The Lies About African Architecture
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- For the past one year I have been intentional about researching, learning and unlearning everything related to African Indigenous Architecture. Its been a rewarding journey because I have had to face my ignorance, rethink my decisions about homeownership, and start to critically think of how I can not only have an impact on myself but build a community that helps us to talk about this topic in a broad way. As I share about my journey, the truths and lies I have uncovered, I would love to hear from you what you think.
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I actually started the research process for an open world African game set in various time periods to help teach our children about the different civilisations of the continent and what they had to offer. I'm on the Great Wall of Zimbabwe and the structure is massive and impressive
Wow can I get your info
We encourage you wholeheartedly
Great wall of benin
I SWEAR my husband and I were talking about this a few months ago. I'm so happy we aren't the only ones. We were talking about it because he was playing that Assassins game and they always have it during a different time period in different place BUT Africa. There may be one set in Egypt but I'm not sure. Anywho you are supported my guy.😊
Wow that's so cool. Do have any socials about your game development?
Deplete your mind of western thinking and regain your true self.
The journey is long but true ❤
And lonely too because everyone thinks you are crazy 🤪
For real! I'm Filipino, and the last 20 years has been that journey for me, realizing how colonized my thinking has been, and slowly breaking it all down.
I'm glad we are here together to learn from each other and go through it.
Excellent video! Keep this up sister. They have been bashing African architectural achievements for too long now. It is high time we Africans slay the lies and bring out the truth.
Thank you both for what you do. It's amazing to me how in tune we are with each other in regards to this enlightenment period. I've been absolutely consumed with the topic of us. Thank you both!
I see you comrade
Great to see you here, brother! I love seeing Africans circulating knowledge about our past, present and future!
Please continue the work you’re doing. As Africans we need to be re-educated back to the previous values we had to establish new architectures beyond western trends. Your work is inspirational. Thank you!
Please do ! 🙏 much ❤️
Sister, thanks the ancestors for ur heart felt love for who we really are.
Keep it up.
Our ancestors are dead. It is our move now.
Excellent!!!! I agree 100%. The African leadership needs to have this mindset.
As an African i noticed our spaces were also colonised with ugly square European architecture, in Africa i love our circles styles 😊
I greatly appreciate your work. The Khami Ruins in Zimbabwe, "h" is a silent letter so you pronounce it like Kami ruins. Please continue doing this it will open our minds and souls to understand and value ourselves and what we can do on our own.
🤣🤣🤣...I was having the same logic, then you mentioned it. Given the design prowess of Africans in general - I can only imagine the flamboyance and science behind the architecture. Pyramids - mic drop lol
This is educational and informing. Ingenious architecture
Very nice and inspiring video even though I’m not African. I hope Africa does it !! I have been to several places including villages and the inspiration is there !!
So much about this channel is refreshing ✨️ ❤
Thank you for this fine video...I've long been interested in African architecture & Funiture. So much has been lost & destroyed. One of the reasons I was excited about the film, Women King is I knew we would be able to get a peak of the architecture of that time period in Dahomey ..Historical films are a great way to get a chance to see from different periods.. The Western world has always had this advantage in their films,,, I bought the DVD so I had a chance to see the set designer who was African American Akin Mckenzie talk about the research that went into his set designs .. which their is a video here on You-Tube of him taking about this project The Women King..So as African film making along with the diaspora grows hopefully we will be able to see more historical films about Africa including it's architecture. Love your channel..
I always wondered about this issue rightfully raised by you. How can the place from where we all humans originated not have progressive achievements in all areas of life, culture and civilization? Glad that you have initiated this. More power to you. Looking forward to your future research.
Time to start designing and building our traditional homes. Thank you for the guidance and inspiation.
Hi! This channel came up in my feed probably because of the algorithm. I’m glad I found you! This video was so informative and you made some very brilliant points! I’m African American and I have always been interested in how my ancestors lived before European and Arab invasions. I’m subscribing to your channel and I’m so excited to learn more! I’m wishing you so much success!🙏🏽💕
Your idea about finding our own way is spot on. Keep the conversation going. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Thanks again.
Thank you for this upload. You are doing great work.
Thank you for this wonderful presentation.❤️
I am a part of the diaspora and I am currently building a rammed earth home in Ghana. It is truly time to go back to our greatness.
Fantastic work. Well done and thank you for this
With less measuring modern instruments. That floor 👏
Keep doing what you do
You are doing something amazing on this channel, well done 👏
Some of the best photos I have seen. Highly recommend a trip to The Museum of Traditional Architecture in Jos, Nigeria and the three volumes they produced on Nigerian Architecture.
