Corrections - The Omani Ruling Family was the Yaruba Dynasty, not the Yoruba. Sometimes I say 17th Century but the timeline says 1700s. Forgot to put Burundi and Rwanda as Belgian after WW1.
The igbo have been recognized as the biblical Israelites by the Sephardic Jewish Rabbinical Court Obadiah Alliance. It would be interesting to talk about the Igbo relationship with the Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and the Songhai empire by Askia Muhammad also in 1492 in Timbuktu
I gotta be honest my jaw dropped when I realized that this wasn't a podcast or something like it and realized its a documentary. Three and a half fucking hours of detailed African history, fully scripted, and well articulated. Just spectacular!
I love any video on the history of Africa but your videos are fantastic. They don’t paint Africans as weak, ignorant “others”, nor do they rewrite history as portray Africans as ancient superior humans. They portray Africans as being as important and equal to human history as every other group of people. There was so much going on throughout the planet pre-Euro/American dominance (let’s say 1600 to the present) and Africa is usually always left out of that conversation.
Europe and Asia everywhere in the world there was some form of servitude Slavery exetra Europeans sold Europeans to the Barbary pirates, as well as other people were sold into that trafficking in Africa. There were these servitude forms of slavery as well not that they were walk in the park, but racialized, shuttle, lifelong slavery, where you could never be free and white people said you were inferior and white people created sciences to prove they were supreme is a very important part of the story, and as you can see, so many white people left Europe in order to conquer and take over Africa and Africans exploit them murder them appropriate their religions and their contributions to society and the richness of their soil and the gold and diamonds. You recognize Africa is a black continent but many of these pictures he’s putting apart of white people who left Europe to do wickedness and nastiness and terrorize Black people Black people did not leave the continent of Africa, nor did Asian people leave their continent to go to white peoples continents and terrorizing enslaved them, exploit them rape them, and all manner of inhumane wickedness Black people didn’t do that, so what’s most interesting to me is there’s never been a time in history since white people have existed on the planet that they haven’t been trying to attack and exploit Africa and Africans and the African diaspora
Yeah he is aware of the biases that exist in others and his own biases and can thus approach history from an intellectually honest position and do a damn good job of it. Really one of the best documentaries I've ever seen Edit: Africa is so culturally and lingustically diverse and enormous geographically that I think it's an overwhelmingly powerful tendency to simplify and generalize african history rather than to do an honest study of it.
This is a masterpiece. Nothing on youtube compares to this. There is nothing more concise or thorough i can find about the recorded history of africa. Its 3hrs plus long yet sharp to the point. And it just enough to fill in anyones blacks and que further research. Truly the finest creation ive seen. Wow man👏
The most comprehensive history of the scramble for Africa ever released on video, and one that doesn't rely on basic narratives and tropes. Truly a historiographical triumph.
@@JabzyJoe Back when I was a Christian there was a line in the Bible that stated, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory." In your video I see a very complicated and nuanced view of all the parties involved in the slave trade and realize this is more than just a European vs African story and more of a story of how all mankind is complicit in enslaving one another. In the USA blacks don't really get a lot of information about Africa unless it's portraying the continent as this wild and primitive area that nothing developed from. But in your video, I see a sophisticated and sad history that rivals that of Europe, Eurasia, or Asia. Your video helped me to understand why Africa is the way it is today, and why it may never be united or have a renaissance.
Oh my god finally. There's so little information about African history before European colonization. I've been trying to find info on 18th century Africa and previously to no avail. Thanks for the video.
Information is basically nonexistent because there were almost no writing by the people, so almost everything we know south of Timbuktu comes from outsiders and modern archeology.
THIS INFORMATION (ESPECIALLY AROUND THE ZULUS AND NDEBELE IS LARGELY INCORRECT, IT WAS MZILIKAZI A GENERAL IN SHAKA'S ARMY WHO WENT ON A RAID FOR KING SHAKA, DECIDED NOT TO RETURN AND TOOK WITH HIM SOME FOLLOWERS AND THEY FLED FROM SHAKA AND HIS ZULUS FLEEING FROM SHAKA AND EVENTUALLY ENDING UP CREATING THE MATABELE OR NDEBELE WHO MADE BULAWAYO IN PRESENT DAY ZIMBABWE. NOTHING TO DO WITH BOERS FIGHTING WITH THE MATABELE AND CHASING THEM ALL THE WAY TO ZIMBABWE AS THIS NARRATOR CLAIM, HE IS TALKING TOTAL BULLDHIT
Funny that isn't it? That outside of cartage and other very distinctive parts of North Africa no one has really paid attention to any other aspect of African history. I mean, I know for a fact that the bantu have genocided three very distinct non bantu ethnic groups, but they never get a mention. It's almost as if no one cares.
loved this video very much. I'm a very proud Somali and was pleasantly surprised at how generally accurate your information was. Often Somali history is overlooked when discussing pan African history I'm glad this wasn't the case in this video. You very skilfully provided generally holistic and contextual history of the continent for those 400 hundred years. you even created links between different regions demonstrating you depth in knowledge. Keep up the good work
Thank you for such an informative video! I am ADOS living in Senegal and having a source explaining exactly who did what to whom helps me put into context what I already thought I knew from my own research and observations. Congratulations on a job well done!
I'm absolutely amazed at how detailed this is. I'll need weeks to even begin to properly digest this information. Bravo, sir and thank you. This is humbling.
After watching that in the background while playing age of empires, i realized how much i didn't know about colonial african history even though i pride myself as someone who does, and how i literally learnt 4 years worth of university education in nearly 4 hours, excellent job Jabzy 💪
awesome work. This an important period in history, that no one else on youtube has managed to cover in anywhere close to this amount of depth. It was a great series and now its all in one place
Amazing video! Thank you so much for covering this sweep of African history. This is my second time watching and I'm still just as glued to it, discovering new things about nations I'd barely heard of before.
Thank you as a historian myself I think it’s so important to tell more of sub-Saharan African history… It is not my forte/time and area of expertise and while I know more than the average person my knowledge of this region an it’s history is pitiful for my standards (for myself).
@@danielshoudy265 Ok, so this is a teachable moment. The term Sub-Saharan was introduced during late 18th early 19th centuries as a way to divorce the black history of Egypt. The proximity to Europe, and the presence of pale Arabs made it easy for egyptologist to divide the Northern part of Africa from the South and claim Egypt as a western European empire Sub-saharan became a pejorative because it was used as a way to establish the misconception that the people below the Sahara were savages without a culture or history.
What a work. Thank you so much for this. Obviously running through the entire huge continent in only (ha!) 3 1/2 hours meant skimming through things. But just wow. Thank you so much for this riveting documentary. It could be my all time favourite ... so far that is. Thanks again.
