Did you just imply africa has no animals with fat? You know one of the oldest trace of animal husbandry comes from africa right? Here's a quick example: "Having killed a fat ox, the men are busily engaged in boiling down the fat. Care should be taken to sprinkle a few drops of water in the pot when the fat is supposed to be sufficiently boiled; should it hiss, as though poured upon melted lead, it is ready; but if it be silent, the fat is not sufficiently boiled, and it will not keep"

I'm glad you posted this comment when you did, hate it when peoples personal prejudices get in the way of understanding history.

@@ayasugihada What did he reinvent?

@@moiseman no. I said "sufficient and cheap fat". pigs will eat anything, even feces. pigs were an incredibly cheap source of fat. oxes take 3-4 years to mature while a pig only needs 5-6 month, an ox needs more food to survive, etc. It's not that they had no fat, it's that they didn't have it as cheaply and on large enough scale like in Eurasia.

@@ayasugihada Africa did develop quite rapidly after slavery was banned, but those few decades weren't enough to catch up with Europe. I even state this in the video.

lol

nice way to put it

Africa can be the richest continent but they need money rn to extract oil and diamonds, etc

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ As an African I agree with you. They are just forcing white-guilt.

African leaders are continuing in the image of their colonial masters. Oligarchs all over the continent. Moreover, multi national companies are stripping resources at the cost of the locals. It's really sad.

Holy shit this made my day

It’s all our collective fault

Ah yes. All of us that were raised in the 60's snd 70's heard that same guilt trip. "You need to finish all of your food. Remember, there are starving children... etc. etc." Being grateful for my culinary good fortune was never a problem. Until that fateful day that dinner was Liver w/onions and Brussels Sprouts. About an hour in, I had only managed to choke down a couple of bites of this horrible meal. With tears in my eyes from the revulsion I felt for the food. I asked my Mother if I could be excused from the dinner table. Her reply was the predictable "starving children in Africa" coercion. Without caution or forethough, "Well send it to them" came angrily out of my mouth! Boy! Was I in trouble for a few days! But, that particular motivational statement was never used again.

@@toddroper6599 it leaked into the 90s babies too

pahaha I contributed to LOL. Nobodys fallen for that guilt trip

@@solushyperborea ur pfp is cringe asf ong💀 go j3rk off over hent4i porn or smth

No Africa can only succeed by removing corrupt leaders.

​@@solushyperboreaRascist a hole

😐🤔🤨🧐🙄😔🥺🥲😢😭

Also a formal education for all children’s to build industrial and entrepreneurial skills

You’re African… like you’d come at them for generalizations. Smooth pass you gave there 😂

I'm from Nigeria too, he did well in goin in depth, you are into history stuff too

​@@ThelearnerXlove from🇮🇳 India 😊😊

I'm also a Nigerian

A subtle, but important difference. No form of government does well under corruption.

Ask French. French take most resources, budget from Africa.

That's an easy cop out though? Just look at the places through time that have been invaded that aren't in Africa that are still destabilised. You don't come and divide and conquer ethnic groups and then expect it to be all great when you finally withdraw. People love to group Africans as one group when in one country you can find numerous ethnic groups with their own problems etc

He is telling the truth after ww2 the French backed out of Africa but took majority of its wealth

I'm on holiday currently in africa it's not like Europe the roads are dirt and its way underdeveloped

I happen to be email friends with Elvis’ ghost

happen to be email friends with the Prince of Zamunda?

Just to clarify for people who don't know this already,, Nigeria prince mail is a scam case as the 419 fraud. There is no official Nigerian prince! Nigera has a president.

@@richarddu3797 don't be stupid, Nigeria has ethnic royalties, so Yes there are kings and princes recognized in Nigeria by the people and govt

@@eghosa2705 that's not the point I was trying to make, notice what I said was " no official prince". However, you are right, Nigeria is divided into hundreds of small ethic groups, there are definitely many local prince, which I don't consider as official prince. This is also what led to their failures- too many ethic groups and religious beliefs, which is hard to organize and unstable, the country went through nine constitutions in 24 years. Even their laws are different across the country.

Can education help to break the cycle?

greed is what got people out of poverty in the first place. if everyone were complacent, we'd still be hunting animals with spears

@@DevinDTVHope for a better life isn’t greed. Want isn’t even greed. Want at the expense of all else is greed. An addiction to earning money instead at the expense of deeper things beyond it, like community, is greed. Community oriented progress is what has solved most of our issues, not greed. Greedy people have been tricked by cooperative people into cooperating with the system for everyone’s benefit, but the system should always seek to use the greed for everyone’s advantage, not glorify the greedy and allow them proportional power to their wealth. Take a look at Africa’s government full of greedy and corrupt politicians. Does that seem like a good society? Yet American business people have been pushing the “greed is goo” lie for so long so many people believe it that it’s about to swallow our society in selfishness like any other backwards country. Get a grip on reality.

Thank you Leon Trotsky!

Lmao dumbest shit I’ve read all day😊

All of this imported from the colonists.

