Thank you for your great videos! History not many actually hear of. "African Studies" in Universities is usually nothing but anti-white drivel, rather than anything really academic such as you produce.

He was NOT a rebel, he was portreited as one by those who are in powe now

Strange how others, also in fatigues, also fighting for liberation are heralded as heroes. But Savimbi was called a rebel. So not fair. He was a good man. Had he had Angola. It wouldn't be so poor today. In our history classes on high school. We were taught Savimbi was a horrible man. Then I told my history teacher: you call him a horrible man because your new masters there in Moscow told you Communist teachers to tell us that. Savimbi fought Portuguese colonisation and he fought Russian ideological influence. He is a hero! I was effectively detained for that statement....I was only 17 years old at the time.

@@gira8255 great point. How can one be a rebel when he fought for independence and then cheated and sidelined? He fought and died for a noble cause and has passed the baton to the new Angolan generation.all and all history will certainly be generous to his legacy.

@@geoffwalters3662 "African Studies" in Universities is usually nothing but anti-white drivel...what do you mean by "anti-white drivel?

That's interesting keep on researching what an interesting way to learn a culture

On the call of Duty my friend lol 😂 he is a real rebel man . I love that part . I feel like going to play the game again lol 😂

@@juniornam1186 I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but I clearly point out that it’s what piqued my interest. but biographies and channels like this are where I did more research. It’s not like I went to the call of duty wiki to find out more 🙄

Which Call of Duty game

@@matthewbrooks254 black ops 2

Was he a hero or a villain?

​@@kgaugelomojela4288 I didn't like his methods, nor do I like that he kept Angola in war.

And Savimbi was a villain.

I think people realize this.

​@@joanofarc33 I'm sure most people do, but there are people in this comment section who don't realize this, and it annoys me (prompting me to make my comment)

Thank you for your help against fighting communist

He was smart and spoke seven languages, I remember him when I was growing up, the most I knew was he was anti communist. That place was a hell hole, I hope the area is improved

Pissing on Savimbi's grave. 😂

Why​@@SenoritoGhost

​@timkincade9763 he was a an imperialist pawn and a tool who shook hands with the Portuguese the oppressors of the Angolan people he was a traitor regardless of the political ideology

That and many other charming attributes...... It's a political narcissistic mind ...

Would like to hear more! Which year was that? I am Zambian and I really revere our first President Dr.Kenneth Kaunda and I strongly believe a lot of informative and educative material has not been published or spoken to explain the intricacies of the liberation struggles and civil wars of Southern Africa! When that is done and cemented into a syllabus for "Modern history of Southern Africa", we shall rekindle the spirit of Pan-Africanism which will enhance regional and continental integration!!

I believe he was against the white mans rule

Sure, any suggestions?

@@AfricanBiographics king Sobhuza II of Swaziland.... he was no gun-carrier though but still a great African leader

@@AfricanBiographics i want a video about King Gbudue, who was a Sudanese current day South Sudan. He fought very many battles such as against the British, Arabs (During slave trade in Sudan), Belgium among others. I look forward for that

@@AfricanBiographics nope, I was hoping you would have some in mind 😅 I partially grew up during the reign of Moi (24yr reign from 1978-2002) in the 90s. He died recently and of course the nation mourned His predecessor Kenyatta was no good! But I’d like to know more about our neighbors uganda, tanzania… I’d also like to see a video on Kagame. I hate hearing how the West tries to paint him in a negative light

@@ShottaKenya If you are a Kenyan, the histories of Kenyatta and Moi are very well documented The only people who would need a video are non-kenyans.

YOOOOO!!!! 😂😂😂 I saw that picture/slide at 3:47 and had to do a double take. He looks just like Kenyatta there. Especially with that staff in hand and the picture being black&white. Awesome comment bro, I’ll now be on the lookout for that jacket all across the continent 😅

Hahaha, that's funny 😃

@@ShottaKenya me too bro, I saw him and immediately thought it was Jomo Kenyatta 😅

The point to clarify is that Jonas Savimbi did cause a lot of trouble to a lot of oil super-magnates, among them Standard Oil, when he revealed that the red curibbean barbudos, instead of being international revolutionaries in bright shining red armor, coming to help their African ideological brothers against the villain racist SA, were just vulgar mercenaries of the American imperialist capitalists, sent to Angola to guard the Cabinda oil fields. & not to protect the glorious mpla revolucion. The racist SA is in the south of Angola, while Cabinda is an exclave beyond the north of Angola. In 1987, he threatened to attack Cabinda which financed the mpla regime. He signed his own death warrant. The capitalist imperialists switched their support to the corrupt mpla's Dos Santos. & executed Savimbi. & remember the corrupt red barbudos bros, who did drug trafficking in Angola. & then executed their own general Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, commander of the expeditionary force in Angola allegedly for drug trafficking, to cover their own military defeat.

