Correction... Benin did sign a treaty (after rejecting several others) with Britian but there seems to have been a misunderstanding ultimately leading to conflict.
Great video, every detail of African participation in colonisation has to be brought forward , with that the colonisation and enslavement of other ethnicities that are non African, in short if Africans suffered slavery so did the whole world if others victimised Africans Africans did the same, no excuse to hold on to a powerless fake victim/slave identification and a life of blaming
The whole point of this was to stop the spread of Islam. It was growing so fast and prospering in that region they had to intervene. Benin empire was a Muslim Islamic empire and so was every powerful empire in Africa at that time.
@@TheTruth247TV bro this is not about the Europeans or about Muhammad who was buying and selling Africans as slaves, were sick and tired of this deceit
@@TheTruth247TV Yes, a treaty happens under duress or political control or a colonial power imposing control but it was not an independent decision from Benin, free from imposition making the decision to align themselves with the colonial powers at anytime. True.
This isn't anything for Africans to be ashamed about, the same "divide and conqueror" strategy was used by the Romans against the Greek city states, allowing them to pick apart the Greeks by forming alliances with some of the weaker city states, and use their help to defeat the stronger hellenistic powers at the time. Considering how the Greeks(for the most part), despite being rival city states. shared a single culture and worshiped the same gods, should say more than enough on how hard it is to beat this strategy.
@@greenpill7320agreed dave Chapelle said it best, people put on a uniform and forget what team they're supposed to be in. A far as divide and conquer well why change the play book when it never fails.
This was done with the weaker group in south America with the conquistadors to defeat the ruling groups. Any time I hear a European talk about colour blind this is what they mean but the moment they put down the stronger group, you will see how colour blind they are.
But that's not the root of their success. The conquistadors were able to gather vast allies very quickly because of overwhelming power. It's why most of the battles fought quickly turned into massacres. A conquistador in steel armor was like a walking tank to people with stone weapons.
@@Larry_SuaveNo they indeed had tremendous native help. They were about 500 European conquistadors in a foreign continent inside a civilisation of about 20 million folks. They certainly had some help
I was a soldier and got to travel with my curious mind around with these people. I asked questions when I could. Then I read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman.” What they do is, go in and find disgruntled, slow weak, 🦝ish or outcasted clowns of a race t and offer them a deal and support for insurrection. I didn’t understand it until I saw it a second time in Iraq and read that book. It’s going on with the BC right now. Thats Africa, South America, and The Middle East. Then they can say “well yall helped”.
It's happening in the USA now. Tramp is using the same strategy with a bunch weak, ignorant, angry, angry greedy people who see him as their great white hope, their savior.
Sounds about right. But I also can’t help but think that the more powerful nations are at fault as well. These minor tribes couldn’t have been disgruntled for no reason, right? They were most likely being exploited or oppressed to some degree by the bigger nations. Would the minor tribes have taken the European’s terrible deal if they were a respected and cherished ally of the major African nations?
@@JustinRevis Hey, isn’t it an African proverb that “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”? It came from somewhere BUT, it in no way excuses their behavior or what their ally’s have done. It NEVER end well. Ask all the people falling from the planes in AFG or those who ran to the ships from Saigon. Ask BW when they have those feminist rally’s and they have to remind them to let them even speak.
True. The Mexica (Aztecs) were fairly brutal to their subject nations and vassals. Cortes also recruited the Mexica main rival, Tlaxcala. Allies native nobles were treated quite well. As well as Mexica who came to Cortes’s side. For example there is still a Duke of Montezuma in Spain.
they did not recruited any one once again is the history rewrite , several tribes asked help and joined spanish armies to defeat them as the smaller tribes lived in terror from Aztec raids
Excellent comment very smart, sadly the right wing or "conservative" agenda (code for white supremacist ideologies and agenda) decrease education plus some use religion to control the masses
The British learned from the Romans like when the Romans invaded what they called Britannia they made sure they played Celtic tribes off of each other.
Yeah it sucks. The only African nation that would've been familiar with such a tactic would've been Ethiopia, and unsurprisingly they avoided colonization in the end.
I saw a secondary history text book from Nigeria from the 70s and it showed the British African rifles were comprised of 90% African soldiers and 10% British troops and generals. I said that explains everything. People still don't get it.
At some point, I believe, uniting and not betraying each other is going to be made a necessity and not a choice. Unless too many of us enjoy watching our destruction. Outsiders look at us all as one group until dividing us helps an agenda.
Another reason why there's no such thing as Pan Africanism. African people only unite when it's in their immediate benefit, and not as a principal to live by.
@JavanSion Looks like you edited your comment, but it still doesn't read correctly. Do another edit and get back with me. If anything, you are the one that's "FBA" as black Americans are the main ones that were promoting and romanticizing Pan Africanism...
@@NelsonJ1romanticizing? You do know there was a time we didn’t need Pan Africanism. Yes, we fought each other but nothing to the level people fight now. Plus there was always a civility in war. Europeans too war and all ills of the world to another level. They practice Pan Europeansim. Pan Africanism is needed today for our very survival today. African Americans aren’t the only ones who want Pan Africanism. Many Africans in the past as well as the present push pan Africanism. Only us African people will actually put a negative connotation on something positive. Make it make sense. It shows how Western civilization has messed up our minds.
