Zaire probably changed their name to Democratic Republic of the Congo so they wouldn't have to wait an extra decade for their Geography Now episode like their African neighbors Zambia and Zimbabwe.
I'm from Belgium, I once read a book about leopold II. That man was one of the most evil peaces of human being. I can't grasp how we kind of ignore his atrocities in our history books. There are still streets and institutes named after him and even some statues. It's like having a 'hitler street' in Berlin. Comparisons with hitler are almost always exaggerated, but not in this case.
The DRC is arguably the most ressource-rich country in the world yet poor and arguably the base of African music. Wish all the best of luck to the DRC.
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Tell me who are spend their time killing the good leaders since the independence if it's not the Westerns ? (while propaganding that misery is caused by dictator and low IQ)
I'm Congolese and you were spot on with this video. Most of us end up everywhere else except in our own homeland due to the current situation. Great job👍🏾👏🏾🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Great Job, I am from The DRCONGO and those informations are true. it feels great to see that people around the world are now aware of our story. I really enjoyed listening to an American telling me about my geography and my history. Thanks man, Que Dieu te benisse.
MidnightToker7 me personally I don’t cause I left the country for Canada at 2 years old and one of my parents friends is from Rwanda... But, yes, they once told me Rwandans are bastards ( except their friend )
Honestly as a person who is from this rich and beautiful country I just wanna say the presidents don't do anything there just there for the money one president wasn't even from DRC! and the new president has 100m in 3 years!
Zuppa con le unghie dei piedi di Levante that's not true... we learn about Asia and south America a lot.... we also learn about Africa but not a lot but we definitely learn about south America and asia...
Agreed. I'm an American with Welsh ancestry and I can't even pronounce the name of the town correctly.
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Thanks for this good video talking about geography of my lovely country DR Congo. I appreciate efforts you spent collecting data which reflects almost the situation of the country. Merci et courage à toi !
The DRC has an estimated $22 trillion worth of untapped resources. It could be a very rich nation if the major powers stopped taking advantage of Congolese resources.
Maybe stop fighting each other for like 5 seconds, develop a hard working culture that favours education and progress, stop being corrupt, stop being misled by the great powers for a quick buck. Start there and you'll see you won't have to blame all your problems on someone else.
Isaac Raschke dont say “their” fault... the leaders’ fault ... Mobutu ALONE stayed in power for 32 years and no schools built, no roads built, NOTHING. Ok except the Barrage de Inga (not sure if it was really him, but still!)... he was feeding western countries as he was himself a toy... he lived his best life ! With a palace full of marble ... he invited kings and presidents to his home to “show off” ... for 32 years?!!! If students graduate after 17-20 years of school (from primary to uni) then 32 is enough to have a rocky base for the future! Ingénieurs and scientists are very important for research and development! Then he had to be replaced and Kabila the “father” came with his troops from Neighbouring countries, opening another door for conflicts... the countries that helped him take the power wanted their pay off and said “give us the resources...” he said “huh let’s me think about it... NAH!” Then he was assassinated 4 years later. And surprise!!! Who became president ? Joseph Kabila! People were against it ! Why him? Who is he? “His son” “WHAT?” “We dont want him!” “Shut up”! So Kabila the “son” stayed in power since 2001 and left this year after a 2 year extension during his “second” (in reality it is the third) term. Things even got worse!!!! He even wanted to change the constitution to stay longer in power... before leaving, he made a speech (if it wasn’t his first speech?) and said “we need to choose as a president someone that isn’t linked to foreigners ... because you will have to give them back what they had helped you to take !” I paraphrased it though ... but he literally was saying that people had put him there and when especially he sold Uranium to Iran, USA got mad and wanted to get rid of him. So in order to protect himself, he tried to find an agreement with the new “elected” president. “Don’t kill me !” So saying that “it is their fault is at the same time ignorance and the truth”... if you really think that the major countries aren’t saying or doing anything “bad” in this country you are lying to yourself ... on the other hand, the Congolese leaders are if not the stupidest, the most strange people in the world ! I have tried to understand them but I can’t ! I made it as short as I could .
