@PrinceNoirAmericain were you trying to enable a "smiley emoticon" of some sort? I can't see the emoticon. I was at a lost for words after watching this, which is why I responded the way I did. My feelings, sad and contemplative. It's all just so sad, and haunting.
A "smiley emoticon", I didn't even know they had smiley emoticons on YouTube lol. I wasn't able to interpret the "hmmm" so I kindly smiled :-). Now I understand why you put "hmmm", yes it is haunting. I respect Danialou's courage, he is not afraid to face the truth as it pertains to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It took a lot of guts to do what he did.
no one wants to talk about how europeans manipulated the entire slave trade...lets talk about how europeans pitted tribes against each other,instigated on going tribal beefs,intimidation with guns,bribery wit guns,causing inflation on the currency, and manipulating the african chiefs with wealth and guns from this injustice....LETS TALK ABOUT THAT!
@mobfiggak1 PEACE Brotha, no matter what we talk about brotha, this is a discussion between us and our Afrikan cousins... In the song the brotha was talking about how the white man didn't attend the conference, and how the song was dedicated to him, etc. But trusting him is the reason Afrika is in trouble now, never should we invite him(whites) to our table to discuss family matters
@PrinceNoirAmericain but the brotha Mobfiggak1 is correct, it's not as simple as clear cut greed here in the case of the Afrikan royalty building alliances with a cancer it still live with to this day. This is another case of manipulation and exploitation on the part of the European, and although the victims do play a roll in their victimization they are still not to blame. Those Kingdoms fell as a result of their alliance with the Europeans, the only mistake the Afrikan made is trusting them.
I can't speak for every kingdom but with respect to Dahomey(Abomey) and Hogbonou, they made way more mistakes than "simply" trusting the White man.
Even if at the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, anyone could be "sold" irrespective of social status, at the commencement, it was mainly war captives and members of weaker tribes, the same ones they used in "ceremonial killings"
When the White man arrived in Dahomey, he was literally blown away by the political and military organization of the Kingdom and to quote a Beninese lady, a well-educated historian "when Euros arrived, Dahomeans could have easily destroyed them. they didn't communicate directly with the King. The coastal chiefs served as a liaison between the King and Euros. They were not allowed to penetrate into the interior of what is today known as "Benin". Of course later on, they were
able to communicate directly with the King and his representatives. But this simply illustrates the fact that the products brought by Euros interested the King, dignitaries and other members of the elite. They did not hesitate to hand over these "inferior" war captives and other members of conquered tribes in exchange for those products.
Also, let's keep in mind that many of them were also "domestic slaves" and contrary to popular belief, at least with respect to
@PrinceNoirAmericain there's simply too many aspects to the situation for someone to just come out and say it was clear cut greed. Some say Afrika benefited from the TransAtlantic Slave Trade, I say how so? Where is all this money? I agree with the sista Ayisha forgiveness is a must, but we should not disarm ourselves against someone who has a history of not having our best interest in mind, Afrikans, and Afrikan of the diaspora should reconnect and do for ourselves, both in large and small ways
Also let's not view history through the lens of Pan-Africanism. At the height of slavery in Dahomey, everyone was being sold and captured, relatives were selling relatives but at the start of it, it was mainly members of inferior tribes.
They didn't see these African brothers as "equals", there was no such thing as "African unity and solidarity", lol. Weaker tribes were conquered and subjugated and were often used in sacrificial killings to honor the dead or when kING DIED
for example. When King Guézo died, his son Glè-Glè had more than a 100 people killed. He also complained about treasury problems when slavery ended. In fact, he wanted to perpetuate it.
Also, it wasn't until later on that the white man began supplying one tribe with weapons to attack and enslave other tribes. In fact, in Dahomey, the division predated the arrival of Euros on Dahomean shores.
We have to be honest, of course they profited from slavery
Yes, I agree, Africans and Africans of the Diaspora should reconnect and do for ourselves.
