What Portugal Wanted vs What they Got in Scramble for Africa
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- An entity dubbed the Portuguese States of Africa, an unbroken chain of Portuguese territory, spanning southern Africa from its Atlantic coast all the way to the Indian Ocean, connecting Angola to Mozambique was envisaged in this Mapa Cor-de-rosa or famously, the Rose-Coloured or Pink Map. Unfortunately the Pink Map conflicted with the British “Cape to Cairo Red Line''. Aspirations of the Brits cut right through Portugal’s ‘future’ mega colony.
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The Portuguese did not have the population to do a huge amount of colonisation. They were only about 1 million people in 1500 when their naval power really began. Given their small population, it's amazing what they were able to do in Brazil, which is today 214 million.
Thanks for sharing
I am a Zimbabwean and I know my people fought and resisted Portuguese occupation in 17th century,my people won most of those battles and drove off the Portuguese.Our King ChangamireDombo achieved fame for his victories against Portuguese ,he slowed down their advance inland.If ChangamireDombo's Kingdown was weaker,the Portuguese would have conquered his land and even expanded the slave trade,so his heroics slowed down colonization of his territory.
It was the British who came much later on and were able to pacify and defeat the later disjointed Kingdom coz they had started having internal factions and that weakened them.
Also the British wanted to claim the Port City of Beira as their colony and Mozambique would have been cut into North and South Mozambique with Zimbabwe having a coastline,however than plan failed before it could be implemented.
Anyways thanks for the History lesson.
Many thanks for the information mate! Cheers!
Changamire Dombo was called the “Demon Possessed Warrior” by the Portuguese because he was extremely spiritual person when he defeated them twice and forced them to pay taxes for passing by his land of the “ Munhumutapa Empire!!” Proud of my ancestors. My family hasn’t moved from the area, we’re still living there up-to now !! Proudly indigenous Karanga !!
Portugal was and is way to small never had the man power, Portugal man power was to much spread around the world South America, various African nations, India, China, Indonesia
@@verde69rubro hello bro,yes i am agreed with you they spreading too much for the size of the country and population of 1 million.There is a say you want too much you got nothing.
@@verde69rubroexcuses for losers
Thank you so much for letting me know more about Portugal !!
I think it is better for ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE to enter into negotiations with ZIMBABWE, ZIMBIA AND MALAWI to build a railway, or a highway, that connects THE ATLANTIC TO THE INDIAN, as the channels that pass through the MIDDLE EAST ARE COMMITTED. Another thing is that world powers will be able to negotiate with just two countries, rather than with five, TANZANIA AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, OR WITH JUST ONE, SOUTH AFRICA. THEY ARE WASTING TIME AND MONEY!!!!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Something about these early African states maintaining their independence till this day ignites the fire in my soul 🔥🔥🔥
Very informative. Excellent insights ❤ Good job 👏 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
In South Africa. The Khoi people defeated D' Almeida .
Still baffled at the way foreign "powers" sat around and negotiated who should control parts of Africa, as it it were a proprietary bargaining chip.
I'll never understand how another country can assume control over another for political and economic exploitation.
They would have never allowed the reverse to happen.
Exactly. It’s a level of audacity and entitlement I simply cannot comprehend.
You bet! This was imperialism on steroids! Yet its still claimed that the west is more civilised and democratic. Sad thing is that there still are invincible to the naked eye but very present neo-colonial structures still operating in Africa.
Beats me as well, the west's moral high ground is just ludicrous
You better believe they still trying to find ways to colonize today
There is such a separation between Portuguese culture and the culture of its colonies. The colonies are vibrant centers of art, music and life, especially Cape Verde and Angola
But when visiting Portugal the only sense you can get is of stagnation and a longing for a bygone era
The empire looks behind, and the liberated look ahead. That's the difference.
Very well said! Cheers
So because we conserve some old monuments and buildings we are stuck in the past? You damm liar
That was the problem when visiting Portugal the only sense you can get is of stagnation and a longing for a bygone era because All the money was going to the colonies and in the End they revolt against portugal.they should do like the british and the French where they imposed they culture and not mixing with them but unfortenely was not possible as the population was 1 milion in 1500 That is why people say mixing pot of culture and now they are confused because dont know where they come from.