Weve been out to Malawi several times and found all you said to be true. We worked with a charity set up by an Englush man, run by a Nigerian Christian and his wife. Twice his deputy managers stole money from the charity (they were native men ) while there on ine occasion "cashgate" was exposed where leaders in Malawi were stealing aid sent over to help their citizens. The Ukgovernment stopped aid for a while. Crossing ovet to Zambia the guards held our psssports and tried to bribe us. Lots of corruption everywhere.

@@pinky90375 You're the epitome of point 6.

This is all false and misinformed. Look past your prejudices and try again

@@pinky90375see point 6

well said it only keeps us divided and fighting each other

Then let us have our own countries then since we aren't even the same tribe or speak the same language

As a African Living in America this also brings me to tears because the real reason is the Portuguese came in with their religion which is Christianity and tricks our people. 1490 was the year Africa took a turn for the Worse!!! Africa is the only continent that can survive without any other continent/Country but there's no other continent or country that can survive without Africa NOT ONE!!!

Africa is the richest continent in the world can't no other continent survive without Africa but Africa can survive without anyone!!!!! The Europeans just need to take their hands off of Africa and let them be!!!! They were thriving way before the first European ever settled on Africa's Shores every since then Africa has never been the same

@@endawvvknightz6526 You'ld end up with thousands of minuscule countries, it's simply not viable.

Probably one of the high one's. 240- something or other

King Leopold 2: Whoops

Next gen seriously?

Well remember the first examination of ferengi compared them to " yankee traders" so there is that

No. "You can't collect money from a dead debtor" or was that the Chicago Mafia's 1st rule???? I forget,,,,.

Not really Our lot on the Planet is to show forth the Glory of The living God . and Not get so distracted by the Creation that we forget the Creator! As all others do. Night comes before day. Suffering before Glorification. Our suffering is connected to our colour which is a sign that we are marked for Pre-eminence among men. Everyone on the planet know and trust our spiritual Authority instinctively. There is a superiority about black people that make us the envy of the nations....So just gird your loins and know that we are simply waiting for the harvest when the wheat is reaped and the tears burn.

They won’t be returning. Ever. Imagine thinking they will return to completely underwhelming societies, where they actually have to work extremely hard to build a collective consciousness to end corruption. They are living lavishly in the first world, where all those issues where tackled in the past and people fought hard for their rights, where all the work is already done.

I believe It's worse in South Africa. Zulus consider any black who who isn't zulu inferior. They say Zulus, whites, and Indians are superior and any black person who isn't zulu is filthy and inferior.

Forget about tribalism

and East Africa 😢

I think this is what happens with China. Lots of lots Chinese people fleet from the country during the colonial time, and civil war. Lots of them refuse to come back, but they keep on sending money to China. To this time, trader who buys goods from china industries, are Chinese overseas. Chinese overseas built schools in China, and send their kids to study there (not to life there!) So they can back home, and become successful business man outside of China. The Chinese overseas seems like having this mentality of building China from the comfort of their now adopted country

That’s true. Africa is like an after thought for Africans. Sad

To an extent, don't take it too hard... some of us come from lines that have so many areas of the world we could claim as 'heritage' that where we are, is as contemporaneous, much the same.

​@soehokgie This is so true is the Chinese who built Malaysia 🇲🇾 they call Chinese Malaysia they are the most rich people in there they live nice apartments and drive 🚗 nice cars. However they are most economical growing country in the world. I just heard that they lend money to America 🇺🇸 government and rest of world. You see they are the one who are building and modernising Africa such us Nigeria 🇳🇬 Kenya 🇰🇪 and Uganda 🇺🇬 too

You can't change geography.

Pretty much

Summed up fantastically

So what happened for say the 80 thousand plus years before white man showed up? Why have black people progressed so little without being helped so much. Africa since the 1960s has received 60 times more.aid then Europe got in total to rebuild post ww2. I'm coloured btw

@@thehorsecockexpress1068 Because in the past most of their treasures that would drawer tourism and most of their natural resources have been taken by the west? Also as the commented explained the governments are corrupt nowadays

