All those who were killed were trying to sabotage the government. They deserved it.

Is this the same as Tunachek?

We would be better off with true communism!

Thank you for your channel. I missed out on African history in school and, like many, have found the subject difficult to navigate. After centuries of messing with Africa, Westerners these days opt to be silent about Africa. But that is no improvement. So too has it been difficult to hear the voices of Africans speaking in the well-informed, mostly impartial way that you do on your channel - a result, no doubt, of the turmoil of the decades of decolonization, independence and Cold War. I know I'm far from alone in appreciating what you are doing here.

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan True communism has never been achieved. Sadly, Stalin and Mao have ruined the reputation of communism irrevocably by using the worst kind of authoritarianism to try to achieve their goals. But, sadly, there are also serious economic questions about the viability of true communism in a world with high population and limited resources.

Wow. He is burning in the hottest part of hell. Most of them don't even think there's a God

Am aware of that fact. Thanks for the reminder.

@@AFRISTORYNETWORK you are open to information too. Love it

Damn.

At this point I will believe anything you say, nothing was impossible for him.

I often wonder what Africans do learn in history class. If your not taught your own history what are you taught?

@@bigevil1001 Why would corrupt or countries controlled by dictatorships showcase this kind of history?

@@tysonmcduggan6870 Not just this. ANY history. I know more about an African country's history than some African's do.

@@bigevil1001 The reserve is true of any society where the populous is ignorant or not well informed regarding the subject matter. Plus, there's the consequence of spoon feeding the notion of exceptionalism and patriotic propaganda to people by the state. Especially Attached to national figures like Gandhi, Churchill or the founding Fathers. As a result you get near Demi God wish. That is hostile to informed. In fact any critique at all which could put in question the gravity of their and achievements and broader legacy.

We learned ,I dont know which Africa you are from. But my Africa we did it.

he had very good Lakeys......

it was Christmas eve and his men wore Santa suits.

You missed the best part... the killers were wearing Santa Claus outfits. Nguema's whole reign was bonkers, even by African absolute dictator standards.

It was 1969 not 1976

His nephew

The colonials were masters of control... No independence was ever given.... They carefully pick one with low IQ level but brutal and a great follower of instructions....

@@gilbertojode5073 imagine blaming colonials ffs...

zimbabwe is now the same! they had mugabe and now the people are saying his successor is even worse!

@@NPC-vq3cl that's how most dictators took over in the begining , if you were lucky(like British colonies) you'd get a relatively smart guy like nyerere or kwame nkurumah who got corrupted over time , if you were not and Your colonial master was say France , an idiot would get picked to lead your nation as a brutal dictator and a puppet to the colonisers it all depended on who colonized you , so In a way, the colonisers Both directly and indirectly created these monsters

That's correct - a Christopher Walken classic!

I got to see

I think they do.

With the ammount of rebel groups and civil wars they had.....schools would have to cut every other class to make place for it.

@@szekhar7602 so does with European history. But they manage to teach it, right?

@@zameize they really don't teach European history anywhere but europe and the americas.

@@theccpisaparasite8813 must be my country then. Like the roman history, ww 1, ww 2, american civil war.

No. Pol Pot was Cambodia's Francisco Nguema.

In both countries people got murdered for wearing glasses...

Both were minor league Mao wannabe's

@@theccpisaparasite8813 Not by percentage of population. Pot and this clown are in MVP territory with those percentages.

@@glenchapman3899 Fair enough, but world impact and total numbers matter more i think. As you say, this dude was insane.

Probably charisma

He got elected in what was the only democratic election in the country's history on a nationalistic platform hence why he's elected in the first place

He's a perfect example of what happens when you allow psychopaths with traumatic childhoods into power.

And lasted up to 11yrs, damn

@@thestruggler7926 not a psychopath

You think the Europeans that carved up Africa were fair, democratic and just institutions having a benevolent attitude towards the African people they had previously ruled over. They and America helped the worst dictators come to power and keep power. This is the effects of Imperialism and Colonialism that, by the way, is still going on today. Look at France. They're a big part of why Africa is messed up.

Colonialism seems to be a permanent scapegoat for Africa’s seemingly permanent failures.

A monster?

I would describe him as clinically insane (and therefore not responsible for his horrible actions).

