The Africans: A Triple Heritage - Program 4: Tools of Exploitation
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Mazrui presents European technology as arrogant and non compromising. Even if Africa has many resources, Africa also has extremes in poverty. Lord Lugar's dual mandate in Africa was to develop Africa's resources for its own benefit and to use the resources to meet Europe's industrial needs. Thus, Africans need to buy goods from other nations. The West does not share its technological knowledge with Africa to any great extent, leaving Africa with acquired Western tastes, but no skills to fulfill those tastes on their own.
Slavery was a denial of development for Africa. It interrupted any technological development that Africa was undergoing. It also caused a mass emigration of Africans. Mazrui estimates that with every slave that reached the market in the Americas, another slave died in transit. So many Africans were enslaved because they proved more resistant to disease than Indians and poor whites. Mature capitalism made wage labor more efficient that slave labor. As Africa exported men and women to the West, "implements of construction", Africa imported guns, "implements of destruction".
Arabs also had an imperial presence in Eastern Africa, and used slavery. A new civilization, partly African and partly Arab, was emerging there. Local technologies had not yet outgrown the institution of slavery. Nevertheless, since the two races were mixed, if a father was free, his children would be free as well. Though Arab slavery was evil, Mazrui posits that Western slavery was worse. Europeans maligned Arabian slavery saying, "Africa had to be saved from the Arab slave trade."
Europeans used this as a pretext for European colonization. In the Berlin Congress of the late nineteenth century, fourteen European powers partitioned Africa among themselves. Though the African slave trade was condemned by the European community earlier in the nineteenth century, maltreatment of Africans continued. Workers who did not produce enough were sometimes annihilated as an example for others. Mazrui gives the example of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond magnate, who claimed to conquer the land for "queen and country", when the deepest reason was for "greed and glory".
Mazrui sees the need for more technological self-reliance in Africa. Missionaries came and taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. Africans learned to speak, dress, and think like Westerners. However, technological backwardness remains a problem. In Mombasa, the West opened an institution to rescue Muslims from technological backwardness. But Mazrui views it as "too little, too late". Mazrui sees Africa's need for the practical, technical and managerial skills that will allow it to use its own resources instead of being so open to outside exploitation.
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A profound statement at 45:07 "shortage of managerial and technical skills continue to leave Africa wide open to exploitation by outsiders"!
Omg....I watched this while young in Kenya. Now that am a grown man and understand the world a little different ,I can't get enough of this information. I need this in my library.
I wonder what a modern version of this series would be like what is Africa like now.
This program basically. Made me grow up, it was one of the star programs in our newly aired CTV in Cameroon, although I didn't understand it all at the time, I never missed an episode... although I later live with scholars who believed Mr Maxrui was bias of the west on the benefit of Islam, and of east Africa against west Africa, ( I believe slavery is slavery, and colonialism is colonialism, whether western or Arabic muslims is Africans, and africa who suffers ) i have a great respect for him . RIP Mr Ali mazrui. He is a great teacher .
Plz consider Dr John h Clark
I watched these programs by Dr. MAZRUI intensely in the 1980's to become awoken, I am deeply thankful that they are being presented here online through empty set productions, I am trying to wake up my teenage daughters about their future in this world, particularity in these days of what is happening with our being black in america genocide
Prof. Mazuri gives us a a true sense of being African. I can now understand how the continent and it's indigenous people have been mistreated by outside forces. There is now need for Africa to wake up and claim it's own.
Me and my brother used watch this back in 90s at the local PBS station.
Keeping watching this again n again
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My favorite program, always.✊🏾
Very nice program
18:30 free labor
Good information
An African prophet not just an academic Proffesor but really a prophet whose essays here can be interpreted to actually where Africa is in this 21st century. So much has happened since this documentary series was released, we ask is Africa better than it was in the 80s? I believe it is because back then alot was really wrong, the poverty levels were terrible, health care during that dark period of mass HIV infections across Sub Saharan Africa was almost non existent, education has improved with a great improvement in vocational training, Civil Wars in some countries ceased and in others new conflicts started which altogether is such a sad affair of course back then the Cold War had so much say on the wars in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, it is also important to analyse alot of what Mazrui says in the previous episode of "gods, old and new" one can see how religion from his view point would probably despite the influence of western ideology still play a big role in the future dynamics on the continent. The only thing he missed was how China would emerge as such an important economic factor on the continent.
