Untangling West Africa: The Pivotal Post-Colonial Wars that Defined an Era
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- From independence to brutal civil wars, this documentary delves into West Africa's turbulent history over the last century, shaped by colonial legacies, Cold War politics, and resource-driven conflicts.
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Chapters:
0:00 Nigerian Civil War
13:19 Forgotten UN Peacekeepers at Lungi Lol
23:29 Sierra Leone’s Civil War
37:03 First Liberian Civil War
49:38 Second Liberian Civil War
59:22 Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence
1:11:02 Chadian-Libyan War
1:21:13 Ivory Coast’s Civil Wars
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I've been listening to history videos for years, but I have never in my entire life heard about the infamous, legendary, general butt naked and his naked battalion, you learn something new every day .
Vice did a series about him and interviewed him and some of the others
@@CoreyIsTheName a man of culture i see, i still remember that old vice doc(when vice was more competent )
Can you imagine if all the money spent on weapons would be funnelled into hospitals and schools 😢
Nothing will change without the military being separated from the national police
They are. Billions a year is spent on aid to this place. They are literally incapable of using it to better ther own lives.
@@OperationElandwhy do you think that is?
@@OperationEland bullshit it goes go the corrupt politicians pocket
Great video, I am glad the British refused to call the West Siders by that slur and a round of applause for the Nigerian soldiers that stayed behind to protect that village.
They were failed by their government.
He’s back!
That UN officer was born to be a soldier.
Respect.
Thanks for another great video!
Awesome documentary. I feel like this sort of thing doesn't get enough attention
After 130 years, wouldn't all Liberians be native?
...if you don't like the politicians in an African country, all you have to do is wait a week.
absolutely not true. Look how long Gadafi was in charge
Good video.
The Chadians were so brave with their Toyota trucks and their guns...and the Libyans had more equipment on their side...so asymmetrical but the Chadians had the braveness in their hearts. Thank you for the presentation of the African civil wars.
“The chads - i mean chadians…”
I don't understand why Africa isn't in control of Africa?..
Look at what happens when they're allowed to govern themselves
@@OperationElandwhat do you mean
Yay I'm glad you're back at least I hope you're back
Can you recommend any books that cover these types of Western intervention wars in detail? I am particularly keen to see when and how western states like UK and US have intervened in wars for selfish reasons etc.
One excellent book that I’ve read regarding Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone is “Blood Song” by Jim Hooper.
"A long way gone" I read it in High-school I still time about that book sometimes, I should probably reread it. But a very good book
Anything by the author Al J. Venter - he tends to drill down to the true situation in any given place in Africa, pretty fast in his writings.
The first writing report I ever had to do was in Seattle, 7th grade about the wars in South America a year later I got to pick what part of Mexico to visit with my mom. Mexico City of course.
All those poor kids in Liberia.. To enter this world surrounded by instability, violence and death ruining a whole generation happens far too o often in our history. Not sure if we'll make it...
Does anyone else see the headless guy at 47:26 ? Right in front of the IFV?
Yeah lol 😂
Weird photoshop
@@jeremybertz796 Nah he just bad posture
Great content!
Quando ira ter vídeos novos sobre africa ?
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I've heard that voice before. On a star wars channel lol
I don't know why south Africa, rhodesia, Portugal and all its colonies and Israel didn't all work more closely. Rhodesia was never even recognized. They could have all defended each other
I'm of the mind that it should've been a more gradual process of giving autonomy to African states instead of "oh hey, guess what, now you gotta fend for yourselves"
The British I know allowed the country to pick whether they wanted the Brits to leave gradually or all at once. Some of the ones that chose the first option then switched to the second option because a new party took over.
One man, one vote, .....once only. Then a series of corrupt despots. Except Botswana.
That is pretty much exactly what happened in South Africa. The white rulers did not disappear overnight, some were still around during the post-apartheid transition. All the problems thereafter are almost completely self-inflicted by Africans themselves. Regardless of who the present African crooks-in-power-this-week try to blame for their ongoing train wreck of a country.
@@robertmaybeth3434 You should post these opinions somewhere more public, you clearly have a very empathetic and educated stance
The documentary on Africa is alright, although I'd say the Nigerian essay needs more research, as the NCNC was founded by Herbert Mcaulay.
I'd suggest reviewing alot of Nigerian essayists, who've broken these things.
There are other things I'd like to correct;however, they have said by others in different videos.
Read Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon
Tragic how a resources rich land was looted and its local inhabitants left in such poor conditions we had to come up with a term for it in 3rd world country. Where getting access to clean drinking water is a luxury.
2:18. Wow. That’s a beard
saying west africa is a shithole is the understatement of the century
I’ve recently watched the movie the wild geese again recently…. Yes. West Africa haven’t had a good time since the Belgians. And Germans. And us brits 😲🥺
You said since the Belgians omg
if i won an african country in a contest .....id ask if i could trade it in for something else
Put you meth pipe down
Blame France
Yeah absolutely 0% of all of this is the fault of any African
The main reason for all those new maps getting drawn was the English breaking up Germanys allies.. the ottoman empire mostly. You can thank them for current state of middle east. Africa was a side quest.
I'm pretty sure the turmoil in the middle east today can be attributed largely to a different nation... who wear smaller hats...