What about the notorious things done by his rebels than ..even in the northern Namibian borders ..

I couldn't agree more with your statment

@@petrusjuuso5478 I'm talking about Savimbi. I met the man myself. I'm not talking about any anti Savimbi propoganda.

@@Jay-Leigh863 He was nice to me, therefore all his crimes are propaganda. Nice.

People have different unique reasons as to what makes them love things and people, I personally loved Janas Malhero Savimbi, since I was in primary hearing his name being mentioned on the radio news by KBC would mean to stop whatever was doing to listen to what's being said about him. Though he was a rebel leader I found joy listening and reading stories about him that once created a nick name Jonas wa Savimbi (Jonas of Savimbi) I would literally whip my enemies on my head with ideas as to how he whipped the MPLA. Life is truelly a book I belive he did what he believed was best for his life, we have to respect his ways of life and also pray that nothing like the Civil war ever happens to any county.

"Death to the MPLA!" Savimbi in Call of Duty: Black Ops

He's a terrorist. ponto.

Savambi was not a smart man he want to give back Angola to the European colonial master in return he become president

You are not smart just luke savambi, Portugal a small European country controlling you guys luke a puppet.

Wisdom in a nutshell.

It's easy to say , but hundreds of years of genocide n brainwsshing cannot be washed away so easily, especially as it's still being implimented in our lives on a daily bases via the TELLIEVISION by the

Very same people who were and are responsible for all the mess we presently are living in. . Aint it the TRUTH ????

@Red Pill Passport Bro NO I am not.I am a half chinese born Jamaivan who is in his 70's We here in JAMAICA have always had an inyrest in AFRICA ever since I can remember. Our population is made up of 90 % of AFRICAN descent and 10 % of practically all the other races on this EARTH. CHECKOUT our people , our truth ( men n sheeple say HISTORY) , and our CULTURE.

@Red Pill Passport Bro most Angolans don't know the full history. I didn't know for a long time. Most Angolans live below the poverty line and believe they're poor because of the government they have now. They don't get that they're poor because their wealth was destroyed. Angola is changing now and trying to teach my generation , I call them Angola's gen Z, that war sucks and if you want to fight do it protesting and use your words with respect. It's a lot harder than it sounds.

Yep the loss of the leader often is fatal to many rebellions

yes the war stopped and it was the start of our misery in Angola. Everything got worse and the little democracy that he was able to acomplish for us, was reversed to almost zero. Nowadays, Angola is a democratic country in theory only. In practice, you can almost compare it to North Korea!

@@valmir144 go back to the bush and start a rebellion maybe your life will be better in the jungle .

​@@valmir144 tbh, thats still better than an endless civil war.

@@gregrenox9644 I doubt you live in Angola, to say something like that!

what constitute a great Man? No man is great . We are just just people. It is the stupid people who follow them and who perceive them as great. They are nothing without people wo follow them.

Please try to re-write again ! what you wrote isn't understandable , not in good English

@@beautifulmind6156 lol out of 9 people who liked my comment ; you choose to be an As$ over a language that is clearly not your mother tongue 😂... anyways I’m responsible for what I write not for your poor comprehension skill ...

You are welcome 😃

The situation made him do things his way Mandela thought he was a sellout then they together and told him why he was using south Africa Africa apartheid regime to supply him with ammunition

Exactly.. Exactamente.

@@jimmypapama6353 and the MPLA were allies with a totalitarian dictator named Castro. And Mandela almost exclusively cared about south africa and supported anyone who opposed south africa, even if said opposition were dictators. So he is not a neutral actor. I dont think you can say angola had good or bad sides, both were terrible, tribalist conflicts masquerading under ideology for international support.

