Sudano Sahelian Architecture

[@hiddenhist]

Hunh i meant to publish this around noon. Sources, as always, are in the description!

[@user-uy1rg8td1v]

If I can suggest doing without background music in the future videos. It's pretty distracting and sometimes it was hard to hear what you were saying.

[@hiddenhist]

@@user-uy1rg8td1v The feedback is always appreciated. I've recieved a lot of different opinions on the background music, but I fully intend on turning it down on the next video :)

[@GeoBlits]

epic video

[@StefanMilo]

Mud architecture is making a moderate comeback in the west too, though it's called "cob". Great video, can tell a bunch of research went into this.

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

I want an Assassin's creed game set in west Africa sahel story could be about one of the Mansa's taking out Userpers to the throne it could be called something like Assassin creed gilded Age

[@ajjack2322]

I've been saying this for the longest time. The Catalan Atlas has a picture of Mansa Musa holding a gold nugget, they could easily say that it's the apple of eden or whatever. Timbuktu seems a very climbing and parkour friendly city. You can mix the urban cities like Timbuktu with the Niger river, and the Savannah with animals like giraffes and lions.

[@silverbullet537]

it would be perfect setting for first civ lore too, the medieval mali being a massive producer and export in gold across the world, the gold mines could serve as some sort of isu terminal to replenish resources and minerals, and Mansa Musa's gold nugget could be some sort of key to access it, that could be what the Templars go after

[@Travisbig7]

You guys are better developers than the actual dickheads over at Ubisoft lol

[@uyilol4557]

The Malian Assassin's could be Adewale's ancestor. So many possibilities. Smhhhh

[@uyilol4557]

Or they could make a game about the Benin warriors. Ghost of tsushima style. 👌🏿

[@EmilReiko]

Just like people in europe are realising that old architechure and building techniches plus crafts associated with them are worth preserving and keeping alive, so are people in many african localities - with the added benefits that they are now realising it while undergoing modernization and not as in the west where the realization first came after the crafts where gone and dead. Its not like reviwing a lost art, but keeping the art alive.

[@EmilReiko]

Btw, this is pure oil for the soul when it comes to preserve historical crafts and trades Its not architechture, but im sure you will enjoy kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKamn415obyqprM

[@thatguy464]

Great video hidden Pls don't forget the forest zone Africa such as ashanti, benin, dahomy, yoruba, igbo, and bamum. It will help demonstrate the diversity of west Africa architecture those also wasn't just mudhuts. Plud try to tackle central Africa congo, oceanic Madagascar, and east Africa swahilis. By the way, ur voice is approving I hope u get as big king and general and Jabari's (From Nothing) channel. Keep up the good work.

[@hiddenhist]

That Guy i’m definitely hoping to be able to cover them in future videos!

[@africariseup1890]

@@hiddenhist You should also cover the Bamileke people's architecture of Cameroon.

[@bmwfan4552]

I'm from Algeria and we have a similar town in the Algerian Sahara called Timimoun. 🇩🇿🌴

[@DirtyEdon]

Dude this is probably the BEST African channel I've seen on KZbin

[@jujujihadist1248]

Check out From Nothing, he provides fascinating content.

[@wandamaximoff7495]

look for From Nothing and Hometeam History, both are awesome

[@kharldojo7137]

Check out Without History, Hometeam and From Nothing

[@djinnjax3274]

Gotta love Hausa architecture.

[@CogitoEdu]

Brilliant video, this kind of architecture deserves a lot more attention and like you, I hope it continues to be used.

[@dylanmay4993]

Thank you for this, I was having a lot of trouble finding info on pre European anything in Africa. I am trying to create a country inspired by Sub Saharan Africa for my second fantasy book and it is hard to find good info.

[@hiddenhist]

very nice to see people using Africa as inspiration for media! I’ve been working on expanding this series to make more videos on more of this type of stuff - we’re so lacking in cultural references from africa...

[@dylanmay4993]

@@hiddenhist Yeah, even though it is in a fantasy world, I want to show African culture and mythology the same respect I show European. So to me, that means to take inspiration from real life to make my fantasy cultures.