@@thehorsecockexpress1068 before the white man showed up they were literally the same as everyone else. Kingdoms and culture rose and fell like everyone else. When the white man showed up many kingdom also rose and fell. In most of history, Africa was practically on the same level as most continents. What changed was guns. Not muskets cause Africans were able to fight back most colonizers when musket warfare was primarily the go to (they definitely suffered more loses than the Europeans but not without consequences to the Europeans). After the machine gun became a thing. Yea that was basically a sweep. Plus, let’s not forget that Africa current position is a recent development. Now if you are wondering why you learn so little about African nations until their recent history, it’s because African history was never focused on the world scale. We don’t hear about their kings and their influence mainly because they adopt other Cultures to be more connected to the wider world (how most East Asian nation had Chinese influence. In Africa’s case Islam), but kept their roots close to their people. Oral history is the norm in most African world (not because written language isn’t a thing there it is, just that writing is just not common, like everywhere else, and when conflict with Europe spread many cultural and historical site were flat out destroyed, some by rival African countries looking to gain power only to realize that they didn’t have the respect of Europeans (there was a puppet African king that consistently asked an European nation (don’t remember which one) to stop raiding their people and the nation just ignored him, but he couldn’t fight lest his people get destroyed). After all that, colonies were set up to make sure the people were dependent on the Europeans, dependent on one source of economical goods, cultures destroyed, people starved, and forced to live with former neighboring kingdoms with different ideologies. Once those colonies are gone, well the counties struggled to find effective leaders to rule peoples of different ideologies, add that with greed, lack of education, and ill fitted aid... yea it explains why the continent as a whole is struggling. Hell, let me put something into perspective, I am a Yoruba Nigerian who was raised Christian. I was thought to see anything that is culturally relevant to being Yoruba as demonic and wrong. Thus, anything I could be proud that my people gave the world, I never learnt of. Kingdoms that Yoruba people should look up to as their Rome, I never learnt of because going to oral teachers is akin to visiting demon worshipers. So, it’s not that we don’t do anything or influence the world, it’s just recently that’s how it looks like. Countries in Africa can’t do what other nations did because they can’t honestly unite the same way other nations did. Imagine putting a Japanese, Russian, and an American into a room, after ww2 with just one fish and gold, leaving all of it to the American and saying that a new country treat everyone well. Even if they do manage to unite it will take some time and effort. Sorry for the essay. If you manage to read this far, I commend you.

Well spoken Watching from Cameroon

And ra(e, don't ignore that factor.

@@mrRunist If by "ra(e" you mean "race" Yeah, african tribes/nations were/are pretty racist against eachother.

​@@holiantoon8426 Don't know why my commment has been deleted, maybe because I said some forbidden word and this is also the exact reason that I altered the word that you mentioned. African tribes are tribal, of course, and that leads to favoritism, but no, you know well what I meant. Let me spell it out: The inte-l on average of Africans is significantly bel-ow that of other peoples.

@@mrRunist Intelligence and education level are different things. Better education systems would bring many great minds just like it does everywhere else.

I Would Love To Talk To His Friend and I Feel For Him May God Restore to Him All He Has Lost To 120% In Spirit and In Truth In Jesus Name

It's really sad. Africa is such an underdeveloped and chaotic place in so many different parts that we can hardly even imagine it. And the worst part is, there doesn't seem to be any solution to the problem.

WTF

south africa aint that bad tho

I'm afraid that as much as I can't dispute what may have happened to your friend, I must say the tone of your text implies a certain level of generalization and to some extent a simplification of the challenges we face in Africa. And on that you are appallingly wrong my friend...

If that is true then there is your reason why africa is still poor.

@@igormac9431 I mean, you're not wrong Even if your comment appeared to have a little malicious intent, I have to admit that majority of the population here in Nigeria don't know it's history. Just recently, history was removed as a core subject in our secondary schools Its sad, really because if we never learn why we made mistakes in the past, we can never grow as a people These days, those with a tertiary education make it their goal to leave the country in search of greener pastures. While I understand them, it doesn't change the fact that it's detrimental to us in the long run. It just puts the past into perspective; when the leaders just did what would be beneficial to them then, with no regard for the future.

@@Flint_the_uhhh sorry if it came off that way. I think that majority of the problems in the world are due to poor education, lack of information and usually both. I mean look at US.perfect example even tho they are rich, it causes different problems.

@@manlyman888 what are you talking about? The jews never had an empire. If you're talking about modern day israel , you need to read up on your history. The jews not only did they have a lot of money, they got help from half the world. They used that very smartly but there is a huge difference between the jewish and pretty much any other struggling people.

Evil never lets anyone know there the history of criminal success

Similar to the rest of the world. It seems like I’m other places when there’s perceived scarcity of resources the elite centralize the wealth.

West has corrupt government officials. But they are parasites that don’t kill the host, unlike those in Africa

Maybe it's a feature of democracy... Just a thought ay

What produced that?

Sounds almost like the USA. 😁

@@oneshothunter9877 That’s why I call Louisiana a 3rd world country.

While I agree with your statement about money being stolen in the hands of the few. I completely disagree with them being made into "heroes". Secondly the major problem in Africa is the fact that our leaders are quite literally selling the continent. China comes in, wants a mine worth over a billion. So- 1. Instead of the government using the thousand domestic PhD engineers and making it a domestic project, they bring foreign Chinese workers to do the work, while the younger generation is qualified but unemployed. 2. Then when China does decide to mine, they don't get the land for a fair price. A mine worth 2 billion, they can get for 20million. They just have to give an extra 20 million to the right people and its done. 3. China then takes the raw resources and refine them, then when they sell them, they are now worth over double. All while our pathetic 70+ year old corrupt President is wasting the bribe money on his worthless farm. Look it up, almost all African presidents have farms. They think we are still in the 20th century where farming was everything. We are truly doomed! The younger generation is waking up but I fear it's just too late. We are being trapped into debt.

That and they were still using spears when America was putting asses on the moon.

@@jasonquinn7660 True, but the amount of money they bring in is still high from natural resources combined with near slave labor and child labor. Could they make a lot more money if they had developed beyond animals? Yes, but still have tons of money that is stolen by very few with zero going back to their people.

