They blame Stonehenge on Aliens too. So it's blamed on Aliens whenever it's in England aswell? No, they are just blaming everything on Aliens to make money with certain people lmao. It's why the history channel turned into the Alien channel, cause it makes more money to blame everything on Aliens. And obviously the Pyramids are gigantic so it's easiest to blame those on Aliens compared to stonehenge.
@@stewie7338The earth homes(or more crudely named as "mud huts") were a good example, as they were so efficient in providing ventilation in the environment that Europeans began to adopt it.
@@thevisitor1012 Hi - building huts out of earth isn't advanced. You could look at any peoples from around the globe and find efficient reasons why they built in the way they did based on their circumstances with many logical reasons for their designs but it does not make them advanced.
One thing people always forget about so-called mud huts is the accessibility in terms of cost and time needed to build them. My mother grew up in a traditional African village and said nobody ever had to sleep outside, everyone, no matter how poor always had a roof over their head. A basic dignity that everyone should be able to have. She only found out about homelessness when she went to the city and later left the country.
There’s a lot of racism when it comes to African architecture, spirituality, bodies, skin tone, hair,languages, food and culture . I went to school in the 90s here in Europe, when people used to make fun of our full lips, now they get surgery to get full lips 😂😂. African music used get laughed at, now look at them enjoying Afrobeats 😂
They yell about Africans living in "mud huts," but when somebody shows them images of the single-room, stone structures that people in Ireland and Eastern Europe lived in during the early days of the 20th century, they say "those are cottages, they're different." GIVE ME A BREAK!
Stone structures in Eastern Europe? It was either wood or wattle, not so different from the “mud huts”. And as Eastern European, seeing how the climate change means Europe will get hot (already is), I would much rather live in such “mud hut” than anything modern. It’s such a shame that historically, both wattle and wooden architecture was looked down upon, as if it was more primitive. As humans, we used to build our structures to be in synch with it’s environment. The development went against it, we first started to reorient our houses, so that they were no longer positioned in the way to receive maximum sunlight in the winter and to cool it off in the summer, then we began to use the materials (first the red brick, then the modern brick/cement) that not only were worse insulators, but cost both us and the nature more. Hopefully in the future we will re-discover the ancient practices and gain the appreciation for the beautiful African architecture!
@@rumrunner8019 In Ireland, or the Balkans? Sure. But in the northern Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine) barely any house was made of stone, wood was the most common building material. Again, shows how you can’t paint an entire region (or continent) with the same brush, just like you shouldn’t say that African architecture has only the “mud huts”, there is a big variety in all human societies, be it African or European.
Yes, but African architecture still gets a bum rap though similar designs are used everywhere over the world, even in Arctic climates (igloos.) The point is to mimic Nature in order to reap its benefits. @@Vitalis94
You know I could write an entire thesis on this topic. It’s funny too how now they are “cob houses” and not “mud huts” Ignoring how these so called mud huts have better acoustics for sound isolation, are able to withstand any climate, are breathable regulating air moisture and absorbing toxins, are resistant to mold, termites, ants and rats, can survive earthquakes, self heal, have been shown to last centuries with minimal care, can be torn down and redone at will, and so many more advantages. It’s far superior and cheaper to any alternatives. That’s why the discussion on what civilization and advancement is from the lenses of western perception requires a removal of nature and domination to the point of isolation of the world around you so as to be interpreted as peak technological civilization and advancement. Anyway great video mate
The western worldview is inherently humanocentric, I invite someone to tell me otherwise. It isolates itself from nature and the environment to promote this idea of human civilization being separate from mother earth. It's no wonder this same mentality has led to the earth's exploitation and prejudice against different cultures.
@@BatmanRulesi am in full agreement,i feel that humans have strayed so far from nature they seem to think that anything that comes from it is inherently inferior to tech, there's probably a better way to describe the phenomenon but that's how i feel.
@@justinarzola4584You made a respectable argument. I agree with your perspective on how primitive technology are often the most optimal solutions. 👨🏾🦱👍🏾
I've stayed in African mud buildings so totally agree with you and I'm a builder by trade. Also impressed with African concrete - hard packed mud floors, even used outside, it can resist rain and easily repaired
Please do! It’s been ages since anyone has attempted synthesis, let alone modern engineering applicability in a rigorous way. Mostly it’s people wand-waving some inspiration sources for 3d printing houses and other people selling very expensive eco homes
Mud is starting to be used for new homes in hot states such as California and Arizona. Architects are starting to realize mud absorbs heat instead of reflecting it like the materials we typically use. This causes it to be cooler in hot areas and save tons of energy on AC, sometimes bypassing it’s need entirely. Sometimes something being “primitive” isn’t bad lol it’s actually useful. Reimagining it for today in modern times will show useful. It’s more eco friendly, less costly to build and will reduce greenhouse gases.
Mud houses have been built and used in Arizona and California by the Native Americans that have been living there for thousands of years. I personally have experienced how cool they are while playing on the dirt floor as a child. It is the best way to live cool in the region.
@@lovestrong3582 I wouldn’t say EVERYTHING was better, but everything definitely had a purpose and most times it was better for Africa. Somehow we allowed ourselves to be duped into thinking what our ancestors used to survived for thousands of years was ignorant I think the answer is Afro futurism/ modernism. Using what is traditionally African and figuring out how it fits into modern times and the futurism. I think as the world moves towards more green or planet friendly technology we will see a rediscovery of techniques many tropical peoples have used and what we once called primitive will be more modern than what we have today
@@lauraclayton4687 that’s really cool. I live in virginia which had a lot of early states plantations and we have some still standing. I went to one that had a mud brick blacksmith and it was very cool inside in the middle of the summer.
