I'm southern african, from one of the Nguni tribes, and I'd compare the traditional nguni religion to Shinto in Japan. Like, we do have a creator god (Mvelinqanti - He Who Appears From Nothing), but he's not really involved in day-to-day life. There are other gods (Nkulunkulu - The First Man/Ancestor, Nomkhubulwane - The Earth Mother, etc) but they're invoked rarely (fun fact: due to christian syncretism, Nkulunkulu is also the local word for the abrahamic god), there are also all sorts of spirits, malevolent and benign, but no one really interacts with those save for sangomas. Prayers go to your ancestors, called amadloti (people have shrines, or go see a sangoma for contact with the spiritual, and you can only call on your own ancestors or risk umkhokha, a curse) and you have to call your clan ancestors by their names for blessings and guidance (you can call specific ancestors if you want but generally we refer to them by their clan names). It's part of why family and clan is so important down here, another part is that when you die, there's a specific ritual your family must do (ukubuyisa) in order for you to join your ancestors and watch over your descendants, lest you wander on earth forever as an untethered spirit. Among the Nguni (zulu, swazi, xhosa, etc) there's this prevailing cultural philosophy called Ubuntu, roughly translated to Humanity or What Makes One Human. It emphasizes connection, how the people around you and the relationships you have are the essence of what it is to be human, so "good" behaviour is that which promotes community or fosters deeper ties with your family and those around you, while "bad" behaviour is the opposite. I can definitely see how one affects the other, as it is your family's actions after your death that determine your afterlife, or so the belief goes, and members of your own clan that protect you from malevolent spirits. The belief system is a bit more complicated than I can explain in a small comment but I just wanted to add a perspective lol
@VickiNikolaidis
2 ай бұрын
Very interesting. ❤
@lmboyd3
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. As an American descendant of enslaved Africans from Benin/Togo mostly, this part of our African culture was forced to be “forgotten” and Christianity was forced to be accepted. Connection is an important part of human life I agree. Ase to you.
@Qhawe_Jameson.
2 ай бұрын
Spot on. I'm Nguni Swazi/Zulu, and colonisation has reduced our beliefs to ancestral worship or witchcraft.
@akikoobodo
2 ай бұрын
You are amazing
@deed5049
2 ай бұрын
I can see why the conquerors would try and outlaw aboriginal practices. Reading this promoted such a sense of understanding the likes of which I have not experienced except when learning of pre-abrahamic systems. Also, the similarities shared with the West Alkbulani systems AND in relation to Abrahamic concepts is uncanny but not so shocking.
@deadmanthehekatonkheire994
2 ай бұрын
It's good to hear from you again, brother. Loved the video.
@MarcusMartin-x7y
2 ай бұрын
Peace 📿 🌍
@matthewmann8969
2 ай бұрын
Africans both Sub Saharan And Northern ones were able to have there own varients of gods, godesseses, god, godess, angels, demons, spirits, ghosts ghouls, etc of variers steps and steppers they did not need Non Africans influence, impact, initiaton, or informants for that yeah.
@dionking3512
2 ай бұрын
When you separate Northerners and call them Africans, you are making a mistake Those people invaded our continent displaced its people either destroyed or manipulated It’s history and culture to fit their needs.
@gregwhite7852
2 ай бұрын
Welcome back home team history! Always hungry for knowledge!
@faith76429
2 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this, I love learning about God and our existence from different perspectives. Abraham was what we call today “African” so I believe that the Abrahamic religions were translated and interpreted with western minds and intentions. I look at the instructions of The Torah as I would look at a car manual, but more sacred. We were created with certain purposes and the instructions tell us how to care for ourselves, each other, and the environment we live in. Part of the Torah also is based on the culture, conditions, and lifestyles of the Hebrews during that time. When He can, God will meet you where you are. My understanding is that it’s intertwined with the Akan perspective, ethics are based on the needs, and customs of the people but more rooted in their purpose.
@Anelka3945
28 күн бұрын
Same here in Cameroon brother, we pray for the ancestors only, and we always walk with them.
@quelnariemrah5624
2 ай бұрын
Keep in mind that both Moses and Abraham were Africans. Semitic religious philosophy directly stems from African spiritual systems.
@itsbeyondme5560
22 күн бұрын
They are not They are Arabic
@alephnull6457
20 күн бұрын
@@itsbeyondme5560 Not Arab but semites nonetheless. They are black semites like Amhara and Tigri/Tigrinya but I'm pretty sure Moses and Abraham were Canaanites and not east Africans.
@Mr.J-rs3gu
2 ай бұрын
Can you talk more about this subject ❤🎉
@carnitagroves7758
2 ай бұрын
❤Woooow!!! I haven't seen a notification for years!!
@thevisitor1012
2 ай бұрын
Could you do a video on when Africa was most unified? I suspect it may have been during the trans-saharan gold trade
@MelMelMelDrMEL
2 ай бұрын
Almost impossible Africa is LARGE how do you unify people from a desert with people from a jungle????
