Corrections - The Omani Ruling Family was the Yaruba Dynasty, not the Yoruba. Sometimes I say 17th Century but the timeline says 1700s. Forgot to put Burundi and Rwanda as Belgian after WW1.

I love how long your videos are. I'm a truck driver over the road and it's so nice not to have to change videos every 10-15 minutes!!

I gotta be honest my jaw dropped when I realized that this wasn't a podcast or something like it and realized its a documentary. Three and a half fucking hours of detailed African history, fully scripted, and well articulated. Just spectacular!

I love any video on the history of Africa but your videos are fantastic. They don’t paint Africans as weak, ignorant “others”, nor do they rewrite history as portray Africans as ancient superior humans. They portray Africans as being as important and equal to human history as every other group of people. There was so much going on throughout the planet pre-Euro/American dominance (let’s say 1600 to the present) and Africa is usually always left out of that conversation.

This is a masterpiece. Nothing on youtube compares to this. There is nothing more concise or thorough i can find about the recorded history of africa. Its 3hrs plus long yet sharp to the point. And it just enough to fill in anyones blacks and que further research. Truly the finest creation ive seen. Wow man👏

The most comprehensive history of the scramble for Africa ever released on video, and one that doesn't rely on basic narratives and tropes. Truly a historiographical triumph.

awesome work. This an important period in history, that no one else on youtube has managed to cover in anywhere close to this amount of depth. It was a great series and now its all in one place

Oh my god finally. There's so little information about African history before European colonization. I've been trying to find info on 18th century Africa and previously to no avail. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for such an informative video! I am ADOS living in Senegal and having a source explaining exactly who did what to whom helps me put into context what I already thought I knew from my own research and observations. Congratulations on a job well done!

loved this video very much. I'm a very proud Somali and was pleasantly surprised at how generally accurate your information was. Often Somali history is overlooked when discussing pan African history I'm glad this wasn't the case in this video. You very skilfully provided generally holistic and contextual history of the continent for those 400 hundred years. you even created links between different regions demonstrating you depth in knowledge. Keep up the good work

Your work on a vast and under-understood area is greatly appreciated. I've never seen such a work on any part of Africa outside of carthage or Eygpt

Truthfully, this documentary is a tier of its own. Unrivaled, very well done.

I cant imagine how long this must've taken you to make. Thank you so much. Crazy how detailed this is.

After watching that in the background while playing age of empires, i realized how much i didn't know about colonial african history even though i pride myself as someone who does, and how i literally learnt 4 years worth of university education in nearly 4 hours, excellent job Jabzy 💪

Never did i hear anyone speaking about Africa,than Africans themselves.Great man!

This is absolutely amazing! I’m studying South African history between the 1400s and 1900s and this video seems very informative and helpful. So thank you.

This guy can make a 4 hour video and only have one correction to make, absolutely insane this is good stuff.

The dedication you have to do a 3 and a half hour video is spectacular, your work is truly inspiring

Jabzy, thank you for your hard work and sharing this video. This needs to be taught in schools

Amazing video! Thank you so much for covering this sweep of African history. This is my second time watching and I'm still just as glued to it, discovering new things about nations I'd barely heard of before.

I'm absolutely amazed at how detailed this is. I'll need weeks to even begin to properly digest this information. Bravo, sir and thank you. This is humbling.

incredible work, thank you so much for over 3 hours of history!

I Greatly appreciate your non biased over view of African. African history has been ignored too long. It is heart breaking how Africa and other Indigenous tribes/nations have been colonized through the many, many centuries. It is only through understanding our interactions others that we can understand ourselves for the human story and histories are all a part of all of humanity. Thank you for filling in more pieces of the human history puzzle.

This is the BEST history documentary I've ever watched, Thank You!!! I have started recommending it to others.

Got to the 4 minutes mark and saw this is 3 plus hours long! What a gift! A sober telling of African history!

Legends know this is a reupload of older videos compiled into one big episode

I'm not quite finished with the video yet, but thank you for such a broad and in-depth video. I quite enjoy these longer videos for playing in the background while I drive, do chores, play Minecraft, etc. I'm not terribly familiar with African history, but videos like these are helping me learn. Thanks again! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

As a black man in the southern USA, this definitely gave me a lot to think about. This is an existential reality check.

3hrs of informative content and for free, thanks.

Thanks for all the time you put into this

This is the longest documentary I've ever watched. Nothing beats interest in something made interesting. Thank you! ❤

I’m so impressed with the depth of information in this video! Bravo!! 🎉

Amazing! The most knowledgeable and informative case study about Africa History I ever came across until now! I have learnt more watching this video than all what I have been told in school or by others. In 3 hours of video you created a masterpiece that should be an compulsory case study in Africa history education. I salute you for this amazing case study you put together! Well done!

