It is good that black people are acknowledging their contribution to the world and their history to it and are no longer lost a lie of white supremacy!our people are the foundation of the world; we gave the world everything it has even today what are resources they are building their own empire is off of our back and sweat! Africa is rising islowly but surely we are coming out of the slumber that we have been in for 400!
Really glad to see a lot of black people creating channels and websites like this. We need easy understand and easy to navigate places for all this information and knowledge. A lot is scattered on unknown websites and books that haven't been uploaded to the internet yet, but it's rewarding and enriching. We have a youtube channel and website that anyone is welcome to go to, we need critiques and suggestions for content.
This is a great video! It's not surprising that so few people know about Africa's long, rich & extensive architectural history & achievements. For many reasons, that narrative simply isn't a part of Western dialogue. That's why it's so very important that this story get told.
Use this knowledge to inspire your future works, to resume our interrupted divinely inspired ancient creative African legacy. Dig deeper to what i know you're receiving in those overpriced, in a box, mainstream, and massproduced brain stunting "universities"...
Welcome back. In the next couple of days you should be getting new subscribers and more views, i have referred several people to your channel. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!
This just tells us of the great intelligence and creativity our ancestors had. In South Africa alone we have various architectural styles amongst the different ethnic groups (Zulus, Xhosa vhaVenda) its beautiful...
The information you give is priceless to so many who were told Africa had no history. I have decided to show my appreciation by subscribing to www.patreon.com.
If you go to jenne today , you will find a very big market and in this market you will literally buy necklace made of precious stones as old as 300years.
Dude, you're killing it with this video. Besides the Ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Sungbo's Eredo, this is my first time hearing of the other three. I think these are the sites, for anyone wanting to dig deeper. Djado Ruins Dhar Tichitt Ruins of Loropéni Sungbo's Eredo Ruins of Great Zimbabwe Thanks for your diligence and for sharing. Keep up the great work!!
Great presentation! You kept me glued until the very last second and I was sorry when it ended. It's about time someone starts focusing on the great history of our West African ancestors. Now it would be great if continental Africans will take your lead and start honoring their ancestors with some informative videos. Our ancestors are smiling right now!
I just have to say I love you videos. The more ancient the better. Your research is really outstanding. I've been researching myself for years just because I love history, all history!
Great video! It's not surprising that so few people know about Africa's long & rich architectural history & achievements. For many reasons, that narrative simply isn't a part of Western dialogue. That's why it's so very important that this story get told. Thank you!
I'm so glad to hear someone put the truth out for a change. you always hear about what every other culture has built and has done like Africa has no history of architecture, like all we had was grass huts, loin cloths and spears.. Thanx young man!
Im glad that I found your channel its extremely informative and I really get an understanding of our people's ancestry besides the transatlantic slave trade and it inspires me to research more thanks for spreading knowledge
Brilliant channel man, I really appreciate how you've drawn some attention to a more ethical kind of euopean person of that era. my best friend for over a decade who passed on about a year ago, he was a kit drummer in punk and metal bands when he was young and then he traveled around a fair few African county's in his early 20s. He made a lot of friends through the music seen many of who he stayed in contact with the rest if his life. He studied under all different master drummers and he developed a real love for African music/dance culture and precussion. Man in all the time I spent with him over all the years he'd always bring up different artists and groups on UA-cam and explained a bit what they where about and point out how the patterns would layre and progress and tell about what he wast told about it in his travels by the people he met. He would show different ceremonies and stuff and concerts. He was a really interesting guy he new a lot obout Oriental and African culture and had a lot of love and enthusiasm for African music expecially. He taught me to play djembe fairly well and introduced me to some world class djembe and kora musicians at a few gigs when they would come to stay with him for gigs in our area. They were awsome fascinating people, so talented the way they layre and phase the rhythmic patterns and tones so smoothy with syncopations and tempo cycles. one of these guys im still friends with and would probably offer me little bits of work hear and there. As a roadie If I lenard some supporting patterns for him. Yeah I got quite a sence of the guy and his experience of going to Africa as a drummer and how it affected and amazed him. So yeah I got quite a sence of African music culture through knowing him probably a fair bit more than your average north European English/celtic person. It's also lead me to take another look my own more innate but perhaps these days somewhat obscured aspects of European folk culture and traditions. But yeah awesome channel man it's grate so see such a upbeat content on the dignity of African cultural heritage and the potential of it to inspire progressive development into the next age when all nations and cultures will express there depth and reach there potential.
thank you so much for this video, im really interested in african architecture (how they build those amazing buildings to protect themselves from the heat is so beautiful and interesting) and i found your channel after getting frustrated seeing my university's history of architecture program (80% europe, 20% the americas; and i live in fucking argentina) this is great info!! thank u so muchh
1 minor error brother, the mali empire was founded by the mandinka, mansa musa was mandinka...as is my mother! i'm a muslim of nigerian (yoruba) paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 with some amazigh (berber) ancestry 🇲🇦 but...born and raised in america.