@@zeeqq105 Yes, romanticize. Just like you're doing now. If there will be Pan Africanism then it would have to be led and spearheaded by Africans on the continent and not some dude living in Philadelphia. Show me the large African group that's pushing pan Africanism to the diaspora.
The term “African” is being used to liberally in this discussion. With the Nigerian example you mentioned diversity being a set back, so it is fair to say that those various people groupings identified themselves by tribal distinctions and not as “African”. My main point is that being viewed as an African is a new idea that shouldn’t be back mapped into the 19th century.
📝10/10✅ and the author was incapable of explaining or discovering the term “hausa” was a code name not just for Yoruba but his Igbo relatives too. But the author sure knows they’re all “African” until specificities are required to protect their protectorate relatives at the expense of others. E.g the mende or mandinka created the Mali empire. Then the africans destroyed the Mali empire 🕵️♂️🧐
That’s the problem, the tribal distinction and separation was so strong the British used that to divide further and conquer. Africans should have considered themselves as one when needed. But they didn’t and couldn’t and still can’t. They sold “other ethnic people” until the British began selling them. It’s interesting that he starts his historical data in 1850, thats about 15 years before the slaves were free in America. The slave trade had thus really ended, nobody was taking slaves anymore. So Those African nations were no longer able to get money selling other black people. They turned on themselves. In America, I consider my self a New Yorker and some fellow Americans from Virginia consider themselves Virginia’s. We are from two totally different regions and cultures. However, when we are attacked we come together as AMERICANS when needed. The civil war made it very clear that we were ONE NATION! Each state has its own government, even laws, …ect…but we are ONE!
He's done that a couple of times it's because they were not unified. These were people that were enemies and had been fighting for years if not centuries. This is like an example of you and your friends people in the next neighborhood or next county fighting each other or dealing with a local bully. And then all of a sudden somebody new comes on the block and starts giving you presents and gifts and explains that they can help you beat up the local bully. Are you going to side with the bully or the new kids with the cool toys? Remeber this is before they had a system of color coding people...
because native Africans never get along and keep in constant state of war between the tribes and ethnicities, is only natural that many alie with stronger force
Africans did not travel to Europe seeking partners to subjugate Africa. Without Europe's craving for African resources and labour, the question of African collaborators would never have arisen.
This. Because I see Europeans are going to respond to this video without taking accountability for their obsessive and persistent need to enslave and colonize. What do they say what happened with the Native Americans, the Aboriginals in Australia, etc. And also it does not excuse their behavior towards black people. The problem is Africans/black people need to remember collaboration with the Europeans was not for the benefit of their people.
Thank you lmfao. This video sounds like it’s just blaming “ethnic diversity” of Africa as the blame instead of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonial forces desire for labors and human chattel. Which is insane to not mention, Portugal only ever made the protectorate or company of angola because they wanted human chattel labor in the Brazil colony and in Libson.
@@gamecreaterdude13 This is a classic white supremacist apologist argument that Africans collaborated so chattel slavery was no biggie. SMFH. This channel has been suspect for a while. I wonder how many people unsubbed from this channel like I did after this nonsense.
@@gamecreaterdude13 you might be new here but I don't think at all that's what he was doing. If you watch his other videos he theorizes on the very subject of history and how things came to be due to global colonialism. This particular video (at least to my understanding), was showing how the lack of unity in Africa was how those demons were able to exploit & recruit smaller nations to join forces with them so they could finish out their diabolical plan to rip Africa of ALL her resources while creating division amongst her children.
How many people would have thought of themselves as African in this period? How widely understood was it that Africa was a continent with any kind of shared identity? I find it hard to believe that it would have occurred to most people to think of themselves as African until much later so expecting them to unite against outsiders seems entirely misplaced. Colonolisers clearly exploited this highly effectively
This is what is taught to Africans in primary and secondary school and is usually a source of much strife considering contentious issues like the subsequent unequal land allocation and power sharing in post-colonial governments still exist. Most African countries call it Collaboration. These subsequent post-colonial governments, some existing to this day, are composed of remnants of these collaborators, whose beneficiaries, now political and business dynasties are some of the wealthiest families today. I am surprised foreigners never learn this. You may have learnt that the Mau Mau were fighting for the independence of Kenya, a nationalistic retelling of the real story. In reality, they were fighting for their fertile highlands which the British had cordoned off for themselves, to grow cash crops like tea and coffee for export and unironically named them, the central highlands. The newly renamed white highlands belonged to the Nandi you mentioned . They then confined the Kikuyu who owned these lands to concentration camps and had them wear wooden blocks of identification while travelling in and out of these camps. Dedan Kimathi, the leader of the Mau Mau had a terrible death, betrayed by collaborators whose descendants continue to prosper to this day.
