Leo Frobenius holds some very deep prejudices toward sub-Saharan Africans, but when it bleed down to carry a bias-free account of African ethnology and studying precolonial civilizations that were still thriving in early 20th century, his assuidity and studiousness remains unmatched to this day. He was the first and only Western explorer to ever describe how Katako-Kombe, a village from Sankuru from which my maternal grandfather's ancestry originates from, looked back to the wake of Belgian colonization in newly-minted Belgian Congo, back in 1910. I was flabbergasted when I first read that what is nowadays but a small fisher village, vaguely remembered by some to be the once capital town of the Tetela Kingdom and of the Anzicana Kingdom, described by the German explorer in manners that didn't correspond to what my late grandfather, born twenty-four years following Frobenius's visitation, neither his own late father born the next year after the latter's comeuppance, described to my mother in her youth. The portrayal of my ancestral "village" left me ajaw. To learn that first off, it haven't always been a village shocked me. He was describing a very different town from the one my family has always been familiar with in one hundred years. Instead of the fisher town was a large fortified city placated in the middle of the Maniema region, placated between the lush and impenetrable Kasaian rainforest from one part and the Kasai-Sankuru grasslands along the Sankuru river. Great walls made of white marble circumpassed a large agglomeration of luxuous houses and buildings made either of white marble too or of bricks and clay all tetchered with white slacked lime. The landscaping of the capital city was very modern, with its large streets, roads and even broader two-way highways each separated by a road verge of palm trees and grass. The natives were all dressed in rich, somptuous colourful adornements, loincloths, robes, dresses and togas covering their hide-and-seeks and walked either barefoot or on sandals or in wooden zapato shoes (zapato shoes being an invention native from Africa, but introducted into Europe by the "Moors" of Renaissance Era Italy, then later the Dutch around the same period) and wore upon them very sophisticated jewelry made of gold and other precious metals or gems. Frobenius stated that the citizens of Katako-Kombe were so obscenely wealthy than even their population of homeless beggars at that time were wandering the streets with their bodies covered of golden adornments from heads to toes! He later added that there had plenty of other similar cities like this in the former Luba Kingdom located further southward of the Kasai region, but that Katako-Kombe, in terms of landscaping, organization and cultural richness, had nothing to envy from XVIth century Rome or even IVth AD Rome, Constantinople or Alexandria. After I ended to read this passage, I shed tears and grieved. I spoke about it to my mother and the remainder of my family and they all equally grieved. We knew so little about the pride of our ancestors, knew so little of what Katako-Kombe used to be. By the time my oldest great-uncles were born in the 1920s, it was already a fisher village. The Belgians leveled it all and removed all memory of his glory past to the next generations: a continuation, I am afraid, of European and Western political and military efforts of occulting _nominem ad damnatio_ the memory of the Kingdom of Anzicana and of the primal importance of the Tetela people and other Ngalas from African and universal historic memory. They destroyed so many things...
I just want to say, I appreciate that you want to refute the historical description of Africans as savages, but all one has to do, is look at social media, or the local news from any urban area, in order to justify that depiction. I don't mean to be too harsh, but every time I see a group of people acting violent on social media, they're black my guy. I don't see any other group of people act like that. I've seen dozens, & dozens, & dozens, of videos, with black people acting like savages. There's also the crime "statistics". Is it because of genetics? Maybe. I wonder. There's plenty of poor Latinos, but I don't see them exhibiting that type of behavior. That's all.
I have always been fascinated how Africans went from being described as wealthy, civilised and beautiful in 1500's to 1700's in European literature, to being poor, primitive and ugly in the 1800's to 1900's.
The point is is that they had come to study us because they knew that we were too intelligent we were far more advanced we were far more civilized they have never seen that before among people in this nation because their people weren't civilized yet and during the course of studying us they found so many fascinating things so they had to convince other people that we were nothing we were people closer to animals than human beings so that they can thrive off of our inventions and our intelligence in our know-how and also capture recognition for everything so that it can be noted that they themselves are the ones that invented and learned or scollard inventions because if they hadn't a convince people of this to date there would be no racism it would be the other way around he had no scientific background but he was easily influential on other white people because he was white himself and he also had money to back him big corporations back to him so you know with that being said he was able to convince a people that what he discovered when he went there was barbaric that of inferior people so they wouldn't feel so bad about ituntil otherwise scholars notice and had already knew that we were of some of the smartest social and civilized people on the Earth but they went with it because that's just what white people do
@@mbb-- In order to engage in piracy and plunder it is necessary to dehumanize people first; Once you have convinced your people that others are subhuman, then it becomes ok to take everything , including the lives of those "others". A commonly known example is the dehumanization of the jews in nazi Germany.
Said imperial systems were on par, yet after the enslavement of tens of millions and the thorough dominance molestation of the western hemisphere, said imperial systems were shown to be vastly different in military and technological powers. Understand that in the fall of the Western hemisphere each of the big four euro empires was able to build empires the size of the continent of Europe itself, many times in abundance.
I been following our brother for almost a decade. I can say without a doubt you have and continue to, shed light on African history in a way it truly is shifting the culture. You are a gem bro
Your attention to detail and lack of agenda other than delving into history to find the truth that lies there makes this a channel that will always remain in my favorites.
The term Sub Saharan, is a negative play on words as well, because if you think about, the whole reason for the term, is to denigrate any people below the Sahara, as being viewed as sub human.
Thanks! Have been following your work for a few years now and am glad making a contribution is easier now. I appreciate your content and what I believe is a good faith attempt at balanced, unbiased reporting.
Since you are speaking to an English speaking audience, English colonialism used to main tactics military and derogatory. If you study the history of English colonialism they used these tactics on both Europeans and non-Europeans. When I read about the English colonial wars against the Irish, Welsh and Scots, I was shocked because it was the same ill treatment towards non-European races that the English colonized as well. There was one part of this English colonial history article where back in the 1700s they accused the Irish of deriving directly from apes saying they were primitive and unintelligent. I'm not surprised to hear on this video how Africans were mistreated by Europeans, they probably learnt this from the English, or should I say Anglelish
England only colonised parts of Africa for a few decades. Besides that they barely set foot on the continent. They BOUGHT the slaves they sold to the New World from Africans. The slave trade within Africa dwarfed the Transatlantic slave trade and the Arab slave trade combined.
