As a white man every day is a school day with Akala, whether it is when he is on TV int he UK or on a TED release or on his music I learn. I must admit I also read Maya Angelou way back 20 years ago and honestly I have a need to understand the struggle of my fellow humans. These people give me an insight I can't get at home because I don't have that lived experience. The more I listen the more i know.
Boom Ol I cannot stand self hating people I mean come on How can anyone take akala the race baiter serious He grew up in Kentish town a decent part of London his sister was a pop Star yet he talks about his poverty The man makes money by making us angry and resenting other people Most of the history he talks about is kindred to his liking The man gave his support and condelonce to the Finsbury park terror attack the dude with the van as he should off But didn't mention or even tweet about Manchester Westminster or brough Hes anti white anti British I hate them just ad much as NF kkk
liam Royce So if you dislike him so much, why? are you here watching this video. I don't know personally I don't spend my time on UA-cam watching things that annoy me.
From the time Akala came onto my UA-cam feed via researching African history months back; I have developed such respect for him and his body of works. As more information on him comes in, I just added those information to my son's Saturday studies. Ever since then, they happily told me that it's awesome that being smart is also for boys and not just for the girls in their classes. Thank you for all your hard work, keep it up it's reaching the youth.
For real----listening to Akala do a rundown of black history and analysis of race and class in British society is always worth it. He's an actual teacher, so that explains why.
Why do hip hop, reggae, Rnb & Athletes need to build libraries? Do rich white people go around building these things. No, because they use other avenues to educate and get rich and so should black people. Why are you relying on others to build things for you? Get off your arse and get it done yourself. The more of us that get rich the better. Why do black people think we all need to work together without no end goal.
They would never allow things like that to be built. The governments would tax these blacks, and if they did build them up some racist nazi sympathizer would vandalize it or bomb it.
He's really not, he's just read a few books. If you read a few books, you'd be able to speak as he does. Don't hold him up as anything more than he is - most people I know in the UK can speak just as articulately, but on a broader range of subjects.
I know I'm late to the conversation, but better late than never. In my home town of St Ann's Bay, on a Saturday A.M. the Library had a "Book reading session." I was too play (games) minded to attend, though my bredren and I was into series of books. "The Hardy Boys etc." Books of no cultural value. What Akala is proposing can be integrated into the existing Library system utilizing the existing space to expose children to the type of books and topics he was exposed to in the Pan African Saturday classes. Just thought the suggestion was worth sharing.
Is it too late to get involved? I have Jamaican roots, but born in UK and want to get involved/ donate etc... I love the idea of having more local libraries in JA 👍🏽
I've been in very rural areas and they have libraries and cheap secondhand books sold out on the road but not necessarily appealing. I think what is more useful and easier to implement is to start up a MOBILE PHONE library, partner with the phone companies if need be to get started. Because the phone can hold a lot more, you can read on the go and it can include multimedia. Furtheremore people already spend on their phone and get music subscriptions included. Some sort of book and information multimedia is an easy step to take comparatively. Everyone has a phone. You would reach everybody. We need to take advantage of NEW industries and new media. I wish I was in touch with Akala cause I have a million ideas and I'm slowly building a network but there are people who can do far more with my ideas than I can. I spent about 5 years studying rural development and worked in development since when, studying the NGO sector and government and media and what is missing. I don't have all the answers but I feel certain I'm on to something.
Yes. It's already causing a lot of eye and brain problems with young people. My daughter has been told not to look at screens for more than 2 hours a day and to spend more time outside with natural sunlight to strengthen her eye sight. Her eye sight is very poor for someone her age.
Your're a very Inspirational person, I can see you have a lot of ideas and think out the box. Would love to support that idea, maybe just start up a Gofundme or something.
Cool C Books were the first thing to make people near-sighted historically. Everything in life is balance. Talking to one's kids shouldnt be a hassle so saying that's enough reading for today is a simple solution to that potential problem.
Putting the books in the local town or school libraries, you would think with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh music promoting Africa through it's music and poetry that Jamaica would be more into Africa, they do have African doctors and nurses in Jamaica 🇯🇲 l know of a little library in Manchester could be a satellite for this outreach.
big respect Akala. . Could some one please please spell for me, the african writer who Akala mentioned at the same time in history as willy shakin spere lol. . joke, no disrespect intended (via face book) one luv
You can set up what you want wherever you are so that is not entirely true to say in America you couldn't have a small program for your children. Frankly, i live in America and my daughter went to a great Caribbean program. When she transitioned to public school she was way ahead of the rest.
The sympathy for white people in historically white peoples geographical land(if that’s true) makes it appear you have considered your opinions. There is a problem with not considering your arguing step 1 that leads to step 10 that we,re stalling decrepit on.
