Vacys Motuzas Prieš 1 sekundę The majority of the decendents of that civilization are in zimbabwe ?

Vacys Motuzas Prieš 1 sekundę The majority of the decendents of that civilization are in zimbabwe ?

Niki HerrerA prieš 1 metus So after all these years ,Israel was free from Egypt, from that ,400hundred , they were enslaved, again by the European, again, then the European are the same Egyptians, because where you born, that's that name you carries the name of the land, where they are many, of the same kind, , plz help me here , But the Egyptians will hide this,

Paul prieš 1 metus @David Jackson The Mohawk were responsible for quite a bit found in the bill of rights and the constitution, and the Apache, Navajo, sheep herders, Hopi and many more can survive by their tribal ways on the land better than the majority of the people in the USA. Most of us would starve without a grocery store, and have not the slightest clue where our food comes from or anything else. People these days can't even figure out how to change a light bulb or fuse in their car, let alone anything more complicated. Great cities are more complicated than most of us today have a clue as to what goes into them. You are correct though, as people that know how to live on the land are not going to build great empires or anything else as they spend most of their efforts in just staying alive.

David Jackson prieš 1 metus What documents? These werent GREAT cities or kingdoms. Less than 100 stone buildings. No written language, and so unimportant culturally that those cultures who traded with these early South Africans and did have written language didnt talk about them much. No offense but its like saying the Sioux people of North America were a great civilization.

Neriyah prieš 2 metus Another main stream history that has nothing to do with the truth. Africa is way older, ask to see all the gold minds that has been closed by the governments (thousands of them) that are so deep and with the precision of a laser. But hey, nice music and a deep voice with well made movie will make anyone believe anything. Sad.

Koos Bos prieš 1 metus Something else.. Many years ago the Wits University explored an ancient mining site in a place called Rooi Kraal, +-20 km from the town Groblersdal. There were mine shafs, workers living area ext. But... they discovered a small GOLDEN RHINO as well as golden plate. It was in the newspapers about in the 1960s... The place is close to the Leboa Pedi Homeland of those days. Interestingly up to about 40 years ago the Pedi woman cover their faces with a Vale and wear long dresses same as Arab people today. And all the young boys were sircumsised (spelling). According the Wits University that was old Arab diggings. Something else... The national emblem of Zimbabwe is a Falcon, the small statue were discovered in the Zimbabwe ruins. Now... the Falcon is an Arab symbol even to this day.

Saroya Fanniel prieš 2 metus Mapungubwe "...was the largest known settlement anywhere at the..."; known being the key word here. There are myriad ancient and prehistoric cities, throughout the entire continent of Africa, that are either deliberately hidden, ignored or yet to be found (and they are in no race to discover them either). These so-called scholars and academics are always quick to neutralize and disregard anything 'civilized' coming from Africa. Yet when they are forced to do so you can bet they will attempt to minimalize any such contributions from Africa to the advancement of human kind. The fact that the artifacts from this thriving city were shelved for 60 years speaks volumes to the institutional racism that runs amok in academia; mainstream anthropology and archaeology are particularly vehement. It has only been through the efforts of alternative researchers that sites such as these have come into the purview of any general public. Every culture has flourished and advanced to make us who we are today. Yet we have been programmed with this xenophobic insanity through the machinations of a handful of men who hoard three-fourths of the World's wealth. Religion, race, class, Communist, conservative, patriot, ethnicity, flag, gender and etc. are arbitrarily contrived differences, invented and implemented within our institutions and socio-political systems, that they use to manipulate us and keep us divided. Every one of us upon planet Earth shares 98% similar DNA. We must learn to come together as One human family sharing a common experience.

Human Intelligence prieš 1 metus Facts be told, I know from experience that true African history is being misinterpreted. My great grandfather was a gold Smith, he used to go to villages in Ghana and around to buy gold dust and make jewelry. Gold was sacred, back then people used to bury their pot of gold, sometimes they lost site of where it's been buried. Africans built civilization, e.g. Mali empire, old Ghana empire, etc, those ancient times, there were not lots of rocks, people were building with clay which doesn't last for long, and most African cultures believed that life on the planet is temporary, they were not interested or believed in material worth. My European friends are fascinated about me, I tell them, don't be fascinated, every human being is capable of being curious, doing great things if they are interested to do so. I know an average European don't know anything about Africa. I didn't know lot about Europe if I hadn't traveled there. It fascinate me how Europeans think and I'm not surprised when they misinterpret history of other cultures. Sometime, they even misinterpret what I say...