@@lessthanpinochet Sadly this is true my x girlfriend was Congolese and they are more obsessed with getting their education or living in places like Belgium or the United States
An interesting fact,DR Congo is now the poorest country in Africa according to GDP which is sad,considering that their mineral riches are bigger than the whole Europe
You heard him it's a rich country, richer than Europe & US combined.. both country don't want to be on the bottom always trying to dominate others... who have the last say so.. God not people
I'm Caribbean. I often share regional music with my friend from Gabon. He can almost always tell with pinpoint accuracy what part of Africa each musical style is from. Ive learned to distinguish them thanks to his help. For example: Calypso is clearly a Ghanaian rhythm. Merengue appears to be closer to Nigerian, etc.
@@ArjyDuah Great thanks for sharing. I probably mixed them up myself, since Im not the expert. A great many Caribbeans came from Congo indeed, we have common words like "Luangu" that are very widespread. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this 😊 I was born in Congo DRC and this video was so informative 👌🏾🇨🇩 with all the riches Congo has, I hope one day it's population will benefit from it.🙏🏾
You are right. This country has so much potential and yet it's so underdeveloped and poor. It's history is messy, and like the guy said, the West doesn't teach about Africa. I hope things work out and it doesn't get exploited.
I'm Belgian and we learn all about Congo and what our country did to it in history class. Let's say, I'm very disapointed in my country that we did such cruel things!
+eva bral It was Leopold II (he sucks balls!) & the Belgian state, not your random Belgian as they didn't have a say/couldn't vote on the matter of creating colonies abroad.. Trouwens, ik woon ook in Belgie, 9duust.. haha
+eva bral er wordt veel overdreven over wat daar gedaan is... die handen afkappen enz... hebben ze 1x gedaan, nadien bleek dat het niet betalen van het 'werkvolk' veel effectiever bleek... want mensen zonder hand kunnen niet meer werken... Bovendien moet men het ook zien in de context van die tijd... vroeger was het 'normaal' om zo mensen in de kolonies te behandelen, zeker indien ze een ander kleurtje hadden, bedank de Kerk daar maar voor. Onze Leopold was eigenlijk niet zo 'barbaars' ,hier in Europa in dien tijd leefde heersers die ergere zaken deden aan hun eigen volk...
Maciej Sochacki Veel van overgedreven ? Ja, dat zou ik toch wel ook toegeven, maar gij ga mij niet zeggen dat wat die man allemaal gepleegd had niet barbaars was, ook al was dat de norm van die tijd! Zijn daden waren misselijkmakend.
barbaars voor nu ja (ik studeer geschiedenis) ik heb geleerd om dingen in een ander daglicht te zien... in die tijden was er geen andere manier, ja uithongeren zoals ze nadien deden, maar als we zo gaan kijken dan moeten we elke wereldleider uit de 19de eeuw beschuldigen... en ik hoop dat niemand hier op reageert met zijn apple of samsung smartphone, want die mensen wat de grondstoffen etc moeten verzamelen, worden tegenwoordig ongeveer even erg uitgebuit... de wereld draait rond 1 ding, geld... congo was een economisch 'experimentje' van de koning... die probeerde ook op bepaalde manieren meer geld binnen te krijgen... keur ik het goed? nee zou dat vandaag gebeuren... euhm het is nog steeds bezig, maar subtieler... kan men het die man kwalijk nemen... hmmm europa was toen vollebak bezig met de wereld te onderwerpen... niet echt dus... zoals ik zei, andere landen deden ergere zaken... de zuiderse amerikanen zien de donkere tot vandaag als mindere en zouden nog eregere zaken doen, stel dat de slavendrijvens in de 19de eeuw een 'leider' hadden... dan zou ook in de top 10 van ergste moordenaars/mishandelaars uit de geschiedenis staan...
As he showed in another video: Kinshasa is the most obscure but most populated city in the world. It's weird. Nobody goes there for tourism, but it's huge.
Well to be fair most of the time other people's pronunciation of our language is so terrible that we pretty much go _"Yeaaaaah,........ we can speak english........."_
I am a belgian sorry for wat we dit against You congo😢 Belgium or the belgian king to be exact killed 15 million africans Thats 9 million more then jews killed in ww2 and half more then the population of belgium itself
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic are my favorite Francophone countries. Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela. La République Démocratique du Congo et la République Centrafricaine sont mes pays francophones préférés. Salutations de Caracas, Venezuela.
Couldn't agree more. The only decent thing Mobutu gave us, that and the Abacos. Also the national anthem La Zaïroise was better than the long snooze fest Debout Congolais.
