My class is learning this topic right now in history class, and tbh this series kind of shows the amount of historical inaccuracies that are brushed off to fit into a greater historical narrative that is taught in the class, but still this resource can be really useful for classes!
@@Thoralmir the ultimately vaguely correct but not very accurate narrative of Europeans conquering and subjugating Africa and brutally oppressing and plundering the people and the land there. Not that it's wrong, it's just not very accurate and ignores almost all African history and civilization, and treats it as a monolith.
@@smorcrux426 what they don't tell you is that they still do it today. African countries are some of the most resource rich, they'd never let it go that easy
@@smorcrux426 they also massively ignore the arabic slave trade :D didnt hear a single word about it in school That trade has continued to this day btw
Wow, it's as if the history of the colonization of Africa has never been told until now! this must have been a huge effort in building a coherent narrative! Congratulations
This was the time period I was waiting for. The horn region is very interesting imo during this time period. Also I can't wait to play in that region when victoria 3 comes out.
@@darklight8338 yeah, but I think Victoria 2 might be too demanding for my pc, this is the first one that is mine from the get go, instead of the older one, which was previously from my brother, and it's not that great with high graphic games, but i will try to give it a chance.
@@darklight8338 I like these kind of games, by the way, I think strategy games might be good to the brain, which is something important to me, as I don't want to have a bunch of holes in it.
Thank you for introducing so many of us to the factual history of the colonization of Africa and its most important figures: unbiased, non-politicized, and de-westernized. It’s great to know exactly what happened where-and when-so we can continue to look into each expedition, war, or campaign of interest from there.
This is an oddly pleasant and collaborative comments section. I can’t thank you enough for tackling this important topic without allowing a cesspool to form!
It's worth noting that there is actually a lot of confusion over whether Jameson paid to have the girl cannibalized or whether the event happened due to a misunderstanding. (Jameson admitted paying the handkerchiefs, but claimed he was calling a local's bluff as he believed the cannibalism tales he'd heard about Africa were urban legends.) He described the resulting event in his journal as "sickening". Of course, Jameson *could* have easily been a cruel sociopath who paid to have the girl eaten and lied afterwards, but he just as easily could've been a naive Pollyanna who was quite possibly shocked and traumatized by the event. The fact is that we don't really know, which is always really important to note when presenting history in any serious way.
General Gordon turned down the post of governor of Congo to go to Sudan, if the news of the defeat of Hicks Pasha had arrived a fortnight later he would have taken up his post in central Africa and worked for King Leopold. If you're interested in Mahdist Sudan I recommend Khartoum by Michael Asher.
I need to read some more about Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński. I usually know a lot about the obscure Poland-related curiosities but I don't recall hearing much (if anything) about this guy.
I wish I still had the book to check the source again but when I was in Nigeria I read a book called "History of the Eko Dynasty" by Bolakale Kotun. (The Portuguese called Eko Lagos due to the resemblance to the Portugese capital). It detailed the history of the city across what I believe was two centuries. (late 1700s - 1900s). Different rulers in different regions within what is now south west Nigeria (and Benin) had different motivations when in power. You have an Eko king who apparently invited the Portuguese for trade in palm oil and slaves. You also have rulers who made deals with the British in order to help defend their kingdoms from neighbouring rivals. You also have classic British 'gunboat diplomacy' where a ruler who refused to trade slaves and relinquish control to the British had the city bombarded till the ruler surrendered; the British then made the the city pay for the ammunition that they expensed into the city as well as sign a treaty. So there were a range of reasons and events.
I found curious to hear about baden Powell in the scramble for Africa because the greatest Brazilian guitarist of all time, was name after him He was a mixed Pardo who was one of the biggest exponents of African and afro-brazilian music and culture here, his father was into scouting and decided to name him after Robert Baden Powell, so I always hear this name and think of "The Afro-Sambas"
Amazing content…the most thorough account of this period I’ve seen on RUclips. One quick point though… At 32:50, rather than saying “Belgian control” it may have been more accurate to say “Congo Free State control”. It was only in 1908 that Belgium took control of the area in response to international pressure.
I'm guessing he's going to elaborate on the Congo free state in the next video and doesn't want to confuse people too much, though he did mention the Congo free state a few times.
Tbf that was true of most colonies initially. E.g. British East India company, not Britain controlled India until 1857. The British South Africa Company controlled South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, etc... until the British state formally took control. The British Niger company in West Africa. Karl Pieters in what would become "German East Africa". Saying the "Belgians" is like the "British" when talking about most of the initial colonisation of the British Empire.
@@zhentian8762 Yes but the CFS was pretty international. The whites brought there were a mixture of french, belgian, german, english and danish people. And the concession companies like the ABIR were also multinationals. Also important is that the CFS had no parlementary control or anything, so it really was a private property, privately financed by the King (who almost got competely financially ruined before the rubber boom)
Nothing but facts in this clip. I love how you were very articulate and precise on the facts you produced. Especially on the Somali section of this vid
"Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity" - Thomas Sankara
@@Abraxium lol he was sane enough to vaccinate 2 million children agaisnt measles, polio etc as well as to getting rid of the fleets of European cars the various government officials had bought with money that should of been used to feed the people....hence why France n the US killed him...can't have a responsible n sane leader in Africa who cannot be corrupted with "aid" or European women Burkina Faso has been bleeding ever since
How about a follow-up on your video on the first Serbian uprising, would be great to see the second uprising Love your videos, keep up the amazing work!
