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Kingslee James Daley, better known by the stage name Akala, is an English rapper, poet, and journalist. Originally from Kentish Town, London, his older sister is rapper/vocalist Ms. Dynamite. In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards.
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"People cannot be blamed for their ignorance if they are genuinely ignorant. People can be blamed if they've had a different set of information and still CHOOSE to remain ignorant" I love it!
Of you choose not to seek out knowledge, and remain ignorant that also not right
NESCIENCE vS. IGNORANCE The CONTEXT of Not Knowing Nescience From the Latin verb nesciere: "to not know because knowledge was absent or unattainable. Ignorance From the Lotin verb ignorare: "to not know even though necessary information I present, because that information has been willfully refused or disregarded."
@@t.c.pthecompletepackagellc21Thomas Aquinas created a similar theory but from a theological standpoint, Vincible and invincible ignorance with regards to knowledge of Christianity. The concept of ignorance is a truly interesting one to discuss
@@sammcdermott78 It tiss
🖤🖤🖤
I can't get enough of Akala! I find myself rewatching his talks and rereading his book every year. His articulate and eloquent teachings are like medicine for the soul. What a privilege to learn from someone so passionate and wise.
rather than re-read i would seek out the counter arguments - the evidence is not on his side unfortunately.
@@alexgibson2871 "Seek out the counter arguments, he is wrong"...proceeds to....not...provide evidence of that.
Any one can put up a screen and show pictures. This bloke would havre been a a great protege of .Goebells
@@alexgibson2871he used the same arguments, bunch of quote out of context, arrogant mumbling something..no egyptologist take this guy seriously, very shame of a school such as oxford to invite him
@@harryshearer992you can literally google it, this guy is a joke of a “human”
I met him back in 2013,very humble guy and intelligent. Good to see how far he's come along, good lecture also!
we need his intelligence now. where is he.
This was of the most important lectures I’ve ever heard.
@Liam Hopefully so you lot built everything that was in Africa right ?
Same here! It changed things, writing, thinking, a real refreshment to me.
@BintF YES WE DID! And those facts will forever give you chest pains aka Rayciiism
Whether you agree or disagree you have to commend the effort this man has gone to to educate himself. He is an example to us all that you are never to old or knowledgeable to learn.
Absolutely, i would talk too him for hours.
Global history is relevant to everyone now
I dread to think what you would classify as being of the 'highest' relevance. Incidentally ssshhhh, Pablo, stop commenting on this video. Not everyone who watches it wants to deal with your damage. The expression of that damage through racism is in no way relevant to the topic of global history, and it's directly antithetical to the project of acknowledging racialised historical bias.
...why are you revisiting this page? Comments from today; 1 week ago; 2 weeks ago...you've called the information in this video irrelevant...what are you doing spending so much time on it? Why aren't you concentrating on more relevant historical artifacts, documents and discussions elsewhere?....what is your project here?
Pablo Rages Pablo you got absolutely exposed for the fraudulent that you are. Take the "L" and pipe down
I'm 45 I learned more in this video than 16 years of American education Thank You
Leaning is an ongoing process. You learn something everyday if you open yourself to new learning experiences.
Demo B he also does grime music and is a lyrical genius 👍🏻
U should fact check everyone including Akala.
Demo B Amazing!
Don't assume that the information in this is accurate. Many of his biggest points of conjecture are summarized with quips like, "that would be nonsensical to think that." Missing evidence is the causeway to understanding the nonsensical. Keep learning yourself. All spirits have the ability to seek and uncover self-evidence truth. Our spirits, when cultivated for knowledge, have a filtering system to root out misinformation.
I wished the camera person could have hone in on the power point so I could have gotten a better view of the illustrations!
Me too!
That was done on purpose to suppress knowledge.
Correct the videographer did a poor poor job...not ONE Close up on NOT ONE SLIDE🤯
Never 👎🏿… any trick in the book 📕 they’ll do
he's let me goo because he's like me pay him 900 to pay his fun for woman his lovers I am not that's why he mad but 8 don't care god he's always bless me I am not worry amen and amen
I come back to this at least once a year, such a great talk
I actually think it is terrible kzhead.info/sun/dZFml7WOeICBdn0/bejne.html
After all of that, the questions were about grime and using Nigga SMH Was they not even listening? Damn kids
+JD Arts trust me lool Akala dropped so much knowledge and he wants to ask about common skepta...
+Paul Charles Thank you for the
+Paul Charles Thank you for the link.
+Tim Pullen is this the link for the lecutre slides? if so could you send it my way aswell
+JD Arts The girl who asked the question about white people using the word Nigga was pulling faces, rolling her eyes and playing with her hair all the way through like she just wasn't interested. Very worried if this is our future elite!!
Man Id love to see Akala do a High Budget History documentary series with all the bells and whistles
300 pyramids in Africa, 220 in Sudan and 80 in Egypt. 0 in Europe.
Phalo Tshawe so 600 pyramids in Africa? Since all those places are Africa
@@gol.drodger5261 Yes I agree with you. Most ancient pyramids are in Africa.
Well he talks with his hands waving around all over the place, so he's halfway there.
A We Wuz Kangs fantasy show would be pretty great LOL. I'd definitely watch it. HBO's gonna need a show to replace Game of Thrones pretty soon...
Akala is so incredibly knowledgeable. I wished I had a teacher like him growing up.
Almost none of what he said is historically true, so it depends on what you are looking for in a teacher... his book is equally cretinous
yes Adam , I am 60 years of age in my research and Akala blew me out of my stance so much of our strength and level of perception has not been possible without truth. and to be honest , inside im hurt deeply because of it but all i can do is to be sure teach this truth to those that are under my care
@@forret I pitty your kind... choose the kind of world you want for the next generation, because your white washed history spreads hatred... you better believe that this time, or we shall all be respected equally and our history restored or we shall all perish! Gone are those days when you white washed everything 😪😕😩
@@forret I pitty your kind... choose the kind of world you want for the next generation, because your white washed history spreads hatred... you better believe that this time, or we shall all be respected equally and our history restored or we shall all perish! Gone are those days when you white washed everything 😪😕😩
@@forret wrong
Talented and gifted scholar. Could feel the energy and presence of Dr Van Sertima and Dr JHernrik Clark all throughout this presentation. Excellent.