Leo Frobenius holds some very deep prejudices toward sub-Saharan Africans, but when it bleed down to carry a bias-free account of African ethnology and studying precolonial civilizations that were still thriving in early 20th century, his assuidity and studiousness remains unmatched to this day. He was the first and only Western explorer to ever describe how Katako-Kombe, a village from Sankuru from which my maternal grandfather's ancestry originates from, looked back to the wake of Belgian colonization in newly-minted Belgian Congo, back in 1910. I was flabbergasted when I first read that what is nowadays but a small fisher village, vaguely remembered by some to be the once capital town of the Tetela Kingdom and of the Anzicana Kingdom, described by the German explorer in manners that didn't correspond to what my late grandfather, born twenty-four years following Frobenius's visitation, neither his own late father born the next year after the latter's comeuppance, described to my mother in her youth. The portrayal of my ancestral "village" left me ajaw. To learn that first off, it haven't always been a village shocked me. He was describing a very different town from the one my family has always been familiar with in one hundred years. Instead of the fisher town was a large fortified city placated in the middle of the Maniema region, placated between the lush and impenetrable Kasaian rainforest from one part and the Kasai-Sankuru grasslands along the Sankuru river. Great walls made of white marble circumpassed a large agglomeration of luxuous houses and buildings made either of white marble too or of bricks and clay all tetchered with white slacked lime. The landscaping of the capital city was very modern, with its large streets, roads and even broader two-way highways each separated by a road verge of palm trees and grass. The natives were all dressed in rich, somptuous colourful adornements, loincloths, robes, dresses and togas covering their hide-and-seeks and walked either barefoot or on sandals or in wooden zapato shoes (zapato shoes being an invention native from Africa, but introducted into Europe by the "Moors" of Renaissance Era Italy, then later the Dutch around the same period) and wore upon them very sophisticated jewelry made of gold and other precious metals or gems. Frobenius stated that the citizens of Katako-Kombe were so obscenely wealthy than even their population of homeless beggars at that time were wandering the streets with their bodies covered of golden adornments from heads to toes! He later added that there had plenty of other similar cities like this in the former Luba Kingdom located further southward of the Kasai region, but that Katako-Kombe, in terms of landscaping, organization and cultural richness, had nothing to envy from XVIth century Rome or even IVth AD Rome, Constantinople or Alexandria. After I ended to read this passage, I shed tears and grieved. I spoke about it to my mother and the remainder of my family and they all equally grieved. We knew so little about the pride of our ancestors, knew so little of what Katako-Kombe used to be. By the time my oldest great-uncles were born in the 1920s, it was already a fisher village. The Belgians leveled it all and removed all memory of his glory past to the next generations: a continuation, I am afraid, of European and Western political and military efforts of occulting _nominem ad damnatio_ the memory of the Kingdom of Anzicana and of the primal importance of the Tetela people and other Ngalas from African and universal historic memory. They destroyed so many things...
Evil things have been done in the name of conquest, power and money, and the things that are lost cannot be replaced. I hope someday at least some of what your people have lost can be gotten back again.
@@BeeWhistler what evil ? just ordinary day back than slavery, human sacrifices in thousands, cannibalism flourished in subsachara and other parts of planet. Even chinese mao dzedong starved 50 millions chinese just 60 years ago and this relative peaceful modern world only created in efforts of europeans
Thank you for this video. We need to know how those who colonized and enslaved knew they were lying to themselves, their descendants, and black people about Africans/black people in order to alter reality for their benefit. Also they seem to be people who collectively did not understand that what is different to them does not automatically mean inferior. They behaved as unstable, violent people who became obsessed with needing to be seen as above everyone else based on skin color. And they were willing to force it. All of this impacted black people to the point that we forgot/did not know how to see ourselves.
Yes. Everything they did was purposely orchestrated to steel the mineral and human wealth of Africa. That unrepentant racial group haven’t stopped this crusade. It has just taken a different form!
I like your comment.. thx This channel is attractive not only because of its topics, but also for the temperature of the voice used for the commenting. That been said, Im going to add to your comment for everyone to know that, so many of us will not fall any more for manipulation of any type through media. Importantly.... NO MORE seeking approval of eurocentric individual(s) to speak about ourself. So it doesn't matter how many times anyone of them feels guilty of their demonic nature or who falls for it. (Peace to the Gods)
It's the "Narrative of the Savage," and it predates the European invasion of Africa. It can probably be traced back to the Akkadians, through the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. The idea is to create a narrative of a primitive, barbaric & savage people barely human and then the decent people back home will support genocide, slavery and conquest for the wealth of kings.. It's one of the central themes of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
Impossible. It didnt predate European invasion. They are the ones who created it. Ancient peoples didn't give a dam aboit skin color. Hell the Greeks copied Egypt , and the Romans copied the Greeks
Biological racism has it's roots in Spain's Reconquista,and the rise of The Spanish Inquisition,and the "blood purity laws",where a citizen had to prove their racial purity,it was to erase Moorish and jewish influence,it was at that time when Europeans first started to refer to themselves as "white",before that,Europeans referred to their nation or city state,as a way of describing their identity,i.e,Romans were aware of race,but never identified themselves as white,but in the late midieval age there was a desire to purge Europe of All things moorish/Islamic,and jewish, ,this would soon to be ,the end of the Crusader age,and the begining of the colonial age,and with this New world vision,All things and people Non christian and non European,were deemed inferior, ...p.s. Ever wondered why the KKK dressed like Spanish inquistors??,well that is the reason..
@@cockoffgewgle4993 because they haven’t dropped any bombs on innocent civilians hence they are primitive to you. If Europeans were civilized they wouldn’t have conquered the world. It was true savagery and barbarism that the Europeans could take over. I mean people who left their lands with diseases alien to others which was the biggest weapons the Europeans had. You killed peoples with your f!lth. 🤢.
Has HTH ever reviewed the history of China visiting Africa long before the Euro/Anglos did? My understanding is under the T'ang dynasty (618 - 906 A.D.), the Chinese made voyages in ships that were 10X the size of the first Portuguese ships that made around the cape of Africa 700 years later. The Chinese made ongoing sailing to localities at the East African coast, where ancient Chinese porcelain had been found to evidence these encounters. Unsurprisingly there are many findings of Chinese artifacts at the Kenyan coast, but also some at the African Red Sea coast near major ports in the Northern Somalia-Djibouti-area, especially near Zayla', and Northern Sudan / Eritrea, near the Sudanese'Aydhâb, from the 10th - 14th centuries. Moreover, East Africans gifted the Chinese emperor a living rhinoceros prior to 1000 A.D. The history of African slavery in China seems associated with the Arab slave trade, where Arabs traded their slaves with some merchants in China. Always important to note this form of slavery is nothing like Anglo/Euro barbaric chattel slavery. Furthermore, I do not recollect any evidence of Chinese _Colonizing_ Africa. I suggest this inquiry here as at some point we may want to stop evaluating African and Diaspora history through the lens of Anglo/Euro confirmation. Meaning, most historical reviews of African history in the West, by Diaspora historians seem to try disprove the Anglo/Euro narrative that Africa was always some primitive place with primitive peoples. That narrative is irrelevant, immaterial, and incompetent to the rest of the world, and only servers to maintain the mental oppression of those who still think they must win the hearts of the dominant Euro/Anglo Caste. If we can just look at African history trough a non-Western lens for once would be refreshing.