The dervish movement in Somalia was in war for 23 years with the British, Italians and Ethiopians at the same time and even killed the leader of the British in British colonized Somalia
Lol. Stop exaggerating. The soomaalis engaged in hit and run tactics. There were hardly any actual battles which always ended with soomaalis fleeing into their desert.
@@amdetsion3256 we were mobile fighting the British and it’s allies. They introduced bombs flying from the sky which obviously was new to the region and we had to with what we had.
8:11 Misleading. Just because only 0.05% of the Indian population in 1901 was British, doesn't mean that there was essentially no British Empire in India. That's like saying there was no British monarchy because the royals made up just 0.0001% or whatever part of the population. What matters is how much power people hold in practice, not how many there are of them.
27:50 - The BSA forces under Patrick Forbes managed to push the Portuguese all the way to the port of Beira in Mozambique before London found out and ordered him to stop. Probably contributed to Portugal accepting the loss. 30:45- Judging by Five Romeo Romeo's videos, it's pronounced "Seloo"
There is a slight mistake about the Mahdists . Genaral Gordon wasn't sent from Egypt he was the governor of Sudan under the Pasha dynast. Other than that great vid.
Also he held out for an entire year, being besieged in the capital of the Egyptian Sudan. Though perhaps this detail isn't so relevant to the broad account of events.
@@brandonlyon730 they were all dictators, most scientists are athiests and they brought you modern medicine and improved the lifes of billions of people. Religion improved no one's life. Athiest science brought us the modern world.
@@LillyP-xs5qe You do know many religious people were scientists as well? Gregor Mendel was one of them and is considered the father of generics (whom the anti-religious Soviet Union censored during Stalin’s reign and set Soviet biology backwards several decades). In fact during the Middle Ages in Europe the Catholic Church had been one of the main funders of science during that period, especially with Medical science and astronomy. And I don’t see why you can’t believe in god and still believe in science at the same time, just because your Christian does not mean you 100% obey the Bible or whatever holy book to the letter (and even then many religious scholars says religious texts are more guidelines to enlightenment then to be 100% taken literal), just as the same you can believe in universal healthcare but can still be considered capitalist and not be a complete socialist or communist. Even the current Catholic pope believes in the theory of evolution, so don’t put billions of people under one umbrella.
@@brandonlyon730 science is non religious by default, at most they all were scientists that didn't let their brainwashing get in the way of science. Religion gave us nothing.
Beautiful Video, but one correction i do have as an german speaker. Its called Helgoland without the i ^^. And as a qiuck fact, the inhabitants of this small island in the north sea, were actually pretty pro britisch and dident want to join the german empire.
This is amazing content, thank you for making it. I remember at school there was a kind of unspoken assumption that African history was at most an extension of European history which also fuelled racist attitudes. I wish even a portion of the content of this video had been in the curriculum, ignorance is horrible and leads to idiotic opinions.
Much improved from before when it just had you. Talking as a cartoon, but now there's just so much going on in the map without highlighting it its hard to follow.
Imagine thugs fighting to steal your possessions then force you to follow their so call civilize way then hundreds years later they’ll tell you You’re behind and prevent you to come in their countries!
Jaja was a slave in the Kingdom of Benin not Bonny. He went to Bonny as a free man where his faction would war with that of Oko Jumbo's. Jaja's loss in said war would cause he and his followers to leave Bonny found Opobo.
No he was not he was from southern east present day imo state Nigeria and slave to what we know river state after his freedom he started palm oil business and found opopo
I always wondered why Liberia was never colonised? Was it due to American protection? Freed African American slaves colonised the area of what is now Liberia they became the elite due to this tensions rose between them and the natives that lived there.
@victor bruun Same thing is happening in Palestine/isreal right now. The Jews haven't learned from the effects of fascism and are now exercising it themselves. The right lessons are never being learned
@victor bruun Culture replicates itself, and bounds peoples' thinking. The Amero-Liberians were living the way they were raised, just with themselves at the top. A similar phenomenon happened after the Haitian revolution -- all the leaders of the newly free nation abhorred chattel slavery, but just couldn't imagine a version of Haiti that didn't rely on cash crop agriculture. So the "cultivator" system sprung up to replace slavery, which ended up being fairly comparable to European peasantdom. Generally the only Haitians who fought for an lived in more egalitarian and self-sufficient communities were relatively recent arrivals from Africa.
@@darklight8338 Didn’t the Palestine’s attacked first with a coalition force to destroy Israel? And when that backfired and got annexed they whine about being taken over when they were the ones that attacked in the first place and were planning to do the same thing with the Jews that were granted that land in the first place by its controllers.
I think its really telling listening to your video about a 16th century italian slave merchant’s diary and how the merchant and every european he interacted with understood that what they were doing was heinous, and then listening right afterwards to the video about the log kept by a canadian living in the time of doctor stanley livingston who speaks of slaves and natives as if they were livestock and seems to revel in their suffering. racism as we know it today was neither a natural instinct nor an existing feature of european society- it was born of and evangelised by people who valued profit and conquest over christian values and humane treatment of fellow men, a callousness that came about as a response to the cognitive dissonance that italian slaver experienced. the entire scramble of africa was led by horrible men, and in the lower ranks of the colonial administrations there were hundreds of King Leopolds ready to overlook or encourage horrifying feats of depravity to help line their pockets and pave the way to their promotion. i respect you a lot, because unlike other history youtubers you do not try to handwave this away or justify it. you present the facts as they are, free of the justifications and propaganda that have been repeated about colonisation for centuries and are taken even by the most respected historians as undoubtable fact. i would respect you far more if you hadn’t wormed your way out of pronouncing the name ‘Bonar’ in your script. say boner, you yellowbellied coward!
