Desert Empires – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 10]

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Desert Empires – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 10]


In this episode Zeinab Badawi visits rarely seen historic sites and magnificent ruins in Mali and Mauritania in west Africa. We hear from Africans about how trans-Saharan trade, mainly in gold, meant that by about the 7th century rich kingdoms became established in West Africa. These eventually gave rise to three of the greatest empires on the…

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  1. 🙋🏾🙏🏾🤲🏾 How does each of the 12 Tribes of Israel relate with Mansa Musa, David, Solomon? Does the Tribe of GAD plus the Tribe of JUDAH have a Kingdom plus a Empire when building a Senate? I pray we have ownership of our Native Senses with Holistic Healing.

  2. Please help me out on the ED issue. Didn't he fight as a commander and known by the name Garwe, hence the Lacoste or crocodile nick name. How then was he considered a civilian? Please explain further on this, I thank you Sir Tafi🤜🏿.

  3. When they say Africans were enslaving themselves… they don't mention Islam was Caucasian supremacist delusion as well and infidels were enslaved. Hence…Caucasian arabs ruling N. Africa. Plague 5000 years ago spread from Ukraine and caused the Indo-european refugee terrorists to spread

  4. Q BBC AFRICA Can you make a video about the country that introduced coffee and has one of the oldest mosqe in the whole world . Ajuran . sultan of Camar, adal empier the land of punt, ifta sultan. waggad empier, tunni empier, geldi empier, isssaq empier, hobbyo empier, aussia empier, saraipion and now somalia

  5. Zainab, why is your narration of African history so narrow and patchy? Example, you left out King Mkwawa's defeat of the Germany forcesin Tanzania at the Battle of Lugalo! You failed to tacle this issue in the Resistance Narration . The Germans lost over 300 soldiers that day! Germany had to seek for more reinforcement to come to settle and revenge the humiliating defeat vs the Hehe tribe, King Mkwawa's tribe!
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  6. Unfortunately the host doesn't speak enough about the black taureg the real ancestors of the past kingdoms and the real rulers of these empires and there tribes ber ber is not a tribal name it's a name given and later adobted by light arabs to steal history from black hamatic African tribes shame

  7. Dear Mrs. Zeinab…. you have made a respectable landmark to the History of Africa documenting a great civilization being the cradle of humanity. The history will always remember your documentary being as great as the African civilization.

  8. Pyramids in China, Pyramids in Croatia, Pyramid on the moon and Pyramids on Mars the Egyptians did not build the Pyramids. The Director of Antiquities in Cairo is lying and cannot stop. The original Egyptians were black. The people were known as the black headed people. The racism persists but we will not be fooled anymore. The original early explorers tried to say the Egyptians were Europeans possibly white Atlantans or Aryan, please get rid of this guy Zahi Abas Hawass he is an embarrassment. The Arabs came into Egypt later and of course the language and the religion became prominent after conquests. This guy thinks Egyptians looked like him, so funny. That is like saying the Olmecs an even earlier civilisation were not negro's, just look at the stone heads for goodness sake. Please get rid of this guy he is no longer credible.

  9. Very wrong history here..Ghana was never destroyed by the Mende and was also never influenced by the Islamic culture. Ghana was destroyed by the Almoravids who were Muslims. They disrupted the trade route in the desert. Read the book Tark Al-Sudan. Sundiata Keita, sometimes known as Mansa Mari Diatta established the Manasa Dynasty after he defeated Summaguru Kante. Sundiata Keita was later succeeded by Mansa Oulian. Please do not distort our history..

  10. Zeinab Badawi is an amazing woman, and excelent professional! She's so smart, his voice is beautiful! I'm studying English using his videos, and I love her! Thank you very much!

  11. One thing I’ve noticed from the first episode up until this present one is empires & kingdoms with so much wealth, indigenous culture and trade power as seen in Oudane, in today’s world have little or nothing economically. Religion and colonization really were the enemy.