About 30 years ago I was going to work in Ivory Coast and my work involved travelling throughout the continent of Africa. To prepare, I read Dr. Mazrui’s materials and watched this documentary series which was so helpful. From Ivory Coast I moved to South Africa before coming back to Europe. I have really loved the years I lived on the continent, there is something which pulls you towards Africa.
@tino_734 жыл бұрын
one of the greatest documentarys ever made rest in peace dr. mazrui
@JarelTheArtist6 жыл бұрын
did your lecturer's assignment also bring you here?
@MuzikTrabolee6 жыл бұрын
JarelTheArtist we meet again haha
@LuchuMawisa6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately not. It so happens that I attend an institution still strangled by colonial subjugation, in 2018
@johnsonmofiyinfoluwa78644 жыл бұрын
School Examination brought me here
@shikanyota4 жыл бұрын
No, just youbing.
@f1ref1rst623 жыл бұрын
Yea it in fact did.
@josephinempundu42052 жыл бұрын
This documentary used to air on our Zambia National Broadcaster in the mid 80's and I followed his narrations religiously. A great researcher, narrator and historian. Rip Professor Ali Mazrui.
@lusekelokasunga87463 жыл бұрын
It's one of the very best TV series of documentaries on Africa and its history-if, not the very best ever! All thanks to the familiar voice and face of Prof. Ali Mazrui. This brings back a lot of childhood memories, growing back in my parents' house we never used to skip a single episode of this amazing documentary. It is without a doubt my hope and prayer that this goes down to the generations to come and to come.
@londonbowcat1 Жыл бұрын
What about the Basil Davidson one?
@rootsdubz2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching Prof. Mazrui on tv back in the early 90'. Too young to understnad at the time, but im back now.
@collinsnoel61533 жыл бұрын
PROFESSOR ALI MAZRUI was our finest. Rest in power Senior🇰🇪
@joycemooney16905 жыл бұрын
This series had such impact in me when it was released in the 1980s. I enjoy watching again.
@MrRONINDEX4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@Nuru3054 жыл бұрын
This is my first time ever hearing of him and I'm now very happy there are episodes I can watch.
@deborahjones15494 жыл бұрын
It had a real impact on me as well ! I had to recorded the series ! So excited. And it was Patrice Loch Ocieno Lumumba and his memory which brought me back to it today'. He recalled the statement Ali Manzuri said , that Africa produce "what it does not consume and it consumes what it does not produce", from this point i had to returen to review this documentary, a great talk is the patrice Loch Otieno Lumnumba speacks to AGRA stsff and partners In Narobi.
@dsmrn57593 жыл бұрын
Dr. John Henrik Clarke bought me here & thus far he is 100% correct. #LoveDr.Clarke
@royalmbwana3 жыл бұрын
May he rest in power master teacher John Clarke and prof Ali Mazrui
@wilhelmhesse13486 жыл бұрын
Ali Mazrui was so much ahead of his time, so much of what is narrated is very relevant to Africa's situation today. A great documentary produced back when the BBC really made excellent documentaries.
@rotimivaughan63054 жыл бұрын
NTA you mean
@thegentlemangwise7 ай бұрын
It was a joint production by NTA & PBS
@MukonkiMukonkela8 ай бұрын
My father introduced me to the Africans a triple heritage, when i was very young. Then, I didn't understand nor care. Now i more than get it. The background music is nostalgic 😊 😊😊
@marotncha86752 ай бұрын
Television came to Cameroon in the mid 1980s. And "The the Africans" was first aired a year or two later. And like you, I was too young too understand it. And when I watched it again in 2016 it just blew me away. Since then, I have been watching it at least twice a year. And each time it never fails to blow me away.
@ostrch2 жыл бұрын
What?Is this Ali Mazrui’s The Africans?!!I loved this series of documentaries when I was a teenager!This brings back happy memories of my youth!
@andrewsiyomunji36438 ай бұрын
same here he shaped my "Africaness"
@JoshuaKhumalo7 ай бұрын
@@andrewsiyomunji3643 good can I ask you something
@n.b.21644 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this back in the 80's as a kid. Loved watching documentaries. I remember it being really good. Emotional at times. I need to rewatch this.
@yasminm71572 жыл бұрын
Yes me too. Been searching for this for ages, especially love the theme music.