Shane Gedula prieš 4 dienas The problem with white historians is that they look at history thru a European perspective....so when ever they narrate the Afrikan story it's of importance to compare with the Afrikan historians such as Dr Ben Yochanan, Dr Sheikh Anta Diop,Theophill Obengo, Dr John Henry Clarke and many more such as Chancellor Williams who travelled Afrika for 16 years straight to gave an accurate description of our Ancient Civilizations....he became blind after that but left a monument of work....know your story from your point of view in order to know the omission of facts from their view..

Wolf Dancer prieš 1 metus The narrator or author made a faux pas, he meant to say the peoples who were to become Islamic, he meant Islamic lands meaning those which would adopt that faith, and a child should understand that. Every other comment here wants to parrot the ones before and make a meal out of this minor SCRIPT error and I think they are close to if not all unethical untrustworthy racist morons not one of which has ever read a correct translation of the Bible scriptures to even begin with and essentially worship a false doctrine. Since you are all such scholars.

Matthew ferrari prieš 3 metus (redaguota) "Mapungubwe was inhabited by successive groups of people for this 300 year period until it was mysteriously evacuated. No one knows for sure why, but in 1290 Mapungubwes’ inhabitants left taking with them the memories and stories of Mapungubwes' early history." - this "mystery" is because the British/Holy Roman Empire moved in and rewrote their history after buying out or killing the original people, they wanted the land resources and told the next generation of africans that they (the empire) had owned the land for hundreds of years. finding the african kingdoms relics was an unforeseen event and caused an uproar because of the land rights issues and that it also reveals cracks in the "historical record".

Aha Ta prieš 1 metus I agree. Africa is very diverse and a very old continent where ancestors of modern humans came from before they spread to Asia/Europe and beyond. Based on dna, North Africa males from North West Africa to North East Africa, are predominantly E1b1b y haplogroup. Africa civilizations like any other civilization in the world, were also influenced. People trade and hire the best from other kingdoms. It is time biased lazy researchers stop associating anything civilization to Semites like people or civilisations in North Africa to arabs invasions. Civilisations in Africa are native, full stop. There are a lot evidence of rock/stone wall building in ancient subsaharian Africans some dating back to more than 4000 years ago from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, RDC, ...to Zimbabwe, South Africa. Those sites were found by accident by genecists studying ancient human dna in subsahara africa. Meaning, no archeologicalogist is interested in subsahara Africa civilizations, just biased bs. There are a lot of civilizations in subsaharian Africa that have not been deeply studied.

Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo prieš 4 dienas Maphubgubgwe is actually a TjiKalanga Word for Place of the Jackal. I am amazed at how so many writers in this space deliberately or not seek to silence the Kalanga Narrative from the history of Southern Africa despite the fact that all pointers - Oral Traditions, Family Praise Names, Written Records and Archeology point to the Kalanga. You just need to look at the location of all the Nzimabgwe Cities. They are exactly where have always been settled, what is now the Venda, Matebeleland and the North East of Botswana.

Alexander van Wyk prieš 5 dienas Great documentary. Thank for Prof Eloff and team from UP to capture this awesome information of a tiny bit of pre-colonial SA history. Fascinating to know that Sir Seretse Khama from the Bakalanga tribe stayed in Botswana, the direct ancestors of the Mapungupwe Kingdom. Some remnants still live in Venda: the Sekgosese_, Botlokwa_, Babirwa_ and Bakgalaka_/ Kalanga tribes. King Mzilikazi of Matebele tribe ended up in South Zimbabwe. Please someone do a doctorate on this and interview locals and people like Ian Khama from Botswana. Compliments to Diski Tube who provided the info.

Tumelo Motsoeneng prieš 2 dienas People of the South have been living in the South for over 10 Thousand Years. All these lies about the Bantu migration is just made up hypothesis. The fear is real towards the Bantus because it will unveil the truth about where civilization began. There are many African scholars that are natives of Africa that you need to seek this vital information from, not these Liars. There are mines as old as 27 thousand years old in South Africa, mining for Gold.

The Don Digital Media Group prieš 10 mėnesių As an African who aligns himself with the notion of Spirituality rather than religion. I strongly believe in the Hindu concept of the Akashic Records.The Akashic Records are believed to be a sort of cosmic library of knowledge about our past, present and future (the Book of Life). Similar to the aborigine concept of Dream-time. i believe that the true history of Africa as spiritual beings who are one with mother nature is found in the spirit world. When we dream, we tap into that cosmic library of the universe and we communicate with our ancestors, whom also have come from the earth and they guide us through these records. you can be shown your past, present and future. you can be taught also many life lessons and be warned of coming danger and prosperity. you can be taught how to heal sickness and disease etc. it is believed that only the chosen ones / those who are initiated as wisdom keepers can tap into these records and understand what they are being shown. They then bare the responsibility of conveying the knowledge to their communities. That is why African history was never written. It has always been found in the spirit world by those who had the ability to access it.

