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This was excellent! I remember reading about this years ago when I was only just getting my feet wet with African history content. I was gonna do a video on it as well but never got around to it. I also like the objectiveness and fairness when you suggested that it may very well have been brought by Native Americans themselves rather than the other way around. It's always refreshing to receive such an unbiased assessment.

“According to a memory still alive in the Idjo nation, the Yorubans in days of old went on sea voyages which lasted a ear before they came home again.” -Leo Frobenius

Professor Ivan Van Sertima wrote several books on the subject of the African influence in the Americas. Not sure if he was specifically speaking on the Yoruba tribe, but he has given a very strong argument regarding the general African presence in the Americas.

I work with a Yoruba lad from Nigeria (in England),he's a good lad,very intelligent and caring,up the Yoruba!

The professor who taught me philosophy and logic at the University told us that Socrates and some of the great scholars of his time came to Ile -ife to study and learn IFA,so if such contact with america happened before Columbus i wouldn't doubt it a bit... however the late Oni(king) of ife,Oba sijuade olubuse ,said in documentary aired on AIT tv ,1993 that two universities in the United kingdom carried out an excavation in ife,some of the artifacts that were found, were radio dated,it was established they had been existed seven thousand years before the birth Moses and those artifacts were of Yoruba origin.

In Van Sertimas book “they came before columbus” he points out Natives in the americas were engaged in trade and even wars with Black skinned people that came from the east, making a point that there must have been an astounding number of black skinned people to be able to engage in wars and still have a community present. they both even had war captives of the each others. He speaks on the gold spears with a particular number of compartment that match exactly like the spears in ghana. They’re in a museum. And let’s not forget the olmec heads, also there is a GIANT ANKH symbol next to the pyramid of the sun in mexico and that symbol is found no where in aztec mayan or even toltec or incan scripts. but can be found all over africa.

I am martinican, and we have a strange pottery (adorno) that is dated from pre Colombian Era that is earily looking like black features and stylistically different from any other pottery

Can you do a video on african mathematical systems, astronomy and the like? The dogons fascinates me because it helped me understand what most secret societies like ogboni keeps secret. One thing i noticed is, things like divination and other forms of african spirituality deals with transcendental numbers. Pi and e are both popular here but i believe more can be found in Africa. I love math and i know how powerful imaginary numbers are and i believe there are wealth knowledge in this field in africa that haven't been explored due to secrecy

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So the question you raised was did the Yoruba have contact with the Americas before Columbus? Everyone had contact with the Americas before Columbus because Columbus did not discover America remember? The Americas were so-called discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and Columbus wandered on over to West Indies. So that whole lie about Columbus discovering America is wrong that they taught us in school. But I think you've talked about that before. So again the question is this the Yoruba have contact with the Americas before Columbus, the answer is enphaticly, YES! Thank you for your content I love it!🎉 KEEP GOING BROTHER!

your videos are fantastic - I love learning more about history that wasn't taught in north american school systems.

I wonder, besides pottery. Has maize been found in the soil near these potteries? And if so, how deep in the soil was it. If so, this will determine and confirm how old the maize is (proximity).

That's a possibility. But as far as I know there are no written or oral accounts to back this meeting up of Yoruba and peoples of the Americas. Since these continents were connected millions of years ago, that is probably why maize is in that area of Africa.. For example the most sacred tree to many of the indigenous of central and south America, the ceiba, is also found in the jungles of west / central Africa and is on the flag of Equatorial Guinea. But there is no evidence that one gave the other the tree or shared the tree's medicinal and spiritual aspects. Just parallel evolution.