I always enjoy watching your videos. This one was really inspiring to me. I pray that you continue to inspire, empower and enlighten the people! Blessings!
Prime is also the "BEGINNING" and is not the END.. Life as well as all technologies are progressive growths toward improvement.. For instance, the FIRST television were Black & White, then progressed to "Color", and HDTV. First autos in the early 1900's are no match for todays 2023 autos, also telephones are better after switching from "Analog" to "Digital" which got rid of "static".. We should never get stuck on just being the "FIRST" and become stagnant without continuous growth for a better future.. Our "Prime" as in the beginning should remain documented in history books which we can all learn from and not make the same mistakes, and we must not be totally satisfied with what we have done, but become "Motivated" to improve from our pasts. We cannot continue fighting with swords and Bow & Arrows while others fight and colonize us with "GUNS", because if we also have guns we can always maintain out Freedom of independence. I remember when the Internet became public, and I said that I would continue writing my letters, and I changed to E-mail for the best. When I said that I would not do ONLINE banking, I also changed when I decided to retire and move to Thailand because I can have access to my bank accounts, while knowing if someone hacked into my accounts while I have 60 days to report any losses , I would have to report it right away.. I can't imagine waiting for a bank statement from the USA that could take months for delivery depending on some kind of problem..
@@etruscancivilization I understand the poi t of advancement, but we should never allow the narrative to be changed. We are, and were, first. That’s not a step in the wrong direction, but more so a step in the right direction. You can’t build a lasting, sturdy house without a sure foundation!
Frobenius was definitely a product of his era who did not want to over praise the accomplishments of African civilizations. He wanted his European readers to know that he was fully aware of the accomplishments of European civilizations and was not attempting to diminish those accomplishments by any “admiration “ of African cultures.
My Brother you are one of the few people I could think of to head a project for the greatest historical movie on Africa every made. Your mind could is and will spark new consciousness!!🤔🫡🫡
The book'the destruction of black civilization' tells it all. We in Africa believe on day we will be back on our feet again. Through love, intellectualism and spirituality
Greetings my brother just wish to say thanks for your contribrution towords our history thanks for all you have out here so far lv an blessings be with us all Rastarfari Live
Man, I love your content, it's so informative and real. And not full of bullsh** agenda. I hope u get a chance to do some long form documentaries. Thank u sir!
I urge all blacks watching this content not to put weight on anything non blacks say about us, good or bad. Just be aware of their scheming and nasty racial tricks. Listen and learn from black scholars. Peace and PanAfricanism!
Thank you . Most history is taught to the 16 th century… our children as well as adults need to understand how we are where we are …. And stand up😇….. and I appreciate the references
UBUNTU is an African philosophy which predates slavery and colonisation,it's meaning brings out the pure fact who Afrikans were and are. All the wars we had and have were and are influenced by invaders to date. Of ourselves we are not people of war.
It’s very common amongst old and even modern anthropologists to acknowledge African contributions to civilization, but attribute them to non-Africans. It’s the same playbook being repeated over and over…
When the Europeans invented such narrative, did they forget that the Mali Empire was a powerful Islamic West African nation in its own right? What is their "excuse" then?
I think perhaps he meant superior race in the sense of a superior African culture that existed previously but which degenerated due to the slave trade. Perhaps one that extended its influence far enough to in turn be influenced by making contact with the Ancient Greeks. Which is not an illogical viewpoint because the works of Homer specifically mention the honorable king Memnon of Ethiopia the son of the dawn goddess who fought on Troy’s behalf. He was almost the equal to Achilles in combat and managed to wound him before dying but was then resurrected and made immortal due to Zeus being moved by the tears of Memnon’s mother. Here’s a quote from Dictys of Crete which helped fill in the gaps of the lost epics of Homer: “Memnon, the son of Tithonus and Aurora, arrived with a large army of Indians and Aethiopians, a truly remarkable army which consisted of thousands and thousands of men with various kinds of arms, and surpassed the hopes and prayers even of Priam.”
@@leobvenzen8565 Why do y'all say that? The first humans lived 200,000 years ago. We are all their descendants. Just because you didn't leave African doesn't mean you have some kind of special connection. You've changed genetically as well. Evolution effects everyone.
I think he was right on with saying Africans were civilized down to the bones. Most black people I know is very particular and skillful about the things they care about like their home ext. I just think he was scared to fully give Africans their props because he didn’t want to be judge by his fellow negative Europeans
Scholars have always been beholden to the wealthy and would expounded on their views and thoughts even when they knew differently. The jealousy that Africans were able to build and maintain great civilizations while Europeans regularly created and destroyed civilizations was blows to their pride. Rich free blacks never journeyed to Africa, so their opinion on what was said and what went on carries little weight
I don't put much stock at all into anyone or anything that has W.E.B. Dubois' seal of approval. That man may be the greatest villain ever, to American Black people. Thank you, for another wonderful presentation.
The question is this, WHAT are black people going to do abouts all this other than... 1. Fill their heads up with information and let it sit there. 🤣 2. Pray.🤣 3. March. 🤣 4. Turn the other cheek. 🤣 5. Trust in the LORD.🤣 6. Vote. 🤣 7. Write books. 🤣 8. Beg. 🤣 9. Get more education. 🤣 10. Forgive and love their enemies. 🤣 11. Song church hymns. 🤣
Ezra Pound was a big admirer of his work and preferred Frobenius over Spengler. He also had an extremely favourable opinion of African Americans, saying "Nobody likes Blacks more than I do, in fact I prefer some of 'em to most White's'
Ezra Pound was an ardent fascist and obsessive anti-Semite who was actually arrested by the Allied Powers after World War Two and placed in a mental institution.
The audience does matter ... one might weave in more popular narratives or stereotypes that contradict and undermine the positive attributes presented to legitimize his/her work amongst certain people ... still happens today.
I found a reference to a book about this guy which describes him as follows: 'Leo Frobenius, the man who explored Africa's soul: a great German humanist, free of prejudice, who proved that wherever men live there is civilization'. Free of prejudice? Doesn't seem so.