Slaves were taken from other places, not just Dahomey. I'm not an expert on the slave Trade as a whole but I have thoroughly researched slavery in Dahomey
Fucking human greed to own everything!! We believe ourselves better than others and entitled to buy and sell evrerything, including animals and human beings!!!
By the way, the song is in French and " Goun", which is spoken in Benin, principally in the administrative capital " Porto-Novo or " Hogbonou" in Goun
I don't know about the other countries, but it's a part of the curriculum in Benin. Perhaps that's why a lot of afrodescendants move to Benin, the country seems to have come to terms with its past. Ghana has done a lot as well...
TetuaMaana West, Central and East Africa (Sudan). In West Africa, they came from present day Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali, Guinée Conakry, Guinée, Bissau, Guinée Equitoriale, Sierra Leone, pretty much from everywhere in West Africa. In Central Africa, from present day Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola. In East Africa, mainly from Sudan...but i'm not an expert
Oui et " yovolé" au pluriel, merci à vous d'avoir pris le temps de laisser des commentaires. Je suis en train de traduire un reportage là, j'ai presque fini, qui porte sur les femmes noires de France qui se blanchissent la peau au moyen de produits toxiques et donc potentiellement cancérogènes. C'est très intéressant, il y a même un petit débat entre Africains et Africaines donc voilà j'arrive, quoi lol
Salut ca va! Je salut l'initiative du Benin en terme de l'histoire, faire se travaille de memoire et de rapprochement est important. En Afrique de l'ouest il y a plus qui est fait dans se sens pendant qu'en Afrique centrale c'est a la traine sinon inexistant. Il' y a seulement le fespam de Brazzaville qui invite la diaspora.
Quand a la chanson c'est vrai que il y a eu implication Africaine meme au plus haut niveau dans certain cas. Mais voila ca ne couvre pas tout les cas,
Une personne qui ne connait pas l'histoire pourrait en venir a de drole de conclusion. Tout de meme j'apprecie l'initiative et la chanson. thanks for sharing.
Salut ma soeur, il n'y a pas de quoi, c'est le moins que je puisse faire, toi qui m'envoies des vidéos super intéressantes tous les jours lol. Mathieu Kérékou is the former president of Benin, the current president is Yayi Boni :-)
merci de m'avoir envoyé ta vid, je l'ai envoyée a mes amis, c vraiment intéressant, merci de l'avoir posté aussi !!!!;-))))) Marie j'aime bien la musique aussi !!!
@SuperQueenofAfrica
:-)
PrinceNoirAmericain 3 weeks ago
Google "Dr. Lewis Steiner" and see how some blacks were in the Confederate Army!
najami12 1 year ago
Hmm.
Papillonmuscogee 1 year ago
@Papillonmuscogee
:-)
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@PrinceNoirAmericain were you trying to enable a "smiley emoticon" of some sort? I can't see the emoticon. I was at a lost for words after watching this, which is why I responded the way I did. My feelings, sad and contemplative. It's all just so sad, and haunting.
Papillonmuscogee 1 year ago
@Papillonmuscogee
A "smiley emoticon", I didn't even know they had smiley emoticons on YouTube lol. I wasn't able to interpret the "hmmm" so I kindly smiled :-). Now I understand why you put "hmmm", yes it is haunting. I respect Danialou's courage, he is not afraid to face the truth as it pertains to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It took a lot of guts to do what he did.
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
Adupe, Adupe,
how can i reach the person who made this video?
Efunlade1
Efunlade1 2 years ago
Are you Nigerian?
You want to reach Danialou Sagbohan (singer)? The director, producer? I don't know what you mean by "the person who made this video".