@emmanuelbriggs5182
2 ай бұрын
@@MelMelMelDrMEL he asked for video on when Africa was most unified not how to do it 🤨
@CrowdPleeza
2 ай бұрын
I'd be curious to see him do a video on some controversial African customs like female circumcision and Trokosi. I'd be curious to see how he addresses those practices.
@soda8736
Ай бұрын
Never has been. You would need a great empire like Rome or a leader/ conquered like Ghangis Khan. For whatever reason Africa or particular sub-Saharan Africa never had that.
@emmanuelbriggs5182
Ай бұрын
@@soda8736 BLACK PEOPLE MUST RENT SPACE IN YOUR HEAD FOR FREE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN EVERY COMMENT SECTION HATING CONCERN YOURSELF WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND STAY OUT OF BLACK SPACES
@mamatoldem5331
Ай бұрын
Ayeee your back fun fact didn't get the notification for this
@djzi
2 ай бұрын
Welcome back
@emmanuelbriggs5182
2 ай бұрын
GLAD YOU'RE BACK 👍🏿✊🏿
@shotelco
2 ай бұрын
In my travels, the Akan polytheistic "religion" is better described and considered as a philosophy - much like Buddhism. It's understandable, considering the HTH primary audience, that Akan, or many other African spiritual traditions be compared to the captive-slave religions forced upon the African slave descendant Diaspora. The principle that everything has a "Devine pre-planned" cause is very fundamental to the population control mechanisms within Abrahamic religions. . Both the Buddhist and much of the the traditional (pre-colonization/pre-Arab slave trade) African societies believed that nothing happens by chance. "Causality, hinged on the Buddhist theory of "dependent origination" - where all things are interconnected and dependent on other things - appears to be concerned with the human (physical) world with suffering as its prime focus, while the traditional African thought _Includes_ the empirical world, and freely blends empirical causation with supernatural causation." Again, IMO, Abrahamic religions revolve around controlling the masses in favor of the few, where "traditional" Asian and African beliefs are geared towards individual philosophy. I evidence my position by the FACT that 67% of Chinese peoples self-identify as "convinced atheists". And 86.32% of the Vietnamese population has no religion or is atheist. Both nations were never really colonized at the deep indoctrination level (forced acceptance of a captive religion and a captive tongue) like African Countries, and certainly the American slave descendent Diaspora. Moreover, it was the lack of religious indoctrination that allowed for the largest Slave rebellion in human history; the Haitian Revolution.
@ElizabethHopkinson
2 ай бұрын
Thanks. This is very interesting. I would add that although China has not been fully colonised (parts of it kind of were, hence the Boxer uprisings in late C19th) its people have been subject to indoctrination and population control by the Communist regime - especially under Chairman Mao in the 1960s - and China is and has been a coloniser and strong cultural influence in the whole of East Asia. So we cannot say the people’s religious beliefs or lack of them are wholly uninfluenced by the state, which is atheist. Vietnam was colonised by Europeans and is now Communist. (And went through the horrific Vietnam War). None of this has anything to do with Africa, of course. Only when making comparisons. I’m here to learn.❤
@shotelco
2 ай бұрын
@@ElizabethHopkinson I understand your position. A thought experiment could be to consider what Africa would be if neither Christianity nor Islam had ever expanded their conquest on the Continent. Africans practiced many beliefs/religions/philosophies, 100% unique to the peoples of Africa before the Christian and Islamic subjugations. Islam spread to Africa through trade routes, military conquest, and intellectual debate. Arab traders introduced Islam to the Swahili coast in the 9th century, and Muslim Arabs conquered North Africa after seeking refuge there from persecution in the Arab Peninsula. In the 15th century, the Portuguese brought Christianity to Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Dutch established the Dutch Reform Church in the south in 1652. Both religions promoted an industrialized African slave trade for the economic benefit of their ruling respective Caste. So, pertaining to faith-based beliefs, what if this never occurred? Additionally, China hasn't occupied nor colonized any African country. China visited the East coast of Africa 800 years before Europeans. Initial contact between China and Africa dated back to the mid-8th century during China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), some 1,260 years ago with an explorer named Du Huan. Zheng He's Ming Dynasty made seven diplomatic voyages to East Africa as far as Malindi (near Mombasa) between 1405 and 1433. Yet unlike the Europeans and the West Asian Arabs, and even tough the Chinese were superior militarily, the Chinese never invaded, colonized, nor forcibly took slaves from Africa. Meaning that Chinese have simply never been an expansionist culture *in general,* nor a capitalistic opportunist in particular. An argument can be made that the Vietnamese were never truly colonized, in that there was always an active insurgent resistance to their occupation. Here, I fall back on the Fact that - unlike both Africans and the African Diaspora, who have accepted the religions of their colonizers, captors, and slavers - the Vietnamese have not. There is no perpetual echo of subjugation in Vietnam. There are about 1.4 Million afro slave descendant peoples in Iran today. This group - primarily from Zanzibar - has been there for almost 800 years. Keep in mind that slavery did not end in Iran until 1929. There are still a few folks alive today - of the African Diaspora - that were born into Islamic slavery. I happen to know this as my wife's parents are of this group, and they practice Shi'i Islam. I bring this up to illustrate that bondage is reinforced with religion. It is my position that religion is the primary tool of slavery. Once it's taken hold in the culture of the diaspora, its almost impossible to shake off the mental shackles. Sorry for being a little long winded here.