This is a distortion of history
Many years ago I watch Ali mazrui documentary,very educative but these days I just wonder
But besides watching, what can we do as individual Africans to change the narrative and make Africa better.
23:20 clarke says we must read slave trading in the Indian ocean !!!
Watching this thing as a Kenyan is troubling
34:00 which slaves did rubber ?
This series opened my eyes in my younger years. Its painful to watch.
50:00 Jamaica and Ghana connected
Where is Program 3: New Gods?
Hearing who sponsored the last century branded master piece by Mazurui, My jaw drops, And knowing now who funded the documentary, all I can say is it worth all the penny for them to sponsor such demoralising out of touch narrative by one of African western educated think tank scholar the late A Mazurui, What did he illuminate, Basically what we know already, In our modern era for any who blames the west for their jaw dropping actions only mean you have read history yet you understand nothing about human quest for survival and power, I am against his paining of events because they give a young man 0 solutions and more of looking up to someone Africans take for granted has more power than you, Lives better than you, Knows more than you, As far as am concerned I can not blame who thrives to survive, If you don't like their way then get down to work, But don't tell me they have internet and we don't they have phone and we don't they have nuclear tech and we don't they have space tech and we don't, Make your own, Tanzania has Natural gas to fuel the whole of south of equator, Yet the project lucks funds, What a Joke, The whole of Africa has Energy resources to fuel manufacturing industry producing cheapest goods in the world, Has the biggest consumer market in the world, They can hedgehog in and still thrive to the maximum, So what the late mazurui basically illuminates the effects of slave trade, Its a total Joke, Are we in slavery, What we have which unfortunately I can't pen here is much worse to me than those dark years where powerful Africans literary sold their own people to Europeans, The Great Slave Trade which to date blames European only, That isn't what really took place in those inhuman years,
Courtesy of BBC-TV (London, 1986)
When was the channel 4 Basil Davidson one made
There is no triple heritage in Asia, Europe...why would afrika be a triple heritage?
exactly. its because Ali is a fan of the muslim arabs. islam is the worship of arab culture. Africa is for Africans & should worship the way of life native to it.
Th8s man never mentions the devastation that the Arabs Brought to afrika,we have information now
John Henrik Clarke remained sceptical for that reason
Manu Ampin says more in his works
I want to see what Blyden says about Islam
watch
is this Proff. Mazrui?
nyamwange kevin yes
@@mistermonsieur5162John Henrik Clarkes sworn enemy
23:23 "Have you ever stopped to wonder what happened to all those slaves that the Arabs sold? Where are they?" The Arabs used female black slaves for their harems and castrated the males or sold them to the Europeans. Even today black Africans are treated very poorly by fair skinned Arabs. Mazrui is right that the children sired by the Arab belonged to the father but the plight of the black African woman and man in the Gulf countries is miserable.
Ali Mazrui was technically right about the Europeans using the Arab slave trade as an excuse to colonize Africa. What most white historians don't tell black people is that the Arabs of Africa (especially of Zanzibar and Tanzania) were black people themselves. Tippu Tip was culturally an Arab but was a full blooded black man. Tippu tip was targeted in European media during the 19th century because he hindered the Belgians from colonizing the Congo.
Arabs participated in African slave trade. Centuries before the Europeans
@@emmanueltsuma499721:00 He's a little ambiguous
@@thedebunker1777chancellor williams discussed this
23:20 clarke says we must read slave trading in the Indian ocean !!!
Why other leaders trust Americans corporations and politicians is still a mystery, given its history of racism, barbarism, militarism and greed,
we have the western tastes, but do we have the western skills?
39:00 the west indies at war documentary says much the same
A destroyed continent we are in now. If only the Western culture hadn't shown up we would be far more developed than now.😒😒😒so sad😭😭😭
Accomodating and welcoming nature of the African was his bane. The willingness to embrace anything foreign forged i guess on lack of his self belief. Regrettable jettisoning of his cultural religious beliefs and practices primed him up for mental capture by western and middle eastern ethos and eventual pathetic spiritual physical enslavement..
Afrika is standing up uniting brother come
how did western culture hurt africa?
Actually, for every 10 ppl kidnapped 9 didn't make it, remember that they had to travel to the coast
38:00 that's our only gun ?
WETA-TV/BBC-TV
32:20 bit flawed as forced Labour was permitted.
Read Howard French "born into blackness"(2021)