A perfect example of a man who grew up with little physical possessions but gained a great amount of knowledge. Take note all the materialistic youngsters out there (our future to be).. you don't exactly need those stupidly priced headphones or tablets to be successfully minded.. you just need to have the willpower to differentiate and excel, after all.. this man is way ahead of his peers that he grew up with. Take notes.
Where did you get the idea that he grew up with few possessions?
The information might be new to some people but for others like my parents, this information was known. Thanks to the internet, those with access to tablets can find the info for themselves. Why would you believe he's ahead of his peers instead of also learning from his peers? Hopefully you've taken note.
***** what are you, the thought police? He grew up in a inner city council house, and to be quite frank it's well known he wasn't exactly flossing in materialistic goods growing up.. hence why I said a few possessions.. should I have said a few physical possessions instead? So being ahead of one's peers is an automatic assumption that you can't also learn from them? I think you need to assume less.. no offence to his clique.. his neighbourhood brothers etc. But I'm not the only one to say this, put his intelect up against one of his home boys, even they would agree Akala is on a different level to them.. that doesn't mean I'm calling others around him stupid, no he's just invested his time more wisely than others. Thanks for trying to school me ..don't need no PC/thought police.
+Haider Ali just out of curiosity why would you assume his peers (homeboys) would not be of the same intellectual level as him?
+IC Henry because people know about them. I'm not exactly assuming in this case. although yes, probably not the peers he associates more closely with now ..but his peers from 10 odd years ago. After all he's a real person from a real place.. this is all observable. Go ask someone who knows Akala on a more personal level. They might just say the same. Now I'm not saying I know this dude inside out ... all I'm saying is that it's a small world and one may be surprised to realise the mutual links that exist.
Akala is a true inspiration in today society, brother may you live long.
+Adam Adams Seriously... what's your issue? He doesn't promote any such thing. Either you're stupid or you're trolling.
Ameen.
I realize this video is a few years old but I just came across it now extremely inspiring & uplifting. Inspiring in the sense that we all individually or as a group effort can have a part as human beings in mapping out truth in history , learning it and getting the story out there.uplifting in the sense of knowing people are participating actively in making it happen lighten my heavy heart on the matter. Short & Sweet !!! The young man wow quite a breath of fresh air.
He is a consumate academic. Intellectual prowess, delivered sincerely, well researched and free of emotion, despite the contentious issues. He is a man, gifted.
Blessed sweet pea
Truth and facts never get old or can be denied
Absolutely awesome. He needs to be heard globally in all venues of academia.
It's a load of poorly researched, error laden codswallop.
To see a young man "of color" spitting this kind of knowledge is living proof of the rich and long standing history of our mother land Africa. #RESPECT
There is nothing I respect more than a passionate educator.
Passionate? yes. Educator? no. Completely bias rewrite of history
Patrick McLoughlin how in any way is this bias
Obi Wan Kobe because he has twisted history to suit his Afrocentric view. he's basically saying European culture is racist and destroyed Africa which isn't true. check out niall Ferguson and his killer apps talk..
Patrick McLoughlin what a load of rubbish
Funny how you mention afrocentrist bias when half the shit you read in any school history text book in the west contains whitewashed bias of history
This was eye opening on many levels. The way in which you articulate and project yourself is inspirational; coupled with your humbleness, there isn't a soul who shouldn't be taking a leaf from you book . Food for thought indeed Mr Akala ...
+Adam Adams What do you mean everywhere?
+Adam Adams You're confused in so many ways
+Adam Adams Fuck off Adam Adamsonson
+Adam Adams you truly are misinformed. Firstly, you would need to explain to me how you think New Zealand was founded by white people. Perhaps if you do so I might be able to understand what you are trying to say. Please also explain how the whites in New Zealand are all going to be killed?
+Adam Adams interesting approach to a free education. Troll so people try to teach you the error in your ways. Well, I don't mind falling for it. It seems you don't even know your white version of New Zealand history yet you choose to talk about it as if you do. When the whites first arrived they saw these 'cannibals' as civilised themselves and so chose to live alongside them at first. This was for many reasons, but even if you take the most cynical view of the situation you can see that the settlers were not superior. Having superior status is contextual and at the time the settlers were not. It seems that even as cannibals the people indigenous to New Zealand were deemed good enough to live alongside. This decision was made by the colonists themselves. You also don't seem to have an answer as to how you think all the whites in New Zealand are going to be killed.
The chain of events that lead me to your talk, I cannot explain, yet I will remain forever grateful. I am African, grew up in Africa yet what you spoke of was new to me but resonated so profoundly. WE ARE ONE. Thank you. All love and respect🙏🏾👊🏾
He deserved a standing ovation...
He deserves 10!
He deserves the Magical Unicorn Award for creative history.
@@forret and you deserve the award for The Most Fragile White Supremacist.
@@PhanTasmGoriA based
@@PhanTasmGoriA If Blacks have no genuine potential, then why does it take a nation of millions to hold them down? The intelligent argues the points not attack the person, Einstein!
Proudly African and thanks for the knowledge off which I'll be sharing it with my kids and friends. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
@Mzansi Queen Thank you for this valuable info❣
I am so impressed with this young man. I wished more schools would bring in guest speakers such as Akala. Keep striving for the truth and knowledge of the past.
That might have the history department looking a bit red in the face
No they are to busy lying about their history. The shameful history of Britian s imperialism past is never taught in school . The education system is where racism starts
Because his theories don't hold up at all.
This your man needs a world tour hope meet him one day
THE TRUTH HURTS SOMETIMES BUT IT DOESN'T STOP BEING THE TRUTH.
Great point 👉
Facts.
As a whitey, it doesn't bother me, but does shed light on my racist subconscious, created by a life in systemic racism.
Almost none of what this man said is historical truth the only truth here is history being revised and twisted as a cope for black insecurity. Black therapy if you will.
@@DirtyLifeLove I can do nothing but respect this statement…..
I keep coming back to this brilliant speech! So satisfying and enlightening! One Love Akala!