Stupid is the word. Someone who can barely read shouldn’t be head of state. Leaders of minimal intellectual capacity are commonplace in totalitarian regimes, but this guy is especially dumb

@@anonimus648 I wouldn't say this abysmal intellectual level is commonplace in such regimes, exactly. In fact, it often takes a certain kind of cleverness to stay in power. (Not to sing the praises of dictatorships. Democracy is far superior both morally and technically.)

@@oddespenjenssen2236 I agree but I’d distinguish between intellectual and clever. No doubt many of these dictators understand power, intimidation, and certain human instincts. However, many of them have disdain for science and knowledge, or lacked the capacity to advance through legitimate means. Where else do you find bus drivers or bank robbers as heads of state? Not democracies

Their problems began with Spain.

@ჶ Troopa3xd ჶ He was created by Spain.

As well the Sahawri Arab Republic Democrat being Spanish as its official language.

It said that at the start. Although ceuta and melilla are also Spanish speaking enclaves

@@cuthbertjolly4859 Equatorial Began with spain lol

If you're gonna go commie, Khmer is the way to go.

„You dropped your glasses mate“ *Pulls gun out*

And Buhari will be cast twice in that series

Uhuru Kenyatta should feature at the top of the list.

Clothes most likely from France or Italy. Cars most likely from Germany. Guns anywhere the offer is favourable Israel, Turkey, Russia, Iran, China or the Eastern European Countries. The US is to expensive. One tiny 9mm bullet's one damn dollar. Imagine an AK 47 or Machine Gun with deadly bullets. Most African leaders buy weapons from either Iran or East Europe, instead of buying medical equipments . We still've a long, long way to developing our countries. This is what Dr Kwame Nkrumah had been emphasising Neo- Colonialism. The wolves're back in sheep clothing. Money can change lie to truth & it's no 1 enemy of justice. Dictators buy votes!

Funny that he hated foreign things but loved western clothes.

I could then expect to see Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein in heaven too.

Depending upon the sources if he was baptized and asked for forgiveness he is in heaven.

You sure you are in the right place

@@tanberetO heyy what are u saying

@@mandhemjallow1333 I'm saying that it's quite possible he's in heaven.

Lots of black skin and no black ck gold under ground me st likely.

For real though!

The shah was replaced by another dictatorship and this guy was overthrown by his nephew who still rule to this day

1979 also had park chung hee getting assassinated buf I wouldnt call him and the shah tyrants due to everything good they did

Janet museveni in the cabinet

Oh go to hell Museveni is a benevolent dictator

Oh go to hell Museveni is a benevolent dictator

@@dh.k363 Is that why he shut down the internet for 5 years and put bobi wine in house arrest when he campaigned for presidency.

@@tylersmith3139 loooool 5 years, thats a straight up lie, colonizer

Have you read her book ?

He makes Saddam Hussein look like Donld Trump.

He gave Pol Pot a decent run for his money in killings per capita.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Past? Equatorial Guinea is still hopeless.

Yes, King Leopold was simply a money-hungry racist butcher.

Leopold killed millions

@@thegreatafrican3367 The rubber companies (Goodyear, Dunlop) did the actual killing. Leopold never set foot in Congo. He did profiteer ofc (until Congo ran out of workers from killing and maiming). Leopold 2 is guilty, but he was not alone. Do not forget the capitalist owners of the rubber companies

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan well Bush and Obama also killed millions in the middle East but never stepped foot there but I hear what you're saying

Oh no, this guy seems far worse than that aloof animal Leopold. By the standards of the continent, Leopold seems positively par for the course. Currently, at my last count, of Africa's 53 countries, 20 are ruled by brutal dictators. But this guy seems positively certifiable and needed to be removed from the gene pool.

He never claimed he was a pan africanist stupid theres a difference

How’s this pan African?

Who said he was a pan Africanist? This is literally stupid.....

What u stating is as stupid as ur profile name and photo. And yes we don't want ur kind here. U can't compare his kind of thinking to the normal pan afrikanism that is well known.

@@drdread9896 Relax this is most likely a white man that believes in having afrika run by them and not us as his stance.

His nephew (Obiang) who runs the country now ain’t much better sadly.

King Leopold was worse than them all combined

@@curtisthomas2670 facts! They really need to do one on him. The millions (tens of millions!) that were killed, maimed and tortured has never been really acknowledged by the world and by Belgium who on my book owes billions of reparations to the Congolese people. Europe has really screwed up Africa and is continuing to do so, especially France.