The mandinka are originated from the Soninkè people . You may ask about the mandè mori ( imam of the mandè) those who bear the name Ceesay , Turay were Soninkè from the kingship of the Wagadou empire who supported Sounjata Keita against Soumahoro Kante who were also Soninkè.
From Nothing dude come on why u hatin lol ? ;) lol I know you hate when people bag on your accent hahaha .. I'm glad that you were actually on this channel man It would be cool to see u 2 collab
Nice video. I'm study history of architecture (on my own) and I was just looking up videos and fell on this one. I'm Bantou from Central Africa, precisely from Cameroon. Do you have anything on architecture from that area of Africa please?
i did not know about most of these places if you would pls tell me ware you find you info so i can look deeper in to this i do a grate deal of digging in African history but come up empty handed the same small bits every time i need more to go on
I think you're looking too much into the shape of Great Zimbabwe. It's round because it conforms to the terrain it's built on, which is easier and requires less stone than building a square-shaped wall there. There's also the added benefit of a round wall being more stable than a straight one.
I don't really read so well, so I appreciate what you offer in your documentaries,. But I love research. I've been researching natural house building and permaculture, and I find the older communities, linked to a spiritual lifestyle, have the oldest, strongest structures, and the best of those structures have means of upgradeupgrade. Like you said in other words, they can evolve. We can learn so much from the older cultures. I pray we stop civilizing (colonizing) these First World Nations with deforestation for monoculture plantations (so folks can have coffee and sugar and such). So many of these nations/cultures are confused with a third world nation stigma. But these are the nations that have the medicine, the culture in harmonious living with LIFE. That's all we need LOVE
HomeTeam History (This is not meant to cause a flame war!) But I've this before. What make people believe he was black? (If that is what your getting at).
They have depicted hannibal as being a man of Color they also have black phoenician african statues it seems also Carthage is in North Africa the native people Berbers tribe also they depicted hannibal as being man of color in few different TV shows Spartacus is one also he was raise in Carthage so he had to have some kinda connection with Native people there and they have Coins of him they try said Egyptians was white or other then black African an they try say Carthage did not have African presents pls do more research thanks you bless
Eric Jackson You can never just have a civil conversation on UA-cam without being spoken down to. "pls do more research", did it really offend you that much?
This is goes to show you that even though Society of Europeans and other ethnic group take a forte insane that black are American Africans descendants are ignorant if they could if they did this at that time imagine what was done before and thank you again I can't stop thanking you for every piece of information that you bring forth from the motherland and May the grace of God keep you safe and be with you🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖.
Would you be able to or have you found any info on the Gullah Geechee People of the Sea Islands And their Creole language? The Corridor. And the Black Seminoles.
Very interesting research. I am very intrigued and have deep interest in informing myself of African culture pre colonialism, my question then is where do you get your information from? Been looking and haven't had too much luck.
One thing to recognize two it's talking about the Queen of Sheba and people always wanted this associated with Africa and it has like a lot of East African stories along with it but the thing about that also is many Africans in Nigeria specifically the Igboh have hebrew roots actually and some people say that the word Igboh is another word for "hebo" which comes grom the word "hebrew" .this group is called the Emo yo Quim
Hey there. Since there is no longer the option to message someone privately, I'd like to ask you, if you could help me a bit. I am planning a school in Tanzania, in the Sandawe region. could you tell me something about their original architecture? I didn't quite catch you name in the beginning. Maybe if I had it, I'd be able to text you on facebook
Yep! your right , i will not generalise too much, but our women are rounded,and oval, with different variations, the spoons and dishes the eat from are rounded, the food they eat are again variations but oval or rounded ,and their buildings they build are oval and rounded with variation . European building are on a whole square ,pointed ,or regtangular just like them with variables, they have square,or ponted noses and chins with variables but their building look similar to them.......