Literally any video focused on African histories and cultures always has those bigoted trolls mocking Africans by mentioning the mud hut and, saying we have no history (as they like to assume). It is absolutely pathetic but, what is funny is they forget in Europe and other parts of the world they had wattle and daub architecture, which is pretty much clay, mud and dung too. It was an effective construction method and materials their own ancestors appreciated. That being said the so called mud hut as you have demonstrated was efficient and not homogeneous in style and construction. It was more than sufficient where it was used. What they fail to realise also as you have shown is most nobility and wealthy folks did not live in a simple hut, they lived in elaborate mansions and palaces built of different materials which left different explorers in awe. No matter the materials used African architecture is so vast, I have an entire collection on Pinterest which keeps growing as I discover more styles from different cultures all over the continent.
Excellent points sir, we just have to bring the info out because most of the narrative out is based on denigrating and disparaging the original man and woman at any chance.
A corollary with the African Mud Hut would be the European Dobb and Wattle construction of the early Iron Age up to the 19th century, in outer areas and still used for barns and storage buildings. Mud construction will keep out the cold as well as the heat and is much less drafty than timber with brick fill construction and much, much cheaper than stone. I think the idea of mud hut's being primitive comes from European prejudice against their own back country people, some of whom still used Dobb and Wattle in the age of Exploration. Oddly enough, Packed Earth houses of several stories were very popular in large cities and even towns in central Europe, since the Middle Ages and many still stand, mostly because of thick plaster and large roof overhangs. Essentially, Mud Hut by another name. Of course, the main reason for running down African Architecture is the standard one, if you are going to exploit and enslave people, you first must make them less than Human in all aspects of their cultures.
There's a book by Nnamdi Elleh that is about African architecture called 'African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation'. A good read for one who can acquire it.
The hunt had its perks for flight and being no use for the Brits to burn down, as they were fond of doing. No one has a problem with the Indian Teepee, Inuit Igloo, Mongolian tents, Nam wooden houses. People live for their conditions, respect the earth, travel, trade, flee, fight and run.
There is something about the mud hat that always perplexed me every time i visited my grandfather from my mother's side and that was how they would stay warm when it's cold and somehow become chill when it's hot. We ended up building him (grandpa) anew house but kept the huts as extra accommodations due to our large family.
Crazy thing is certain European tribes lived in huts too. The Chinese sailed the seas before Europeans. Africans mastered iron working and stone masonry before Europeans. Arabs founded civilization as we know it today. Europeans are proficient in their own right but they're overrated in their achievements imo.
You can't call them "overrated". Their innovations are pretty pivotal to the modern world. It's more that certain other people are severely underrated and/or there's diligent political work done to scrub them from historical record altogether.
I see both of your point of views. 🤔 After considering both arguments I’d say @NotUrAznAntiblackcraftmissile has the stronger argument because accuracy of if his statement are evident in how American History.
@@GMAV3RICKI'd argue that for one entity to be underrated, another must be overrated, especially when you see how the basis of conventional beauty, universal languages, and even metrics of general health are all Eurocentric, which has led to all kinds of negative consequences across many spectrums. It is the measure of positive influences propped up by the appropriations, erasures, and revisions of other (and sometimes its own) cultures, history, and contributions that lends to the label of overrated. Yes, Europeans have done many things, but arguably not much more & barely before other continents and cultures. If Tesla, with all of his genius and accolades can be shoved so aggressively from grace, who's to say there wasn't an African Galileo, Beethoven, Hemingway, Einstein, or DaVinci? We applaud all of these European genuises because they're the only ones we're taught and allowed to know. What if 50 yrs from now, the NFL is outlawed and Tom Brady gets the sole mention of all things American football? Would it not be safe to argue that's the peak definition of overrated?
@@2thRiteFREESPEEisAVirtueSignal I will always be skeptical of any claims of European innovation because I bet if you actually go back and thoroughly investigate their origins they probably stole the idea from another culture. Their entire civilization is built on colonization, lies and thievery. They love to rewrite history to make themselves seem more superior.
Hi, archaeologist here. First, love the channel. Bite-sized videos are great for squeezing into breaks at work. Mud huts were a type of vernacular architecture in southern England up to the late 18th - early 19th century. Those that survive are usually listed buildings (protected by law). They are universally rendered and whitewashed for protection against rain and wind, so it’s hard to tell from the outside. Mostly you can tell from the thatched roofs, which the English get much more exited about. However, the term “mud hut” has never been used to describe them, rather “Cobb” or “rammed earth” or “earthen walled”. I’ve also never seen any use of the comparison in the older literature but the more recent work does delve into some comparison with global rammed earth architecture. There is (I’m reaching back to university now, so bear with me) a book on traditional, extant rammed earth construction I read that goes around the world. England is mentioned along with northern France in the sense of “and here too but not much to be exited about”. Here’s where I get my wild speculation hat on: The description and depictions of prehistoric structures like roundhouses and grubenhausen (grubenhauser? my German is rusty) tend towards showing wattle and daub, focusing on the wood, as that is what is archaeologically detectable in our geology. But all we see is the holes left by the uprights and occasionally the daub where there is an impression of the underlying woven component. There is no reason at all why the rammed earth methods would not be compatible with a very large number of these type of structures where the evidence for daub is not present, since uprights are very often used for a structural guide inside the wall or as part of facing techniques.
Black Inconsequentialism is pathological and pervasive. *Never ever* flag or delete those comments. When they inevitably come up with "You made that up. We were never that fixated on diminishing or denigrating you." You have the record. It serves a greater purpose.👌🏾 LOL now *this* is the type of thing that gets banned. 😂
Your videos on African architecture are some of my favourites. I just wish they were longer haha. Would you ever make a video exploring the future of African architecture? Keep up the great work!