Agreed
The tautology that keeps circling.
Shoutout to the Black dude who raised his hand first in the Q&A section but never got picked by the host.
Shout out to you for calling that out. What the heck was that about? Maybe he caught him in the bar??? Anyway, I hadn't seen that level of insightful info put together and delivered so well in many years. Googling this brother is a pleasure.
caught that. first hand up right at the front and ignored wth
@@user-tk4qd8dj1p doesn't really matter does it lol
@@user-tk4qd8dj1p : IT'S CALLED THE WILLIE LYNCH SYNDROME, @ STEPHEN DARBY MINISTRY CHECK HIM OUT.
I wonder what that was about?
I am so glad I took time to listen to this history lesson. Absolutely profound. Very enlightening 👌
This guy is a gifted scholar.....why didn't I get someone like him in my school years ....the passion is just top notch
Absolutely!! The filthy dranco dem neva waa wi fi kno nuthun!!
What a loaded comment
@@thisgame2 That is what I told myself, highly inspirational and one hangs on every word he says. He made the history lecture really interesting. I liked sciences and not history, I think I was short changed by me history teachers!
@@cognitionup5211 why do you waste your time with bullshit?
He is a rapper not a scholar. Where is his peer reviewed research published?
Mauritanian here, African first but I loved how many times he spoke about Mauritania because many people are not familiar with my country.
Sis, you're gorgeous 😍
Thanks for commenting, I was able to find out that you had a channel, keep it up. Gambian 🇬🇲 / 🇺🇸
Mauritania, Cartridge - what these Europeans called the Barbary states cause they didn't speak their corrupt Latin. Dido, who was a Phoenician Canaanite, black woman from Tyre, Sidon established Cartridge with along with black Hebrews. Contrary to the corrupt wiki, she wasn't a European, Greek. A lot of the Arab & Hebrew moors came out of this region. Hannibal, who was originally from Libya - then it was all black people. These same people from this region not only conquered the Iberian Peninsula also moved into the Isles of Briton, Ireland, Wales, Scotland. Here they were now called Silures. When they went there they saw the first inhabitants of those islands Eutherians, Minoans. These people were also black, descendants of Japheth. These are just a few, I left out a lot regarding where you're from. You've to interrogate your history by using old books to learn the truth. Most of these contemporary books after the first world war are filled with lies. FYI. Europeans are not white, they're red, let's get that on the record. Black people are not black - various shades of brown. Plus, so-called blacks are actually groups of nations, Hamites, Cushites, Hebrews, Phut etc. Anyway, the Redman put their faces n into our books to suppressed African excellence n pushed his lies to brainwash the world cuz of his anxiety, fear knowing that we ruled them for a thousand years in Europe.
I am one of these people who are not familiar with your country
We Greeks named your country, too. Mauros in my language, Greek, means Black. An other other name for a nearby area was Abyssinia from the other Greek word, Abyss ( the Dark chasm you can't even count ). Anyway, this guy is not be taken seriously as he touches Greeks to tell his story. Many did that. Whoever wants to create history of his own, uses us, the Greeks. I mean, Φck you at the end of the day. You don't even know who we are and what we did. The other fairytale: we all come from Africa 🤣
What a lecturer! Brilliant presentation and tongue-in-cheek in a most informative and impressive combination.
@Germania Kuoni lol would specifically did he lie about?
@Germania Kuoni I've been to that Nazis video's and laugh my ass off. He shows pictures off dynasties after invasions but never the 1st. I want your evidence that he lied about the hieroglyphs and show what they actually mean by academic sources. Show one legitimate egyptologist (not hawass) that says the first dynasties in Egypt weren't black African. I can list African kingdoms before invasions and the ones that had pyramids. You know for sure those were African so why when it comes to Egypt all of sudden Africans had no part? Why lie to yourself to make you feel superior? Can you atleast admit there were rich African kingdoms before any invasion, or are you just a racist who isn't open to learning?
@Germania Kuoni What happened? Cat got your tongue? Since you won't respond hopefully you actually research without the hate and stop using debunked, outdated, racist scholarly ideology to come to conclusions about a race of people. If your German I'm surprised your even are racist. I thought Germans were smarter and more educated then racist whites in America. Thank God most Germans don't think like you.
@Germania Kuoni kzhead.info/sun/dtSud7iqZ6Jvl4U/bejne.html and since us blacks are just cray afrocentric's here's white people telling you the face of the sphinx is black African. I bet super Egypt won't show this.
@Germania Kuoni make sure you watch all of it and learn for yourself.
This talk has inspired me to learn as much as I possibly can. This brilliant man absolutely rocks! Every school on our beautiful planet needs an inspired teacher like this...educating and telling the truth to the youth and Inspiring the future!
For further research, listen to dr sally ann ashton, dr rebecca futo jenny, dr martin bernal, dr ivan van sertima and many more if i remember i’ll add it on to the edits
a lot of what he is says is conjecture, even among historians of africa, and notice every time he uses the 'malicious'. its all a bit off..
@@marlostanfield582 thank you, THANK YOU so very much for taking the time and writing those down for all of us!!
@@alexgibson2871 ok, I will pay more attention for the argument on both sides!! Thank you Alex!
This lecture is awesome! I enjoyed the thought provoking information about Africa’s history. I was disappointed that the camera person chose not to zoom in on the visuals that Akala provided on the tall screen. Clearly Akala wanted everyone to see the screen because the visuals were an important part of the overall lecture, and they were referenced often. The camera person zoomed in on Akala multiple times (so the capability was available). So, why not zoom in on the slides… hmmm 🤔
How the fuck does this guy contain all that information in his head?!
+mam somal it's a called reading , you should try it some time
gigijbijbj What area of my comment prompted you to assume that I didn't read?
+mam somal He is passionate on the topics he talks of.
David Harrison He is certainly. He's undoubtedly a history buff that speaks very eloquently.
+mam somal That's because Akala is a modern day Griot aka Emcce. That's the role of the Griot. Poet, musician, Historian and holder of knowledge. This was the kind of Emcces I grew up listening to in the mid 80's to early 90's b4 corporations took over the art-from and start pushing death and ignorance. These Emcces push education even-though they were still involved in the streets. You had to literally go to libraries to research the stuff they were rapping about. Look up KRS-ONE: You must lean video on you-tube.
