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if only james bisonette was there to stop colonisation, wait wrong channel

Africas history knowlige is criminaly underrated to the point that people think that african colonisation happend the same way as the colonisation of the americas.

Interesting enough, despite the British making slavery illegal and banning it, the government and various companies would find loopholes around it to exploit cheap labor. Namely using a lot of indentured servants who were basically temporary slaves in all but in name, with most coming from India. It's why some places in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean of former British colonies have random large Indian communities as most are descendants of these former “indentured servants”.

Thank you for this great series. It makes me empathize more with the africans without romantization or ideologies to taint the interpretation of its fascinating history, since history itself is never a black-and-white story of good guys vs bad guys, but various shades of grey with various motives and unclassifiable personalities behind what's happening. Greed from both locals and foreigners made a lot of people suffer there and its quite sad, hope Africa will recover its greatness someday in a humanist manner.

Decades ago, I specialised in 19c South African history, particularly the Xhosa wars. That was a pretty impressive summary and this is an especially good UKposts series. Here's wishing it gets many more views.

Being Xhosa myself, I really appreciate this video. Hearing the history of South Africa from an objective point of view really does put a lot of things into perspective.

It is weird to think that the American civil war is one of the major factors that lead to the scramble for Africa.

I like the fact that you've been using the same ambient music in every video you've made for the last 6 years. Good thing I like it lol.

Good video! You prob have the best and informative video on the “colonisation of africa” then anyone else does. I can’t wait for your next episode and see what you have in store.

I’ll say it again this is the best, most complete, and most objective series I’ve seen on foreign conquests in Africa and surrounds, well done!

There's so much to say about the history of Africa, but all we hear about in the mainstream is "imperialism bad." Thanks for giving this the attention it deserves with this series, it;s great.

Fantastic video! Keep it up on this series, it does a great job with mentioning a whole lot of well known and not so well known history, while also keeping all of the information very clear as to what is going on, while being quite accurate.

You could do something on the Russo-Circassian war and the Circassian genocide that followed. Its a part of history that's really not known.

Great content! The “first colonisation of Africa” though could have looked further into the past… Carthage was a Phoenician colony in Africa. Greeks formed a colony in Kyrenaika. The Romans had Colonia all along the North African coast etc. “Colonisation” was not just an early modern phenomenon

I'll have to check but just citing "500 people of the British army" vs 10,000 Ashanti is misleading. I believe they had well over a thousand Fante on the right flank and a 1000 Denkyira troops on the left, and the Denkyria were by far the best soldiers on the British and Fante side, conducting an impressive fighting retreat. In fact, I believe General McCarthy (a very likable and significant historical figure because of his time in Freetown) was killed while trying to get to the Denkyria, whose leader predicted a day before (?) how the battle would play out if they didn't fall back and join with another of the 4 British/Fante columns. General McCarthy didn't take his advice largely because he didn't believe a large army could move so fast, yet they did and it's logical to assume that the type of talking drums they invented that sent detailed messages over miles, telling people what to do, played a role in coordinating the army to strike at the best point so decisively , which was hard for the British to imagine because the Asante drum system sent messages over 100+ miles faster than any other communication system on earth, even surpassing the telegraph, which wasn't invented yet and didn't have the significant Ashanti advantage a being a mobile system unlike other fixed systems like the Great Wall of China or the line of stations of visual signals used in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a lot of speculation and I haven't read any of the primary and secondary sources for some years , but is in line with what was later learned about the Ashanti army. The Ashanti also had an elite reconnaissance and scouting unit that was likely providing valuable info and would be pretty cool if they played a hand in stopping the 40 or so carriers on the supply line, leaving the British with only macaroni (that's probably getting way too imaginative but if I was making a movie I'd throw that in there). The two English officers that survived didn't hide the fact that they were outclassed and outsmarted by the Ashanti. Moreover, the British had been planning for and trying to provoke a war for years, especially when McCarthy arrived. The Ashanti were desperately trying to have a diplomatic solution to their problems, yet the British stopped listening. Everyone knew a war was coming long before the murder of the officer, which was just used as pretext. All that being said, appreciate your work!

What a promising series. You should make an extra episode covering the ancient and medieval history of Africa (from the ancient Egyptians to where the first episode in this series starts off).

really great and multifaceted video! giving due information on major factions and conflicts.

Very informative and interesting! Thanks for the education.

I really like your new timeline with the dates at the bottom. Very good advancement on your videos. Like teching up

Thanks for the content sir!