@@pedrosousa9780 we know very well where we came from, thank you very much.
very true bro
Africa my homeland ❤
Glad to hear from you brother!
Free Africa from the canabalistic colonialist Portugal!
Couldn't agree more!
Yeah only home grown African dictators are allowed to be cannibals like Bokassa and Taylor!
@@hamanu666cry more 😂😭
England was much more colonialist, that's why we are all speaking English and consuming some English based countries products like fast foods, using his sites and etc...
Portuguese is one of the most important, beautiful and rich languages and cultures, and one of more grow in all the world, but nowadays more by Brazil influence and the Angola growth in Africa.
Maybe you should do a video about the Arab slave trades and the colonisation of Africa through Arabs.
There's plenty on that why are you mad though?
Dear Sir.
Your video contain lot of knowledgeable ancent history about Africa.
I wonder how you gathered this information with photography.
Hatts of you.
Thanks lot Dear Friends.
Regards
Ashok Varhadi from India.
So nice of you mate! Cheers for your consistent support, much appreciated!
WOULD THE CHEWA LANGUAGE GO EXTINCT?
No. Why would it? African languages always outlived colonisation. We speak native languages alongside European languages. In rural areas vast majority speak African languages almost exclusively.
Good question @ngumzakwanza
Great response! Cheers!
This is such an informative video, great work!
Thanks so much!
I like this 'Mapa Cor De Rosa'
My favorite watching from Kenya 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
Glad to hear! Cheers!
🤔 Knowing what we know about Portugal and its colonial territories, we should grateful that it didn't colonize more territories in Africa.
At the beginning of European exploration, England was a minor fry, but at the end, it became the dominate empires; WHY?
I say it's the culture of English people; that enabled them to challenge their leaders effectively to the betterment of their society.
I recommend that young Africans should study "Magna Carta" if they really want to able to express themselves and contribute to the world.
Completely agreed my friend! I'll also take a dive in Magna Carta, many thanks!
Portuguese were defeated twice in Zimbabwe by the warrior called “Changamire Dombo” between 1654 -1690 using a horseshoe formation and he chased them out of Zimbabwe.❤❤ They called him “ The Demon Possessed Warrior “ due to his Spirituality!! Google Changamire Dombo!
Explain in simple terms
Thanks for the info
Any time! Cheers!
How come you didn't mention the role of the local African Kings like Lubosi Lewanika of the Lozi people (Barotseland/Western Zambia or North Western Rhodesia), who probably ruled the largest kingdom in that region. Lewanika literally begged the British Government to make his kingdom a protectorate to which they where initially hesitant. The Lozi people already had a long history of fighting Portuguese allied slave raiders from Angola. They even banned Portugese slave traders from setting foot in their kingdom. But the kingdom was weakened by civil war and the threat of Ndebele raids and Portuguese encroachment was becoming an issue again.
The Cape to Cairo vision was more of Cecil Rhodes and his BSA company who even forged documents in eagerness to get access to the Zambezi region even before the British government was involved. But the Lozi king found out and refused to honor it.
Eventually the British agreed to it, and the Lozi king signed off his entire kingdom and that of his neighbours a region more than 5x his kingdom to the British. To this day the Lozi Kings are close friends with the British monarchy and have been 'educated' in Britain and personally attended every British monach coronation in the last 120 years.
Appreciate the additional information mate! I'll definitely dig deeper and possibly do a follow-up. Cheers!
@@RisenAfricaThanks
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I'm glad Britain didn't allow Portugal to establish their pink map.
Completely agreed! They wouldn't have let the territory out of their grip!
@@RisenAfrica And they probably wouldn't of stopped at their pink map, they would of likely claimed other parts of Africa.
@@RisenAfrica brcause british colonialism is better?
@@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAEThis is NOT a defence of the British or any other European empire, but the French, Belgian and Portuguese rulers were far crueler than the British. Portugal were the last to formally surrender its African colonies and held onto them for dear life way into the seventies after Britain had already let all its African colonies go, and the French are still the heaviest perpetrators of neocolonialism in Western Africa today (just look at what’s going on right now with Niger).
@LaVenganzaDeCarrera british colonisation is bad also. There is no colonisation that is good. mozambique and angola had to fight war when they were fighting for independence from portugal. plus also english language is more spread out and portuguese is limited