@jackkent56207 жыл бұрын
Thanks for compiling this show as a whole. I've been looking for this for years now. They don't make shows like this anymore. As an African this is completely relevant in order to understand how the Continent came to be the way it is (So Much yet So Little). Thanks again ..... ( π {} 📷 )
@misst.e.a.1874 жыл бұрын
This is my first time watching this excellent documentary, delivered from a different (non-European) perspective. It's evident that wherever the European goes, he creates a problem, then proposes a solution to that problem that he created in first place. Wherever he goes he wants to subjugate, demean and destroy. Africa, the Americas - it's the same story.
@Timangathonjia7 жыл бұрын
thank you for the upload. Mazrui was one exceptional mind
@abrahamhoto91332 жыл бұрын
This was worth watching. It brings to light the truth about our one continent mama Africa. Thank to my history lecturer, Dr. Sadat, at the university of Ghana for recommending this documentary to us his students.
@hadialiyu1056 жыл бұрын
this is the documentary that touches my life i always love watching it
@michaelotieno1789Ай бұрын
Just wonderful and very important to me as a Master's student in History at the University Of Nairobi, Kenya..... I've learnt alot from the video by Mazrui himself
@silvrliit4 жыл бұрын
Saw this originally on PBS awhile ago, always hoped they would air it again as they do all the same Ken Burns pieces. This was so informative and well explained, this educators account is still the most enlightening elegant and informative vs those I’ve view even just today. They should update it and optimize it’s output for today. Thank you! Ah! I did not know he had passed. What a work you did here! You will always have my admiration and thankfulness. What a wonderfully articulate elegant educator! R.I.P Dr. Mazrui🙏🏽❤️
@personaltrainingkenyadrazo24727 жыл бұрын
THANKS SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS BEEN LOOKING FOR IT FOR AGES, SO HAPPY THAT IS WHY IAM SHOUTING
@omoefeorhewere4 ай бұрын
Who is watching this in 2024😊😊
@onomeokpe78034 жыл бұрын
My father loved this documentary. I grew up watching this documentary.
@oluwasikemiopeyemi94124 жыл бұрын
I see you o. You dey here too?
@onomeokpe78034 жыл бұрын
@@oluwasikemiopeyemi9412 You dey here too. I dey watch Daddy favorite film oooo.
@chisangatamba59633 жыл бұрын
Me too Onome Okpe
@stuckintha90s3 жыл бұрын
Yes o. NTA2 Channel 5 things
@belizetobali2 жыл бұрын
I remember when this 9-part series was first aired in the US by PBS stations (after its showing on the BBC which produced it). Three people too out a full-page ad in the New York Times, warning Americans NOT to watch, because they were going to hear the history, geography, culture of Africa as told by AN AFRICAN! (Masuri woud become Albert Schwietzer Chair at NYU). Lynne Cheney (Sr.) was then the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William Bennet was the Secretary of Education, and Diane Ravitch. . .well, she was Diane Ravitch who believed that "multi-culturalism" was about learning all the good and patriotic things about our own country - and our friends - but about the rest of the world we only needed to know where they are. These are the triumvirate that took out that full-page ad warning us not to watch it. Mazuri. . . brilliant.
@nathaincoolman99823 жыл бұрын
I watched this documentary in the late 1980's on one of the pbs stations in Chicago when I was a teenager.it does show it's age today- the referances to Mobutu,Nyere Raylings,and other African leaders who were in power at the time but no longer are and some them now long deceased but it is still a show to watch and I had been looking for it for some time and I was happy to find it on KZbin recently.
@thomasphoenix69763 жыл бұрын
Respect to Dr Ali Mazrui.Great Teachings.We Miss You.Thank You.
@louiseugeneberkaielanga33194 жыл бұрын
My idol Ali Mazrui...watch when i was young
@BXCALI4 жыл бұрын
Have been thinking about this doc since last year. It had been years since I seen it and always thought it came out earlier but see that it originally aired in 1986 so I had to be 12/13 thinking I was younger when I first watched this. The series definitely left an impact on me and peaked my interest in Africa as a whole as well as wanting to travel there someday. I always wished that PBS would have rebroadcast this, do a follow-up to this. Henry Louis Gates series was good also but this one had a big impact on me
@anthonymulindwa4353 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant ! May the soul of this gallant son of Africa rest in eternal peace
@jameskinuthiamunene6356 Жыл бұрын
This documentary was such an impact on me as a history lover when NTV Kenya screened it in the early 2000s,had never watched it before then
@PIXOTV1013 жыл бұрын
Dr. Lumumba brought you here✊🏿
@mohammadibnallah8062 Жыл бұрын
It is very strange that only 3 universities in the whole of Africa gives Bachelor, Master and PhD in African studies. The University of Ghana (but it is a kind of hoax), the University of Kenya (but the first courses started in 2022 and the price was 7.000 euros per year) and the University of Johannesburg (but you need to know one local language). Now I study African studies in Istanbul. It seems that Europe and the US cares more about Africa then Africans themselves.
