Who Really Built Great Zimbabwe
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- The builders of Great Zimbabwe and all the stone ruins in Southern Africa have been an artificial mystery.
Using Linguistics, cultural ornaments and little known historical narratives, this video reveals who the True Builders are and discredits all false contenders.
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It went from "it must've been foreigners that built it" to Ancient Aliens saying it was Aliens that built it.
@@Yamikani and now it's gone to this person saying it was baTonga who built it! This is the next lie in a series of lies!
Thank you very much! Keep up the amazing work!
I needed you and you're here now. Thank you
Thank you!!!! I really appreciate you providing us with the research. I love this!!!!
We have same ruin in Kenya called Thimlich Ohinga loooks exactly like great Zimbabwean wall
wow great post I know a lot about Africa and its great monuments but have never heard of Thimlich Ohinga site and it does resemble Great Zimbabwe 👍🏿👍🏿
There is one in Mauritania West Africa called Dahr Tichitt built by the Mande people, but its 3,000 years older than Great Zimbabwe.
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l ooooh wow
Your pictures/illustrations are awesome. I wish you would write story books drawn in the same manner. Thanks for the history lessons as well. ..Also, It's amazing how the most of the words you're saying in your language are similar to mine, Kinyarwanda!
Yes the languages are similar. We count the same to about 7 or 10. I will be getting to that connection soon. The illustrations are AI generated with Canva's Media Magic App in the watercolor art style, there are different styles, it's up to you. This is an example prompt 'Watercolor rendering of interior of Khami stone ruins' or for people those had to be more specific 'Watercolor rendering of a beautiful brown or coffee skinned woman with an afro, wearing blue, cream, and gold Ancient Egyptian inspired dress walking down a stone city' - If you say African the AI defaults to what it thinks is the 'standard' African face, so you'd have to specific with the features you want presented. Hope that helps.
@inyenyenzi Thanks a lot for the reply and the insights about the AI generated images. I appreciate how precise and informative your topics are. Keep it up. You're a good educator
Great point!!!!!
I absolutely love your videos💥. I didn’t even wait to see check notifications. This is because the authenticity of your videos show you care for our people. I’ve come to learn that nobody really cares, so I stopped sharing my own findings… So, great Zimbabwe, it’s ironic how so many key “people groups” who are South African come from that era - one being the baSotho, whomever they were prior to the colonisation of the Romans & Moshoeshoe. I learned that the Barolong were originally from Lesotho, so this must’ve been one stock of the today so-called Batswana, who were the basotho before. Also, these baSotho occupied KZN along with Amahlubi. So is it possible that these basotho people became the Batswana, Xhosa (as per their clan praises) baPedi and and today’s Matebele? How is it th@ so many family’s in Limpopo are “Matebele” yet carry a Basotho lineage that’s identical to the Batswana? I look forward to your exposés🔥❤️
Thank you. You are right about the Basotho and Bastwana. Betchona was the original name, which the British mistranslated as Bechuana and it lost its meaning and history. Betchona has a meaning which I am still clarifying, because all the names/words give context and an idea of what was happening to the people with said name at given point in time which helps us better understand their journey. Keep sharing and creating so we can grow our community of those who care. ❤
Wow.. thank you for th@. That explains so much. It’s clear how the Bamangwato were able to pair up with the British and take over that part of the land. They & the recent Bakwena we’re said to have jointly gone to Britain to do this & as you know Seretse Khama married that white woman. So he kind-of represented the land owners which is our people at large. Crazy. I learned something new today. Pls take care of your content. Many thieves on UA-cam. Many Kongo UA-camrs desperate to get this info.
Why do you say kongo?@@maphuthegommaboreramela4586
I say Congo because they throw a lot of guesses but have never really tried to find out from us here. In the same way we reach out about the history of the Congo - they assume alot when it comes to South Africa. It’s something I’ve personally noticed. It’s not just them, it’s actually most people who do videos on the history of the whole Subsaharan. Those I’ve listened repeat what scholars have written - which is mostly wrong. Once or twice I’ve commented on their teachings and they regard any information from this side of the world as secondary to Kongo, as if we’re a baby country in comparison. The furthest I’ve seen is them speak of the Lemba.. That’s not good enough. As much as Congo has a rich history, so does sunny South Africa.
you should upload every week
Who built Mapungubwe?????
Hello once again, just wanted to comment a few additional things?
1. What is Gokomere culture and how does it fit into all this?
2. There is a site in Kenya called Thimlich Ohinga of comparable mastery in stonecraft to the great stone cities of Southern Africa. Actually, the design of Thimlich Ohinga mirrors that of Great Zimbabwe but lacks the massive scale of it. The tradition of building in stone wasn't as extensive in Kenya but parallels to Thimlich Ohinga can be found in the Bukusu stone forts. Not sure if the forts are connected to Thimlich Ohinga.
Edit: Could it be that there were two Bantu branches that coalesced? According to archaeology Bantu speakers can trace their origin to Kiffian culture in the Sahara. After the 4.2 kiloyear drought event which desertified most of the Sahara, could it be there was a split with one group heading east towards the Nile while the other headed west to West Africa?