Europeans used this strategy all over the world, not just Africa. Same strategy in America and Asia. Blaming diversity is a weak argument in every situation, b/c national identity did not exist anywhere at the time of European colonialism, not even in Europe. For a weaker kingdom to use foreign military aid was also a normal thing at that time. In fact the practice dates back more than 2000 years. Furthermore, Europeans took advantage of the strife amongst ethnic groups and broke many treaties from Africa to America
Colonialism in Africa is unique, there were huge net benefits for many tribes and the continent on a whole. It's hard for us as descendants of slaves to understand.
If you're real and look at the history, you can understand that but alot of us want to overlook certain things that were going on on the contitent before colonizers arrived..
Has anything changed since then? The same ahit is happening in present day. Majority countries that were colonized has developed a way of organizing to protect themselves and countries. They united and build one military to ensure that colonization of their people never again attempted without a serious fight. Africa just still fighting each others and still laying red carpet dor their colonizers.
At the end of the day you can see its the same problem we facing nowadays the melanated has a problem sticking together no matter how difficult the situation is
Askaris were black troops who fought for European nations in East Africa. It's now a derogatory term for someone who is not true to his word & a sellout.
You definitely voted for the rightwing white supremacist klan..you do know that it was mostly genocide main reason slaves were in the usa..you didn't pass the 5th grade..hmm
This is the paradox of Africa, is it is made up of different people and cultures competing against each other, but the Europeans only saw them as one people, black people. The irony is, it took a united Europe together with African allies to colonize a divided Africa. It may take a united Africa to shake off this stranglehold of colonization.
That gives no excuses to the unusual and intense treatment of abuse that followed for centuries up to now. And colonization was planned in the Berlin Conference with no African leader in attendance. Africans need to unite and stop allowing outsiders to have access to us and what belongs to us and Europeans need to do something with their feelings of hatred towards black people and obsession with taking what they have no business taking.
The irony is wild because it's still happening till this day, the situation in Congo persistent because of African leaders who continue to collaborate with the west to exploit that place
Well, the fact is also, Black Americans could have help slavery continue in America as my Black Americans were helping the confederate army fight the unionist in the civil war. Fortunately, the confederate army and their recuited Black soldiers lost the war.
THE FUTURE OF A PEOPLE Africa has over 3000 tribes, each with its own language, names and unique indigenous knowledges. It's very important for each tribe to carry out their education in their local languages, with collaboration with adjacent tribes, that's the meaning of Total Liberation. Africa must address the issue of Education, Religion, Language and Personal Names. Education should be relevant to the Africans in the fast changing world, which will only be achieved by educational instructions being carried in mother tongues to University level. If you give someone education in a foreign language, then somewhere in that person's psychology you are telling them that they were born inferior! Knowing other languages, as a second language later is a good empowerment tool. Names are a connection to the Ancestors and to the future generations that will be born, when the current generation has become Ancestors.
Thanks for this, looking at ECOWAS I can see the same folly being made by current African states, may be someone should send this vid to the heads of those governments to reflect on.
Once again. Kingdom of Kongo capital was in Angola 🇦🇴 (San Salvador). This is origins of the “Bakongo” people who expanded into western portions within todays DR congo.
11:35 if the video ain't saying it I'm saying it. They couldn't have colonized Africa without African assistance😂. They simply didn't have the numbers.
Nothing new. All is fair in love and war, they say. It happens in most all wars. It's called divide and conquer. It's also why there are laws against treason.
Did any of the lesser known African groups get what they wanted out of signing the treaties? It seems to me that the lesser African powers that signed treaties just ended up dissolved. And yet, as you pointed out, it's a tactic that Europeans repeated constantly throughout the continent to much success. Did the lesser African powers just lack the foresight and got outplayed because they thought they were getting a leg up over their rivals, or did they sign treaties with full awareness of what it would eventually mean? And if they knew what would happen, but felt they just didn't have much of a choice but to sign whatever treaty was presented, then we do kind of end up back where we started, with the Europeans arriving and waving their large tech advantage around, albeit with some "carrot or stick" diplomacy thrown in.
If a larger group was enslaving your people and constantly raiding you and causing starvation amongst your people, u would accept "help" even if its from a European to stop this.
Europeans were notorious with indigenous groups on both sides of the Atlantic as shrewd people who went back on their treaties. The “stronger” tribes spoken about in this video were already affected by European colonialism & technology. Europe was trading weapons for people since the 1500s. He states 1850 at the beginning but by then tribes in Africa knew what rifles were & who Europeans were. Part of making the hostile environment/& weapons dealing were (& are) big colonial methods of extracting/killing off indigenous populations.
