Independent Inventions of Africa That Influenced the World

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(1) Here's an exhaustive list of innovations, discoveries, historic leaps and inventions either brought, achieved, bucaneered or co-opted to the world by Africans and Afro-descendants: - Human language (via the hypothetized "Proto-Human speech" , progenitor of all modern and extinct speeches) ; - the "confusion of tongues" - Global conquest via mass populating (being the cradle of Mankind and thus the primary gene pool of all modern Homo Sapiens) ; - Javelins; - Bows and arrows (via Khoisans and Pygmies Twa) ; - Fishing; - Behavioral modernity (via Aterian Culture) ; - Arts (via Aterian Culture) ; - Pottery (via Aterian Culture) ; - Arithmetics; - Geometrics; - Astronomy; - Astrology; - Mining; - Religion and spirituality; - Monotheism (via Nilo-Saharans) - Modern philosophical mind - Gerontocracy - Democracy - Sex complementary/equity by law - Capitalism and socialism (a mix of both, actually) - Glass-making (via Kemetians and Ta-Setyans in Egypt and North Sudan) ; - Husbandry (via Afrasans) ; - Nomadism; - Hunting-gathering; - Sedentarism; - Agriculture; - Farming (via Proto-Afrasans exiled in Asia) ; - Kingship (via the Anous/Batembuzis/Imanujelas/Annunakis, Afrasans and Nilotes) ; - Nobility system (same) ; - Aristocracy (same) ; - Theocracy (same) ; - Republicanism; - Commonwealths; - Pan-continental mind (there has some antecedants of a form of archaic Pan-African ideology and politics akin to, albeit far much older than, Hellenism, Pan-Iranicism/Aryanism, Semitism, the Greek Roman oecumenia ir Pax Romana, Sinicism, Sindism in South Asia, The Pax Malayia in the Malay World, imperialistic Arabicism, the Ummā and Christendom, the South Oacific oecumenia or to the Pre-Columbian oecumenia observed in antiquity, the middle and early modern times all across the African continent since pre-dynastic times in the Nile valley (circa 5000 -3100 BCE) , very likely much older than said period, and thriving all across the continent until around a time period spanning from the Bronze Age collapse to the fall of Carthage to the Arab conquest of Northern Africa (circa 1070 BCE~146 BCE to 647-709 CE) from one hand, and in Egypt to the downfall of the XXVth Dynasty to the downfall of the XXXth to the demise of Greek Egyptian Queen Pharaoh Cleopatra VII Philopator (of maternal Egypto-Kushite heritage) to the Edict of Justinian in 393 CE to the Last Burning of the Library of Alexandria by the Arabs in 642 CE to the destruction of Coptic Egyptian writing in XVIIIth century (656~378~30BCE to 393~642~early 18th century CE) , when it altered the connection between sub-Saharan Africa, Saharan Africa and the northern regions of the continent) ; [...]

[@TheLocalStandard]

Pls HomeTeam can you also talk about the Benin Kingdom and their structures, like having the longest, biggest walls in the world instead of the Chinese wall. And the fact they had street lights long before London did. Thank you, as Africans continue to come, we young Africans are breaking and dismantling the narrative of lies held for so long about Africa. We are shaping and shaking the future, again.

[@MrMetro-mt5qv]

The word’s oldest mathematical tool, one of the oldest astronomical calendars, monotheism, SOME of the world’s oldest pottery, ONE of the world’s oldest practices of inoculation etc…

[@joeshmoe8345]

What is the oldest math tool?? I’m curious cuz I never heard about this

[@LuminousSolitude]

​@@joeshmoe8345Isango bone

[@drstevej2527]

Yes in Mesopotamia not in Africa.

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

With what has come to our knowledge today , i sincerely feel that all of history should be rewritten .... We ha be benn lied to all our lives for generations...

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

​@@drstevej2527the ishango bone was found in the Congo....

[@kennethjohnsonsr5112]

....As a "black man"....not a "minority," which has a deceptive double meaning...I want to say I have great appreciation for your narration and subject matter....I view your channel often and always there is something I learn that makes me appreciate being who and what I am....a black man...a child of Africa...the knowledge you teach, we need... thank you....

[@grapeshot]

That is why it's very important that there are channels out there like yours. Because they will always write they're the heroes of every story and us as the villains of every story.

