Fort Jesus & The History Behind Slave Trading (Mombasa, Kenya) 2019

[@jillians1138]

I love how your channel encourages ppl to embrace their heritage and identity, it’s also very informative for me, keep the great content going!

[@problactive285]

"Fort Jesus" let that sink in....

[@HebrewsvJohnv]

Did anyone see Jesus at the Fort? Or Prince Henry the Navigator, The Pope and the Apostate Catholic Church start the West African slave trade which grew into the Transatlantic Slave trade and contravene 1 Timothy ch 1 v 10, which says MENSTEALING is contrary to sound doctrine?

[@hairyape3935]

JESUS had nothing to do with the cruelty of oppression! He should have named it after the Massas political leaders

[@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth]

@@hairyape3935Don’t put Yeshua Ha’Mashiach in this. Like the person said above me. He had nothing to do with this. Blame Lucifer! But Deuteronomy 28 applies to us Hebrews from the 12 Tribes of Israel. GOD punished us for breaking the covenant! And we deserved every bit of it for abandoning our Heavenly FATHER!

[@devintaylor8702]

@@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth AMEN 🙏🙏

[@parrishedmonds9043]

Love this can't wait for my trips to the motherland

[@sakhu8945]

Im going to Kenya this year. Id love to visit Ghana.

[@SP.4]

Shy from Philly 🌺 Hello Phil and my diaspora family❣️ It is so important to know your history, thx Phil.

[@pache7216]

Before slavery

[@SP.4]

@@pache7216 Before and now, while we are still oppressed here in America 🇺🇸 as a people❣️

[@gregoryreynolds6496]

This is a beautiful thing you did Phillip, to show our history and all the good people. Keep up the good work 💪

[@vincentesp5211]

I was at that cafe at Christmas went to Fort jesus heard the stories. Great experience great people stayed in mombasa for 2 weeks didn't want to leave. Beautifull place. Great video bro Phil. From a brother from the UK.

[@kingmaafa120]

Bro you always get my respect because you the only one WHO TOUCHES THE MOTHERLAND

[@teejayangel6638]

This is fantastic Mr. Malume! I lived just across the ocean where you were interviewing Mr Mohammed. It's called Nyali. I love that city so much! Thank God you went to Fort Jesus. I hope more AAs will visit Kenya to learn more.

[@maureenevitah791]

Am a kenyan and Am loving this❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@minkrobeII]

Thank you Phil/Melume

[@Vonnie777]

Thank you for the tour. Keep educating us. When is your next tour?

[@miraculouswizardqueen7405]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@nellywilliams2776]

Thank you for showing us beautiful SA ❤

[@Martin-jc3un]

Most Kenyans think of Fort Jesus as an attraction. It was actually a place of grieving and sadness to enslaved Africans. Even after the abolition of the evil trade the fort was used to 'smuggle' slaves outta Africa.

[@docaz9453]

my heart hurts

[@nairobinyeusi5811]

The fort was built by the Portuguese as a military post to protect the Swahili Coast, Mombasa then was Called Mvita which means a City of War since Many people wanted to conquer it, that's why Fort Jesus has old war tools like canyons . The Swahili Coast slave trade was done by Arabs not Europeans. In fact Europeans copied the idea from Arabs before the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

[@Martin-jc3un]

@@nairobinyeusi5811 They weren't protecting the coast because of the goodness of their hearts. They were protecting a trade route of which the most valuable commodity were the thousands of slaves shipped from there. The Arabs and Europeans both used the port for this purpose and even later when the British took over, they used it to jail the resistors of colonialism. Kenyatta was earlier on detained there.

[@nairobinyeusi5811]

@@Martin-jc3un They were trying to conquer the coast. That area was a deadly battle ground contested between the Mijikenda Bantus, Arabs,Portuguese, Persians and the British that's why it was called Mvita which means in Swahili a place of War. The fort was built by the Portuguese after they took over but were eventually kicked out by the British who ended up colonizing East Africa through Mombasa after building a railway inland with the use of Indian slave labour whom they shipped from India.

[@bartender4877]

I was there I only heard horror stories hardly an attraction… what I gathered from the people there

[@omondi_wa_butere]

There are a lot of gaps of information when it comes to the east African slave trade Few narratives of the enslaved I'd like to know more about - injustices done be the slavers (arabs, europeans) - Destinations of the enslaved - Resistances and uprisings by the enslaved - Runaway stories - any communities of runaways built Watching from Muthama, Kenya

[@exquisitecaribbeanqueen7198]

Can you imagine the wealth and resources on the African Continent, why would there be such a violent war of so many to dominate and steal from Africa......mind boggling. " Bob Marley" You don't know your past, you don't know your future" ....Ziggy Marley" Rise up Jamaicans...I want to see us unite, renew our minds to move ahead....

[@Gpsautomotive]

So how many went through there ?

[@justinamusyoka4986]

Countless went to Oman and the Arab world and their story is like lost. East Africa and Kenya 🇰🇪 to be specific told stories of how young men would be yoked and chained ,trekking all the way to Mombasa to board dhows to Arab world. Many died on way and upon reaching new lands.

[@ZionSeeker]

There isnt much remnant where they went because of castration of the enslaved, so the populace dwindled with time, although there is a small contingent living in indias forests

[@oliviamonteque6407]

Loads !

[@oliviamonteque6407]

@@justinamusyoka4986 The Arabs people were taken black people as slaves. Why would any sensible African want to be a Muslim! Exploiting just like the white Christians.