The Gokomere culture is the Proto-Shona culture going back centuries. The Gokomere are the ancestors of the people now known as the Shona-Karanga, Kalanga, Venda, and Sena. They all worship one God named Mwari/Mwali/Nwali, and have the same pottery, and a similar language and traditions.
There are 2 massive geomagnetic events that you might look into and integrate into your studies of African civilizations and timelines: Gothenburg Excursion (13,750-12,400 years ago) and the China Excursion (6000-7000 years ago: "Probable Middle Holocene geomagnetic excursion at the Red Rock archaeological site, California", 1999; "The Qixiangzhan eruption, Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano, China/DPRK: new age constraints and their implications" 2022). The first ended the Ice Age, and the second one heralded the coming of Civilizations (Sumer, Harappa, Egypt/Khem, Norte-Chico, Yangshao).
We are undergoing a geomagnetic excursion right now and have been for a few centuries ("An impending geomagnetic transition? Hints from the past" 2015; "CATACLYSMIC POLARITY SHIFT" 2015 US Air Force, etc).
Geomagnetic excursions are planet-wise catastrophic events. The entirety of the stability of our atmosphere and ecosphere are wholly dependent on a stable magnetic field; it filters out deadly radiation and the diluted solar energy is utilized in the ecosphere as fuel and food. We eat the plants that convert sunlight into energy, creating a cycle. When the magnetic field is 'wobbling' during an excursion there is a spotty representation at surface level: The field is not complete as there is no equilibrium in the core dynamo. For a period of hundreds to thousands of years, the 'wobble' attempts to reach equilibrium much like a spinning top that is slowing down wobbles and reorients itself.
To us, in our 70-85 year average life spans, this is hard to believe. We can never observe an entire cycle, so it is hogwash pseudo-science...
Except that is isn't. It is called 'archaeomagnetometry' and involves the study of magma deposits and the orientation of iron in them, which polarizes as it cools. Finding iron pointing East in China is kind of telling.
again , great intrigue in the video , very informative too .. but i think we should always take information written by so-called non'africans with a substantial grain of salt , because propaganda has always been their nature ...
for example , i am of the consciousness that before contact with humans(caucasian/arab/mongoloid/etc.) , we had issues amongst ourselves that facilitated our invasions , but it makes no sense that they were recorded to be so bloody by our invaders when oral accounts of conflicts before invasions aren't as gruesome , so one must be very careful here ...
take for example the stone structures known as INZALO YELANGA , they are so old the best lie the humans could come up with them was they're approximately 200 000 years old , yet they are in the interior of the landmass we call "south africa" , and we tend to take the narrative that it was along the ZIMBABWE area that we(for we are our ancestors) attained the height of our civilization as ABANTU in this region ... see , clearly something is hidden there , thus the push of the type of narratives that keep us in a state of desolation , so we ought to be very careful of what is written , if it doesn't speak of all of us as one , then its nothing but another form of the DIVIDE AND CONQUER strategy ... am not saying we were perfect , no family ever is , but they don't rape , enslave and murder each other over disputes , its invaders who do that .
Be careful I’d fact check this if I was you.
Our history ends 6,000 years ago; anything after that is considered irrelevant due to its 'technological inferiority'. The biggest obstacle to learning is knowing, and the historical community 'knows' what happened back then even if they were never there.
Some stuff we DO know: Evidence of horticulture across South America indicates a large civilization living in the jungles and using it as a biofactory for food; terra petra (a powerful fertilized soil that endures for centuries) was one of their technological discoveries. Evidence of agriculture exists over 20,000 years ago. Frameworks for buildings have been found that date back 476,000 years. Megaliths exist on every continent of similar design from a time before our history admits ocean crossings. Megalithic construction dates back to at LEAST 12,000 years with Gobekli Tepe.
Just those facts alone make us question the academic narrative.
I am Danish American; my family became refugees from Denmark during the Nazi-occupied era of WW2. My people were scattered by the Romans 1800 years ago. Even Europeans have been geno-cided.
Keeping all of that in mind: The appearance of 'civilization' as such in modern history is a side-effect of a variety of factors:
1. Megafauna. By 8000 BCE most megafauna that threatened human populations had died out; many human populations had been reduced by the Younger Dryas; large population centers were destroyed or abandoned over a millennia as the climate changed, the ice walls and glaciers melted, and floods wiped the lands in the northern hemisphere (this was likely caused by the Gothenburg Excursion around 13,750 years ago; google it). Any continuity of technology or society was destroyed and new identities appeared across the world.
2. Forced cooperation. In the absence of a NEED to congregate for survival, people began congregating for commercial reasons. Production of excess food or materials led to trade which led to economy; one of the first requirements for 'civilization'. This led to specialized work (such as waterworks, grid-cities, etc) that raised the efficiency and production of the populations, leading to city-states, and thus nation states.
3. Holocene equilibrium. Around 8,000 years ago all of the effects of the Younger Dryas had balanced out; the sea levels were still rising slowly but would soon stop. The Sahara was rapidly turning into a massive desert. Europe began receiving warm summers. Mankind began rebuilding massive structures. This was a Golden Era for the Earth.
