Untangling West Africa: The Pivotal Post-Colonial Wars that Defined an Era
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- From independence to brutal civil wars, this documentary delves into West Africa's turbulent history over the last century, shaped by colonial legacies, Cold War politics, and resource-driven conflicts.
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Chapters:
0:00 Nigerian Civil War
13:19 Forgotten UN Peacekeepers at Lungi Lol
23:29 Sierra Leone’s Civil War
37:03 First Liberian Civil War
49:38 Second Liberian Civil War
59:22 Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence
1:11:02 Chadian-Libyan War
1:21:13 Ivory Coast’s Civil Wars
I've been listening to history videos for years, but I have never in my entire life heard about the infamous, legendary, general butt naked and his naked battalion, you learn something new every day .
Vice did a series about him and interviewed him and some of the others
@@CoreyIsTheName a man of culture i see, i still remember that old vice doc(when vice was more competent )
Did he exploit booty?😂
Yes he was a wicked general very very wicked
@@RemTee-bh7nj yeah no doubt anybody that would cut out a person's heart and eat it I think has serious problems, on top of that him and his battalion running around the battlefield butt naked is disturbing .
That UN officer was born to be a soldier.
Respect.
Great video, I am glad the British refused to call the West Siders by that slur and a round of applause for the Nigerian soldiers that stayed behind to protect that village.
They were failed by their government.
Obasanjo needs his own anime. what a hero
He’s back!
Awesome documentary. I feel like this sort of thing doesn't get enough attention
Thanks for another great video!
...if you don't like the politicians in an African country, all you have to do is wait a week.
absolutely not true. Look how long Gadafi was in charge
great video, just wanted to check though where you got the figure of 500,000 people being displaced as refugees in neighboring Guinea during Portugal's war in Portuguese Guinea, that would be almost the entire population of Portuguese Guinea leaving the country.
Can you recommend any books that cover these types of Western intervention wars in detail? I am particularly keen to see when and how western states like UK and US have intervened in wars for selfish reasons etc.
One excellent book that I’ve read regarding Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone is “Blood Song” by Jim Hooper.
"A long way gone" I read it in High-school I still time about that book sometimes, I should probably reread it. But a very good book
Anything by the author Al J. Venter - he tends to drill down to the true situation in any given place in Africa, pretty fast in his writings.
The Chadians were so brave with their Toyota trucks and their guns...and the Libyans had more equipment on their side...so asymmetrical but the Chadians had the braveness in their hearts. Thank you for the presentation of the African civil wars.
“The chads - i mean chadians…”
In 2013, when the French needed forces from West African countries to support their ongoing operation in Mali against ISIS, the Chadian's where the only African forces that self deployed. Several thousand soldiers got in their Toyotar 70 Series pickups and drove over 2000 miles across the Sahara Desert to go fight.
Does anyone else see the headless guy at 47:26 ? Right in front of the IFV?
Yeah lol 😂
Weird photoshop
@@jeremybertz796 Nah he just bad posture
After 130 years, wouldn't all Liberians be native?
Can you imagine if all the money spent on weapons would be funnelled into hospitals and schools 😢
Nothing will change without the military being separated from the national police
They are. Billions a year is spent on aid to this place. They are literally incapable of using it to better ther own lives.
@@OperationElandwhy do you think that is?
@@OperationEland bullshit it goes go the corrupt politicians pocket
@@jaygrundy2781they’re racist
The first writing report I ever had to do was in Seattle, 7th grade about the wars in South America a year later I got to pick what part of Mexico to visit with my mom. Mexico City of course.
All those poor kids in Liberia.. To enter this world surrounded by instability, violence and death ruining a whole generation happens far too o often in our history. Not sure if we'll make it...
Yay I'm glad you're back at least I hope you're back
Good video.
Great content!
I don't understand why Africa isn't in control of Africa?..
Look at what happens when they're allowed to govern themselves
@@OperationElandwhat do you mean
They're resource rich, vast and cash poor. This leads to high levels of corruption, stifling growth and allowing others to take hold.
Where this isn't the case, there are high levels of religious extremism and tribalism across the continent, sowing division.
Then you have the inhospitable nature of much of the continent, leaving it generally sparsely populated for much of history. This also led to slower growth and left much of it ripe for the picking when the European empires decided to carve it up.
North Africa and West was conquered by the various Islamic caliphates and then the Barbary states were subdued by a hoint European effort due to their piracy, leaving the areas in a highly weakened state today.
Many former colonies also gained independence during the Cold War, which was not a particularly stable period.