Bro had a thesaurus when he was typing this comment

Sadly, one of the most underutilized resources in Africa is the intelligence of African women.

I'm going to be honest here, the single most important thing here that needs to happen is stable government. Governmental stability is probably the number 1 factor in a successful economy as that investment doesn't just get stolen by an elite. This ties into social cohesion where you trust your own neighbor to not steal your stuff. The second most important is to have a liberal enough system to have free markets and robust trade so that the economy can adapt. Everything else comes second and will be a net benefit.

@@buddermonger2000 I agree with you 100%, but Africa is not good ground to sow that seed. The prevailing systems of tribal preference, greed, bribes, dash and connections make the continent a wildly speculative place for investments. A board of directors would be hard pressed to explain to stockholders why they risked their money in such a market when there were other possibilities. The general attitude is still that trade is a form of theft.

@@Dutch_Uncle That's why I put governmental stability as number 1 as a stable government is indicative of enough social cohesion as to not do that. Since of course... trade is still seen as a form of theft it currently lacks enough to not trust your neighbor to not steal your stuff. In lacking that it can't even get to the second most important one.

@@buddermonger2000 but to achieve government stability, we need to educate our people on the desirable qualities to look out for in a capable leader. The ethnic divisions and elections rife with vote buying tell us that we need to enlighten the electorate

Honestly that probably one of the reasons natives get wiped out so quickly since in most Primitive cultures they live in small tribes an

This is a really weird. When the romans ravaged northern Europe people don't conclude "whites were hurting whites". We acknowledge their ethnic variety. Africans weren't selling their own. They were selling people from different regions. They might have both been "black" but they weren't the same people.

@@sben125 Also, much of the sale of of slaves was out of self-preservation and the deals were highway robbery. The West militarily was more advanced and had already determined to take over as much of the world as possible through Christian/Catholic decrees or Papal Bulls that established things like the Doctrine of Discovery that was used to take over brown skin people's lands around the world, massacre, and make them Christian via "perpetual slavery." Kings like Badu Bonsu resisted selling others as slaves and was ultimately beaten back and beheaded for "sedition" against one of the European Crowns. The fact that Africa stayed poor despite selling so many slaves is a key indicator that the nature of these deals were highway robbery with the threat of death. Focusing on African in such a negative sense also ignores that Africa wasn't the only place devastated by Europe's genocidal Empire. The Americas all North, Middle and South , Australia, and all the Asia Pacific and Polynesian/Melanesian Isles, Caribbean Isles, etc. suffered much the same fate and are in much the same condition today. Separating these issues as if they're not all the same, having the same root cause, and the same current day perpetrators is a carefully crafted way to draw eyes away from the big picture. The Western European Empire, which includes The US, Australia, and other offshoot nations, was built on and still thrives on the destruction and subjugation of non-white nations.

@@bagman1984 they are not primitive. I regard African tribes as the keeper of thr lands they occupy thry don't abuse it

The slave-trade is still active (Revelation 18:13, KJV).

Well, I really get a laugh when YOU @$$hats blame whites "stealing African rescources", .. . considering that it is FROM those "stollen" resources that such things as THESE VERY COMPUTERS we're all using here were FASHIONED (metals, Plastics, glass), .. . lmao!

It's always funny how every nation on the planet wants to sh/t on the US, but then also wants to move there after a few years. You want the benefits of living here but without having to endure any of the problems inherent here.

@King Arthur You live life on easy mode stfu

@King Arthur that itself is rascist

@King Arthur You were born in a country where dying of hunger, lack of healthcare or violence is the least of your issues

@King Arthur just typed up whatever tf a lefty clone is, its gibberish. also i am not antisemetic. who cares if youre racist? BASICALLY EVERYBODY YOURE RACIST AGAINST. when u start putting words in people mouths based on their race, dont be suprised when they call u racist.

Is this factual?

I got you, in conclusion humans are evil

@@nastybastardatlive ok and Jesus was a fanatic cult leader who told people to blindly follow him into danger

Civ V!!!!!

What!!???. Somebody sold you a bridge in Brooklyn. You telling fairy tales as facts.

Yes prior the the Europeans/USA slavery times the whole world had slavery but that still a piss poor excuse for the Western countries which exploited slavery for centuries.

I take the video as a broad stroke approach since it's a whole continent getting distilled.

@@kailashpatirai Poor people have more children because it guarantees that one of the children will grow up and continue their legacy.

Many foreigners have experiences similar to yours. There's a Dutch-Ghanaian who has been living in Aburi for like 15 years, and his stories about his struggles with ECG will break your heart. The man loves Ghana and chooses to stay here for some inexplicable reason, but the shit he goes through and the money he has spent (since 2008) just to get power to his house for more than 2 weeks at a time would seem like fiction to anyone who lives in a 1st world country.

@@chichichichilling4822 tell us more details

@@KRYMauL more like 1 out of 9 children died before the age of 5 over there

Uhhh.. I don't know how I messed that up :D

Botswana: I’m I a joke to you?

Most of former Yugoslavia can into space!

The Balkans are the middle child of Europe, always forgotten unless they are taking the blame for something.

