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How Eurocentric Education Gets African History Wrong
How Eurocentric Education Gets African History Wrong Kwabena Ofori Osei 61 Views • 2 years ago

Further Research Recommendations below.

Check out the original video by Economics Explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8TXQWVsoI

"Why Is Africa Poor" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: https://economics.mit.edu/site....s/default/files/publ

Book Recommendations:

Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Conrad, David C. Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. Chelsea House Publishers, 2010.

Ehret, Christopher. Civilizations of Africa: A history to 1800. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 2018.
(This one is super long and a bit academic, but covers an extremely broad timeframe and area, and goes much further back than most history books on Africa.)

Fauvelle , Francois-Xavier. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. S.l.: Princeton University Press, 2021. (This book covers a lot of topics in African history over a pretty wide area, but isn't overwhelmingly long)

Gomez, Michael A. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. (Very good book on Medieval Sahelian history)

Parker, John, and David Adjaye. Great Kingdoms of Africa. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. (This book features articles written by different scholars on a variety of topics from across Africa, and like The Golden Rhinoceros it's not too long. Great place to get a taste of history from across the continent)

Phillipson, David W. Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300. Oxford: James Currey, 2012.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic World: 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. (Probably my favorite book an Atlantic Africa)

The Cambridge History of Africa (Volumes 1-5 for Pre-Colonial History)

African History-Focused Channel Recommendations:
@FromNothing
@hiddenhist
@Bamise
@hometeamhistory806
@Mrminibagel
@medievalafrica
@ronuspirit

Video Recommendations from channels not specifically focused on African history:
Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnU0v6hcUo&ab_channel=CrashCourse
Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade: Crash Course World History #18:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XtBLDmPA0
Kongo: Central African Superpower - African Empires Ep. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvfo0Vkr84
What Wheelbarrows can teach us about World History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnwg3dpboc
Brief History Of Africa Before Colonialism -- How did we get there?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHrGorccjcg
Medieval transport - the beginners' guide (this one isn't related to African history directly, but elaborates on some of the stuff I talked about regarding transportation in this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tdguh1D-fOk&ab_channel=Lindybeige

My own videos on West African History:

The Kingdom of Benin (Edo Empire) | West Africa's Longest Lasting State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I86yPms8fys
The Ghana Empire (Wagadu) - Africa's Land of Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuKV_Fd4vfs

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Claim: The Sahara Isolated Sub-Saharan Africa
01:25 Trans-Saharan Contact
03:45 Nile Valley and Red Sea Trade
04:10 The Horn and Arabia
04:41 The Swahili Coast and Indian Ocean Trade
05:26 Actual Possible Barriers in Africa
06:11 Claim: Africans Never Developed Farming
07:00 Independent Crop Domestication in Africa
07:58 Introduced Crops in Africa
08:07 Animal Agriculture in Africa
08:52 Spread of Farming in Africa
09:32 Hunter-Gatherer Populations
10:54 MIT Study
12:25 Claims About The Wheel
13:50 Wheel Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
14:14 Saharan Wheels
14:51 Non-Wheeled Transport
16:25 Reasons for the Decline of Wheeled Transport
18:54 Conclusion + Source Recommendations

For Mothers Who Won't Let Fathers See Their Children- An All Women s Film by Nware Rahsaan Burg
For Mothers Who Won't Let Fathers See Their Children- An All Women s Film by Nware Rahsaan Burg Kɔrɔ Naka 61 Views • 2 years ago

⁣Black Women give their unfiltered testimony and plea to urge Black Mothers not to keep their children away from their Fathers.

‘For Mothers who won't let Fathers see their Children,’ is an all-women’s response to Mothers as well as court systems directly affecting Father’s visitation rights and direct positive relationships with their children. Women will discuss and examine women’s role in the matter or the role they have experienced with other women to take part in this matter. More so to make a positive argument and narrative regarding the importance of having the father or man in the household and directly in the child’s life in any capacity. Women will be the primary voices in the discussion and discourse regarding this topic.

Nware Rahsaan Burge is currently a PhD candidate, an Adjunct Professor at Kean University in Union, New Jersey; Essex County College, in Newark, New Jersey; and Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. Nware is also a History and Special Education High School teacher and an Award-Winning Independent Documentary filmmaker. Nware holds a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts/Political Science from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, a Master’s degree in Education from Brooklyn College, in Brooklyn, New York and is a PhD candidate in Humanities and Culture at Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nware has taught and worked in urban public schools for more than 17 years and as a University Professor for 4 years.