[@frankdees507]

True. You’d almost think ONLY a white can write a story

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

You are not at all the villains in the story of Europeans. Europeans have moved on from this stuff while you’re still living in the past and coping with being conquered.

[@grapeshot]

@@Getcakedieyoung23 no they haven't the French are all in Africa still. Do some research. It's always living in the past when it's something your kind has done horrible everybody is upposed to forget about it.Well you see my finger it's my middle finger

[@Frostchris4121]

@@Getcakedieyoung23 You guys can't even move on from Hitler and the holocaust and constantly have to remind the rest of us of how evil the Nazis were. But how was what the Nazis did in Europe any different from what European colonialists did during the era of slavery and colonization?? If anything colonization was a whole lot worse but yet you white supremacists are not only proud of this history but also continue to portray your victims as uncivilized, unintelligent and weak. It really isn't any surprise that Nazism and fascism came from Europe cause after all the ideology is exactly the same. The Nazis were just the fascists that lost.

[@GMAV3RICK]

@@Getcakedieyoung23This is true. Im black and my research into many aspects of my heritage proves your words to be true. What makes this issue so problematic is that many other blacks our ignorant to these truths out of misplaced anger.

[@sisteririsgoins5660]

So true, I thank God I'm not like that. I love Africa. Since I was 9 years old I had a spirit of africa in me, I pray for all my people there and begging God to let me come home.

[@gadeyeye6268]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾Great highlights brother I really appreciate it.

[@TheLastOutlaw289]

I’ve never even thought about this topic African inventors damn this should be interesting.

[@Color-of-love]

Man u guys are so so so needed. Keep up the good work. It's pressure brother. And every bit helps.

[@maqhawedlodlo4134]

Excellent work. Thank you Hometeam.

[@joeshmoe8345]

Your content is *always outstanding, but I enjoyed this episode in particular. A short video but I learned a few things and had to completely rethink a few others. Thanks, really! 🙏

[@deadmanthehekatonkheire994]

Great video. But I feel (and this is no knock on your video) it would have been better to talk about how Africans mastered the C-section technique, which ensured the survival of not only the baby but the woman as well in a time where the C-section outside of Africa meant the death of the woman. The second would definitely be smallpox inoculation -- a technique that was so prevalent in Africa while it ravaged Europe, that it was African slaves who taught it to their owners. Those would have been a better intro -- in my opinion -- than circumcision. Still I liked the video.

[@Sp1n1985]

I thought everyone was pro abortion

[@ArthurGerma]

smallpox inoculation came to Africa from China through the middle East

[@kevintracyjr8690]

Powerful and important. Well put out and clear presented. This brings to my mind the thought of: what level of peace was present in Africa when Europe and Asia started coming to them?

[@soda8736]

Humans are humans everything that happens in Europe or Asia happens in Africa

[@kekutasidibeh8729]

Thank you my brother

[@Qhawe_Jameson.]

The oldest Mine in the world is in Southern Africa (Ngwenya Mine) in a country called Eswatini or Swaziland it dates back to 43 000 years BC and also look up Adams Calendar in South Africa the oldest and only fully functional Astronomical observatory and the oldest Man made structure on Earth.

[@listenup2882]

Eswatini not Swaziland.

[@Qhawe_Jameson.]

@rosettenrudi91 Adams Calendar is 75 000 years old. It is a fully functional astronomical observatory, with accurate Celestial alignment. It's recognised by the United Nations(UNESCO) , African Union, and the South African government, including institutions in Africa and around the world. It's called Inzalo yelanga( Birth place of the Sun), not Blaauboschkraal. i don't know where you got that name from. Some Caucasian writer tried to claim that it was constructed by a vanished intelligent civilization but failed. That's what they do with ancient unique and advanced discoveries in Africa. They rather credit aliens than admit it was Africans. It's similar to the Napta Playa astronomical observatory found in North Africa. It led to a lot of people calling for the revival of the African Calendar, which we used before Caucasians came along. Our year began in September.

[@Qhawe_Jameson.]

@listenup2882 Eswatini changed its name from Swaziland to Eswatini a few years ago in 2018. I literally said the country is called Eswatini. A lot of people still don't know that. That's why I used both names.

[@Qhawe_Jameson.]