[@oliviamonteque6407]

Why would any self respecting African want to go where these monsters live!

[@jeffchurum1431]

I have always had this question what happened to the black people captured and shipped to Oman or Arab world? Coz there are no black people in Arab world.

[@Dennis_Okelo]

At least the Transatlantic slave trade started later, and it preserved African heritage through African Americans. Those that went through Fort Jesus, Zanzibar and Kilwa were castrated in Oman, Yemen, and Iraq.

[@mosesodhis365]

The British did not find Portuguese.They found the Arabs

[@eastafrika728]

The Portuguese slave trade was began by Pope Nicolas V and recorded in his Romanus pontifex, papal bull of Portugal, 8 January 1455, courtesy of the Arqivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, Portugal. This papal bull,through the Vatican, legally granted Portugal the right to enslave any and all Afrikans they encounter south of Cape Bojador, on the coast of Western Sahara.

[@elishabenisrael6392]

Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

[@amoafoowusu6657]

Quote from the slave master’s book

[@elishabenisrael6392]

@@amoafoowusu6657 shut the hell up. You to dum to think that a white man book when black ppl in the Bible .. y’all African kills me but allow the white take all the resources in Africa…

[@elishabenisrael6392]

@@amoafoowusu6657 to damn stupid to realize I just gave you a scripture what happen to the Israelites our ppl and you go say white man book…

[@amoafoowusu6657]

@@elishabenisrael6392 the acclaimed saint insulting 😂 which people of Israel,name two black angels in your bible or two local African names in your slave master’s book bible

[@elishabenisrael6392]

@@amoafoowusu6657 awww is yo feeling hurt.. has some balls this ain’t no white man soft voice

[@hudsonbartley2493]

But we all know it has nothing to do with the historical Jesus/Yeshua of Nazareth. So there you go.

[@isiomaamma9869]

This is the same one that they use you would be shocked to know also do you know that one of the Slave ship that carried enslaved people from West Africa to the America's was also called Jesus ,you can go research it

[@hudsonbartley2493]

@@isiomaamma9869 Yes. But it foesnt mean it has 1nythingvto do wtth the real Jesus/Yeshua of Nazareth and it does not.

[@jamalsaid7475]

Fort Jesus in Mombasa is a name just given by the Slave Masters(Portuguese Colonists)and built by African slaves without their will. Until today Africa suffers without no credit,without no respect,without no dignity,without no Reward in the End. Outsiders taking all the Natural resources but with little Respect or Reward to Africa/Africans. We always 4give and 4get but it's our time to Unite N take over Our Continent back. Africa the Sleeping Giant.

[@isiomaamma9869]

@@jamalsaid7475 its the same thing I was trying to say and yes that's right with what you say about the way people were treated

[@jamalsaid7475]

@@isiomaamma9869 Thanks 😊Boss I really appreciate for your information and clarification

[@OscaR-bo8ub]

Transatlantic????😂😂😂

[@noiamspartacus8965]

The African guy speaks better English than the American!

[@XxxclusiveReviews]

Stfu.... he speaks so call British..... 🤣

[@Littlelight800]

What?.. your reaching fr fr he does speak good English but not better

[@gaza1677]

Get your facts right fort Jesus has nothing to do with the trans Atlantic slave trade. Portuguese got their slaves from Angola/Congo region then sent them to Brazil

[@isiomaamma9869]

They did took slave from East Africa especially Mozambique ,and every where the Portuguese went ,It was documented

[@azuukasha3225]

They also did it here in Kenyan coast,Angola was colonialism not slave trade,go back to school

[@isiomaamma9869]

@@azuukasha3225 You should not be telling people go back to school when you don't know all the history because lots of history was documented about slave trade from East ,West and North African in different times

[@hairyape3935]

So you have named a slave trade route after THE SON OF GOD!

[@jlau979]

Yes, because they went there on the good ship Jesus, and saved them from their sins.

[@hairyape3935]

@@jlau979 there were many tribes speaking different languages, ever questioned why or how they would know the name? Could it be there were tribes of Israel already had the SAVIOR? Oppressed people do not follow their oppressors' religions!

[@jlau979]

@@hairyape3935 If they did they would've known his name is not Jesus .They are very christianized.

[@hairyape3935]

@@jlau979 JESUS CHRIST is still the same name, but could be pronounced differently in another language!

[@jlau979]

@@hairyape3935 the letter J did not come into existence until the 16 hundreds. How are you praying in the name of Jesus , when it's not his name? The Bible says, "If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and then from their wicked ways , then will I hear from heaven, and Will heal their land". What name are is the children of Israel called by?

[@peterisraelkegode5080]

Hello Phil great to see you at Fort Jesus there is a lot of history on slavery at the coast which is not fully documented and memorialized by the local communities and Government. There are locations like Mambrui , Kengeleni , Freetown and Shimoni that should have markers and powerful memorials where descendants of enslaved can come back and do pilgrimage just like you are doing. Most of the ivory that was stolen from Central Africa Congo , Angola and Eastern Africa was sold to 2 large companies in Connecticut cities of ivoryton and Essex. These ivory was used to make pianos. Dr. David Livingston a missionary who interacted with the slave traders estimated that for every ivory it took about 5 slaves to carry and 4 more died on the way from hinterland to the slave ships. From ship records over 100 000 elephants were killed and estimated 2 million slaves who went to the America's, Middle East , North America. There is need to do more research and preserve the historical assets using markers for purposes of repairing past injustices. I am still researching on this subject. If you want to know more you can reach me on [e-mail]