The mud huts being an issue is crazy because I grew up with Pueblos being praised and admired. Instead of drawing the parallels or diving further in African craftsmanship they try and make us look foolish. We the wave and it’s been that way
Bro I’ve been following you for damn there a decade and the grind is real! U almost to a Millie! As an OG fan Im glad you kept it goin and u are an inspiration.
Love, love and always look forward to your videos! Mud huts are great, and keeps the dwellers cool. Earthern water jars were used in the caribbean also, coolest , and best tasting water you have ever tasted in your life.
Yeah and it would be great if a CashApp could be included. Nigerian musicians will sometimes show the old style African architecture as single story ranch style house with multiple rooms and a compound before had a thatched roof
This best aspect I've seen and notice of mud brick built houses is that it's a community experience event. A beautiful scene to witness when we were in Sierra Leone. Actually cooler inside compared to the concrete built ones. Some had thatched palm leaf roofs and others had stainless steel corrugated metal sheet roofs. The designs differed in shapes but the architecture was true to environment.
The Western colonizers knew that those huts and other African buildings were used for the ambiance of African surroundings, that’s why I believe that they put poor Africans in these metal shacks, that will rust, causing iron poisoning, and potential overheating and suffocation of people if one stays within them long enough. They should refer back to those traditional methods of architecture, and modernize it to benefit Africans.
Not there is anything wrong with mod houses. Think about the bricks you see in houses and buildings. Bricks are just baked mud. All of the buildings in the west are made from stuff dug up out of the ground.
There is this self-hating black so-called preacher who talks about how superior Europeans are because they build skyscrapers, and that Alkbulans never built any structure higher than two stories high. What this fool does not realize is that fire departments will tell you that there should not be any building higher than two stories high and that those skyscrapers are death traps. The World Trade Center buildings that were destroyed during 9/11 are prime examples of that. I do not use Hotels often, but on the occasions that I do use them, I demand to be put on the second floor.
Any amateur researcher can find that Oannes came from the Dogon myth of the Nommo, probably through the sub group of the Onan, but every article I read says they don’t know where the Mesopotamians came from. But I know! They came from the Dogon and the cosmology fits so well I want to cry because we’ve just handicapped ourselves denying the truth:(
Brilliant video thank you. Are you able to recommend any African architecture books that are written by credible African people? Most seem to be written why Europeans/foreigners.
So you think the European writer's are credible😅...I think not ..why not goggle specific for African Artitects they existed in ancient times as they do now.
@@denise3422you clearly lack reading comprehension huh? I specifically asked for recommendations because most books are written by Europeans and considering the content creator has done research on this area (African architecture), in preparation for this video, he probably have some decent recommendations. There's absolutely nothing wrong in asking for book recommendations. Not once did I mention that Europeans are credible. Go and acquire some basic reading comprehension skills and emotional intelligence.
Remember the movie the Woman King The Dahomey Kingdom see how well Advance they were and lived. But Euronuts talk about Wakanda from black panther knowing it’s fictional.
One thing, bring that I grew up in New Mexico. They say mud huts, I say “oh you mean Adobe houses, like in New Mexico?! They shut up fast. Because then you tell them the Portuguese and Spaniards stole it from Africans.
Those adobe houses in New Mexico are inspired by the traditional houses of the Pueblo and the Hopi, who lived in settlements made up of adobe houses. Nothing to do with Africa.
In the US, indigenous American mud architecture is romanticized but African mud architecture is proof of us being animals. Meanwhile in Latin America, those same indigenous American structures are seen as savage and backward. It's all so arbitrary.
Hmm.. Timbuktu!! A beautiful city of mud comes to mind 😊! I would like, however, to provide a slight counter. When I was growing up, we would compate advanced Roman (stone) buildings to the mud huts of celtic and Britons tribesmen. The reality is that day to day Roman houses were actually built of the same material. But we only see the ones that survive and thus in Europe have a bias towards brick and stone.
i hope one day i'll get to watch cool documentaries and videos of quality and passion like this that dont center racism or act like race is a real thing and we can just shine and develop in peace cause frankly its sickening. i feel like its just paying endless attention and giving continuous power. coming from an implicit culture, its more powerful to let things speak for themselves sometimes and just focus on your own.
Huts are eco friendly and adapt to weather conditions.....they cool the home when it's hot outside and keeps it warm when it's cold outside....our ancestors were the first eco warriors, they loved and understood nature and made efforts to preserve it
And mudhuts a very good for the air circulation It's much better for your body than the houses we live in. Did you know that the irish lived in mad hearts not And indians like bangladeshi indians Build mud huts as well they sit in there just to breathe They know something we don't. On top of it mud hearts are related thatch houses. And thatch houses are related to the egyptian homes where the regular people lived... Though I think Egypt covered Sudan because there are more pyramids in Sudan than there are in Egypt. We have been told so many lies
I have never heard of the Mud Hut claim nor would I or anyone with an once of European History put any creditability in it since the Moors that invaded Spain came from Africa. The question is why West Africa doesn't seem to have evidence of ships despite the need of them.
@@josiahkamara5912 No, but I am not surprised as West Africa was technologically advanced in the 19th Century. Most people just lack knowledge of African history other than Egypt.
Other than the roof shaped differently the home's here remind me of The Navajo's structured House. I'm serious not making a joke. I saw a picture of the Navajo structured Home as a child and thought hey that house looked very familiar too Me; but, I didn't know How?