What an amazing comprehensive video. Truly amazing that this can be free. Insane kudos

I gotta say, this is actually more informative snd more fun for me instead of alot of 'history' channels that just meme it up everywhere or are edgy alt-right types. ya take it seriously without being overly stuffy. I also enjoy that this is a longer format too, i dont have to change every few minutes. I can put it on and learn. I love all the details, so much i never even heard of but are quite fascinating!

The work and time put into this is absolutely incredible and the efforts show in the final product.

Excellent. The is the most informative overview of African history I have ever seen. High praise & respect for your work.

Incredible. Thank you for this series.

Fantastic research and presentation, such accuracy. I loved it. Much love from Ghana 🇬🇭. ❤

my man! this is the greatest content. Thank you!!

This is an incredible compilation of history that is routinely ignore. Your research was very well done!!!!!!!!!!👏

This is one of the best youtube history documentaries I have seen in a while, I watched the entire thing from beginning to end. Thankyou for putting this together!

This is truly one of my favorite videos on yt, love the calming ambient sound you used in the background.

Insane video, I just found it, but I will be watching it in part in the net few days. Thank you.

Bro I appreciate the time and effort, plus not to mention the amount of study that it took. Gave me more knowledge about the continent.

Just popped up on my feed.... phenomenal work! Watched, liked and subscribed!

Can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate how well made this doc is, thank you thank you thank you!!!!! Got my sub

What a work. Thank you so much for this. Obviously running through the entire huge continent in only (ha!) 3 1/2 hours meant skimming through things. But just wow. Thank you so much for this riveting documentary. It could be my all time favourite ... so far that is. Thanks again.

On my 7th listen. Thank you @Jabzy 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

I tip my hat to you. Bravo Jabzy. Bravo.

A quick correction about my people the ancient kingdom of Benin. Still in existence to this day. It was the Oba of Benin, not the oda of Benin as stated. Honestly, this is the most informative history of Africa I have seen on UKposts. Many thanks for your effort.

Inspiring and very good historical work, thankyou for doing this.

Firstly I want to thank you for this well detailed and clearly researched subtle history of Africa . I am also happy with you showing love to my people the AmaXhosa , we are often over looked in History in place of the Zulu who are overestimated honestly. We Xhosa wiped the floor with the Zulu during our medieval times but unlike them we weren't heavily focused on warfare like they were.

Awesome content man! Keep it up!

Cheers! Saves having to go back through all the separate videos.

Just had surgery and I'm struggling to get some sleep in the hospital...this video has helped me through the night...thank you...

I wish I had known about your channel while I was working on my history degree! I had a fantastic African history professor, but would have loved some additional material.

Amazing video! Refreshing to learn about something I know very little about.

Amazing work, thank you for this!

Respect to this guy. He made a 3 hr long vid having all the information about africa. Well done.

Thank you , Im from Oman 🇴🇲 our country is very diverse in people because of our history and we all live together happily 😊

i love these videos never stop jabzy

Thank you as a historian myself I think it’s so important to tell more of sub-Saharan African history… It is not my forte/time and area of expertise and while I know more than the average person my knowledge of this region an it’s history is pitiful for my standards (for myself).

Idk if this is connected to this documentary's topic, but in the the 1930s, Lithuania actually had a proposal to set up a colony in the Northern Tip of Madagascar to act as a sort of safe haven for a large proportion of the Lithuanian population in the event of a German, Soviet, or Polish invasion. Of course this proposal never went anywhere as Lithuania was too poor to buy the land from France ant to maintain the colony , and because the logistics of setting up such a colony was quite overwhelming. The Colony would've been called "Dausuva", named after Dausos, the spirit world in Lithuanian pagan mythology and it was estimated that up to a 1/3 to 2/3 of Lithuania's population could be evacuated to the colony in the event of an invasion of the Homeland.

Great Work - damn will make a great TV series with 20 seasons. What a Great Job i cant stop listening.

Three hours of African History, here we go!

well done Jabzy. first time seeing one of your videos. i think i'll subscribe now! thank you bro

What a great summary of these area and their developments, absolutely great, if I had a "super-like" you would get it for this video. On a side-note, now I understand where all the city states in the game Civilization come from and their histories. Just amazing!

amazing how well researched this was, thank you

Damn 3.5 hours, I respect the insane amount of effort, quality too

This is a very comprehensive and probably the most elaborate presentation of the history of the partition that I have listened to.

Excellent quality . Well researched. My God . Not even one mention of ancient aliens ... I honestly may weep . Seriously though this is the best thing I've seen in a while.

Amazing, great to have such a comprehensive video on a topic that's too often ignored

Amazing job on this video

I love this topic, which makes me love this channel

this is the first video of yours I have seen. great job , fascinating stuff .Liked and subbed

Wow this is very long! Thats super cool because I've not heard much about the Continent's history. Thank you.

absolute banger of a video

Outstanding work my friend, thank you very much for sharing

Great video and an important subject that has little coverage. Thanks from Brazil!