Nware was born in Hackensack, New Jersey and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He lived in Brooklyn, New York for 15 years, as well as Philadelphia for 3 Years, and currently resides in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey. As a first-time filmmaker and director, Nware has created his first feature documentary film, which is in its final editing stage, entitled: DNA-Using Genealogy to Change My SLAVE Last Name. The premise of the film poses the complex and sensitive question, “Should Black people change their White last name?” The film features Dr. Gina Paige of AfricanAncestry.Com as well as New York State Senator Kevin Parker, Historian and Scholar Dr. Leonard Jeffries and other scholars who give their insight on the topic. This complex and sensitive subject matter that his documentary film is based, has qualified Nware’s film to win the Yaa Asante Waa award for Best Documentary at the Black Star International Film Festival in Accra, Ghana.

Nware Burge’s film, DNA-Using Genealogy to Change My Slave Last Name, proposes the idea that people of African descent in the Americas, specifically African Americans and Caribbean’s alike, should contemplate the idea of using DNA genealogy results to change their European surname to the name of their genetic African ethnic origin. Nware plans to use his results from his DNA genealogy test to decide on a new surname, as well as applying for dual citizenship, which he urges other African Americans to consider as possibilities.

Another aim of his documentary DNA is to enlighten others and bring to the forefront that people of African descent in the Americas have carried and passed on the legacy of chattel slavery, imperialism, and colonization, as they continue to pass on their slave master’s European surname, from generation to generation without much grievance. The film reflects love, cultural pride, and the perplexity regarding his family surname of BURGE. Nware’s film DNA, also addresses the importance of people of African descent reclaiming their cultural and original mores, norms and spiritual systems from West Africa that were lost due to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Nware will be releasing his totally independent documentary film titled: For Mothers who won’t let Fathers see their Children (An All-Women’s Narrative), this Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16th, 2024, in which he attends to shedding light and understanding concerning general issues of Black fathers being separated from their children through a legacy of systematic governmental politics as well as the volition of mothers through parental alienation.

Nware is also in pre-production of his independent film titled: BLACK BEACHES in America – Our Maroon Societies. A film which will be centered around educating and sharing the great stories about some of the iconic Black Beaches in America that many people, never knew existed.
Overall, Nware understands the importance of history and culture as it applies to people of direct African descent and indigenous people across the world and hopes that all are inspired after viewing his films.

Detroit auto engineers tear down China BYD's Seagull: U.S. Politicians and Auto Industry Panics
Detroit auto engineers tear down China BYD's Seagull: U.S. Politicians and Auto Industry Panics Kwabena Ofori Osei 61 Views • 2 years ago

Auto industry insiders were stunned when Caresoft, a highly regarded engineering consulting firm, tore down BYD's mass-market EV, the Seagull.

Priced around $11,000, the engineers found the Seagull to be well-designed, user friendly, rich with options, and of surprisingly high quality and reliability.

The US automakers reacted swiftly, and produced reports insisting that BYD's entrance into US car markets would be met with strong enthusiasm from buyers, and legacy carmakers would be unable to survive.

Because of the Seagull's low price point, US tariffs of 25% would be irrelevant: BYD could still make high profits even after the tariffs were paid. Or, BYD could simply place final assembly plants in Mexico and avoid them altogether. Aware of this, the Biden Administration in May jacked the tariffs up to 100%, and announced that Chinese car plants even in tariff treaty countries would be cut off from US markets.

Correction: I was wrong when I said that EV's are lighter. Apologies. I was working with three sets of notes, and the changes didn't make it over in the final draft. It was my fault. Cheers. Kw

Resources and links:

American Test Of $11,500 BYD Seagull: 'This Doesn't Come Across Cheap'
https://insideevs.com/news/710....364/byd-detroit-impo

On a collision course: China's existential threat to America's auto industry and its route through Mexico
https://www.americanmanufactur....ing.org/wp-content/u

CNBC, Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/2....2/byd-seagull-ev-put

American Test Of $11,500 BYD Seagull: 'This Doesn't Come Across Cheap'
https://insideevs.com/news/710....364/byd-detroit-impo
5 takeaways from Biden's tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles

NPR, 5 Takeaways from Biden's new tariffs on Chinese cars
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14..../1251096758/biden-ch

Associated Press, Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry
https://apnews.com/article/chi....na-byd-auto-seagull-

Forbes, China’s Seagull Leads The Way In Cheap, Well-Made Electric Cars
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j....oshmax/2024/05/14/ch

Caresoft Global, company page
www.caresoftglobal.com

BYD’s new Seagull EV shocks the industry
https://electrek.co/2024/03/22..../byds-new-ev-startin

Closing scene, Harbor, Hainan Province

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