Awesome stuff Hometeam (what's your real name?) ! It's funny that Leo Frobenius pretty much states the origins of modern day racism the way we know it, without saying so explicitly (at least the part of racism which is about superiority etc) .
It's more likely that he rounded , what look like keeps, are built that way for structural integrity. Straight wall can't support themselves. If Africans at that time were capable of advanced siege works than the rounded wall might have been to resist siege machines.
Unless they had a really intent to shape their houses and places into their faces I think the architectual point of the rounded edges and shapes had other thing to do. More like depends on where they were, their region, their atmospheric circumstances. Many of the African architecture of modern society is made as it is because of the necessity of air and ventilation. Many windows or empy spaces were air could go from one place of the house to another. And the shapes were not out of this too. Maybe they wanted to give an image about their own buildings (in ancient Africa) that is why they made it in certain ways too. Being whealthy, or not. Being religious, or depending if it was an institutional place or a house. There are various facts. But all of these are speculaions, if you want to know more about it there are great African architects that are known in history and who invented new ways of thinking that were an innovation for the era. As African people make their clothes, their buildings are made the same. They protect themselves from wheather but also want to show something to the world. I hope this comment has been of some help. I am just an architect student interested in African culture.
Check out fractal villages. We were building villages in complex fractals hundreds of years ago. They have to be seen from above to be understood.... fractals is a mathematics that was "born" in. The 1970.... on a computer.... YET our wonderful Black selvs were building VILLAGES in that mathematical formula before the harnessing of electricity.... just saying.
demarcus washington yup and forexmple the kindom of punt nubia and kushite where as old as kemet and there was some kingdoms that where older by few 100s years
the pride you have in your african heritage and history is honorable and commendable. coming from your african brother from the east side, ethiopia.
God bless brotha
It is good that black people are acknowledging their contribution to the world and their history to it and are no longer lost a lie of white supremacy!our people are the foundation of the world; we gave the world everything it has even today what are resources they are building their own empire is off of our back and sweat! Africa is rising islowly but surely we are coming out of the slumber that we have been in for 400!
Really glad to see a lot of black people creating channels and websites like this. We need easy understand and easy to navigate places for all this information and knowledge. A lot is scattered on unknown websites and books that haven't been uploaded to the internet yet, but it's rewarding and enriching. We have a youtube channel and website that anyone is welcome to go to, we need critiques and suggestions for content.
I agree 100%
This is a great video! It's not surprising that so few people know about Africa's long, rich & extensive architectural history & achievements. For many reasons, that narrative simply isn't a part of Western dialogue.
That's why it's so very important that this story get told.
Amazing. This is very interesting to me as an Architecture student.
Daniel Killen same!
Use this knowledge to inspire your future works, to resume our interrupted divinely inspired ancient creative African legacy. Dig deeper to what i know you're receiving in those overpriced, in a box, mainstream, and massproduced brain stunting "universities"...
@@SoLNaTaL555 True, it might help a lot for the Afrikans
Being Zimbabwean, I just have so much pride in my history. #GreatZimbabwe
Welcome back. In the next couple of days you should be getting new subscribers and more views, i have referred several people to your channel. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!
Aksum Princess Appreciate the Support
Budiman You are a moron.
I really appreciate your emphasis on Afrikan architecture this time round. Liked and shared!
And I really appreciate how you left out Kemet this time around. Great job!
***** Oh so now you're trollin every page I comment???? Like I said before...take your white supremacist ass back to stormfront!!!!
Kemet_Was_Ours
*African.
This just tells us of the great intelligence and creativity our ancestors had. In South Africa alone we have various architectural styles amongst the different ethnic groups (Zulus, Xhosa vhaVenda) its beautiful...
He's talking about monumental architecture not primitive ,undeveloped Nomadic architecture
@@samkelombambo2610There's no such thing as primitive architecture.
you speak so well lol you not boring you keep people interested
The information you give is priceless to so many who were told Africa had no history. I have decided to show my appreciation by subscribing to www.patreon.com.
If you go to jenne today , you will find a very big market and in this market you will literally buy necklace made of precious stones as old as 300years.
Dude, you're killing it with this video. Besides the Ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Sungbo's Eredo, this is my first time hearing of the other three. I think these are the sites, for anyone wanting to dig deeper.