In which case, Macias should have been aquitted by reason of insanity.

@@oddespenjenssen2236yep. He would have been your everyday regular corrupt, brutal dictator, but his horrible, torturous father drove him to insanity. That diagnosis was from his own family and tribe. Taking massive amounts of hallucinogenic drugs didn't help.

How about that?

His family still run things there. Namely his nephew and son.

Which one is the Akan empire?

I hollered 😂😂😂

damn

Oh please. Spain was also a backward dictatorship at the time.

@@mikicerise6250 Backward? Why? It was among the 15 nations on Earth by GDP-

Spain was an underdeveloped third-world backwater without meaningful infrastructure where wives still went down to the river to wash the family's clothes, without motorways, ruled over by a pathetic fascist dictator, carrying on as if it were still 1700. It was backward and benighted and certainly in no position to help modernize anyone else. E. Guinea's evolution post-independence mirrored Spain's: a coup, a dictatorship, blaming foreign "Satanic" conspiracies for its own failures like Franco, a disastrous experiment in autarchy, butchering thousands of his own people, a hatred of intellectuals (¡muera la inteligencia!), mistrust and marginalisation of other ethnic groups. Spain did prepare E. Guinea for independence very well. After independence it became like Spain. In any case, while it is important to know history, we need to focus on the future now. Spain and E. Guinea are different places today, though sadly the latter remains a dictatorship. Hopefully they will not go back to the way they were.

@@mikicerise6250 ROFL, what an ignorant you are.

Think deeply before you comment. I think that you are not well informed.

@@nephatoliech5601 Actually what Kanda said makes sense. The dictator certainly showed signs of degenerative neurosyphilis. You can't just claim someone is not well-informed without making your own thought-out points.

@@nephatoliech5601 No I think you may need to, the man was so mentally ill he ordered his favourite song to play in a football stadium that was filled with all his political enemies and ordered his private army dressed as Santa to kill them all.

my friend, It's essential to venture beyond the singular narrative of neurosyphilis. Conditions such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and lead poisoning offer alternative explanations for such behaviors as was observed in tyrants like Benito Mussolini and Emperor Nero. Legend also has it that the erratic actions of Ivan the Terrible for example was associated with psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder. so my friend we have to employ an epistemological openness to appreciate the complex nature of cognitive and behavioral patterns of tyrannical leaders throughout history.

Kagame is just as bad!

he is not, he is what you need

@@5103jerry nonsense he is murderer shut up silly idiot

@S E P A little bit but he can do far more! A lot of the money is spent on luxuries by family members.

But his nephew took him out.

The guy had failed 3 exams and on the 4th try, they passed him out of sympathy. It was from that point, that everything changed...

@@migueltichareva904 PTSD I would say

While the Nguemas live like kings.

Makes Kenyatta & Moi look good, they were not. Closest psycho to Idi Amin!!!

Yeah, just like Trump.🎃

@@lionel8994 bidens president now quit being a bitch and grow up trump at least can keep a promise

@@lionel8994 didn't take long to get to trump 😂

@@thewildcardperson what promise did he keep? To fuk up America more than it was? To be the absolute worst president ever in American history? 🤔

You call it wicked. I'd call it insane, which is another matter entirely.

Your comment would have been more helpful if you had corrected the 'assumptions' and 'incidents' with your own names, facts, and figures. It sounds too easy to just wave off someone's work just like that! In spite of the loopholes you pointed out, you agree with me that the documentary is informative. It is clear that Macias'rule gave room for the coup which ousted him, simply by his outrageous dictatorship. Sadly, up to date, his own relative who ousted him is still president, and worst still, grooming his own son to take over. We don't need figures to understand that Macias' rule has had, and keeps having, such a terrible impact on the destiny of a whole nation. Had he been the good 'democratically elected leader he was supposed to be, the country may have had a different destiny in terms of leadership.

As long as you understand don't be whitewashed.

I think the presenter is Ugandan. It's just about how they pronounce words.

@@kap849 OK. It was not meant to take away from his efforts in making this video as it was really informative. It was just an attempt to correct the only oversight I noticed. Good video.

@@jorgemolongua7112 okay. Don't worry I wasn't attacking you or anything of the sort.

@@reubenkamau7070 💯

Also Mengistu in exile.