The way this man articulates his points is exceptional. It's not offensive to those who usually are by Black excellence nor is it boisterous chest thumping often seen by poorly spoken partly informed people who wish to to convey what Akala does. His sarcasm is well placed and timed as he demonstrates the hypocrisies in racist ideology using history and fact with his comparative format. We can't have it both ways. This was a Very well put together lecture one of the best I've seen on the subject in awhile.
Anyone taking offense to any fact based perspective on world history is a sensitive, triggered, supremacist snow flake… and exemplifies the lowest human type which brother Akala speaks of generously.
What a fascinating, brilliant and enlightening lecture. Mind completely blown, thank you Kingslee and for the video too, Oxford Union.
Never tired watching Akala talk, our ancestors really lives in each one of us
Truly one of the most enlightening lectures I have seen in all my life. To be educated to post-degree level and not know, or even have access to, almost any of this body of knowledge is a crime.
+Alexander A Air This information is buried deep on purpose.
+SG A ikr? the history of our actual world is all hidden from us. something as amazing and deep as this should be shared with pride not conceit. i wish it was all made known worldwide
It is your supremacist tendencies that renders you incapable of reasoning with any refutation of your sources which have painted your race as superior in all account. It isn't surprising that you easily believe without question those sources of history which paints pictures of history to butter the ego of your race while retarding others, yet you ridicule with ease any source that provides refutations to your acclaimed knowledge of history. The joke is truly on you. While you think smart of yourselves, the truth is; you are simply in the shackles of intellectual poverty.
What an incredibly ironic and ignorant display I have stumbled on here.
Sorry. I grew up in Jamaica and managed to know a bit of this.
He doesn’t even have cue cards! He knows his shit man love this!
When you read African history in its entirety, you will see that it is a story and you only need to read it once and it makes sense. Plain and simple.
Raw Thawt ...this is what he dies for a living. I wouldn't need cue cards either.
@@melanatedwoman3760 its obviously passion too cos I seen people do things for a living and they still need some type of cues haha
😂 you dont need em when you make shit up. 7phoenician7 debunked everything he said so severely he should go into hiding.
@@truthxposed8975 There is always 1 and you are that ONE!
Thank you for sharing. I love, spending the early hours of Saturday, listening to intelligent conversations.
Wow, I enjoyed every minute of this. And it was never a dull moment. Thank you so much..
a fluid presentation with some greater and lesser known facts ... no notes or cue cards ... and so young ...look forward to more from this man
I agree, a brilliant lecture. But not sure what you consider young? I've friends who are university lecturers who're younger than he was when this lecture was given (31). Perhaps you think he looks very young and weren't aware of his actual age?
@@bishbosh1962 mashallah tbark allah alhamdulillah inshallah better astaghfirullah
@@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164 So are you happy or disgusted. Literally no Muslim uses all 5 of the words you’ve just used in the same sentence. Stop being an idiot and delete your comment before you give reasoning for people to justify their islamaphopia, you know nothing about Islam, given you used all 5 of those words in a the same sentence I sincerely doubt your even a Muslim lol.
@Graham, King of the Britons! 😊😩😳😭
I take issue with your comment because it implies that you are judging the intelligence if the speaker under a standard reserved for Black people. Even Noam Chomsky uses notes and cards, but I've never heard anyone knock him for it. Your comment reveals your bias. I'm not saying you're a bad racist- you definitely aren't. But you might want to take a hard look at some of your default assumptions about Black people.
watching this from Egypt rn, I think every educated Egyptian knows Nubians from Aswan were the original people. The Egyptians today are mixed with Greek, Persians, Arabs etc. Can't believe anglosaxins disagree and try to whitewash the Ancient Nubians, shame.
Paul Charles No problem :) I think everyone should visit Egypt once in their life, it's so unique.
+hanna ibrahim Tell your own story, write your own books...dont worry about what others choose not to believe. Like he said, he went to a Pan African Saturday school, and that was enough to make the difference and offset all the lies he received from public school.
+really coffeeandroses Ancient Egyptians were not black. They did not simply disappear because of a little bit of immigration. The same way the genetic make up of white Britons is 80% ancient Briton. Nubia was in Sudan. Further away from Cairo than Rome. There was a period of Nubian pharoahs, but it was not the majority. Everyone except brain dead racist afrocentrists with the IQ of a potato believe that the modern Egyptians are the best representation of Ancient Egyptians. This is proven by DNA and by language.
chap0syoutuification All of North and South America was 100% Native Americans and now Natives are a minority. I guess the whites built the pyramids and mounds in the Americas too? Oh, there built the great wall of china too. What about Australia? They were their first too right?
wtf is wrong with you, imbecile!
Awesome!!!! I need every book he mentioned!! I will be rewatching this and taking notes!!!
This is one of the best lectures on the topic of Africa's place in the world I've heard in a while. He's even better than his mentor, who's also pretty good
It's ok, mediocrity.
@@danielturner9027 yours was better 🤣
Who is his mentor?
@@T.image79 No idea
@@mikeb3811 Ok. I was asking Aziza Cummings because he/she mentioned it.
I really wish they could've zoomed in on his slides during this lecture
Sbeav So frustrating!
Read a book airhead.
I also wished they could of showed his video slides makes you wonder if it is or was done intentionally. Ms. Phipps.
That was by Design not zooming in on the slides, but zooming in on him instead, using his lips as a distraction from the evidence and facts he came to present.
Why?research and your find what your looking for
The fact that Prisoners who heard this lecture from him years before asked better questions and were more engaged makes me feel sad for Oxford Students.
The truth hurts lol
This was well delivered. I enjoyed every minute. Thanks again..
DAMN!!!! Do you know how long KZhead suggested this video to me? Three YEARS! only now have I watched it and my God I should've watched it way back. Great Assessment from Akala and bringing up this perspective of knowledge and History and Teach history in its purist form.