This video kinda makes sense to the movie Shaka Zulu. Because when the white settlers came to the ZULU EMPIRE and was given a piece of land to stay on. They were often ridiculed by the Zulus and called "SWALLOWS" because of the way "THEY" build their huts out of mud, sticks, feather or whatever they could find. And looked at the Zulu as primitive lmao!!!!!!!
I have to confess that I'm not a fan of the mud huts. I don't believe many Africans are either, you don't see any rich men building mud huts to live in today. However when I was in North Africa I kept seeing these beautiful stone homes, maybe 500sqft at most. I asked about them and they are actually built by the poorest people. They apparently are drafty and have bug problems but they are beautiful. And to be honest the mud huts can be beautiful as well if someone takes the time to make them beautiful. I hope the art of building these never dies. Also the UNeSCO people recently took a mud hut off the endangered list of world heritage sites; it's a place royalty used to bury their dead and it's huge!!!! I think it's in Uganda. Definitely worth a Google search.
Similar prejudices prevailed about traditional Asian and Mexican ‘primitive’ houses employing similar innovations to Africans in hot climates. Using north European designs and using air conditioning in deserts and the tropics is what’s really dumb.
The heathens know fully well that we have always been light years ahead of them in every aspect and they better overstand that their judgement is coming from the Most High
Another great video just a suggestion but you should link your cashapp next to your patrion bc I am a college student and can’t afford to subscribe but I would love to give a donation here and there and I feel like I’m not the only one in my situation either
Red bricks were invented in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago, by the then black people that occupied the area. Numerous buildings all over Africa from the East coast South coast West coast North coast were built with multi-stories. Pretty much all of the ancient buildings that they like to blame on ancient aliens were built by ancient Africans all over the world!
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the muslim invasion of the northern part of africa during the early centuries brought with it the architecture and skills to build. you FORGET! PAINTINGS, SKETCHES, PHOTOGRAPHS EXIST of what many african places looked like when whites explored and arrived there! there
Wished you spoke a little faster, over time. And videos like these need to be much longer than it currently is. As this sort of thing needs to have more content in order to give the viewer the complete understanding of the message being received.
How do you think that houses in Europe were built ? Most of the houses in the historical centres of European cities are built of mud , wood and stones , they are no longer built the traditional way because it becomes to labour expensive. Here modern houses built of mud in Portugal. czcams.com/video/mzwNWj3Qzsw/video.html czcams.com/video/SbpwTTydYDg/video.html
A few things 1) We built pyramids in and out of Egypt 2) We didn’t have the resources to build advanced economies like Europe & Asia. See, ‘Guns, Germs & Steel’ documentary here on CZcams Yet we still developed all this anyway Very impressive 💪🏽
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Brilliant? Inginuity? Hardly either. Pure nonsense.
Pure nonsense
Great video
It's blamed on Aliens whenever anything ancient but advanced is found in Africa.
Or whites and Arabs it’s sad
They blame Stonehenge on Aliens too. So it's blamed on Aliens whenever it's in England aswell? No, they are just blaming everything on Aliens to make money with certain people lmao. It's why the history channel turned into the Alien channel, cause it makes more money to blame everything on Aliens. And obviously the Pyramids are gigantic so it's easiest to blame those on Aliens compared to stonehenge.
What did you see that was advanced in the video?
@@stewie7338The earth homes(or more crudely named as "mud huts") were a good example, as they were so efficient in providing ventilation in the environment that Europeans began to adopt it.
@@thevisitor1012 Hi - building huts out of earth isn't advanced. You could look at any peoples from around the globe and find efficient reasons why they built in the way they did based on their circumstances with many logical reasons for their designs but it does not make them advanced.
One thing people always forget about so-called mud huts is the accessibility in terms of cost and time needed to build them. My mother grew up in a traditional African village and said nobody ever had to sleep outside, everyone, no matter how poor always had a roof over their head. A basic dignity that everyone should be able to have. She only found out about homelessness when she went to the city and later left the country.
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There’s a lot of racism when it comes to African architecture, spirituality, bodies, skin tone, hair,languages, food and culture . I went to school in the 90s here in Europe, when people used to make fun of our full lips, now they get surgery to get full lips 😂😂. African music used get laughed at, now look at them enjoying Afrobeats 😂
For real
FOOOOHH REEAAL!!!
Is there ‘a lot of racism’ or are ‘white kids listening to afropop’?
Sorry but you can’t have it both ways! 😮
everything new and foreign always gets laughed at and ridiculed until you actually go into it.
They just view african/black/indigenous cultures as degenerate. And European as enlightened.
They yell about Africans living in "mud huts," but when somebody shows them images of the single-room, stone structures that people in Ireland and Eastern Europe lived in during the early days of the 20th century, they say "those are cottages, they're different." GIVE ME A BREAK!
Stone structures in Eastern Europe? It was either wood or wattle, not so different from the “mud huts”.
And as Eastern European, seeing how the climate change means Europe will get hot (already is), I would much rather live in such “mud hut” than anything modern.
It’s such a shame that historically, both wattle and wooden architecture was looked down upon, as if it was more primitive. As humans, we used to build our structures to be in synch with it’s environment. The development went against it, we first started to reorient our houses, so that they were no longer positioned in the way to receive maximum sunlight in the winter and to cool it off in the summer, then we began to use the materials (first the red brick, then the modern brick/cement) that not only were worse insulators, but cost both us and the nature more.
Hopefully in the future we will re-discover the ancient practices and gain the appreciation for the beautiful African architecture!
@@Vitalis94 They were made of stone, yes, but they had similar thatched roofs and few windows (due to the cold)
@@rumrunner8019 In Ireland, or the Balkans? Sure. But in the northern Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine) barely any house was made of stone, wood was the most common building material.