4. Iconoclasm. History from before modern civilization was primarily oral tales and pictographs; hardly useless but not good enough for emerging concepts such as economy, politics, and history in context. Writing development was ramped up, leading to proto-writings which later led to Cuneiform, Heiroglyphics, and Pictograms. In changing modes of communication many meanings were lost, and can never be recovered. This has happened every time a civilization conquers another one because they all speak different languages.
5. Modern interpretation. The people that came before writing systems existed for many thousands of years. Most of what we 'know' about them comes from the ruins they leave behind and the ponderings of the academic; the reality behind their lives in those days is shrouded in darkness. We may never know, and we will never learn if we keep assuming we know.
Keeping all of THAT in mind: Humanity is Humanity. Our skin colors do not matter in any real sense; by all indications our species was formed from mating with other species of hominid, creating modern homo sapiens. We are all different, but the same; we are all born on Earth, and share DNA with all other life on Earth.
Ancient Africans built amazing things in Africa. Ancient Americans built amazing things in the Americas. Ancient Europeans built amazing things in Europe (some of which we don't know since 'Doggerland' disappeared beneath the North Sea over 7,000 years ago; this is where the Danes and British likely came from). The same for the Asian peoples, whether Micronesian, Vietnamese, Chinese, or Japanese. Pretty much every nation on Earth has megaliths.
What we do not have is collective memory. Colonialism is destroying our history. We only have 1 Earth.
@@TheRotnflesh So then you believe we should be recording our times with bible dates?
@@tshwarelolebeko2395Archaeomagnetism is the study of volcanic deposit iron orientation. It is how we discover where the north magnetic pole was at any given time, and track Earths magnetic field throughout history. There are many times thay pole wandered; 13,700 years ago it was the Gothenburg Excursion, and it led directly to the Younger Dryas (and ill mention the builders of Gobekli Tepe existed at this time, they just hadnt built Gobekli Tepe yet).
"Constraints on the Timing and Extent of Deglacial Grounding Line Retreat in West Antarctica", a paper on Advancing Earth and Space Sciences website from 2023, presents evidence that Antarctica had 250km of open land 6,000 years ago. Other reaearch indicatea thay the Arctic Ocean was free of ice at the same time.
But that isn't possible, we "know better", right?
@@admirekashiri9879 fact check where though family? online? books? my response was based on introspection , for there are things in the video that resonated with me , my spirit , and that is how we build knowledge and wisdom as ABANTU , when we come across information , we don't disregard all of it or accept all of it , but take from it the truths that we are meant to keep .. so nawe do the same , even if you're not convinced by the entirety of the video , there's something in it your soul resonates with , hence you came across the video in the same place , nothing is a coincidence
The ancestors in Kemet were not a monolith. Many dialects of MTW R (mutawro) was spoken just like Bantu/Coptic today, (only even more variation so due to over 2.5k years apart). BaTonga/WaTonga of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are the oldest Bantu speakers to live in the region. But others followed suit for a reason. We were all connected prior to our depature from the north. BaTonga however are a river people. You worship Nyami, a manifestation of HPW in the form of Apophis/Nehebkau amulets. the Zambezi was your primary jurisdiction, great Zimbabwe is in the south central jurisdiction, so it is unlikely you created it primarily. Unless we are talking about two different Tongas here??? The Ndebele are likely not your agressors, it was likely the Makololo-Lozi who in 1838 under Sibidwane, ended up in Mosi Atunya/Zambezi river district escaping from the Mfacane, and migrated into present day south-West Zambia after much conquest. Probably the Mzungus have it mixed up in their account, because Mzilikazi reigned and died in Matabeleland, South central Zimbabwe. Are you getting it? So once again this is a great start, i will not be irate like others in the comments, do you. This is a much long awaited revelation. But the future of our continent like the past must be a united one. There is no use in a future divided.
No use at all 4 history is 4 us to learn our mistakes and work on present perfecting a future we want to see
you should come to zimbabwe my home
My dear sister some reasechers are claiming it's the remains of the temple in Jerusalem that was made adesolate by the Romans, according to bible prophecy am bantu from Kenya following but we didn't know now we are awaking
Madam you must be talking about a long lost Batswana group.Lekwalo is Setswana for writing.
When you said African based analysis on the original builders of the stone cities of Great Zimbabwe usually defaults to who looks African enough that struck a cord with me.
I think Pan Africanism is filled with very good intentions. At the end of the day all Africans and Afro descended peoples face a common enemy, non Africans. Be it Europeans or Asiatics, all view us as one obstacle to overcome intaking over not just the African continent but African culture and knowledge too.
I think then this speaks to the primary contradiction plaguing African peoples.
This doesn't mean, however, that African peoples haven't carried out injustices against each other. Pan Africanism should never be used as an excuse to cover up crimes against each other. While the primary contradiction must be the focus of our collective efforts, secondary contradictions have to be aclnowledged too. If not for nothing else but because once the primary contradiction is dealt with, the secondary contraditions will become primary and that means all the fruits of efforts made to deal with invasions by non Africans will be wasted.