I am proud that someone is finally talking about architecture of Africa. I am familiar with such architecture since 2012, yet very few structured resources available. Hope you would fill that gap, and be a brick to the whole facade.
The path you are pointing to Madam, is what the Chinese cultural Revolution was about. Now, see where they are.
We as a people are waking up to the beauty of the human mind, for which each of us individually and collectively possess. The challenge therefore, is to believe in ourselves and the artistic and practical accomplishments of our kin. This is sooo hard to do, as we are constantly marched towards the path of consumption and war. All civilizations die. A fact. But some can be reborn by turning towards that narrow path which leads to knowledge and truth. So we must withstand the ridicule of others and keep plugging away. Plug away until we are able to fully live and profit from our individual and collective creations. Its time to turn away from false and unsustainable creations and walk towards the sun.
Again, wonderfully put. Yes we are capable of taking the past to bring us forward and this is as you said we should consider. Thank you for your well valued research it is much appreciated. Do continue to make us think about our past, now and our future.
African architecture is far more advanced then whats painted in media. It was more then just huts and mud houses.
Every continent seems to have ancient advanced architectures covered by mud, soil and jungles. From the pyramids and temple sites of south america, to the monolithic mounds with huge stone block in north america, to the euthipian and african ancient advanced ruins. It seems like our history is far more richer before the times of native americans started building huts and mud houses, as if a pre ancient races all over the world once inhabited the entire Earth only to disappear, but living traces of their rich existence all over for archeologists and explorers to discover.
Thank you...Thank you...Thank you is not enough...God bless you...i wish you and your lineage good grace, may your path be prosperous. Amen (Love from Nigeria)
So happy to find you!
I’m constantly looking for our contributions to the design world.
Of course, it’s amazing! ❤
I cannot begin to describe how important this your research is!!!! I have been advocating for education within the context of our cultures for many years now. I am exploring our African storytelling at the moment and am just about to publish a teacher's manual for teachers in my country Sierra Leone. Thank you for this amazing research.
Great work as always
Honestly, the only thing school and the news taught me about Sub-Saharan Africa was (extreme) poverty, apartheid and the trans atlantic slavery.
I had to "discover" the continent of Africa on my own, by watching History-, Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Those channels taught and showed me how beautiful, rich and vibrant the continent was and still is.
The architecture is stunning, in all of africa, I wish there was a video showing it in more detail😊
When I tell you I LOVE LOVE your work. My inner anthropologist is loving all of your work.
LOVE your Passion MY Sister👏🏽....Keep up the Good Work...peace.
Thank you so much for this! -Your sister in the diaspora
Thank you for sharing your revelations!
thank your for your work !
I enjoyed this sooooooo much! thank you.
Well presented… thanks for your work… please provide more of this content
Very interesting video. So beautiful architecture. Thank you. I agree. This is all done on purpose. To put African people down. Because if you want to exploit people you must attack their self worth. You must tell them that they are inferior. You must make them feel ashamed of themselves. Take away their pride. I pray that Africa will rise. That people will value their ancestors, their languages, their cultures instead of thinking that the Western WEIRD mindset is something to strive for.
I agree, but sadly the reality is that African leaders sold out to Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Russians, not to mention colonialization. Natural resources were stolen and now they owe and the people must be productive workers and consumers, paying rent or interest on mortgages, taxes, etc.
Michel Chossudovsky's The Globalization of Poverty is a good start to learn how the system works:
www.worldhunger.org/the-globalization-of-poverty/
I grew up in Germany in the 60s and many Germans were upset because the government spent millions on "Entwicklungshilfe", aid to developing countries for dams and whatever projects nobody needed. MILLIONS were spent on GERMAN companies like Siemens for construction. It was mostly corporate aid. And often had very negative effects on local culture, dams preventing the floods farmers depended on, etc.
In the 21st century, the entire world is programmed to create more wealth for the super-rich. And most people have NO clue whatsoever.
I m happy to find you, you doing a good job, what you say is really true. You open my eyes.
Power to you, edifying and enlightening.. all that you allude to is absolutely true...continue to challenge and continue to pursue the truth beneath all lies we ve been fed..
❤whew! This channel is a breath of fresh air!!!!!
Wonderful…….keep the good work…..
Hi from Canada! Thank you for sharing. Love this!!❤❤❤
This is wonderful video, thank you sister.
Treal!!! Thank's Thank's for the Channel!!!!! very good video!!! namaste Haribol Asewe
I loved this video! Thank you for your research!