[@silverking2181]

@@dylanmay4993 Hope you managed to do it !

[@alm7911amir]

can't wait to see it. most common trad things we have here are open air markets, city walls with 7+ gates and an undying horse riding culture.

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

Funny enough the worlds oldest sky scrappers people still live in them in Yemen originally built to avoid arab raiders

[@Buurba_Jolof]

I love my Sahelian culture. Thank you ❤👍❤🌙👑

[@alainjoseph7790]

Excellent video. As an African, we need this type of info spoken on. Thanks

[@thatguy464]

I sure hope to see it Sahlians mud bricks skyscrapers like Yemen. As Africa modernized but not getting rid of there tradition in the process. Btw nice music choice for this video.

[@alm7911amir]

You're among the few i can count who actually do the sudan and africa as a whole justice. Thanks.

[@SasukeUchiha-pv4xn]

Please do more videos on African architecture

[@hiddenhist]

(psssst dont tell anyone but in planning something on ethiopian church architecture) :)

[@africariseup1890]

Look up Bamileke architecture

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

Great video 👍 Keep Up The Great Work

[@x999uuu1]

Song was a bit loud. Maybe turn it down a bit for the next video. Still like the idea of background music

[@akhalif579]

HiddenHistory, really very good interesting and informative channel in my view. I would suggest keep doing it. Excellent every subject you talked about so far.

[@michelaka6836]

Excellent well researched work. Full of rarely publicized findings.

[@draco_1876]

Can you do a video about African martial arts.

[@dann_mrtins]

There is one source you can add: Myth of Al-sahili's origin of african architecture, and about how he was more a poet than an architect and the only structure he built was the palace/part of the palace of Mansa Musa with doomed roof and geometric paintings. www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0399-0346_1989_num_59_1_2279

[@supahotjoe6493]

sida o sahelian architecture is purely african. Don’t even try.

[@Vexillographer]

Awesome video and editing! Learned some cool stuff about mud architecture, and you actually provide your sources unlike the vast majority of channels. Looking forward to more vids from ya! :)

[@theghosthero6173]

Very good video

[@theirishshane]

Nice video. Very informative

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

Awesome Channel Black African Power Great Job Great Work My Brother's Keep it Up

[@tompossessed1729]

@GODESTINY 😑😑😑😑 you can't be serious because north Africa has arabs ,coppernic etc who light skinned.

[@malcomdiene7745]

@@tompossessed1729 But those aren't indigenous people.

[@silverbullet537]

@GODESTINY many of them are an admixture between the two actually

[@silverbullet537]

GODESTINY it does very much make them African sense their recent generations have originated on the African continent, but it doesn’t make them purely black,

[@ferdinandkornelis4160]

I show a lot of Pagan rune in this building, the best exemple is the rune "gungnir", " La lance d'Odin", in the haoussa culture his name is "neud de l'arewa" It's mean "neud du nord"

[@cook8903]

Your channel inspires me !

[@qenimeri2]

Great info. Thanks

[@Tessier9999]

Great informative video! You just got another subscriber!

[@theprophet869]

Awesome video. Well done.

[@mal1khh397]

That backgroud music tho lol Great video

[@soleb542]

Good job

[@juanjuri6127]

the great mosque of djenné tends to hog most of the attention as far as sudano-sahelian examples go, but the grand mosque of bani is where it's at imho

[@redspiritmask]

Great video!

[@sjappiyah4071]

Excellent video again 👌🏿

[@tompossessed1729]

I find it hypocritical with the tribal culture such as south America but they don't get shit on constantly by it.

[@djinnjax3274]

Spanish people didn't care about justifying their actions.

[@JcoleMc]

Or the tribal culture of Australia

[@malcomdiene7745]

Great video mate! I love the way you present, perhaps you should just put more energy to your voice (not my problem, others may have), just an idea to help you grow ;). To add, as a chillhop and african history fan, I absolutely adore the music background.

[@potatoebugz6310]

Respect Brother.

