@madmires: Franck Zanu claims that pre-colonial African societies were nothing more than “tribes with chiefs” and that Europeans simply applied the word “kingdom” to what were supposedly just tribes. But African history tells a very different story. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful Fon state that expanded from the city of Abomey, conquered neighboring territories, and at one point became a tributary of the bigger Yoruba Oyo Empire. And Dahomey was just ONE example. The Mali Empire had a mansa, 16 princes, officials, governors, and local chiefs operating within a complex political hierarchy. Reducing centuries of African political history to “pot-bellied chiefs with two hundred wives” isn’t history it’s an oversimplification of a continent with hundreds of different political systems. Africa had kingdoms, empires, monarchies, city-states and centralized states long before European colonial rule. #AfricanHistory #HistoryTok #BlackHistory #africantiktok #BlackTikTok
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I measure squirts per liter :
I feel the same way about the man sometimes he says stuff that are true and he says other stuff that are stupid and foolish 😂😂😂 taught me another lesson about human character
2026-09-22 11:07:13
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RealTalk :
Zany is speaking truth
2026-09-06 14:17:03
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hondaLove :
That man doesn't like been African
2026-09-03 01:37:53
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Heru :
Nile River from Nigeria to all the way Ghana 😂😂😂😂
2026-09-04 13:22:31
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Mansa Myrie 2.0 :
this man has rocks in his brain
2026-09-02 22:59:34
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Confidential :
The Europeans still use the tactics used to conquer Africa till date. Meet a Rich man who wants to rule so bad, take power from the real just king, give to this greedy rich fellow and Africa is theirs
2026-09-23 13:50:44
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Joe_The_Educator :
Exactly, that irritates me when I hear people like him spreading false information
2026-09-02 16:39:39
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user9100418303251 :
since when is the river Nile in Nigeria
2026-09-03 00:29:39
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Teach ibo to be humble :
He is mixing facts with propaganda and it’s always common among people who want to generate reaction from the public
2026-09-02 17:13:25
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crmdon4rl :
I've never heard him say anything wise
2026-09-02 16:58:32
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franxis115 :
He is right
2026-09-03 12:08:18
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Anthony Agbatutu :
Africans with pot belly’s ? if Africans had pot belly’s like he insinuates and looked unhealthy I don’t think slavery would have flourished like it did. This man likes to downplay black people a lot , he never talks positive about them or even their achievements.
2026-09-03 13:52:56
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Daniel Lionpa :
THE MAN SPEAKS RIGHT,WHAT MAKE THEM KINGS,THEY'VE DON NOTHING AND LEFT NO PROVE OF THEIR SO CALLED GREAT KINGDOMS
2026-09-17 11:51:11
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sharks :
That man loves to rage bait people
2026-09-02 18:18:11
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elnelsono :
that guy says dumb things
2026-09-02 22:23:06
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user840248 :
It's accurate to say that they were chiefdoms rather than kingdoms. The same applies to the native Americans. It doesn't mean that there no cities or that there was no social organization. Anthropologists don't make much of distinction between chiefdom and kingdom btw.
2026-09-02 21:21:28
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king of de south &de west :
He’s always giving misinformations
2026-09-03 08:41:29
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Martin Nogueira :
If we think about the definition of a Kingdom being a complex society ruled by a centralized, hereditary monarch (like a king or queen) who holds supreme authority over a distinct territory which fits Benin, Mali, Kongo and more having something similar.
2026-09-02 16:39:13
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Kenney Legis :
Akans kingdom
2026-09-07 21:52:16
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Original Borkete :
he talks lots of B.S
2026-09-05 03:26:35
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TOQUIOUQUOU :
What he said is facts
2026-09-07 18:08:38
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Yaw Boamah :
how did nile enter nigeria?
2026-09-08 00:55:41
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Sir Abaah :
he has just said a lot of nothing
2026-09-05 11:05:14
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AgentofChaos :
benin empire....? benin wall?
2026-09-04 13:48:22
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vhsnam :
Where is this old man from?
2026-09-06 16:48:13
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