No one can stop the mighty space Empire of Bosnia- Herzegovina-Kosovo-Montenegro-North Macedonia-Serbia

As a Scot myself, I can confirm this is a big problem here in Scotland.

Brave heart is extremely inaccurate.... It's a movie

@@SerfsUp1848 it’s not about the accuracy of the movie. It’s about the statement being relative.

@@zeck8541 a quote from a action movie about Scots is relative to the real world history of Africa?

@@SerfsUp1848 with all due respect, if you can’t extrapolate the real world relevance from an artistic statement by creative art, then I can’t help you. Art imitates life.

Rofl

"Africa gains the reputation of being an unstable country" I'd agree that the Continent of Africa is sometimes even reduced to being just one undeveloped country

Oh damn, sounds like a mess. Sigh. I hope it improves

This is a propaganda video, if you want the truth copy and paste the following words in your UKposts search bar and press enter: why the west want sub-sahara africa to stay poor

Those who wail about this video blaming everything on whites have indeed clearly not been listening to the video.... It's hard to be nuanced or want to be more informed when you're buying into white supremacist talking points. Had to point that out.

@@vforvendetta6408 That is a propaganda video. Why would 700 million people want Africa to be poor? So they can pay taxes that gets sent there every year in foreign aid?? Or to see all the organizations begging them for money?? Or to hear the media say they must take in and pay for millions of migrants because they are so poor?? You are stupid, really really stupid if you belive that. Blame the politicians and bankers etc in all the countries that are involved but don't blame the whole nations of the west.

@@vforvendetta6408 That is BS. I was born in Sub-Saharan Africa. The reason Africa is poor is because of Africans, period. The tribalism is so deeply embedded it will never go away and African leaders have no problem selling out their own people if it means keeping themselves wealthy and in power while everyone else stays in poverty. Africa was poor before colonialism, during colonialism, and after colonialism.

If you’re a smart guy stay there and help!

I hope you achieve your dream, my friend! And improve your country! All the Best. 😊

Never change!!!!

Never lose hope my friend. With the internet, you can teach yourself nearly anything. Don't hesitate to ask around for information, someone is always willing to teach.

Rather bevome a politician to make change. No point bevoming a scientist n then u get no opportunity to do anything.

Well, I really get a laugh when YOU @$$hats blame whites "stealing African rescources", .. . considering that it is FROM those "stollen" resources that such things as THESE VERY COMPUTERS we're all using here were FASHIONED (metals, Plastics, glass), .. . lmao!

I've worked with a few Nigerians, and you guys can keep them if you need them.

Wdym

i see alot of nigerians here in thr Philippines

@@dustindark4478 you probably have a low class job

@@420technique420 whats hilarious about people being poor ?

@@420technique420 lmao wow this is such a blanket ass statement that discounts the millions who have tried there absolute best and failed or moved. like wow, I get it, some ppl ARE lazy but this such a shitty generlaztion

@@420technique420 Somalia was the best country in Africa but even it couldn’t avoid a dictator, collapse and civil war

@@r.p5380 Somalia was never the best country. South Africa was the only nuclear power and even had a space program. But also, African dictators moved in and stole the country right out of the hands of its Founders. Turned it to shit over night.

What the Fack when was aligeria out of Africa, no one told me Fack.

Add Latin as well

Add Dutch as well

Y'all are real funny with this trolling ish...😂😂😂 keep em coming!

It’s important to everyone living and not yet born in this planet

@@malabo10 all right why not have it in sign language

Ireland became wealthy?

*er wealthier, its not wealthy by any means

It has a much better quality of living now compared to the past

@@tristan6509 its economy is now booming

@@michaeldilorenzo5863 ireland is quite wealthy country tbh

yes buddy, acceptiong present and past is oonly way to future !

word

South Africa should be a first world country

@@SkiiYacht BUT it's fast becoming just another 3rd world failed state.

@@harryeisermann2784 Used to be when a whole race was treated like animals in their own country. The sad thing is people as a whole refuse to live in peace among themselves, the ones in power are always trying to oppress the ones below them. It's no use for a country to be first world meanwhile there is a whole group of people who are treated like they are not people. Even the so called first world countries have tons of such inequalities. Why is there BLM movements if all is rosy in the so called first world countries.

Have you not watched the video? Foreign powers and slave trade and all that have something to do with it as well...

Chinese would set us back for years

@@Kobs.A ikr. And it seems the leaders have also given up on the continent

Yeh china may put us on hold they r used to trapping countries in huge debts and i think because nigerias govenment is a bit more corrupt than our nigeria may suffer

@@ohsnapohsnap7346 As for Nigeria, let's not go there. I just hope they come out of whatever is going on there. Corruption everywhere and the mentality of the leaders is "We only care about our families and no one else, let's grab whatever we can and leave. "

Socialism is the new colonialism. Don't worry, the rest of the world will be brought down to Africa's level.

God love european,he dont like african,i guess.only yourself can do it

yh exactly lmao

For real, I learned more useful things here about the origins of slavery than my entire academic career.

Who cares how they got the slaves? The point is, the slavery that existed in Africa was humane. They had slaves due to war or debt. The chattel slavery in the United States was abhorrent and evil.

