as African history. Just as there no such thing as Asian history. Africa is a continent nearly the size of US + CHINA + BRAZIL + INDIA. It is extremely diverse. Scientists say that Black Africans are genetically the most diverse race in the world. Africa has 54 countries with 1000 tribes speaking over 3000 languages & dialects. Each tribe or nation has its own history, culture & social organisation. This means there is no one African narrative. But 100s of AFRICAN HISTORIES. This Channel is a like a 5 pages introduction to a series made up of 30 volumes of at least 500 pages each. It means well but only touches the surface.
@Sérgio Nogueira lol thanks man :)
@@ncheedxx0109 Ntate dikgolo, I beg to differ a little, we might be diverse today but historically one and related.. The overly "diverse" mentality is still the colonizer's mentality to separate and create self hate..
@@romeoselatole4734 Believed what you will. But the truth is without colonisation Africa would have at 300 countries instead of 54. SA would be divided into at least 15. Zulu, Tswana & Venda are not the same people. Related yes. But the same nation, no. We are like English, Dutch & German. Whites created borders forcing us into one country. The same goes for almost all African country. Which are not nation states but have many distinct nations within their borders. That's one of the main reasons Africa is so unstable.
@@ncheedxx0109 Also remember that new nations have been formed over time but IF the intention was to create a single state government(keyword - IF), then we can use history to point out relations amongst each other and the ability to unite, with everyone then given privilege to exercise their new formed beliefs and cultural systems without negatively affecting the whole.. This is what most Africans don't get, and what most european nations fear the most, Sub-saharan nations uniting as one.. Funny thing is they know our history of unity better than we ourselves do! They know the history of Africans ruling the world as one people better than we do, and then conceal it from us, how sad...
it`s soo amazing and it fascinates me that i learned these things back in elementary school in english speaking cameroon(anglophones) untill france actually and litterally tampered with our educational system especially what the anglophones are supposed to study in school which alongside other things led to an ongoing civil war for more than four years now. God safe Africa.
I'm a fellow cameroonian from the francophone part. And you're absolutely right. But I hope that the divisions based on colonial languages will stop and that we will soon understand that we're Cameroonians and Africans. It's just a mess due to the lacking patriotism of people at the top
As a double foreigner to this issue (not African or Westerner) I feel like the big reason why you don't learn much about many of these African facts is because they're more of local history. Similarly to like you're not very likely to hear about Scythians who were big right here, but at best you'd know that one time father of Alexander the Great tried to counquer them.
These countries and events, while important to local history, did not have a lasting impact on global history of the world. You can draw a direct line from Roman Empire to the Medieval Europe, to the ruling powers of the collonial age, to the global powers of today. But the queen who got away with a raid on Roman Egypt? At some point her legacy fizzled out. And since her location did not later become a center of global power, local history was not exported globally.
By 10th grade, I was hungry for information about #3 - Classical African civilizations, including in Ancient Times. I thought I might learn in our high school's "World History" class (required 10th grade curriculum), but it didn't turn out to be the case.
Hence, i appreciate the wealth of info and perspective provided on this RUclips channel.
The omission of African history in schools is an oppressive weapon to support and sustain an "inferior" mandate. When the oppressor develops the curriculums, what should one expect? As we establish and support our "own" foundations and educate/re-educate the purposely mis-educated diaspora, our truth will not be ignored. Good job young man.
As a teacher I find great interest in the value and substance of your work. Much of what you've espoused in your videos I can GUARANTEE YOU are no longer taught in schools, today.
Why did I say, "no longer" above. Interestingly enough I was blessed to have had, 3 centenarians in my family. I knew every last one of them!! There were 2 on my mother's mother-side of the family and the other one was my mother's paternal grandfather.
If any among your viewers could shed light on why the shift in U.S. curriculum I would love to hear it. So, please do enlighten.
When I was a young child in elementary school they would periodically ask me, "What did you learn in school"? or (sometimes they would ask) "What did you learn in HISTORY today? Sometimes one if them would even ask to see (aka: inspect my textbooks for "accuracy" :D ). Interestingly enough, 2 of them said to me (in separate convo's, decades apart) "How come you aren't being taught about things like the "Hittites", "Sudan", "Southern Africa", "Architecture", "Meroe" or even the great King, "Shaka Zulu"? Never having an answer. Just a puzzled look. I think the only answers I could come up with was that maybe it "wasn't important", or "maybe the teacher's just "didn't know". Needless, to say my explanations didn't sit well with ANY of them. He, he, he, he.
Getting to he bottom of the answer took years for me to fully understand. All 3 of the centenarians in my family were out of elementary or primary school by the 1940's. So, such information as you have discussed in your video was moderately known IF only on a cursory level. My mother was out of elementary school by approx 1954 / 55. Only some of the African CONTINENT history was touched upon when she was a youngster. Her younger brother and sister who finished their primary education (approx) 1960 or 1961 also had some of this knowledge.