@rosettenrudi91 is known as Africa's Stonehenge, accidentally discovered by a pilot 2003. It is a UNESCO heritage site, including the African Union heritage site and South African heritage site, and declared a National Monument. That name you keep on using has no significance or relevance. What are you? a boer? I'm a South African, Adam's Calendar is the oldest Man made structure on the planet found in South Africa Mphumalanga. It's well documented and verified. Some stones are aligned with cardinal points, some some stones aligned with the sunrise, hence the name Inzalo yelanga( Birthplace of the Sun). It's a fully functional stone calendar. It still works today , it tells you the seasons and tells you the time. It also has accurate astronomical Celestial alignment(Orions Belt) and other elements to the structure. I don't know why you keep on making a lot of niose talking about irrelevant things. This is well documented and verified. Africans had their own calendar. For goodness sake, Zulu people had their own calendar, and Adam's Calendar just happens to be 75 000 years old, and Caucasians, pseudoscience, and aliens had nothing to do with it.

[@ario2264]

​@@rosettenrudi91 The Blaauboschkraal stone ruins and "Adam's Calendar"/"Inzalo yelanga" are different sites. The Blaauboschkraal stone ruins are dry stone enclosures like kraals which date from c. 16th-19th century AD. "Adam's calendar" is a small group of standing stones. The idea that "Adam's Calendar" is 75,000 years old is of course complete nonsense that was made up by Michael Tellinger. Some black people believe it, for literally no logical reason at all. The reality is that 'Adam's Calendar' is less than 2000 years old. That's when pastoralists of Eurasian and East African origin arrived in South Africa. They are known in some literature as 'Megalithic Cushites', because they put up standing stones here and there. The people who were in South Africa before them were the Khoi-San hunter-gatherers who never built anything in their entire history. The Bantus arrived later and have nothing to do with 'Adam's Calendar'.

[@AfricanMaverick]

Afrika meaning Hero , winner 🏆🥇

[@muskelpaulkleber7413]

Cutting off a piece of skin for cultish reasons. One of the most important "inventions" of all time! Thank you Africa! Where would we be without you!

[@kufre4493]

History does not care whether you think its cultish or not, 30% of the world is circumcised, seems quote important to the world! Racism often obscures the regular thinking processes Europeans so are proud off, you cant have both at once, you gotta compromise

[@daviousking3828]

Thank you

[@SupremeWorthy]

Circumcision isn't a flex in my opinion

[@listenup2882]

It greatly reduces the transmission rate of sexually transmitted diseases.

[@BeeWhistler]

Yeah, I kinda expected that one to be a bit less popular among the viewers… at least, the male viewers.

[@blackstarmedia1410]

It's good to know the truth is finally being disseminated

[@davin3442]

Hey do u have a source list anywhere, i love ur videos, but id love to have some further reading to go a little more indepth :)

[@bgbthabun627]

the discovery of iron objects in cameroon is a huge find!! thanks for this.

[@FromNothing]

Really enjoyed the video and definitely some highly overlooked innovations. However, while the bit about circumcision is fascinating, I would not have personally included it among "innovations." I personally think the practice is barbaric and inhumane. There is virtually no scientific evidence to prove that it provides any health benefits and it is a permanent body modification akin to tattooing or piercing and with that being said, it should not be the choice of the parents. It should be the choice of the child when they come of age as it's only technical use is for religious purposes.

[@BEE-do7bk]

I would not have included circumcision either. I personally think HomeTeam should have included something about Architecture or Clothing instead. However, I have to disagree with you about there being "virtually no scientific evidence to prove that it provides any health benefits". Circumcision, especially for males, significantly reduces the risk and transmission rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) & sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A lot of studies have shown that compared with circumcised men, uncircumcised men are at a much higher risk of acquiring STDs and STIs.

[@FromNothing]

@@BEE-do7bk Having unprotected sex without being tested is the biggest contributor of transmitting STDs and STIs though so permanently altering someone's genitalia before they are old enough to consent doesn't seem like a logical solution. Most of the world's population is uncircumcised with North America and Africa being the places where it's more common yet STDs and STIs are more prominent in Africa than any other continent.

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Another great video from the goat. Keep disproving these myths about African history and people.

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

Had no idea rice was a big crop in west africa

[@ciscodealmeida8541]

Circumcision is to mock God ,saying he never made this body perfect and we man has to perfect it.