46:33 jeez that was fucking disturbing anyone please tell me that thing he was chewing isn't human flesh...
I feel like we really need to talk about the guy with no head at 47:30.
I don't mean it was cut off, it just isn't there.
Quando ira ter vídeos novos sobre africa ?
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I have finally found time to watch this long video... I am glad I saved it even though I don't save these long ones. A three-part video would have been nice. It is a very good video and well done once again... You definitely do excellence
I've heard that voice before. On a star wars channel lol
Glad I'm not the only one who heard it 😂 I clicked this video for something to put on in the background and hear a voice from several historical star wars videos
I am Ndi'Gbo and Biafra never died,....We may have lost that 1967 - 70 war but we won the glory....In my life I have never seen anything like it....
After 250 of struggle against Britains annihilation agenda from Slave-Trade, Colonial War, Colonisation, Fake independence in 1960, A British backed Genocidal 1967 War, and still on-going Neo-Colonialism by Britain in Nigeria, Biafra still lives....it has been an epic twillight struggle...
On December 2nd 2024, the world will see changes not seen on the African Continent in about 150 years.....Biafra will be redeclared and we will finally secede from Britains ZOOological Republic of Nigeria.
if i won an african country in a contest .....id ask if i could trade it in for something else
Put you meth pipe down
I don't know why south Africa, rhodesia, Portugal and all its colonies and Israel didn't all work more closely. Rhodesia was never even recognized. They could have all defended each other
I'm assuming they didn't really care to be at war forever. It's not like the Africans would have stopped fighting them.
Read Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon
Tragic how a resources rich land was looted and its local inhabitants left in such poor conditions we had to come up with a term for it in 3rd world country. Where getting access to clean drinking water is a luxury.
The documentary on Africa is alright, although I'd say the Nigerian essay needs more research, as the NCNC was founded by Herbert Mcaulay.
I'd suggest reviewing alot of Nigerian essayists, who've broken these things.
There are other things I'd like to correct;however, they have said by others in different videos.
I'm of the mind that it should've been a more gradual process of giving autonomy to African states instead of "oh hey, guess what, now you gotta fend for yourselves"
The British I know allowed the country to pick whether they wanted the Brits to leave gradually or all at once. Some of the ones that chose the first option then switched to the second option because a new party took over.
One man, one vote, .....once only. Then a series of corrupt despots. Except Botswana.
That is pretty much exactly what happened in South Africa. The white rulers did not disappear overnight, some were still around during the post-apartheid transition. All the problems thereafter are almost completely self-inflicted by Africans themselves. Regardless of who the present African crooks-in-power-this-week try to blame for their ongoing train wreck of a country.
@@robertmaybeth3434 You should post these opinions somewhere more public, you clearly have a very empathetic and educated stance
Europeans didn't want to include Africans in public administration therefore there couldn't have been any sort of gradual departure. They had to leave all at once or Africa would have never been free.
2:18. Wow. That’s a beard
I’ve recently watched the movie the wild geese again recently…. Yes. West Africa haven’t had a good time since the Belgians. And Germans. And us brits 😲🥺
You said since the Belgians omg
saying west africa is a shithole is the understatement of the century
Blame France
Yeah absolutely 0% of all of this is the fault of any African
5:10 is a lie btw or rather, its a misconception.
The main reason for all those new maps getting drawn was the English breaking up Germanys allies.. the ottoman empire mostly. You can thank them for current state of middle east. Africa was a side quest.
I'm pretty sure the turmoil in the middle east today can be attributed largely to a different nation... who wear smaller hats...
@@OperationEland They caused conflict and funded warlords to break up the ottomans.. Then they drew lines on a map that grouped all these different sects together. That's why continuous conflict. They literally just took a ruler and drew straight lines in parts of Africa.. smh
What you mentioned happened directly afterwards too.. It's a giant mess that never had to happen.
I'm sick of hearing the bs that the African problems are the result of colonial empires decisions and such. Although there are cases where it is obvious there were a ill intention towards the liberated colonies it wasn't all about putting this states to fail from the very beginning, to make them subordinate to the colonial powers? yes but not to fail from the start (Congo is an exception to this, it really was a Belgian intention for the state to fail miserably)
I've studied reasonably in length post-colonial African history, the same way the age of exploration is a recurrent theme for me to study so it is post-colonialism, I just find my self drawn to it. And what I found is that for all these talking about how bad Europeans or the white men are, the ones wielding the machetes and perpetrating the massacres weren't the white men...
Africa had an incredible chance after the fall of the British Empire or the contraction of the French one bc they inherit countries with infraestructures and incipient industries, things that for all human history Africa lack but almost in every instance these new countries have wasted the opportunity and dilapidated these resources in an endless stream of horror, corruption and mismanagement.
