It’s so hilarious to see people literally be ANGRY that “subsaharan” Africans had lives, civilization, travel, trade routes, and political intrigue before Europeans arrived.

I made 2 videos about Africa and that video gets A LOT of racist comments from people who think that Africa had nothing going on in this period, except people living in tents or caves. It's very nice to see a video which covers topics like this; one of the least taught periods of one of the least taught continents.

I'm from Kenya in East Africa. I really enjoy watching these African history documentaries every evening after work.

Love to all my African brothers from Tunisia 🌹🇹🇳

Good work. I've notice there is a trend of channels interested in African history or aspects of it, and so far it's a positive change to the usual imagery of poverty, starvation, and corruption that we are constantly fed about in regards to Africa.

History is not simply what is told in class, but the culmination of millions of day to day choices made by billions of people throughout their lives. This video just goes to show that it is so much more complex then students are lead to believe

Disney: "Endgame is the most ambitious crossover event in history" Africa: "hold my beer"

I appreciate your work on this series, I'm going to watch them all! I never imagined I'd ever see unbiased content on African history on UKposts, nor did I think it'd be suggested to me by the algorithm ... awesome

Well done! It's rare to see African history talked about in an objective factual way!

Nice video, though I think Benin Empire deserved a mention, if only for the fact that its capital, Benin was one of the largest cities of its time (worldwide) and a wonder of city planning, divided into self sufficient districts, with sewerage and street lights. The plan itself was based upon mathematical principles in a fractal-like divisions.

Love your new style of videos you have been making in the past year (being the longer format), it really allows you to go into detail in the nuanced, unbiased way that you tend to explain history. Still seem short but history is so dense that there is always things that are gonna be left behind.

One of the most informative videos I have ever seen on the subject. I have learned many details I was unaware of. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for bringing light to the fact that there was history and cultural exchange before the scramble

Corrections - The Omani Ruling Family was the Yaruba Dynasty, not the Yoruba. Sometimes I say 17th Century but the timeline says 1700s. This is Part 1 of 5 on the Scramble for Africa (obviously this is just setting the scene). Thanks to the Patreons for voting and, if you'd like, I could always do with a little support in making these longer series and survival guides - www.patreon.com/jabzy

Thank you so much for covering this topic in as much detail as you did. Please keep up with such great content 😍

No mention of the Asante Empire? Asante was the most powerful empire in West Africa during the 19th century. It was the only West African kingdom to defeat a major European power on more than one occasion. Asante fought the British for a century. You even had a depiction of an Asante soldier during your section on Oyo.

I love finding new channels like this. Thank you so much for taking the time to not only research but compile everything.

You're doing incredible work highlighting history that's often overlooked!

Great work. Thank you for the high level overview of the side of African history that doesn’t get much coverage.

The biggest challenge about presenting Africa to the world is overcoming the entrenched myth that Africans are a people. A simple monolithic block of people called Africans. Ha ha ha. No. We are the African peopleS. Emphasis on the S. Plural. The continent has more human diversity than the rest of the world combined. In terms of language culture skin colors etc etc. I am from Ghana and apart from skin tone I have nothing in common with say a Somali or Botswana or Ethiopian. The only famous person I have seen address this nuance and present the specific context of certain issues is the late Fidel Castro. Even though I don't like communism I give Mr Castro credit for correctly presenting the correct context and nuance of specific issues on the continent and not using the broad brush "Africans" approach that still pertains to this day. .

I love videos like this that go in depth on the subjects generally neglected by history

Every sixty seconds in Africa a minute passes.

Thank you for these videos. I love learning about history, especially the many people and civilizations that weren't discussed during my "classical education".

This is just so interesting! Thanks for providing such a balanced overview. I really appreciate how you added enough detail while still keeping it brief. And also how you avoided a lot of modern political traps and just focused on the facts. It was just very thoroughly interesting.

I feel like unfortunately an online discourse we never really give much credit or respect to actual African History either treat it as something unimportant or as one big tragedy with nothing good to it due to European interaction. I appreciate this video making a legitimate attempt to show what happened in a period and region which doesn't get the coverage it deserves

Excited to hear what you've compiled!

THIS is the sort of video you want Boosted for Black History Month.

Brilliant. I’m ashamed to say that most of my knowledge about early African kingdoms comes from playing EU4 😂 I also had no idea Tangier was in English hands for a time. Great video - subscribed.

This is really amazing and we need more people doing in depth documentaries like this. Thank you Jabzy. This is also possibly the topic I most want to learn more about. Great job!