Technically the colonization Era started with the colonization of Ceuta by the Portuguese, then later the Canary islands, we tend to forget that because the Europeans totally deleted the Africans who lived there for thousands of years
@@Yanzdorloph Ceuta (and Melilla for that matter) have controversial place in modern EU politics. While they are directly governed by the spanish government i don't think many people would tell you they are in any way "integral to Europe" and with the modern refugee crisis they have become more of a weakness to be honest. I personally don't understand why Spain keeps holding on to these cities, they should be returned to Morocco.
@@okamireborn1406 wow you must be really fun in conversations and parties like in those specific events you seem very social and just jokes around and does not take anything serious. But seriously tho what if my reply is cringe to YOU? My reply specifically cringes you its not an international statement. If it is cringe to you what are you gonna do? If it is cringe to you heres a few steps to cope with it: 1 look at reply say 2 say "man bad cringe" 3 scroll past the reply and the comment. Boom. Just cope with it if you think its cringe because what am i gonna do? "oh mr i beg my forgiveness and i shall not write any more foolish statements on the internet,"
@@LuKing2 I don't have to explain to someone that likes their own comment. How petty so anything you going try to rebuttal it like a troll go back to your cave.
@@LuKing2 History channels typically have a Eurocentric or Afrocentric view of the world, especially Africa. Few channels are as unbiased as this one when it comes to teaching African history, or not riddled with historical fallacy and denialism. The Scramble of Africa is a very controversial topic.
We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿
Adal isn't a Soomaali Sultanate but Harari. Ajuuraan was created by Arab and Persian merchants that founded Moqadishu. Did you use Wikipedia for your source?
Your talking out of your ass Ajuran was not made by no Arab or a Persian merchants we we Somalis built it. Adal was comprised of many tribes your just a liar 🤥
@@rarelife1 Lool. Nobody cares for the campfire tales. Adal was founded by Harari and Argobbas, a people descended from Arabians. It was also Arabs and Persian merchants that founded Mogadishu and Aajuuran. The nomadic soomaali tribes assimilated into these states.
Funny that the only country that had more than 500.000 Europeans in Afrika never became a colonist power. The cape colony's, natal, Transvaal and oranje Vrijstaat and Namibia had thousands of Dutch boers. If the British didn't take the cape from the Netherlands to 'protect' it against Napoleon. How would the colonisation of South Afrika proceed if it would at all! Also can anyone inform me why the capital of Namibia still has a Dutch name? And does anyone know why the brothers Beers and other families sold their diamond mines to the British? Couldn't be that tricky bastard of a Cecil Rhodes all on his own?! And about the Boer wars, why did so many Irish fight allong side the boeren and against the British? Aren't they aware that the whole religious troubles in their country started after some Dutch idiot won the battle of the Boyne? It's why the Protestant wear orange. Why fight for the orange free state??
@@RK-cj4oc no, I live in the north eastern of the Netherlands/ Groningen en our dialect is the same as on the other side of the border until Bremen I can talk in dialect without problems. It's different than suid Afrikaans or all the suid Afrikaans in Namibia and south Afrika. Windhoek in our dialect woud be poesthörn or windhörn. But it's good of you to know about the German and Dutch dialects or Frisian languages.
Incorrect... Let others not narrate your history. Regrettably, it is Dr. James Small who unveils the genuine narrative. Additionally, ensure the accurate portrayal of stories by using correct images and skin tones. Displaying false ancient Kemetic/Egyptian depictions indicates a lack of understanding of authentic history, ensnared within the confines of the Matrix system. For thousands of years, ancient Kemetic/Egyptians toiled without shirts in temperatures ranging from 28°C to 50°C. Challenge anyone to name a white or olive-skinned individual capable of enduring such conditions without protection. They were oblivious to the concept of protection during the transition of the Sahara into a desert some 4000/5000 years ago. So that means know white people in Africa at that time.
Did you get that cartoon of "the slave" (5.15) from Logo TV? Although this presentation will undoubtedly fan the flames of the anger among the ignorant, as it is observedly anti-non-Negroid, it is well organized and I do recognize some level of understanding of acceptable ethnography methods. I appreciate the difficulty of that. Still, I would like young people to have some sort of context and understanding of the cultures of the thousands of Bantoid tribes who were a tiny community southwest of Lake Chad until the beginning of the "Great Bantu Expansion" which began as early as 1000 BC. Their horrific treatment of their females and of their millions of slaves (yes, Blacks always owned slaves), and the traditional mindset of nations in general in the world before the 20th century. This presentation still has too much, "they did this to us (?), they did that to us" for me, entirely excluding human nature and intelligence. Time to grow up and move beyond. What your ancestors or the ancestors of others did or how they behaved does not reflect on what you, as a living person, can make of your lives, your "soul," and the health and happiness of the planet. Youngsters have Disneyesque ideas of what "kingdoms" and "slaves" are, as well as many of the other terms you use. That is misleading and puts too much responsibility on children (chronological or mental) to understand the basic cohesion of humans.
That is wastern perspective or wight people but it is deferent what you say it is brutal and we are still alive what is next hundred years we are still fighting our freedom sad
"protection" just means becoming a 'protectorate': indirect rule through letting native institutions maintain control of internal affairs with a common foreign policy, as opposed to direct rule where native institutions were destroyed and europeans governed directly like in the congo.