The peoples of Africa too quickly have use the excuse of the foreigners as the source of all their incapabilities and then have proceeded to commit the most barbaric deeds against whoever is perceived as the culprit of said things. It's not only black people suffering atrocious acts, it is endless the list of genocides, wherever the colonial authority retreated it follow chaos and ethnic cleansing. The white peoples (who have all the right to live there!) of places like Kenya, Tanzani, Rhodesia, Mozambique Congo, Uganda and now South Africa, they all have experienced what is to be killed and persecuted with no legal protection nor anything. And white people are not the only ones, Arabs and muslims in general have been ethnically cleans in almost all Eastern African countries, historically there was plenty of coastal sultanates and communities from Zanzibar to Mogadishu and now many have been erased. The Indians have also suffered persecution when they may be the only group of people that came to Africa to work and not exploit anyone, now face the risk of genocide too in South Africa.
All this bs of "poor Africans" is nonce, most of Africa has been and still is barbaric in nature and all this pity towards them is just a money shceme from the NGOs, the main culprit of Africa's misery are the Africans not the rest of the world. It is the choice of every individual not the be an animal that massacres people, it is the choice of the individual not to accept bribes or to follow inmoral orders etc...
You say that but the white men didnt give Africa its most important thing the thing all white countries got to build cohesion.
A land cut and carved by them not lines white men drew on a map. You guys put french ppl with English then mixed in some russians inside of italys territory and like yeah everything will be fine these ppl all have the same skin ofc they will get along.(When you guys would no better for your own European countries.
That is the most important point lass so but very much important is also the fact white nations put alot of these countries in eternal debt and embargoed them. Haiti has never been free even after winning the war of independence. They owed france more than they could pay had their economy tanked. Then you say hey well you got a nation make it happen under circumstances no European country had to flourish in.
If you dont understand these crucial building blocks of a nation. Your African history research is useless. The only thing your analysis saw was black guy hold machete. When any historian woild know. Ppl are only personal on a personal lv. Overall ppl act as predicably as the circumstances around them. This mopd is rarely broken and it braking shouldnt be the rule but the exception since it only houses 1% of the population if im being generous.
@@TheSukairahhe doesn't care. Just trolling 🧌. He clicked the video and didn't bother to watch it.
@@TheSukairahEurope’s nations are full of different ethnic groups….. borders carved up by war. They eventually became cohesive entities…. Africa is going through the same thing.
He's an idiot, European warred for centuries, far bloodier than what's going on in Africa. It was just not seen by the modernity
Indian soldiers hurray
Did the Nigerians ever leave Lungi Lol?
do one on animal battles like lion pride vs another......human wars dont make sense to me
Maybe warfare and general chaos is the brack way of living,look at the Ghettos.
When is Africa not a clustertruck?
.. going into Africa, for starters 😂
I’m honestly disappointed in the United States for allowing and actively aiding Europe in its continued exploitation of African countries during this time. It really feels like if the US pressed Europe to act in good faith they would have.
The US itself was actively exploiting Africa in this timeframe. It backed and/or led coups in the DRC, Angola, Ghana etc. They have propped up numerous despots responsible for killing huge numbers of their own people because it aligned with US interests. They have also exploited them through Structured Adjustment Programmes, resource extraction and protectionism
That's western leaders for you. Just like any other politician around but will go back on the ideals they claim to hold dear if it will benefit them. That's why even in developed nations like the US, leaders can't be trusted
I grew up in Rhodesia and left in 1980 when mugabe became president. The rest is history.......
Hi grandpa
How is that relevant to west Africa?
When you are accustomed to supremacy, equality can feel like oppression 😉
Forget it. You are dealing with people that simply deny logic. That is the new Africa. No logic at all.
He came to be worshipped by rhobaboos and white supremacists but 😂😂😂😂
Tam je to taky moc hezky….
Tam by se měl jet podívat Kazdej Evropan a hlavně musí všem ukázat evropský pravidla života a zákony…
Všichni tam na nej cekaj 😂😂😂
fique quieto, sua vítima do Holocausto
What went wrong hahahahahaaaaaaaa lol?????
Who armed these rebels??? This sounds like pro European propaganda I can’t lie KMT
And that's how Jello got his name.
UN is so useful 😂😂😂
They werent called the "west side boys" ...lol why dont you tell us their real name. Come on. UA-cam dares you
Point me to a black governed city, or country anywhere in the world that is a peaceful success.
Trinidad and Tobago