The Portuguese Lie : The Fall of African Kingdoms

Many historical texts on the slave trade primarily focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, highlighting this era as the peak of the slave trade in Africa. However, this perspective often overlooks the earlier, aggressive tactics used by European slave traders in the 16th and 17th centuries. During these earlier centuries, Europeans, specifically the Portuguese, actively undermined African leadership-toppling resistant kings and elites while installing compliant, corrupt figures.
This approach created a misleading narrative, suggesting that Africa willingly sold its own people, which ignores the brutal measures Europeans employed to dismantle thriving African empires and quash any opposition.
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[@bigboy3454]

So, in other words, nothing has changed in over 500 years. That is what's happening in Africa currently. This is why every Black person globally needs to learn the true history of our Race, so that we can wake up and break the cycle of our oppression.✊🏿🔥

[@Taurean_SAMA]

People need to recognize the enemies that are blatantly exposing themselves as such. And dispatch them quickly 🔫. They still sell your resources and future on the cheap to their European overlords. Like subservient creatures, you can barely call human.

[@lukalusalalunenkuka1585]

And what is strange is that in the Portuguese and Brazilian Encyclopaedia, the article "Slave trade" begins with a refutation: "It is not true that Portugal started the slave trade". But who started it? Portugal is incapable of recognising and assuming its very bad past deeds towards Africans. Strange indeed!

[@markosanto]

Dante Fortson channel has source link for 11th to 18the centuries books that disclosed everything about Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, UK, the Americas slave trade.

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Not at all. We know the motivation of the people who write most of those articles. Wikipedia has no merit when it comes to world history.

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@lukalusalalunenkuka1585 the Spanish ?

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Please be respectful in your comments and interactions with others. Leave a comment or question for this channel below. Thanks for watching

[@thespeechboss]

Those conquerors are still the same people. They haven't changed at all. They're just the ones on top now, so now they're constantly on full defense mode- thinking that the Africans want revenge.

[@HistoriaAfricana]

They will never change. Their tricks have been modified to fit modern times. Motivations remain the same.

[@thespeechboss]

@HistoriaAfricana their tricks have barely changed though. They haven't been able to come up with too many original strategies in their own. We should be ahead of this... thank you for your content and sharing it, because you did a beautiful job here.

[@bigboy3454]

Africans should get revenge; But our revenge will be us working together, doing business with each other, and defending each other, and uniting with our Brothers and Sisters in the diaspora. ✊🏿🔥

[@lukalusalalunenkuka1585]

I am from Congo and speak kikongo. Thanks for this video. Europe, and Portugal in particular, eally destroyed African opportunities in many ways. Sad!

[@lf1496]

You don't lay down and give up. Take your country and resources from these 👿👿👿👿Act like Niger Burkina Faso and Mali, fight💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Absolutely. They killed off resistant African kings and replaced them with puppets. Same thing happening now. Lumumba, Nkrumah etc replaced by incompetent leaders. Same blueprint, different time periods. The similarities are striking indeed. I love the people of Congo by the way.

[@lukalusalalunenkuka1585]

​@@HistoriaAfricanaIn the Congo Empire, Ntotila Afonso Nzinga Mvemba tried to stop the slave trade. Consequently, Portuguese subjects tried to assassinate him by firing on him during a holy mass! Portuguese, to defend their interests, had no limits, not even sacred places. Oh oh!

[@fbawaterdragon4592]

Yes, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, and a number of other European nations certainty was responsible for Africa being conquered, but lets face facts. There's no way in hell Africa would have been conquered the way it was if it wasn't for tribalism and sellouts. I know it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's the truth. Our ancestors in the 14th-18th century was fighting each other in Africa. Many of these tribes still don't get alone even to this day. These tribes did not really get alone at all. If you look at how African civilizations whether it was Nubia/Kemet, Mali/Songhai, Zulu Kingdoms, and many other African kingdoms in between, they all ended very similar. We need to acknowledge that. I've said this time and time again, it's good to study our ancestors glory, but we also need to learn from our ancestors mistakes so we don't make the same mistakes again. Otherwise, it's just Africa sick of being abused and blowing off steam, but the cycle continues. And by no means, it's no disrespect whatsoever. I want Blacks worldwide to unify. If not, it's going to be the same sh*t, and business as usual for the European!!!!! FBA all the way, everyday🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!!! Yera💧.