Speechless. Akala continues the tradition of a real Emcees, Entertain and enlighten the listener. Akala should have added the The Lebombo Bone and Ishango Bone: World’s oldest math tools. This is Hip Hop!
Wow, I just looked up the Lebombo bone to discover that African women might have been the world's first mathematicians. See Wikipedia.
+Mitch Hunter Butthurt white boy?
***** Butthurt white boy.
***** Are you mad you can't play victim anymore?
***** Blap blap.
This is just really great, and yes, this guy should talk in schools and in documentaries. It's the most education I have received in an hour ever.
The first time i read about the aborigines in Australia I knew there's something wrong with "black history' as i have been taught. Insightful lecture.
He's a gifted, intelligent orator. Respect Akala. Every educational institute would be complimented, supremely, with such an individual. A truly remarkable young man, academically astute and possesses the necessary altruism, what folk warm to.
I only thought I'd watch a few minutes of this and he hooked me for the whole thing. Very well done
Guys, at 20.32, he says Michael ______________. Please help.
@@akrammulji3435 he said "a man called Gerald Massey"
@@Alchemistic88 Thanks so much. Really couldn't hear that clearly it seems :O
Hi, would you mind helping me out with 27:25. A dutchman called _____________.
@@akrammulji3435 Olfert Dapper
As soon as I heard him say John Henrik Clarke, I knew he knew, what he was talking about!!!
Dr.Clark was a head of his time.
I said the exact same thing
truth!
@Julius Mainer drop a link to confirm your statement
Awesome 👌
Wow I learned so much I want to share and delve deeper . I’ve looked but I didn’t truly see Thank you for this episode x
You are so necessary my man! For this generation, and the next! Kudos!
Every time I hear his words I'm blown away.
I dont think you'll get any useful information listening to him, we need to determine the future before it is determined for us why think anbout the past how does it your everyday life ...? or your life as a whole!
he's half white, of course he's intellgient.
Hopefully by his stupidity ,
Seems that all of you here arguing about race and using vile racial language towards each other would be a huge disappointment to Akala. The point of educating people of past/recent racial indoctrination/abuse is to enlighten us enough to ensure it doesn't happen again. Its not to spur on racial hatred between blacks and whites, it's to educate us all on the history of our ancestors so we can all work together to improve society, and to break down the social/racial walls that have been built up over the course of hundreds and hundreds of years of racial oppression around the planet. You lot are just pushing us back with all this primitive racial hatred, we need to move past all this bullshit and co-exist working together to improve life for everyone.
I'm not talking to you. Especially after the "So why is black skin the same color as shit?" comment you made. You clearly have some problem with black people so you will never accept anything that doesn't fit your narrative.
Imagine disliking this video. Being brought up in London and going to a school where most of the students where predominantly black or of colour we didn't learn any of this. I however I already knew about half of what he said through my own personal research. I'm so happy he has done this talk and this is on KZhead so it can encourage people to actually learn about history and not what only your teachers teach you. Global history needs to be somehow included in the school curriculum because like I said in my school there were so many people from different backgrounds and we never learnt about their cultures/history.
His intelligence and wisdom is incredible. Everything he teaches can be evidenced. Like he said, if you're still ignorant after being shown the facts, it's because.... A great teacher.
Actually it isn't, it's basically bullshit.How does he account for there being small pox in Ancient Egypt but none in sub saharan Africa or the Americas till it arrived with the Europeans.If Ancient Egyptians were sub saharan Africans why is there no linguistic or cultural link?.....It's just horseshit feel good history.
@@Tusker1970 OK. So, what do you think happened?
@@Tusker1970 your strawman is so weak theres not even any straw. No link? lmao Try again.
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@DaughterOfZion the pyramids of Egypt and the slightly similar pyramids of Nigeria can be explained in exactly the same way as the pyramids of South and Central America, or the pyramid type arrangement of feudal Japanese castles, or any other pyramid shaped construction. It's a relatively easy way to built a stable structure.
I'm literally in Awe.....Share this with as many people as you possibly can
Um... no.
Wow, I grew up listening to Ms dynamite and her brother Akala.. the grime scene back in the day.. respect to two legends from the same family!
This dude is very intelligent! Salute to this man!!
Care to enlighten us as to why that is?
@@cccpkingu I'm from Egypt we are black that's a fact you don't know history 😂😂😂.
Akala, is definitely a knowledgeable king in his own right,more power to him 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿.#tooblacktoostrong
I want the transcript of his lecture. I’d love to pledge to study the recommended topics for the rest of the year
do you have a transcript?
Great talk. He's moved me to learn more. Rattling round my head was the thought : " it's not black versus white, or women versus men. Outlined by the opression after the Haitian revolution, it's greed and power versus ordinary people. Greed and power are colourblind." We would see all people as our own, and pull together to keep the power in check. To fortify this belief we need to educate ourselves.
Matt Chapman No, if it was just that , the Atlantic slave trade would’ve had poor people of other races on it. I hate when white people do what you did...tried to take the blame of the evil, that is slavery, off of the white man. No it was about Race and money and power.
NOne I’m not a comment bot. Lol. Whatever that is.🙄. What I was referring to what’s that his conclusion was that it was greed and power vs the ordinary people. And it’s not. It WAS about race and it is still about race. It’s not over. Now, if I misunderstood what he said, let me know respectfully, but don’t be rude to me again by calling me names...asshole....
NOne You called me a comment bot and doesn’t expect me to get defensive?? Really? 🙄
NOne We black people don’t want you to be color blind. We hate it when other races say that they don’t see color. We WANT you too see our color. We love being black! But we want other races to see our color and respect it . That’s all. Being colorblind is an insult to us it’s like trying to make our color invisible and like everyone else.
NOne I’m talking about the majority. No one can speak for ALL. But if you like people trying not to acknowledge your blackness just so they will fit you in somewhere that’s your prerogative. There’s black people accepting all kinds of crap just to feel like they’re accepted by others. So, yeah. Do you man.
What's so interesting is that Somalis knew that Malaria came from mosquitos, and this British man called them mad, (the word for malaria in Somali is mosquito) this British man ran with it and got a noble peace prize.