So basically what your saying is anywhere you put Europeans you get roads, bridges, aqueducts, towns rules laws civilization, no matter how wild, remote and savage the place may have been. Here's a fun fact slavery was wiped out because of colonialism and it didn't go down quietly, slavery went out kicking punching rock slinging scratching shouting crying yelling spear throwing until the guns of a British French or American frigate silenced them. Any place where western nations didn't have contact with, the slave trade was business as usual. So anyways image if they doubled the size of European settlers? Double the development! BAAAAM! SCORPION WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY! FATALITY!
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 Tell me which part is not true and I'll take it all back. Except for the doubling the amount of Europeans I was trolling there, and that whole basically what your saying .... I was trolling. But western colonialism is what abolished slavery where ever it made contact with it. Which was basically everywhere in the world. Slavery which comes from the word for slavs ( eastern Europeans who the Romans enslaved over a third of their population which is where we get the word slaves wasn't an American or Western institution. It was a world institution. It was western civilization that destroyed it. They don't teach you this in school anymore.. It goes against their narrative that western civilization is racist and evil and it needs to be torn down and make room for their socialist utopia.
@@tobilobaokorodudu9594 it's even dumber than that, he must've skipped the last 3 episodes and not paid too close attention during this one to be able to say something so contradictory
Aren't you ashamed to not mention the men who fought the hypocrites? After an additional hearing:) Did you call those who opposed the colonialists jihadists?
My class is learning this topic right now in history class, and tbh this series kind of shows the amount of historical inaccuracies that are brushed off to fit into a greater historical narrative that is taught in the class, but still this resource can be really useful for classes!
For what narrative, may I ask?
@@Thoralmir the ultimately vaguely correct but not very accurate narrative of Europeans conquering and subjugating Africa and brutally oppressing and plundering the people and the land there. Not that it's wrong, it's just not very accurate and ignores almost all African history and civilization, and treats it as a monolith.
@@smorcrux426 what they don't tell you is that they still do it today. African countries are some of the most resource rich, they'd never let it go that easy
@@smorcrux426 they also massively ignore the arabic slave trade :D didnt hear a single word about it in school
That trade has continued to this day btw
@@lukasmadrid1945 no they really arent lmfao
Wow, it's as if the history of the colonization of Africa has never been told until now! this must have been a huge effort in building a coherent narrative! Congratulations
Yea he talked for 3 hours before even getting to the part that many people consider the beginning
Who's narrative, if I may ask?
@@Thoralmir his, of course, it's clearly technical rather than opinionated which is of course fantastic
@@Unknowngfyjoh what do you consider to be the beginning?
People in Africa used to be ,up to 150, years old before Europeans came and poisoned the land
African history is very complex. Thank for helping me understand it.
This was the time period I was waiting for. The horn region is very interesting imo during this time period. Also I can't wait to play in that region when victoria 3 comes out.
yeah, Victoria is cool, i just hate one thing in the game: I can't play mods if I change the language to something that isn't English.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002
You will probably be able to do that in Vic 3
@@darklight8338 yeah, but I think Victoria 2 might be too demanding for my pc, this is the first one that is mine from the get go, instead of the older one, which was previously from my brother, and it's not that great with high graphic games, but i will try to give it a chance.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 Vic 3 is definitely going to be more demanding I'm getting a new pc myself before it comes out
@@darklight8338 I like these kind of games, by the way, I think strategy games might be good to the brain, which is something important to me, as I don't want to have a bunch of holes in it.
Thank you for introducing so many of us to the factual history of the colonization of Africa and its most important figures: unbiased, non-politicized, and de-westernized. It’s great to know exactly what happened where-and when-so we can continue to look into each expedition, war, or campaign of interest from there.
You cannot de-westernize something that includes westerners.
@RK-cj4oc you clearly don't understand what he means
History is inherently political.
This is an oddly pleasant and collaborative comments section. I can’t thank you enough for tackling this important topic without allowing a cesspool to form!
I’m loving this series! Getting to see the rarely explored history of Africa is always amazing!
It's worth noting that there is actually a lot of confusion over whether Jameson paid to have the girl cannibalized or whether the event happened due to a misunderstanding. (Jameson admitted paying the handkerchiefs, but claimed he was calling a local's bluff as he believed the cannibalism tales he'd heard about Africa were urban legends.) He described the resulting event in his journal as "sickening".
Of course, Jameson *could* have easily been a cruel sociopath who paid to have the girl eaten and lied afterwards, but he just as easily could've been a naive Pollyanna who was quite possibly shocked and traumatized by the event. The fact is that we don't really know, which is always really important to note when presenting history in any serious way.
European lies😪
@@JimmyCrackCorn_ And you know that how? Where you there?
He was a sicko. What the hell was he doing with a 10 year old girl ( don't answer that). Does his family still own Jameson?
@@carmelmulroy6459 in the sense of family heritage connections, yes?
But blaming them is a little regressive
It seems that in the presence of such horrible company, it's unlikely he would actually be as naïve as he portrays himself.
General Gordon turned down the post of governor of Congo to go to Sudan, if the news of the defeat of Hicks Pasha had arrived a fortnight later he would have taken up his post in central Africa and worked for King Leopold. If you're interested in Mahdist Sudan I recommend Khartoum by Michael Asher.
Top class production, the information on this is very comprehensive and I loved it.
I need to read some more about Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński. I usually know a lot about the obscure Poland-related curiosities but I don't recall hearing much (if anything) about this guy.
Who asked
Emin Pasha was actually born in Opole, but later emigrated to Ottoman Empire.
His birth name was Isaak Eduard Schnitzer.