Great work and I appreciate this channel. I've asked before so I will kindly ask if you could do a deep dive into East Africa and the Great Lakes region. Personally I am Agikuyu so mine is on Kirinyaga mountain and the other four mountains we Agikuyu people hold sacred that being Mbiruiru (Ngong Hills), Kirima Kia Njahi (KilimaMbogo or Ol Donyo Sabuk) and Nyandarua (Aberdares). According to our own oral traditions the original inhabitants were people called Ciana Cia Maitho or the Gumba (not sure if they are one and the same). We hold that not just us but the Akamba, Ameru, Aembu as well as some communities in Tanzania like the Daiso descend from a common culture, Thagicu culture. Its earliest most verifiable archeological evidence goes as far back as Nyambene hills just before the Common Era. According to what I have learnt thagicu culture can be traced to pharaoh Akhenaten and his co regent Smenkhare but I am not sure about this. I am requesting if you could make a video covering this topic. Also, please feel free to do long format videos, I appreciate your words of wisdom.
On thagicu culture, its not just evident amongst those classified as North Eastern Bantu but also in the names of communities like the Bagisu. There is the aspect of Dahl's law which analyses the grammatical uniqueness of thagicu cultural descendants. I am saying all this just to provide as much info as I know to you if you choose to cover this topic.
We the Agikuyu use the word Mwene but it isn't in reference to a kingdom or a king but our deity Mwene Nyaga. The Thumbi headdress worn by elders was the closest reflection of what right to rule under Mwene Nyaga looked like. The similarities between the thumbi headdress and the crown of Osiris strike me.
In the great lakes there is oral tradition on the Bachwezi and the Babito. The Baganda speak of their founder being called Kintu. Could you detangle some of the ideas on the great lakes? What about the Tutsi, I think they are comparable to Mzilikazi seeing as they literally had the Kalinga drum. I don't know. What do you think.
Edit: Forgot to mention our writing system that employed use of hieroglyphs. It was called the gicandi writing system after the gicandi instrument which served as the "book" of record for the Agikuyu. The rinderpest epidemic which on top of other calamities was so devastating that 40% of the Agikuyu died out meaning even our writing system was on the brink of extinction before it was documented by the likes of Soresby amd Katherine Routledge as well as Richard Leakey.
Thaayu MuGikuyu.
The first thing to understand is that our Gikuyu history is very fragmented and compartmentalized, meaning that no one single individual among we AgiKuyu has our full history. It has taken me many years of research from many sources to piece our story together, and even then, there are still many pieces missing.
Secondly, you should ask for the history of a particular group of people from members of that group. If you want to learn French, you go to a French speaker and not a Russian speaker. No disrespect to this Southern African sister, she's doing what she feels called to do concerning the Southern African bantus she has info on, but I highly doubt that she has any info on our Thagicu history.
I recently found her channel and I bumped into your comment here so as your fellow MuGikuyu, I'll answer your question.
We North Eastern and Thagicu-descended bantus migrated to our current homelands from Egypt with Akhenaten, after we had settled in various parts of the country now called Ethiopia. As you stated, we included the Agikuyu, Aembu, Ameru, Akamba, WaTaita, Mijikenda, Bagishu/BaMasaba (of Uganda), the Segeju and Chaaga of Tanzania.
Othr than we East African bantus I have mentioned, I suspect that the BaLuba, Shona, BaTswana and BaSotho might have been in close proximity with us because of key etymological clues I have found, that we don't share with other bantu groups.
The Luhyas (at least some clans among the wider Luhya community) and AbaGusii also have an oral history of migrating out of Egypt with we Thagicu.
Pharaoh Akhenaten is actually the patriarch of our community, GiKuyu, meaning the great fig tree. Fig trees were very sacred in ancient Egypt/Kemet where our ancestors referred to them as ''the tree of life'', or the tree that is a gift from God/the Most High.
Back in Ethiopia, we the AgiKuyu were called ''Kabiru'', and we used to live around the lake Tana area, Axum, Abyssinia and Lalibela. Our very close cousins in Tanzania, the Chagga, also say that they migrated out of those areas with us, so there's that for corroboration of our oral histories.
Our Thagicu ancestors arrived at Nyambene hills from further North (Ethiopia), while a splinter group came through the area that is coastal Kenya around Digo forest and the current border with Somalia there. There then seems to have been a re-grouping of the Thagicu at the Tana river delta area, where the Taita settled in the vicinity, the Mijikenda went to the coast and the Tanzanian groups moved further south in modern-day Tanzania, while we Mt. Kenya bantus followed Tana river up to its source at the mountain, and settled there. Some other splinter groups probably came straight from Nyambene hills to the Mt. Kenya area.
There are stories of yet more splinter bantu groups coming from Congo via Tanzania, then joined the others at Tana river and came up to Mt. Kenya. This is why we call have similar names -Thagicu, BaGishu, Thaiso/Daiso, Segeju.
Keep in mind that the bantu migration was a series of movements among the various splinter groups over a period of time, and not one mass movement of us all.
@@kim1570 Thaayu
Thank you for this. Actually from what I know the 9 daughters of Gikuyu and Mumbi is the collective memory of a confederation of different thagicu speakers i.e. Akamba, Daiso. This explains the continuity between Agikuyu and the Thagicu culture. It also explains why people say that the Agikuyu are the descendants of the Akamba which is not entirely true.