They built using mud because its what suited their hot environment and when combined with lime it can actually last longer than modern concrete buildings and with stand floods, earthquakes etc. Take the Kerma Deffufa in North Sudan built during ancient Nubia in 2500 BCE for example, its 4,500 years old and still standing multiple stories high. Despite being so old, the structure is still strong enough to support the weight of multiple people without falling through the roof. Mud is also an effective cooling material with the ability to absorb and store heat then dissipates as outside temperatures cool in the evening.
Its not that they can't build stone structures because they did in places like Titchitt Dhar but they used what was most suited to their climate and plenty in resource. Even then places like Europe for example were still building using Wattle and Daub until the 20th century and are now increasingly adopting Earth bricks (mixed with little bit of cement) for some homes. So, its not exactly a gotcha moment they think it is.
We just need to look at the pyramids in Egypt and Sudan to understand that we were great builders. It's in us. The Mangbetu of Kongo were also impressive.
Good to know that people have started to think beyond the narrative..
Nubian pyramids is the first thing that comes to my mind
The Virtuous Noble Lie of the West and the Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent ❤️💚💜
Yes AFRICA PLEASE DO! SAVE YOUR MONEY! .
The first thing that come to my mind when we speak about African Architecture is how African figured out what they call Pi today and how we also how invented we invented what is called Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, falsely attributed to Pythagoras, existed in Kemet over 3000 years before he was born. The Greek historian Herodotus makes note that, “Pythagoras was nothing but a vulgar plagiarist of his Egyptian masters,”
Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Kemet for 22 years.
Nice video! For a long time I have been wanting to hold this discussion with someone.
Wow! I love listening to people ( especially women) who have the same passion and love that I have for my people and continent. Thank you for challening us and I humbly accept the challenge.
i resinate with your message. It is encouraging to see that someone else believes that the modern way is not the only way.
The author has this beautiful, tinkling calming voice and sophisticated accent. Nice to listen to. Following!
Thank you so much, the content is inspiring ✨️ ❤
What first comes to my mind when I think of African architecture is Petra.
I have been inundated with content from mostly white male thinkers... and I am glad to have found an Afrikan women content creator to balance out the narrative... and I appreciate having found this channel that is dealing with some of the thoughts I am exploring around eco-architectural concepts of the indigenous cultures. Colonialist thinking has done a lot of damage to our ways of thinking and being,
We appreciate you.!❤
I wonder where that "Afrikan women" found her content.
I will build a school for African history, cultural studies,language and innovation this is my dream,I'll put my own money up and hopefully i can get like minded people on board
Truly compelling and educational
this is excellent. Thank you.
Thank you much needed
This is a wonderful summary of high African art and architecture! I am so glad that I found your channel to learn more about the true richness of this deep and ancient world. It makes me personally quite angry at the colonialism of my European ancestors that stole so much, and the modern American/European countries that continue to steal so much. Working with the Earth in a sustainable way is the only method to survive and Africa is the leader here. I feel that reclaiming the deep culture through art - humanity's first technology - is really the way to decolonize our minds and hearts. Thank you for allowing us to see this truth. Much love and blessings.
Keep up the great work. Subscribed.
Thank you for this!
great video
It starts with believing that you have to put down one group in order to feel good about yourself. Low self-esteem.
All we ever needed was info and getting our people into construction and architecture
enjoyed this a lot. Agree with your view.
Thank you so much for this commentary
Love your content....
The Oba of Benins palace was said to have used more material than the great pyramid of Giza before it was razed by the British....
I believe it might not have been razed but may sit beneath a lake.... flooding antiquities has always been a favoured method to hide indigenous structures.
Great video and research.... we will find and reconnect everything that was lost! 👊🏾❤️
You are correct, they created the Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe and flooded many ruins, including important ancestral graves!
I agree with you 💯. I’m doing my part. Africans we are the genesis of life based on all measures and accounts which means Moving forward let’s use what’s around us in the continent only.
gratitudes gratitudes for you sharing your unlearning relearning learning self awareness and ancestral connection work with us
Great work. Much respect! Where can I find architect/builders that are inspired by traditional African architecture to work with for a couple of projects in Togo?
Thank you so much for shearing this. It is great really. I am proud of being black and Alkebulan. I will never change for anything in the world. Love me blacks ❤❤ decolonize your mind people. Speak your Afrika language, L❤e your Afrikan name.
Yes , interisting… the truth is fearful to many!
I soooo agree with you. It's like the snake, (the West), came into the Garden of Eden, (Africa), and told Adam and Eve, (Africans), they were naked and they believed it. That is what happened to Africa.