Wow, this is one of the best videos you've done in a long time. This really is very scholarly and I think you probably broke the code. That wasn't really hidden but people don't speak of. This same technique was also used with the british conquest of india and to a lesser degree north america. Divide and conquer. This is one reason I postulate that Africa was never truly colonized because very few Europeans ever stepped foot on the continent. So how do you colonize a place when you do not? I'd have your own people move there( with the exceptions of Southern Africa and Kenya) few parts of the continent saw large scale Dorian settlement. They basically exploited old rivalries and old wounds. For ancient enemies to be used by them to conquer the leasing people of a specific region very similar to Coronado and the Aztecs... i want to be resentful...but like you say there was no own Africsnism then... and it's hard to tell someone that your current oppressor is better than this white stranger coming with gifts. I debate with my West African friends. Particularly one from Ghana who is from the Ashanti. As they were very complicit in the slave trade and did not stop until the British determined. It was a moral eviland also contrary to the economic goalsand had to even start a war with the British, which they ultimately lost. Over the right inability for them to continue selling slavesand enemies of the ashanti empire. The traffic irony is ridiculous which lead to our being kidnapped and sent to Americas.😢
Yes the title was confusing until the end. "Afro-European Colonization of Africa" How about the Tribalization of Africa and then the European Colonization ❓ I'm grateful to God that I am not Continental African‼️
Can you teach us more about what happened to your people during the trans Atlantic slave trade? And what happened to your people mid to late 19th century
@mongaemongo1613 Are you a hue-man? I only ask because you use the term "Your People." All hue-mans come from out of the Origin of hue-mans Black, Melanated, Africans. However, if you are not Hue-man. I can teach you about "Your People." Imagine That
I’m not an american therefore I am comfortable in differentiating between calling someone or people “africans” compared to calling people by their household names.
Without a doubt one of your best videos. African colonialism is just too complex to use a simple "good vs evil" or "Black vs White" framework to understand it. It's because people still adhere to this framework that there's so much confusion and arguments over who wronged who. The first step for Africans and the diaspora to do is to acknowledge the "Afro-European" Colonization and then try and learn from it, as ethnic rivalries are still present to this day in Africa. Now this isn't to say that some Africans haven't already acknowledge this, it's that this level of information needs to be standardized in every school.
I wouldn't say the problem is diversity. A diverse group of people can still stand united, especially against a common enemy. The problem, I think, is the division, and by extension the inequality that probably created that division I don't know much about these cases specifically but like other people are saying in the comments here, this sort of thing has happened repeatedly throughout history; divided people are easy to manipulate and defeat
When you talk about dynamics like this you have to be more aware about how things get used and manipulated. You say nuance and other people will tell the story that Europeans didn't olonize Afrika. And be sure to keep in mind you are learning about this from hunters story of the kill. Not the lions story of a murderer.
RThis video provides a very Good Historical Content and references. However I will mention that we tend to omit the role on the colonization process of Africa by the Modern Biblical Religions And other Modern Cults and Faiths!!!
😂 When I hear these types of narratives I laugh😂. First of all most so called Africans started off in Europe (Queen Europa). 2ndly the name of country or continent can not be the name of a people 🤔. We're not specific enough 🙄 everything exists in detail!
My brother is simply Tribalism it serve european interest very well the arabs also used Tribalism to conquer in Africa europeans used similar strategy in the America's Tribalism is a problem in Africa today it's reality that black africans have to deal with or they would just continue to make the same mistakes of the past Tribalism has to be transcended period if Africa to have any future
Correction... Benin did sign a treaty (after rejecting several others) with Britian but there
seems to have been a misunderstanding ultimately leading to conflict.
Great video, every detail of African participation in colonisation has to be brought forward , with that the colonisation and enslavement of other ethnicities that are non African, in short if Africans suffered slavery so did the whole world if others victimised Africans Africans did the same, no excuse to hold on to a powerless fake victim/slave identification and a life of blaming
The whole point of this was to stop the spread of Islam. It was growing so fast and prospering in that region they had to intervene. Benin empire was a Muslim Islamic empire and so was every powerful empire in Africa at that time.
@@TheTruth247TV bro this is not about the Europeans or about Muhammad who was buying and selling Africans as slaves, were sick and tired of this deceit
@@TheTruth247TV Yes, a treaty happens under duress or political control or a colonial power imposing control but it was not an independent decision from Benin, free from imposition making the decision to align themselves with the colonial powers at anytime. True.
@@samuelwilliams4978 are you African? With a name like Samuel Williams your ancestors didn’t fight back
This isn't anything for Africans to be ashamed about, the same "divide and conqueror" strategy was used by the Romans against the Greek city states, allowing them to pick apart the Greeks by forming alliances with some of the weaker city states, and use their help to defeat the stronger hellenistic powers at the time. Considering how the Greeks(for the most part), despite being rival city states. shared a single culture and worshiped the same gods, should say more than enough on how hard it is to beat this strategy.
Oh yes it is
It’s impossible to beat this strategy only way is to unite but people are too stubborn
@@greenpill7320agreed dave Chapelle said it best, people put on a uniform and forget what team they're supposed to be in.
A far as divide and conquer well why change the play book when it never fails.
@@georgegalarza8974 they fell for it every time but probably because they've always been partners in crime
@@marcobelli6856 no there's actually another way it's the opposite of unite divided is better
This was done with the weaker group in south America with the conquistadors to defeat the ruling groups. Any time I hear a European talk about colour blind this is what they mean but the moment they put down the stronger group, you will see how colour blind they are.