[@mohmedgadir7833]

I am glad you are uploading videos again ... :-) And may God bless and watch over the baby and the entire family. I love how the Wife is the Alpha person in the family who provides depth with warm emotion .... but the Husband still shows maturity, strength and standard to drive and lead the family together with the Wife to the ultimate purpose of life, which is Happiness (then the Wife follow into his wise mature masculine). This matriarchy system is how we as FULANI people understand the universe around us (the prehistorical Kemet Indian Vedic spirituality) My genetic map consist of: (1)West African Bantu Garamante (Fulani Futa Toro - The Moors) = 60% (2)East African Cush Nubia-Kemet (Borgu Jelgoore) = 30% (3)Indo-Aryan (Dravidian Harijan Dalits & Vandals Hanover) = 10% Our FULANI family name in local language is "Elbahi" from West Africa Mali which is historically related to the Afro Brazilian culture in Salvador Bahia Brazil. Our family is also genetically related to the Dravidian Harijan Dalits of South India and most recently the Afro Indian or Indo African culture, the Siddi/Habshi. The Bantu Garamante people follow a Matriarchy society (The Khemit School of Ancient Dravidian Mysticism). Matriarchy is a social system in which the older females (Kandaka) hold the primary power positions in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property (similar to the Dogon people who are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, and are the descendant from ancestors who built the Pyramids and the keeper of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs language decipher code). Please watch "Pyramid Code" by Dr Carmen Boulter and Stephen Mehler 1)Pyramid Code The Complete Series // Ep 1 The Band of Peace kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJrVm4yLocmAnK8 2)Pyramid Code The Complete Series // Ep 2 High Level Technology kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3m1hnmMpNGIac0 3)Pyramid Code The Complete Series // Ep 3 Sacred Cosmology kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp_YiYKuhtt5bqc 4)Pyramid Code The Complete Series // Ep 4 The Empowered Human kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioXIlqlofJh3arc 5)Pyramid Code The Complete Series // Ep 5 A New Chronology kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHWYp6Ode8h1nKs Kandaka” means queen of the old Cush Nubian Kemet civilization. It was used as an all-encompassing name for a revolutionary woman and became the name for the women who returned for the massive protests in Sudan earlier in year 2018/2019. The Garamante people (The Moors or Berber consist of: Amazigh, Tuareg, Fulani and Hausa): were an ancient prehistorical civilization based primarily in present day Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central Africa, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, The Gambia and Senegal. They most likely descended from Iron Age Berber tribes from the Great Sahara desert. They are known by locals as "The Camels" Tuareg herders and "The Cows" Fulani Herders. Kindly please watch the latest discovery dated 28-Oct-2016 by Prof Charles Bonnet (London lecture). This new findings have linked all Sub Saharan Sudan Cush Nubia-Kemet and Mali Ghana Bantu Garamante cultures together as one prehistorical civilization located in the Great Sahara desert, that stretched from the Atlantic to the Red sea. This prehistorical empire had two capitals, the east capital in Sudan was called Kerma / Dukki Gel and the west capital in Mali was called Timbuktu / Gao. The Origin Of Nubia.Discovery of Capital and an African City (Kerma/Dukki Gel) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWrNoHZ3ocqNpcU This new findings contradict what the main stream Western academia has been telling us for the last 100 years? Kindly please watch this famous personality (of Bantu Garamante origin), who was challenging the American narrative in 1807 … Omar ibn Said (Arabic: عمر بن سعيد‎ ʿUmar bin Saʿīd; 1770-1864) was a slave born in what is now Senegal in West Africa, who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. There, while enslaved for the remainder of his life, he wrote a series of works of history and theology, including a posthumously famous autobiography. Challenging Misconceptions of Slavery: The Life of Omar ibn Said (by Carolina Public Humanities in 23-Oct-2020) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnS7mX2sfJ57iKs How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative (by PBS NewsHour in 24-Apr-2019) kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3O0lp99q9yenqc Library of Congress - The Omar Ibn Said Collection (by Blair Network Communications in 12-Feb-2019) kzbin.info/www/bejne/maa1dZuwpdV_irM

[@nakenmil]

I've been interested in West African architecture and history for a while, and this video was very informative. Thanks a lot!