@Cirroole
2 ай бұрын
Just believe in one god and he shall guide ❤❤❤
@Rich116
Ай бұрын
guide to where???
@jazzybash1
2 ай бұрын
It’s nice to hear from you. It seems like such a long time. Also, it would be great to hear more specifically on the Akan people and ethics but I can research it myself though.
@RollinLemons
2 ай бұрын
Fascinating stuff. Keep up the good work!
@lauracwiklinski9083
Ай бұрын
Amazing video!!!! Thank you for this!!!!
@user-si7ig6ul7l
2 ай бұрын
Which video is the one with Europeans finding an African Priest with an Ephod like Aaron wore? If that video is still up?
@ipsilonia
2 ай бұрын
thank you. i’d love to learn more about this.
@michahtaylor1182
2 ай бұрын
History to be observed!
@daviousking3828
2 ай бұрын
Thank you
@zolisamaine3518
2 ай бұрын
Confusion of Badimo and Modimo will make people think Africans honor one Creator or Creators. We are not a discriminating conquering spirituality. WHO SEEN GOD?
@greatblackness3449
2 ай бұрын
I didn't learn anything from this video. Although I've learned from many of your other videos, this one was saying a lot without saying anything. Speaking eloquently does equate to knowledge.
@rosam674
2 ай бұрын
Ethics and Morality ☑💯
@Latuya-y1n
2 ай бұрын
Nothing my Lord live happy enjoy life
@BigHunee
2 ай бұрын
❤
@sasbridgecloserstudent
28 күн бұрын
🖤
@mattnewhouse1781
2 ай бұрын
Are you African? Im North American. Nice to meet you.
@MelMelMelDrMEL
2 ай бұрын
And Most people weren't unified.... In Asian there were different groups/tribes who fought each other..... In Europe.... In the americas the same
@thevisitor1012
2 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure home team is African American if memory serves me correct
@habareigns
2 ай бұрын
Try referencing scholars of the African religions themselves otherwise this data is predominantly deemed inaccurate
@thevisitor1012
2 ай бұрын
I may be biased due to my upbringing, but I'd argue that morality stemming from the Abrahamic religions was better. It's one thing to say that something should be banned due to your own personal opinion, and another due to it being in line with the will of God. It's just more objective and easier to standardize.
@s.boundless3163
2 ай бұрын
I may be a bit bias as well considering I’ve never grown up with nor interacted with the Akan belief system, but while I agree that morals dictated by God is easier to standardize, you are also stuck with those morals and ethics for the most part with little wiggle room. Over time it could end up becoming stifling and to challenge them would be to invalidate your God and beliefs. But the idea that your morality (and your actions that they are used to justify) is the will of the almighty creator is no doubt very powerful.
@deed5049
2 ай бұрын
We could benefit from being careful with such language as "better". Further, all Abrahamic religions have their root in African Spirituality. To give one example: John Henrick Clarke (PBUH) teaches us that those called Hebrew had no language, culture or religion when they went into Kemit in small number. When they left, they had all three as well as vastly increased numbers. One peice of evidence lies in the origin of the Ten Commandmends as being the 42 Negative Confessions or the 42 Laws of Ma'at as practiced in that region. He also teaches us that in various regions of Alkebulan, the spiritual practices had no particular name as they were just practiced without such a need. And when conquers came they took such practices, remixed them and sold them back to you under systems which would become the "handmaidens of conquest" - the difference between "Christianity" and Christendom - Islam and Arabism - the Hebrew faith and "Judaism". What we call God is ALL. Our concepts of this Being, albeit initially beautifully motivated, cheapen such an experience to the point where we come to use words like "BETTER" when arguing in defense of HOW we have been conditioned to believe. Women still believe that they came from men. All three(3) Abrahamic religions severely dampened if not completely removed WOMAN from the story, i.e., from ahnk to cross, left hand being negative and (I have not studied "Judaism" enough to cite a precedence, but feel free to factcheck) I will end with this: I read something in 2012. It was written at the bottom of a beautiful peice honoring the divine and that within us. The one inscription, of the many made, which I remember went a lil sum like deeiss: "TUTH IS LIKE A GREAT MIRROR SHATTERED BY TIME INTO A HUNDRED THOUSAND PIECES ALLOWING ALL WHO POSSESS A TINY SHARD TO PROCLAIM THAT THEIRS IS THE TRUE ONE." P. S. What makes a rubber mallet BETTER than a ball peen?
@itsbeyondme5560
22 күн бұрын
@@deed5049 they are not. They are western concept
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