It would be interesting to do a "deep dive" to find out who were the first non black Africans to come into Africa AND see the things they said insofar as descriptions languages, cultures etc within the scope of their view at the time. i suspect that maybe the "Lybians" or the Amazighs etc would have been the first yet nobody seems to focus on them at all. From my own little research and clues it seems that it is entirely possible that even things such as "the N word" actually starts with THEM and as we know it today is actually descendant from them over time. At any rate peace. Been ro kin with this channel for a grip now
✊🏾I'm all in about Facts Bro 💯 And sadly most of our own people have been brain washed by the west🤫 into Cognitive Dissonance concerning the dignity of BLACK 🤴🏾 History. So we don't need #Wyeit Approval to embrace the truth. I appreciate your open approach , it will lead you to a great and many rare gems of revelation, 🤯 as it did me. Exodus 2:14-19 Amos 9:7 Psalms 82: 🙌🏾 Barakha 🌾✊🏾 Salema 🙏🏾💯
PERFECT timing as I was just speaking with a Paul L. Dunbar literature appreciation and performance group about the descriptions and wording in some of his brilliant works that use descriptives in line with the popular thinking of his day regarding Africa and her people, especially those who’d gotten to the USA via enslavement. The ideas that we were savages and that knowledge of the Creator was brought into Africa by Europeans and Arabs is ridiculous as we already had quite advanced and organized spiritual/religious traditions. I will share this post with them at our next weekly gathering. ❤
This was very helpful , thanks. What's inside a man as his true nature is most important, not his outside appearance or his toys . Mankind has been brutal towards one another from the beginning of time . God please help us to love one another as you love us .
It's quite obvious that Leo Frobenius was troubled. Because what he saw when travelled to the great African continent went against the common narrative of Africa! It seems he realised that much of what he was "taught" was untrue. But he had to eat and therefore perpetuated the European falsehood. It's very unsettling that intelligent men such as W. E. B Du Bois seemed to acknowledge Frobenius as a worthy scholar.🙄
After studying Amos Wilson and looking back (52 now) I see myself being schizophrenic on a few occasions in that I identifed as an African but pursued European values such getting a bigger piece of the colonial pie by studying and working hard so i may make it in this Western world. Not the same but feels like it.
I am no scholar of African History/Studies or Commentaries. However, my comment on this programme alone, says the man had 'a conflict' of sorts; the truth of what he saw vs his research, vs ( and pro- pelling him, his innate bias, what he eas raised, yes cultivated to believe. The description Schizophrenic is apt. A necessary if not detailed study/ report of/on the man's work. Thank you.🤔🌴
This is only scratching the surface of the brilliance behind what we are as a people, but the occult (hidden culture) background of our people is highly responsible for that brilliance from the spiritual technology is how civilization evolved. It’s so much more complex things about us it’s too much to text on here. I am glad folks are waking up we was always a civilized people if anything the now European man was the primitive people and was taught how to be civilized by us before being brainwashed by the Archons, another group of blacks ( look up the story of Pistis Sophia) that are our true enemies. Peace
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Leo Frobenius holds some very deep prejudices toward sub-Saharan Africans, but when it bleed down to carry a bias-free account of African ethnology and studying precolonial civilizations that were still thriving in early 20th century, his assuidity and studiousness remains unmatched to this day.
He was the first and only Western explorer to ever describe how Katako-Kombe, a village from Sankuru from which my maternal grandfather's ancestry originates from, looked back to the wake of Belgian colonization in newly-minted Belgian Congo, back in 1910. I was flabbergasted when I first read that what is nowadays but a small fisher village, vaguely remembered by some to be the once capital town of the Tetela Kingdom and of the Anzicana Kingdom, described by the German explorer in manners that didn't correspond to what my late grandfather, born twenty-four years following Frobenius's visitation, neither his own late father born the next year after the latter's comeuppance, described to my mother in her youth.
The portrayal of my ancestral "village" left me ajaw. To learn that first off, it haven't always been a village shocked me. He was describing a very different town from the one my family has always been familiar with in one hundred years.
Instead of the fisher town was a large fortified city placated in the middle of the Maniema region, placated between the lush and impenetrable Kasaian rainforest from one part and the Kasai-Sankuru grasslands along the Sankuru river. Great walls made of white marble circumpassed a large agglomeration of luxuous houses and buildings made either of white marble too or of bricks and clay all tetchered with white slacked lime. The landscaping of the capital city was very modern, with its large streets, roads and even broader two-way highways each separated by a road verge of palm trees and grass. The natives were all dressed in rich, somptuous colourful adornements, loincloths, robes, dresses and togas covering their hide-and-seeks and walked either barefoot or on sandals or in wooden zapato shoes (zapato shoes being an invention native from Africa, but introducted into Europe by the "Moors" of Renaissance Era Italy, then later the Dutch around the same period) and wore upon them very sophisticated jewelry made of gold and other precious metals or gems.
Frobenius stated that the citizens of Katako-Kombe were so obscenely wealthy than even their population of homeless beggars at that time were wandering the streets with their bodies covered of golden adornments from heads to toes!
He later added that there had plenty of other similar cities like this in the former Luba Kingdom located further southward of the Kasai region, but that Katako-Kombe, in terms of landscaping, organization and cultural richness, had nothing to envy from XVIth century Rome or even IVth AD Rome, Constantinople or Alexandria.
After I ended to read this passage, I shed tears and grieved. I spoke about it to my mother and the remainder of my family and they all equally grieved. We knew so little about the pride of our ancestors, knew so little of what Katako-Kombe used to be. By the time my oldest great-uncles were born in the 1920s, it was already a fisher village. The Belgians leveled it all and removed all memory of his glory past to the next generations: a continuation, I am afraid, of European and Western political and military efforts of occulting _nominem ad damnatio_ the memory of the Kingdom of Anzicana and of the primal importance of the Tetela people and other Ngalas from African and universal historic memory. They destroyed so many things...
I just want to say, I appreciate that you want to refute the historical description of Africans as savages, but all one has to do, is look at social media, or the local news from any urban area, in order to justify that depiction. I don't mean to be too harsh, but every time I see a group of people acting violent on social media, they're black my guy. I don't see any other group of people act like that. I've seen dozens, & dozens, & dozens, of videos, with black people acting like savages. There's also the crime "statistics". Is it because of genetics? Maybe. I wonder. There's plenty of poor Latinos, but I don't see them exhibiting that type of behavior. That's all.