We know that West Africans (particularly Mandinka), called the "Olmecs" have been traveling the Canary Current and trading with Mexico since 3,000 B.C. or earlier, and West Africa traded internally among all the nations, so we should expect many similar things to be found in Central/South America and Africa (foods, animals, pottery, etc.) as the result of very early trade, and this fact is being "underexplored". West Africans living in Los Angeles typically do half of their shopping for food in Mexican grocery stores BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THE SAME STAPLE FOODS. They buy their spices from African grocery stores, and buy their meat, peppers, vegetables, and produce from Mexican grocery stores because they have everything they need. I used to tell my Black and Mexican students in South Central LA about all the food and cultural similarities between Central Americans (Mexicans) and Africans and talk about the trade and contact, AND THEY LOVED IT, made them feel closer to each other, since they already had so many similarities already. Ivan Van Sertima already pointed out that African cotton was found in the Americas, but THAT'S JUST FOR STARTERS. We need to thoroughly research and explore beans, corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, and even flamingos, because we know Africans frequently traded exotic animals as well. In Central America, flamingos are found only in a place very near to the Olmec civilization (where Africans frequented) and also found all over South America and the Caribbean. They're also found in Africa, Asia, and Southern Europe, but they are concentrated mostly in South America, are less ubiquitous in Africa, and only found in very few places in Asia and Europe, with their distribution clearly coming from Africa. I believe that the Flaming is a native South/Central American bird, as it is more widespread in the Americas, has more species variations, and actually resembles birds commonly found in the Americas, as their very colorful plumage and huge and strangely shaped beak are both features common to the Americas, and much less common in Africa, hardly seen in Asia or Europe. The toucan (a South American bird) for example has very similar brightly colored plumage and the very same kind of huge bill as it's beak. How can a bird spread out over a much wider area (Africa, Asia, Southern Europe) and have much less species diversity than South America, a place in closer proximity and with extremely similar ecosystems. It doesn't make sense!!! My theory is that the very beautiful flamingo, highly prized for it's beautiful plumage all over the world, is one of the principal exotic animals traded between Central Americans and West Africans beginning in a very ancient date, then spreading into other parts of Africa and into Asia and Southern Europe. The peanut is also some serious evidence, as it is clearly native to South America, but found all over Africa, particularly in West Africa. Here in The Gambia the peanut (called groundnut in Africa) is the chief staple crop of the Mandinka, - THE VERY SAME AFRICANS WHO TRADED WITH MEXICO, THE SAME AFRICANS WHO ARE CALLED "OLMECS" IN AMERICA, AND LEFT THEIR WRITING AND GIANT STONE HEADS OF THEMSELVES. The Mandinka are of the larger "Mende" language group, which includes the Bambara - who have their own subspecies of peanut called the "Bambara nut", which (if I'm not mistaken) is the only other native peanut species growing outside of South America. Isn't that strange? = The very same people - The Mandinka/Mende/Bambara, called the "Olmecs" in the Americas, 1) Have made the peanut (a South American plant) their chief staple crop, and 2) are growing the only peanut sub-species in the world outside of South America, clearly suggesting that they obtained the peanut (through trade with Central/South America) so long ago that the peanut became one of their principal crops and they even cultivated their own species of peanut!!! But nobody is exploring this evidence!!! Also, the Yoruba religion called "Ifa" is estimated to be at least 2,500, and in its sacred verses called "Odu Ifa" (the cornerstone of their religion) corn is mentioned MANY TIMES and was clearly a staple food of the Yoruba since ancient times, just like it still is today, and just like it is for many other African peoples, particularly West African - where trade with Central/South America occurred. The Portuguese didn't first contact the Yoruba until about 500 years ago, SO DID THE YORUBA'S MEET THE PORTUGUESE, GET CORN FROM THEM, QUICKLY SPREAD IT ALL OVER THEIR PEOPLE AND CULTURE WITH LIGHTNING SPEED, AND THEN CHANGE THEIR SACRED VERSES TO INCLUDED REFERENCES TO CORN ALL OVER IT??!! The thought is absurd, clearly West Africans had corn and many other Central/South American staple foods and other things long before Columbus, just like the Central/South Americans had many African things long before Columbus BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TRADING WITH EACH OTHER FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, which we already knew from the Olmec evidence, BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO BE EXPLORING THIS!!! Whoever is in this field GET ON IT!!!

