He Exposes How Europe Invented The “Primitive African”!

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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

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.

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 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.

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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.

What a time for an African to be alive, wooh!

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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

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.

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...

The root of primitive is prime which means first. So I educate them whenever I hear that foolishness.

I've been watching all your videos for years too, KEEP GOING, DON'T STOP, we need this!!!!! And THANK YOU ❤

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."

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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!