@lakitariSarah23 күн бұрын
Wow that’s awesome
@honestconversationswithJiddare22 күн бұрын
You said nothing but the truth. I have been looking for a university that'll give me a fully funded PhD in Gender studies (the African woman's perspective) there's none. Seems I'll have to undergo this important research outside the shores of the continent
@millionmoes42904 жыл бұрын
2020 continue awakening each other peace and light brothas and sistas
@mohamedyagoub11745 жыл бұрын
The must great works for African history by an African intellectual Mazrui, RIP.
@wilsonwanjohi49104 жыл бұрын
The Mazruis exploited locals and hoarded land for themselves
@FlyRoni5 жыл бұрын
This is a primarily why I support PBS good quality programming thank you for uploading this
@blessingsbob54474 жыл бұрын
I was initially watching this because of a school task but I've later come to enjoy it😍
@jhgfuifyt4 жыл бұрын
hit 246 ?
@ogindiii14653 жыл бұрын
Which course my brother I am interested too
@furrybear576 жыл бұрын
A shame this series has not been digitally re-mastered and re-released on DVD. I would have purchased a copy. Also it is shame that Dr. Mazrui was not asked to re-do and update the series prior to his death in 2014. A new version of this series, with all the changes that have taken place in Africa and the world since 1986 would have been very interesting.
@godforeme6 жыл бұрын
furrybear57 Dr. John Hendrick Clarke called Dr. Ali Almazrui the bastard of the history, now I am gong through this series to find where Dr. Almazrui had bastardized the African history and in due course I invite any others to look threw with me. It is time to reread The underdog African history by the Africans themselves....
@furrybear576 жыл бұрын
Main Shaft, this Dr. John Hendrick Clarke with the white Anglo-Saxon name is a doofus. Historians criticized this series because it put Christianity and white colonization in a bad light. But Dr. Mazrui WAS right. Christianity and European colonization destroyed Africa - as did the Islamic faith. it removed the native peoples from the connection they shared with the continent and indoctrinated them to the same old monotheistic philosophy of God giving you the earth for your pleasure and that the animals that God himself had created had no souls. There is no need to go through the series. Dr. Mazrui spoke truth to power and white Christians are such snowflakes.
@karisbenisrael78425 жыл бұрын
@@furrybear57you're right family! Now its upon us to make sure that this information is out there
@dsmrn57593 жыл бұрын
@@furrybear57 only an uninformed person would call Dr. Clarke a "doofus." However it is an absolute doofus that believes mazrui speaks truth to power.
@furrybear573 жыл бұрын
@@dsmrn5759 it takes one doofus to know another.....your reply tells me you are fully aware Dr. Mazrui's conclusions were spot on. Christianity, Islam and White colonialism all ruined Africa and it's peoples. Shame on you for denying history and truth. I suppose you believe the Tulsa massacre of 1921 either did not happen or was just another Black riot?
@iansitati4803 Жыл бұрын
Thank you professor Ali Mazrui.
@halimaali21584 ай бұрын
My father encouraged me to watch in the 80s. I loved it,but didn't much understand. Now I do, and unfortunately nothing much has changed in Africa since then. We are still struggling to find our identity.
@hermanrwaboona91983 жыл бұрын
I first watched the series in 2003 on BBC channel. Am happy to be watching the same in 2021
@vuyotsheu37884 жыл бұрын
EFF online lecture by PROF PLO LUMUMBA brought me here.
@killercharm5 жыл бұрын
I fell hard for this show when I first found it, along with The Western Tradition and America's Defense Monitor. Thank you for this.
