Legacy African History tells the stories of Africa's kingdoms, empires and peoples, from ancient Kush and Aksum to the age of colonization and the resistance against it.
Each documentary is researched from the work of historians and archaeologists and from primary sources such as travelers' accounts, royal letters and oral traditions. Sources are listed in every video description. I create custom maps and visuals to show how these societies lived, traded, governed and believed, and I point out where historians still disagree.
The goal is simple: to share Africa's history accurately and in depth, beyond the myths and stereotypes that still surround it.
New documentary every Wednesday.
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Legacy African History
🗺️ Tomorrow’s documentary asks a question most textbooks skip. Before you watch — what do you think Africa was called before “Africa”?
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible contains books most Christians have never read: the Book of Enoch, Jubilees, and the Ethiopian books of Meqabyan. Why did Ethiopia keep them when the rest of the Christian world moved on?
In this video, we go back to the kingdom of Aksum, follow centuries of Ethiopian scribes copying texts in Ge’ez, and look at why the Book of Enoch, quoted by name in the Epistle of Jude, ended up outside most Bibles.
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Did the Kongo people believe we come back to finish our work? 🌍
The Dikenga, also known as the Kongo Cosmogram, is one of the most important symbols in African spirituality. Created by the Kongo people of Central Africa, it shows life as a circle that follows the path of the sun: sunrise is birth, noon is the peak of life, sunset is death, and midnight is time in the world of the ancestors.
The horizontal line, called the Kalunga line, separates the world of the living from the world of the ancestors. It is often imagined as water. In this view, death is not an ending but a sunset before another sunrise.
The idea crossed the Atlantic with enslaved Kongo people, and scholars have traced its influence in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and the United States.
Do you believe we come back to finish our work? Tell me in the comments 👇🏾
📚 Learn more: the Dikenga was explained in detail by the Kongo scholar Dr. Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau.
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Do you believe we come back to finish our work? 👇
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🌅 NEW VIDEO IS LIVE!
For the Kongo people, death was not the end. It was a sunset before the next sunrise. Discover the Dikenga, the sacred symbol that crossed the ocean to Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the USA. ▶️ Watch here: https://youtu.be/2-EZWZpce5s
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One of the 42 Laws of Ma'at says "I have not eaten my heart." What does it mean?
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Which law surprises you most?
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In ancient Egypt, what was your heart weighed against after death?
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⚖️ NEW VIDEO: The 42 Laws of Ma'at: The Final Test of the Soul
More than 3,000 years ago, the Africans of ancient Egypt believed that death was not the end. It was a trial.
After death, your heart would be placed on a golden scale and weighed against a single feather. Forty-two divine judges would be watching, and you would have one chance to prove you had lived a life of truth.
Pass, and eternal life awaits. Fail, and Ammit the Devourer erases you from existence forever.
To pass, the soul had to speak the 42 Declarations of Innocence, one of the oldest written moral codes in human history.
Some will sound familiar. Others will surprise you. One is about a river. Another is about a child's bread. 🌊🍞
In this video, you'll discover:
✅ What Ma'at really meant
✅ The soul's journey through the Duat
✅ The Weighing of the Heart with Anubis, Thoth, and Osiris
✅ All 42 laws, explained simply
Would YOUR heart balance with the feather? 🪶
👉 Watch now: https://youtu.be/KaFUanUm2rc
#Maat #AncientEgypt #AfricanHistory #Kemet
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What did the ancient Egyptians call the text we know as the "Book of the Dead"?
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