[@non_ideological_transexual7414]

I would not be proud of inventing circumcision if that's the case . I have never read that nothing developed in Africa or below what is now generally Arabic North Africa . Many parts of the world contributed to our modern lifestyle for good or bad but the industrial revolution really started in Europe and the avalanche of inventions, further development...and that is the point. Who is the "Home Team" ?

[@fredwood1490]

It is true that many technologies were invented in Africa, often for the first time, things like water wheels and windmills, wells and dams, roads and bridges and even the first technologies like the stone and wooden tools of the Hominids. Human Beings were first "invented" in Africa and the Human-technology interface. Those first technologies were disseminated through out the world with the "Out of Africa" diaspora, all human inventions had their roots in some part of Africa. However, inventions that never left their areas of origin, even if centuries in advance of other world inventions, did not effect the rest of the world. It was the invention of long distance trade routes that allowed technology from one area to effect the rest of the world. Just as the European Guilds kept much technology as a monopoly, to keep it and its profits from spreading, so did tribal monopolies keep Africa from being credited with much invention that had to be reinvented in areas where that technology was needed, later on. Humans and Human culture is constantly evolving but evolution doesn't mean the best but what is good enough, until something better is needed. Africa started the world human culture but also hindered its advancement, until the long gone children of Africa returned to make its imprint on the Motherland.

[@skp8748]

Why lie

[@nomercynodragonforyou9688]

@@skp8748 why deny the truth?

[@skp8748]

@@nomercynodragonforyou9688 OK where is the evidence of the wheel being used?

[@ario2264]

haha you actually believe you invented waterwheels and windmills. You guys are hilarious. Just complete delusional fantasyland.

[@beepboop204]

[@republiccooper]

Is circumcision a good thing? I always thought of it as a bad thing that started the emotional scarring and hardening of males in society.

[@katiesdumbvideos5418]

Should we be celebrating the “invention” of genital mutilation?

[@debracraig1932]

Well all Africans circumsize our mail sons. When Abraham was called by YAH of course our males would be 🌾🥖🍇🐑🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺♥️

[@damnitstroubleman]

Many inventions such as the bow and arrow, the spear, and smelted steel were actually invented in Africa first, but bc the continent was so isolated from the rest of the world, they weren't able to share them with the rest of the world. It's true that ancient & medieval Africa didn't contribute much to universal advances. However, that's purely bc of geography, not ability.

[@ario2264]

it's funny the stupid things you actually believe.

[@kufre4493]

@@ario2264 whats your explanation? brain structure, you guys have been trying to prove that for a millennia and still have no success

[@liamwinter4512]

In the land of the blind, the no eyed man is king.

[@MotivationalMovements]

All human being deformed from Lucy…the original human being…A BLACK WOMAN👊🏿

[@thevisitor1012]

I love that they gave her a European name😅

[@aart2100]

Circumcision is abhorrent and I wouldn’t brag about that “invention” sometimes is medically necessary I guess ( very rare) but for the most part I view it as barbaric

[@kufre4493]

30% of the world doesnt, almost no religion does🤷‍♂ STIs, penile infections and cancer would also be more prevalent with it so i'd reconsider how barbaric you claim it to be.

[@myheatgoesboomboomboom1655]

As an ethiopian i love me some sudanese woman any sudanese woman on here ?

[@MustardSkaven]

We're going to start it off with circumcision? A horrible practice? Metallurgy was not very advanced in Africa. So it's great Africans managed to get into the iron age on their own but they didn't do too much with it. Hot furnaces...something other people also invented once they had a need for it. Rice cultivation, another thing other people also invented. I get that Africans deserve a bit more recognition than the stereotypical "They remained hunter gatherers until outsiders came" but I don't see this video really improving the image of Africa. Especially with circumcision, rather damaging it.

[@NanakiRowan]

Circumcision reduces the rates of STD acquistion, with an up to 60% reduction of HIV transmission. It's a pretty hygienic practice.

[@MustardSkaven]

For men. Not very considerate of women, are you? I also wasn't aware HIV was a big issue thousands of years ago, champ.@@NanakiRowan

[@NanakiRowan]

You weren't aware that STDs (which have existed for thousands of years) were a "big issue" thousands of years ago? Are you attempting to cope, champ?@@MustardSkaven

[@kufre4493]

@@MustardSkaven Its quite harmful for women and more counter productive than helpful so no its quite considerate

[@MustardSkaven]

@@kufre4493 Learn to read. I agreed with him that it has benefits for men, an argument for it. But for women it's just horrible. So he is not being considerate of women. Do you know what "considerate" means?