Anyway, thanks for commenting :-)
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
lets talk about the african tribes who fought against this injustice
mobfiggak1 2 years ago
no one wants to talk about how europeans manipulated the entire slave trade...lets talk about how europeans pitted tribes against each other,instigated on going tribal beefs,intimidation with guns,bribery wit guns,causing inflation on the currency, and manipulating the african chiefs with wealth and guns from this injustice....LETS TALK ABOUT THAT!
mobfiggak1 2 years ago
Salam, that's all we ever talk about to tell you the truth, which is why I translated this song :-). hotep
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
@mobfiggak1 PEACE Brotha, no matter what we talk about brotha, this is a discussion between us and our Afrikan cousins... In the song the brotha was talking about how the white man didn't attend the conference, and how the song was dedicated to him, etc. But trusting him is the reason Afrika is in trouble now, never should we invite him(whites) to our table to discuss family matters
truthdalunason 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
real talk
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@PrinceNoirAmericain but the brotha Mobfiggak1 is correct, it's not as simple as clear cut greed here in the case of the Afrikan royalty building alliances with a cancer it still live with to this day. This is another case of manipulation and exploitation on the part of the European, and although the victims do play a roll in their victimization they are still not to blame. Those Kingdoms fell as a result of their alliance with the Europeans, the only mistake the Afrikan made is trusting them.
truthdalunason 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
I can't speak for every kingdom but with respect to Dahomey(Abomey) and Hogbonou, they made way more mistakes than "simply" trusting the White man.
Even if at the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, anyone could be "sold" irrespective of social status, at the commencement, it was mainly war captives and members of weaker tribes, the same ones they used in "ceremonial killings"
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
When the White man arrived in Dahomey, he was literally blown away by the political and military organization of the Kingdom and to quote a Beninese lady, a well-educated historian "when Euros arrived, Dahomeans could have easily destroyed them. they didn't communicate directly with the King. The coastal chiefs served as a liaison between the King and Euros. They were not allowed to penetrate into the interior of what is today known as "Benin". Of course later on, they were
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
able to communicate directly with the King and his representatives. But this simply illustrates the fact that the products brought by Euros interested the King, dignitaries and other members of the elite. They did not hesitate to hand over these "inferior" war captives and other members of conquered tribes in exchange for those products.
Also, let's keep in mind that many of them were also "domestic slaves" and contrary to popular belief, at least with respect to
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
domestic slavery in Dahomey, the slaves were treated just as viciously as they were in the Americas.
It had nothing to do with trust, it was "interest", on both sides, the law of supply and demand.
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
My sources are mainly "Beninese historians" such as Félix Iroko for starters.
Please feel free to respond
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@PrinceNoirAmericain there's simply too many aspects to the situation for someone to just come out and say it was clear cut greed. Some say Afrika benefited from the TransAtlantic Slave Trade, I say how so? Where is all this money? I agree with the sista Ayisha forgiveness is a must, but we should not disarm ourselves against someone who has a history of not having our best interest in mind, Afrikans, and Afrikan of the diaspora should reconnect and do for ourselves, both in large and small ways
truthdalunason 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
Also let's not view history through the lens of Pan-Africanism. At the height of slavery in Dahomey, everyone was being sold and captured, relatives were selling relatives but at the start of it, it was mainly members of inferior tribes.
They didn't see these African brothers as "equals", there was no such thing as "African unity and solidarity", lol. Weaker tribes were conquered and subjugated and were often used in sacrificial killings to honor the dead or when kING DIED
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
for example. When King Guézo died, his son Glè-Glè had more than a 100 people killed. He also complained about treasury problems when slavery ended. In fact, he wanted to perpetuate it.
Also, it wasn't until later on that the white man began supplying one tribe with weapons to attack and enslave other tribes. In fact, in Dahomey, the division predated the arrival of Euros on Dahomean shores.
We have to be honest, of course they profited from slavery
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@truthdalunason
Yes, I agree, Africans and Africans of the Diaspora should reconnect and do for ourselves.
Slaves were taken from other places, not just Dahomey. I'm not an expert on the slave Trade as a whole but I have thoroughly researched slavery in Dahomey
stay up bro
PrinceNoirAmericain 1 year ago
@PrinceNoirAmericain anywhere in the world....
truthdalunason 1 year ago
PrinceNoirAmericain.