Amazing! The most knowledgeable and informative case study about Africa History I ever came across until now! I have learnt more watching this video than all what I have been told in school or by others. In 3 hours of video you created a masterpiece that should be an compulsory case study in Africa history education. I salute you for this amazing case study you put together! Well done!
Idk if this is connected to this documentary's topic, but in the the 1930s, Lithuania actually had a proposal to set up a colony in the Northern Tip of Madagascar to act as a sort of safe haven for a large proportion of the Lithuanian population in the event of a German, Soviet, or Polish invasion. Of course this proposal never went anywhere as Lithuania was too poor to buy the land from France ant to maintain the colony , and because the logistics of setting up such a colony was quite overwhelming. The Colony would've been called "Dausuva", named after Dausos, the spirit world in Lithuanian pagan mythology and it was estimated that up to a 1/3 to 2/3 of Lithuania's population could be evacuated to the colony in the event of an invasion of the Homeland.
Madagascar and other parts of Africa were also considered to be the new homeland for Zionist Jews to relocate and establish a Jewish state of Isreal. But it never materialised either. Funny how back then Europeans were the ones carving up other people's land and mass migrating, yet today are the ones fighting mass immigration.
This is absolutely amazing! I’m studying South African history between the 1400s and 1900s and this video seems very informative and helpful. So thank you.
*SWARTY EUROPEAN. 🤴🏽 🤴🏾 🤴🏿 👸🏽 👸🏾 FIND THEM it will also explain the Roman's attitude and cognitive dissonance amongst the new comers to The America's and to Africa.
Lol yeah "South Africa" didn't exist in that time period. You want to know history ask the native people of that land and you will gain authentic knowledge and information. I advice you to travel to that land if you are really 💯.
@@readme8981 I would absolutely love to travel to many places in Africa and learn from the people themselves. I know it’s possible but many people don’t advise it.
I Greatly appreciate your non biased over view of African. African history has been ignored too long. It is heart breaking how Africa and other Indigenous tribes/nations have been colonized through the many, many centuries. It is only through understanding our interactions others that we can understand ourselves for the human story and histories are all a part of all of humanity. Thank you for filling in more pieces of the human history puzzle.
@@JabzyJoeThat is so unbelievable. It amazes me just how shallow and willingly ignorant people chose to be. Sometimes I wonder how long humanity will exist on this planet just because they are stuck in ignorant mode. Too many people just assume every thing is a lie. Yes there have been a lot of lies. Yes there has been a lot of propaganda. But, one needs to develop a sense of curiosity, and if the doubt they need to learn to do their own research and keep an open mind. I look at every thing... challenge my mind and my knowledge... I hang onto what I watch and try to add to the information from other sources. I really blame our entire educational system for a lot of this close mindedness. But, I can't really blame the teachers per se, they have their orders and they too have been neglected as to the truth. There are a lot of good teachers out there who end up giving up the battle.
@@ninzapou To say the colonialism brought about modernisation ignores the glaring reality that the "modernisation" that the colonised nations experienced was not to their benefit, but to the colonists. Europeans did not arrive in Africa on the basis of good faith and a genuine wish for modernization (ignoring the fact that when they did somewhat attempt modernise a nation, their usually obtuse and brutish methods was in no way the most effective or ethical methods of doing so), but in order to gain material wealth and power, that is the cut and dry reality. To call colonialism a "win win situation" is just imaginably reductive, would you call the colonisation of the Congo a win-win scenario?
@@ninzapou Not that much has really changed. Our technology is being used against us and the gov is pretty hard core traitors not only to the US but to all of humanity.. We continue to have slaves being bought and sold. As always certain groups of people have been working behind the scenes to destroy the nation states and to kill off all but 500,000,000 people... We have to use our heads this time. But, I'm not seeing that happen.
I'm not quite finished with the video yet, but thank you for such a broad and in-depth video. I quite enjoy these longer videos for playing in the background while I drive, do chores, play Minecraft, etc. I'm not terribly familiar with African history, but videos like these are helping me learn. Thanks again! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
What a great summary of these area and their developments, absolutely great, if I had a "super-like" you would get it for this video. On a side-note, now I understand where all the city states in the game Civilization come from and their histories. Just amazing!
I wish I had known about your channel while I was working on my history degree! I had a fantastic African history professor, but would have loved some additional material.
Janz is my 8th or 9th g grandfather and I am just totally geeked other people know he was a pirate! The Morrocan Sultan gave him a daughter to marry, which is his son Anthony Van Salee, whom migrated to freshly colonized New England and married a Gulick, which is my direct line to him, my grandmother was a Gulick from NY. Pretty interesting, crazy other people know about him! He’s not very famous
I appreciate the content and the length. The ambient music makes me feel like it's 330 in the morning and I'm on an airplane or waiting for one or just miserable generally waiting in a limbo alone state alone choosing education over suicide, but barely
Just a correction at 15:30, After mansurs death Morocco went into deep instability and civil war which broke apart the empire, Songhai to Gao was then self governed by the Pashilik of Timbuktu and their Arma ruling class (Descendants of the invaders with local women), this would last and pledge allegience to who they deemed as the legitimate sultan of Morocco, including throughout the Reign of Moulay Ismail of the Alawite dynast in 1670, they provided a regular supply of Gold and most importantly slaves. Most of whom were used in the notorious Black Guard in Moulay Ismails Army. After Ismails death Morocco once gain sank deep into civil war and the pashilik of timbuktu fell into steep decline where they lost territory then became Vassls to the tuaregs in 1771.
This is one of the best youtube history documentaries I have seen in a while, I watched the entire thing from beginning to end. Thankyou for putting this together!
I love that you present a lot of information, but it's a lot all at once. Could you maybe think of breaking it up into smaller segments? Maybe by area in Africa, or maybe by era or something. I don't know a lot and would love to know more. Thank you tremendously for all of your hard work and research. You are a blessing to all of us.
Becareful of psuedo historians who deliberately distort African history! The Khoi Khoi are African people just like the Ngunis! Don't fall for the divisive narration! The Portuguese were amongst the first European people to land in our part of Africa, they were repelled by the indigenous Africans. The Dutch arrived over a century later!
I put this on Or background noise a couple of months ago and it was so good I turned it off and promised myself I would come back when I have time to listen carefully and fully enjoy. Today is that day my friend. Thank you
@Jabzy "Thank You! I watched this in one sitting. I will eventually watch this again, as I need to go over this with pen and paper. Thank You So Much!"
One thing to keep in mind is that often the translators were from the European Countries. So when they translate the two versions of the treaties they would purposely skew information to say things in favor of the colonizers when it comes to the one in their mother tongue. This is a tactic that has been used throughout their dealings with Africa and if you look into it I'm confident you will find this was a common strategy. This would explain why the European version of the treaties are worded in a way that the African Nations appear to be bow down to them. There have been several disputes over difference in wording over the same agreement.