I am one of those that remember back when the DRC was called Zaire. A lot of that had to do with being an NBA and one the best players in the league at that time being from there. Dikembe Mutombo
This helped a lot in a project for AP Human Geo, only thing on google that actually has info on the the DRC. Thank you sm for making this, i learned a lot and even love the history of it. Keep doing what you guys are doing!
4:58. 'ya gotta climb thru the dumpster to get in...' ... that sounds like my style. Im so cutting-edge i only listen to music that hasn't even dropped yet. So..
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!!!!! Thank you for your efforts making these videos, thank you for sharing your incredibly VAST knowledge with us geography nerds. Your channel is literally what I binge on back to back every weekend. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you 🤩🥳
Thank you so much for this! I'm Congolese! This video is probably the funniest, yet the most informative, description of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that I've ever come across！ 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Well, then if you don't mind I'm going to inform you that "bakongo" is a plural. So you, a single person can't be "bakongo", you're if anything mukongo.
@@byamungusamuelnguma5577 We need to pray yes, but we also need action, business etc. We have a long way to go but i am confident that we will get there someday. DRC will become a tourist destination in the future 💚👍🏾
-Why won't anyone learn dutch? /Because every time we talk in Dutch to you, you respond in English. So very true. We instantly hear through your accent what your native language is and try to speak that.
I know you said you wouldn't get into many details about the conflicts, but no mention of Patrice Lumumba? Really? Come on now, just showing a his face for a second with no mention to an audience you know knows little about the DRC's history, makes this video fall short
We need to do away with this notion of personality cult, it breeds dictators. There is no reason to put "liberation leaders"on a pedestal. I am South African and we say all the time that Nelson Mandela should not be treated as a God, he was 1 member of a big grassroot movement, many people suffered more, lost more but remain unsung. To steal words from Ernesto Che Guavara "Liberators do not exist, people liberate themselves
it was almost a year ago since you did Bandiaterra for April Fools Day, and now one year later still on the Cs! So are we going to get to Zimbabwe by 2040?
DetroitBall My bad, in Spanish it's República Democrática del Congo instead of Democratic Republic of Congo, so I'm used to write it the other way around
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Zaire probably changed their name to Democratic Republic of the Congo so they wouldn't have to wait an extra decade for their Geography Now episode like their African neighbors Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Exactly
I thought the same! Hahaha
+Turning Guy Then Zimbabwe is cursing saying, "why did I not stay as Rhodesia?"
😂😂
+Louis Hypothetical Angles. How about the Geometric Union
I'm from Belgium, I once read a book about leopold II. That man was one of the most evil peaces of human being. I can't grasp how we kind of ignore his atrocities in our history books. There are still streets and institutes named after him and even some statues. It's like having a 'hitler street' in Berlin. Comparisons with hitler are almost always exaggerated, but not in this case.
+jqerty we need memory.
+jqerty Which book was it?
indeed as a fellow belgian i can verify that our country just realy realy realy doesn’t like to talk about what our king did during this time.
+jqerty
Monarchs for some reason are remembered more positively than non-monarchial dictators.
Its stupid I know. But that's how it is.
+Rasta Mon "King Leopold's Ghost" (Hochschild). Great read, but a bit too historical written for my taste (to meany details).
The DRC is arguably the most ressource-rich country in the world yet poor and arguably the base of African music. Wish all the best of luck to the DRC.
Also Jazz...
@@leyamiatudila7047 jazz is African American
@@leyamiatudila7047 thats in New Orleans and Harlem
@@meltedicecreamsandwich And rhumba is Cuban
@@meltedicecreamsandwich And rhumba is Cuban
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The country would the richest on the planet if not for dictators and greed in general
And corruption, it's a major problem in most African countries, as soon as the leaders reach to the top they basically forget of the poor...
It could've been like countries in the Arab peninsula which became rich af because of natural resources
Tell me who are spend their time killing the good leaders since the independence if it's not the Westerns ? (while propaganding that misery is caused by dictator and low IQ)
Corruption always involves a corruptor & a corrupted,yes ?Well,the corruptor is foreign to the country,always !
@mrtvicovek It's not the people themselves, It's just the political leaders that are horrible
I'm Congolese and you were spot on with this video. Most of us end up everywhere else except in our own homeland due to the current situation. Great job👍🏾👏🏾🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Hey im congolese also hi there
I'm also Congolese 🇨🇩
That's not true
SAME ❤❤❤ 🇨🇩
Same
Great Job, I am from The DRCONGO and those informations are true. it feels great to see that people around the world are now aware of our story. I really enjoyed listening to an American telling me about my geography and my history. Thanks man, Que Dieu te benisse.
the whole world need to know about Africa. greetings from Malaysia!