They see every color of the rainbow but are blinded by the color of a certain defined group.
But that's not the root of their success. The conquistadors were able to gather vast allies very quickly because of overwhelming power. It's why most of the battles fought quickly turned into massacres. A conquistador in steel armor was like a walking tank to people with stone weapons.
One piece of information that confirms this is that, it is estimated, 90% of Pizarro's troops in Peru were indigenous allies.
@@Larry_SuaveNo they indeed had tremendous native help. They were about 500 European conquistadors in a foreign continent inside a civilisation of about 20 million folks. They certainly had some help
@mrdean171 No. Their poor hygiene and savagery was not something we were prepared for
I was a soldier and got to travel with my curious mind around with these people. I asked questions when I could. Then I read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman.” What they do is, go in and find disgruntled, slow weak, 🦝ish or outcasted clowns of a race t and offer them a deal and support for insurrection. I didn’t understand it until I saw it a second time in Iraq and read that book. It’s going on with the BC right now. Thats Africa, South America, and The Middle East. Then they can say “well yall helped”.
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It's happening in the USA now. Tramp is using the same strategy with a bunch weak, ignorant, angry, angry greedy people who see him as their great white hope, their savior.
Sounds about right. But I also can’t help but think that the more powerful nations are at fault as well. These minor tribes couldn’t have been disgruntled for no reason, right? They were most likely being exploited or oppressed to some degree by the bigger nations. Would the minor tribes have taken the European’s terrible deal if they were a respected and cherished ally of the major African nations?
@@JustinRevis Hey, isn’t it an African proverb that “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”? It came from somewhere BUT, it in no way excuses their behavior or what their ally’s have done. It NEVER end well. Ask all the people falling from the planes in AFG or those who ran to the ships from Saigon. Ask BW when they have those feminist rally’s and they have to remind them to let them even speak.
Absolutely. No excuse.
Yeah the Conquistador Cortez recruited a lot of Native American auxiliary to conquer the Aztec empire.
True. The Mexica (Aztecs) were fairly brutal to their subject nations and vassals. Cortes also recruited the Mexica main rival, Tlaxcala. Allies native nobles were treated quite well. As well as Mexica who came to Cortes’s side. For example there is still a Duke of Montezuma in Spain.
a lot? the entire conquistador army was composed by natives and very few Spanish rodeleros, cavalrymen and arquebusiers!
@@vextex9719 the point is many Native American auxiliary took part in this because they started Aztecs as oppressive
they did not recruited any one once again is the history rewrite , several tribes asked help and joined spanish armies to defeat them as the smaller tribes lived in terror from Aztec raids
We're conscious of the colonizers using Indians and Asians as well to conquer other indigenous tribes. YOUR RESEARCH HAS TRUTH
This needs to be taught every where in Africa. We must learn from our mistakes in order to move forward and progress.
Excellent comment very smart, sadly the right wing or "conservative" agenda (code for white supremacist ideologies and agenda) decrease education plus some use religion to control the masses
The British used the same method in India, that is how a small European nation like Britain took over the whole indian subcontinent.
And most of Asia
The British learned from the Romans like when the Romans invaded what they called Britannia they made sure they played Celtic tribes off of each other.
Yeah it sucks. The only African nation that would've been familiar with such a tactic would've been Ethiopia, and unsurprisingly they avoided colonization in the end.
I saw a secondary history text book from Nigeria from the 70s and it showed the British African rifles were comprised of 90% African soldiers and 10% British troops and generals. I said that explains everything. People still don't get it.
At some point, I believe, uniting and not betraying each other is going to be made a necessity and not a choice. Unless too many of us enjoy watching our destruction. Outsiders look at us all as one group until dividing us helps an agenda.
It was also utilized in the new world, they divided and coquered. But in the end, everything has turned for worse for all native populations.
Another reason why there's no such thing as Pan Africanism. African people only unite when it's in their immediate benefit, and not as a principal to live by.
@JavanSion
Look at who is fleeing from their own lands and customs and resources and there lies your answer. Majority rules, right?
@JavanSion Looks like you edited your comment, but it still doesn't read correctly. Do another edit and get back with me. If anything, you are the one that's "FBA" as black Americans are the main ones that were promoting and romanticizing Pan Africanism...
@JavanSion If anything, you're the FBA. Y'all were the main ones pushing and romanticizing Pan Africanism...
@@NelsonJ1romanticizing? You do know there was a time we didn’t need Pan Africanism. Yes, we fought each other but nothing to the level people fight now. Plus there was always a civility in war. Europeans too war and all ills of the world to another level. They practice Pan Europeansim. Pan Africanism is needed today for our very survival today. African Americans aren’t the only ones who want Pan Africanism. Many Africans in the past as well as the present push pan Africanism. Only us African people will actually put a negative connotation on something positive. Make it make sense. It shows how Western civilization has messed up our minds.
@@zeeqq105 Yes, romanticize. Just like you're doing now. If there will be Pan Africanism then it would have to be led and spearheaded by Africans on the continent and not some dude living in Philadelphia. Show me the large African group that's pushing pan Africanism to the diaspora.