Your channel is the best- with love from Kerala, India
You're the best History RUclipsr IMO.
I wish I still had the book to check the source again but when I was in Nigeria I read a book called "History of the Eko Dynasty" by Bolakale Kotun. (The Portuguese called Eko Lagos due to the resemblance to the Portugese capital). It detailed the history of the city across what I believe was two centuries. (late 1700s - 1900s).
Different rulers in different regions within what is now south west Nigeria (and Benin) had different motivations when in power. You have an Eko king who apparently invited the Portuguese for trade in palm oil and slaves. You also have rulers who made deals with the British in order to help defend their kingdoms from neighbouring rivals. You also have classic British 'gunboat diplomacy' where a ruler who refused to trade slaves and relinquish control to the British had the city bombarded till the ruler surrendered; the British then made the the city pay for the ammunition that they expensed into the city as well as sign a treaty. So there were a range of reasons and events.
I found curious to hear about baden Powell in the scramble for Africa because the greatest Brazilian guitarist of all time, was name after him
He was a mixed Pardo who was one of the biggest exponents of African and afro-brazilian music and culture here, his father was into scouting and decided to name him after Robert Baden Powell, so I always hear this name and think of "The Afro-Sambas"
Amazing content…the most thorough account of this period I’ve seen on RUclips.
One quick point though… At 32:50, rather than saying “Belgian control” it may have been more accurate to say “Congo Free State control”. It was only in 1908 that Belgium took control of the area in response to international pressure.
I'm guessing he's going to elaborate on the Congo free state in the next video and doesn't want to confuse people too much, though he did mention the Congo free state a few times.
Tbf that was true of most colonies initially. E.g. British East India company, not Britain controlled India until 1857. The British South Africa Company controlled South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, etc... until the British state formally took control. The British Niger company in West Africa. Karl Pieters in what would become "German East Africa". Saying the "Belgians" is like the "British" when talking about most of the initial colonisation of the British Empire.
@@zhentian8762 Yes but the CFS was pretty international. The whites brought there were a mixture of french, belgian, german, english and danish people. And the concession companies like the ABIR were also multinationals. Also important is that the CFS had no parlementary control or anything, so it really was a private property, privately financed by the King (who almost got competely financially ruined before the rubber boom)
Nothing but facts in this clip. I love how you were very articulate and precise on the facts you produced. Especially on the Somali section of this vid
William Stairs: "Here I go killing again for no reason. Just can't help it."
This man slaughtered folk for absolutely no reason.
"Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity"
- Thomas Sankara
'I don't know what imperialism means'
- Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara might not be the most sane person to quote, lol, but he is right here. Look what China is doing in many parts of Africa
@@ArcticTemper the quote is pretty spot on for describing neo-imperialism
@علي ياسر both
@@Abraxium lol he was sane enough to vaccinate 2 million children agaisnt measles, polio etc as well as to getting rid of the fleets of European cars the various government officials had bought with money that should of been used to feed the people....hence why France n the US killed him...can't have a responsible n sane leader in Africa who cannot be corrupted with "aid" or European women Burkina Faso has been bleeding ever since
This is my favourite serise you did can't wait for the next episode
I love this channel.
Finally!!!!! I have been waiting for this!
We need a separate video with all the nuance and background for Liberia
How about a follow-up on your video on the first Serbian uprising, would be great to see the second uprising
Love your videos, keep up the amazing work!
great work jabzy
Best series on africa yet
I love this guy's videos!
Nice. I hope you talk about French Madagascar in the final episode.
Very concise. Are you a history professor by profession? Great overview.
Thanks, but I'm afraid I'm not
The dervish movement in Somalia was in war for 23 years with the British, Italians and Ethiopians at the same time and even killed the leader of the British in British colonized Somalia
Lol. Stop exaggerating. The soomaalis engaged in hit and run tactics. There were hardly any actual battles which always ended with soomaalis fleeing into their desert.
@@amdetsion3256 we were mobile fighting the British and it’s allies. They introduced bombs flying from the sky which obviously was new to the region and we had to with what we had.
Very nice video. More like this please
13:22 I guess that Gondar didn't have any Rohirrim to call.
Dumb jokes aside, very interesting video!
Were was Gondar when the westfold fell?
8:04 Hey I’m a Montenegrin American! 🇲🇪🇺🇸
8:11 Misleading. Just because only 0.05% of the Indian population in 1901 was British, doesn't mean that there was essentially no British Empire in India. That's like saying there was no British monarchy because the royals made up just 0.0001% or whatever part of the population. What matters is how much power people hold in practice, not how many there are of them.
Very interesting video
You'd think since Spain is the closets to Africa it would have more colonies on the continent.
thats not how it works
@@duruarute5445 I guess not
Spain was a basket case by the time the discovery of modern medicine opened up the continent to Europeans.
Somalia worriers of east Africa mashallah
Egyptians: Cats
Bonny: I G U A N A S
(I know, it is a lame joke)
27:50 - The BSA forces under Patrick Forbes managed to push the Portuguese all the way to the port of Beira in Mozambique before London found out and ordered him to stop. Probably contributed to Portugal accepting the loss.
30:45- Judging by Five Romeo Romeo's videos, it's pronounced "Seloo"
There is a slight mistake about the Mahdists . Genaral Gordon wasn't sent from Egypt he was the governor of Sudan under the Pasha dynast. Other than that great vid.
Also he held out for an entire year, being besieged in the capital of the Egyptian Sudan. Though perhaps this detail isn't so relevant to the broad account of events.