@@beepboop204 mark this day is you make it till the end, and we will see whos head will be turing upside down fool
@@gummbootoothbrush9060 sure thing Mr Toothbrush ☺☺☺
I have always been fascinated how Africans went from being described as wealthy, civilised and beautiful in 1500's to 1700's in European literature, to being poor, primitive and ugly in the 1800's to 1900's.
Good old war propaganda. Same way parts of the Middle East went from an ‘oriental paradise’ to a ‘terrorist hideout’
That is a really good point. I never thought about that but it's true
The point is is that they had come to study us because they knew that we were too intelligent we were far more advanced we were far more civilized they have never seen that before among people in this nation because their people weren't civilized yet and during the course of studying us they found so many fascinating things so they had to convince other people that we were nothing we were people closer to animals than human beings so that they can thrive off of our inventions and our intelligence in our know-how and also capture recognition for everything so that it can be noted that they themselves are the ones that invented and learned or scollard inventions because if they hadn't a convince people of this to date there would be no racism it would be the other way around he had no scientific background but he was easily influential on other white people because he was white himself and he also had money to back him big corporations back to him so you know with that being said he was able to convince a people that what he discovered when he went there was barbaric that of inferior people so they wouldn't feel so bad about ituntil otherwise scholars notice and had already knew that we were of some of the smartest social and civilized people on the Earth but they went with it because that's just what white people do
@@mbb-- In order to engage in piracy and plunder it is necessary to dehumanize people first; Once you have convinced your people that others are subhuman, then it becomes ok to take everything , including the lives of those "others". A commonly known example is the dehumanization of the jews in nazi Germany.
Said imperial systems were on par, yet after the enslavement of tens of millions and the thorough dominance molestation of the western hemisphere, said imperial systems were shown to be vastly different in military and technological powers. Understand that in the fall of the Western hemisphere each of the big four euro empires was able to build empires the size of the continent of Europe itself, many times in abundance.
I been following our brother for almost a decade. I can say without a doubt you have and continue to, shed light on African history in a way it truly is shifting the culture. You are a gem bro
Amen!!!
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Me, too
My thoughts exactly!
Thank you bro
I am from Ghana and an Ashanti, I have watched and listened to my brother here for years and I must say you are truly historian
So much history suppressed, repressed, or ignored. Thank you for your ongoing work!
Your content keeps getting better. Bless up fam
Your attention to detail and lack of agenda other than delving into history to find the truth that lies there makes this a channel that will always remain in my favorites.
This is exactly how i feel about this channel as well
Just in time to feed my twins. Needed this 😂!!!! Love the content👍🏿!
The term Sub Saharan, is a negative play on words as well, because if you think about, the whole reason for the term, is to denigrate any people below the Sahara, as being viewed as sub human.
Good one!
Yeah, like the term sub zero is meant to denigrate all the temperatures below zero 😢
Thanks! Have been following your work for a few years now and am glad making a contribution is easier now. I appreciate your content and what I believe is a good faith attempt at balanced, unbiased reporting.
Since you are speaking to an English speaking audience, English colonialism used to main tactics military and derogatory. If you study the history of English colonialism they used these tactics on both Europeans and non-Europeans. When I read about the English colonial wars against the Irish, Welsh and Scots, I was shocked because it was the same ill treatment towards non-European races that the English colonized as well. There was one part of this English colonial history article where back in the 1700s they accused the Irish of deriving directly from apes saying they were primitive and unintelligent.
I'm not surprised to hear on this video how Africans were mistreated by Europeans, they probably learnt this from the English, or should I say Anglelish
England only colonised parts of Africa for a few decades. Besides that they barely set foot on the continent. They BOUGHT the slaves they sold to the New World from Africans. The slave trade within Africa dwarfed the Transatlantic slave trade and the Arab slave trade combined.
Leo Frobenius holds some very deep prejudices toward sub-Saharan Africans, but when it bleed down to carry a bias-free account of African ethnology and studying precolonial civilizations that were still thriving in early 20th century, his assuidity and studiousness remains unmatched to this day.
He was the first and only Western explorer to ever describe how Katako-Kombe, a village from Sankuru from which my maternal grandfather's ancestry originates from, looked back to the wake of Belgian colonization in newly-minted Belgian Congo, back in 1910. I was flabbergasted when I first read that what is nowadays but a small fisher village, vaguely remembered by some to be the once capital town of the Tetela Kingdom and of the Anzicana Kingdom, described by the German explorer in manners that didn't correspond to what my late grandfather, born twenty-four years following Frobenius's visitation, neither his own late father born the next year after the latter's comeuppance, described to my mother in her youth.
The portrayal of my ancestral "village" left me ajaw. To learn that first off, it haven't always been a village shocked me. He was describing a very different town from the one my family has always been familiar with in one hundred years.
Instead of the fisher town was a large fortified city placated in the middle of the Maniema region, placated between the lush and impenetrable Kasaian rainforest from one part and the Kasai-Sankuru grasslands along the Sankuru river. Great walls made of white marble circumpassed a large agglomeration of luxuous houses and buildings made either of white marble too or of bricks and clay all tetchered with white slacked lime. The landscaping of the capital city was very modern, with its large streets, roads and even broader two-way highways each separated by a road verge of palm trees and grass. The natives were all dressed in rich, somptuous colourful adornements, loincloths, robes, dresses and togas covering their hide-and-seeks and walked either barefoot or on sandals or in wooden zapato shoes (zapato shoes being an invention native from Africa, but introducted into Europe by the "Moors" of Renaissance Era Italy, then later the Dutch around the same period) and wore upon them very sophisticated jewelry made of gold and other precious metals or gems.
Frobenius stated that the citizens of Katako-Kombe were so obscenely wealthy than even their population of homeless beggars at that time were wandering the streets with their bodies covered of golden adornments from heads to toes!
He later added that there had plenty of other similar cities like this in the former Luba Kingdom located further southward of the Kasai region, but that Katako-Kombe, in terms of landscaping, organization and cultural richness, had nothing to envy from XVIth century Rome or even IVth AD Rome, Constantinople or Alexandria.
After I ended to read this passage, I shed tears and grieved. I spoke about it to my mother and the remainder of my family and they all equally grieved. We knew so little about the pride of our ancestors, knew so little of what Katako-Kombe used to be. By the time my oldest great-uncles were born in the 1920s, it was already a fisher village. The Belgians leveled it all and removed all memory of his glory past to the next generations: a continuation, I am afraid, of European and Western political and military efforts of occulting _nominem ad damnatio_ the memory of the Kingdom of Anzicana and of the primal importance of the Tetela people and other Ngalas from African and universal historic memory. They destroyed so many things...