The term “African” is being used to liberally in this discussion. With the Nigerian example you mentioned diversity being a set back, so it is fair to say that those various people groupings identified themselves by tribal distinctions and not as “African”. My main point is that being viewed as an African is a new idea that shouldn’t be back mapped into the 19th century.
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and the author was incapable of explaining or discovering the term “hausa” was a code name not just for Yoruba but his Igbo relatives too. But the author sure knows they’re all “African” until specificities are required to protect their protectorate relatives at the expense of others.
E.g the mende or mandinka created the Mali empire. Then the africans destroyed the Mali empire 🕵️♂️🧐
That’s the problem, the tribal distinction and separation was so strong the British used that to divide further and conquer. Africans should have considered themselves as one when needed. But they didn’t and couldn’t and still can’t. They sold “other ethnic people” until the British began selling them. It’s interesting that he starts his historical data in 1850, thats about 15 years before the slaves were free in America. The slave trade had thus really ended, nobody was taking slaves anymore. So Those African nations were no longer able to get money selling other black people. They turned on themselves. In America, I consider my self a New Yorker and some fellow Americans from Virginia consider themselves Virginia’s. We are from two totally different regions and cultures. However, when we are attacked we come together as AMERICANS when needed. The civil war made it very clear that we were ONE NATION! Each state has its own government, even laws, …ect…but we are ONE!
5:56 Would be interesting to see you expand on the reasons why native Africans joined them in a separate video should you want to continue this topic.
He's done that a couple of times it's because they were not unified. These were people that were enemies and had been fighting for years if not centuries. This is like an example of you and your friends people in the next neighborhood or next county fighting each other or dealing with a local bully. And then all of a sudden somebody new comes on the block and starts giving you presents and gifts and explains that they can help you beat up the local bully. Are you going to side with the bully or the new kids with the cool toys? Remeber this is before they had a system of color coding people...
because native Africans never get along and keep in constant state of war between the tribes and ethnicities, is only natural that many alie with stronger force
@@brunobastos5533europeans rarely ever got along either.
Africans did not travel to Europe seeking partners to subjugate Africa. Without Europe's craving for African resources and labour, the question of African collaborators would never have arisen.
This. Because I see Europeans are going to respond to this video without taking accountability for their obsessive and persistent need to enslave and colonize. What do they say what happened with the Native Americans, the Aboriginals in Australia, etc. And also it does not excuse their behavior towards black people. The problem is Africans/black people need to remember collaboration with the Europeans was not for the benefit of their people.
Doesnt matter. There were collaborators before Colonization. Among the different cultures.
Thank you lmfao. This video sounds like it’s just blaming “ethnic diversity” of Africa as the blame instead of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonial forces desire for labors and human chattel. Which is insane to not mention, Portugal only ever made the protectorate or company of angola because they wanted human chattel labor in the Brazil colony and in Libson.
@@gamecreaterdude13 This is a classic white supremacist apologist argument that Africans collaborated so chattel slavery was no biggie. SMFH. This channel has been suspect for a while. I wonder how many people unsubbed from this channel like I did after this nonsense.
@@gamecreaterdude13 you might be new here but I don't think at all that's what he was doing. If you watch his other videos he theorizes on the very subject of history and how things came to be due to global colonialism.
This particular video (at least to my understanding), was showing how the lack of unity in Africa was how those demons were able to exploit & recruit smaller nations to join forces with them so they could finish out their diabolical plan to rip Africa of ALL her resources while creating division amongst her children.
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How many people would have thought of themselves as African in this period? How widely understood was it that Africa was a continent with any kind of shared identity? I find it hard to believe that it would have occurred to most people to think of themselves as African until much later so expecting them to unite against outsiders seems entirely misplaced. Colonolisers clearly exploited this highly effectively
This is what is taught to Africans in primary and secondary school and is usually a source of much strife considering contentious issues like the subsequent unequal land allocation and power sharing in post-colonial governments still exist. Most African countries call it Collaboration. These subsequent post-colonial governments, some existing to this day, are composed of remnants of these collaborators, whose beneficiaries, now political and business dynasties are some of the wealthiest families today. I am surprised foreigners never learn this. You may have learnt that the Mau Mau were fighting for the independence of Kenya, a nationalistic retelling of the real story. In reality, they were fighting for their fertile highlands which the British had cordoned off for themselves, to grow cash crops like tea and coffee for export and unironically named them, the central highlands. The newly renamed white highlands belonged to the Nandi you mentioned . They then confined the Kikuyu who owned these lands to concentration camps and had them wear wooden blocks of identification while travelling in and out of these camps. Dedan Kimathi, the leader of the Mau Mau had a terrible death, betrayed by collaborators whose descendants continue to prosper to this day.
Europeans used this strategy all over the world, not just Africa. Same strategy in America and Asia. Blaming diversity is a weak argument in every situation, b/c national identity did not exist anywhere at the time of European colonialism, not even in Europe. For a weaker kingdom to use foreign military aid was also a normal thing at that time. In fact the practice dates back more than 2000 years. Furthermore, Europeans took advantage of the strife amongst ethnic groups and broke many treaties from Africa to America
Colonialism in Africa is unique, there were huge net benefits for many tribes and the continent on a whole. It's hard for us as descendants of slaves to understand.