Again, shows how you can’t paint an entire region (or continent) with the same brush, just like you shouldn’t say that African architecture has only the “mud huts”, there is a big variety in all human societies, be it African or European.
@@Vitalis94 I had a Romanian friend who showed me old pictures of Romania. People lived in little stone huts all the way up to WWII.
Yes, but African architecture still gets a bum rap though similar designs are used everywhere over the world, even in Arctic climates (igloos.) The point is to mimic Nature in order to reap its benefits. @@Vitalis94
You know I could write an entire thesis on this topic.
It’s funny too how now they are “cob houses” and not “mud huts”
Ignoring how these so called mud huts have better acoustics for sound isolation, are able to withstand any climate, are breathable regulating air moisture and absorbing toxins, are resistant to mold, termites, ants and rats, can survive earthquakes, self heal, have been shown to last centuries with minimal care, can be torn down and redone at will, and so many more advantages.
It’s far superior and cheaper to any alternatives.
That’s why the discussion on what civilization and advancement is from the lenses of western perception requires a removal of nature and domination to the point of isolation of the world around you so as to be interpreted as peak technological civilization and advancement.
Anyway great video mate
The western worldview is inherently humanocentric, I invite someone to tell me otherwise. It isolates itself from nature and the environment to promote this idea of human civilization being separate from mother earth. It's no wonder this same mentality has led to the earth's exploitation and prejudice against different cultures.
@@BatmanRulesi am in full agreement,i feel that humans have strayed so far from nature they seem to think that anything that comes from it is inherently inferior to tech, there's probably a better way to describe the phenomenon but that's how i feel.
@@justinarzola4584You made a respectable argument. I agree with your perspective on how primitive technology are often the most optimal solutions. 👨🏾🦱👍🏾
I've stayed in African mud buildings so totally agree with you and I'm a builder by trade. Also impressed with African concrete - hard packed mud floors, even used outside, it can resist rain and easily repaired
Please do! It’s been ages since anyone has attempted synthesis, let alone modern engineering applicability in a rigorous way. Mostly it’s people wand-waving some inspiration sources for 3d printing houses and other people selling very expensive eco homes
Mudhuts its a funny term considering that the famous Tudor style European Houses were built with - guess what - mud
Mud is starting to be used for new homes in hot states such as California and Arizona. Architects are starting to realize mud absorbs heat instead of reflecting it like the materials we typically use. This causes it to be cooler in hot areas and save tons of energy on AC, sometimes bypassing it’s need entirely.
Sometimes something being “primitive” isn’t bad lol it’s actually useful. Reimagining it for today in modern times will show useful. It’s more eco friendly, less costly to build and will reduce greenhouse gases.
Everything Africa did before colonization was better and practical.
Mud houses have been built and used in Arizona and California by the Native Americans that have been living there for thousands of years.
I personally have experienced how cool they are while playing on the dirt floor as a child. It is the best way to live cool in the region.
@@lovestrong3582 I wouldn’t say EVERYTHING was better, but everything definitely had a purpose and most times it was better for Africa. Somehow we allowed ourselves to be duped into thinking what our ancestors used to survived for thousands of years was ignorant
I think the answer is Afro futurism/ modernism. Using what is traditionally African and figuring out how it fits into modern times and the futurism. I think as the world moves towards more green or planet friendly technology we will see a rediscovery of techniques many tropical peoples have used and what we once called primitive will be more modern than what we have today
@@lauraclayton4687 that’s really cool. I live in virginia which had a lot of early states plantations and we have some still standing. I went to one that had a mud brick blacksmith and it was very cool inside in the middle of the summer.
@@halohair1118 I agree!
I personally prefer the look of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture; the mud brick and wooden beams work so well together.
Literally any video focused on African histories and cultures always has those bigoted trolls mocking Africans by mentioning the mud hut and, saying we have no history (as they like to assume). It is absolutely pathetic but, what is funny is they forget in Europe and other parts of the world they had wattle and daub architecture, which is pretty much clay, mud and dung too. It was an effective construction method and materials their own ancestors appreciated. That being said the so called mud hut as you have demonstrated was efficient and not homogeneous in style and construction. It was more than sufficient where it was used. What they fail to realise also as you have shown is most nobility and wealthy folks did not live in a simple hut, they lived in elaborate mansions and palaces built of different materials which left different explorers in awe. No matter the materials used African architecture is so vast, I have an entire collection on Pinterest which keeps growing as I discover more styles from different cultures all over the continent.
but claiming ever culture known to man makes people laugh at afrocentrics 99.9% nonsense that is pathetic
Excellent points sir, we just have to bring the info out because most of the narrative out is based on denigrating and disparaging the original man and woman at any chance.
A corollary with the African Mud Hut would be the European Dobb and Wattle construction of the early Iron Age up to the 19th century, in outer areas and still used for barns and storage buildings. Mud construction will keep out the cold as well as the heat and is much less drafty than timber with brick fill construction and much, much cheaper than stone. I think the idea of mud hut's being primitive comes from European prejudice against their own back country people, some of whom still used Dobb and Wattle in the age of Exploration. Oddly enough, Packed Earth houses of several stories were very popular in large cities and even towns in central Europe, since the Middle Ages and many still stand, mostly because of thick plaster and large roof overhangs. Essentially, Mud Hut by another name. Of course, the main reason for running down African Architecture is the standard one, if you are going to exploit and enslave people, you first must make them less than Human in all aspects of their cultures.
There's a book by Nnamdi Elleh that is about African architecture called 'African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation'. A good read for one who can acquire it.
