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Unless Capcom has retconned things, she has always been from Kenya. They gave her capoiera because the folks at Capcom were not knowledgeable of traditional African forms of fighting. I am still happy that Elena exists as a character, I just wanted to suggest ways they could improve her.

@redspiritmask I never played the games. Just watched movies and shows of Streets I've only ever seen Elena through gifs on Pinterest or something so like you said in the video her design doesn't do much But yeah that was essentially my reaction throughout the video, "What do you mean she's Kenyan?!!" Good video though

@@afrolens9532 Thanks! And if you're curious, there are some Brazilians in Street Fighter: Sean, Laura, and Blanka.

Yeah I understand that perspective and that's why these sorts of things are debatable. At the end of the day, we are all just coming up with imagined boundaries. As for me, though I do keep culture in mind, which is why I have Sudan (a country with close ties to Egypt) as part of the North and not East. I'm looking at Chad more from a geographical viewpoint, the country is very much in the center of the continent.

@redspiritmask This is your perspective Do you know what's mean "the Sahelian Band"?

Tchad culture doesn't belong to WA. Its more like culture from the horn of africa and north africa. They speak arab there

@africaine4889 They speak Arab does not mean they are Arabs like Sudanese Also Nigerians and Ghanaians speak English but they are not English There was Kanem Bornu Kingdom in Tchad in Middle Age or not? From Atlantic coast to Tchad as know like Sahelian Band of Africa where flourished great civilisations like Hausa Kingdom,Kanem Bornu,Mali Empire, Ghana There are tribes Fulani ,Hausa like in Nigeria,Niger or North Cameroon Tchad is the link West Africa and Sudan

That could certainly be the case.

Thank you very much! I hope your comic and animations are successful. When you are done with them let me know. I'd be interested in seeing how they turn out.

@@redspiritmask Will do!

Yeah many people don't seem to understand how the West continues to have negative impacts on Africa.

@@redspiritmask I definitely agree. It's frustrating.

I'm glad you like it, Ken! :D

Nice! 😁

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It probably will. I think the other characters have alts that feature their OG costumes.

Smooth brain comment. Has nothing to do with Kenyan culture since that's Western culture.

Nice! Unless I forgot something, I think you're the first person to comment on the Slayers reference. Always happy to see someone recognize my obscure references.

True the Aghori are interesting sect of the Hindu religion which do use human bones in their rituals. That said I feel like if that was the case, it would have mentioned it in the interview I read. But also they are a very small portion of people in India. On every continent you can find some rare uses of human bones in ritual and art here and there. For example, here an example from France: www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history/site-history But, when you think of France you don't think of that. Frankly, I do like weirdos in games but having the only representative of India one of the most populated place on earth being Dhalsim is not a good look. If Street Fighter had more characters from India then I could see Dhalsim's skull thing being more acceptable since you could show a range of diverse Indian characters. Darun Mister by the way is not technically owned by Capcom and to be frank I forgot he existed till just now. But yeah if they had more normal looking Indian characters like him in Street Fighter than in that case having someone based on something extreme like the Aghori would be fine because they would no longer bare the weight of being India's only representation. That said in Street Fighter 6 Dhalsim has a new necklace made of metal. If I forgot to mention that in this video I apologize but yeah my point is Capcom has over the years been trying to update Dhalsim's design to be less controversial. So thats a good thing and I probably should have said that in the video but when you're trying to make videos once a month some things slip your mind.

Glad you enjoyed the video! :D And yeah I love Elena's character, I just wanted to point out ways that Capcom could improve her design.

Its been years but I'm pretty sure I do talk about Nsibidi in this video. Did you watch the whole thing?

Thanks Jashard! I always appreciate hearing from you. Hopefully the sequel to this video won't take me too long to make. I got most of the script done, still a few more countries to write about.

I love her outfit too. I don’t see why the hate

I have been wanting to do a video about African monsters so there is a good chance that will be a thing one day. However in my mind cryptids and monsters are different. Cryptids to me tend to be more urban legend. For me I would make a monster video based on traditional monsters I've learned about from folktales, legends, art, masquerades, and other older cultural sources.

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Glad you liked it. I probably should do more proverb videos eventually but I might not always do them as UA-cam Shorts since so far the Shorts aren't getting much views.

Yeah there really should be more African representation.

@@redspiritmask so true , I’m Eritrean American but I would love to see a somali fighter

This makes so much sense

There are some larger swords in Africa I will show some of those in the future when I talk about Cameroon and Chad.

Thanks! :D

Yeah at some point I'd like to do videos on Senet and other Egyptian games. As, for how I did that Sonic image, I took an image of the undecorated backside of an Abbia token and then made a new layer in GIMP and pasted the Sonic and Knuckles logo on as an Overlay layer. Then manipulated the colors and cleaned up certain areas.

Your idea is plausible, however I would need to see more evidence to be convinced that this mask is a Sso Mask. Considering that the mask in question is also titled HEALED MASK I find it unlikely that it was intended to scare people. But for sake of argument we could hypothesize that perhaps this mask appears after all the scary masks have done their part in the masquerade, and the role of this mask would be to conclude the ceremony in a healing way. Again though that's just speculation. I will also note that I am aware of a scary smiling mask in the Congo but thats far away and it's smile is noticeably large and creepy. I may do a video about that Hemba mask of the Congo in the future. Thank you for you sharing your thoughts.

Yeah, I recall watching an auction house show many years ago and an expert looked at some objects that looked like they were from the Cameroon Grassland Kingdoms and the guy claimed they were from the Benin Kingdom. There is a huge difference in style between those cultures artworks. So, I was really annoyed by that misidentification.

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Yep, I plan to talk about more traditional games in the future. Surprisingly, I still haven't made a video about Mancala/Oware/Awale. I really should get on that.

And I appreciate you! Thanks for your comment :D

You really should. There's no reason not to.

Thank you very much it means a lot to me that you hold my channel in high regard. Since you mentioned the Super Thanks option, I did just now look into that. From what I read, like with the normal monetization on UA-cam of Ads, I have to reach certain requirements for UA-cam to allow me to utilize Super Thanks. I've already met the amount of Subscribers needed but apparently I don't have enough watch time yet. They require 3000 hours of watch time each year. I'm close to that but not there yet. I'm sure I'll get there eventually, and when I do, I add the Super Thanks button like you recommended.

lol well there is an old game that fits that description, its called Russian Roulette.

Glad you liked my little Sonic joke :D

Well awalé literally still exists, so you're definitely not looking hard enough :v

You’re definitely not researching hard enough. There are chess games like Bornu chess (Tsatsarandi) and Boa board games as well as Ethiopian chess along with others like surfing and swimming.

Archery practice is a traditional sport among a number of Africans. I read of some other traditional games/sports too that I may eventually do videos for. Theres this competion I recall researching but can't recall which culture it was for but it involved young men racing to see who could harvest crops the fastest and they won a cool trophy like staff.

Bro there's literal donkey racing in East Africa