Evil things have been done in the name of conquest, power and money, and the things that are lost cannot be replaced. I hope someday at least some of what your people have lost can be gotten back again.
@@BeeWhistler what evil ? just ordinary day back than slavery, human sacrifices in thousands, cannibalism flourished in subsachara and other parts of planet. Even chinese mao dzedong starved 50 millions chinese just 60 years ago and this relative peaceful modern world only created in efforts of europeans
@@laserraiset3300 the ottomans starved millions of Armenians too nobody has a clean past on this planet.
@@laserraiset3300 cannibalism flourishing? Interesting.
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What a time for an African to be alive, wooh!
I've been watching all your videos for years too, KEEP GOING, DON'T STOP, we need this!!!!! And THANK YOU ❤
Thank you for this video. We need to know how those who colonized and enslaved knew they were lying to themselves, their descendants, and black people about Africans/black people in order to alter reality for their benefit. Also they seem to be people who collectively did not understand that what is different to them does not automatically mean inferior. They behaved as unstable, violent people who became obsessed with needing to be seen as above everyone else based on skin color. And they were willing to force it. All of this impacted black people to the point that we forgot/did not know how to see ourselves.
Yes. Everything they did was purposely orchestrated to steel the mineral and human wealth of Africa. That unrepentant racial group haven’t stopped this crusade. It has just taken a different form!
I like your comment.. thx
This channel is attractive not only because of its topics, but also for the temperature of the voice used for the commenting.
That been said, Im going to add to your comment for everyone to know that, so many of us will not fall any more for manipulation of any type through media. Importantly.... NO MORE seeking approval of eurocentric individual(s) to speak about ourself. So it doesn't matter how many times anyone of them feels guilty of their demonic nature or who falls for it. (Peace to the Gods)
@@OlaAdewunmiDavies I like that and I agree.
Thank you Kyrie and Kanye. The truth is out and most of us are awake and we are broadcasting the truth and exposing the European fabrication.
I disagree, it's way more complicated and less black and white than you think
The best things about your videos are your voice and narration. The background music is the cherry on the Sunday ice cream
It's the "Narrative of the Savage," and it predates the European invasion of Africa. It can probably be traced back to the Akkadians, through the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. The idea is to create a narrative of a primitive, barbaric & savage people barely human and then the decent people back home will support genocide, slavery and conquest for the wealth of kings.. It's one of the central themes of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
Impossible. It didnt predate European invasion. They are the ones who created it. Ancient peoples didn't give a dam aboit skin color. Hell the Greeks copied Egypt , and the Romans copied the Greeks
Have you visited Africa? Their societies are still primitive today.
Biological racism has it's roots in Spain's Reconquista,and the rise of The Spanish Inquisition,and the "blood purity laws",where a citizen had to prove their racial purity,it was to erase Moorish and jewish influence,it was at that time when Europeans first started to refer to themselves as "white",before that,Europeans referred to their nation or city state,as a way of describing their identity,i.e,Romans were aware of race,but never identified themselves as white,but in the late midieval age there was a desire to purge Europe of All things moorish/Islamic,and jewish, ,this would soon to be ,the end of the Crusader age,and the begining of the colonial age,and with this New world vision,All things and people Non christian and non European,were deemed inferior,
...p.s. Ever wondered why the KKK dressed like Spanish inquistors??,well that is the reason..
Look at Sudan, Liberia, and the Congo while you read what you typed.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 because they haven’t dropped any bombs on innocent civilians hence they are primitive to you. If Europeans were civilized they wouldn’t have conquered the world. It was true savagery and barbarism that the Europeans could take over. I mean people who left their lands with diseases alien to others which was the biggest weapons the Europeans had. You killed peoples with your f!lth. 🤢.
Has HTH ever reviewed the history of China visiting Africa long before the Euro/Anglos did? My understanding is under the T'ang dynasty (618 - 906 A.D.), the Chinese made voyages in ships that were 10X the size of the first Portuguese ships that made around the cape of Africa 700 years later. The Chinese made ongoing sailing to localities at the East African coast, where ancient Chinese porcelain had been found to evidence these encounters. Unsurprisingly there are many findings of Chinese artifacts at the Kenyan coast, but also some at the African Red Sea coast near major ports in the Northern Somalia-Djibouti-area, especially near Zayla', and Northern Sudan / Eritrea, near the Sudanese'Aydhâb, from the 10th - 14th centuries. Moreover, East Africans gifted the Chinese emperor a living rhinoceros prior to 1000 A.D.
The history of African slavery in China seems associated with the Arab slave trade, where Arabs traded their slaves with some merchants in China. Always important to note this form of slavery is nothing like Anglo/Euro barbaric chattel slavery. Furthermore, I do not recollect any evidence of Chinese _Colonizing_ Africa. I suggest this inquiry here as at some point we may want to stop evaluating African and Diaspora history through the lens of Anglo/Euro confirmation. Meaning, most historical reviews of African history in the West, by Diaspora historians seem to try disprove the Anglo/Euro narrative that Africa was always some primitive place with primitive peoples. That narrative is irrelevant, immaterial, and incompetent to the rest of the world, and only servers to maintain the mental oppression of those who still think they must win the hearts of the dominant Euro/Anglo Caste.
If we can just look at African history trough a non-Western lens for once would be refreshing.
You think they got any good slaves when they were there?
@@spencerstevens2175 grow up
@@iamthemessiah What? I bet they did. You can still buy them there, today. Why is that childish? Seems more heinous than anything.
@@iamthemessiah Denying reality is for children
@@spencerstevens2175 true
As Always your highly appreciated for bringing us crucial facts for our long brainwashed minds!!!!🌍✌️
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Good running into this.
Thanks always.
More POWER
I always enjoy watching your videos. This one was really inspiring to me. I pray that you continue to inspire, empower and enlighten the people!
Blessings!
The root of primitive is prime which means first. So I educate them whenever I hear that foolishness.
Good approach. I bet they seethe.
Exactly, yurugu know "prime is best," they just dont want Us to know!