If you're real and look at the history, you can understand that but alot of us want to overlook certain things that were going on on the contitent before colonizers arrived..
About the end of your video. I understand the study of history is to correct mistakes and strategies... I do not make the same mistakes again...
Has anything changed since then? The same ahit is happening in present day. Majority countries that were colonized has developed a way of organizing to protect themselves and countries. They united and build one military to ensure that colonization of their people never again attempted without a serious fight. Africa just still fighting each others and still laying red carpet dor their colonizers.
Do a video about Africom and how African Americans are currently engaged in military adventures on the continent.
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It's an accurate History that I've long known. You see the same reality in Western nations.
I don't see why this is surprising. It's not that different to how the romans overtook Gaul.
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Don't forget who processed and controlled the weapons of mass destruction of that age. Think about it, Peace
At the end of the day you can see its the same problem we facing nowadays the melanated has a problem sticking together no matter how difficult the situation is
Askaris were black troops who fought for European nations in East Africa. It's now a derogatory term for someone who is not true to his word & a sellout.
Good. Just like here in the states, a Sambo black person is one you stay away from.
Ethiopia is the first African nation to help Europeans in the scramble for Africa.
@@Myo-v1k lol. How so man?
Have you done a video on the Native American slave trade?
You definitely voted for the rightwing white supremacist klan..you do know that it was mostly genocide main reason slaves were in the usa..you didn't pass the 5th grade..hmm
So there is our answer right there. African must turn their diversity into a strength, not a weakness. It's been done before
This is the paradox of Africa, is it is made up of different people and cultures competing against each other, but the Europeans only saw them as one people, black people. The irony is, it took a united Europe together with African allies to colonize a divided Africa. It may take a united Africa to shake off this stranglehold of colonization.
At last someone has seen what really happened. Europeans could have never colonise Africa without African help. Congratulations.
That gives no excuses to the unusual and intense treatment of abuse that followed for centuries up to now. And colonization was planned in the Berlin Conference with no African leader in attendance. Africans need to unite and stop allowing outsiders to have access to us and what belongs to us and Europeans need to do something with their feelings of hatred towards black people and obsession with taking what they have no business taking.
Or indian or the Americas... so it's larger than one video.
The irony is wild because it's still happening till this day, the situation in Congo persistent because of African leaders who continue to collaborate with the west to exploit that place
@@yangasidziya3245 Correct. It’s called neo colonialism and it thrives in Africa. Not only Congo, I could name at least a dozen of them unfortunately.
This doesn't let white people and others off the hook for what they did and are doing.
The fact is that Europeans would never have been able to take Africa without African collaborators.
Well, the fact is also, Black Americans could have help slavery continue in America as my Black Americans were helping the confederate army fight the unionist in the civil war. Fortunately, the confederate army and their recuited Black soldiers lost the war.
THE FUTURE OF A PEOPLE Africa has over 3000 tribes, each with its own language, names and unique indigenous knowledges. It's very important for each tribe to carry out their education in their local languages, with collaboration with adjacent tribes, that's the meaning of Total Liberation.
Africa must address the issue of Education, Religion, Language and Personal Names. Education should be relevant to the Africans in the fast changing world, which will only be achieved by educational instructions being carried in mother tongues to University level. If you give someone education in a foreign language, then somewhere in that person's psychology you are telling them that they were born inferior! Knowing other languages, as a second language later is a good empowerment tool. Names are a connection to the Ancestors and to the future generations that will be born, when the current generation has become Ancestors.
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Those that don’t learn from history…
Wow! Africans helped to defeated other Aftican
Thanks for this, looking at ECOWAS I can see the same folly being made by current African states, may be someone should send this vid to the heads of those governments to reflect on.
Once again. Kingdom of Kongo capital was in Angola 🇦🇴 (San Salvador). This is origins of the “Bakongo” people who expanded into western portions within todays DR congo.
Their using the same tactic today
Nothing has changed
@yangasidziya3245 hell even non Europeans do it to
Some thai asian clown tried to make fun of my pan africanism
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@@mongaemongo1613 unfortunately
Indeed. Unfortunate and amazing at the same time. Amazing how i could have guessed.
11:35 if the video ain't saying it I'm saying it. They couldn't have colonized Africa without African assistance😂. They simply didn't have the numbers.
Nothing new. All is fair in love and war, they say. It happens in most all wars. It's called divide and conquer. It's also why there are laws against treason.
@JavanSion the funny stupid idea that Europe with their pew pew had the numbers to route an entire continent like Africa
@JavanSion read my first comment
LOL!..... Utter BS
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Now Morden Day Kenya tent to colonize haiti.. on behalf of the Americans … the irony
Did any of the lesser known African groups get what they wanted out of signing the treaties? It seems to me that the lesser African powers that signed treaties just ended up dissolved. And yet, as you pointed out, it's a tactic that Europeans repeated constantly throughout the continent to much success. Did the lesser African powers just lack the foresight and got outplayed because they thought they were getting a leg up over their rivals, or did they sign treaties with full awareness of what it would eventually mean?