Exactly, i dont trust these europeans speaking about our continent, our people suffered and were treated like less worthy colonizers were cruel but thats never told.
just like how they got the natives to sign their treaty. sigh. as an african, our languages are complex as hell. they cant be properly translated to 16-18th centure english, like at all. at all. it makes me so sad. idk
@@farahadl3334 "i dont trust non europeans speaking about their continent, their people suffered and were treated like less worthy technologically were cruel but thats never told."
Excellent quality . Well researched. My God . Not even one mention of ancient aliens ... I honestly may weep . Seriously though this is the best thing I've seen in a while.
Firstly I want to thank you for this well detailed and clearly researched subtle history of Africa . I am also happy with you showing love to my people the AmaXhosa , we are often over looked in History in place of the Zulu who are overestimated honestly. We Xhosa wiped the floor with the Zulu during our medieval times but unlike them we weren't heavily focused on warfare like they were.
I gotta say, this is actually more informative snd more fun for me instead of alot of 'history' channels that just meme it up everywhere or are edgy alt-right types. ya take it seriously without being overly stuffy. I also enjoy that this is a longer format too, i dont have to change every few minutes. I can put it on and learn. I love all the details, so much i never even heard of but are quite fascinating!
The Ono empire’s involvement in the slave trade, was retaliation and self defence against Dahomey. The Oyo empire, being a powerful kingdom, was seen as a threat to tributaries.
Really amazing and detailed work. I kept wondering if you were going to miss some details, but you pretty much covered it all. You really have an impressive knownledge about african colonial history and nations :D
Fascinating presentation mate, well done! I was very surprised about your placement of the Mali empire, it has been several decades, but my family lived in Dakar when I was a child, and I seem to remember my father going on business trips to Mali, which was then due east from Senegal. Are the two simply a coicidental homonym, or did the range of their territory really vary that much?
This isn't a documentary of the history of Africa. It's more of a documentary of Europeans who visited, evaded, and colonized parts of Africa. There is some mention of other nations, like Arabian nations. But if you're looking for a history of Africa and detail about African rulers like King Suni Ali Ber, Queen Amina, King Shaka Zulu, Queen Asantewa, Queen Ndate, Queen Nzinga, King Idris Alooma, or King Behanzin Bowelle, you will be disappointed. The documentary is very much from a Euro-centric vantage point.
A quick correction about my people the ancient kingdom of Benin. Still in existence to this day. It was the Oba of Benin, not the oda of Benin as stated. Honestly, this is the most informative history of Africa I have seen on RUclips. Many thanks for your effort.
What All over the place coverage.. you've done years of research, but because the explanation cuts off dead cold for every example you cover I can't wait for the next one. Good job
i read somewhere that this is “the most comprehensive history of the scramble for africa ever released on video, and one that doesn’t rely on basic narratives and tropes. truly a historiographical triump”. wow i gotta watch it now
Propaganda Will you research the idiosyncrasies such as relating to the Bayaka with a derogatory expression? Or leaving out how Christians sold Christians in the Kingdom of Kongo or showing a person from the Xhosa as chalk white? That is only within the first 10 minutes. Not to mention the use of only one map when there were several maps of Africa during this time period that showed different borders. I just hope you don't just act passive. Propaganda only works through passive participation.
RIDICULING incoherent folks is easy, but, even as we dismiss them it's important to contextualize their claims to the realm of either known history, or probability of lost history through enslavement -- it is up to you to separate the wheat from the chaff...How did you come up with the thesis that "civilization started in Ethiopia", do you have proof of that in antiquity....??? The Europeans wrote whole books on their European historical whitewashing lies---the so called "Barbary" are the term they used for the generations of European born and expelled Moors, Africans, Jews (yes, jews!) and Muslims, who were still seething from the systemic genocidal crusades, black deathing, inquisitions, forced conversions and expulsions from Europe, that they literally took-over the entire Mediterranean sea board and parts of the coastal Atlantic sea routes, as restitution and reparations ---on the other hand the reconquista, had already metastasized into full borne conquest, SLAVERY and colonialism, and that was the backdrop of the so called US treaty of Tripoli... Please DO NOT conflate the Moors for the Ottomans, those are historically two very different civilizations, the Moors predate the Ottomans by nearly 400 years---we can argue all day about who were the Moors, but you cannot confuse and deflate the presence of the growth and spread of Islam and the influence of the Malian Empire in that VERY same Sahel region. Think about it, if Mansa Musa made hajj to Mecca in 1300's with an army of 60,000 behind him bearing gifts of gold, ivory, salt and slaves (12,000 each carrying 2kgs of gold), as a Muslim himself who was also allied to the Marinid and Mamluk Sultanates, the former been the rulers of the Iberian peninsula.... One thing the Mansa's had that the Marinids needed more than gold was men, particularly free and enslaved soldiers (Muslims don't enslave Muslims) to hold their territories in Iberia and we know this to be historically and factually true---that there were ten of thousands probably even hundreds of thousands Black African soldiers in the Peninsula is very obvious, Islam after all was expanding and there were never going to be enough Arabs to conquer and hold Al-Andalus without the Malian Empires corroboration.
@@D-E-S_8559 you have schizophrenia and should seek treatment. I'm not gonna take time out of my day to lose brain cells by reading what you just said.
@@D-E-S_8559 everyone is out to get you but me, they're in your walls, under your skin, and on the street watching and ridiculing your every move. Break the cycle, kill them.
Very informative. Thank you for taking time to present this accurate historical account. Believe or not, there's even so so so much more not included in this video. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
2:35 The Nguni that later became the Zulu were already in South Africa when the Dutch arrived in 1652. They were just not in the Western Cape which was populated by the Khoikhoi. The Boers encountered the Zulu when they left the cape and trekked into the region of KwaZulu Natal. 2:50 The Xhosa are Bantu and a sister tribe to the Zulu. They are mutually intelligible languages. The Xhosa were the Western most Nguni peoples and were the first Nguni to encounter the Europeans during the frontier wars when the cape colony began expanding into their territories in the Eastern Cape. All Nguni languages including Zulu, Swati and Ndebele have click consonants. 3:00 It is pronounced with a lateral click. What you said would be written as Nqosa in Xhosa 33:10 Are you saying the Zulu kingdom formed because of corn ? The Zulu kingdom was formed from a consolidation of smaller Nguni kingdoms by Shaka during the war dubbed umfecane, probably sparked by political disruptions initiated by the European powers that entered the region. They claim the period had millions of deaths which had the effect of emptying out land for the voortrekkers. 43:10 There was no 3 way power struggle. The Zulu (Nguni) were in land they had inhabited for thousands of years. 43:51 The british had the support of which San ? Their servants ? Khoikhoi and San people fled and joined the Xhosa nation during the khoi-Dutch wars of the Cape where they were being depopulated and driven off their land. So many of the Eastern most Xhosas were khoikhoi under the chiefdom of amaGqunukhwebe. 45:55 The drawing shown here is not of a Shona, it is of a Southern Ndebele, they also have nothing to do with Zimbabwe. 46:10 Piet Retiefs party was killed because they wanted the Zulu king Dingane to give them all the land South of the Tugela river as far as it goes, which was effectively more than half of the Zulu kingdom. This in exchange for the voortrekkers returning cattle they were suspected of stealing to begin with. The subsequent massacres that followed were to chase out all voortrekkers from the region. Note that this is also three years after the Xhosa king Hintsa was murdered by europeans and news would have spread. 46:25 It was not their new land it was Zulu land 47:26 Your timeline is a bit all over Umfecane was before the battle of blood river 2:17:55 The Northern Ndebele were in Zimbabwe because they were driven out of South Africa by the Boers. They left KwaZulu because they did not want to be under the Zulu kingdom
I was also rather shocked by his version of “history”. He’s getting even commonly known history wrong. His angle seems to favour those of the dishonest bitter white South Africans.