Your lack of mention about the Shona is criminal
We even have a town in Ghana called Katanga located in oti region Dambai district
11 thousand dead Oromo people at the hands of the Ethiopians within a single day.... Jesus christ...
They Christans, so that's 11k dead in a day for the name of Jesus Christ...
It's like religious beliefs are nonsense
@@LillyP-xs5qe Stalin, Mussolini, and Mao Zedong were all Atheists and had murdered far more people.
@@brandonlyon730 they were all dictators, most scientists are athiests and they brought you modern medicine and improved the lifes of billions of people.
Religion improved no one's life.
Athiest science brought us the modern world.
@@LillyP-xs5qe You do know many religious people were scientists as well? Gregor Mendel was one of them and is considered the father of generics (whom the anti-religious Soviet Union censored during Stalin’s reign and set Soviet biology backwards several decades). In fact during the Middle Ages in Europe the Catholic Church had been one of the main funders of science during that period, especially with Medical science and astronomy. And I don’t see why you can’t believe in god and still believe in science at the same time, just because your Christian does not mean you 100% obey the Bible or whatever holy book to the letter (and even then many religious scholars says religious texts are more guidelines to enlightenment then to be 100% taken literal), just as the same you can believe in universal healthcare but can still be considered capitalist and not be a complete socialist or communist. Even the current Catholic pope believes in the theory of evolution, so don’t put billions of people under one umbrella.
@@brandonlyon730 science is non religious by default, at most they all were scientists that didn't let their brainwashing get in the way of science.
Religion gave us nothing.
Beautiful Video, but one correction i do have as an german speaker. Its called Helgoland without the i ^^.
And as a qiuck fact, the inhabitants of this small island in the north sea, were actually pretty pro britisch and dident want to join the german empire.
The Edmund musgrove bit is slightly incorrect, as an ancestor of him his diary’s are quite quite different to his description in the video
This is amazing content, thank you for making it. I remember at school there was a kind of unspoken assumption that African history was at most an extension of European history which also fuelled racist attitudes. I wish even a portion of the content of this video had been in the curriculum, ignorance is horrible and leads to idiotic opinions.
I know right. Truly a remarkable video. :o
This is really interesting, especially the way you narrate such an intrincate story. Just for research purposes, may I ask which are your sources?
funfact in the battle of luuq at 10:10 the few ethiopians that survived ended up as slaves and were later freed by italians
power is evil. Horn of Africa Kings would do anything for that power damm
Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt..
Much improved from before when it just had you. Talking as a cartoon, but now there's just so much going on in the map without highlighting it its hard to follow.
“British protection”? And I have a couple of bridges to sale you.
Imagine thugs fighting to steal your possessions then force you to follow their so call civilize way then hundreds years later they’ll tell you You’re behind and prevent you to come in their countries!
Sad ain’t it
Nothing wrong with it.
Very interesting, but it seems to be much british bias, as the
french expansión is so much ignored
16:53 just a nitpick but you pronounced Niger wrong, its pronounced “Ni-Jher” other than that amazing vid
Haven't gotten to that part yet but reading this comment I hope he's not pronouncing it the way I think he will 💀
20:59 IS THAT JARJAR BINKS?!?!?
Jaja was a slave in the Kingdom of Benin not Bonny. He went to Bonny as a free man where his faction would war with that of Oko Jumbo's. Jaja's loss in said war would cause he and his followers to leave Bonny found Opobo.
No he was not he was from southern east present day imo state Nigeria and slave to what we know river state after his freedom he started palm oil business and found opopo
First is Carthage
Carthage is Arab
I always wondered why Liberia was never colonised? Was it due to American protection?
Freed African American slaves colonised the area of what is now Liberia they became the elite due to this tensions rose between them and the natives that lived there.
@victor bruun
Same thing is happening in Palestine/isreal right now. The Jews haven't learned from the effects of fascism and are now exercising it themselves. The right lessons are never being learned
@victor bruun Culture replicates itself, and bounds peoples' thinking. The Amero-Liberians were living the way they were raised, just with themselves at the top.
A similar phenomenon happened after the Haitian revolution -- all the leaders of the newly free nation abhorred chattel slavery, but just couldn't imagine a version of Haiti that didn't rely on cash crop agriculture. So the "cultivator" system sprung up to replace slavery, which ended up being fairly comparable to European peasantdom. Generally the only Haitians who fought for an lived in more egalitarian and self-sufficient communities were relatively recent arrivals from Africa.
@@darklight8338 Didn’t the Palestine’s attacked first with a coalition force to destroy Israel? And when that backfired and got annexed they whine about being taken over when they were the ones that attacked in the first place and were planning to do the same thing with the Jews that were granted that land in the first place by its controllers.
@@brandonlyon730 the Jews were unnaturally placed in the region to begin how the palestinians responded makes sense
@@LuKing2 And where were the Jews suppose to go then after they nearly got exterminated by an Austria man with a funny mustache?
Can you make a video on rathore 1000 horsemen vs 100k Mughal and Jaipur soldiers?
No panjabi
YES!!!!!