I love that you present a lot of information, but it's a lot all at once. Could you maybe think of breaking it up into smaller segments? Maybe by area in Africa, or maybe by era or something. I don't know a lot and would love to know more. Thank you tremendously for all of your hard work and research. You are a blessing to all of us.

@Jabzy "Thank You! I watched this in one sitting. I will eventually watch this again, as I need to go over this with pen and paper. Thank You So Much!"

I put this on Or background noise a couple of months ago and it was so good I turned it off and promised myself I would come back when I have time to listen carefully and fully enjoy. Today is that day my friend. Thank you

Fascinating presentation mate, well done! I was very surprised about your placement of the Mali empire, it has been several decades, but my family lived in Dakar when I was a child, and I seem to remember my father going on business trips to Mali, which was then due east from Senegal. Are the two simply a coicidental homonym, or did the range of their territory really vary that much?

Really amazing and detailed work. I kept wondering if you were going to miss some details, but you pretty much covered it all. You really have an impressive knownledge about african colonial history and nations :D

Amazing video, very informative

What All over the place coverage.. you've done years of research, but because the explanation cuts off dead cold for every example you cover I can't wait for the next one. Good job

i read somewhere that this is “the most comprehensive history of the scramble for africa ever released on video, and one that doesn’t rely on basic narratives and tropes. truly a historiographical triump”. wow i gotta watch it now

2:35 The Nguni that later became the Zulu were already in South Africa when the Dutch arrived in 1652. They were just not in the Western Cape which was populated by the Khoikhoi. The Boers encountered the Zulu when they left the cape and trekked into the region of KwaZulu Natal. 2:50 The Xhosa are Bantu and a sister tribe to the Zulu. They are mutually intelligible languages. The Xhosa were the Western most Nguni peoples and were the first Nguni to encounter the Europeans during the frontier wars when the cape colony began expanding into their territories in the Eastern Cape. All Nguni languages including Zulu, Swati and Ndebele have click consonants. 3:00 It is pronounced with a lateral click. What you said would be written as Nqosa in Xhosa 33:10 Are you saying the Zulu kingdom formed because of corn ? The Zulu kingdom was formed from a consolidation of smaller Nguni kingdoms by Shaka during the war dubbed umfecane, probably sparked by political disruptions initiated by the European powers that entered the region. They claim the period had millions of deaths which had the effect of emptying out land for the voortrekkers. 43:10 There was no 3 way power struggle. The Zulu (Nguni) were in land they had inhabited for thousands of years. 43:51 The british had the support of which San ? Their servants ? Khoikhoi and San people fled and joined the Xhosa nation during the khoi-Dutch wars of the Cape where they were being depopulated and driven off their land. So many of the Eastern most Xhosas were khoikhoi under the chiefdom of amaGqunukhwebe. 45:55 The drawing shown here is not of a Shona, it is of a Southern Ndebele, they also have nothing to do with Zimbabwe. 46:10 Piet Retiefs party was killed because they wanted the Zulu king Dingane to give them all the land South of the Tugela river as far as it goes, which was effectively more than half of the Zulu kingdom. This in exchange for the voortrekkers returning cattle they were suspected of stealing to begin with. The subsequent massacres that followed were to chase out all voortrekkers from the region. Note that this is also three years after the Xhosa king Hintsa was murdered by europeans and news would have spread. 46:25 It was not their new land it was Zulu land 47:26 Your timeline is a bit all over Umfecane was before the battle of blood river 2:17:55 The Northern Ndebele were in Zimbabwe because they were driven out of South Africa by the Boers. They left KwaZulu because they did not want to be under the Zulu kingdom

Thanks for posting this. I've filled in a lot of background by auditing this. Liked and shared.

Impressive, some inaccuracies but the the breath and depth of the work is formidable. Well done.

Janz is my 8th or 9th g grandfather and I am just totally geeked other people know he was a pirate! The Morrocan Sultan gave him a daughter to marry, which is his son Anthony Van Salee, whom migrated to freshly colonized New England and married a Gulick, which is my direct line to him, my grandmother was a Gulick from NY. Pretty interesting, crazy other people know about him! He’s not very famous

This documentary is very informative and gives an opportunity to understand why Africa is in its condition. Very complete.

I just subscribed. Amazing contents!

i ❤ when your vids come up in my feed. Such excellent content 👌

I love the information in this video. So many important things of the world's history that need more prominence. A video critic would be you need to organise your information. Chronologically, or chapters defining topics or a narrative. You just throw information out and it's a continuous stream of dense information with no variation of pace at ALL. I love the vid but this is something that's required to make this video great.

Great video.

Love how long your videos are!

I love the breadth and depth of information!

Very interesting and informative. Thank you for posting.