The Shona is a tribal group that was created by the British during colonization. After Cecil John Rhodes conquerd the the Ndebele, they wanted to standardize & codefy languages spoken in the country. Ndebele is Nguni languages which has some Kalanga influence & was standardized as Zulu. Professor Doke of Wits University was hired to do the job & used languages from different tribal groups such as Zezuru, Manica, Korekore & Karanga & standardized it into one language & named it Shona in 1929. Why Shona, so far no clear explanation but some say it was old name. But Zezuru, Korekore are new groups to migrate to Zimbabwe plateau from East Africa. Karanga is actually a Kalanga language which has Zezuru & Korekore influence (Just like Xhosa has clicks from the Khoikhoi). Kalanga are found in Botswana & Zimbabwe & as you go into inner Zimbabwe are called Karanga. There are actually the builders of stone ruins found in Zimbabwe plateau such as Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Domboshaba & others. So Shona is a new group which is the largest population in Southern Africa.
so basically nothing to do with British Colonisation? Because there’s no Professor Dokes at all… You’re saying a British Coloniser combined a load of languages and invented a tribe? Get a grip.
stop smoking your own pubes ... that's not how language is created , and that's not how tribes are created . God , the stupidity of some people is just incredible sometimes , the length you can go to create bullshit that you further try to justify logically is laughable.
i couldnt hear anything else after the story about the jameson guy buying a 10-year-old girl to give to cannibals just for the experience. i dont think ive ever felt the 'thats enough internet for today' meme as much as this
I showed my history teacher from high-school this (we get together and play magic the gathering with a few other old classmates and a few other of our older teachers) and we watched 10 min and I asked did you like it? And he replied "leave it on il watch as we play." Needless to say we didn't play any cards that day 😅
Corrections - The Omani Ruling Family was the Yaruba Dynasty, not the Yoruba. Sometimes I say 17th Century but the timeline says 1700s.
Forgot to put Burundi and Rwanda as Belgian after WW1.
*Belgian protectorate
Any video on india like anglo-mysore wars or remaking that mughal-maratha war or Mughal-rajputs war?
@@Hahapro nevada City
The igbo have been recognized as the biblical Israelites by the Sephardic Jewish Rabbinical Court Obadiah Alliance. It would be interesting to talk about the Igbo relationship with the Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and the Songhai empire by Askia Muhammad also in 1492 in Timbuktu
@@secondexodus9105 igbos arnt jews my man ,doesnt matter who recognises them look at genetics and look at archealogical history
I gotta be honest my jaw dropped when I realized that this wasn't a podcast or something like it and realized its a documentary. Three and a half fucking hours of detailed African history, fully scripted, and well articulated. Just spectacular!
This was exactly what I was searching this whole time
@Therapeutic Class can’t find it
and very brutal, too
I finally made the REAL connection of the Black Slaves were the descendants of the ANCIENT BLACK Egyptians. See the video I uploaded 3 days ago.
@@Andrew-wc8tc all history is brutal
I love how long your videos are. I'm a truck driver over the road and it's so nice not to have to change videos every 10-15 minutes!!
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I put these on and woodwork. The best
You dont drive and watch at the same time I guess? :)
@@frankieshankly5368 just what I thought 😮😅
Keep your eyes on the road you
I love any video on the history of Africa but your videos are fantastic. They don’t paint Africans as weak, ignorant “others”, nor do they rewrite history as portray Africans as ancient superior humans. They portray Africans as being as important and equal to human history as every other group of people. There was so much going on throughout the planet pre-Euro/American dominance (let’s say 1600 to the present) and Africa is usually always left out of that conversation.
Who invented the technology? Are you smoking crack?
IMO
It paints them as idiots who allowed foreign forces to easily occupy their countries
Europe and Asia everywhere in the world there was some form of servitude Slavery exetra Europeans sold Europeans to the Barbary pirates, as well as other people were sold into that trafficking in Africa. There were these servitude forms of slavery as well not that they were walk in the park, but racialized, shuttle, lifelong slavery, where you could never be free and white people said you were inferior and white people created sciences to prove they were supreme is a very important part of the story, and as you can see, so many white people left Europe in order to conquer and take over Africa and Africans exploit them murder them appropriate their religions and their contributions to society and the richness of their soil and the gold and diamonds. You recognize Africa is a black continent but many of these pictures he’s putting apart of white people who left Europe to do wickedness and nastiness and terrorize Black people Black people did not leave the continent of Africa, nor did Asian people leave their continent to go to white peoples continents and terrorizing enslaved them, exploit them rape them, and all manner of inhumane wickedness Black people didn’t do that, so what’s most interesting to me is there’s never been a time in history since white people have existed on the planet that they haven’t been trying to attack and exploit Africa and Africans and the African diaspora
Yeah he is aware of the biases that exist in others and his own biases and can thus approach history from an intellectually honest position and do a damn good job of it. Really one of the best documentaries I've ever seen
Edit: Africa is so culturally and lingustically diverse and enormous geographically that I think it's an overwhelmingly powerful tendency to simplify and generalize african history rather than to do an honest study of it.
This is a masterpiece. Nothing on youtube compares to this. There is nothing more concise or thorough i can find about the recorded history of africa. Its 3hrs plus long yet sharp to the point. And it just enough to fill in anyones blacks and que further research. Truly the finest creation ive seen. Wow man👏
The most comprehensive history of the scramble for Africa ever released on video, and one that doesn't rely on basic narratives and tropes. Truly a historiographical triumph.
indeed what a fantastic job they've done
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And pretty solid art too
My brain is fried
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As a black man in the southern USA, this definitely gave me a lot to think about.
This is an existential reality check.
Genuinely curious... why is that?