I think its really telling listening to your video about a 16th century italian slave merchant’s diary and how the merchant and every european he interacted with understood that what they were doing was heinous, and then listening right afterwards to the video about the log kept by a canadian living in the time of doctor stanley livingston who speaks of slaves and natives as if they were livestock and seems to revel in their suffering. racism as we know it today was neither a natural instinct nor an existing feature of european society- it was born of and evangelised by people who valued profit and conquest over christian values and humane treatment of fellow men, a callousness that came about as a response to the cognitive dissonance that italian slaver experienced. the entire scramble of africa was led by horrible men, and in the lower ranks of the colonial administrations there were hundreds of King Leopolds ready to overlook or encourage horrifying feats of depravity to help line their pockets and pave the way to their promotion.
i respect you a lot, because unlike other history youtubers you do not try to handwave this away or justify it. you present the facts as they are, free of the justifications and propaganda that have been repeated about colonisation for centuries and are taken even by the most respected historians as undoubtable fact. i would respect you far more if you hadn’t wormed your way out of pronouncing the name ‘Bonar’ in your script. say boner, you yellowbellied coward!
I know it was a minor nation in the colonization but you left Spain out
Technically the colonization Era started with the colonization of Ceuta by the Portuguese, then later the Canary islands, we tend to forget that because the Europeans totally deleted the Africans who lived there for thousands of years
No, it started with Phoenicians colonizing modern day Tunisia
You're right, it's strange how those often don't get more attention....
@@cv4809 No, you're both wrong. It started when Homo Sapiens expanded out of Ethiopia. Lol
@@LuKing2 Because Europeans insist they are an integral part of Europe, so the world went with that narrative. for now at least
@@Yanzdorloph Ceuta (and Melilla for that matter) have controversial place in modern EU politics. While they are directly governed by the spanish government i don't think many people would tell you they are in any way "integral to Europe" and with the modern refugee crisis they have become more of a weakness to be honest. I personally don't understand why Spain keeps holding on to these cities, they should be returned to Morocco.
can you do a video on neo colonialism?
You didnt talk about Spanish colonies :(
When’s part 5?
not yet released
@@sup3rkangkong I’m aware I want to know when it’s gonna come out
7:36 you don’t said the d of pied
Could you throw these into a playlist please?
24:10- "The Germans responded by burning down their towns, but lost a lot of men in ambushes". A common pattern for them!
Why was Jar Jar Binks there?
British Protection
I wonder, if these African nations resisted occupation, would the British claim self defence? Hmm 🤔
Love your video but the skin tone of some of the people mentioned here is just off....Samori Toure did not look like that.
0:53 Guy from hoi4?
You mean agama lizards. Iguanas are from central America.
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Sigma mindset
@@strasseristsgaming3995 😄
@@strasseristsgaming3995 Please stop saying that cringe shit
@@okamireborn1406 wow you must be really fun in conversations and parties like in those specific events you seem very social and just jokes around and does not take anything serious. But seriously tho what if my reply is cringe to YOU? My reply specifically cringes you its not an international statement. If it is cringe to you what are you gonna do? If it is cringe to you heres a few steps to cope with it:
1 look at reply say
2 say "man bad cringe"
3 scroll past the reply and the comment.
Boom. Just cope with it if you think its cringe because what am i gonna do? "oh mr i beg my forgiveness and i shall not write any more foolish statements on the internet,"
@@strasseristsgaming3995 buddy wrote a whole paragraph to defend his cringe
Egypt or Carthage
Forever you're the best historian, so unbiased so professional in this right wing sphere thank you very much.
Sorry, what do you mean by "right wing sphere"? Are history channels usually run by right wingers?
@@LuKing2 I don't have to explain to someone that likes their own comment. How petty so anything you going try to rebuttal it like a troll go back to your cave.
@@bskiez I was genuinely asking a question. Why did this upset you so much?
@@LuKing2 History channels typically have a Eurocentric or Afrocentric view of the world, especially Africa. Few channels are as unbiased as this one when it comes to teaching African history, or not riddled with historical fallacy and denialism. The Scramble of Africa is a very controversial topic.
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 Allright. I can see how that is the case, thank you for respectfully answering my question.
21:10 what was that? 😂
We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿
What's that about king George Pepple and the iguana? There are no iguanas in Africa!
Why is Thier a gap between Djibouti and Somaliland?
You don't know anything about East African history
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 was not colonised
Adal isn't a Soomaali Sultanate but Harari. Ajuuraan was created by Arab and Persian merchants that founded Moqadishu. Did you use Wikipedia for your source?
Your talking out of your ass Ajuran was not made by no Arab or a Persian merchants we we Somalis built it. Adal was comprised of many tribes your just a liar 🤥
Adal and Ajuraan were Somali kingdoms ruled by Somalis. And Muqdisho was founded by Somalis and has existed for millenniums.
@@rarelife1 Lool. Nobody cares for the campfire tales. Adal was founded by Harari and Argobbas, a people descended from Arabians. It was also Arabs and Persian merchants that founded Mogadishu and Aajuuran. The nomadic soomaali tribes assimilated into these states.
Funny that the only country that had more than 500.000 Europeans in Afrika never became a colonist power.
The cape colony's, natal, Transvaal and oranje Vrijstaat and Namibia had thousands of Dutch boers. If the British didn't take the cape from the Netherlands to 'protect' it against Napoleon. How would the colonisation of South Afrika proceed if it would at all!
Also can anyone inform me why the capital of Namibia still has a Dutch name?
And does anyone know why the brothers Beers and other families sold their diamond mines to the British? Couldn't be that tricky bastard of a Cecil Rhodes all on his own?!
And about the Boer wars, why did so many Irish fight allong side the boeren and against the British?
Aren't they aware that the whole religious troubles in their country started after some Dutch idiot won the battle of the Boyne? It's why the Protestant wear orange.
Why fight for the orange free state??
Capital of Namibia has a German name.
