The Haya people of Tanzania were producing carbon steel in the year 100 AD, nearly 1,900 years before the process was independently developed in Europe. Their furnaces reached 1,800 degrees Celsius using preheated forced-draft technology that European metallurgists did not achieve until the Industrial Revolution. When anthropologists arrived to study it in the 1970s, the knowledge only survived because a few elderly men still remembered it. Cheap European steel had already put the Haya out of business decades earlier.
Africa did not need to be taught how to build. It needed to be left alone.
In 1879, a British/Scottish medical student named Robert Felkin watched an African healer in Uganda perform a caesarean section.
Clean incision. Banana wine as anaesthetic and antiseptic. Bleeding cauterised with hot iron. Wound closed with iron pins and herbal root paste.
Mother recovered fully. Baby survived.
Felkin noted in his journal that the technique was SO REFINED, it was clearly standard practice, performed routinely long before any European arrived.
At that same moment, hospitals in London and Edinburgh were still debating whether caesarean sections could ever be justified on a living woman.
European surgeons were operating in street clothes, rarely washing their hands, and losing most patients to post-operative infection.
The Africans had already solved anaesthesia, anti sepsis, haemostasis, and wound care.
Felkin went home and presented his findings to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1884.
The knife used in that surgery still exists.
It is now housed in the Science Museum in London.
A silent artifact of a surgical tradition they called primitive.
They didn't discover our medicine.
They witnessed it, wrote it down and forgot to mention where it came from.
Movies men love
> Poor men working hard to become successful
> Men fighting to save their family, society, culture and country
> Men giving up their lives for their friends
> Men having ideals
> Men sacrificing themselves
Movies women love
> Increasing body count
> Being a cheap prostitute
> Smoking, drinking and partying
> Cheating on her fiancé
> Making fun of men
Take any modern movies and you'll see what I'm saying is true.
"Kindness loses its essence when it is turned into a ledger of debts and reminders. If you are going to help, let it be a chapter of goodwill; not a saga of owed gratitude."
Tribalism baffles me. Most of us don’t get any favors in life because of our names, we struggle just like any other Kenyan. So why fight for an identity that doesn’t even serve us? Worse is, imagine someone hacking you to death juu ya "mtu wenyu" ama identity hijai kusaidia?
The thing with Ozark is it needs your full concentration
It's not a TV show you can watch while scrolling on your phone
Believe me when I say it's one of the best shows Netflix has ever put out