Nice. I think the Yumboes are my favourite. Their feasts remind me of the fairy feasts found in the folklore of the British Isles. Also, it was good to see Antoine Bandele’s work mentioned. He’s doing some interesting stuff with African Folklore. I haven’t read By Sea and Sky, but I’ve read The Kishi and liked how he took the creatures and put his own twist on them. Really cool video as always, mate.
I really like the yumboes as well I was there was more information on them. I'm also big fan of Antione's work, his YA series TJ Young in particular. I'm probably gonna do a why you should read on that series sometime soon.
i love this! thank you for doing this research and making the vid. as someone who studies European folklores (among others) i think all these folks you are talking about very much relate and calling them African fairies makes total sense.
Faires around the world are vague but the common bind is unearthly beings with human level intellect/emotions or beyond , havin access to otherworldly technologies, an living in different dimension or realm an can traverse these realms at will..........this is the most common binding myth about fairies of any ancestry of mythologies it doesnt always hav to be nature in could be urban
Azeza(sp?) sounds very similar to a word of endearment in Persian ie. azezam. I think it's translated as "darling" or "my dear" and is often used among women. I know Persian speakers lived on Madagascar, and had contact with East Africa, but because of few connections with West Africa I suppose it's unlikely to be a shared word, but it's an interesting coincidence that this word could be used for a friendly fairy like being.
Every culture has local spiritual based beings which are fairy-like, even if they are not called that in that location.
Nice. I think the Yumboes are my favourite. Their feasts remind me of the fairy feasts found in the folklore of the British Isles. Also, it was good to see Antoine Bandele’s work mentioned. He’s doing some interesting stuff with African Folklore. I haven’t read By Sea and Sky, but I’ve read The Kishi and liked how he took the creatures and put his own twist on them. Really cool video as always, mate.
I really like the yumboes as well I was there was more information on them. I'm also big fan of Antione's work, his YA series TJ Young in particular. I'm probably gonna do a why you should read on that series sometime soon.
Yeah, the Yumboes and the Aziza sound really interesting.
i love this!
thank you for doing this research and making the vid.
as someone who studies European folklores (among others) i think all these folks you are talking about very much relate and calling them African fairies makes total sense.
Faires around the world are vague but the common bind is unearthly beings with human level intellect/emotions or beyond , havin access to otherworldly technologies, an living in different dimension or realm an can traverse these realms at will..........this is the most common binding myth about fairies of any ancestry of mythologies it doesnt always hav to be nature in could be urban
This is fantastic! I need to read all of the book series you mentioned
Sad not many ppl like learning different mythologies
I think ppl might be open to it if they saw more stories that reflected other mythologies.
It is. Mostly European mythology. People sleep on African mythology.
This isn't true. It's just some mythologies are more well known than others.
I think it's just that some mythologies aren't as well known as others.
Azeza(sp?) sounds very similar to a word of endearment in Persian ie. azezam. I think it's translated as "darling" or "my dear" and is often used among women. I know Persian speakers lived on Madagascar, and had contact with East Africa, but because of few connections with West Africa I suppose it's unlikely to be a shared word, but it's an interesting coincidence that this word could be used for a friendly fairy like being.
That's really interesting. I see little coincidences like this all the time the time while studying history and it always makes me wonder.