Djado Ruins
Dhar Tichitt
Ruins of Loropéni
Sungbo's Eredo
Ruins of Great Zimbabwe
Thanks for your diligence and for sharing. Keep up the great work!!
Thank you for focusing a lot more on West Africa.
Could you do a vid on the history of African fashions and hairstyles???
GoddessLessChe I was thinking about that actually...great suggestion
Great presentation! You kept me glued until the very last second and I was sorry when it ended. It's about time someone starts focusing on the great history of our West African ancestors. Now it would be great if continental Africans will take your lead and start honoring their ancestors with some informative videos. Our ancestors are smiling right now!
I just have to say I love you videos. The more ancient the better. Your research is really outstanding. I've been researching myself for years just because I love history, all history!
Great video! It's not surprising that so few people know about Africa's long & rich architectural history & achievements. For many reasons, that narrative simply isn't a part of Western dialogue. That's why it's so very important that this story get told. Thank you!
I have fallen in love with his work.
I'm so glad to hear someone put the truth out for a change. you always hear about what every other culture has built and has done like Africa has no history of architecture, like all we had was grass huts, loin cloths and spears.. Thanx young man!
Thanks for yet another excellent gem of a video! Keep doing what you do because you're really making the ancestors very proud!
Im glad that I found your channel its extremely informative and I really get an understanding of our people's ancestry besides the transatlantic slave trade and it inspires me to research more thanks for spreading knowledge
African architecture looks cool. Cool channel btw :)
Great video on traditional African architecture. Thank you
One of the best channels on black history. Can you also do some videos of modern black scientists and inventors....Thanks.
thank you for he knowledge your time and research appreciated from the heart thank you.
Brilliant channel man, I really appreciate how you've drawn some attention to a more ethical kind of euopean person of that era.
my best friend for over a decade who passed on about a year ago, he was a kit drummer in punk and metal bands when he was young and then he traveled around a fair few African county's in his early 20s.
He made a lot of friends through the music seen many of who he stayed in contact with the rest if his life.
He studied under all different master drummers and he developed a real love for African music/dance culture and precussion.
Man in all the time I spent with him over all the years he'd always bring up different artists and groups on UA-cam and explained a bit what they where about and point out how the patterns would layre and progress and tell about what he wast told about it in his travels by the people he met. He would show different ceremonies and stuff and concerts. He was a really interesting guy he new a lot obout Oriental and African culture and had a lot of love and enthusiasm for African music expecially. He taught me to play djembe fairly well and introduced me to some world class djembe and kora musicians at a few gigs when they would come to stay with him for gigs in our area. They were awsome fascinating people, so talented the way they layre and phase the rhythmic patterns and tones so smoothy with syncopations and tempo cycles. one of these guys im still friends with and would probably offer me little bits of work hear and there. As a roadie If I lenard some supporting patterns for him.
Yeah I got quite a sence of the guy and his experience of going to Africa as a drummer and how it affected and amazed him. So yeah I got quite a sence of African music culture through knowing him probably a fair bit more than your average north European English/celtic person. It's also lead me to take another look my own more innate but perhaps these days somewhat obscured aspects of European folk culture and traditions.
But yeah awesome channel man it's grate so see such a upbeat content on the dignity of African cultural heritage and the potential of it to inspire progressive development into the next age when all nations and cultures will express there depth and reach there potential.
So beautiful. AMAZING!
I love the knowledge and history that you teach and display.
Salute bruda I learned so much about our history ✊️🏿
thank you so much for this video, im really interested in african architecture (how they build those amazing buildings to protect themselves from the heat is so beautiful and interesting) and i found your channel after getting frustrated seeing my university's history of architecture program (80% europe, 20% the americas; and i live in fucking argentina)
this is great info!! thank u so muchh
Thanks for focusing on the west, central and southern regions of the continent...Great information.
I'm so sad we didn't get the chance to evolve in our architectural wonders :(
great video brother keep this up one love
A WONDERFUL VIDEO keep up the good work Derek my brother
I'd like to see you do some videos on different African spiritual systems.
This was very well done. Thanks.
Great video and a great channel! I was hoping you might have gone into a bit more depth on Great Zimbabwe, but I guess I'll have to do that myself.
Great job keep up the excellent work there is a lot more to be found.
Wakanda already existed but the people forgot about it and dreamt of less, they dreamt of foreign havens
so much for the mud hut theory
Obsidian SeventyOne you got that right
People we know this man speaks well.no need to express it,if he was caucasian such statements would not be expressed.