Ty so much Jabzy for covering this subject. It is such an overlooked part of history, but should never be forgotten. Amazing video as always :)

The animation and sound are perfectly pitched. This is one steady stream of facts that ranged throughout the continent.

Sorting by newest, wish me luck.

I would love to see more African history or discussion about conflict in Africa today

Small correction : at 6:19 the rulers of Oman are named the "Yoruba dynasty" They were the Y'arubid Dynasty or the Yaruba. The Yoruba are a significant ethnic group in Nigeria.

High quality content! Great job 🔥

I really, really enjoy history in a very broad sense (broad meaning I am interested in a lot of different time periods in a lot of different places) and seeing videos on seemingly barely touched subjects like this is absolutely wonderful. I’m a pretty busy person so I love listening to documentary videos like this while I do other work or run errands, and so I don’t get to read as much as I’d like to so videos like this absolutely make my day when I find them. Really quenches my thirst for knowledge that’s seemingly very difficult to find and in a way I can easily manage while going about my busy schedule. Thank you!

Great content! A small error though… “17th century” should refer to the 1600s.

Great video Jabzy. Pre-colonial africa and the many kingdoms there are rarely covered, especially on youtube. Thanks for providing such a valuable video.

this by far the best history so far of Africa! so transparent and straight forward! looking forward to a part 2

Been looking for a documentary like this for so many years. Thankyou so much.

The Rwanda kingdom didnt start in the late 1600s as mentioned but rather in 11th to 12th centuries, what happened in the 1600s was a rebirth of the defeated kingdom by Ruganzu Ndori after a generation of non existence.

Another nice series Jabzy! btw I saw you in r/mongolia last week asking for help for a Basic Politics video. How is that? Any news about it?

Beautiful video man, i love the music and the way you speak so calming:)

This video was very interesting to watch; are the sources you used somewhere I could access? I'd love to delve deeper into these places.

amazing video, opened my eyes on so many things I never knew about.

Attaching the Malagasy to the Maori isn't really that accurate - they're distant and divergent branches. It'd be more appropriate to compare Malays or Indonesian groups, at least linguistically.

This was a treat. Great details. Thanks.

We appreciate your research and insight ✊🏽

YOO HYPE I've been trying to learn about this stuff for a while but I can never get myself to sit down and skim through a textbook - thanks for helping me and a lot of others out!

This was so fascinating thank you very much for this video

Thank you so much for this information. Great Video!!!

This information is very important to know, great work!

Excellent concise history. Really makes me want to do a deep dive into some of these African kingdoms and nation states.

6:15 The Sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now. That's just where he lives.

Packed with information and revealing truths, thank you so much for adding some more ideas and information in my existing repository 😇

Finally I find one of these videos, very underapreciated overall, this is gonna be a interesting video

An amazing video! We need more content like this, even if it's condensed, because African history is still sadly underrated and overlooked.

I've been looking for something like this for years, it's hard to get an idea of Africa brofore the scramble, between the vast distances, jostle environment, lack of records from the various tribal peoples, and a gerneral disinterest by historians of the time made it hard to find info by an amateur like myself. I really can't wait for the next installment

This video is amazing. Its so condense and concise

Thanks for covering this topic I noticed before recently I had hard time finding videos on Africa before slavery

Amazing video, I can’t wait for the whole series. Wonder if the Roman, Chinese or Tamil traders from Somalia to modern Mozambique will get a mention.

Such an under represented period in history. I never really learned what happened during this period until after I graduated university.

Finally. I have been waiting for this for a long time.

You deliver excellent content to your audience. All of your effort put into creating this video is much appreciated. I'm truly grateful for your help!

Awesome video. Can you list your sources? I would be really interested to read them too.

Fascinating content!

Always look forward to your content

This is very good. I'm very much looking forward to the rest of this series. Your quiet voice and peaceful music in the background makes it very easy to take in.

Jazzy, Sandrhoman and Pike and Shot Channel are the best early modern UKposts history documentarians. Some good up and comers I recommend include “From Nothing”

Proud to be Bantu, Shona . My totem and word of mouth family history checks out with your research. Love your channel.❤🇿🇼

Thanks for such a great 👍 video of African history 👏

Indeed good work. Like it very much. Thanks 👌👍🏻👌🏿

Truly impressive summary/introduction to an enormous and complicated topic! BTW speaking of weird attempts of colonisation in Madagascar, there was certain Hungarian-Slovak-kinda-Polish nobleman Maurice Benyovszky (also spelt Beňovský or Beniowski), who after fighting in the Polish Bar Confederation against Russia, then being imprisoned all the way in Kamchatka and escaping, ended up having adventures in Madagascar, even trying to become a ruler of a part of the island. His story would be quite the material for a video of its own, especially as apparently a considerable amount of exaggerations and fiction got entangled with the facts in it.

