Wow, it's as if the history of the colonization of Africa has never been told until now! this must have been a huge effort in building a coherent narrative! Congratulations

My class is learning this topic right now in history class, and tbh this series kind of shows the amount of historical inaccuracies that are brushed off to fit into a greater historical narrative that is taught in the class, but still this resource can be really useful for classes!

African history is very complex. Thank for helping me understand it.

This was the time period I was waiting for. The horn region is very interesting imo during this time period. Also I can't wait to play in that region when victoria 3 comes out.

Thank you for introducing so many of us to the factual history of the colonization of Africa and its most important figures: unbiased, non-politicized, and de-westernized. It’s great to know exactly what happened where-and when-so we can continue to look into each expedition, war, or campaign of interest from there.

It's worth noting that there is actually a lot of confusion over whether Jameson paid to have the girl cannibalized or whether the event happened due to a misunderstanding. (Jameson admitted paying the handkerchiefs, but claimed he was calling a local's bluff as he believed the cannibalism tales he'd heard about Africa were urban legends.) He described the resulting event in his journal as "sickening". Of course, Jameson *could* have easily been a cruel sociopath who paid to have the girl eaten and lied afterwards, but he just as easily could've been a naive Pollyanna who was quite possibly shocked and traumatized by the event. The fact is that we don't really know, which is always really important to note when presenting history in any serious way.

I’m loving this series! Getting to see the rarely explored history of Africa is always amazing!

Top class production, the information on this is very comprehensive and I loved it.

This is an oddly pleasant and collaborative comments section. I can’t thank you enough for tackling this important topic without allowing a cesspool to form!

I need to read some more about Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński. I usually know a lot about the obscure Poland-related curiosities but I don't recall hearing much (if anything) about this guy.

This is my favourite serise you did can't wait for the next episode

Finally!!!!! I have been waiting for this!

You're the best History KZfaqr IMO.

Great video, looking forward to your next videos❣❣

great work jabzy

Nothing but facts in this clip. I love how you were very articulate and precise on the facts you produced. Especially on the Somali section of this vid

Your channel is the best- with love from Kerala, India

General Gordon turned down the post of governor of Congo to go to Sudan, if the news of the defeat of Hicks Pasha had arrived a fortnight later he would have taken up his post in central Africa and worked for King Leopold. If you're interested in Mahdist Sudan I recommend Khartoum by Michael Asher.

I wish I still had the book to check the source again but when I was in Nigeria I read a book called "History of the Eko Dynasty" by Bolakale Kotun. (The Portuguese called Eko Lagos due to the resemblance to the Portugese capital). It detailed the history of the city across what I believe was two centuries. (late 1700s - 1900s). Different rulers in different regions within what is now south west Nigeria (and Benin) had different motivations when in power. You have an Eko king who apparently invited the Portuguese for trade in palm oil and slaves. You also have rulers who made deals with the British in order to help defend their kingdoms from neighbouring rivals. You also have classic British 'gunboat diplomacy' where a ruler who refused to trade slaves and relinquish control to the British had the city bombarded till the ruler surrendered; the British then made the the city pay for the ammunition that they expensed into the city as well as sign a treaty. So there were a range of reasons and events.

I love this guy's videos!

I love this channel.

How about a follow-up on your video on the first Serbian uprising, would be great to see the second uprising Love your videos, keep up the amazing work!

Very nice video. More like this please

I found curious to hear about baden Powell in the scramble for Africa because the greatest Brazilian guitarist of all time, was name after him He was a mixed Pardo who was one of the biggest exponents of African and afro-brazilian music and culture here, his father was into scouting and decided to name him after Robert Baden Powell, so I always hear this name and think of "The Afro-Sambas"

Very interesting video

Best series on africa yet

Amazing content…the most thorough account of this period I’ve seen on KZfaq. One quick point though… At 32:50, rather than saying “Belgian control” it may have been more accurate to say “Congo Free State control”. It was only in 1908 that Belgium took control of the area in response to international pressure.

"Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity" - Thomas Sankara

Nice. I hope you talk about French Madagascar in the final episode.

William Stairs: "Here I go killing again for no reason. Just can't help it."

Very concise. Are you a history professor by profession? Great overview.

This is really interesting, especially the way you narrate such an intrincate story. Just for research purposes, may I ask which are your sources?

We need a separate video with all the nuance and background for Liberia

We even have a town in Ghana called Katanga located in oti region Dambai district

YES!!!!!