GOOD JOB BROTHER KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP
peace brotha, beautiful work.
These are some beautiful buildings.
So interesting!!! Thank you.
Great Video thank you.
Love the effort my brother.
Subscribed!! Thanks
Teeach!
i love you.
thank you for this knowledge.
+Aksum Princess suggested this channel to me and I subscribed immediately. Thank you for this
1 minor error brother, the mali empire was founded by the mandinka, mansa musa was mandinka...as is my mother!
i'm a muslim of nigerian (yoruba) paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 with some amazigh (berber) ancestry 🇲🇦 but...born and raised in america.
I thought he said mande(mandinka)? Or maybe not
The mandinka are originated from the Soninkè people . You may ask about the mandè mori ( imam of the mandè) those who bear the name Ceesay , Turay were Soninkè from the kingship of the Wagadou empire who supported Sounjata Keita against Soumahoro Kante who were also Soninkè.
Very beautiful.Hermosas construcciones.
Ashanti architecture in Ghana west Africa
Hello name sake
Thanks for opening the brilliant styles of a misunderstood Continent. Skill has no colour!!
thanks for the video.
Fantastic.. I like the passion and pride
"Know yourself from the Ancestors" Home Team
Thank you this was great...
Thanku 🙌🏾
'Africa for the 21st Century' 'Humanism must win'. Great video :^)
Excellent info
anyone putting thumbs down is triggered and is acting dumbs down
Lol nice video but was that an attempt at a British accent when you read the quotes?
From Nothing dude come on why u hatin lol ? ;) lol I know you hate when people bag on your accent hahaha .. I'm glad that you were actually on this channel man It would be cool to see u 2 collab
He didn't mention my people😑 what about the Bamilèkè architecture?
I saw ur comment and looked it up.It is gorgeous❤️❤️
Thank you brother.
Nice video. I'm study history of architecture (on my own) and I was just looking up videos and fell on this one. I'm Bantou from Central Africa, precisely from Cameroon. Do you have anything on architecture from that area of Africa please?
🌺✨✊🏿 ASÉ! ✊🏿✨🌺
i did not know about most of these places if you would pls tell me ware you find you info so i can look deeper in to this i do a grate deal of digging in African history but come up empty handed the same small bits every time i need more to go on
I think you're looking too much into the shape of Great Zimbabwe. It's round because it conforms to the terrain it's built on, which is easier and requires less stone than building a square-shaped wall there. There's also the added benefit of a round wall being more stable than a straight one.
What videos and info would you suggest for the development of a African based fantasy setting.
I don't really read so well, so I appreciate what you offer in your documentaries,. But I love research. I've been researching natural house building and permaculture, and I find the older communities, linked to a spiritual lifestyle, have the oldest, strongest structures, and the best of those structures have means of upgradeupgrade. Like you said in other words, they can evolve.
We can learn so much from the older cultures. I pray we stop civilizing (colonizing) these First World Nations with deforestation for monoculture plantations (so folks can have coffee and sugar and such). So many of these nations/cultures are confused with a third world nation stigma. But these are the nations that have the medicine, the culture in harmonious living with LIFE.
That's all we need
LOVE
awesome can you do video out about Carthaginian Barca an ur thoughts on them
Eric Jackson I will touch on North Africa soon but I still have to touch more on the South
HomeTeam History (This is not meant to cause a flame war!) But I've this before. What make people believe he was black? (If that is what your getting at).
They have depicted hannibal as being a man of Color they also have black phoenician african statues it seems also Carthage is in North Africa the native people Berbers tribe also they depicted hannibal as being man of color in few different TV shows Spartacus is one also he was raise in Carthage so he had to have some kinda connection with Native people there and they have Coins of him they try said Egyptians was white or other then black African an they try say Carthage did not have African presents pls do more research thanks you bless
No argue It matters to the ancestors everything matters jus like the Roots matters to the Tree jus jus like the fish needs the water....etc
Eric Jackson You can never just have a civil conversation on UA-cam without being spoken down to. "pls do more research", did it really offend you that much?
They are so beautiful
This is goes to show you that even though Society of Europeans and other ethnic group take a forte insane that black are American Africans descendants are ignorant if they could if they did this at that time imagine what was done before and thank you again I can't stop thanking you for every piece of information that you bring forth from the motherland and May the grace of God keep you safe and be with you🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖.