And if they knew what would happen, but felt they just didn't have much of a choice but to sign whatever treaty was presented, then we do kind of end up back where we started, with the Europeans arriving and waving their large tech advantage around, albeit with some "carrot or stick" diplomacy thrown in.
If a larger group was enslaving your people and constantly raiding you and causing starvation amongst your people, u would accept "help" even if its from a European to stop this.
Europeans were notorious with indigenous groups on both sides of the Atlantic as shrewd people who went back on their treaties. The “stronger” tribes spoken about in this video were already affected by European colonialism & technology. Europe was trading weapons for people since the 1500s. He states 1850 at the beginning but by then tribes in Africa knew what rifles were & who Europeans were. Part of making the hostile environment/& weapons dealing were (& are) big colonial methods of extracting/killing off indigenous populations.
Wow, this is one of the best videos you've done in a long time. This really is very scholarly and I think you probably broke the code. That wasn't really hidden but people don't speak of. This same technique was also used with the british conquest of india and to a lesser degree north america. Divide and conquer. This is one reason I postulate that Africa was never truly colonized because very few Europeans ever stepped foot on the continent. So how do you colonize a place when you do not? I'd have your own people move there( with the exceptions of Southern Africa and Kenya) few parts of the continent saw large scale Dorian settlement. They basically exploited old rivalries and old wounds. For ancient enemies to be used by them to conquer the leasing people of a specific region very similar to Coronado and the Aztecs... i want to be resentful...but like you say there was no own Africsnism then... and it's hard to tell someone that your current oppressor is better than this white stranger coming with gifts. I debate with my West African friends. Particularly one from Ghana who is from the Ashanti. As they were very complicit in the slave trade and did not stop until the British determined. It was a moral eviland also contrary to the economic goalsand had to even start a war with the British, which they ultimately lost. Over the right inability for them to continue selling slavesand enemies of the ashanti empire. The traffic irony is ridiculous which lead to our being kidnapped and sent to Americas.😢
You came correct
Yes the title was confusing until the end.
"Afro-European Colonization of Africa"
How about the Tribalization of Africa and then the European Colonization ❓
I'm grateful to God that I am not Continental African‼️
Greed and corruption
Thank you for what you do
Can you teach us more about what happened to your people during the trans Atlantic slave trade?
And what happened to your people mid to late 19th century
@mongaemongo1613 Are you a hue-man? I only ask because you use the term "Your People." All hue-mans come from out of the Origin of hue-mans Black, Melanated, Africans. However, if you are not Hue-man. I can teach you about "Your People." Imagine That
I’m not an american therefore I am comfortable in differentiating between calling someone or people “africans” compared to calling people by their household names.
Without a doubt one of your best videos. African colonialism is just too complex to use a simple "good vs evil" or "Black vs White" framework to understand it. It's because people still adhere to this framework that there's so much confusion and arguments over who wronged who. The first step for Africans and the diaspora to do is to acknowledge the "Afro-European" Colonization and then try and learn from it, as ethnic rivalries are still present to this day in Africa. Now this isn't to say that some Africans haven't already acknowledge this, it's that this level of information needs to be standardized in every school.
We as africans appreciate your content bru, and please kindly learn to get to the point early
I wouldn't say the problem is diversity. A diverse group of people can still stand united, especially against a common enemy. The problem, I think, is the division, and by extension the inequality that probably created that division
I don't know much about these cases specifically but like other people are saying in the comments here, this sort of thing has happened repeatedly throughout history; divided people are easy to manipulate and defeat
Desperate to be recognised.
Crying out for some attention.
A embarrassment to history and Africa.
Yorubas sold out southern Nigerian borders
some things never change
Good video.
bring it out
I agree
Botswana did the same...
When you talk about dynamics like this you have to be more aware about how things get used and manipulated. You say nuance and other people will tell the story that Europeans didn't olonize Afrika.
And be sure to keep in mind you are learning about this from hunters story of the kill. Not the lions story of a murderer.
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It’s always east Africans man
That’s the wrong mentality to have. You’re falling for the trickery.
@@mugen1077 do you not know all wars and in fighting going on ? Literally between cousins
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RThis video provides a very Good Historical Content and references. However I will mention that we tend to omit the role on the colonization process of Africa by the Modern Biblical Religions And other Modern Cults and Faiths!!!
😂 When I hear these types of narratives I laugh😂. First of all most so called Africans started off in Europe (Queen Europa). 2ndly the name of country or continent can not be the name of a people 🤔. We're not specific enough 🙄 everything exists in detail!
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My brother is simply Tribalism it serve european interest very well the arabs also used Tribalism to conquer in Africa europeans used similar strategy in the America's Tribalism is a problem in Africa today it's reality that black africans have to deal with or they would just continue to make the same mistakes of the past Tribalism has to be transcended period if Africa to have any future