I have a question while I have you, what does the name Nyambene in nyambene hills mean? I was surfing the internet and I came across ties between the Akan concept for Nyame and the Kongolese concept for Nzambi which represents an almighty. The Lele people refer to the deity as Njambi. This struck me because of the existence of the name Njambi amongst Thagicu speakers. Does that have anything to do with Nyambene hills?
Another question if you don't mind, is that why River Tana is called River Tana, after Lake Tana? And what does this mean for the Shungwaya legend?
Back to Akhenaten and why we left Ethiopia...
The only way to understand the Akhenaten and the Egyptian connection is to understand who we are as Agikuyu, and this is where many of our people fall off because this history has been covered up and contorted by the powers that shouldn't be. As I said before, our history has been fragmented in such a way that it has been separated into different disciplines that attempt to keep our story compartmentalized, so people studying our history from a linguistic and migration view might not know what info the spiritual aspect has, and this has been the biggest hurdle for me to overcome while researching our history. We have our Gikuyu historians like Godfrey Muriuki who are excellent in our history between 1500-1900, but don't have info on who we were before that. Then we have other historians like Samuel Kamitha who has our history stretching back into the B.C. era when we were in Egypt and the area today called Palestine.
According to Samuel Kamitha, we were in Palestine as far back as the 1800s B.C. where we lived in small settlements away from big populations. Our GiKuyu/KaBiru ancestors are the people the 18th dynasty's Armana tablets (the dynasty that Akhenaten belonged to) call the Apiru or Hapiru, and this is where we get Habiru..Kabiru from. There has been a lot of misinformation created by Europeans about the Apiru/Kabiru. Official records state that they (the men) were fugitives, bandits and highway robbers, but in truth these Habiru were righteous mercenaries and judges who were hired by kings in the region to settle legal cases by listening to both sides of the story, and then carrying out the necessary battles/wars in favour of the legitimate aggrieved party. So for example, if a certain king had had some of his land grabbed by another leader, the Kabiru warriors would investigate the legitimacy of the claims and if found to be valid, they would wage war on the accused party and return the land back to the rightful owner, then be paid in goats. This is why goats have always been our medium of exchange as Agikuyu.
Akhenaten is whom the Greeks and Romans created the biblical characters of Moses and King Solomon off of, and this is why many western historians have suspected that Akhenaten was the pharaoh of the biblical Exodus, as well as the character of Moses himself.
I'm not very sure what was going on in Egypt at that time, but what has become clear to me is that the monotheistic Ra-oriented spirituality that Akhenaten instituted is the same spirituality that the Kabiru were following (and is the same traditional one that we Agikuyu have up to today), and so the rest of the Egyptian priesthood rejected Akhenaten's changes and he was forced to leave Egypt. The Egyptian sun-god Ra is where we get the Gikuyu word for sun ''riua'', and the Chagga say ''ruwa'' and the BaSotho and BaTswana, ''Ra-Mased(l)i.
This is why we left that North East Africa region with him and moved into Ethiopia. I'm not yet sure for how long we were in Ethiopia, but at some point, Akhenaten changed his name to Gethathaiya, and the biblical version of this name is Jedidiyah, also called Solomon. Solomon - sol is latin for the sun. This name, ''GeThaThaiya'' is why we say ''Thaai Thathaiya Ngai Thaai'' in our traditional prayers. There is a consonant shift from ''th'' to ''d''.
I suspect that the name GeThaThaiya (as our solar-father diety/father figure/patriarch) is where the BaKongo and BaLuba get their name for ''father'' and their god, Tata Nzambi , and the BaSotho and BaTswana get ''Ntate'' from, also for ''father''. The Amharic father/king title is ''Taten'' (from Akhetaten), so you can see the etymological similarity between Tata, Tata Nzambi, Ntate and Ge-ThaTha-iya. Nelson Mandela was also referred to as Tata, and then there's the Shona word, ''tatenda'' meaning ''thank you'' (probably initially referring to thanking the Father/God). The Shona also call the fig tree ''MuKuyu'' just like we do.
So Akhenaten = Gethathaiya = Jedidiyah/Solomon, and this is why the biblical Song of Psalms is similar to the Hymns to Aten that Akhenaten had composed.
I'm not yet sure if Gikuyu was also Akhenaten/Gethathaiya himself, or a son of his, but the fig tree link to Egypt which the GrecoRomans put in the bible, is still present.
The Ethiopian Kebra Nagast tale of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, called Candace/Kandake/MaKenda siring Menelik is an allegorical tale that the Amharas created after we left Ethiopia, and attributed the allegory to a different bloodline, and this is why Haile Selassie falsely claimed to be a descendant of king Solomon. The real bloodline (i.e. Akhenaten's descendants) are actually among the House of Mumbi. I suspect that GiKuyu (of our Gikuyu and Mumbi origin story) was Gethathaiya's son, i.e.the so-called Menelik.
''Menelik'' is not really a name, its actually a title meaning 'son of a king'. Its the same way ''president'' is not a name, but a title or an office for carrying out certain leadership duties. MaKenda is where we get our 9 female Kenda Muiyuru clans of Mumbi from, and where the Miji-Kenda (also the 9 clans/cities) derive their name from as well. Remember earlier I mentioned that the Miji-Kenda and Agikuyu were once part of a larger group of bantus who separated either at the coast or Tana river area, so we obviously carried this concept of a mother figure who gives birth to 9 clans/families/cities from our time in Ethiopia and even further back in Egypt. By the way, there's a district in Ethiopia called Kuyu woreda.