[@shamusbhai6351]

People need to realize that completely detaching ourselves from the past is plain stupidity... so much of the modern world is built on historical foundations yet the majority feels ashamed to look back. Well, now given the environmental crises there is no other option. Great video! Very educative indeed. The music seems to be a bit overwhelming and distracting though.

[@matthewmann8969]

Assassins Creed Ancient Mali would be awesome

[@has892]

This is like the fourth comment I’ve seen suggesting this. I can’t wait for this.

[@nword1380]

@@has892 they'd probably never do it though

[@GlareBoxTV]

@@nword1380 There's more chance of Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan teaming up to produce a movie on this than a videogame publisher making a game.

[@DaduaMaiga]

@@GlareBoxTV That would be good and refreshing, I hope the next Assassin Creed game takes place in another ancient and medieval African Kingdom like Assassin Creed Origins, I've heard that the Woman King based on the Dahomey Amazons and Black Panther 2 are coming out in just a couple of months, so the success of those two movies will hopefully make something like this in the big screen, black panther made over 1.3 billion in the box office afterall.

[@JcoleMc]

@@nword1380 They'd do it but they'll most likely either 1. Portray mali as a trash hole Or 2. Enforce some woke agenda like the mansa being a trans bipolar furry or something Just look what they did to Mali in age of empires 4 complete disgrace

[@Fallacia_Konstantinos]

I loved the Sudano-Sahelian architecture since I was young teen. I think it's the most representative architecture of all the African continent. I don't know if at the same architecture belongs the Mauritanian stone architecture, which has so many characteristics & architectural motives to the cycladic architecture of Tinos island in the Aegean Sea, especially to the pigeon houses of Tinos. Generally many of those sahelian constructions are looking like to some cycladic buildings, but with a more earthen colour, not whitewashed.

[@PH7018c]

Beautiful..❤

[@HistoryOfSocialism]

Great vid dude. What's that backing track btw?

[@XtoCee]

History Of Socialism Kanye West - Lift Yourself

[@virginias.poston4308]

The music in the background is really distracting. Otherwise, this is really interesting.

[@SleepingGiantAfrica]

Great vid and congrats on passing the 1,000 mark! We also do videos about African history and culture. It'd be cool for us to collaborate on a video in the future. Let me know how we can get in touch with you 👍

[@hiddenhist]

Thanks so much! Sadly, thanks to the amount of chaos going in my life at the moment, I'm a bit too busy for collaborations (I've been struggling even to make a regular video!) but I'd love to keep that possibility in mind for the future :)

[@ianhobbs4984]

Get rid of the music which drowns the audio please

[@Boadi-wz3zc]

The background is too loud

[@anonymousontheinternet4486]

got here from the discord group

[@extratimecontent2531]

FADA Students nikuphi?

[@maxim3830]

Nice vid, but having the background music in the vid at about the same volume as the voice over might be not the best idea... Why not turn off the background music when you speak? So we can actually listen to your story.

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

U should turn the beautiful music down or talk louder bro

[@eruditootidure2611]

my BOI

[@purpleplant9515]

❤

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

Sudano Sahelian style very similar to Morocco, Algeria and Libyan mud castle, houses, the crenellation are arab-Berber style.

[@Buurba_Jolof]

No lol it's west African not berber

[@tayless2956]

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[@KingAbdulhaqq]

Really like the topic of this vid but I think yeezus was definitely drowning u out...

[@HistoryHouseProductions]

SCOOPITY POOP

[@djinnjax3274]

Are you referencing something?

[@staxstirner]

@@djinnjax3274 The song in the background lol. Look up Lift Yourself by Kanye West

[@mrhimselfalone7657]

@@djinnjax3274 yeah he's trying to say Africans used boo boo to make houses

[@djinnjax3274]

@@mrhimselfalone7657 Blood can't build things.

[@mrhimselfalone7657]

@@djinnjax3274 you lost me there buddy

[@arteyfrustracion9030]

Nobody: A Sahel Masons from that epoch: damn artists 😠😡😂😂😂

[@Troy-Moses]

As a general rule, educational videos should not be accompanied by music; as we came for knowledge and not entertainment -- so try to resist next time... Great material, by the way.