Yes that is true we somali says kaneeco mosquito and he steal it
Bo Pick you’ve just been going round and commented disgusting racist things on all of these wonderful comments! You are a horrendous racist Bo Pick
Faith Donovan-layne, don’t fall for his bait! He is a racist low life who is heading to his demise along with his kind.
Bo Pick, shouldn’t that be for me to decide? Do ppl always what to believe or not? As for the mosquito joke, it wasn’t funny. Also, if you don’t like this topic, y r u here? There are plenty WS videos for you to enjoy.
Bo Pick, oh I do not need ppl to tell me how special I am. I know I am special because I was made in the image of The Creator, Yah, The Most High... take your pick. As for the guy being fake, prove him wrong. I know you can’t, but instead of opening your yap, put your money where your yap is. I know you can’t, but I will entertain your effort.
Loved this...it was just the thing I didn't know I was looking for.💯
This was most brilliant inspiring lecture I've ever listened to. Akala YOU ARE AMAZING!
You're a troll. There is nothing brilliant about afrocentric pseudohistory revisionism, it's a bunch of sub Saharan people who are so ashamed to be black that they began to try to take credit for every single Caucasian culture. There's something very shameful and sinister about the thinking patterns of those involved in the afrocentric pseudohistory occult extremist groups.
Yes I watching again rn very inspirational , I c u didn't reply to this illiterate shit trying to call you out it's good you're not phased by him everyone watching this knows it is truth, every race of people in every time period knows this as true general knowledge his ignorance an stupidity shows
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr …. Reverse what u said.. then u wil have truth!… Obviously truth is rising!!💫 Accept the horrific though that so called whites have not succeed in Abolishing the Truth!!! Ashe’
@@roxiet7016 It's so sad that the only way sub Saharans think they can feel empowered in the 21st century AD is by taking erroneous credit for something that ancient Caucasians did. 🤔
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr You're so clueless as to what "Real History" is your brain is filled with pure racism you're a failure to everyone you know.
Sweet gesus.....this was amazing! I am a mixed race UK born Dr, I have lived in Nigeria and Norway and Akala shamed me... His lecture was fluid, poetical, researched entertaining....I am so thankful that I stumbled across his music which led me here. Brilliant. Inspired and just brilliant. All UK should listen to this. May sound odd,but this should be a mantra of British Afro/mixed education...thank u akala
Black people in the UK of West Indian heritage know this history and don't need to be taught it by Akela. We of a certain generation taught him these facts that were passed down to us. Your African (by the name I guess) How come you dont know this history yourself? Perhaps because you never had your name taken away you didnt have the need to know your own roots.
@@alimantado373 I know a lot of my history,I know origin and meaning of my name,I have lived in my country and been to school,I have pounded yam with the women and butchered the cow with my father.but this lecture showed how much I don't know about Africa..the continent and all the people there.this is the history I am referring to more so than Nigeria. But I am happy that w.indian origin are passing this down and that you don't feel you need this.
Thank You Akala... I hope more people find the courage to share their knowledge. And I was born in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo then lived in Harare till age 9 then came to Manchester UK. But even as a child I felt how special/magical a place Zimbabwe is. Seeing the stone carvings and statues. I wish I could see the slides. You and Chakabars make my IG timeline worth watching lol xx
+Adam Adams that already happened when it was colonised in the late 19th century by an Englishman.
+B Apps Yes and they have all been kicked out now, I'd know as some of my neighbours are white zimbabweans, the country has also gone to shit now.
+NO because of illegal sanctions by Imperialist UK and America, thank God for China and Russia for their support.
+Adam Adams Unfortunately white AngloSaxons always seek to suck the blood and resources whenever they come to Africa, they show a lack of respect and seek to impose white supremacist rule on the majority. So yeah, history proves it has not been a good idea.
+NO They got kicked out because they wanted to impose white supremacist minority rule whilst hording all of the resources and making the lives of the native rightful people of Zim their servants...I hope you are not a butt-hurt closet racist EDL thug!
"The Shame of History is this." Amazing 👏 Presentation 👏 BRAVO
This is so interesting and educational. Thank you so much.
this guy wakes me up every time..
iam from black sudan, iam from the Nubian tribe in south Sudan . my village has more pyramid then another place on earth. the Nubian kingdom, my grand grand father used to tell me about black Egypt and nile river which linked black Egypt with the Nubian kingdom. even Arabs Egyptian know about black Egypt but they dont talk about it. sudan has oldest cilvilasion on earth.
Yes my brother
Yes, and those Pyramids were build by SLAVES not payed workers.
Thanks! I didn't know that! I think you should make videos on these things and upload on KZhead. It would make a difference.
Wrong. Latest research showed they were paid workers.[www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt] Try again.
Nah South America has the most pyramids on the Earth. Just saying. Lol
Fantastic presentation. Very insightful, and I really appreciate the nuance. I only wish I could see the slides better. Sharing.
thank you for this
I wish someone at the BBC would commission this lecture to be remade into a full documentary, with imagery that could match Akala's powerful words
nah, half of what he is talking about is pseudoscience anyway
@@sirtrollalot7762 It isn't science, it's history.
How a Camel Smiles not true but whatever you say
@@sirtrollalot7762 ouch you sound a tad silly ,
@@kellymm7630 a tad?
Akala has inspired me to start a pan African Saturday school in Baltimore, Maryland
@funbot Well if that's your belief is not easy in this day and age to fact check? Just asking the question!🤔
@funbot could you give me an example?
@funbot Herodotus and Aristotle both wrote that they had dark skin, what do you think of that?
@funbot But I'm not sure that the claim is that they we're genetically black, but that they had black skin?
@@tommorgan7599 he won't discuss things that are evidenced against his line of bs....this guy's been bombarded and shredded on every opportunity ....truth and facts=kryptonite to his kind....please allow them to simmer in thier own self imposed sickness....
I love how he states that ALL of us have to be misinformed for racism to work. I always wondered why the sphinx had no nose. The teacher told me they fell off, smh.
So you really believe this guy's nonsense? Incredible.
The nose of the Sphinx was destroyed by the Arabs, oral tradition says, because the people were bringing offerings to the statue, which angered the Muslims. His conspiracy about the "noses" is fringe, as there are plenty of Roman statues with missing noses as well. It has nothing to do with "race".