[@Tropicaya]

Do not take the low view count as a sign that people are not interested in this history. It takes a STRONG person to know the truth, and an even stronger person to endure it. God bless your hearts.

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Thanks for commenting. The message will get out there one day.

[@ras7tafari]

8:06 “The Portugese equipped with firearms which the Africans lacked”. How did the Africans not had weapons in that time? That is what I don’t understand? How?

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Arquebuses were not available in large quantities. We did not make cannons either. Peaceful societies do not sit around finding out more efficient ways to extinguish their enemies.

[@gagecarty4290]

All that led to the fall of Portugal and the country never recovered. And left Africa in disarray 😮😢😮

[@hodgemoss]

In fighting and jostling for power is still the toxic ingredients undermining the peace and stability of many countries.

[@HistoriaAfricana]

To this very day. Truth!

[@Hist247]

Historia Africana- very important commentary that helps to further explain what happened during the transition interplay from Islam’s trans Saharan slave trading and European Christian organized and led trans-Atlantic slave trading, after Christianity’s ascendancy against Islam’s imperial domination in Western Asia, North Africa, and parts of southern Europe. Very important approach to the incomplete discussion on the question about the nature of agency and who initiated the Christian European human trafficking as a criminal enterprise between Africa and the Americas, why? Agency is not a random phenomenon. Agency requires cause and purpose, rationale, means and function. One cause was the persecution of blacks in Europe, all of whom who were deemed to be Saracens. One rationale is the contrived ‘Biblical Curse of Ham and his descendants’. Recall that Ham, Nimrod, Cush, Mizraim, and others were once leaders of civilization in the world. One function was the economic need for labour in expanding colonies in the Americas. None of these would have undergirded African agency in enslaving other Africans until Eurasian versions of Islam and Christianity in west Africa. Roman Catholic Popes were learned men of global power and purpose. They knowingly wrote those papal bulls in opposition to Biblical conceptions of the nature of humanity and, to create a specific kind of consciousness in the minds of Europeans. Therefore, initiation of Christian European agency in the transatlantic slave project was not a mere accident of history. It is more than a supposition; it is an invalid supposition that Africans had primacy of agency in the transatlantic schemes of human trafficking, when the chronology of evidence of human presence in the Americas include that Africans were in the Americas, many centuries before 1500 CE. Where is the evidence that Africans brought other Africans to the Americans as slaves? No transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas would have happened without European engineering in Africa and without European Christian programmes of colonisation of lands in the Americas. This would beg the obvious question. What would Africans have brought other Africans to the Americas to do? Also, recall that native Indians in the Americas were enslaved first. It was only after their numbers were decimated by their European Christian enslavers, and some colonies such as Cuba appeared to be on the brink of collapse that that the black enslavement project took its very sinister turn. Specific efforts began to bring blacks from Europe and north Africa and later from the lower west coast of Africa, now took on definitive cause and purpose. No doubt this was encouraged by the defeat of the Moors in Iberia just before 1500 CE.

[@gagecarty4290]

They learned about the wealth of Africa from the Moors who taught the Portuguese civilization and science

[@antwannascimento9778]

I was born and raised in Portugal and i can tell you this is very true. Till today africans are seen as sub-category type of people there. They still have a very colonial mindset when it comes to us. And in School none of this is showed like this. It is portrait as trading commerce, thats all. Sure there was some slavery but the main purpose was to Trade merchandise and to exchange culture, and to "spread the Lord's word"

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Thanks for sharing the truth.

[@YoungBillyKatastrophe]

Alfonso got what he was looking for smh

[@HistoriaAfricana]

Yup. Never trust a snake. It will turn and bite you.

[@justinamusyoka4986]

They deny but for the same reason they built Fort Jesus in Mombasa,Kenya.

[@emaa9652]

2 brothers Esau - Jacob ?

[@JustMe-no8el]

I’m interested in if you could make a video about alleged black Jews of Spain and Portugal deported to Africa and then sold into slavery . I wonder if this is real or just myth