Ooh thanks for the book recommendation ♥
@@berryzemI'm sure you can find re prints some where, but the hard back is a collectible though. It'll cost you a pretty penny.
The hunt had its perks for flight and being no use for the Brits to burn down, as they were fond of doing. No one has a problem with the Indian Teepee, Inuit Igloo, Mongolian tents, Nam wooden houses. People live for their conditions, respect the earth, travel, trade, flee, fight and run.
White settlers lived in sod houses on the Plains. That’s a mud hut!
teepee etc were designed to be easy to move and set up i lived in one in wales in the depths of winter never felt cold once
There is something about the mud hat that always perplexed me every time i visited my grandfather from my mother's side and that was how they would stay warm when it's cold and somehow become chill when it's hot.
We ended up building him (grandpa) anew house but kept the huts as extra accommodations due to our large family.
Crazy thing is certain European tribes lived in huts too. The Chinese sailed the seas before Europeans. Africans mastered iron working and stone masonry before Europeans. Arabs founded civilization as we know it today. Europeans are proficient in their own right but they're overrated in their achievements imo.
You can't call them "overrated". Their innovations are pretty pivotal to the modern world. It's more that certain other people are severely underrated and/or there's diligent political work done to scrub them from historical record altogether.
I see both of your point of views. 🤔 After considering both arguments I’d say @NotUrAznAntiblackcraftmissile has the stronger argument because accuracy of if his statement are evident in how American History.
@@GMAV3RICKI'd argue that for one entity to be underrated, another must be overrated, especially when you see how the basis of conventional beauty, universal languages, and even metrics of general health are all Eurocentric, which has led to all kinds of negative consequences across many spectrums. It is the measure of positive influences propped up by the appropriations, erasures, and revisions of other (and sometimes its own) cultures, history, and contributions that lends to the label of overrated. Yes, Europeans have done many things, but arguably not much more & barely before other continents and cultures. If Tesla, with all of his genius and accolades can be shoved so aggressively from grace, who's to say there wasn't an African Galileo, Beethoven, Hemingway, Einstein, or DaVinci? We applaud all of these European genuises because they're the only ones we're taught and allowed to know. What if 50 yrs from now, the NFL is outlawed and Tom Brady gets the sole mention of all things American football? Would it not be safe to argue that's the peak definition of overrated?
@@2thRiteFREESPEEisAVirtueSignal I will always be skeptical of any claims of European innovation because I bet if you actually go back and thoroughly investigate their origins they probably stole the idea from another culture. Their entire civilization is built on colonization, lies and thievery. They love to rewrite history to make themselves seem more superior.
Katie ho...what civilization was founded by Arabs?Or more precisely who are these Arabs?
Hi, archaeologist here. First, love the channel. Bite-sized videos are great for squeezing into breaks at work.
Mud huts were a type of vernacular architecture in southern England up to the late 18th - early 19th century. Those that survive are usually listed buildings (protected by law). They are universally rendered and whitewashed for protection against rain and wind, so it’s hard to tell from the outside. Mostly you can tell from the thatched roofs, which the English get much more exited about. However, the term “mud hut” has never been used to describe them, rather “Cobb” or “rammed earth” or “earthen walled”. I’ve also never seen any use of the comparison in the older literature but the more recent work does delve into some comparison with global rammed earth architecture. There is (I’m reaching back to university now, so bear with me) a book on traditional, extant rammed earth construction I read that goes around the world. England is mentioned along with northern France in the sense of “and here too but not much to be exited about”.
Here’s where I get my wild speculation hat on: The description and depictions of prehistoric structures like roundhouses and grubenhausen (grubenhauser? my German is rusty) tend towards showing wattle and daub, focusing on the wood, as that is what is archaeologically detectable in our geology. But all we see is the holes left by the uprights and occasionally the daub where there is an impression of the underlying woven component. There is no reason at all why the rammed earth methods would not be compatible with a very large number of these type of structures where the evidence for daub is not present, since uprights are very often used for a structural guide inside the wall or as part of facing techniques.
Just waiting for the "no it can't be black there was no black influence" B.S
Black Inconsequentialism is pathological and pervasive. *Never ever* flag or delete those comments. When they inevitably come up with "You made that up. We were never that fixated on diminishing or denigrating you." You have the record. It serves a greater purpose.👌🏾 LOL now *this* is the type of thing that gets banned. 😂
Huh?
Your videos on African architecture are some of my favourites. I just wish they were longer haha. Would you ever make a video exploring the future of African architecture? Keep up the great work!
I love African architecturefor its sheer diversity. Just beautiful.
I don’t know if you already did it in some previous videos, but I would love to see different types of African architecture presented on the screen.
It's people subscribed to this channel's responsibility to get other people up on it.
The mud huts being an issue is crazy because I grew up with Pueblos being praised and admired. Instead of drawing the parallels or diving further in African craftsmanship they try and make us look foolish. We the wave and it’s been that way
Bro I’ve been following you for damn there a decade and the grind is real! U almost to a Millie! As an OG fan Im glad you kept it goin and u are an inspiration.
Great video man. I appreciate the information and sources used.
All Blessings to Africa, this is Revelation Time
Europeans forget we had thousands of years to develop what works for the region!
You forgot to mention the Ndebele houses of South Africa! Those have very advanced architecture with vibrant colour patterns!
Love the videos. Please bring back the original opening music. I was able to meet another followers of yours when I heard the music.
Love, love and always look forward to your videos! Mud huts are great, and keeps the dwellers cool. Earthern water jars were used in the caribbean also, coolest , and best tasting water you have ever tasted in your life.