@@JabzyJoe Back when I was a Christian there was a line in the Bible that stated, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory." In your video I see a very complicated and nuanced view of all the parties involved in the slave trade and realize this is more than just a European vs African story and more of a story of how all mankind is complicit in enslaving one another.
In the USA blacks don't really get a lot of information about Africa unless it's portraying the continent as this wild and primitive area that nothing developed from.
But in your video, I see a sophisticated and sad history that rivals that of Europe, Eurasia, or Asia.
Your video helped me to understand why Africa is the way it is today, and why it may never be united or have a renaissance.
@@oldbrokenhandsold blood feuds die hard, and Africa is the oldest of all.
Oh my god finally. There's so little information about African history before European colonization. I've been trying to find info on 18th century Africa and previously to no avail. Thanks for the video.
Hope you came to realize that Africa before European colonization wasn’t any better. This was bound to happen.
@@tygsv4021 Bullshit
Information is basically nonexistent because there were almost no writing by the people, so almost everything we know south of Timbuktu comes from outsiders and modern archeology.
THIS INFORMATION (ESPECIALLY AROUND THE ZULUS AND NDEBELE IS LARGELY INCORRECT, IT WAS MZILIKAZI A GENERAL IN SHAKA'S ARMY WHO WENT ON A RAID FOR KING SHAKA, DECIDED NOT TO RETURN AND TOOK WITH HIM SOME FOLLOWERS AND THEY FLED FROM SHAKA AND HIS ZULUS FLEEING FROM SHAKA AND EVENTUALLY ENDING UP CREATING THE MATABELE OR NDEBELE WHO MADE BULAWAYO IN PRESENT DAY ZIMBABWE.
NOTHING TO DO WITH BOERS FIGHTING WITH THE MATABELE AND CHASING THEM ALL THE WAY TO ZIMBABWE AS THIS NARRATOR CLAIM, HE IS TALKING TOTAL BULLDHIT
They're called books, locate a few and read them instead of waiting for someone else to make you a youtube video lol
Your work on a vast and under-understood area is greatly appreciated. I've never seen such a work on any part of Africa outside of carthage or Eygpt
Funny that isn't it? That outside of cartage and other very distinctive parts of North Africa no one has really paid attention to any other aspect of African history. I mean, I know for a fact that the bantu have genocided three very distinct non bantu ethnic groups, but they never get a mention. It's almost as if no one cares.
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Bet you benefitted from the resources of those lands you never seen
@@anthonyharris2231 As Always.
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loved this video very much. I'm a very proud Somali and was pleasantly surprised at how generally accurate your information was. Often Somali history is overlooked when discussing pan African history I'm glad this wasn't the case in this video. You very skilfully provided generally holistic and contextual history of the continent for those 400 hundred years. you even created links between different regions demonstrating you depth in knowledge. Keep up the good work
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@@jccjjccj3305 what are you talking about ??? Me too movement ? confused guy
@@jccjjccj3305where u from ? u bantu? 😬
Thank you for such an informative video! I am ADOS living in Senegal and having a source explaining exactly who did what to whom helps me put into context what I already thought I knew from my own research and observations. Congratulations on a job well done!
I'm absolutely amazed at how detailed this is. I'll need weeks to even begin to properly digest this information. Bravo, sir and thank you. This is humbling.
After watching that in the background while playing age of empires, i realized how much i didn't know about colonial african history even though i pride myself as someone who does, and how i literally learnt 4 years worth of university education in nearly 4 hours, excellent job Jabzy 💪
If you wanna follow the true path, skip aoe first and play Europa universalis . ;-)
mostly exaggerations
Lol you are saying your 4 years of university is just a joke?
@@ninzapou i never went to uni lol
@@herzkine I couldn't agree more
awesome work. This an important period in history, that no one else on youtube has managed to cover in anywhere close to this amount of depth.
It was a great series and now its all in one place
the crazy part is this is still insanely surface level stuff, african history is way more complex than this, even before this time frame
@@LillyP-xs5qe Yeah this documentary only starts in the 16th century but most African kingdoms go back way further .
@@JcoleMc it's like humans originated in Africa and as such some of the oldest kingdoms started there or something ;)
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@@LillyP-xs5qe Humans didn't originate in Africa
Amazing video! Thank you so much for covering this sweep of African history. This is my second time watching and I'm still just as glued to it, discovering new things about nations I'd barely heard of before.
I cant imagine how long this must've taken you to make. Thank you so much. Crazy how detailed this is.
Never did i hear anyone speaking about Africa,than Africans themselves.Great man!
Thank you as a historian myself I think it’s so important to tell more of sub-Saharan African history… It is not my forte/time and area of expertise and while I know more than the average person my knowledge of this region an it’s history is pitiful for my standards (for myself).
As historian can we end the usage of the term sub-Saharan. It’s very problematic and has racial charged
@@tyiingram9878 It's just easier to say than south of the Sahara or below the Sahara. I fail to see how it's problematic aside from making it so.
@@danielshoudy265 Ok, so this is a teachable moment. The term Sub-Saharan was introduced during late 18th early 19th centuries as a way to divorce the black history of Egypt. The proximity to Europe, and the presence of pale Arabs made it easy for egyptologist to divide the Northern part of Africa from the South and claim Egypt as a western European empire Sub-saharan became a pejorative because it was used as a way to establish the misconception that the people below the Sahara were savages without a culture or history.
@@tyiingram9878 That makes total sense and I double checked that so thanks for correcting me. The more I know! 🌈
@@danielshoudy265 aye 😄. I appreciate your openness and willingness to listen. 🙏🏿. We’re definitely stronger together
What a work. Thank you so much for this. Obviously running through the entire huge continent in only (ha!) 3 1/2 hours meant skimming through things. But just wow. Thank you so much for this riveting documentary. It could be my all time favourite ... so far that is. Thanks again.
Amazing! The most knowledgeable and informative case study about Africa History I ever came across until now!
I have learnt more watching this video than all what I have been told in school or by others.
In 3 hours of video you created a masterpiece that should be an compulsory case study in Africa history education.
I salute you for this amazing case study you put together! Well done!
incredible work, thank you so much for over 3 hours of history!
Truthfully, this documentary is a tier of its own. Unrivaled, very well done.
Idk if this is connected to this documentary's topic, but in the the 1930s, Lithuania actually had a proposal to set up a colony in the Northern Tip of Madagascar to act as a sort of safe haven for a large proportion of the Lithuanian population in the event of a German, Soviet, or Polish invasion. Of course this proposal never went anywhere as Lithuania was too poor to buy the land from France ant to maintain the colony , and because the logistics of setting up such a colony was quite overwhelming. The Colony would've been called "Dausuva", named after Dausos, the spirit world in Lithuanian pagan mythology and it was estimated that up to a 1/3 to 2/3 of Lithuania's population could be evacuated to the colony in the event of an invasion of the Homeland.