As for why we bantus/Thagicu left Ethiopia, we were forced to leave when the Romans and Greeks, after conquering Egypt and forcing al the black Africans out, proceeded to invade Ethiopia as they (specifically the Knights Templars) were looking for some sacred artefacts. As you may have heard by now, there is speculation in some circles that the ark of the covenant is in a little church in Ethiopia. There has been a lot of mis- and dis-information about this, as well as the western establishment pumping out a lot of propaganda about the ark in movies like Indiana Jones. Long story short, its not in Ethiopia anymore - its at Mt. Kenya. The Kebra Nagast story claims that Menelik snuck the ark out of 'Jerusalem' with the help of a group of levite priests. Those levites are our GiKuyu Kabiru seers, 12 of them who live at Mt. Kenya, and are in custodianship of those holy relics. They snuck the ark out of Lalibela/Axum, brought it to Mt. Kenya for safe keeping and the rest of us Thagicu followed them because war had broken out in Ethiopia as the holy items were being looked for.
This is where I suspect that a splinter group of the Thagicu got to Nyambene hills from, while other groups followed the coast and then up Tana river to Mt. Kenya. By the way, that same group of Templar soldiers, now calling themselves the British Army, are still looking for those holy artefacts, which is why Britain has its largest foreign military base outside of the U.K. in Kenya at Nanyuki, as well as Kenya hosting some branches of the UN.
Now you see why why one has to understand our history from all angles and how compartmentalization keeps one from seeing the bigger picture. The info in your original comment is from Emmanuel Kariuki's hubpages blog, I have read it many times over and he has fantastic info, but there are still gaps in his info. He says that Akhenaten ''had some influence on Agikuyu'' but I've now shown you that he was actually our patriarch let alone having influence on us. Mr. Kariuki also suspects that Akhenaten was buried somewhere in the Mt. Kenya region, and I fully agree with him, seeing as my own research has filled in those gaps.
I still have many more unanswered questions but I hope this helps.
Thank you for watching and your thoughtful comment.
I will do my best to summarize what I think happened and how many modern African Groups emerged.
There was no Bantu Migration, but there was a Zanj Influx and conquest. The Zanj were the Nilo Saharan people.
This is where the changes that we see in Africa today, and most of the groups seem to have emanated.
The Bantu migration never happened.
Proto Bantu had the largest and oldest Kingdom Africa since at least 36000BCE, a time Ancient Egyptians called Zep Tepi and even if that’s a myth, the Lost kingdom of Pwnt - (Punt-made up word) likely existed in Tanganyika and sourced gold from Katanga. It was a wealthy, secure, self sufficient and stable kingdom. That was not invaded from outside but fell from within, by way of entrenchment.
The Proto-Bantu had a policy of taking in people like they did with the Hyksos, the Shona who then usurped them. This is why many people speak a derived language. Their ancestors sort refuge and took over.
The Proto-Bantu Kingdom seems to have spanned Ancient Egypt, what became Kush down the Great Lakes and East African Coast, Part of Congo(Katanga), down to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, some parts of Namibia South Africa. Notice it doesn’t include all African countries because it didn’t.
It didn’t include the region of the Sahel, West Africa, North Africa, Angola, Ethiopia proper, although Mogadishu is actually originally a Proto-Bantu term I will find the 1000AD spelling.
It seems like during and after the Zanj Rebellion in Iraq between 869 to 883 CE/AD many of those individuals came back into Africa. At this time, Egypt was controlled by the Abbasid Caliphate, which was the same Caliphate that controlled Iraq. So these formerly enslaved people either became mercenaries or had to move further away or risk being enslaved again. Unlike the ProtoBantu they didn’t have protection so they sort refuge from the Proto-Bantu.
At this point, some of them were also mixed, Afro-Arab and were also now cultured Arab, so identified as Arab. These were called Zanj by the Caliphates. The were also loyal to the Arabs or Moors. The name Mozambique is sarcasm - one of them gave it to the Moors - Mozambique is correctly this expression - Musa mbi Khe - ‘let me put in or give it to my pal - at the expense of everyone else’
In his book The Natural History of Man - JC Prichard made it his business to describe all people around the world - well who he could - describes them as the Galla people.
The Galla are now called the Oromo who were described as being a confederation of different groups and found mainly Ethiopia(were they are found today). But some of their population extended into the Sudan, which was the region extending across the Sahel, Central Africa to the Niger Delta. The region the Greeks called Ethiopia.
This is the primary region where the enslaved people were abducted and taken to Iraq before the Zanj Rebellion with the ports located in the Caliphate controlled territories.
The Zanj had nothing except military experience and Stockholm syndrome (not everyone but a lot of them when they came back. This may explain why they’re always Moors and Arabs in Zanj-usurped Bantu Royal Courts.
This isn’t true for the West Africans, Angolans don’t speak Bantu derived languages, but everything I just summarized would’ve happened between 869 and 1400 CE.