Really? Same here, my parents are Igbos. Our water jar was from pottery and the water was always chilled and "sweet".
@@onyi4180 Maybe mine too! I am Jamaican but my faternal grandmother was Nigerian! She died when i was 5..
Please go on with your good work ; this one was very interesting and I hope you will make more videos about African ancient buildings
Yeah and it would be great if a CashApp could be included. Nigerian musicians will sometimes show the old style African architecture as single story ranch style house with multiple rooms and a compound before had a thatched roof
why do africans always say africa like its a little country its like someone british claiming ancient greece it is in europe
This best aspect I've seen and notice of mud brick built houses is that it's a community experience event. A beautiful scene to witness when we were in Sierra Leone. Actually cooler inside compared to the concrete built ones. Some had thatched palm leaf roofs and others had stainless steel corrugated metal sheet roofs. The designs differed in shapes but the architecture was true to environment.
Excellent video Brother
love your videos
The Western colonizers knew that those huts and other African buildings were used for the ambiance of African surroundings, that’s why I believe that they put poor Africans in these metal shacks, that will rust, causing iron poisoning, and potential overheating and suffocation of people if one stays within them long enough. They should refer back to those traditional methods of architecture, and modernize it to benefit Africans.
Thanks so much
Thanks for the info
Not there is anything wrong with mod houses. Think about the bricks you see in houses and buildings. Bricks are just baked mud. All of the buildings in the west are made from stuff dug up out of the ground.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾🙏🏾 I appreciate this emphasis brother god. Respect to our ancestors' innovations.
There is this self-hating black so-called preacher who talks about how superior Europeans are because they build skyscrapers, and that Alkbulans never built any structure higher than two stories high. What this fool does not realize is that fire departments will tell you that there should not be any building higher than two stories high and that those skyscrapers are death traps. The World Trade Center buildings that were destroyed during 9/11 are prime examples of that. I do not use Hotels often, but on the occasions that I do use them, I demand to be put on the second floor.
Yeah that's why sub Saharan Africa didn't i
Yeah that's why sub Saharan Africans didn't get around to inventing the wheel because it was too dangerous
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Any amateur researcher can find that Oannes came from the Dogon myth of the Nommo, probably through the sub group of the Onan, but every article I read says they don’t know where the Mesopotamians came from. But I know! They came from the Dogon and the cosmology fits so well I want to cry because we’ve just handicapped ourselves denying the truth:(
Tiamat’s original name? Nammu.
your post starts ok then decends into complete nonsense mesopotamians /dogons 0 connection
Brilliant video thank you. Are you able to recommend any African architecture books that are written by credible African people? Most seem to be written why Europeans/foreigners.
So you think the European writer's are credible😅...I think not ..why not goggle specific for African Artitects they existed in ancient times as they do now.
@@denise3422you clearly lack reading comprehension huh? I specifically asked for recommendations because most books are written by Europeans and considering the content creator has done research on this area (African architecture), in preparation for this video, he probably have some decent recommendations. There's absolutely nothing wrong in asking for book recommendations. Not once did I mention that Europeans are credible. Go and acquire some basic reading comprehension skills and emotional intelligence.
Remember the movie the Woman King The Dahomey Kingdom see how well Advance they were and lived. But Euronuts talk about Wakanda from black panther knowing it’s fictional.
Advance??? I thought the movie show how backward the country was. No horse, no port, no palace, selling slave
One thing, bring that I grew up in New Mexico. They say mud huts, I say “oh you mean Adobe houses, like in New Mexico?! They shut up fast. Because then you tell them the Portuguese and Spaniards stole it from Africans.
Of course, they are freaking cowards. Give any push back and they shrivel up real fast.
Those adobe houses in New Mexico are inspired by the traditional houses of the Pueblo and the Hopi, who lived in settlements made up of adobe houses. Nothing to do with Africa.
@@elo6550 there were blacks in America before Columbus. Native Americans are a product of thousands of years of race and culture mixing
As a student of architecture, I enjoyed that.
Great videos
In the US, indigenous American mud architecture is romanticized but African mud architecture is proof of us being animals.
Meanwhile in Latin America, those same indigenous American structures are seen as savage and backward. It's all so arbitrary.
great video
Thank you ! Can you provide me the sources used for this video ? I would gladly read those
What I like the most is these rusty brown brutalist skyscrapers that have a remarkably African vibe 🥰
The mud hut narrative I always look forward to your videos on African history culture etc. thank you for clearing up this important misconception 👏
Very good video
What happened to the theme music? When is this ad being removed?
The most amazing thing about the mud hut 🛖 is they are waterproof and solid.
high production quality for a video with hard hitting facts
Hmm.. Timbuktu!! A beautiful city of mud comes to mind 😊! I would like, however, to provide a slight counter. When I was growing up, we would compate advanced Roman (stone) buildings to the mud huts of celtic and Britons tribesmen. The reality is that day to day Roman houses were actually built of the same material. But we only see the ones that survive and thus in Europe have a bias towards brick and stone.
i hope one day i'll get to watch cool documentaries and videos of quality and passion like this that dont center racism or act like race is a real thing and we can just shine and develop in peace cause frankly its sickening. i feel like its just paying endless attention and giving continuous power. coming from an implicit culture, its more powerful to let things speak for themselves sometimes and just focus on your own.