I hope that Vic 3 will have many small African kingdoms and interesting mechanics for trying to thrive and survive when the colonizers come. :)

I love the background music as much as the content ^^

This Africa series is next level. Incredible work Jabzy!

Loving the battle graphics, great work guys ❣❣💕💕

I had no idea of the sociopolitical situation of Sierra Leone, that was very informative, thanks!

Fun Fact: Ethiopia is about twice the size as France.

Fantastic video full of details. You are an expert historian

Amazing content! Just the highest regards for your art!

Part 2? and there is 5 total? I should bring popcorn next time.

Man this was really good 👍🏿.

What a fantastic series. We don’t get taught this at school in the UK (or in other European counties I imagine). Such a rich history!

Brilliant work! Thank you!

New EU4 DLC announced heavily concentrating on Africa and you release this series? COINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT!

Slavery still exists in Africa. Never ended.

This guy the only good thing about this channel. Really enjoying these obscure histories.

Wow, thank you for these videos

Slavery wasn't completely abolished in Africa until 2007, and it illegally continues to this day.

12:53 based

You done a great job on this

Very good discussion. Thanks!

Great video but there's one mistake I noticed. Yohannes isn't the emperor that would expand ethiopia upto the borders of Kenya, that's menelik II his successor. Yohannes 's greatest achievement was defending ethiopia against Egypt and the mahdists

I find it heart breaking that many Africans were actually protesting for slavery and not against it.

great work!

amazing series really shines a light on a lot of unheard stories

Tough pill to swallow for some but many societies in Africa weren't pure the horror of slavery also existed amongst many, and to make matters even worse those from the diazpora who were once enslaved did the same thing like wow. Stuff like this just makes me lose hope in humanity, it just shows none of us are truly good or truly evil, humanity no matter the skin is complicated and grey nothing is black and white. 8f only more people could see this fact about our world and its races.

one of the best history videos i've ever seen on youtube. love this series.

Thanks. Got some idea of developments in Africa.🎉🎉🎉

The Sierra Leone situation honestly would make great game of thrones style drama

you forgot the spanish colonization in the so-called "western" sahara and the canary islands and Sébta, mellila.

Bravo!

Brilliant 💓🙌🏽💓

Africa has a much more sophisticated history than is appreciated in the popular imagination.

Not a single reference to portuguese explorers that were there for 300 years and Silva Porto even saved Livingstone life?!

I dont understand the thumbnail state who colonised africa first... the title refers to millenia after... what am I missing?

Very Impressive

I am curious about the sources of your information, nothing you present here disagrees with what I have read but it is far more extensive.

Wow never knew that Oba akintoye abolished slavery in Lagos. Interesting. This needs to be talk about more

Can you drop some recommended books on these topics in some future videos if someone wants to learn more

Really great video! You didn't talk much about Somalia or Oman, but I guess that's for next time. I definitely learned a lot nonetheless.

It's crazy how, despite how much you mention in this video you mention the British taking serious action to stamp out the slave trade, lots of people in the modern day STILL don't give them credit for it and will chastise them for "not doing enough".

Damn who’s going to tell Muhammad Ali (the Boxer) about Pasha Muhammad Ali?

You had a recent uptick? I've been here since the beginning! Good luck! Great content.

what is the song youre using?

14:58 The Ashanti-Fanti War

Looking forward to hearing all about Eritrea 🇪🇷 next episode 😍

You are so spot on about the creoles of Sierra Leone which I identify. Thank you.

seems like the whole history to me. so much trouble to go thru to get someone overseas. it was always like that

*whispers* they never got ethiopia

There is a Christian apologetic pattern / pro-Christian bias in this series. Whenever something bad happened to them (e.g. a massacre or enslavement by Barbary pirates e.g. 25:25), they are labelled 'Christians', whenever they did something bad, they are labelled 'Europeans' or, say, 'Portuguese'. You'll never see Jabzy use the words 'Christian slave trade' or 'Christian colonialism'. On the other hand, extensive use of 'Islamic slave trade' is made throughout his narrative, usually as a defence right after he has talked about 'European slave trade'. These semantics are misleading. Several quotes are given from native African rulers arguing to continue the slave trade, but never from European ones, giving the impression that it was Europeans who only want to abolish it and Africans only wanted to keep it. This selective presentation of facts is misleading. This video in particular also really pushes the narrative of the British colonisers as do-gooders (despite the occasional - commendable - criticism) in abolishing the slave trade over against the Boers in South Africa and Oba Akitoya's brother in Lagos, of course all for purely ethical reasons and with no motives of power and greed. At 2:48 it commits the No True Scotsman fallacy by arguing the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt 'were the first TRUE colonisers of Africa', ignoring how, say, the Dutch and later British Cape Colony had already existed for centuries (1652) before Muhammad Ali Pasha came along and conquered Sudan in the 1820s. Apparently the Cape Colonists were Not True Colonists according to the Encyclopaedia Jabzyca? This way of framing matters is misleading.