Rachel Sangara yes indeed he is very informed and unbiased.
Wanna visit it
My grandma just came to canada! She used to work the manioc back in drc...
Dieu est grand!
Mbote nayo ndeko
much respect man I'm from Drc and this was accurate especially the Rwandan part.
+Will Taji praying for your country.
Mister Anderson Thank you man.God bless you
x_MySecretShadows_x Yes
do congolese people really hate Rwanda?
MidnightToker7 me personally I don’t cause I left the country for Canada at 2 years old and one of my parents friends is from Rwanda... But, yes, they once told me Rwandans are bastards ( except their friend )
If Just DR Congo wasn't so messed up, it could've been the real life Wukanda 😭
Wakanda*
That’s what wakanda would want you to see😏
Messed up on the outside but secretly prosperous on the inside
Botswana is Wakanda.
Honestly as a person who is from this rich and beautiful country I just wanna say the presidents don't do anything there just there for the money one president wasn't even from DRC! and the new president has 100m in 3 years!
my left ear liked this video
+Alejandro Espino lol best comment here
+Alejandro Espino
Lord Viktor the Ruthless very lovely Monty python character
I was watching this with only my left earphone i had to check to see if the right one work after this comment
Lol why xD
My left ear really enjoyed this video.
Greetings from Crete, Greece.
I thought something was wrong with my headphones.
Daniel I thought so at first too. I just opened a different video in another tab.
pay depts from Germany
XDD
George Perakis what about your right ear
Oh thank god it's not my earplugs. I just got these last week and I've had over a dozen of those now. It's always one ear that stops working.
I am from Congo Kinshasa 😍😍
NTZ Official 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🙌🏾 Represent
So am I xD
What language do they speak mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
@Marcelo Firpo ok ty
🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 Congo kinshasa
"That's because your school, like many others in the Western world, does not care about Africa, and it SHOULD!" Truer words could scarcely be spoken.
Or about Asia, or about South America, or About Oceania.
Zuppa con le unghie dei piedi di Levante that's not true... we learn about Asia and south America a lot.... we also learn about Africa but not a lot but we definitely learn about south America and asia...
@@fulgenzio89 I agree with Oceania and Asia, but everyone learns about South America at some point
Exactly 👌🏻.
Yeah we all know that stems from racism and their history of colonialism in Africa
THE GLOURIOUS CITY OF... banana
the best city
@@thebigbadbabies1906 muh bruddah do u know de wei ?
Not so glorious as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch I'm afraid...
IS EVERYONE GOING TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT HE PRONOUNCED A WELSH CITY NAME 100% CORRECT AND FASTER THAN THAT REPORTER FROM THE BBC?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??
which name was that?
It was Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Try saying that ten times fast
+Eric Williamson he probably trained
+ParallaxGaming try saying that at all!
Heh
did you know...
the DRC is the only country in africa that uses 2 different time zones.
Vince Peeters how
Kik LeBraVo HOOZY because it’s large enough to have 2 time zones.
Lol have u seen the USA
ViperSA Russia is not in Africa
Ciara Jackson USA is not in Africa
So much respect for this video! I'm from the DRC myself and it was all true facts. Thank you again for promoting education via this video.
Hey, is there a way i can contact you? I want to do interview some congolese for a project
I'm old enough to remember when it was called congo. And then it was zaire, and then congo again...
My hat is off to you, a yank pronouncing a welsh town correctly, a rare occasion indeed!
My thoughts exactly!
why anyone would put that name in a town is beyond me tough...
^ welp thats wales for you
It was basically a publicity stunt in the 19th century :/
Agreed. I'm an American with Welsh ancestry and I can't even pronounce the name of the town correctly.
Thanks for this good video talking about geography of my lovely country DR Congo. I appreciate efforts you spent collecting data which reflects almost the situation of the country. Merci et courage à toi !
The DRC has an estimated $22 trillion worth of untapped resources. It could be a very rich nation if the major powers stopped taking advantage of Congolese resources.
EDIT - A stupid comment I made.
Or if they start civilising instead of being primitive.
Maybe stop fighting each other for like 5 seconds, develop a hard working culture that favours education and progress, stop being corrupt, stop being misled by the great powers for a quick buck. Start there and you'll see you won't have to blame all your problems on someone else.