Prime is also the "BEGINNING" and is not the END.. Life as well as all technologies are progressive growths toward improvement.. For instance, the FIRST television were Black & White, then progressed to "Color", and HDTV. First autos in the early 1900's are no match for todays 2023 autos, also telephones are better after switching from "Analog" to "Digital" which got rid of "static".. We should never get stuck on just being the "FIRST" and become stagnant without continuous growth for a better future.. Our "Prime" as in the beginning should remain documented in history books which we can all learn from and not make the same mistakes, and we must not be totally satisfied with what we have done, but become "Motivated" to improve from our pasts. We cannot continue fighting with swords and Bow & Arrows while others fight and colonize us with "GUNS", because if we also have guns we can always maintain out Freedom of independence. I remember when the Internet became public, and I said that I would continue writing my letters, and I changed to E-mail for the best. When I said that I would not do ONLINE banking, I also changed when I decided to retire and move to Thailand because I can have access to my bank accounts, while knowing if someone hacked into my accounts while I have 60 days to report any losses , I would have to report it right away.. I can't imagine waiting for a bank statement from the USA that could take months for delivery depending on some kind of problem..
@@etruscancivilization I understand the poi t of advancement, but we should never allow the narrative to be changed. We are, and were, first. That’s not a step in the wrong direction, but more so a step in the right direction. You can’t build a lasting, sturdy house without a sure foundation!
First what? Do you know anyone using the "first" version of anything?
Thank you once more Master for your teachings.
I always learn something new from you.
Cheers
Thank you for your wonderful contents bud🎉🎉
Yes it was necessary to see Africans as merch not to feel they are doing anything wrong damn shame.
They were seen as merch because they were merch. Africans were offering them up for sale.
Thank you for sharing this important information✊💛
Considering the state of africa at that time and now to a certain extent primitive africans is appropriate.
Frobenius was definitely a product of his era who did not want to over praise the accomplishments of African civilizations. He wanted his European readers to know that he was fully aware of the accomplishments of European civilizations and was not attempting to diminish those accomplishments by any “admiration “ of African cultures.
Love your informative educational videos!
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For Your Service to Our People.
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My Brother you are one of the few people I could think of to head a project for the greatest historical movie on Africa every made. Your mind could is and will spark new consciousness!!🤔🫡🫡
Many blessings my brother, keep up the good work.
Great work. I always love your content.
They can try to dumb us down , but we continue to shine no matter how many odds they continue to give us.
Yep, Couldn't pull the wool over your eyes, could "they"? You're too smart!
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No matter how many "odds they give you"!
❤ love from Angola 🇦🇴 Africa... I am from the Kongo tribe...
The book'the destruction of black civilization' tells it all. We in Africa believe on day we will be back on our feet again. Through love, intellectualism and spirituality
i hope men like ibrahim traore leads the way
I appreciate you and your work. I wish I could do more. For now, a small thank you will have to suffice.
Greetings my brother just wish to say thanks for your contribrution towords our history thanks for all you have out here so far lv an blessings be with us all Rastarfari Live
Man, I love your content, it's so informative and real. And not full of bullsh** agenda. I hope u get a chance to do some long form documentaries. Thank u sir!
Thank you for your fantastic work.
I think the work that you do is well needed
I urge all blacks watching this content not to put weight on anything non blacks say about us, good or bad. Just be aware of their scheming and nasty racial tricks. Listen and learn from black scholars. Peace and PanAfricanism!
Just be a racist, bro!
Listen to ALL. Read ALL.
EVERYONE is not out to get you.
This is not what you do. You study those who oppose you. They study everything we do.
@@WHG369 I'd suggest studying things which can improve educational outcomes for your demographic.
So we shouldn't put weight on Herodotus?
He was Greek.
I would say we should look at what anyone says criticality.
Thank you . Most history is taught to the 16 th century… our children as well as adults need to understand how we are where we are …. And stand up😇….. and I appreciate the references
Excellent Episode 👍
Great post!
Not only primitive Africans but also sub Saharan black Africans.
Excellent Episode 👍👍
UBUNTU is an African philosophy which predates slavery and colonisation,it's meaning brings out the pure fact who Afrikans were and are.
All the wars we had and have were and are influenced by invaders to date.
Of ourselves we are not people of war.
This video should be viewed over and over and let it sink in
Amazing video
Great content and voiceover skills! I'd like to see Ed Norton play this man in a bio pic. The resemblance is uncanny...@2:57
Being a subscriber for over 10yrs.
It’s very common amongst old and even modern anthropologists to acknowledge African contributions to civilization, but attribute them to non-Africans. It’s the same playbook being repeated over and over…
Love the drumming how can get that I try to shazam it quite a few times it is not bringing up the right information...
When the Europeans invented such narrative, did they forget that the Mali Empire was a powerful Islamic West African nation in its own right? What is their "excuse" then?
I think perhaps he meant superior race in the sense of a superior African culture that existed previously but which degenerated due to the slave trade. Perhaps one that extended its influence far enough to in turn be influenced by making contact with the Ancient Greeks. Which is not an illogical viewpoint because the works of Homer specifically mention the honorable king Memnon of Ethiopia the son of the dawn goddess who fought on Troy’s behalf. He was almost the equal to Achilles in combat and managed to wound him before dying but was then resurrected and made immortal due to Zeus being moved by the tears of Memnon’s mother. Here’s a quote from Dictys of Crete which helped fill in the gaps of the lost epics of Homer: “Memnon, the son of Tithonus and Aurora, arrived with a large army of Indians and Aethiopians, a truly remarkable army which consisted of thousands and thousands of men with various kinds of arms, and surpassed the hopes and prayers even of Priam.”
Ethipia is far away from western Africa, where the slave trade happened
Degenerated due to the slave trade? Please show your working. The slave trade started in Africa.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 no, I'm pretty sure it started in the middle east, where the first civilisations began. Maybe tribal slaves.
I follow your stories with great enjoyment , I have artefacts made by communities that defy all nonsense spoken by european explorers
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK IT SEEMS TO ME THE WHOLE WORLD HATE US
That's because we are, "prime,"-tive! We are the first; the source from which All humanity (and people) come!!
@@leobvenzen8565 I can ROCK WITH THAT BRO
Only thing that matters is if you love yourself.
@@leobvenzen8565 Why do y'all say that? The first humans lived 200,000 years ago. We are all their descendants. Just because you didn't leave African doesn't mean you have some kind of special connection. You've changed genetically as well. Evolution effects everyone.
I hope your thought process changes, since everyone hates not the africans, but everyone.
I think he was right on with saying Africans were civilized down to the bones. Most black people I know is very particular and skillful about the things they care about like their home ext. I just think he was scared to fully give Africans their props because he didn’t want to be judge by his fellow negative Europeans
Thanks for this lesson. It reminded me of Johanna Blumebach classification of race.