However, by the time I reached the end of, my own elementary education sometime around '74 or '75 this information was largely ignored or had all but disappeared from school curriculum and textbooks in any sort of in-depth fashion.
The only thing I could determine was that much like the, 'Great Vowel Shift' in literature and writing something must have changed in the school system by the late 1960's or early '70's such that later generations of school children never were exposed to it. My nation's school system must have had some sort of, 'reset' POST Korea(n war) and / or Viet Nam that changed all that. Honestly, I can tell you that by the time my history lessons in middle school and high school really took off, there was nary a mention of Africa save for, discussions centered around its continental / geographical shape, topography, game hunting, the type of animals found, the slave trade, mention of the Boer Republic, and IF we were lucky a few notable figures: F.W. deKlerk, Mandela, (the explorer Livingstone) and J.R.RTolkien. My..... how times have changed.
We've been indoctrinated and they hate to see us awaken from our 4 hundred years slumber to see things as they truly are.
Not many people hate you from seeing history. It's the failure of the american educational system to fail to teach about every continent in depth, americans are too prideful of being america so their world view is limited to the american continent and not extending far beyond their scopes. Every american victory is taught but not their defeat. Even in thailand we have international day where children will take turns in different groups learning aboutbdifferent continents, their languages, their history, their culture, dressed up to represent other people's culture not just our own
People seeing everything wrong as the result of ill intent is why your country is so divided. I'm sorry but you're part of the problem.
@@MustardSkaven spoken like a true colonizer
Brother, you have said it all. Thank you for raising awareness of teaching Africa History in African schools.
We love you brother i was always knowing Africa is bigger home 4 unbelievable history I'm from Somalia let's dig what they hide from us
Cool
No one is hiding anything lmao
@@davidjoelsson4929 4 real
Thank you for posting this. This gave us a bit more to explore. This will be as a parent a subject to bring to my girls' at-home learning. If the schools don't teach it, then we must. Thanks again.
I love this! Excellent idea. I believe we should include study of the geography of the continent. A knowledge and understanding of the natural resources, landscape and changes over time both natural and due to the actions of humans is crucial.
Agreed. Geography is important
Recent history graduate here and I must say there isn’t a single video of yours that I’m not utterly fascinated by. African history, language and culture is so diverse and overlooked. It truly puts a smile on my face that you’re so passionate in your storytelling and education on African nations and it’s peoples. Information like this is an absolute necessity in modern education.
We need a new generation of Griots for a digital age.
It will always be up to a people to tell their own stories.
I am answering the call! Asé 😌🙏🏾❤️💛💚
i have been watching vids on youtube since the beginning of youtube. no channel has ever giving me the urge to put my hard earned money in to their patron until now. I am a first generation Nigerian American. I appreciate you and i thank you for all that you do.
This is the first time I hear something else than the Egyptians. Thank you!
I REALLY ENJOY YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR DELIVERY, VERY CLASSY!!
I agree, but we dont have enough political clout to make these needed changes in the us. Lets start by home schooling after school for out kids. Right now we are in control to do this. Lets form an education commission to achieve this.
Yes you’re right there isn’t enough political clout for this to happen in the major state funded school systems. Maybe in charter schools this can be a thing depending on the provider.
The main place this should be looked into is the churches in the communities, they preach the gospel that was used to keep them in check now teach the history of the land as well, to have and gain some self pride and some form of identification.
Agreed
Loved This! I wish there were educational trip that students could take each summer to the various countries in Africa to get a better understanding.
Yeah I would love to get the Meroic side of the story of their border conflict with Roman Egypt. Because there is a mosaic copy, the original was destroyed, of captured Roman soldiers being forced to kneel at a Nubian deity.
@Ebony Goddess yeah like I was saying they taught us safe black history never learned anything about Malcolm X or Nat Turner or the Haitian slave revolt. Of course we had to learn about the French Revolution.
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Beautiful!!!!! The music in the background plus your soulful voice has quite the effect! Good lesson lesrned about meore. Liked the images of the architecture with great zimbabwe's mortarless castle. Well done I appreciate what you do fam, it's edifying and enlightening
Well, I was taught about number 10 🙃 It's something? But I would love to hear about the other 9! Especially the ancient civilizations, queen Amanírenas and African architecture. Yoruba art looks beautiful too!
This is what we need in the Western World. We should put in more efforts in bettering the lives of our Kids and enlightening their minds about our ancestors. What y’all think about this?
I make SURE we speak mother tongue & know our clan.
@Justin Credible well there arent any black communities but black households in USA
@Justin Credible u might wanna pass that info to Jamaica. They voted 32% to keep the queen reign while Barbados drops her in 2021.
Immigrants can do what they want. 👋
but why? you can't fit their history and your history in the school system and i think it does more sense to learn more of their history and sadly these african nations as interesting as they are don't play a big role in the general world history
@@ofcet u might wanna go learn European history. U in the wrong channel
Delightful knowledge.
You're doing a great service to everyone with this content. Thank you for these precious videos!
by spreading myths and wakanda bull sh t?