Love ur videos always appreciate them sometime I just watch ur contents and feel happy thank you

I agree with Robin Walker

It would be nice to have longer content, its very educational, refreshing unlike the mainstream brainwashing that people take as the gospel.😊

I am also curious if the Yorubas had contact with the Roman Empire

Oki, Piikani here, Quechua of Tawantinsuyu and Taino of Boriken. While there existed and pre-existed contact with foreign people, trade and commerce between our continent and the like. There also existed an extensive inter-continental trade network throughout the continent. And neither codex nor oral tradition established in this period speaks of African presence here, and in particular the garnering and exchange of something as fundamental as maize, prior to 1492. Including that of what has been so erroneously defined as Hispaniola. Which is where Columbus first (and lastly) set afoot his presence. Not in what has been recast as the “New world.” There was extensive trade between the caribbean coastal, central and south by way of andean and amazonian venture. As well as coastal floridian peoples. Who brought along with them and exchanged for maize through aforementioned trade relations. However maize was limited to the highlands of our empire. Through commerce and exchange with (unlimited to) the Purepecha people, as well as the Nahua alliance because of its sustainable nature and economic value. Ie.it was not cultivated to be a staple grain for us beyond that introduction. However the trading network was of course unlimited to the exchange of maize and was a precursor to longstanding relationships. That is to say, it is boldly implausible that this was the case.

In the story of obatyal by the yoruba they say they was in a place called tola. Theirs a place called tola in peru where the toltecs stayed.

Short answer is NO!

Yoruba is connected to ols Americans who can trace back to when Mecca was first established. Mecca us the first international advanced city in the world. We call those people Moslem and Moorish Americans, Maroons,Creeks. The language is clear cut on who these people were but some refuse to teach the Islamic period of dominance from 625CE to 1492.CE

I wonder what explanations they have for the Olmec heads in Mexico? 🤔

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I think so

They just want to give them the right to even imagine that it was possible.

There needs to be more evidence of that because Our Ancestors could have used another plant or a tool to make those patterns and its incrediblely presumptuous to make the claim that it is corn when a fabricated tool can do the same. Also this was pottery shards that they used so have they found mostly intact pottery with the same patterns?

Albakari the 2nd told mansa Musa that he heard his ancestors came from across the Atlantic. which says to mii, that it is more than possible they had contact. Kemetian mummies have evidence of consuming plant life from the Americas. A youtuber (cant remember whom) suggests that the bird creature in sumer is holding maize and not a pinecone or what ever he/it is holding.

This title alone sits well with my soul.

In terms of the theory of Arab introduction of maize to West Africa: Were they introduced to maize before the Columbian Exchange? If so how? Because the Columbian Exchange started in the 15th century and maize found in Ifa was dated to 1100, so how could Arabs have introduced maize at that time if they weren't yet introduced to it themselves?

There is another possibility. It could be that domesticated maize from the Americas floated over and took root in Africa. Coconuts do it and various small animals like spiders and rodents made their way across the Atlantic on natural rafts created by storms. Or perhaps the Yoruba domesticated their own grain that looks similar to corn that got supplanted by maize in later centuries. Unless sherds were found, securely dated, that came from the other side of the ocean or there were human remains belonging to one group in the other land from before the 15th century it would be hard to convince the broader archaeological community of contact. It's still very possible, but more evidence is required.

The yoruba wasn't the first either. Egyptian relics were found in the grand canyon and egypt ohio decades ago.... A native chief had sumerian text with him in his grave.... the Aztecs stated that the person that brought them wisdom and goods came from the east on the back of a serpent (ironically alot of boats have them on the front tip

From the jet stream patterns between Africa and the Americas in the Atlantic -- the SAME patterns the hurricanes follow -- this isn't just hypothetical. Africa has an influence in south America, though the evidence has been destroyed in the North America continent because of deep seated racism.

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Mansa Musa never mentioned the Americas and he never said they sailed "across" the Atlantic.

Oh they did waaay before the Viking era

y aren't images of the artifacts open to the public? western academy gatekeeps info

It's possible considering an Olmec head that's a giant replica of Ife brass head.