The Edmund musgrove bit is slightly incorrect, as an ancestor of him his diary’s are quite quite different to his description in the video

The dervish movement in Somalia was in war for 23 years with the British, Italians and Ethiopians at the same time and even killed the leader of the British in British colonized Somalia

27:50 - The BSA forces under Patrick Forbes managed to push the Portuguese all the way to the port of Beira in Mozambique before London found out and ordered him to stop. Probably contributed to Portugal accepting the loss. 30:45- Judging by Five Romeo Romeo's videos, it's pronounced "Seloo"

13:22 I guess that Gondar didn't have any Rohirrim to call. Dumb jokes aside, very interesting video!

8:11 Misleading. Just because only 0.05% of the Indian population in 1901 was British, doesn't mean that there was essentially no British Empire in India. That's like saying there was no British monarchy because the royals made up just 0.0001% or whatever part of the population. What matters is how much power people hold in practice, not how many there are of them.

8:04 Hey I’m a Montenegrin American! 🇲🇪🇺🇸

Beautiful Video, but one correction i do have as an german speaker. Its called Helgoland without the i ^^. And as a qiuck fact, the inhabitants of this small island in the north sea, were actually pretty pro britisch and dident want to join the german empire.

There is a slight mistake about the Mahdists . Genaral Gordon wasn't sent from Egypt he was the governor of Sudan under the Pasha dynast. Other than that great vid.

You'd think since Spain is the closets to Africa it would have more colonies on the continent.

Somalia worriers of east Africa mashallah

Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt..

20:59 IS THAT JARJAR BINKS?!?!?

Egyptians: Cats Bonny: I G U A N A S (I know, it is a lame joke)

Much improved from before when it just had you. Talking as a cartoon, but now there's just so much going on in the map without highlighting it its hard to follow.

When’s part 5?

Could you throw these into a playlist please?

Can you make a video on rathore 1000 horsemen vs 100k Mughal and Jaipur soldiers?

Jaja was a slave in the Kingdom of Benin not Bonny. He went to Bonny as a free man where his faction would war with that of Oko Jumbo's. Jaja's loss in said war would cause he and his followers to leave Bonny found Opobo.

Your lack of mention about the Shona is criminal

“British protection”? And I have a couple of bridges to sale you.

can you do a video on neo colonialism?

This is amazing content, thank you for making it. I remember at school there was a kind of unspoken assumption that African history was at most an extension of European history which also fuelled racist attitudes. I wish even a portion of the content of this video had been in the curriculum, ignorance is horrible and leads to idiotic opinions.

Why was Jar Jar Binks there?

funfact in the battle of luuq at 10:10 the few ethiopians that survived ended up as slaves and were later freed by italians

I know it was a minor nation in the colonization but you left Spain out

Very interesting, but it seems to be much british bias, as the french expansión is so much ignored

16:53 just a nitpick but you pronounced Niger wrong, its pronounced “Ni-Jher” other than that amazing vid

0:53 Guy from hoi4?

7:36 you don’t said the d of pied

power is evil. Horn of Africa Kings would do anything for that power damm

Can you mention about Victoria Falls and Rhodesia (present-day, Zimbabwe), in the final segment?

You didnt talk about Spanish colonies :(

First is Carthage

I always wondered why Liberia was never colonised? Was it due to American protection? Freed African American slaves colonised the area of what is now Liberia they became the elite due to this tensions rose between them and the natives that lived there.

11 thousand dead Oromo people at the hands of the Ethiopians within a single day.... Jesus christ...

21:10 what was that? 😂

Imagine thugs fighting to steal your possessions then force you to follow their so call civilize way then hundreds years later they’ll tell you You’re behind and prevent you to come in their countries!

Love your video but the skin tone of some of the people mentioned here is just off....Samori Toure did not look like that.

Egypt or Carthage

Technically the colonization Era started with the colonization of Ceuta by the Portuguese, then later the Canary islands, we tend to forget that because the Europeans totally deleted the Africans who lived there for thousands of years

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Funny that the only country that had more than 500.000 Europeans in Afrika never became a colonist power. The cape colony's, natal, Transvaal and oranje Vrijstaat and Namibia had thousands of Dutch boers. If the British didn't take the cape from the Netherlands to 'protect' it against Napoleon. How would the colonisation of South Afrika proceed if it would at all! Also can anyone inform me why the capital of Namibia still has a Dutch name? And does anyone know why the brothers Beers and other families sold their diamond mines to the British? Couldn't be that tricky bastard of a Cecil Rhodes all on his own?! And about the Boer wars, why did so many Irish fight allong side the boeren and against the British? Aren't they aware that the whole religious troubles in their country started after some Dutch idiot won the battle of the Boyne? It's why the Protestant wear orange. Why fight for the orange free state??