Charles Nenguke prieš 1 metus When i was about 11 years old i went to visit the Great Zimbabwe ruins on a school trip and i got lost and everyone was looking for me for almost 3 hours....i don;t know what happened for me to get lost. There was a man who used to play the trumpet before anyone would go inside to see the ruins. 2 years later i was in Zviyambe(countryside and a farm that belonged to my late grandfather) and i was fetching the cattle to herd them back home with my cousins around 4pm then i saw a white man with dark glasses on a Harley Davidson motorbike look alike bike but it was 6 inches high (that was in 1978) and he had a leather jacket with straps on the sleeves and so i tried to follow where he was going. Every time i thought i would pick him up with his bike he would race off until he disappeared into the grass which was chest high for me{11 year old) kid, then i was trying to find the bike an the rider...then the next thing i see is a big metallic object with windows and 3 human like beings looking at me from the steps....i blanked out only to find my self sitting outside my grandfather's kitchen about 5 hours later when thy had been looking for me for hours. I was feeling so drained and confused and he prepare some porridge and some herbs for me to take and then i slept for almost 24 hrs. I have lost time recently and always see visions in my dreams.

Michael Booth prieš 3 dienas It pains me deeply whenever I research the history of my African ancestry because they have been taken advantage of by many other nations for the wealth of the land and the bondage of my people, yet none have treated us so bad as the so-called White man. History has not scratched the surface with the telling of the horrific crimes enforced by whites on the so-called black man and woman.

Sandra Nelson prieš 3 metus I took Classical Studies in university. We took a course in archaeology. I never got a chance to do any field work, but I have a deep respect for the folks who do it. And I could cheerfully fling Gardiner and his pals off the edge of the site, along with the wheelbarrows. There is no scholarship, no useful knowledge gained when someone claiming to be doing an archaeological dig is really engaged in government sanctioned looting.

edmond mugoni prieš 7 mėnesius (redaguota) In the Shona language of ZIMBABWE, "Mapungu" means, "Fish eagles" and "Chapungu" means one fish eagle. Mapungu Bwe, means the stone of the fish eagles, or the rock of fish eagles. It may also mean the fish eagles made of stone or belonging to the stone or rock. It is usually written as one word, MapunguBwe. Just like Zimba Bwe, means a big house of stone. "Zi" means great or bigger. iMba is one normal sized or usual house. ZiMba, prefixed with Z, or Zi is a great or big house. "Bwe" is a rock or stone in the Shona language of Zimbabwe. Zi = big, mba=house, Bwe = rock/stone. If put together, ZiMbaBwe, means, BigHouseofStone. Correctly written, the country of Zimbabwe, should be spelt, ZiMbaBwe. MapunguBwe, is clearly Shona derived, and it means stone or rock of the Big fish eagle, "Chapungu," or many fish eagles, maPungu, "Mapungu, Bwe can be conjoined as is usual in Shona to be a single word, Mapungubwe, just like whats done with Zimbabwe and many other words such as va sekuru becomes vasekuru, va zukuru = vazukuru. Va kuru = vakuru.

Diski Tube prieš 1 metus (redaguota) My ancestors lived there. Iam of Babirwa tribe, it consists of bakgalaka derived from kalanga. Surnames like Bangwato/Rangwato - Malema - Phooko - Raphahlelo descended from mapungubwe. Today we have relatives in south Zimbabwe and East of Botswana. We went to Zimbabwe in 2005 for a reunion. Our tribe is in South Africa in limpopo, Sekgosese and Botlokwa. We are the smallest group, the biggest bakalanga group stayed in Botswana when we separated from 3 groups in 1850 when whites started invading our settlements,The Chiefs were Makhura and Khama, Khama is still ruling the population of botswana tribe even today in a place called Bobong. Most people joined Mzilikazi the King of Matebele tribe when he crossed the shashe river to settle in south Zimbabwe, We speak sepedi today in SA but with a dialect of Venda and Tswana,known as Setlokwa. When they showed those graves i literally shed a tear because i know those are our fore fathers. My Great grand father used to tell us this stories. May his soul rest in Peace.