Another poignant video. I like the message of accountability, forgiveness and reconciliation. Thank you for sharing this video.
Ayisha27 2 years ago
5* ;-) Bravo pour cette vidéo ;-)
SolerBros 2 years ago
merci mon frère :-)
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
de rien ;-)
SolerBros 2 years ago
Hmmmmm, interesting video!
5 ***** LOVED IT PRINCENA!!!
styliz31 2 years ago
merci pour le commentaire ma soeur
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
Fucking human greed to own everything!! We believe ourselves better than others and entitled to buy and sell evrerything, including animals and human beings!!!
uverapp67 2 years ago
Sagbohan the great, im feelin you right now for this message...keep tellin them the truth...one
lancerocket16 2 years ago
By the way, the song is in French and " Goun", which is spoken in Benin, principally in the administrative capital " Porto-Novo or " Hogbonou" in Goun
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
I don't know about the other countries, but it's a part of the curriculum in Benin. Perhaps that's why a lot of afrodescendants move to Benin, the country seems to have come to terms with its past. Ghana has done a lot as well...
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
TetuaMaana West, Central and East Africa (Sudan). In West Africa, they came from present day Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali, Guinée Conakry, Guinée, Bissau, Guinée Equitoriale, Sierra Leone, pretty much from everywhere in West Africa. In Central Africa, from present day Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola. In East Africa, mainly from Sudan...but i'm not an expert
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
Which modern day countries did transatlantic slaves come from?
And do you know if transatlantic slavery is part of the curriculum in schools?
TetuaMaana 2 years ago
Nuru305 you're welcome sis
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this video.
Nuru305 2 years ago
congobigp Oui mon frère, tu as raison, ça ne couvre pas tous les cas, je vais me renseigner sur le fespam de Brazza
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
Oui et " yovolé" au pluriel, merci à vous d'avoir pris le temps de laisser des commentaires. Je suis en train de traduire un reportage là, j'ai presque fini, qui porte sur les femmes noires de France qui se blanchissent la peau au moyen de produits toxiques et donc potentiellement cancérogènes. C'est très intéressant, il y a même un petit débat entre Africains et Africaines donc voilà j'arrive, quoi lol
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
yes i, yovo means the white men
jahlittlejah 2 years ago
Salut ca va! Je salut l'initiative du Benin en terme de l'histoire, faire se travaille de memoire et de rapprochement est important. En Afrique de l'ouest il y a plus qui est fait dans se sens pendant qu'en Afrique centrale c'est a la traine sinon inexistant. Il' y a seulement le fespam de Brazzaville qui invite la diaspora.
Quand a la chanson c'est vrai que il y a eu implication Africaine meme au plus haut niveau dans certain cas. Mais voila ca ne couvre pas tout les cas,
congobigp 2 years ago
et sa generalise.
Une personne qui ne connait pas l'histoire pourrait en venir a de drole de conclusion. Tout de meme j'apprecie l'initiative et la chanson. thanks for sharing.
congobigp 2 years ago
Salut ma soeur, il n'y a pas de quoi, c'est le moins que je puisse faire, toi qui m'envoies des vidéos super intéressantes tous les jours lol. Mathieu Kérékou is the former president of Benin, the current president is Yayi Boni :-)
PrinceNoirAmericain 2 years ago
:-))))
inevergiveup1402 2 years ago
merci de m'avoir envoyé ta vid, je l'ai envoyée a mes amis, c vraiment intéressant, merci de l'avoir posté aussi !!!!;-))))) Marie j'aime bien la musique aussi !!!
inevergiveup1402 2 years ago
who is president mathieu kerekou ??? i suppose he is the president of benin, this rythm makes me think of ivorian music !!!!!! ;-))))
inevergiveup1402 2 years ago
C'est vrai le rithme est très interessant. Je l'entend assez souvent surtout avec la communauté Haitienne qui son les descendants du peuple Beninois.
roodbrood 2 years ago