@@gerritkruger4014 what the hell he totalitarian dictator. Is that like a cold war expression. It means nothing. Nothing is Black and white. NO body uses that anymore. Castro helped Africa to get independence. While the west allied with the colonialists. From your name, I take it you are a Bore. Are you related to Jimmy Kruger? The south African Interior minister who killed Biko?

Thank you for your insight.

You are welcome

Thank you for fighting communist ❤

Rest in perfect peace Revolutionary Jonas Savimbi

*R.I.P JONAS SAVIMBI* 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🐓🟩🟩🟩 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 *LONG LIFE UNITA*

Was any of his children involve in the war,they were in America enjoying themselves Africa should wake up and start to develop themselves free greedy leaders

It pains to have lost such a man who dedicated his life for the normal course. MHSRIEP VIVA JONAS SAVIMBI

@@geoffreymusialike6882 ?? he was angolas mobutu

Totally agree with you. Had the opportunity to meet him as a soldier. Great respect for him as a leader and human.

I agree with you.

Thanks for sharing that.. Can I ask something though..? Was Savimbi a hero or a villain?

How many you killed ?

@@kidanebadeg5538 That's not a fair question... casualties and victims of war will always be there.

@@kgaugelomojela4288 he was a hero

@@iwillbeamillionaire4598 He was NO hero. He was a selfish, power driven thug

The Tamils were something else .They had gotten a good deal but they became greedy .

You are confused

He was a bloody sell out and puppet

​@@valentineisraelshabangu4069it's you who is confused.

Yes it's not a true story

They are spreading fake news about one of the greatest leader we ever had in Angola. Today we are under a dictatorship regime for more than 45 years😢😢

Okay fellow Angolans. Prove it, prove that it's fake. The only thing that is true is that it's incomplete, but not fake news. You are welcome to hear stories from people in your own country who lived the war.

So tell us the correct story then, don't just discredit the documentary then disappear

What Democracy? Of killing people that opposed him in his own party? Of burning babies and women?

Nah, if you call starting a second civil war democracy, you need to open your eyes wider. Not saying the mpla were good, far from it, but Savimbi should have accepted the vice presidency and continue to political action, instead he went back to the Bush and restarted a war that further opened the wounds of an already shattered country

The enemy of my enemy… it’s geopolitics, all he wanted was to be supplied with means to fight mpla and South Africa apartheid government was the only option close.

@Cleusio Cimbinda regardless he was wrong at the end being used by The USA and Apartheid regime. Even during that time the Apartheid officials indicated that they made a deal with the devil referring to Savimbi. I don't understand why any normal person would defend his actions.

@@cleusiocabinda8613 it was infinitely better to NOT have taken aid from South Africa if they wanted any notion of fighting for a cause against colonialism

yep

@@cleusiocabinda8613 That's why they were destroyed in the 'Cuito-Cuanavale Batlle'. Good for them

Because he was the real deal, not the likes of Neto or the corrupt Dos Santos, these two are the real cancer of Angola, with a thirst of blood, because he wasn't like them and because he wasn't from the socialism, communism ! And the Countries who help these two 'ussless figures' ( Israel and the then Portuguese socialist Government) should be ashamed of themselves !!

Savimbi was a bad man.

OUR JOURNEY TO VICTORY HAS BEGUN

Maybe to you he was a hero, to others not so much

who raped women, burned babies and assassinated his top men for fear of being replaced. Yea, a heck of a real man.

The problem with e west they want to impose leaders whom they want lyke Mugabe in zim given power by Margret thatcher

Savimbi was popular here in kenya back then as well. Those of us who grew up in 90s remember this.

Thanks Gideon

If you fight for what belongs to you, they can you a rebel!

I understand the word rebel (rebelde) in portuguese has a negative conotation. In english it's neutral no one offended him.

That's not for you to define. For many, he was a killer of brothers, rapist of wives, an assassin of babies. But I'm no one to judge your love for him. It's like they say: "One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter"

@@shadrackn9225 What belonged to him?

He fought against a govt That makes him a rebel, whether he was good or not In English, that is

Reagan love him or use him to destabilize Angola? Which it is?

@@marksealy8025 Used him, Reagan didn't give a damn about him

@@marksealy8025 Reagan loved anything that would fight against communism.

@@BeatTheDrumEnt more like he used Reagan

I wish he used a different tactic.