Madagascar and other parts of Africa were also considered to be the new homeland for Zionist Jews to relocate and establish a Jewish state of Isreal. But it never materialised either. Funny how back then Europeans were the ones carving up other people's land and mass migrating, yet today are the ones fighting mass immigration.
More a fantasy than a proposal. I suspect the majority of the settlers would have died of tropical ailments within five years.
Excellent. The is the most informative overview of African history I have ever seen. High praise & respect for your work.
The dedication you have to do a 3 and a half hour video is spectacular, your work is truly inspiring
Legends know this is a reupload of older videos compiled into one big episode
do you mean documentary ?
Money grab
I thought I had watched some of this before
Legends also like to smoke wit cigarettes 🤣
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This is absolutely amazing! I’m studying South African history between the 1400s and 1900s and this video seems very informative and helpful. So thank you.
*SWARTY EUROPEAN. 🤴🏽 🤴🏾 🤴🏿 👸🏽 👸🏾 FIND THEM
it will also explain the Roman's attitude and cognitive dissonance amongst the new comers to The America's and to Africa.
Lol yeah "South Africa" didn't exist in that time period. You want to know history ask the native people of that land and you will gain authentic knowledge and information. I advice you to travel to that land if you are really 💯.
@@readme8981 I would absolutely love to travel to many places in Africa and learn from the people themselves. I know it’s possible but many people don’t advise it.
It’s fiction but James Michener’s The covenant is so good.
They never told us this in school
I Greatly appreciate your non biased over view of African. African history has been ignored too long. It is heart breaking how Africa and other Indigenous tribes/nations have been colonized through the many, many centuries. It is only through understanding our interactions others that we can understand ourselves for the human story and histories are all a part of all of humanity. Thank you for filling in more pieces of the human history puzzle.
Thanks man! Usually I get comments saying I'm spreading western propaganda, lies about Africa or the likes.
So genuinely, I appreciate it.
@@JabzyJoeThat is so unbelievable. It amazes me just how shallow and willingly ignorant people chose to be. Sometimes I wonder how long humanity will exist on this planet just because they are stuck in ignorant mode. Too many people just assume every thing is a lie. Yes there have been a lot of lies. Yes there has been a lot of propaganda. But, one needs to develop a sense of curiosity, and if the doubt they need to learn to do their own research and keep an open mind. I look at every thing... challenge my mind and my knowledge... I hang onto what I watch and try to add to the information from other sources. I really blame our entire educational system for a lot of this close mindedness. But, I can't really blame the teachers per se, they have their orders and they too have been neglected as to the truth. There are a lot of good teachers out there who end up giving up the battle.
On the brighter side, colonism brought modernisation. So it's a win win situation.
@@ninzapou To say the colonialism brought about modernisation ignores the glaring reality that the "modernisation" that the colonised nations experienced was not to their benefit, but to the colonists. Europeans did not arrive in Africa on the basis of good faith and a genuine wish for modernization (ignoring the fact that when they did somewhat attempt modernise a nation, their usually obtuse and brutish methods was in no way the most effective or ethical methods of doing so), but in order to gain material wealth and power, that is the cut and dry reality. To call colonialism a "win win situation" is just imaginably reductive, would you call the colonisation of the Congo a win-win scenario?
@@ninzapou Not that much has really changed. Our technology is being used against us and the gov is pretty hard core traitors not only to the US but to all of humanity.. We continue to have slaves being bought and sold. As always certain groups of people have been working behind the scenes to destroy the nation states and to kill off all but 500,000,000 people... We have to use our heads this time. But, I'm not seeing that happen.
I'm not quite finished with the video yet, but thank you for such a broad and in-depth video. I quite enjoy these longer videos for playing in the background while I drive, do chores, play Minecraft, etc. I'm not terribly familiar with African history, but videos like these are helping me learn. Thanks again!
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
What an amazing comprehensive video. Truly amazing that this can be free. Insane kudos
What a great summary of these area and their developments, absolutely great, if I had a "super-like" you would get it for this video.
On a side-note, now I understand where all the city states in the game Civilization come from and their histories. Just amazing!
Just popped up on my feed.... phenomenal work!
Watched, liked and subscribed!
I wish I had known about your channel while I was working on my history degree! I had a fantastic African history professor, but would have loved some additional material.
This guy can make a 4 hour video and only have one correction to make, absolutely insane this is good stuff.
I’m so impressed with the depth of information in this video! Bravo!! 🎉
Jabzy, thank you for your hard work and sharing this video. This needs to be taught in schools
In africa
Got to the 4 minutes mark and saw this is 3 plus hours long! What a gift! A sober telling of African history!
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@@mA-ug5ts make believe.
This is the longest documentary I've ever watched. Nothing beats interest in something made interesting. Thank you! ❤
Inspiring and very good historical work, thankyou for doing this.
This is an incredible compilation of history that is routinely ignore. Your research was very well done!!!!!!!!!!👏
Amazing video! Refreshing to learn about something I know very little about.
The work and time put into this is absolutely incredible and the efforts show in the final product.
Fantastic research and presentation, such accuracy. I loved it. Much love from Ghana 🇬🇭. ❤
This is the BEST history documentary I've ever watched, Thank You!!! I have started recommending it to others.
Thank you , Im from Oman 🇴🇲 our country is very diverse in people because of our history and we all live together happily 😊
Just had surgery and I'm struggling to get some sleep in the hospital...this video has helped me through the night...thank you...
This documentary is very informative and gives an opportunity to understand why Africa is in its condition. Very complete.
Janz is my 8th or 9th g grandfather and I am just totally geeked other people know he was a pirate! The Morrocan Sultan gave him a daughter to marry, which is his son Anthony Van Salee, whom migrated to freshly colonized New England and married a Gulick, which is my direct line to him, my grandmother was a Gulick from NY. Pretty interesting, crazy other people know about him! He’s not very famous
Not just a pirate but a slave runner
He owned slaves..... He was awful
@@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 he let slaves live, he fed and paid them, he provided medial care
you racist heart hates people
@@TheBrownCoyote A REAL CAPITALIST, ARE YOU A COMMIE MATE?
No one is in awe that you ancestor was a pillaging thief
Amazing work, thank you for this!
I appreciate the content and the length. The ambient music makes me feel like it's 330 in the morning and I'm on an airplane or waiting for one or just miserable generally waiting in a limbo alone state alone choosing education over suicide, but barely
Just a correction at 15:30, After mansurs death Morocco went into deep instability and civil war which broke apart the empire, Songhai to Gao was then self governed by the Pashilik of Timbuktu and their Arma ruling class (Descendants of the invaders with local women), this would last and pledge allegience to who they deemed as the legitimate sultan of Morocco, including throughout the Reign of Moulay Ismail of the Alawite dynast in 1670, they provided a regular supply of Gold and most importantly slaves. Most of whom were used in the notorious Black Guard in Moulay Ismails Army. After Ismails death Morocco once gain sank deep into civil war and the pashilik of timbuktu fell into steep decline where they lost territory then became Vassls to the tuaregs in 1771.