@@loksterization GFY, dude. It is based on evidence. Know how to read , LOL?
@@anthonybailey8317 no it's not based on evidence at all, but entirely on subjective interpretation (i.e. bias).
@@loksterization Whatever, dude. You are one of the racist asswipes who probably condoned this distortion of history and yet would claim to not be racist..
That was wonderful, I’d love to meet this Brother ✊🏽
If akala was my teacher in school I would have listened and possibly learnt something.
:,-) lmao same
And now we can read and listen as much as we like, as long as we like. He’s my favourite teacher and I’m loads older than him. He’s just brilliant!
Gareth Atkins He has an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brooke university, so he’s over qualified. I used to be a teacher myself, and to qualify in teaching the specific subject (that I already have a first class degree in), only took me a year. I taught at degree level, and I think Akala is smarter than me, so I’d say...he would easily qualify.
@@garethatkins450 Jealous aren't we? Akala gave you enough sources now go check them out.
Gareth Atkins Yes, I know what ‘honorary’ means. He’s obviously an intelligent man, who could easily qualify in teaching at degree level, with or without that. OB Uni doesn’t need the publicity, it’s already a very well ranked uni. If you can’t deduce his level of intelligence from his written work, and public speaking over several years, then I can’t help you. ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink’...stay thirsty, Gareth, no one is forcing you. I said before, that I have a first class degree, and have taught at degree level myself, for several years, part of that, as a historian. But you knew that, and tried to patronise me instead. Stay thirsty, eh 😉
Great talk and great questions, I have never had my mind blown to this extent in a single 1h lecture.
Imagine what you could do if you understood formal logic and had a grasp of genetics and history.
Came here to glance for a few minutes and ended up watching the whole thing. I'll probably re-watch it soon. Pretty eye opening. 👍
I am an instant fan after hearing the well thought out and superbly presented arguments. Ashe'
I am a 20 year old black male, and this was very enlightening. #StayWoke
Funkadelic-Mothership, continue your education. Afrofuturism is not a new invention, we're remembering who we are
@WAFFEN COLLIDER Have you never heard of colonialism? Have you ever heard the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence? Do you have anything to say from yourself, or are you just repeating 'facts' that you yourself had no part in the verification of? It's silly to think that 90 people in a graveyard couldn't represent but a small proportion of the population. The proportion that was mummified. The elite. The COLONIZERS. Use your head, and try not to reply with another link. I'm curious if you understand logic. Besides, Egypt goes back another 2,000 years before this. Also, to hoist you on your own pitard: "90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypt’s New Kingdom, and ad425" You serious? 90 corpses from a stretch of 1800 years proves anything? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA STAY IN SCHOOL, KIDS.
@Bo Pick Notice how I give examples and back it up with reason. You just cry and call me a liar. I wonder who has the authority of intelligence and research here? HMMMM.
@Bo Pick Others? You mean white people? So you're giving me a race here, eh? and that's relevant to your argument? Are you seriously basing your assertion on the skin colour you've decided I have? It's the internet and besides, there's only one human race, you goof. If your whole point revolves around somebody's skin colour, you have no ground to stand on, you just look racist. I'd love to see you try to prove one "lie" authoritatively.
@Bo Pick You're delusional and racist. You have said nothing you can back up with your own words. Do you have your own thought-out opinion, or do you need to borrow someone else's brain to come up with one? Want to link something else that proves you can't think for yourself? Notice how I'm not calling you a liar? I'm not reducing myself to your tactics, making shit up, I'm calling you what you are, delusional. The burden of truth is on you. You can say I'm lying all day long, but the burden of truth is on you to prove it. If you can't, well, you're just proving me right by showing the weakness of your position. And I mean prove it in a couple sentences, not through a video or article someone else wrote. I'd be amazed if you had an opinion and it was more developed than a caveman's. Please, amaze me.
That was brilliant. Learnt more on history in this 1 hour than I did in 5 years plus of high School. Respect to Akala and his mentors
I totally CONCUR
Very astonishing to see the scholarship displayed. Love it!
Wow! And I thought for a moment there - that Black History was lost to a time in the 80s when I was a high school student of African & European History!! This presentation gives me hope! Will share it widely. Congratulations Akala! Simply Brilliant!!
I just disagree a little about the mud huts. My aunts still live in them, it's a sustainable way of living and i really hope it persists over skyscrapers. You can be intelligent and modern and live in a mud hut the same as you can be ignorant and old fashioned in a skyscraper.
@rue80, I agree. Mud huts are still steadier and more resistant to severe weather conditions than those plastics western buildings. There are 400 year old mud huts in Ghana today. Despite that, we remain the experts and only authentic Masons in the world. Everywhere we went, we taught masonry skills. Every stone and mortar building/monument in America was built by Afrikan slaves because, they carried their masonry skills with them. Europeans have ‘Builders’, we have Chief Masons who work with apprentices. This practice is still ongoing in Ghana, Nigeria, and many other Afrikan nations. In Afrika, Young men are sent into apprenticeship by their fathers after fees are paid. They are equipped with tools like trowels, plain, level, mortar pans, spades etc. They graduate after completing practical tests of mixing mortar, grading various sand textures, stones, pebbles, used for block- cutting, and which ones were appropriate for plastering and finishing. They also pass tests in digging/setting concrete foundations for a wall and a single/storey house/ how to set intricate pillars, as well as displaying brick/block cutting skills. As a child, I usually watched the Chief Mason, his apprentice and labourers, my parents hired to maintain and improve our properties. I was very fascinated by their skills and precision, even though I was female. Wherever Black people reside, masonry skills abound. Afrikans in Jamaica and other Caribbean nations, are very skilled Masons because it is within them.
while i thoroughly agree with this, i believe the point is that there is an over projection of 'mud huts' in africa as indication of lack of development. This creates the idea that there couldn't have been anything more or less in terms of development. Rather than explaining that mud huts are actually a functional and sturdy invention in direct response to the resources readily available and the weather conditions in hot and tropical climates, we get the perception that there is nothing more to africa than this. I think this is a problem. Though i completely see where you're coming from.
rue80-and mud huts dont deplete resources, ravish rain forests, pollute land sea and air and call it civilization and progress.
rue80-in fact thats how africans lived in africa for all these years, while euros trashed europe in 5k years....