@davisonchikazunga36252 жыл бұрын
I am grateful to come across this documentary, Thanks to Prof Lumumbashi
@lucyebiloma79963 жыл бұрын
2021/Nov. Learning and also Observing mostly used terms
@onyanchamotanya9734 жыл бұрын
Africa’s youth will be the world’s future conservation leaders. We must ensure they have the skills and opportunities they need to carry on the fight for our wildlife and wild lands. @AWF_official
@velloxykaunga64464 жыл бұрын
Who is still watching ??
@shikanyota4 жыл бұрын
Me
@velloxykaunga64464 жыл бұрын
@@shikanyota real knowledge
@yakubuyakubu73947 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I miss this so much.
@fidelixnjong12033 жыл бұрын
Quite an interesting documentary .I enjoy watching it.
@danbedfordcomte16524 жыл бұрын
Amazing doc. Anyone know what the song at 31:41 is? Sounds absolutely incredible.
@acajudi1002 жыл бұрын
I am happy, that I relocated at 79 to Queretaro, Mexico, where I am safer, and it is $850 dollars less per month, and I can order all I want from the grocery here, and shelves are full, and not any limits. The people are super nice and have much respect for everyone, but especially the elderly. Please move to a less expensive country, and open 2 different Charles Schwab debit cards to avoid ATM fees, and foreign transactions. You must always notify them,before you travel. Local friends have ordered from the Argentina's Mercado Libre for me, when they pretended to not find my apartment, and gave me a credit. My friends have told them to send the packages to them. Old fashion Quaker Grits, and Louisiana hot sauce. La Comer Estudio does an excellent job delivering my groceries etc. in my Corregidora neighborhood. I have an excellent tour guide and lawyer.
@Ototeadesuwa5 ай бұрын
Assignment ooh 😢
@htsngo13353 жыл бұрын
I am watching in 2O21 even
@Sekou1562 жыл бұрын
Afro-consciousness ------------------💥 DR. ALI MAZRUI: the triple heritage of Africa Dr. Ali Mazrui, was a Kenyan American based scholar, prolific author, and a critic of Cheikh Anta Diop. He advances the theory: “The Africans: A Triple Heritage as opposed to African Renaissance through its classical culture. According to Mazrui, Africa is the home of traditional religion, Islam, and western Jeudeo-christianity. And that these three values systems must be celebrated as the triple heritage of African people forever. But Diop, who was also born in a Muslim family like Mazrui insist on authentic African civilization, history and culture unique to itself. Analysts believe that Mazrui was a great teacher, but no match for Anta Diop. It was also believed that he was speaking from a biased perspective as a believer and not scholarship. Look, Europe was once ruled by Islam but no one talks about the triple heritage of Europe today. Imagine a China or India with triple heritage? The fact of the matter is that Africa has one classical heritage: KUSH-KEMET. Islam and Christianity remain colonial legacies which have no future in a united Africa. Rest in power Dr. Mazrui. But we prefer the Diopian school of thought which takes us to our classical past (Kush-Kemet ) and to begin a cultural revolution.
@ericknyandieka72953 жыл бұрын
assignment led me here, nice documentary. 2021 here we are
Teri mbe monene, timanyeti Ning'o oganyete agoakere egechuria. Manora kendabu!
@ogindiii14653 жыл бұрын
Naki ninyore enamba yago togambe Nyore details
@halimayusuf88289 ай бұрын
Great video. I enjoyed it very much.
@9jareacts22 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this, with my late father growing up, but we only had 3 parts, I wish he was alive to see the remaining parts
@muneerhasham64913 жыл бұрын
Beautiful commentary
@abdullahimusa2453 жыл бұрын
Prof. Muhammad Bhadmus (professor in literature) sent us the link of this documentary to watch.
@boitumelomatsho68742 жыл бұрын
Watching in 2022,first watched in 1989,informative
@audreyevans74225 жыл бұрын
For once we see colonialism from the colonized people's point of view.
@AdrianJohnson-ms2zs Жыл бұрын
I saw this on PBS back in 1986.
@Ksm007-z6u2 жыл бұрын
Are you here because a certain lecturer in Bayero University suggested it?
@devotion11007 жыл бұрын
Amandla !!!! Ase' !!!! anedge her ek Abetet, djed ek hena i...Talk to me ancestors. I Need You. Thanks Mommy Sa-Rah Maat Ra
@sheilamwaura669110 ай бұрын
Who is watching due to the downfall of Ruto's Kenya in 2023.
@kaamn18295 жыл бұрын
He goes so hard and pulls no punches-- and the world of academia is better for it.