Incredible. Thank you for this series.
This is one of the best youtube history documentaries I have seen in a while, I watched the entire thing from beginning to end. Thankyou for putting this together!
Take all the praise! !! Well deserved that bloke! Awesome content and the human voice is such a bonus!!!
Outstanding work my friend, thank you very much for sharing
Amazing, great to have such a comprehensive video on a topic that's too often ignored
Can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate how well made this doc is, thank you thank you thank you!!!!! Got my sub
I love that you present a lot of information, but it's a lot all at once. Could you maybe think of breaking it up into smaller segments? Maybe by area in Africa, or maybe by era or something. I don't know a lot and would love to know more. Thank you tremendously for all of your hard work and research. You are a blessing to all of us.
watch it in segments, sorted.
Bro I appreciate the time and effort, plus not to mention the amount of study that it took. Gave me more knowledge about the continent.
Becareful of psuedo historians who deliberately distort African history! The Khoi Khoi are African people just like the Ngunis! Don't fall for the divisive narration! The Portuguese were amongst the first European people to land in our part of Africa, they were repelled by the indigenous Africans. The Dutch arrived over a century later!
I put this on Or background noise a couple of months ago and it was so good I turned it off and promised myself I would come back when I have time to listen carefully and fully enjoy. Today is that day my friend. Thank you
Great Work - damn will make a great TV series with 20 seasons. What a Great Job i cant stop listening.
Cheers! Saves having to go back through all the separate videos.
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Head swimming, some of this I knew bits and pieces of but the granularity of your video is impressive. need to watch it more than once.
This is a very comprehensive and probably the most elaborate presentation of the history of the partition that I have listened to.
3hrs of informative content and for free, thanks.
Wow this is very long! Thats super cool because I've not heard much about the Continent's history.
Thank you.
This is truly one of my favorite videos on yt, love the calming ambient sound you used in the background.
@Jabzy "Thank You! I watched this in one sitting. I will eventually watch this again, as I need to go over this with pen and paper. Thank You So Much!"
On my 7th listen. Thank you @Jabzy 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Awesome content man! Keep it up!
Great video and an important subject that has little coverage. Thanks from Brazil!
One thing to keep in mind is that often the translators were from the European Countries. So when they translate the two versions of the treaties they would purposely skew information to say things in favor of the colonizers when it comes to the one in their mother tongue. This is a tactic that has been used throughout their dealings with Africa and if you look into it I'm confident you will find this was a common strategy. This would explain why the European version of the treaties are worded in a way that the African Nations appear to be bow down to them. There have been several disputes over difference in wording over the same agreement.
Exactly, i dont trust these europeans speaking about our continent, our people suffered and were treated like less worthy colonizers were cruel but thats never told.
just like how they got the natives to sign their treaty. sigh.
as an african, our languages are complex as hell. they cant be properly translated to 16-18th centure english, like at all. at all. it makes me so sad. idk
@@farahadl3334 "i dont trust non europeans speaking about their continent, their people suffered and were treated like less worthy technologically were cruel but thats never told."
@@BowdowntoAnnaConda white ppl speak afrikaans in 2023, google it
@@BowdowntoAnnaConda Come back to reality
my man! this is the greatest content. Thank you!!
Excellent quality . Well researched. My God . Not even one mention of ancient aliens ... I honestly may weep .
Seriously though this is the best thing I've seen in a while.
Firstly I want to thank you for this well detailed and clearly researched subtle history of Africa . I am also happy with you showing love to my people the AmaXhosa , we are often over looked in History in place of the Zulu who are overestimated honestly. We Xhosa wiped the floor with the Zulu during our medieval times but unlike them we weren't heavily focused on warfare like they were.
I gotta say, this is actually more informative snd more fun for me instead of alot of 'history' channels that just meme it up everywhere or are edgy alt-right types. ya take it seriously without being overly stuffy. I also enjoy that this is a longer format too, i dont have to change every few minutes. I can put it on and learn.
I love all the details, so much i never even heard of but are quite fascinating!
The Ono empire’s involvement in the slave trade, was retaliation and self defence against Dahomey. The Oyo empire, being a powerful kingdom, was seen as a threat to tributaries.
Really amazing and detailed work. I kept wondering if you were going to miss some details, but you pretty much covered it all. You really have an impressive knownledge about african colonial history and nations :D
Fascinating presentation mate, well done!
I was very surprised about your placement of the Mali empire, it has been several decades, but my family lived in Dakar when I was a child, and I seem to remember my father going on business trips to Mali, which was then due east from Senegal. Are the two simply a coicidental homonym, or did the range of their territory really vary that much?
Thanks for all the time you put into this
This isn't a documentary of the history of Africa. It's more of a documentary of Europeans who visited, evaded, and colonized parts of Africa. There is some mention of other nations, like Arabian nations. But if you're looking for a history of Africa and detail about African rulers like King Suni Ali Ber, Queen Amina, King Shaka Zulu, Queen Asantewa, Queen Ndate, Queen Nzinga, King Idris Alooma, or King Behanzin Bowelle, you will be disappointed. The documentary is very much from a Euro-centric vantage point.
A quick correction about my people the ancient kingdom of Benin. Still in existence to this day. It was the Oba of Benin, not the oda of Benin as stated.
Honestly, this is the most informative history of Africa I have seen on RUclips. Many thanks for your effort.
What All over the place coverage.. you've done years of research, but because the explanation cuts off dead cold for every example you cover I can't wait for the next one. Good job
this is the first video of yours I have seen. great job , fascinating stuff .Liked and subbed
Three hours of African History, here we go!
i read somewhere that this is “the most comprehensive history of the scramble for africa ever released on video, and one that doesn’t rely on basic narratives and tropes. truly a historiographical triump”. wow i gotta watch it now
Propaganda
Will you research the idiosyncrasies such as relating to the Bayaka with a derogatory expression? Or leaving out how Christians sold Christians in the Kingdom of Kongo or showing a person from the Xhosa as chalk white? That is only within the first 10 minutes. Not to mention the use of only one map when there were several maps of Africa during this time period that showed different borders.
I just hope you don't just act passive. Propaganda only works through passive participation.
Loved this video and all of the info it provided!
not enough talk on kanem bornu. truly a humongous empire, spanning from nw nigeria to a little north of fezzan in libya. underrated for sure
Damn 3.5 hours, I respect the insane amount of effort, quality too
amazing how well researched this was, thank you
RIDICULING incoherent folks is easy, but, even as we dismiss them it's important to contextualize their claims to the realm of either known history, or probability of lost history through enslavement -- it is up to you to separate the wheat from the chaff...How did you come up with the thesis that "civilization started in Ethiopia", do you have proof of that in antiquity....???