24:10- "The Germans responded by burning down their towns, but lost a lot of men in ambushes". A common pattern for them!

We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

Forever you're the best historian, so unbiased so professional in this right wing sphere thank you very much.

You mean agama lizards. Iguanas are from central America.

Adal isn't a Soomaali Sultanate but Harari. Ajuuraan was created by Arab and Persian merchants that founded Moqadishu. Did you use Wikipedia for your source?

What's that about king George Pepple and the iguana? There are no iguanas in Africa!

I think its really telling listening to your video about a 16th century italian slave merchant’s diary and how the merchant and every european he interacted with understood that what they were doing was heinous, and then listening right afterwards to the video about the log kept by a canadian living in the time of doctor stanley livingston who speaks of slaves and natives as if they were livestock and seems to revel in their suffering. racism as we know it today was neither a natural instinct nor an existing feature of european society- it was born of and evangelised by people who valued profit and conquest over christian values and humane treatment of fellow men, a callousness that came about as a response to the cognitive dissonance that italian slaver experienced. the entire scramble of africa was led by horrible men, and in the lower ranks of the colonial administrations there were hundreds of King Leopolds ready to overlook or encourage horrifying feats of depravity to help line their pockets and pave the way to their promotion. i respect you a lot, because unlike other history youtubers you do not try to handwave this away or justify it. you present the facts as they are, free of the justifications and propaganda that have been repeated about colonisation for centuries and are taken even by the most respected historians as undoubtable fact. i would respect you far more if you hadn’t wormed your way out of pronouncing the name ‘Bonar’ in your script. say boner, you yellowbellied coward!

Did you get that cartoon of "the slave" (5.15) from Logo TV? Although this presentation will undoubtedly fan the flames of the anger among the ignorant, as it is observedly anti-non-Negroid, it is well organized and I do recognize some level of understanding of acceptable ethnography methods. I appreciate the difficulty of that. Still, I would like young people to have some sort of context and understanding of the cultures of the thousands of Bantoid tribes who were a tiny community southwest of Lake Chad until the beginning of the "Great Bantu Expansion" which began as early as 1000 BC. Their horrific treatment of their females and of their millions of slaves (yes, Blacks always owned slaves), and the traditional mindset of nations in general in the world before the 20th century. This presentation still has too much, "they did this to us (?), they did that to us" for me, entirely excluding human nature and intelligence. Time to grow up and move beyond. What your ancestors or the ancestors of others did or how they behaved does not reflect on what you, as a living person, can make of your lives, your "soul," and the health and happiness of the planet. Youngsters have Disneyesque ideas of what "kingdoms" and "slaves" are, as well as many of the other terms you use. That is misleading and puts too much responsibility on children (chronological or mental) to understand the basic cohesion of humans.

Ethiopia 🇪🇹 was not colonised

Why is Thier a gap between Djibouti and Somaliland? You don't know anything about East African history

That is wastern perspective or wight people but it is deferent what you say it is brutal and we are still alive what is next hundred years we are still fighting our freedom sad

All lies about menilik on Ethiopia

I'm so glad the majority of the bigoted racists lost interest in this series already or at least aren't commenting as much.

Uncivilized who civilized 🤔

CALLING THE DAHOMEY…DAHONY AMAZONS WHILE THERE STILL IN AFRICA IS MISLEADING AND A MISNOMER

"British protection"! British subjugation and exploitation would be more accurate.

Aren't you ashamed to not mention the men who fought the hypocrites? After an additional hearing:) Did you call those who opposed the colonialists jihadists?

So basically what your saying is anywhere you put Europeans you get roads, bridges, aqueducts, towns rules laws civilization, no matter how wild, remote and savage the place may have been. Here's a fun fact slavery was wiped out because of colonialism and it didn't go down quietly, slavery went out kicking punching rock slinging scratching shouting crying yelling spear throwing until the guns of a British French or American frigate silenced them. Any place where western nations didn't have contact with, the slave trade was business as usual. So anyways image if they doubled the size of European settlers? Double the development! BAAAAM! SCORPION WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY! FATALITY!

It’s actually the time Europeans pulled Africa out of the Stone Age. Lmao.

False narritive about Menilk