@@lessthanpinochet exactly, its mainly their fault these days.. Not the west.
Isaac Raschke dont say “their” fault... the leaders’ fault ... Mobutu ALONE stayed in power for 32 years and no schools built, no roads built, NOTHING. Ok except the Barrage de Inga (not sure if it was really him, but still!)... he was feeding western countries as he was himself a toy... he lived his best life ! With a palace full of marble ... he invited kings and presidents to his home to “show off” ... for 32 years?!!! If students graduate after 17-20 years of school (from primary to uni) then 32 is enough to have a rocky base for the future! Ingénieurs and scientists are very important for research and development!
Then he had to be replaced and Kabila the “father” came with his troops from Neighbouring countries, opening another door for conflicts... the countries that helped him take the power wanted their pay off and said “give us the resources...” he said “huh let’s me think about it... NAH!”
Then he was assassinated 4 years later. And surprise!!! Who became president ? Joseph Kabila! People were against it ! Why him? Who is he? “His son” “WHAT?” “We dont want him!” “Shut up”!
So Kabila the “son” stayed in power since 2001 and left this year after a 2 year extension during his “second” (in reality it is the third) term. Things even got worse!!!! He even wanted to change the constitution to stay longer in power... before leaving, he made a speech (if it wasn’t his first speech?) and said “we need to choose as a president someone that isn’t linked to foreigners ... because you will have to give them back what they had helped you to take !”
I paraphrased it though ... but he literally was saying that people had put him there and when especially he sold Uranium to Iran, USA got mad and wanted to get rid of him. So in order to protect himself, he tried to find an agreement with the new “elected” president. “Don’t kill me !”
So saying that “it is their fault is at the same time ignorance and the truth”... if you really think that the major countries aren’t saying or doing anything “bad” in this country you are lying to yourself ... on the other hand, the Congolese leaders are if not the stupidest, the most strange people in the world ! I have tried to understand them but I can’t !
I made it as short as I could .
@@lessthanpinochet Sadly this is true my x girlfriend was Congolese and they are more obsessed with getting their education or living in places like Belgium or the United States
In Ireland you learn about the Congo in history class
+EoghanMcCarthy900 Ireland cares more about the world, than America!!
*****
We study a lot of American history also
Exactly!! not so much about the rest of the world!
1 Bang u leaving cert honours history
In Belgium we learn a lot about Congo history too (which is of course reasonable) and also see a fair amount of American history
I was born and raised in Congo.
Wouldn't Rome and Vatican city be the 2 closest capitals?
nope
+wwwooouuuttteeerrr97 it's not though
+Robert Murray They probably belong in the same category of 'capitals squashed up against each other'. Also, the Vatican is a bit special.
+Robert Murray I guess Vatican City doesn't even count
With Wildhide In fact Vatican City is a part of Rome
An interesting fact,DR Congo is now the poorest country in Africa according to GDP which is sad,considering that their mineral riches are bigger than the whole Europe
+ryan ball ?
You heard him it's a rich country, richer than Europe & US combined.. both country don't want to be on the bottom always trying to dominate others... who have the last say so.. God not people
Classic A eurpoe isn't a country
Google says our country is poor .but that's a lie.we are the richest country and the best country in Africa
America gets its resources from the DRC.The DRC is richer than america
I'm Caribbean. I often share regional music with my friend from Gabon. He can almost always tell with pinpoint accuracy what part of Africa each musical style is from. Ive learned to distinguish them thanks to his help.
For example: Calypso is clearly a Ghanaian rhythm. Merengue appears to be closer to Nigerian, etc.
Your friend is wrong. Merengue and Rumba is Congo not Nigeria. Congolese's music is one of the best on the continent.
@@ArjyDuah Great thanks for sharing. I probably mixed them up myself, since Im not the expert. A great many Caribbeans came from Congo indeed, we have common words like "Luangu" that are very widespread. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting!!!
Thanks for this 😊 I was born in Congo DRC and this video was so informative 👌🏾🇨🇩 with all the riches Congo has, I hope one day it's population will benefit from it.🙏🏾
You are right. This country has so much potential and yet it's so underdeveloped and poor. It's history is messy, and like the guy said, the West doesn't teach about Africa. I hope things work out and it doesn't get exploited.
As a Congolese, I'll say you did a great job. Thanks for the video!