Excelent!👏
Would you be able to or have you found any info on the Gullah Geechee People of the Sea Islands And their Creole language? The Corridor. And the Black Seminoles.
Africa is an amazing place
Damn I knew he was handsome
Very interesting research. I am very intrigued and have deep interest in informing myself of African culture pre colonialism, my question then is where do you get your information from? Been looking and haven't had too much luck.
I appreciate this video and the many others you have done. What are some of the sources you used for your research? Websites, books, etc.
Michael Thompson I give my sources on my patreon page
can u put the spelling of the thinks u talk about in or under the vid nex time , thanks 4 shearing
One thing to recognize two it's talking about the Queen of Sheba and people always wanted this associated with Africa and it has like a lot of East African stories along with it but the thing about that also is many Africans in Nigeria specifically the Igboh have hebrew roots actually and some people say that the word Igboh is another word for "hebo" which comes grom the word "hebrew" .this group is called the Emo yo Quim
Thank brother could you do a subject about African doctors
hotep brother please tell me what book did you get your Leo frobenious quote from so I can read it for myself
He probably got it from 'When We Ruled' by Robin Walker.
Hey there. Since there is no longer the option to message someone privately, I'd like to ask you, if you could help me a bit. I am planning a school in Tanzania, in the Sandawe region. could you tell me something about their original architecture? I didn't quite catch you name in the beginning. Maybe if I had it, I'd be able to text you on facebook
Nice brother.Could you recomend books of architecture e urbanism ?
Ilídio Sebastião African? or just architecture in general?
Architetcure in general in order to have an understanding cleary about it.
Sorry I don't know much about that at all.
love it...thats why I'm a patreon
Yep! your right , i will not generalise too much, but our women are rounded,and oval, with different variations, the spoons and dishes the eat from are rounded, the food they eat are again variations but oval or rounded ,and their buildings they build are oval and rounded with variation .
European building are on a whole square ,pointed ,or regtangular just like them with variables, they have square,or ponted noses and chins with variables but their building look similar to them.......
So nice 2 c u LOVE how u bring your BLACK AFRICAN history keep up the great work BLACK LIVES MATTERS LOVE IN THE HOUSE
Awesome stuff Hometeam (what's your real name?) !
It's funny that Leo Frobenius pretty much states the origins of modern day racism the way we know it, without saying so explicitly (at least the part of racism which is about superiority etc) .
RickyboyH Thanks bro my name is Derek
It's more likely that he rounded , what look like keeps, are built that way for structural integrity. Straight wall can't support themselves. If Africans at that time were capable of advanced siege works than the rounded wall might have been to resist siege machines.
do you have a facebook page?
Unless they had a really intent to shape their houses and places into their faces I think the architectual point of the rounded edges and shapes had other thing to do. More like depends on where they were, their region, their atmospheric circumstances. Many of the African architecture of modern society is made as it is because of the necessity of air and ventilation. Many windows or empy spaces were air could go from one place of the house to another. And the shapes were not out of this too.
Maybe they wanted to give an image about their own buildings (in ancient Africa) that is why they made it in certain ways too. Being whealthy, or not. Being religious, or depending if it was an institutional place or a house. There are various facts.
But all of these are speculaions, if you want to know more about it there are great African architects that are known in history and who invented new ways of thinking that were an innovation for the era. As African people make their clothes, their buildings are made the same. They protect themselves from wheather but also want to show something to the world. I hope this comment has been of some help. I am just an architect student interested in African culture.
cec6607 In the USA, they made "dogrot" houses with ventilation in mind
Check out fractal villages. We were building villages in complex fractals hundreds of years ago. They have to be seen from above to be understood.... fractals is a mathematics that was "born" in. The 1970.... on a computer.... YET our wonderful Black selvs were building VILLAGES in that mathematical formula before the harnessing of electricity.... just saying.
where there any west african empires around the time of kemet or old as kemet
demarcus washington yup and forexmple the kindom of punt nubia and kushite where as old as kemet and there was some kingdoms that where older by few 100s years
Most of us migrated from that region to settle in present day west Africa, most west African have oral history is migration from the north.
«The non so popular ones». Everybody knows about Great Zimbabwe. What about Kongo, the Luba Lunda region & the African Coast?
8:35 did he say burkina faso or guinea bissau
the name is Bawkina Faso ( BOR KINA FAR SO)
Interesting there are akan town called sankore we obviously came from mali
Awesome
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