Knowledge Is The Vibrations Off The Universe Remember That Human Don't Love Knowledge And Will Learn From Pain. Okay I Hate Ignorance And Is Time To Broke The Camel Back Off Ignorance Mon.
Akala can't point out anything that anyone with their own mind and opinions can't see for himself...how he is held up as a cultural figure looks like some huge sponsorship from somewhere...there are many people from Jamaica who could impart more practical and common sense advice than this dude..he might be an ok guy but i don't want to be told to "listen to him" because he knows better......that is shite
SuperBlackguard in UK hip-hop how many artist are out here doing what Akala is? Atleast someone is on a positive note. I don't think anyone wants you to live your life by his word like he is god
I think you got up on the wrong side of bed bro. Who told you to listen to him s if he's the messiah. He's just dropping some knowledge on people who may be misinformed. Of course their are smarter people around, but they may not have the time to drop these knowledge bombs or they might not have the platform to do it. Akala is quite famous and he's choosing to use his platform wisely. or do you want him to talk about how many Kardashians he can go through?? Chill the fuck out man.
Leon Henry trust me. Im glad we got someone like Akala. Certain youts look up to him n he could change lives. Fair play to him and also he is now a doctor so he doing alot more than most man in the bits trust me
i don't know what sort of guy he is...but he just looks like he's been put on the bbc to go on about how rascist we all are...when really he should know..that you can only treat people as indivduals...he comes across badly in my eyes for the company he keeps and how he dosen't have a broad view of society..
Agreed. He's articulate enough and fair play he is pursuing a 'cause', but people talk about him like he's some sort of messiah. In reality he just reads books - just like the rest of us do. Only stupid people think that he is anything more.
After watching a few of Akala’s videos I find him to be disingenuous. I’m also staggered when people call him a genius, scholar and one interviewer called him a polymath! He as read a lot on his subject of interest ,Africans, and as an opinion nothing else. He is so utterly biased and creates his own version of history to support his narrative. An example of this is his denial that the British didn’t abolish slavery and then enforce it through their dominance of the oceans at great cost to the nation. If it wasn’t the British then who was it?
Etienne Bunbury I agree, we see it almost every night in London now. Young black men stabbing each other to death. A real tragedy. But, I suppose it’s to be expected when they grow up in such a poor culture. We see the same thing in the States.
L Wil1 Britain didn’t abolish slavery as a gesture of good will though.. so I don’t know why people try paint this narrative like they woke up one day and thought “actually slavery is wrong let’s abolish it”..
For such a tiny island Jamaicans are giant's in the big wide world big up to my brother AKALA!
I concur.
As a white man every day is a school day with Akala, whether it is when he is on TV int he UK or on a TED release or on his music I learn. I must admit I also read Maya Angelou way back 20 years ago and honestly I have a need to understand the struggle of my fellow humans. These people give me an insight I can't get at home because I don't have that lived experience. The more I listen the more i know.
Mart Gordon your the type of white man who'd let brothers fuck his wife innit
Mart Gordon all black people give him your approval that's what he wants
Boom Ol I cannot stand self hating people I mean come on
How can anyone take akala the race baiter serious
He grew up in Kentish town a decent part of London his sister was a pop Star yet he talks about his poverty
The man makes money by making us angry and resenting other people
Most of the history he talks about is kindred to his liking
The man gave his support and condelonce to the Finsbury park terror attack the dude with the van as he should off
But didn't mention or even tweet about Manchester Westminster or brough
Hes anti white anti British
I hate them just ad much as
NF kkk
Mart Gordon
Keep up the self loathing.
liam Royce So if you dislike him so much, why? are you here watching this video. I don't know personally I don't spend my time on UA-cam watching things that annoy me.
From the time Akala came onto my UA-cam feed via researching African history months back; I have developed such respect for him and his body of works. As more information on him comes in, I just added those information to my son's Saturday studies. Ever since then, they happily told me that it's awesome that being smart is also for boys and not just for the girls in their classes.
Thank you for all your hard work, keep it up it's reaching the youth.
Akala would make an excellent Prime Minister for Jamaica
Can listen to this guy all day 👍🏾
For real----listening to Akala do a rundown of black history and analysis of race and class in British society is always worth it. He's an actual teacher, so that explains why.
This man just fills my heart with Gladness. Feeling proud to be born out of a cultural superpower 🦹♀️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽bless up
Love it when I discover new Akala videos
Akala is a GIANT....what a blessing for us to see and hear this man..!!!
Love this guy, he is so full of knowledge. He just makes me want to read more.
Great dialogue. The African Diaspora is so rich culturally.