We definitely did

The ancient people definitely contact one another...they are not stupid as we are made to understand. They have the same brains we have today and they can solve their problems in their own way. The idea of confining people to there geographical area by contemporary academics is stupid.

Thank you

No

Short answer, no.

The only link between Yoruba religion similarities to neteru worship in ancient Egypt, and American Corn, Is Orunmilla/ Quetzalcoatl/ Thoth/ Ningishzida and he probably went with the Olmecs who look very west African, after they left Kemet and Atlantis in Mauritania. Ijs my opinion from studying.

I have a problem with the idea Africans ventured across the ocean to the Americas. Back in the day Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian times EVERYONE without exception when they set sail, followed the coastline so as not to get lost at sea. With that said, why is there no record of them venturing north into the med and up to the English Channel to trade???? Has ANYONE replicated just one of their alleged sailing ships, let alone put them to sea to PROVE a point? Somehow, I am to believe they supposed to have ignored common rule of following land mass, but rather set sail across a vast ocean with no compass, little or no knowledge of astronomy yet to be established, I have no doubt that native Africans were aboard European sailing ships in those early days, there may even have been a few black people on some of the early Viking voyages, as they were known to have traded in the med and could easily have bought slaves to take back home.

Abubakari (?,) Mali Empire arrived in what's known as Brazil in 1312.

Didn’t Dr Henry gates mention this in pbs African series? I thought he saw the corn cob sidewalks. I’m I wrong?

Yoruba language wasn’t spoken around that time of Christopher Columbus because Yoruba language started later on with Oyo kingdom

This is what I believe! During the Pangaean period, both Africa and South America were joined together. Both continents shared the same Landmass, animals, vegetation etc. When the separation/split occurred, maize was one the crops that ended up in South America. Nothing to do with Christopher Columbus.

(NIH) Presence of pre-Columbian maize in the Old World--an overview Masao Uchibayashi 1 PMID: 16755129 DOI: 10.1248/yakushi.126.423 "Abstract" "An overview is presented on the reports available so far on pre-Columbian maize covering the regions of India, Mideast, Africa and Iberia. Frequent observations of maize recorded in the past on the East and the West Coast of Africa and at the ports in the Mideast show that *maize was one of the staples of the natives well before 1492* . It is also evident that *maize in the West Africa was disseminated to Iberia and Lombardy* in the *pre-Columbian* time. An *earlier contact between the Old and the New World is strongly suggested* ."

the Bible speaks about corn in the story of Joseph in Egypt. I've sayin this for years. They also found cocaine in mummies .

is platformic this history channel tier pseudohistotry really going to improve public knowledge and awareness of african history?

Prester John would have made contact with the African a diaspora. In the 1700’s definitely via letter ✉️ or personal travel 🧳 definition we been making boats in middle America the Caribbean for thousands of years ❤️💛💚🖤🛶🪘🏹

I think contact either one way or the other was highly likely. It ridiculous tho think that Aboriginal Americans could not travel to Afrika or the Yoruba did not visit the Americas. IJS✨🏹

Various accounts, legends and astronavigation reports attests evidence of contacts and exchanges made between Pre-Columbian America and various West African and Central African polities in medieval times, mayhaps going as far as in antiquity, if not in prehistory.

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The geographical land mass is one gigantic puzzle. Anyone can see that at one point in time Africa and South America were connected. Duh. I could see that before I started first grade.

Jollof rice proves pre-Columbian contact. Without tomatoes its not Jollof rice

The mDNA tells the story of the lingest surviving human species.. Cheers to learning & skin colors and languages of many tongues from the origin

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Study the Olmecs.

You guys could not discover Madagascar before indonesians. And here you are claiming to be nation builders.

Forget about Columbus European contact with the Americas occurred in North America, when the Vikings established a settlement in Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada around 1000 A.D. explorer Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red Norse explorer Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus,

Highly unlikely, we need to stop these narratives

Africans were Moors they traded with Black Aboriginals before the Turks came with the Anglos!