Thank you so much 🙏
Sometimes when you know better, the propaganda can seep in without your notice.
I was recently confronted with how much my thinking has been impacted. I was working on a fantasy story and while writing it hit me that everything was white. Everything was white as if no other group of people were around in the medieval settings we tend to use for fantasy novels in the west. I'm so used to fantasy stories based on European and Asian history that I never questioned it till now.
I would have argued anyone down had they said to me that Africans were primitive, yet there I was writing as if it were true as if I didn't know better. I'm not a scholar, but I've heard reference to the non-Egyptian libraries and battles and structures. The propaganda seeped in.
Next, I tried to justify it. I thought to myself, my characters need armor for the situations they deal with. Then the obvious question was why in the world am I assuming that Africans didn't have armor? I made this assumption while knowing full well that most people in Europe and Asia didn't have plate armor. They armored themselves with padding, hide, and leathers. Why wouldn't any human who goes into battle protect themselves? Just because I have never seen the armor doesn't mean it didn't exist. So I did some research. Not only did I find the non metal armor i suspected, I also discovered that some groups wore mail!
The lies got in. But I'm thoroughly enjoying reaearching the battle tactics, military logistics, weapons, and armor that absolutely was NOT primitive. I think I may base my story on that rather than European armor and weaponry.
I've also faced this situation both in a non racial way and in a racial way. My first was when I was righting a sci-fi story. I realized that I couldn't make up an alien civilization outside the whole star wars and star trek trope. Despite my mind limitations, I didn't want aliens using computer screens and burning fuels for propulsion. It seemed to earth like. Next, I was writing a fantasy story based in Asia over 70,000 years ago. At a point I questioned my racial demographics. I even realized how slightly similar the cultural make up was to Avatar last Airbender yet that cartoon had a better racial make up than mine. So I decided to make them black and brown skinned with a minority white. Mostly long hair since it's still asian but more kinky too. The main characters are suppose to have remnant giant blood so often their skin will have color patches, sometimes pointy ears, sometimes fangs and commoners would use tattoos and other means to mimick in a fashionable manner.
At first it's like you can't see beyond a certain point. Later, it's like all that was stopping you was a thin membrane no stronger than a spiders web
Is the floor covering in the mosque carved into a rammed earth floor or is it some kind of intricate woven floor covering or ceramic? Interesting video, thanks
5:40 I believe it is an "African headrest" and not a stool, if I am not mistaken.
You are mistaken. It is a stool. I have one, also from Ghana, that I use in my home. Take away the metal added to the one in the video and mine is almost a twin. I am also familiar with headrests. That isn't one.
Are there books or websites that show these. Greatful for the algorithm. Would be helpful to find more info.
I wonder if there are architectural books in the libraries of Timbuktu?
Hello mam.
I have watched a little bit of your content and i want to give you my perspective on the little that I've seen.
Please take advantage of the music of each individual african country when you introduce it.
You need your own theme intro music at the start of the video as it will give spiritual life to your content.
Thank you for such inspirational content.
What Is that Beautifully decorated floor made of, please?
Loved this
Wowwwwwwww
This was a great video Sistah, I would just like to pinpoint something. Paraphrasing what the great Dr. Amos Wilson stated “If we (Afrakan people) want to understand the problems we face globally, we must look at the people who profit from the problems, not who suffers it.” Who’s profiting off of these lies being told about our culture? Who’s profiting off our “miseducation”? Nobody but the global system of white supremacy. Words like “Westernization” or “modernity” are concepts created to allude us from the true culprit…. White people and the system they created. Idk if you are scared or just don’t know but the system of Global white supremacy is and has always been the problem for us as Afrakan people. We have been culturally misorientated and think white ice is colder or better than black ice. We need to return back to our ancestral ways and advance what needs to be advance. Abibifahodie ❤️🖤💚
Dewhitenize and reafrikanize
I love african architecture, we have to revive our heritage.
Respect
where is the picture in your thumbnail from? I see more pictures of it on instagram but i do not know the name of the building.
This is the “Case à Palabre”, Dalaba, in Guinea. If you want more information type The “Case à Palabre”, Dalaba, Guinea on google and you will see more results. The building is part of the Earthen architecture project run by UNESCO here is the link to the project file, it's a pdf, so I am not sure if it will open. If it does not open, send me an email at worldculturelove@gmail.com and I will directly shared the file there. www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi7noq1i4CAAxWPIzQIHUYTAak4FBAWegQIBhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhc.unesco.org%2Fdocument%2F107249&usg=AOvVaw06K_QERRnwUxtBhtPdWCRX&opi=89978449