@@SocialismKills what exactly are you referring to my hot-headed brotha?
Thanks King. This one is much needed 🖤
You don't know how timely your video is. Recently, we were actively discussing on a forum how best to teach Africa History, even though we agree on a lot of things, the most controversial part was how best to include Ancient Egypt.
Moving forward this video, will help in shaping the discussion.
Great valuable information.
Great piece! I beg to differ; it is not wishful thinking but rather an objective of the utmost importance. Knowledge of self thrives by being aware of your heritage. It is these conversations that we need to start having. Your work is truly inspirational.
💯 I’m sharing the heck out of this
Fantastic my brother! Thanks for the awareness! That's the kind of teaching the world needs! Peace
We need real black schools and universities to not only teach but APPLY these and modern knowledge, skills and abilities to better Africans wherever they are in the world!
And I also want to say thank you for making all these videos. What a knowledge and beautiful ancient graphic displays. What a time you must have put into research, assembling and production. Thank you for sharing what you know about Africa with us.
We’ve been divided and brainwashed
I shared this video with my granddaughter. Thank you. 🤝🏼
Love the videos please continue I've watched most your videos and I'm tryna educate my friends they don't teach nothing about Africa but negativity in highschool in canada
Pls keep sharing.
Just a teacher sending love from Norway 🇳🇴 these were some great pointers! I don’t teach history right now, but hope to in the future and will certainly revisit these ideas. Ill read up on a lot of it in the meantime. I may also incorporate some of them when teaching about religion and philosophy, which I do currently teach. Thanks for the great video!
I’m in college rn and intend to become a middle or high school history teacher, I’m not black, I’m Asian and white but I already decided that I would do my best to decolonize the history we teach and make students aware of things we don’t normally let them know. These seem like small fixes in all honesty, I think it would very much be possible to do this while still sticking to the existing curriculum. I’ll keep these in mind for when I begin teaching in a few years
This video was so well done. So happy that you posted this. Thank you
We homeschool and we are looking for a comprehensive textbook on African history before slavery. Does anyone have recommendations? TIA
No. Other than books on the Moors which are very hard, u have to go to a older bookstore.
Im indigenous khoisan, anything u need from that lmk.
There is the History of Africa by Kenvin Shillington and Africa in World History by Gilbert and Reynolds, but both of those are for older Kids. Or even early college level. And then there is the very dense but extremely insightful PRECOLONIAL BLACK AFRICA: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Modern States Cheikh Anta Diop. I recommend the last one to anyone getting serious about pre colonial african History.
UNESCO general history of Africa series is quite comprehensive.
Precolonial black Africa, the African origin of civilization myth or reality by cheick Anta diop also good books
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Family, we need to start creating our own schools and teaching our own children. That'll be mine goal for the rest of my time on earth.
this video made me appreciate African culture more.
Thank you Home Team. Your teaching is important to the people to whom it matters. Us.
Hey Hometeam, I discovered a 'historian' called Simon Webb who runs a youtube channel called 'History Debunked' who makes videos diminishing African and African American history, making such claims like that Great Zimbabwe wasn't a city, the Mali Empire never existed and that the book '12 Years a Slave' is a Hoax.
Perhaps you should do a video debunking these ridiculous
Why waste time with these clowns. Simon Webb and people like him are trolls! Their job is to create chaos and misinformation. Hometeam has done stories about Zimbabwe especially already on this channel. There is no need for him to address idiots like Webb. Their tactics are so predictable!
Kings don't entertain jesters.
I have seen his videos. Absolutely disappointing and disgusting.
@@aponirayn9099 Very true. A troll with a lot of books in the background.
@@craigcallender9647 Lmao. He was credible to me till I saw these
My high school junior year taught a lot about African History, particularly Mali, Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and The Swahili Coast. I remembered how absolutely blown my mind was. There were fucking castles in Africa. Great Zimbabwe straight up looks like something from a fantasy setting and the Great Mosque of Kilwa is made of coral! Africa is fucking rad.
Obviously I'm not saying you're wrong at all, my school was the exception and not the rule and I think every school should teach people about how positively epic Africa is.
This video is great. It's so nice to see a brother taking initiative and teaching what our schools refuse to. I'm about to put you on my Patreon list.
Okay, real talk: I'm black and a conservative, but I am *NOT* an opportunistic person and I am 100% pro-black, even if I may disagree with many in regards to what pro-black policies look like. I'm tired of us *only feeling like victims* and the "victim" side of the black experience being pushed to the forefront. As a pro-black conservative, the logical conclusion is that we should ditch the "Critical Race Theory" BS (which was invented by white leftists, anyway) and instead teach the glorious history of the Black Nation in our public schools, with the focus on how our knowledge, culture, and philosophy has always been an essential part of America and is one of the main reasons why this is the greatest country in history.
Exactly, we need to come together and create our own history book!!!discord.gg/cRH5rXJF
I don't know how I got on African history RUclips, but I'm here for it.