@@PaperMario64 wdym who cares it's very important to understand the context of which this took place.

@@PaperMario64 yh because selling people is very humane that makes sense. Btw I hate America just as much but selling your own people for money is just disgusting.

Except Germany did not suffer a prolonged brain drain. The country today is one of the largest economies in the world with some of the best engineers, doctors, and scientists in the world. It's institutions survived and this is critical. A country with developed institutions that survive a conflict or crisis will continue to generate competitive output indefinitely.

You would think that in 2021, this would be obvious to African leaders, and so you would expect that they would be taking measures to promote people going into these fields. You know, subsidized education, scholarships, heavy recruitment, great pay after graduation................well in Ghana, nope. Still the same pathetic nepotism, corruption and mismanagement. Hurray for my motherland............

@@Squidward558 Also Germany was put back on its tracks to strengthen western Europe with the soviet union's influence growing in Eastern Europe. The Germans were enemies in ww2 and there was even talk of utterly destroying it as a country by keeping it agrarial, but reforming Germany was a far more beneficial choice to keep the west solid than let the soviets eat the rest of Europe.

Russia exist since 1991. from 1922 to 1991 Russia was a part of the Soviet Union.

@@chichichichilling4822 are you helping your motherland, or complaining about it while standing on the sidelines?

Africa will only get worse

And they will still call us racist for stating the obvious..

Jea I am looking forward to see the rich history of sub saharan africa. Lel

And most of it ignores what really happened.

Dont Take it at face value though. The Video is kinda biased against europeans and negelects the real reason why africa is behind. The Video says for example that africa Fell behind because of slavery.. but why didnt africa enslave Europe? When they were even? Fact is they werent even and subsaharan africa was already waaay behind economically and technologically speaking in Times of mansa musa.

Good point. The reason was that Europeans had better naval technology due to poor access to Asian Markets, so they created ships capable of traveling to Asia.

@@HistoryScope Thats closer to the truth :) the access to asia is the point. Europe always had transfer of knowledge from asia even way back in roman times. They were even ruling huge parts of europe thinking of the mongol invasion, the huns, the umayyads or the ottomans. Africa had none of that. Asia and Europe combined had a much higher population/competition and thus a much higher potential for advancement. In german sociology thats called "Narbeneffekt" which means that something big happened way back which determines the future. Everything else just derived from those (and other) geographical differences.

Really makes you think.

Governments of countries rich in natural resources have no incentive to educate the wide population, since education is not required for a working economy and an educated population would be a threat to those in power.

@@uzefulvideos3440 I wish you would have given me the real reason instead of an asinine excuse.

@@remedialvibes9957 Based

@@remedialvibes9957 it’s called Dutch disease, look it up before you call people out.

I am quite surprised why Americans think that Africa is a country. Tell them that there are more than 50 independent countries in the continent.

@@scooterbob4432 they know hun. Pretty sure it was just a mistake.

@@scooterbob4432 I’m surprised why Everyone thinks every american is like everyone else?

@@scooterbob4432 That's not the least bit accurate. You might also be very surprised to learn that US citizens are a diverse group, and don't all think alike. You should make less effort to show your ignorance, even though many must find it amusing. I know that I do!

@@scooterbob4432 53 I believe

Well said.

first part of your comment %100, and unfortunately, second part, %100, fuckin win double???

😂 😂 😂

This isn’t ACCURATE bro your right but this lacks perspective . The Christians got the Ok from the Pope to capture the people of North Africa as long as they were converted to Christianity , their are groups of Europeans that believed their were indigenous Europeans in Zimbabwe and settled in that area in belief that that is their homeland (their probably not wrong) but this was collectively everyone’s fault but don’t take this video serious it’ lacks the Christian outlook on religion perspective , the greed for controlling trades to Asia and the Arabian peninsula are huge factors , religious wars was definitely a factor too ... you can’t cover the reason Africa is poor in a 9 minute video ... you would need to read in chapters ... it was all evil none the less

This lacks so much of perspective and anthropological, and cultural relativism that is almost places slavery in an ambiguous nonsensical way.There is too much at heart to some up in 40 minutes. SLAVERY UNDER CHRISTIANITY AND EUROPE, was way different to in Arab and African country. Orientalist assess, will fool.the masses

africa isn't a nation

@vad4965 vad dear, thank you so much for your petty reply. If splitting hairs is your thing perhaps you could try politics or an admin job with the government. I'm sure your true vocation is out there somewhere. Keep trying sweetie.

@@melisand8295 are you seriously offended at me correcting you? would you rather stay dumb?

@@melisand8295 rhubarb lmao

I believe the word “europe” comes up alot

I believe the word "Africa" comes up alot

I believe the word "the" comes up alot

@@lukad7744 genius haha

@@migianthony how long y’all gonna hold on to that excuse? I believe the word “IQ” comes up a lot

Slavery has nothing to do with the poverty in Africa. Africa is poor because the food grows on the trees all year round. Technological Civilisation only emerges in places where planning ahead is required as part of the culture. The local people never had to think ahead for more than a day or a week.