@jordanbenjaminmoyowambuya11234 жыл бұрын
It's for you and me to push the punches
@mouthkhulumanjalo3983 жыл бұрын
Are there any other resources that you guys suggest for someone starting the journey of awakening?
@salihukwairanga9211 Жыл бұрын
Great work!
@BlvdBilly4 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@williamabineni8778 Жыл бұрын
how come there are fewer or no scolars following the footsteps of Prof!?
@sueokiri25052 жыл бұрын
Who’s watching in 2022
@sarahnkuchia7 жыл бұрын
This video is suddenly not available. please re-upload?
@Profmorphious1236 жыл бұрын
sarah nkuchia you mean they took it down? I will reupload asap.
@Profmorphious1236 жыл бұрын
This was a great series.
@shirshavitalis86392 жыл бұрын
Great work
@timeisrunningoutforthebeast4 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@cyndarious4 жыл бұрын
Edward Said brought me here.
@dotJPJP2 жыл бұрын
34:44. Jomo Kenyatta, and his son Uhuru Kenyatta was/is a government by an oligarchy and one of the biggest let downs in the African emancipation movement.
@Heegooat11 ай бұрын
Every single day I wake up with sorrow about my tribesmen. I now adopt my distant Maasai heritage and denounce kikuyu
@lakitariSarah23 күн бұрын
Mr Obushe history lecturer brought me here
@Mansamoor3695 ай бұрын
Peace and prosperity
@mohamedismail9933 Жыл бұрын
اشار الاستاذ عادل الفيل لهذا الوثائقي الجميل بصفحته بالفيسبك رحم الله المزروعي
@martinshake16512 жыл бұрын
2022 watching
@rebeccaayaoo4 жыл бұрын
WHOS HERE FROM IBOKETTES CLASS
@oliviapozen91894 жыл бұрын
you know ittt
@bloopyplanet4 жыл бұрын
@@oliviapozen9189 sadly
@francisdezayasgbansenso23412 жыл бұрын
Yes
@jenniferguilbeaux710 Жыл бұрын
Is this video a film feature or a documentary?
@jobsonmatos4549 ай бұрын
os afro-brasileiros precisam ter acesso a esse documentário. Alguém poderia legendá-lo, afinal, a imensa maioria de nós não conhece essa língua. Inclusive eu
@sankara89392 жыл бұрын
I went to school with his grandchildren
@Profmorphious1236 жыл бұрын
PBS did a rebuttal Show when this aired the first and only time back in the day.
@furrybear576 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry I missed that.....
@mlayton1904 Жыл бұрын
A more accurate perspective of the continent in Genesis 2:9-14, "8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates."
@LuchuMawisa6 жыл бұрын
How many parts does the documentary have in total?
@johnnyhaynes93604 жыл бұрын
Nine!
@kaisteve23903 жыл бұрын
quite interesting
@jostinamateus27418 ай бұрын
Anyone doing GES 210 at UP?😭
@GUSCi-BDE4 жыл бұрын
dang here after watching Da blood
@NanyongaAngella-j6xАй бұрын
Yes he did
@williamwooten61563 жыл бұрын
still relevant
@owinovicowinskie37126 ай бұрын
India vs Arabia, Indian Ocean at bay
@carpenoctem15775 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me what the song is around 41 min?
@williamokelana70164 жыл бұрын
It's a classic called "Pie Jesu"
@owinovicowinskie37126 ай бұрын
Mumbai, Mombasa International port of global docks, sea air and land. Tik Tok...
@popcorn30782 жыл бұрын
ONE THING I DONT AGREED WITH.. AND THAT CRESTIIN IS MILLIONS OF YEARS. THE EARTH FROM CREATION IS ONLY SIX THOUSAND YEARS. . BEFORE THAT THE WORLD WAS EMPTY, JUST FULL OF MINERALS IN WATER.
@shirshavitalis86392 жыл бұрын
So, what can we say is the problem of development of Africa?
@YourIjawHistorian Жыл бұрын
I like and enjoy Professor Ali Mazrui's lecture for its depth of knowledge, but I detest the fact that his narrative tacitly tried to undermine Christianity and to promote Islam in some way. He called the cross "detachable"; a word he couldn't have used for the crescent which he held sacred as a Muslim.
@aaronsakhai Жыл бұрын
He's an islamist, what did you expect? I had to take a class of his ages ago-- what an utter piece of shit he was.