Have you ever covered Gustavas Vassa aka Olaudah Equiano
Awesome to hear
Scholars have always been beholden to the wealthy and would expounded on their views and thoughts even when they knew differently. The jealousy that Africans were able to build and maintain great civilizations while Europeans regularly created and destroyed civilizations was blows to their pride. Rich free blacks never journeyed to Africa, so their opinion on what was said and what went on carries little weight
I don't put much stock at all into anyone or anything that has W.E.B. Dubois' seal of approval. That man may be the greatest villain ever, to American Black people. Thank you, for another wonderful presentation.
Sadly. Some people do not need an excuse to see us as less human.
The question is this, WHAT are black people going to do abouts all this other than...
1. Fill their heads up with information and let it sit there. 🤣
2. Pray.🤣
3. March. 🤣
4. Turn the other cheek. 🤣
5. Trust in the LORD.🤣
6. Vote. 🤣
7. Write books. 🤣
8. Beg. 🤣
9. Get more education. 🤣
10. Forgive and love their enemies. 🤣
11. Song church hymns. 🤣
Well done.
Yes more videos like this
Ezra Pound was a big admirer of his work and preferred Frobenius over Spengler. He also had an extremely favourable opinion of African Americans, saying "Nobody likes Blacks more than I do, in fact I prefer some of 'em to most White's'
Ezra Pound was an ardent fascist and obsessive anti-Semite who was actually arrested by the Allied Powers after World War Two and placed in a mental institution.
Can someone post full quote or link to it with attribution?
Leo Frobenius suffered from the Hamitic Hypothesis.
Fortunately good sense commending we don't give answers to inconsistent comments
The audience does matter ... one might weave in more popular narratives or stereotypes that contradict and undermine the positive attributes presented to legitimize his/her work amongst certain people ... still happens today.
it is well known among Africans, and most Europeans and others from the western countries I personally know that, civilization began in Africa
KNOW THOU SELF Black Power 🏴🌟🙏👑🤲
"If it doesn't align with my worldview it must be aliens (or some mythical race of people I conveniently invented)"→🤷🏻♂
That pretty much sums it up
Idiots believe in Aliens building Pyramids
i kno white people man.. cant believe anything that reveals the truth
lol
Thank you
I found a reference to a book about this guy which describes him as follows: 'Leo Frobenius, the man who explored Africa's soul: a great German humanist, free of prejudice, who proved that wherever men live there is civilization'. Free of prejudice? Doesn't seem so.
Thanks!
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Wow, you mean my African friends are just pretending to be poor? They’re wealthy? Whoa!
Excellent work 🎉
Thank you for this excelent video about Leo Frobenius. Maybe he didnt want to go to far as to anger the scientific(slave trade)community.
It would be interesting to do a "deep dive" to find out who were the first non black Africans to come into Africa AND see the things they said insofar as descriptions languages, cultures etc within the scope of their view at the time. i suspect that maybe the "Lybians" or the Amazighs etc would have been the first yet nobody seems to focus on them at all. From my own little research and clues it seems that it is entirely possible that even things such as "the N word" actually starts with THEM and as we know it today is actually descendant from them over time. At any rate peace. Been ro kin with this channel for a grip now
Great video as usual.
A little pronunciation correction: it's WÓ-LÉ SHÓ-YÌN-KÁ
Can't believe I didn't sub to this channel been wondering why I ain't seeing no videos
I guess these writers were not aware of the ancient libraries of Morocco Alexandria Mali ? As well as the ancient scripts of Africa?
I wouldn't call them primitive but they were at a different level than the rest of the world.
✊🏾I'm all in about Facts Bro 💯
And sadly most of our own people have been brain washed by the west🤫 into Cognitive Dissonance concerning the dignity of BLACK 🤴🏾 History. So we don't need #Wyeit Approval to embrace the truth. I appreciate your open approach , it will lead you to a great and many rare gems of revelation, 🤯
as it did me. Exodus 2:14-19
Amos 9:7
Psalms 82:
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I'm native of North America known we used to call it turtle Island. I like watching the history of Africans because we have so much in common .
You are black and you are not indigenous to America 🙄😏 fool, stop claiming land you have no connection to
Niether had invented the wheel, huh?
@@cpmkw so
#HTH is so refreshing in these times. true history is they key to reaching enlightment which will lead to greater progress for all.
PERFECT timing as I was just speaking with a Paul L. Dunbar literature appreciation and performance group about the descriptions and wording in some of his brilliant works that use descriptives in line with the popular thinking of his day regarding Africa and her people, especially those who’d gotten to the USA via enslavement. The ideas that we were savages and that knowledge of the Creator was brought into Africa by Europeans and Arabs is ridiculous as we already had quite advanced and organized spiritual/religious traditions. I will share this post with them at our next weekly gathering. ❤
This was very helpful , thanks. What's inside a man as his true nature is most important, not his outside appearance or his toys . Mankind has been brutal towards one another from the beginning of time . God please help us to love one another as you love us .
It's quite obvious that Leo Frobenius was troubled. Because what he saw when travelled to the great African continent went against the common narrative of Africa! It seems he realised that much of what he was "taught" was untrue. But he had to eat and therefore perpetuated the European falsehood. It's very unsettling that intelligent men such as W. E. B Du Bois seemed to acknowledge Frobenius as a worthy scholar.🙄
No volume?
After studying Amos Wilson and looking back (52 now) I see myself being schizophrenic on a few occasions in that I identifed as an African but pursued European values such getting a bigger piece of the colonial pie by studying and working hard so i may make it in this Western world. Not the same but feels like it.
The guy that gave out the first degree.... what kind of degree did he have....😂😢
Babylon will face the judgement of the gods & ancestors. It has already begun.
Who is Babylon, you mean the ancient Civilisation?
Babylon is America today.
your religions are goofy shit man, I don't even know how any sane person below the age of 40 could believe this crap
I am no scholar of African History/Studies or Commentaries. However, my comment on this programme alone, says the man had 'a conflict' of sorts; the truth of what he saw vs his research, vs ( and pro-
pelling him, his innate bias, what he eas raised, yes cultivated to believe. The description Schizophrenic is apt. A necessary if not detailed study/ report of/on the man's work. Thank you.🤔🌴
This is only scratching the surface of the brilliance behind what we are as a people, but the occult (hidden culture) background of our people is highly responsible for that brilliance from the spiritual technology is how civilization evolved. It’s so much more complex things about us it’s too much to text on here. I am glad folks are waking up we was always a civilized people if anything the now European man was the primitive people and was taught how to be civilized by us before being brainwashed by the Archons, another group of blacks ( look up the story of Pistis Sophia) that are our true enemies. Peace
Leo's Mother is "Primitive" for teaching him ignorance and pridefulness