This is a propaganda video, if you want the truth copy and paste the following words in your UKposts search bar and press enter: why the west want sub-sahara africa to stay poor

It's really difficult to be informed about places you've never been to... You have to rely on other people's experience...

This video is a lot of half truths. I worked in Africa. Watch Empire of Dust if you want reality.

@@9thebear This video didn't talk much about China giving loans to African nations. The African nations get into debt because the infrastructure projects help the chinese get the resources out but don't really help the citizens.

i think that is all of Africa

or maybe having the majority of the population only have basic education led to them not being able to take part in the economy, meaning they were stuck poor.

@@kmakumane258 we have free education and free university and free housing and stipends for students in South Africa with limited success . Low pass rate. Need to change their behaviour.

This is a propaganda video, if you want the truth copy and paste the following words in your UKposts search bar and press enter: why the west want sub-sahara africa to stay poor

@@deonkotzee6641 that only started recently and even then most who graduate struggle to find work. Those who want to start a business struggle with capital because the wealth of the country is skewed disproportionately in favor of the minority. There is rampant corruption in SA but if you watched the video, you'd know it's a result of how apartheid left the country. If apartheid treated natives fairly, then you wouldn't have poor people that are ultra loyal to the Anc.

Am a fellow African and l can assure u that ur statement here is accurate

@@MED48L i am African (togolese) so I can verify you as well

What does that mean .

@@haroldlamble5163 bruh

I hope your bruh moment eventually ends.

Probably does! But its about being optimistic and rooting for growth...

Nah

It was very good. But got the impression that too mach was put on external causes. External forces can only cause chaos in a country that is already dysfunctional. Africa has produced very few kingdoms in history that have been competitive in the world for its time. Even before the slave trade and colonialism. Temperature / climate is also one of the most important factors for a country's prosperity. There are almost no rich countries in warm climates and almost all countries in cold climates are rich.

@@niklasmolen4753 One other aspect rarely mentioned is the lack of horses in many parts of Africa because of a couple of diseases that are often lethal for them. Horses have played an important aspect in transport, trade and communication in most (if not all) the countries that developed what we might term advanced societies by the Middle Ages.

PS Except for central and south america of course, though some of them did have llamas etc as beasts of burden

@@avv397 Lamas are not nearly as good as horses. And it seems that the availability of suitable pets / livestock has been crucial to the development of advanced civilizations.

@@niklasmolen4753 No, not as good as horses, but at least they're better at carrying things than goats, plus you get the wool as well. I agree with you about pets and livestock, a very long story with a fair bit of guesswork (I think)

I'm from algeria

Totally agree

To fix South Africa, tax people with property worth over $500,000. Tax them 5% annually, use the money to fund schools, hospitals and entrepreneurship. You don't really want to get rid of the corruption, its the corruption that is making sure that the ill gotten wealth & power of the minority groups remains in their hands. So, do you REALLY want to get rid of corruption and also get rid of white hegemony / supremacy ?

ANC needs to be thrown out of power, rather than simply going on with a neo version of Apartheid but against the Boar peoples this time.

@@jzk2020 There we go... the reason why RSA will never prosper again...

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That's why digitisation of process is very important

@@hzuiel the sad thing is that it isn't jus an African issue we have those same problems in iraq aswell

Now imagine if all those things didn't just affect your work, but your entire life. Yeah welcome to Ghana.

The life expectancy of equipment is less in Africa than it is in the US or Europe. If the grease or lubricating oil specified in the service manuals is not available, either nothing will be done or an unsuitable local substitute will be used. This increases the wear on the equipment and prompts breakdowns. China provided some diesel locomotives for Nigeria Railways, and the reason for the problems was identified by the Chinese as improper fluids used in the shops. The Nigerians insisted that the equipment was bad.

@@hasoonnine pretty much any crap country

because they are dumb

@@Vegas.-This is partially true. But it’s also dumb to boil it down to this.

@@michaelharvest931 Dumb is so easy to deflect .. Direct question,, why so far behind white ,western culture and creativity.. Ref. Aust Aboriginals, 60,000 years ..

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@chloeew4627Hey, I voted no. Aboriginals also didn’t have native crops that could be cultivated, without other races coming in any significant way until the 1700’s they stagnated. Europe had thousands of years of hardship/warfare/trade/exploration. Also meaning they had access to greater nutrition. Aboriginals didn’t have decent amounts of carbohydrates, or large bodies of clean drinking water. As I said it’s not simply, they are dumb, there are reasons as to why. I’m not some SJW/virtue signalling activist. I just try to find out why things are the way they are. Truth matters, I can’t stand it when people refer to aboriginals as First Nations people. They were not a single nation, let alone many. They were a Stone Age peoples. There is nothing wrong with that at all. But let’s not lie either

yup. My wet dream is to start a whole revolution. Not to far off from the French revolution. Where we are just tired and snap.

Howd that work he dead

I second his words. Corruption and stupidity is whats killing Africa. And there is a very very long line of people behind me who would want to kill these dictators.