Just combine the wealth of all these hip hop, reggae, rnb and athletes together and think how many libraries can be built with 10% of it.
Why do hip hop, reggae, Rnb & Athletes need to build libraries? Do rich white people go around building these things. No, because they use other avenues to educate and get rich and so should black people. Why are you relying on others to build things for you? Get off your arse and get it done yourself. The more of us that get rich the better. Why do black people think we all need to work together without no end goal.
Ghosta Gee don’t put that on athletes or entertainers. The problem is the unequal racist society.
They would never allow things like that to be built. The governments would tax these blacks, and if they did build them up some racist nazi sympathizer would vandalize it or bomb it.
Akala is filled with so much knowledge; I really enjoyed this.
Big up akala all day everyday. Him and lowkey straight up educated man on most political and cultural issues. His book natives is fucking brilliant.
I always enjoy AKALA . always the same message. knowledge is power. real tings.
Half man half amazing 🙌🏾
loving reading natives... I've nearly finished it, I'm mind blown ..its amazing ..akala is brilliant I.love him xxx
I've been waiting to hear from this brother!!! And just ordered his book....BIG UPS AKALA!!!
Your knowledge & wisdom is outstanding... Akala you are blessed !!!
Love Akalas book lists!
Amazing teacher!
Omfg, yow, dis yute akala, is everywhere now. Yardie-UK OG. dis man is an intellectual role model
He's really not, he's just read a few books. If you read a few books, you'd be able to speak as he does. Don't hold him up as anything more than he is - most people I know in the UK can speak just as articulately, but on a broader range of subjects.
Yardie violence is coooool man !
This man Akala is so good learning more about the history of my people from him than i ever did in school
This is a great interview, eye opening and informative
Oh Akala yu u brilliant like wow u bright.thank u .
i agree libraries should be everywhere and only 100 books could easily change your life
Akala Gem to 🇬🇧 and to the world
I know I'm late to the conversation, but better late than never. In my home town of St Ann's Bay, on a Saturday A.M. the Library had a "Book reading session." I was too play (games) minded to attend, though my bredren and I was into series of books. "The Hardy Boys etc." Books of no cultural value. What Akala is proposing can be integrated into the existing Library system utilizing the existing space to expose children to the type of books and topics he was exposed to in the Pan African Saturday classes. Just thought the suggestion was worth sharing.
poweful big up this reasoning
Thank you for being you....You're so humble ❤ Keep teaching us.
Respect to this man.
Is it too late to get involved? I have Jamaican roots, but born in UK and want to get involved/ donate etc... I love the idea of having more local libraries in JA 👍🏽
A great young teacher
Yes my yout tell dem! Put some respek on Jamaica name! Big up yah self Akala ✊
Jamaica sucks bro.
UK to JA ya dun know! respect to the brothas
Akala is the man!
Big up Akala
I would like to be apart of that project. The library
Great interview
good interview
You can see how much he trains his Muay Thai from looking at his shins.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the text(s) on West African Islamic history mentioned by Akala at 8:21?
+Graham M Tarikh al-fattash (17th Century) written either by Mahmud Kati or his grandson Ibn al-Mukhtar.
Ibn Afrika Thank you!
*Respect*
With* the title. I will for sure watch
In America we had different Black organizations such as the Nation of Islam, that created private schools that taught us our history.
one love
READ OUR PEOPLE READ AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR ACTIONS AND ADVICE AND IDEAS AND LIFE WILL CHANGE.
I've been in very rural areas and they have libraries and cheap secondhand books sold out on the road but not necessarily appealing. I think what is more useful and easier to implement is to start up a MOBILE PHONE library, partner with the phone companies if need be to get started. Because the phone can hold a lot more, you can read on the go and it can include multimedia. Furtheremore people already spend on their phone and get music subscriptions included. Some sort of book and information multimedia is an easy step to take comparatively.
Everyone has a phone. You would reach everybody. We need to take advantage of NEW industries and new media. I wish I was in touch with Akala cause I have a million ideas and I'm slowly building a network but there are people who can do far more with my ideas than I can. I spent about 5 years studying rural development and worked in development since when, studying the NGO sector and government and media and what is missing. I don't have all the answers but I feel certain I'm on to something.
You can send a message via his website or just Tweet him - he's pretty social.
Yes. It's already causing a lot of eye and brain problems with young people. My daughter has been told not to look at screens for more than 2 hours a day and to spend more time outside with natural sunlight to strengthen her eye sight. Her eye sight is very poor for someone her age.
Your're a very Inspirational person, I can see you have a lot of ideas and think out the box. Would love to support that idea, maybe just start up a Gofundme or something.
