Congolese rapper Gandhi Djuna did well to remove the term “master” that he attached to his pseudonym “Gims”. Teachers did not trust him to teach history…
Electric pyramids
Recently, in an interview with the YouTube channel of the program “Oui Hustle”, Gims suffered decades of fake news, an infox that borders on conspiracy. The singer tells the theory according to which the Egyptians had, since Antiquity, an electrical system. Evokes the gold that would find at the top of the pyramids: “Gold is the best conductor of electricity… It was the antennas! People had electricity and historians know this. »
It would, therefore, be wireless energy, a condition for the development of improved techniques. But Egyptologists point out that there was no gold during the construction of the Egyptian pyramids built of stone, limestone, granite and quartzite, 2,400 years BC. It was only 850 years later that ours would have been bathed, for aesthetic reasons, at certain points… with obelisks, but not yet with pyramids. Until proven otherwise, electricity was only domesticated and produced by man at the end of the 19th century…
In the same interview, Gims states that “Africa populated Europe before the Europeans”. Those he calls “Afropeans” having been “decimated” by the “Yam Nahade”, considered to come from Asia and today considered “the true Europeans”. The singer also evokes a “notion of chivalry” that would also date back to in ancient Egypt, illustrated, according to him, by “paintings” that were “classified and hidden in catacombs”. Egyptologists, however, traced the domestication of the horse by the Egyptians much later…
crazy theories
The fascination with ancient Egypt infused Francophone hip-hop for thirty-five years and the creation of the group IAM, whose pseudonyms Akhenaten, Kheops or Imhotep are directly inspired by this mythology. Mysterious if there ever was one, this piece of African history has inspired many eccentric theories. In 2020, Elon Musk claimed that these same pyramids were built by… extraterrestrials.
Several recent surveys show that gullibility is taking root in a French society that, from this point of view, appears to be becoming more Americanized. Thus, the Ifop/FLASHS institute revealed, on April 13, that 14% of the French believe that no man has walked on the moon and that 15% think that the massacre in Boutcha, in Ukraine, was a warning phase. A fertile ground for Gims theories and its 11 million subscribers about YouTube.