@@triplemoyagames4195 don't forget revolutions tend to destabilize the country even more. look at the libyan revolution for example. i'm sure they will achieve democracy and widespread reforms in the future, but right now their revolution and civil war came with a very high cost, with most of its people now criticising the revolution leaders.

@@andenfighter0078 because the leaders too are corrupt. I didn't say violence is the best option. It is the only viable one that will gain progress. Politics proves futile, with young ones just being paid, or gotten rid of I don't want violence, I just do not see another way.

I was actually wondering about that point, as if he meant at the time then yes you could argue that Africa profited from the triangle trade. But the long term demographic effects of exporting human beings destroyed west African society overtime. So it was a bad deal for Africa (although that is with the benefit of hindsight) Edit: Oops, I watched a few more minutes and the video said what I just said. Excellent work History Scope, I think a common mistake with this comment is talking about the profitability at the time, without the long term effects. I find this topic really depressing, but it's important to learn.

It's like livestock trading

@@thesudaneseprince9675 Also, West African states became completely dependant on the slave trade. So when the British banned slavery and began raiding slave ships, the West African economy crashed hard and it hasn't ever really recovered.

@@yoloswaggins7121 guess west Africa is a country and Nigeria doesn't exist

@@kingkai2800 What? I don't understand what you are saying.

I'm a White American and I agree- I didn't learn much if anything about Africa either. It's a shame. Almost all our focus was on America, Latin America, and Europe (mostly England, France, and pre-modern era Italy and Greece). We learned the geography and climates of Asia and Africa, but not a heck of alot more. And maybe we (students) sensed not much enthusiasm either. I didn't really understand why Africa has performed so poorly compared to much of the world. This video is very insightful. America has major corruption problems, too (BOTH parties). If we don't check ourselves, our economic inequality problems will drive some of our areas into 3rd world zones (some almost are) just like Africa and South Asia.

Same here in Germany. In context of Africa we only learned in school about colonialism. About the rich and divers African history before colonialism or today's problems which are linked to the history, we learned nothing. African history teaches in German schools as well in other western countries feels like: first there was nothing in Africa, than the Europeans came and started African history. It's sad that our history classes are that euro/western centristic.

The very fact that you call yourself ignorant makes you not ignorant as you are open minded and able to reflect on yourself

Why don't rich black people in the West help Africans?

@@Mikeb8134 why don't whites who ruined Africa help??

Victimhood is another stumbling block, there is a growing number of Africans who keep on blaming Westerners for the state of the continent, while it may have some truth, it does not help us in advancing in any way and makes us lose the sense of self-responsibility to work hard, take risks and build our communities and families

Vast number of talented people, vast natural resources. Africa is the future but "ad astra per aspera."

From what we are learning in the Southern states of the US, Africa will be one of the top in economic growth in the next 20 years.

@@philipbanda6637 by stealing intellectual property from other countries AND letting more people starve to death than were killed by the Nazis... yea, look to China.

@@bartonbella3131 Especially with the efforts the PRC is making to spur their development. They were doing it back in '04 in Ethiopia when I was there for the GWOT.

Very true I don’t know why. I think it’s because in the grand scheme of things after 15 century Africa kinda became a dull and a “nobody” country. We learn a lot in BC years but later in history it becomes dull and “non important” in school. It makes sense tho but I wish I knew some of this stuff earlier

@@stale_meme_boi6159 Continent*

@@stale_meme_boi6159 I think its because Africa has been in a dark age since the drying up of Gold mines lead to the decline of the Mali empire. The European dark ages were mostly skipped over in school as well come to think of it. All I remember learning from that time is a little about how they lived. All the politics and civil war after the fall of the Roman Empire is skipped in favor of learning about the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

School history classes tend to be a very broad way of teaching to give you the bare-bone information on historical events. Death counts? lesser important people? religious nuances? nuaces in general? *nope! here; have 1 page dedicated to the Roman Republic/Empire(how the fuck are you going to condense such a big nation into 1-2 pages?) and then 5 chapters to WW2, because that is REAL history!* Everything but the "big picture" isn't of importance. dollars to donuts that it's either because of political reasons(and i'm not gonna open that conspiracy-can of worms) or because kids have said _"I'll never use this in the real world!"_ too often.

They don't want to reveal that africans captured their fellow africans to trade them to the Americans for mere goods but instead focus on "racist" America and plantations.

You mean continent right?

@@hallooos7585 ...that is the joke

Imagine putting together an illustrated 40 min video and some asshat hears a mistake and centres a comment on it. A pretty pathetic comment on a pretty informative video.

@@thelocalfawz6580 imagine being so upset about a joke comment that even the creator likes

@@trunestor /r wooosh

you should get someone to look over your grammar before you release it mate!

@@sandstrommadam you probably don't speak any foreign languages, yet you judge others

A complete Marxist revolution led by the world's poor is what we need

@@sandstrommadam said an English native speaker to a Ugandan. Mate, you should be worrying more about your stupidity and ignorance before posting with such arrogance 🤣🤣

@@soundsofgaia8451 judging by his last name he's probably from a Nordic country so I wouldn't be so quick to judge either mate. I'd also consider that constructive criticism rather than judging but to each his own I guess