I have no idea why history of africa is so overlooked. It's a crossroads between indigenous Africa, Europe and Asia and has so many interesting stories. Instead we get weird propaganda like Woman King or we have afrocentrists appropriating ancient Egypt. C'mon the actual history is so much more interesting.

Good Video! Very informative.

Great work the effort really shows

I'm simple man. I see Jabzy and I press like button

Ok, this makes sense... The Yarubid dynasty (Arabic: أسرة آل يعرب) (also the Yaruba or Ya'arubi) were rulers of Oman between 1624 and 1742, holding the title of Imam. They expelled the Portuguese from coastal strongholds in Muscat and united the country. They improved agriculture, expanded trade and built up Oman into a major maritime power. Their forces expelled the Portuguese from East Africa north of Mozambique and established long-lasting settlements on Zanzibar, Mombasa and other parts of the coast. The dynasty lost power during a succession struggle that started in 1712 and fell after a prolonged period of civil war.

Amazing video, great work

great stuff keep up the great work!

Awesome video! A lot of historical works, however, maintain that European trading initiatives in Guinea and West central Africa were not examples of colonization, not for lack of effort on part of Europe (The Papal Bulls outlining the ethos), but due to the fact that African armies and tropical diseases prevented any effective colonization until the late 19th century. Thus, European factories, forts, and lodges were often merely just that, trade centers, not colonies (practically no women were brought there for example). These were Trade centers that paid rents to powerful states. Colonial society arguably did not extend outside of the walls of the relatively small fortresses on the coasts . African power in the Atlantic age was real. This is not to say that the factories and forts were not powerful and did not impose this power, but African power matched it and each side sought to engage in commerce, which gave way to traditions of negotiation. And just a side note, had the merchant elite of Asante chose war instead of indirect colonial rule during the 19th century, the British would have been compelled to face off against hundreds of thousands of riflemen. Although there was conflict between the British and Asante, internal divisions prevented Asante from fully exerting itself against the Europeans. Many Gold Coast elites actually preferred what we call colonialism in efforts to modernize and industrialize, but of course the British were more interested in exploitation. But negotiation still occurred, which is likely why Ghana is where it is today! After roughly half a century of colonialism, Ghanaian elites were ready to challenge the British for independence, which they gained in 1957, being the first Black African nation to do so. Technically the region was never conquered per se, even in the Ages of Mali and Songhai, Sudanic cavalries could not overcome the forest societies of the Gold Coast, so negotiation gave way to a flourishing Gold trade. Not tryna hate lol ! I really enjoyed watching this, we need more stuff like this, and the imagery is really cool!

I've literally never been taught any of this in school . Thank you, Jabzy

keep up the good work

You're open what you doing you have great information

15:58 to 16:09 you repeat yourself on the line: And this in turn opened up their path to taking coastal libya algeria and tunisia. Other than that, really great video can't wait for the other parts.

Great production overall, definitely clean, BUT….a little too disjointed for me to get as much out of this as I could have. Might I suggest following the timeline chronologically, rather than, well, randomly?

Thank u for this! Instant Sub!!

What a very interesting video something I never thought I see which happened to be in my recommended section

Hey jabzy, I want to congratule you for your first (I believe?) video getting to reach 500k views. What a change in the thumbnail and art did. Wonders 😂. Nothing other than deserved success. Your content is amazing, looks like it was a matter of presentation for it to get big with history fans. Always cheered for and recommended your channel. I wish you even more recognition!

Interestingly so accurate. Enjoyed every second of the video👍🏼

Finally a video about this!

Thanks for sharing, good to know real history that's not bias.

this is one of my favorite videos of yours, i saw it twice. i wish we could spread more knowledge about the history of Africa kingdoms. "We wuz kangs" meme is racist trash but black Americans praise wrong ancestors(Egypt) while there was many great important empires they can be proud of

Excellent excellent balanced video. Shows you that Africa has just as complex and interesting history as anywhere else. You filled in LOTS of lacunae here and provide small trampolines for further studies.

Yo man this really should be 4 videos. I can't sit still this long.

Wow this was amazing to watch

Not even 10 minutes in the video and the Portuguese are taking wins

Morocco is a rare example of a empire that later became a kingdom, whos people never gave up and kept believing in their Leader and kept fighting for their territories and against colonialism

Thank you so much bro🙏🏽

This is amazing make more of this I will one day write a book about my home land