Please tell us more. If this your book recommend it for me

Wow! I had no idea.

40% into the Scramble for Africa series and the scramble hasn't even technically begun yet, heh. This is a good amount of prelude though! I was a bit disappointed when this option won the poll because I thought the topic has been well covered already, but this extra prelude stuff is seldom covered so I'm happy.

Henry Morton Stanley seemed more annoyed to learn the scope of what he was meant to be doing after he’d already started than horrified. I assume states like the Rozwi Empire or the states in the Great Lakes will be mentioned as Europeans interact with and occupy them?

Is this series gonna last till '22?

i apreicate that my mid video ad was for the book of boba

What do you mean with the end of slavery? Slavery never ended in Africa. Apparently there are more slaves in Africa today, than there were during the time of thee New World Slave Trade.

Your channel infuriates me! almost NONE of this in American history books. Suprised no, but still shameful. Thank you for your content. I hope it helps the people in my life wake up.

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People went there and told the people they were coming to help and just listen to them....now you can see you have to be careful who you follow.....We all do......And the only way back up to where we used to be is with the Ten Commandments....THANK YOUUUU ALL FOR YOUR IMMENSE COURAGE....TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTSSS AND PRAYERS FOREVER 🙏 💞 ♥️

Germans also had colonies in east Africa like Tanzania 🇹🇿

No mention to Portuguese empire in Africa? They were the very first!

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Heavy

Technically, I think the Assyrians might have been the first non-African empire to conquer African land when they conquered Egypt. Followed closely by the Persian Empire.

So basically the colonisation was started by Muhammad Ali leader of an Albanian regiment and still a European...🤷🤪

I need some explanation of the Barbary wars, the coalition is just so odd, also why did France, UK and Ottomans let them around for so long, where they really that strong?

Slavery was always practiced in Africa, way before the Arab slave traders came the Romans, the Greeks and way later and the Americans and still is widely practiced in Africa currently in many African countries.

On the map you showed a part of modern day somalia conquerered by the Egyptian Mohammad ali yet you didn't mention any somali city in his conquests or is the map incorrect?

Help me understand why Africa after slavery? 90% of the slave population came from Europe and many were shipped into Africa as der Coloni (Sklaven). Therefore why are so many people focused on Africa during this timeline?

This is not how it happened. I’m not going to say anything crazy but please get in touch with me when you can...Accuracy is important. Accuracy includes correct imagery and information. All love my brother hope to hear from you soon

Whoa

I see that being anti-slavery back then was new racism.

I'm curious about how Leopold tamed the Congo. I know his diplomatic justifications, but as for the on the ground stuff I know less about. Likewise, I wonder if there were wars with tribes/revolts and so on in the Congo free state. I hope that when you get to that point, you go into great detail. Because it's pretty obscure history.

Didn't expect to see this on Halloween!

ChatGPT says this: "Muhammad Ali Pasha did not invite the Mamluks back into Egypt in the 19th century. The Mamluk Sultanate had been dissolved in the early 16th century, and the Mamluks as a ruling class had been eliminated by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. Muhammad Ali Pasha was appointed as the governor of Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and he later declared himself Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. He implemented many modernization and reform policies, but did not revive the Mamluk Sultanate or invite any Mamluks to Egypt. He did however, use Mamluk-style military units in his army, and trained some soldiers in the Mamluk style of fighting. It is known that Muhammad Ali Pasha was ruthless in his efforts to centralize power and control in Egypt and Sudan, and his actions led to the deaths of many Egyptians, Sudanese, and other people under his control." I guess it still needs work...

How these ignorant people continue to blame Britain solely for slavery is beyond me. Britain gave the natives citizenship for crying out loud and liberated thousands of slaves.

Too much emphasis on how African rulers used slaves, when the british took out millions to America centuries before... Hypocrisy is a funny thing is not it = ?

Okan SAHIN red (rainbow) is the background music

He really was the greatest