[@bleggedentertainment1275]

wow didn't know that was a rule of thumb. I would assume you mean the kind of music that isn't too distracting. because most educational video's do have some sort of music

[@youngerudit2524]

nicw

[@blanketjackson8075]

I could do w/o the ps bullshit

[@christianmiller9934]

Shut up

[@jontheodore6340]

K i like the building, but these fake news clerics gotta go. This post was made by Sonni Ali gang.

[@nickcellini5609]

Great Zimbabwe, city was started in the 11th century with stone structures starting in the 14th century after the Europeans arrived. Walls of Benin were made of earth and mud ! Castles of Ethiopia were not built until the 17th and 18 centuries.

[@hiddenhist]

Literally everything said here is false or misleading. What’s your point? Stone-wall structure building in southern africa dates prior to the arrival of europeans, so that’s already incorrect. Great Zimbabwe is the product of centuries of prior Zimbabwe constructions around Southern Africa. The benin walls are not walls, they are earthworks that would’ve required immense manpower to construct. The inner walls are regularly over 50 feet deep from ditch bottom to rampart top, and span over some 11 miles or something like that. The outer earthworks vary in height, but depending on section can vary to 20 feet deep, and span over many more miles. They, especially the inner works, all in all wouldve taken a powerful, likely centralized labor force to construct. Ethiopia’s palaces are not an isolated construction, and reflect some architectural conditions that predate the palaces by centuries. Among these are lalibela churches and other who far predate the palaces, and aksumite styles that date back to the ancient era. Also, its not like other palaces weren’t used in Ethiopia... the Gondarine ones are just particularly famous. We have ruins of Aksumite palaces aswell. You seem to be interested in little more than spreading bs. Please screw off :).

[@vernonrobinson1685]

@@hiddenhist salute

[@christianmiller9934]

Loud and wrong racist white boy

[@nickcellini5609]

Why mud ? How stupid. If mud was so great we would be using it today !!! So in the 1400's some africans in Mali built a few buildings out of mud bricks while the population lived in huts made of dried grass and Wildabeast poop. This is like 50,000 years after the Europeans started making actual bricks out of concrete !

[@hiddenhist]

Mixtures of poop, mud, and grass were used across the world including to make those picturesque german houses. Mudbrick was used across large swathes of the world for much of its history even in regions where stone was available, because it was simply an effective material for construction, and the construction of such mud buildings was common in west africa’s sahel. Excluding ‘huts’ from buildings is absolutely ridiculous, as a hut is by definition a type of building.

[@nickcellini5609]

@@hiddenhist Really, when I went to Germany I found those "picturesque" German houses were not made of mud. Yes mudbrick was used by almost every culture, until they figured out to use other more durable materials. Your argument is like saying Oral Tradition is as good as written language. Yes before writing everyone passed information by "word of mouth".

[@hiddenhist]

Nick Cellini i pray you know what wattle and daub is actually composed of, or that you chose to find out, because you clearly don’t. Not to mention, in regions where stone was present in appropriate quantities, one often did see stone some settlements - see dhar tchittt and ouallatta, which used stone, but the fact is that mudbrick functions perfectly for the purposes its needed for, and even comes with its own advantages. Your assumption is one of linear ‘progression’, but that seldom represents how societies actually get things done. Life isn’t a civ game. Many societies who used mudbrick had access to stone in some quantities, but chose not to use it.

[@ElijahShawmaliciousboy]

@@nickcellini5609 African architecture wasn't just mud, many were also built out of stone such as Great Zimbabwe and the walls of Benin as well as the castles of Ethiopia

[@shawndeagan7457]

@@nickcellini5609 German medieval and modern architecture is from the middle East and Asia. So is the Greco-Roman style. Mudbrick was used because it is easily accessible by anybody and mining quarries is both expensive abd time consuming. It is only when money, resources and survival can be gained from using stone in high population densities. If stone cannot be found or used mudbrick cities similar to Shivam will dominate. The mudbrick cities in Europe are older than the marble religious buildings, Shrine and churches in medieval Europe and Ancient.