@@OperationEland They caused conflict and funded warlords to break up the ottomans.. Then they drew lines on a map that grouped all these different sects together. That's why continuous conflict. They literally just took a ruler and drew straight lines in parts of Africa.. smh
What you mentioned happened directly afterwards too.. It's a giant mess that never had to happen.
I’m honestly disappointed in the United States for allowing and actively aiding Europe in its continued exploitation of African countries during this time. It really feels like if the US pressed Europe to act in good faith they would have.
5:10 is a lie btw or rather, its a misconception.
I'm sick of hearing the bs that the African problems are the result of colonial empires decisions and such. Although there are cases where it is obvious there were a ill intention towards the liberated colonies it wasn't all about putting this states to fail from the very beginning, to make them subordinate to the colonial powers? yes but not to fail from the start (Congo is an exception to this, it really was a Belgian intention for the state to fail miserably)
I've studied reasonably in length post-colonial African history, the same way the age of exploration is a recurrent theme for me to study so it is post-colonialism, I just find my self drawn to it. And what I found is that for all these talking about how bad Europeans or the white men are, the ones wielding the machetes and perpetrating the massacres weren't the white men...
Africa had an incredible chance after the fall of the British Empire or the contraction of the French one bc they inherit countries with infraestructures and incipient industries, things that for all human history Africa lack but almost in every instance these new countries have wasted the opportunity and dilapidated these resources in an endless stream of horror, corruption and mismanagement.
The peoples of Africa too quickly have use the excuse of the foreigners as the source of all their incapabilities and then have proceeded to commit the most barbaric deeds against whoever is perceived as the culprit of said things. It's not only black people suffering atrocious acts, it is endless the list of genocides, wherever the colonial authority retreated it follow chaos and ethnic cleansing. The white peoples (who have all the right to live there!) of places like Kenya, Tanzani, Rhodesia, Mozambique Congo, Uganda and now South Africa, they all have experienced what is to be killed and persecuted with no legal protection nor anything. And white people are not the only ones, Arabs and muslims in general have been ethnically cleans in almost all Eastern African countries, historically there was plenty of coastal sultanates and communities from Zanzibar to Mogadishu and now many have been erased. The Indians have also suffered persecution when they may be the only group of people that came to Africa to work and not exploit anyone, now face the risk of genocide too in South Africa.
All this bs of "poor Africans" is nonce, most of Africa has been and still is barbaric in nature and all this pity towards them is just a money shceme from the NGOs, the main culprit of Africa's misery are the Africans not the rest of the world. It is the choice of every individual not the be an animal that massacres people, it is the choice of the individual not to accept bribes or to follow inmoral orders etc...
You say that but the white men didnt give Africa its most important thing the thing all white countries got to build cohesion.
A land cut and carved by them not lines white men drew on a map. You guys put french ppl with English then mixed in some russians inside of italys territory and like yeah everything will be fine these ppl all have the same skin ofc they will get along.(When you guys would no better for your own European countries.
That is the most important point lass so but very much important is also the fact white nations put alot of these countries in eternal debt and embargoed them. Haiti has never been free even after winning the war of independence. They owed france more than they could pay had their economy tanked. Then you say hey well you got a nation make it happen under circumstances no European country had to flourish in.
If you dont understand these crucial building blocks of a nation. Your African history research is useless. The only thing your analysis saw was black guy hold machete. When any historian woild know. Ppl are only personal on a personal lv. Overall ppl act as predicably as the circumstances around them. This mopd is rarely broken and it braking shouldnt be the rule but the exception since it only houses 1% of the population if im being generous.
@@TheSukairahhe doesn't care. Just trolling 🧌. He clicked the video and didn't bother to watch it.
@@TheSukairahEurope’s nations are full of different ethnic groups….. borders carved up by war. They eventually became cohesive entities…. Africa is going through the same thing.
He's an idiot, European warred for centuries, far bloodier than what's going on in Africa. It was just not seen by the modernity
I could tell you want went wrong but youtube would delete the comment.
Indian soldiers hurray
Did the Nigerians ever leave Lungi Lol?
When is Africa not a clustertruck?
Maybe warfare and general chaos is the brack way of living,look at the Ghettos.
I grew up in Rhodesia and left in 1980 when mugabe became president. The rest is history.......
Hi grandpa
How is that relevant to west Africa?
When you are accustomed to supremacy, equality can feel like oppression 😉
Forget it. You are dealing with people that simply deny logic. That is the new Africa. No logic at all.
He came to be worshipped by rhobaboos and white supremacists but 😂😂😂😂
do one on animal battles like lion pride vs another......human wars dont make sense to me
Tam je to taky moc hezky….
Tam by se měl jet podívat Kazdej Evropan a hlavně musí všem ukázat evropský pravidla života a zákony…
Všichni tam na nej cekaj 😂😂😂
fique quieto, sua vítima do Holocausto
They werent called the "west side boys" ...lol why dont you tell us their real name. Come on. RUclips dares you
Who armed these rebels??? This sounds like pro European propaganda I can’t lie KMT
And that's how Jello got his name.
Point me to a black governed city, or country anywhere in the world that is a peaceful success.
Trinidad and Tobago