Black people is one big family. Most of blacks Americans are indigenous to the Americas. My mom side dates back to 1845 before the emacipation proclamation. My mom side was Blackfoot Indian and my dad side was Cherokee. I dated His side as far back as 1832. I paper trail my family records. We own land in parts of Louisiana and Oklahoma. Osiyo everyone

The story of us is older and more complex than we will ever be able to historically understand. We must first understand that the topography of the planet has changed dramatically over countless ions, and that climatic changes and environmental disasters makes it difficult to definitively state that African civilization is older than the American civilization. We can be certain that there was a time in our planet’s history and our collective history, where the Americans and Africa were connected. If we’re the first people of earth it would be reasonable to conclude that our ancestors were never disconnected, but in fact continued to exist as a highly advanced global civilization. The existence of pyramidal structures found globally are indicators that let us know our ancestors were there. The United States Government has practiced selective mutism when informing the public of what’s in the Grand Canyon. The government location the existence of pyramids, and Egyptian temples artifacts and other historical oop arts. The connection our ancestors had between the two continents is apparent in the names Utah and Hopi. Utah is derived from the name of the Egyptian god Ptah and the Hopi have named themselves so in honor of the goddess Hapi. The God Bastet is in the center of the Mayan calendar. While in Egypt, many of the deities’s animal totem are native to the Americas. Take for example Anubis who’s an Xoloitzcuintle dog of Mexico. My ancestors are indigenous to the Americas, but we are connected with the Yoruba who are our kin across the water. Ifa is our connection and it was through the practice that the ancestors spilled and tea 😂😂

It doesnt matter if Yoruba came here first or not. I'm shocked this video missed one huge undeniable easily verifiable fact. When Columbus came her, they were told by the natives that Black People come from across the sea and traded with them. This was documented by Columbus crew and still available today. We dont know what tribe it was but we know there was contact with Black People before Columbus. And what's amazing is was verified by Columbus himself. Not to mention, Eric the Red came before Columbus as well, but that's another story. Again, whether it was the Yoruba or not doesn't matter. But it was Black Africans. It's already documented in history. There is no need for a senseless debate about it.

yes. the whole planet was one before the thxgvng betrayal

Its obvious the Inca, Maya, Aztec, and Olmecs had similarities to ancient Africa look at the anthropology pyramids the crazy respect for nature

Any African contact with the Americas before Colombus makes slavery that much worse because where were they during Western slavery?

Of course Africans discover America before Columbus everyone knows that for many years..in fact What they call America today the original name was Tarana given by local people who were living there before before Africans arrived there far-away before colonial Europeans arrived and changed significantly things of that land ( called Tarana)

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Is that where Ellaville Ga. gets it's name? My people are clearly Yoruba and not from America. Our roots go back to Guinea-Bissau which is not far from Nigeria. Colonial powers divided Africa which means Guinea-Bissau was probably a part of the Nigerian empire at one time.

Thank you for sharing 🌻. When looking at a map you can see the distance from South America, let’s say Guyana or the old/New Dutch/ Holland, call it what you want?? From there to the most western most tip of Africa , the distance is doable and we give our Ancestors far too little credit, evidence is there and partially distroyed but Genetic’s will proves it and the scientists know it.. In my family alone we represent many parts of the world, from dark skin to white all under one house.. Freedom is here if you believe in truth and facts. OneFamilyTrEE.❤

How did Native Americans and Africans have the ability to navigate the Atlantic yet lose it so quickly...And maize is all we got?

You controlled opposition

No...but KILROY did

But i have another idea. What if the maize plant got to the western coast of Africa through ocean drift of seeds that took root in Africa. Then Our Ancestors would have the maize before the Portuguese.

There should be a distinction or measure made between The Americas And The Arctiv because within The Americas that is where the Amerindians reside and are Native to but in The Arctic it belongs to The Eskimos And Aleuts who at times had some conflicts, troubles, issues, problems, tensions, or hazards with The American Indians to there South way before Western European show ups, Now as far as Sub Saharan Africans finding the New World it is likely that The Malians Or Ghanians at least did in The Southernmost regions of The Americas due to some stories, tales, tellings, or signs as during the 1300s CE yeah.