The Europeans wrote whole books on their European historical whitewashing lies---the so called "Barbary" are the term they used for the generations of European born and expelled Moors, Africans, Jews (yes, jews!) and Muslims, who were still seething from the systemic genocidal crusades, black deathing, inquisitions, forced conversions and expulsions from Europe, that they literally took-over the entire Mediterranean sea board and parts of the coastal Atlantic sea routes, as restitution and reparations ---on the other hand the reconquista, had already metastasized into full borne conquest, SLAVERY and colonialism, and that was the backdrop of the so called US treaty of Tripoli...
Please DO NOT conflate the Moors for the Ottomans, those are historically two very different civilizations, the Moors predate the Ottomans by nearly 400 years---we can argue all day about who were the Moors, but you cannot confuse and deflate the presence of the growth and spread of Islam and the influence of the Malian Empire in that VERY same Sahel region. Think about it, if Mansa Musa made hajj to Mecca in 1300's with an army of 60,000 behind him bearing gifts of gold, ivory, salt and slaves (12,000 each carrying 2kgs of gold), as a Muslim himself who was also allied to the Marinid and Mamluk Sultanates, the former been the rulers of the Iberian peninsula....
One thing the Mansa's had that the Marinids needed more than gold was men, particularly free and enslaved soldiers (Muslims don't enslave Muslims) to hold their territories in Iberia and we know this to be historically and factually true---that there were ten of thousands probably even hundreds of thousands Black African soldiers in the Peninsula is very obvious, Islam after all was expanding and there were never going to be enough Arabs to conquer and hold Al-Andalus without the Malian Empires corroboration.
@@D-E-S_8559 you have schizophrenia and should seek treatment. I'm not gonna take time out of my day to lose brain cells by reading what you just said.
@@D-E-S_8559 everyone is out to get you but me, they're in your walls, under your skin, and on the street watching and ridiculing your every move. Break the cycle, kill them.
Very informative. Thank you for taking time to present this accurate historical account. Believe or not, there's even so so so much more not included in this video. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Respect to this guy. He made a 3 hr long vid having all the information about africa. Well done.
2:35 The Nguni that later became the Zulu were already in South Africa when the Dutch arrived in 1652. They were just not in the Western Cape which was populated by the Khoikhoi. The Boers encountered the Zulu when they left the cape and trekked into the region of KwaZulu Natal.
2:50 The Xhosa are Bantu and a sister tribe to the Zulu. They are mutually intelligible languages. The Xhosa were the Western most Nguni peoples and were the first Nguni to encounter the Europeans during the frontier wars when the cape colony began expanding into their territories in the Eastern Cape. All Nguni languages including Zulu, Swati and Ndebele have click consonants.
3:00 It is pronounced with a lateral click. What you said would be written as Nqosa in Xhosa
33:10 Are you saying the Zulu kingdom formed because of corn ? The Zulu kingdom was formed from a consolidation of smaller Nguni kingdoms by Shaka during the war dubbed umfecane, probably sparked by political disruptions initiated by the European powers that entered the region. They claim the period had millions of deaths which had the effect of emptying out land for the voortrekkers.
43:10 There was no 3 way power struggle. The Zulu (Nguni) were in land they had inhabited for thousands of years.
43:51 The british had the support of which San ? Their servants ? Khoikhoi and San people fled and joined the Xhosa nation during the khoi-Dutch wars of the Cape where they were being depopulated and driven off their land. So many of the Eastern most Xhosas were khoikhoi under the chiefdom of amaGqunukhwebe.
45:55 The drawing shown here is not of a Shona, it is of a Southern Ndebele, they also have nothing to do with Zimbabwe.
46:10 Piet Retiefs party was killed because they wanted the Zulu king Dingane to give them all the land South of the Tugela river as far as it goes, which was effectively more than half of the Zulu kingdom. This in exchange for the voortrekkers returning cattle they were suspected of stealing to begin with. The subsequent massacres that followed were to chase out all voortrekkers from the region. Note that this is also three years after the Xhosa king Hintsa was murdered by europeans and news would have spread.
46:25 It was not their new land it was Zulu land
47:26 Your timeline is a bit all over Umfecane was before the battle of blood river
2:17:55 The Northern Ndebele were in Zimbabwe because they were driven out of South Africa by the Boers. They left KwaZulu because they did not want to be under the Zulu kingdom
Thank you for giving clear information from a Alkebulanian perspective
Yeah this persons video is strictly from a Western European history book. Many differences in our own full history books in africa
I was also rather shocked by his version of “history”. He’s getting even commonly known history wrong. His angle seems to favour those of the dishonest bitter white South Africans.
The Shona is a tribal group that was created by the British during colonization. After Cecil John Rhodes conquerd the the Ndebele, they wanted to standardize & codefy languages spoken in the country. Ndebele is Nguni languages which has some Kalanga influence & was standardized as Zulu. Professor Doke of Wits University was hired to do the job & used languages from different tribal groups such as Zezuru, Manica, Korekore & Karanga & standardized it into one language & named it Shona in 1929. Why Shona, so far no clear explanation but some say it was old name. But Zezuru, Korekore are new groups to migrate to Zimbabwe plateau from East Africa. Karanga is actually a Kalanga language which has Zezuru & Korekore influence (Just like Xhosa has clicks from the Khoikhoi). Kalanga are found in Botswana & Zimbabwe & as you go into inner Zimbabwe are called Karanga. There are actually the builders of stone ruins found in Zimbabwe plateau such as Great Zimbabwe, Khami, Domboshaba & others. So Shona is a new group which is the largest population in Southern Africa.
so basically nothing to do with British Colonisation? Because there’s no Professor Dokes at all… You’re saying a British Coloniser combined a load of languages and invented a tribe? Get a grip.
stop smoking your own pubes ...
that's not how language is created , and that's not how tribes are created .
God , the stupidity of some people is just incredible sometimes , the length you can go to create bullshit that you further try to justify logically is laughable.
This work is tremendous. Good Job!
Awesome work. Subscribed. After oversimplified’s triumphant return with the second Punic war video, i picked up my historical itch again
Excellent as ever....however please, please, please a reading list please!
i couldnt hear anything else after the story about the jameson guy buying a 10-year-old girl to give to cannibals just for the experience. i dont think ive ever felt the 'thats enough internet for today' meme as much as this
I showed my history teacher from high-school this (we get together and play magic the gathering with a few other old classmates and a few other of our older teachers) and we watched 10 min and I asked did you like it? And he replied "leave it on il watch as we play." Needless to say we didn't play any cards that day 😅
I feel the channel that created this video should receive some type of documentary award or something.