Mais par contre dire que le meilleur amie du Congo c'est Congo Brazza là il à totalement tord il à oublié l'opération mbata ya mukolo
I'm Belgian and we learn all about Congo and what our country did to it in history class. Let's say, I'm very disapointed in my country that we did such cruel things!
+eva bral It was Leopold II (he sucks balls!) & the Belgian state, not your random Belgian as they didn't have a say/couldn't vote on the matter of creating colonies abroad.. Trouwens, ik woon ook in Belgie, 9duust.. haha
+Yusuf Omar (Zopdoz) yeah but still...
En altijd tof om iemand van België tegen te komen! ^^
+eva bral er wordt veel overdreven over wat daar gedaan is... die handen afkappen enz... hebben ze 1x gedaan, nadien bleek dat het niet betalen van het 'werkvolk' veel effectiever bleek... want mensen zonder hand kunnen niet meer werken...
Bovendien moet men het ook zien in de context van die tijd... vroeger was het 'normaal' om zo mensen in de kolonies te behandelen, zeker indien ze een ander kleurtje hadden, bedank de Kerk daar maar voor. Onze Leopold was eigenlijk niet zo 'barbaars' ,hier in Europa in dien tijd leefde heersers die ergere zaken deden aan hun eigen volk...
Maciej Sochacki Veel van overgedreven ? Ja, dat zou ik toch wel ook toegeven, maar gij ga mij niet zeggen dat wat die man allemaal gepleegd had niet barbaars was, ook al was dat de norm van die tijd! Zijn daden waren misselijkmakend.
barbaars voor nu ja
(ik studeer geschiedenis) ik heb geleerd om dingen in een ander daglicht te zien... in die tijden was er geen andere manier, ja uithongeren zoals ze nadien deden, maar als we zo gaan kijken dan moeten we elke wereldleider uit de 19de eeuw beschuldigen...
en ik hoop dat niemand hier op reageert met zijn apple of samsung smartphone, want die mensen wat de grondstoffen etc moeten verzamelen, worden tegenwoordig ongeveer even erg uitgebuit...
de wereld draait rond 1 ding, geld...
congo was een economisch 'experimentje' van de koning... die probeerde ook op bepaalde manieren meer geld binnen te krijgen...
keur ik het goed? nee
zou dat vandaag gebeuren... euhm het is nog steeds bezig, maar subtieler...
kan men het die man kwalijk nemen... hmmm europa was toen vollebak bezig met de wereld te onderwerpen... niet echt dus... zoals ik zei, andere landen deden ergere zaken... de zuiderse amerikanen zien de donkere tot vandaag als mindere en zouden nog eregere zaken doen, stel dat de slavendrijvens in de 19de eeuw een 'leider' hadden... dan zou ook in de top 10 van ergste moordenaars/mishandelaars uit de geschiedenis staan...
Am Angolan an yeah I loVe Congolese people. 🇦🇴❤🇨🇩
Gabriel Hardson ❤
I’m Angolan and Congolese 😍😍
Gabriel Hardson my consin is Angolan and I am congolese
Gabriel Hardson
thank you 🇦🇴🇨🇩❤
I’m from West Africa, Ghana and I have a friend from Central Africa, Congo DRC .
Hai
One day the DRC will rise 🇨🇩❤️
amen to that, our God is still on our side
Yaas, we will
*looks at the congolese famine*
*looks at belgium*
If dictators dah, and the hdi should increase a ton load and famines should be non existent, illiteracy should become eradicared.
I wish he talked more about the great african war, it's rarely mentioned and it envolves half of the nations of Africa, that's insane.
+Augusto Konrad He don't talk much about politic and history in general.
Renato Raia
Well, in the colonbian video he talked a lot about colombia's struggle with guerillas and narcotraffic.
I'm Kenyan and I've never heard of it
As he showed in another video: Kinshasa is the most obscure but most populated city in the world. It's weird. Nobody goes there for tourism, but it's huge.
I'm from DRC but I live in Canada
UbiSurfer I'm Japan and I live in Canada.
Cool
@@lagseeing8341 🤣
I'm Somalia but I live in England
UbiSurfer im Indonesian but I live in Indonesia xD
one of the best episodes so far. CONGrats!
+Victor Mata Verçosa see what you did there.
Much love to my Congolese brothers ❤️🇨🇩❤️🇸🇸 your brother from South Sudan
I don't think Geography Now is going to do a video on your country.