Lots of lies to make some people feel good. Yorubas never visited any part of America till slavers brought them there.

The evidence is there. There is just too many things undisclosed. Corn is nothing new to Yoruba people, it's used for different foods that they have been eating since time immemorial. It's not Portuguese that's now going to introduce corn to Yoruba people for akamu (ogi eko), ekuru, ewa ati agbado, etc. Infact, in the etymology of the Yoruba word for corn is where you will find the meaning and history.

No! they did not. They couldn't have gotten out of the regions of West Africa. They did not have access to ships but canoes.

If anyone is saying that the capitol of Ile Ife was moved to Oyo, it proves they know nothing about Yoruba history or culture. It proves they didn't consult Yoruba scholars, nor Yoruba babalawos. They are doing the same thing that hoteppers do, which is fail to actually engage with the scholarly tradition BEFORE they talk about it.

How does dude get on Netflix, telling lies like Africa wasn't black people and you gotta stay on KZfaq?

Indigenous Americans were good navigators across the seas 🌊 from my understanding

I remember watching a documentary about the Vikings voyage to the America's and the guy saying it doesn't matter if it true or not let's just put the theory in their minds anyway and now today people believe it's fact

This channel is utterly ridiculous.

Crips and Bloods were even in America before Columbus.

You are still narrating from a Western perspective. I don't know how to describe your narrative,there is something you need to switch in your narrative.

Useless story, nothing in any research proves that crap.

Ile Ife is not even in Nigeria. It's simply a composite mythical kingdom assembling history and myths from ancient and medieval Nubia (Kush, Alodia, Nobatia and Dongola) and the land of Yam/Negritia or Nok Culture, from which the ancestors of Yoruba royalty descends from. My guess is that, at some point in history around 300 BCE to 900 CE, a royal or aristocratic bloodline of Pan-Sahelian descent connected to the Nile valley kingdoms and to the Nok Culture migrated westward and southward in a migratory pattern reminiscent of the Hausa people and other Afro-Asiatic speaking ethnic groups now settled in present-day Nigeria, Chad and Niger, intermarried with the common ancestors of all Kwa-speaking and so-called East Kwa/proto-Yoruboid/Volta-Niger/West Benue-Congo speaking people alike (or so-called Defoid speaking populations) during the African Iron Age-- giving birth to the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan, Kwa-speaking and other alike royalties living in the region of Eastern Guinea, then that at some point around the last quarter of the Ist millenium CE to 12th century CE, the Yorubas began to splice apart from the lot as a distinct ethnolinguistic polity and to found kingdoms all over Eastern Guinea starting 900s CE due to significant climatic changes and political upheavals all across the Sudano-Sahelian region caused by the drought of the Lake Chad, the expansion of concurrent Sudanian and Saharian kingdoms, the economic downfall of Nubia and its polities (mostly caused by the further desertification of Sahara in Sudan) by the 500s CE, the Arab invasions of Egypt and Nubia by the VIIIth century CE and at last the uprise of Empress Gudit and of her Zagwē Havilah Dynasty in Abyssinia followed next by a period of Abyssinian expansionism back to East Africa and Central Africa, causing numerous Alodian and Dongolian princes and clans to migrate into regions tropical Africa yet unoccupied by Gudit (such as the Central African Shenzi Chwezi Empire of Kitara, its Zanguestan/Zanguebar/"Swahili States" province and South-Central Africa) and West Sudan.

Pseudo-science BS!

The Yoruba doesn’t exist prior to 1808 proven

Meaning nonsense Afrocentric myths.

All BS.. My great great grands were just who they are, not one African ever said we all are from Africa before the white man's out of Africa theory

More african centrism, or black supremecy ideaology. If Africa discovered America, we would know. Its better to focus on real accomplishments rather than making stuff up. I dont believe there is any real debate on the subject.

Nonsense Yoruba don't sail or have any boats. What maritime history do they have ?