Amen!
One of Britain's most instrumental and talented speakers, thanks bro
This guy is a standard afrocentric pseudohistory revisionist Schvartze. Why are his bizarre conspiracy theories better than any other antisemite's?
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr because your not black that’s why
@@chazdbo1 If you're sub Saharan, then academic fraud is accepted as "talent"? Wow, you don't think much of sub Saharans.
@@chazdbo1 Lol, this is Affirmative Action privilege, lol, Oxford is promoting bums. Akala has an lQ hovering around 60, if this isn't a program to give those with special needs a platform, then I'm confused, because this guy is just a deranged Schvartze with an axe to grind.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr wtf are you onbabout
In my 15 years of self studies. I can say that this young man hit on every aspect of true history.
No he didn't. Google King Tut's DNA
@Daniel Langer bring counter facts to the ones Akala presented in the lecture above.
AKALA is one clever and deeply passionate educator, with both feet on Terra firma for the good of HUMANITY , be blessed AKALA
This gentleman just made my evening. What a storyteller. What a teacher.
joth small Prove his “story” wrong.
Dude is an afrocentric pseudohistory revisionist. Why are his bizarre conspiracy theories any more important than any other antisemitic ramblings?
@@jothsmall2174 racist
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr One because they aren't antisemitic also, they aren't bizarre they're quite well researched and sourced. Perhaps you should watch the video above and look a bit more into his work.
@@jothsmall2174 You obviously totally disregarded all the factual references and evidence he provided.. Seems to me some R 'Rights' like to be selective with the truth
I've have continuously heard that African history did not begin and end with slavery. I consider myself to be educated and read widely but today I have learnt more in listening to Akala than I have in my 57years. Thank you Akala, also Amazon have made a tidy profit as a result of this talk.
Well do proper research , since my young age i have always been pasionate by egyptology and this man is just a crackhead on steroids Verify the facts not on " blackpower dot com " but on reliable egyptolgy sources materials you can even visit tomb in 3d 18:78 He pretend Museum will display " Nefertiti " because she was more " NON AFRICAN LOOKING " Yet Nefertiti daughter of Akhenaton Egyptian pharaoh reigning circa 1353-1336 BC, and Nefertiti lived 1370 - c. 1330 BC 16:37 Here once again he lied ... Ramsees III or 3 actually reigned from 1186 to 1155 BC wich is almost 200 years after Akhenaton aka ( the sun worshipper pharaoh) adn century after his daughter Nefertiti wich compleatly defeat his arguments ... ALso the Picture he show off isnt the true representation of Ancient egypt races .. you have a copy and paste two time of the Nubian while the original of this as 1 Nubian black , 1 Asian white , 1 Libyan white , and 1 egyptian "redish tanned "and woman depicted as yellowish while nubian woman as dark brown and nubian males as Dark black ... These " race image " were found in Seti I tomb wich reign between with whithin the range of 1294 BC to 1279 BC or 1290 BC to 1279 BC wich again would still be holder than Ramsees III reign .. all his THeory are bollucks and the picture he show of the race as been taken from a black supremacist website propagandist ... LOOK UP all the information i have given and search in egyptology work and you will see this guy is full of shit and dont know anything of what he talk about .... Every piece of evidence we have about race proove that Egyptian were neither black african Neither white european neither Asian .. they were most likely metiss or well Mediteranean ? but their features and skin complextity was a thing ... also after the conquest of Nubia .. Nubia black have indeed adopted the cultural and way of life of the egyptian and became powerfull wich should make him happy prooved that " black african " were as capable as non black or at least partially non black egyptian .. Nubians also ruled as pharaoh for about a century but then loose power ...etc..etc.. then centurys after that Egyptian loose to persian then to roman and so on
@@stew360 If maybe you had an English speaker edit your comments what you're saying might have made more sense. I've read many of the books he talks about and listened to many live lectures on the topic and he's actually spot on.
No one ever mentions how the Barbary pirates used to sail up to Britain and snatch whites to be sold into slavery in the Ottoman Empire, before the european slave trade even started
@I plead the 5th loool u guys and your lies . what are u talking about ? he got all A's In his GCSEs how did he drop out . He shouted Aristotle and other famous scholars of that time. But hey yall cant accept that . It's more believe that they were black africans instead of white Europeans. Just saying
@@eddieamoakuh2480 if you're going to refute someone do not criticize merely based on English being someone's 2nd language; back it with substance, but here's the thing, you won't be able to
Hey Oxford Union, great video thank you. Some feedback: it would be helpful for those watching on small screens, e.g. smartphones, to have full size images of the slides edited in. They're extremely hard to make out on small screen, they're clearly important to the material and it's a simple thing to edit in. Thanks!
A lecture every school needs to have 👏🏽
"You can't claim ignorance on someone who is genuinely ignorant, but you can if someone has been taught something and still claim ignorance"
Mmmm.mmmm.mmmm indeed
Das Rit
@Whisper-that truth-shss correct but I'm guessing he meant taught correctly, then they have no way of claiming ignorance, that is how I interpreted it, but your point is a valid, at the end of the day, it come down to individual perception and interpretation and who influences them!
@Whisper-that truth-shss same goes for you, the way I see it, people find it easier to let others think for them in modern society rather than researching and listening to people, and by doing that they hinder the chances of society moving forward! They just resort to saying things like "educate yourself" which immediately disenfranchises people from the discussion, causing further divisions! You too stay safe 👍
@Whisper-that truth-shss you are very much correct, I hope change comes I really do! Stay safe friend stay hopeful 👍
so much respect for this guy...he's like a computer...he just stores what he reads and research...and puts it across like a boss..
Thank you very much for sharing all of this information 🙏🏾💗
I always admire and respect people who do their research and present facts and resources to back up their arguments. There is a lot of emotionalism around history topics, I am proud to see Akala present an otherwise hidden part of history so eloquently.