AleyaMusic Akala is probably a British intelligent operative
Cool C Books were the first thing to make people near-sighted historically. Everything in life is balance. Talking to one's kids shouldnt be a hassle so saying that's enough reading for today is a simple solution to that potential problem.
akala is a teacher
of pure nonsense
This guy is so smart
nothing is more entertaining than to see what passes for "smart" to black folks
Big ups akala 💯🙏🏾
Putting the books in the local town or school libraries, you would think with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh music promoting Africa through it's music and poetry that Jamaica would be more into Africa, they do have African doctors and nurses in Jamaica 🇯🇲 l know of a little library in Manchester could be a satellite for this outreach.
How can i be apart of the books for jamaica programme from england
Nice audio
Make that DrAkala now bro 👏👏👏
big respect Akala. . Could some one please please spell for me, the african writer who Akala mentioned at the same time in history as willy shakin spere lol. . joke, no disrespect intended (via face book) one luv
Tarikh al Fattash- Mahmud Kati
Jamaican rules the world in love it just needs a bit of love back
So one love bless
You can set up what you want wherever you are so that is not entirely true to say in America you couldn't have a small program for your children. Frankly, i live in America and my daughter went to a great Caribbean program. When she transitioned to public school she was way ahead of the rest.
This was fantastic to listen to
Is there an Irish equivalent of Akala?
ThePlatinumMatt not nowerdays I don’t believe , but there is a strong history of story telling in Ireland etc , so I’m guessing there has been.
The “great” Akala! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Apparently, in that culture, reading a book or two makes you a messiah!
STFU
This knowledge so encouraging for me!
Jut started watching big This this... bet racism is mentioned
Comparing Shakespeare to reggae...... bwahahahahahaha
The sympathy for white people in historically white peoples geographical land(if that’s true) makes it appear you have considered your opinions.
There is a problem with not considering your arguing step 1 that leads to step 10 that we,re stalling decrepit on.
Knowledge Is The Vibrations Off The Universe Remember That Human Don't Love Knowledge And Will Learn From Pain. Okay I Hate Ignorance And Is Time To Broke The Camel Back Off Ignorance Mon.
Akala can't point out anything that anyone with their own mind and opinions can't see for himself...how he is held up as a cultural figure looks like some huge sponsorship from somewhere...there are many people from Jamaica who could impart more practical and common sense advice than this dude..he might be an ok guy but i don't want to be told to "listen to him" because he knows better......that is shite
SuperBlackguard in UK hip-hop how many artist are out here doing what Akala is? Atleast someone is on a positive note. I don't think anyone wants you to live your life by his word like he is god
I think you got up on the wrong side of bed bro. Who told you to listen to him s if he's the messiah. He's just dropping some knowledge on people who may be misinformed. Of course their are smarter people around, but they may not have the time to drop these knowledge bombs or they might not have the platform to do it. Akala is quite famous and he's choosing to use his platform wisely. or do you want him to talk about how many Kardashians he can go through?? Chill the fuck out man.
Leon Henry trust me. Im glad we got someone like Akala. Certain youts look up to him n he could change lives. Fair play to him and also he is now a doctor so he doing alot more than most man in the bits trust me
i don't know what sort of guy he is...but he just looks like he's been put on the bbc to go on about how rascist we all are...when really he should know..that you can only treat people as indivduals...he comes across badly in my eyes for the company he keeps and how he dosen't have a broad view of society..
Agreed. He's articulate enough and fair play he is pursuing a 'cause', but people talk about him like he's some sort of messiah. In reality he just reads books - just like the rest of us do. Only stupid people think that he is anything more.
He has a lot of built up guilt and identity problems. He’s a good storyteller but no substance to his discussion
Guilt??? Please expand
After watching a few of Akala’s videos I find him to be disingenuous. I’m also staggered when people call him a genius, scholar and one interviewer called him a polymath! He as read a lot on his subject of interest ,Africans, and as an opinion nothing else. He is so utterly biased and creates his own version of history to support his narrative. An example of this is his denial that the British didn’t abolish slavery and then enforce it through their dominance of the oceans at great cost to the nation. If it wasn’t the British then who was it?
Black poeple and there allies
Etienne Bunbury I agree, we see it almost every night in London now. Young black men stabbing each other to death. A real tragedy. But, I suppose it’s to be expected when they grow up in such a poor culture. We see the same thing in the States.
Rodrigo Uribe their allies not there allies.
L Wil1 Britain didn’t abolish slavery as a gesture of good will though.. so I don’t know why people try paint this narrative like they woke up one day and thought “actually slavery is wrong let’s abolish it”..
L Wil1 yes and we see pope white men shooting up schools killing innocent children.. what’s your point?