[@katleholehlokoane9663]

No mention of Egypt. Thank God! We, black Africans held our own in terms of human history.

[@icu4life240]

They were contributions to Egypt as well. This is how and why a civilization thrives.

[@JuiceMakaveli]

Math, science, literature, astronomy, religion, all started in Africa

[@teahgosman8923]

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[@skip6639]

I thought i would heat some amazing stuff but agriculture, iron ... i mean dont act like its something great... what about writting systems, mathematics, the wheel, roads. Nothign but.mud huts🤧🤣

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

A 10 minute video praising Africa as a continent of inventors just for circumcision, metal working and rice cultivation. Very underwhelming to be honest

[@andrewjohnson8232]

Sweetheart - this channel is introducing African history to people who are interested. You're clearly not, so what exactly is the point of your comment?

[@nomercynodragonforyou9688]

@@andrewjohnson8232 no, the content is very light. that;''s the issue

[@andrewjohnson8232]

@@nomercynodragonforyou9688 It's not light, it's specific. Thid channel is all about highlighting details in African history to build an informed overall picture. And it's very good at doing so. The creator's research is almost impeccable. I of course cannot speak for the creator, but I suspect he chose circumcision, rice cultivation and the iron age because of their wider technical and cultural implications. .

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

@@andrewjohnson8232 I am interested in African history but this video was a bit too dramatic for such basic inventions

[@andrewjohnson8232]

@@Getcakedieyoung23 They are indeed basic, if by basic you mean fundamental. If you mean simplistic however, I'd say their implications deserve a little more reflection. Circumcision implies advanced knowledge of excision and sterilisation. (Carried out incompetently, unhygienically or at the wrong age is disastrous). And given that the procedure is purely ceremonial, it indicates a culture with a developed sense of confidence. Having influenced Judaism, as recorded in the Bible (John 7:22) and by extension Islam, the cultural impact has been considerable, revealing that Africa was not the isolated or marginal ahistorical entity it has often been portrayed as. Rice is the world's single most important food crop. The date of its domestication in Africa is still on dispute with estimates placing China as much earlier. Crop domestication however is one of the most important indicators of settled society with organised labour. It is now widely (though not universally) accepted that Africa reached the iron age a thousand years before anywhere else. That's extraordinary as technical advancement doesn't come much more significant. It is now thought that advanced iron technology reached Europe via the African smiths in Moorish Spain, and a recent study has found that the wrought iron technique that made the British Industrial Revolution possible, was brought to England from the techniques used by African smiths in Jamaica. The thing to always bear in mind, is that Africa has always been the most sparsely populated continent. It has always punched far above its weight.

[@dominiclogan8780]

1st?

[@AshieduJude]

According to Hoy Scriptures the so-called wood, stone age never existed, cos the Ark of Covenant was all masterpieces metal works

[@Mizarachi904]

Skipping the Iron Age isn’t an achievement if you didn’t do as much with it… these arguments about 1st is a big reach if none it helped stop colonization 🤔 as colonization trumps all of these achievements because it’s colonization that has Africa at a disadvantage regardless of technological capabilities

[@drumagus2258]

i guess rome, greece, egypt, sumer ect. didn't achieve anything because they were also colonized.

[@slimpickens01]

Is that Willie D in the thumbnail? 😂😂

[@myheatgoesboomboomboom1655]

Ethiopian multipcation mathamatics is stil used to oprate computers and caculaters til this day

[@catcountry0099]

Michael Jordan on the thumbnail?

[@PayThePiperr]

Huh?

[@catcountry0099]

@@PayThePiperr That looks like MJ

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

Willie D

[@justinfowler1271]

This is all Egypt. Literally nothing in sub Sarahan in 10k years

[@BeeWhistler]

Wow, real classy. Support your statements with historical fact, if you can. I suppose you’ve been around for 10,000 years watching to make sure, hm? Or is it just what you want to believe? What have you invented lately?

[@andrewjohnson8232]

None of it was in reference to Egypt, which cannot be separated from so-called aub- Saharan Africa in the first place.

[@gozartenks3587]

Are you dumb? Egypt is not even mentioned. 🤡

[@nomercynodragonforyou9688]

For a small video like this, art or language should've been mentioned, instead of circumcision. And there's a couple more, when it comes to ancient history.