Which is why I make the distinction - Ethnic/Proto Bantu and Bantu Speaking(Zanj/Galla-Bantu).
Well Aliens eng USa -
languages are partly Indian as well...aka Fula Fulbe aka (Firangi) *Sanskrit
OLD- English Barbarians *Balkans * Irish Sassenach - Assasinib Middle East Taking that Europe IS A MIX OF Asian and Indian!
We can see where it stick as foreign people could just witness these monuments...
Not maintain them 💯...
The karanga built great Zimbabwe
They are now using Lemba to appropriate Zimbabwe stone ruins from Bantu. But just to answer who built Zimbabwe walls, don't look any further...just look at western kenya, we built similar stone walled called Thimlich Ohinga which today is occupied by Nilotes who conquered us....
They have even claimed that it's khosan who built Thimlich Ohinga to try and deny our history...
European Will never ever stop attacking us or our history...trust me.
Fortunately everyone named by the ProtoBantu was named for their proclivities. Lembas say to call them Mwenye because that's their historical name. Mwenye was given to them by the Bantu and it means 'slave trader'. They weren't builders. This also likely places their arrival around the Zanj occupation or Shona, because these two groups were basically sponsored the Arab/Moor who were looking to control the gold mines in the ProtoBantu territory. The Zanj seem to have been mostly Nilo-Saharan people who were abducted and taken to Iraq and then returned to Africa after their rebellion in 869 CE. That's when all problems really seem to have started. I will make a video soon 🤣
@@inyenyenzi You think zanj were Nilotes?? But you know Nilotes were not farmers...
@@maragolihistory2118 That's what the data is pointing to right now but I am still validating the sources. In Southern Africa, the Nguni dress like some members of the 'Zanj' groups and build like them. Between the rebellion and 1100AD they invaded a segment of the ProtoBantu at Great Zimbabwe or close to that area and this is evident in the change in the archeological relics and also the Arab writers who wrote about a Zanj presence in that area. I am still working on it.
@@inyenyenzi That's very interesting
@@maragolihistory2118how come you stopped posting videos boss . I think she is either a pan Africanist or having a problem understanding distinguishing the people on other parts of African . The so could Nilotic kingdom goes all the way to Senegal but history has done a good job of miseducating us ,thanks to the like of Joseph Greenberg the Niger Congo people are one people and actually the Congo came from the Niger which is kemet (ham) which is a cover up .bantus were slaves all over from Sudan , Somali , Chad all the way to the great kingdom of Benin ( Nigeria ) took slaves from Congo and Angola then claim to be the slaves which is the biggest conspiracy because the Nigerian kingdom was the richest and most powerful next to Great Britain due to enslaving Bantus the practice of voodoo and human sacrifice. Due to slavery we mixed with west African and even until this day the whole world goes to west African for the so called African spirituality with is pure worship of Satan
I'm a Tonga from Southern Africa, this video is completely wrong and looks at Africans through a simplistic European lens.
For one, there is no Shona tribe, just a group of related people speaking similar languages that Europeans called Shona.
The BaTonga have a similar origin as the so called Shona groups around the Tanganyika area along with other groups like the BaVenda, AChewa, BaKalanga and others. The speak related languages.
Thus all these people have lived amongst each other for centuries and are genetically identical. Even the Mathebele and other Nguni groups have lived with us for centuries before the Mfcane.
The Colonialist in the Cape and Portuguese slave raiders are the ones who caused militarized groups amongst the Nguni, like the Zulu and Matebele.
Thus there are no invaders or invaded in the sense you speak of because all these groups are culturally related, genetically identical and have coexisted for centuries with one another.
Ok basic question - What is Luwihi? What is Mayanda? What does Gonde mean? If you are so Tonga you should know, this is basic.
I specifically said Plateau Tonga ndiswe Hulumende, because we know a lot of you aren't Tonga, you are refuge seekers who now claim the identity but know nothing of it, so unless you are Plateau Tonga(and we aren't many and we know each other) - this likely isn't your story.
I worked too hard to do this research to accommodate your ignorance so here you go so we don't have a repeat of this ignorance in this comment section.
Did your father complete gifting your mother's Lubono(Lobola)? Because your comment screams mwana wa musokwe(child of the bush) -- in our culture, cultural education is a privilege only offered to children who are legitimate, acknowledged by and tethered to their Basimukowa(matrilineal kin clan) or Basiyanausi(Tonga Father's Kin - clan) who give them their cultural name, pass on the values and history. So no you aren't Tonga, Dalitso because you don't have a Tonga name, no Tongas are Bandas -- that's not a name in our culture. You are a Banda, you belong to them not us, this isn't your culture so the only information you know is out of badly written colonial puppet inspired textbook because you clearly don't have a connection to a Mukowa(clan) who should've taught you.
We created Gonde. We are Bana Monze(Mose), ndiswe Hulumende, kotuli - go ask your mother what that means -- assuming that's where your Tonga claim comes from because Banda isn't a Tonga name so it can't be your father, his definitely not one of us - but it says a lot about your mother's choices, has all the Lubono/Lobola been gifted? Doubt it....which explains ignorance and you lack cultural education...We don't have patience for ignorance.