@@RK-cj4oc well I speak German and Dutch it most certain is a Dutch if it where German it would have been called windecke. So no it's not German.
@@Hooibeest2D I could be wrong. But the name is one of the North western German Dialect. Which is close to Dutch. Again. Could be wrong.
@@RK-cj4oc no, I live in the north eastern of the Netherlands/ Groningen en our dialect is the same as on the other side of the border until Bremen I can talk in dialect without problems.
It's different than suid Afrikaans or all the suid Afrikaans in Namibia and south Afrika. Windhoek in our dialect woud be poesthörn or windhörn.
But it's good of you to know about the German and Dutch dialects or Frisian languages.
I'm so glad the majority of the bigoted racists lost interest in this series already or at least aren't commenting as much.
Not true, we check back in from time to time.
All lies about menilik on Ethiopia
Can you mention about Victoria Falls and Rhodesia (present-day, Zimbabwe), in the final segment?
Also, can you mention about the 30-minute, Battle of Zanzibar, in the final segment?
Incorrect... Let others not narrate your history. Regrettably, it is Dr. James Small who unveils the genuine narrative.
Additionally, ensure the accurate portrayal of stories by using correct images and skin tones.
Displaying false ancient Kemetic/Egyptian depictions indicates a lack of understanding of authentic history, ensnared within the confines of the Matrix system. For thousands of years, ancient Kemetic/Egyptians toiled without shirts in temperatures ranging from 28°C to 50°C.
Challenge anyone to name a white or olive-skinned individual capable of enduring such conditions without protection. They were oblivious to the concept of protection during the transition of the Sahara into a desert some 4000/5000 years ago.
So that means know white people in Africa at that time.
Did you get that cartoon of "the slave" (5.15) from Logo TV? Although this presentation will undoubtedly fan the flames of the anger among the ignorant, as it is observedly anti-non-Negroid, it is well organized and I do recognize some level of understanding of acceptable ethnography methods. I appreciate the difficulty of that. Still, I would like young people to have some sort of context and understanding of the cultures of the thousands of Bantoid tribes who were a tiny community southwest of Lake Chad until the beginning of the "Great Bantu Expansion" which began as early as 1000 BC. Their horrific treatment of their females and of their millions of slaves (yes, Blacks always owned slaves), and the traditional mindset of nations in general in the world before the 20th century. This presentation still has too much, "they did this to us (?), they did that to us" for me, entirely excluding human nature and intelligence. Time to grow up and move beyond. What your ancestors or the ancestors of others did or how they behaved does not reflect on what you, as a living person, can make of your lives, your "soul," and the health and happiness of the planet. Youngsters have Disneyesque ideas of what "kingdoms" and "slaves" are, as well as many of the other terms you use. That is misleading and puts too much responsibility on children (chronological or mental) to understand the basic cohesion of humans.
That is wastern perspective or wight people but it is deferent what you say it is brutal and we are still alive what is next hundred years we are still fighting our freedom sad
"British protection"! British subjugation and exploitation would be more accurate.
"protection" just means becoming a 'protectorate': indirect rule through letting native institutions maintain control of internal affairs with a common foreign policy, as opposed to direct rule where native institutions were destroyed and europeans governed directly like in the congo.
Uncivilized who civilized 🤔
History shows us those who claim to be the most civilized commit the worst acts against humanity.
Are you somali or...?
@@cavaugnsharkey2699
True
@@darklight8338
I'm from Senegal.
@@Buurba_Jolof
Oh I was confused since your pfp is of a somali but your name is mansa musa
CALLING THE DAHOMEY…DAHONY AMAZONS WHILE THERE STILL IN AFRICA IS MISLEADING AND A MISNOMER
How is it misleading?
So basically what your saying is anywhere you put Europeans you get roads, bridges, aqueducts, towns rules laws civilization, no matter how wild, remote and savage the place may have been. Here's a fun fact slavery was wiped out because of colonialism and it didn't go down quietly, slavery went out kicking punching rock slinging scratching shouting crying yelling spear throwing until the guns of a British French or American frigate silenced them. Any place where western nations didn't have contact with, the slave trade was business as usual. So anyways image if they doubled the size of European settlers? Double the development! BAAAAM! SCORPION WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY! FATALITY!
I've read to the end and I'm convinced you're being sarcastic with a tinge of trolling. Gosh, I hope you are.
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 it obvious he is trolling
@@cavaugnsharkey2699which part is historically inaccurate?
Avreage eurocentric virgin
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 Tell me which part is not true and I'll take it all back. Except for the doubling the amount of Europeans I was trolling there, and that whole basically what your saying .... I was trolling. But western colonialism is what abolished slavery where ever it made contact with it. Which was basically everywhere in the world. Slavery which comes from the word for slavs ( eastern Europeans who the Romans enslaved over a third of their population which is where we get the word slaves wasn't an American or Western institution. It was a world institution. It was western civilization that destroyed it. They don't teach you this in school anymore.. It goes against their narrative that western civilization is racist and evil and it needs to be torn down and make room for their socialist utopia.
It’s actually the time Europeans pulled Africa out of the Stone Age. Lmao.
When you didn't watch the first 3 episodes.
POV: When you don't know what you're talking about
When you have 2 brain cells
@@tobilobaokorodudu9594 it's even dumber than that, he must've skipped the last 3 episodes and not paid too close attention during this one to be able to say something so contradictory
I don't need facts I have stereotypes
Aren't you ashamed to not mention the men who fought the hypocrites?
After an additional hearing:)
Did you call those who opposed the colonialists jihadists?
False narritive about Menilk