Huts are eco friendly and adapt to weather conditions.....they cool the home when it's hot outside and keeps it warm when it's cold outside....our ancestors were the first eco warriors, they loved and understood nature and made efforts to preserve it
And mudhuts a very good for the air circulation It's much better for your body than the houses we live in. Did you know that the irish lived in mad hearts not And indians like bangladeshi indians Build mud huts as well they sit in there just to breathe They know something we don't. On top of it mud hearts are related thatch houses. And thatch houses are related to the egyptian homes where the regular people lived... Though I think Egypt covered Sudan because there are more pyramids in Sudan than there are in Egypt. We have been told so many lies
Square houses waste materials round houses are better for materials and energy saving. Square houses are inly good for war and tight spaces
I have never heard of the Mud Hut claim nor would I or anyone with an once of European History put any creditability in it since the Moors that invaded Spain came from Africa. The question is why West Africa doesn't seem to have evidence of ships despite the need of them.
Africa had ships heard of abubakari
@@josiahkamara5912 No, but I am not surprised as West Africa was technologically advanced in the 19th Century. Most people just lack knowledge of African history other than Egypt.
Other than the roof shaped differently the home's here remind me of The Navajo's structured House.
I'm serious not making a joke.
I saw a picture of the Navajo structured Home as a child and thought hey that house looked very familiar too Me; but, I didn't know How?
Thanks!
No problem!
when they do it, its cool and trendy. When we do it, its poverty/ghetto/distasteful
Dam it must suck seeing everything as racist smh
This video kinda makes sense to the movie Shaka Zulu. Because when the white settlers came to the ZULU EMPIRE and was given a piece of land to stay on. They were often ridiculed by the Zulus and called "SWALLOWS" because of the way "THEY" build their huts out of mud, sticks, feather or whatever they could find. And looked at the Zulu as primitive lmao!!!!!!!
But only if you think bullshittery dribble propaganda movies are historical facts 👍
I have to confess that I'm not a fan of the mud huts. I don't believe many Africans are either, you don't see any rich men building mud huts to live in today. However when I was in North Africa I kept seeing these beautiful stone homes, maybe 500sqft at most. I asked about them and they are actually built by the poorest people. They apparently are drafty and have bug problems but they are beautiful. And to be honest the mud huts can be beautiful as well if someone takes the time to make them beautiful. I hope the art of building these never dies. Also the UNeSCO people recently took a mud hut off the endangered list of world heritage sites; it's a place royalty used to bury their dead and it's huge!!!! I think it's in Uganda. Definitely worth a Google search.
it is using what is in your enviroment the africa mud hut is insulated very well
It's like the igloo. A necessary structure for temporary settlement.
Similar prejudices prevailed about traditional Asian and Mexican ‘primitive’ houses employing similar innovations to Africans in hot climates. Using north European designs and using air conditioning in deserts and the tropics is what’s really dumb.
Blessings
The heathens know fully well that we have always been light years ahead of them in every aspect and they better overstand that their judgement is coming from the Most High
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Why did you change the theme music? The original was perfect 😰
Another great video just a suggestion but you should link your cashapp next to your patrion bc I am a college student and can’t afford to subscribe but I would love to give a donation here and there and I feel like I’m not the only one in my situation either
I lived in mud hut they are cool in the hottest sun and warm in the chill of night
These huts were the original solarpunk
As a South African... i take no offense to when people assume me have mud huts and walk around naked
No let's compare this with Canterbury Cathedral
Mud Mansion!
Me too .😂😂😂😂😂
Mud huts ... skyscapers. SMH
It's called lying against the truth
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This video was so shorttt basically 5 minutes if you take out the intro and ad.... 😮💨
European scholarship over isn't about truth it's about keeping others down regardless wether the reason makes the sense God gave
Please change the music theme back to the African drums and chant.
The African laws are also ignored by African law makers, WHY???
' Remember We Are Only 3/5ths Human; So We Are Aliens When Compared To The Other Races'???????
Red bricks were invented in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago, by the then black people that occupied the area. Numerous buildings all over Africa from the East coast South coast West coast North coast were built with multi-stories.
Pretty much all of the ancient buildings that they like to blame on ancient aliens were built by ancient Africans all over the world!
A vidéo about African architecture starts with a commercial to sell me olive oil to lower m'y blood pressure ....... what do you think I think?......😑😑😑
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the muslim invasion of the northern part of africa during the early centuries brought with it the architecture and skills to build. you FORGET! PAINTINGS, SKETCHES, PHOTOGRAPHS EXIST of what many african places looked like when whites explored and arrived there!
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I love you but I miss the old intro 😢
There is not a single advanced constructed structure below the SAHARA
I don't care what anyone says. I love Africa
Wished you spoke a little faster, over time. And videos like these need to be much longer than it currently is. As this sort of thing needs to have more content in order to give the viewer the complete understanding of the message being received.
Start building these huts around the world and get rich, stop talking about it.
These huts are specifically adapted to dry and arid environments. If he were to build them around the world then they wouldn't hold up in rainy areas.
Precisely. Their variations can be found in other environments.@@thevisitor1012
How do you think that houses in Europe were built ?
Most of the houses in the historical centres of European cities are built of mud , wood and stones , they are no longer built the traditional way because it becomes to labour expensive.
Here modern houses built of mud in Portugal.
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A few things
1) We built pyramids in and out of Egypt
2) We didn’t have the resources to build advanced economies like Europe & Asia. See, ‘Guns, Germs & Steel’ documentary here on CZcams
Yet we still developed all this anyway
Very impressive
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Egyptians wasn't black.. we ain't built that
@@ChiefX07 stop believing white people
And pyramids weren’t just in Egypt but deeper in the continent where dark skinned blacks were
@@ChiefX07 ancient Egyptians were black
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Egyptians were black, brotha.
It's in the Bible. The Israelites and Egyptians resembled one another.
Where are your sources? Hard to believe any of these claims when I can’t see the relevant studies
then mud clay houses aint sh*t