You are definitely one of those can't speak the language or doesn't know the alphabet, can't tell us any of the origin stories and certainly doesn't know any of the customs, don't have a munzi or a clan, you don't even have a Tonga name. You've to have a Tonga name to know our history. Watusabila Umuna.
Your ignorance has irked me. If you were really Tonga you'd know the saying 'Utambauli mbuli mukaranga' - we don't even go there, we've no association, we are Bantu Botatwe - you'd know the Shona capital was called 'Kuitebe(Quiteve)' - meaning the place of debauchery - you'd know what is taught through the Mukowa(Clan), you'd know about HiManansa - but you don't because you aren't one of us Bana Ba Tchundu, you are a Banda - don't speak for us.
@@inyenyenzi Wow these insulting comments are actually disgustingly tribalist. This is really frightful what you've written here. Really poor form
@@GwazaJuse dont mind her she cant argue my ideas cause shes talking shit thus resulted to cheap insults.
@@inyenyenzi you read them to filth !!😂🤭🤭.Good for you Boo...people wanna talk big in someone else's House...you are right to defend your truth, and the truth of your lineage and People. It is good that you let it be known that ignorant condescending comments will not be tolerated. 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for these videos, they fill in so many gaps we have inside ...you are doing amazing work and we appreciate you 💕
Quality of the stonework is primitive
Your mother is primitive.
Genius comment colonizer
These structures are unique because they were built without mortar
What on Earth are you talking about? Great Zimbabwe and other ruins in the region were built by the Shona/Karanga-Kalanga. Early Portuguese accounts mention the Kalanga. Artefacts found are linked to the culture of the region. Stop spreading lies! If you don’t know our history don’t talk on it.
Great Zimbabwe dates back to between the 11th century and the 15th century.
Trade predates Great Zimbabwe going to the The Kingdom of Mapungubwe and before! Trade actually dates back to the Gokomere culture which was established south of the Zambezi River by 200 AD. Aksum is said to have sent trade expeditions to this early proto Karanga-Nyai-Shona culture in Zimbabwe during 500AD. Shona people didn’t just pop out of nowhere and take the land! They had inhabited the region for centuries! There are various histories of the different kingdoms that dominated the region.
Do some actual research instead of creating some fantasy.
Make your point don't be so harsh on her. She can only speak from what she knows-such comments should be reserved for the "culture bandits".
Your ancestors looked very different so much that they'd had to force marriages with the San and the BaTonga who got left behind to fit you all in. Why do think South Africans are able to point you out so easily? Because you still look like you are from Malawi. While most looked 'Abyssinian, your ancestors looked different (I could quote the passage, but I will spare all of us)' - you did't belong there. It was built by the BaTonga. You didn't build anything, you found it and destroyed it. Shona means 'perfect reflection of a destroyer'.
@@agro-valleyfarm7217 Sorry I’ll be harsh when I see people disrespect my ancestors and our history! Plus if I really wanted to be harsh I’d insult her, I’m not doing that! I’m attacking the lies.
@@inyenyenzi My ancestors looked different huh? 😂 How so exactly? Forced marriage with the San and BaTonga huh? According to what genetic and historical evidence?? This fantasy story is interesting let’s see your lore ay!
You’re literally talking about a migration that happened around 200 AD! 😂 again the Shona are descendants of the Gokomere culture. Various studies and finds debunk what you’re saying. Again the early Portuguese mention the empire of Monomotapa (Mutapa) as a well as Karanga-Kalanga folks building these structures. Not the San or the BaTonga. The term Monomotapa is from Shona meaning Mwene-Mutapa the title of the rulers! Are you saying the BaTonga and San are the Karanga-Kalanga? 😂 if so by all means show me.
@@inyenyenzi Diogo de Alcáçova letter in 1506 to the King of Portugal João III
Alcáçova wrote that in ‘Zunbanhy’ the capital of the Kingdom of Mutapa: “the houses of the King…were of stone and clay very large and on one level” and that they were part of the larger kingdom of Ucalanga (presumably Karanga, a southern Shona dialect spoken mainly in Masvingo and Midlands provinces of Zimbabwe.
Duarte Barbosa in 1514
This third Portuguese reference describes a great town ‘Zimbaoche’ which he notes “pertains to the heathen” and their King Benemotapa.
Vicente Pegado, Captain of the Portuguese Garrison of Sofala report from 1531
Pegado described Zimbabwe thus: “Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers there is a fortress built of stones of marvellous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them.... This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than 12 fathoms [22 metres] high. The natives of the country call these edifices Symbaoe, which according to their language signifies court.”
The concept of "Shona" is 75 years old, there is no such thing as "the Shona", it's the name of a language standardised by Doke et al. When you don't know that you fail to understand the political complexity of the region before that and you end up just making a lot of stuff up..
In the end what are you really saying with these videos? It seems you're saying that baTonga folks are actually the ancient Egyptians and that their language is the original ("Proto") language everything else is fake.
You hate Batswana, you hate chiShona speaking people, you hate amaNdebele of Mzilikazi (abaThwakazi) you hate people who speak Nilo Saharan languages.. who do you actually like besides your own self (your own Tonga identity)?
This content is so violently tribalist.
And your voice is so small and soft and syrupy, it's such a contrast to the really violent chest beating tribalism you're promoting.