@@mypanexogamouslineage965 they are
@@mypanexogamouslineage965 They did 😂
Love from namibia
❤❤❤
8:26 This is true and a highly self-defeating trait of both Dutch and Flemish people.
Well to be fair most of the time other people's pronunciation of our language is so terrible that we pretty much go _"Yeaaaaah,........ we can speak english........."_
NIELS MICHIELS Not their fault when Dutch is a difficult language to learn
@@borussiagermania7428 Ah...German is difficult not Dutch!!!
I am a belgian sorry for wat we dit against You congo😢
Belgium or the belgian king to be exact killed 15 million africans Thats 9 million more then jews killed in ww2 and half more then the population of belgium itself
+Dede Wx lolll
Don't be idiot.
+Razgriz Knight 50 years and Europe will fade to history
Rodolfo Luna 50?
I give it 10 tops
Razgriz Knight It's sad that it will come to this...
"Don't let banana fool you"
Still my favorite sentence ever conceived
Lots of love from Zambia 🇿🇲 to 👉🏽🇨🇩❤️
its midnight and I should be studying for nursing school... but I just love binge watching your videos! You are awesome!!
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic are my favorite Francophone countries. Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela.
La République Démocratique du Congo et la République Centrafricaine sont mes pays francophones préférés. Salutations de Caracas, Venezuela.
Hola hermano
🙌🙌🙌
The old flag of Zaire with the torch was so much cooler...
Couldn't agree more. The only decent thing Mobutu gave us, that and the Abacos. Also the national anthem La Zaïroise was better than the long snooze fest Debout Congolais.
You can't sat that
Don't worry folks, we'll change the things again.
@@mariomulajapdgloyenge5051 Hope so! I listen to Zaïrois national anthem for inspiration because it is so calm and beautiful.
Even our National Anthem was cooler in that time XD!
I am one of those that remember back when the DRC was called Zaire. A lot of that had to do with being an NBA and one the best players in the league at that time being from there. Dikembe Mutombo
My Dad I’d from the D.R.C. Love from England 🏴❤️🇨🇩
I went to bed but for some reason felt like checking my UA-cam feed and your video just pops up. My Geography Now senses must have been tingling.
I'm up at 3:15 AM watching this.
It's Geography Now or never!
I'm 'Murican!
We have such a long time to wait for our episodes!
I'm CONGOLESSSEEEE
***** DRC
Daniel a
Niel Relatado I'm not THAT congolese I'm half british and a quater portuguese
What about
Cheerio mate!
Now walk away from me ;-;
EtaPlaysMsp im belgian sorry for the things we did to you country.
This helped a lot in a project for AP Human Geo, only thing on google that actually has info on the the DRC. Thank you sm for making this, i learned a lot and even love the history of it. Keep doing what you guys are doing!
I want a bloopers reel of you doing the Welsh town name! ;)
Who here's old enough to remember when this country was Belgium? 50s kids ya.
+Brock Fielder pshh, I am old enough to remember when the first humans were born from apes
#20000BCkid
Pfft. I remember when it was still pangea.
Radical_Tempo I remember when the big bang didn't even happen.
This escalated quickly.
Morning Glory I know right
4:58. 'ya gotta climb thru the dumpster to get in...'
... that sounds like my style. Im so cutting-edge i only listen to music that hasn't even dropped yet. So..
I love Lingala swear words like "Toofeenayo" or "Nakobetayo" xD
Geath Drips
haha Where did you learn those ?
from my congolese friend
Tufi na yo : you're a piece of sh...
Nako beta yo : I'm gonna beat you
Mdr
Yasolo!! Yebisa mbango. Kiekiekie
I call it doctor Congo because DR.Congo
Ana V
Hhhhhhhhhhhhh
lool DR mean Democratic Republic..
Ana V me to
I almost cried watching this. So much pain in this country.
Love to DRC from South Africa!! 🇨🇩🇿🇦
Hi from italy
My parents from congo and I currently live In norway
@@tplrecordings5974 lies
love congo! From belgium 🇧🇪 ❤ 🇨🇩
Thank you for this video! I really appreciate!😊🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
please watch my video about DR Congo through my channel
I'm from Congo Kinshasa thank you for this Video😃
My Parents grew up with speaking lingala ,kikongo and French ❤🇨🇩
@@Lucas_Simoni 🙏🏾 thx
Same
Now I’m in Norway they speak diff language
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!!!!! Thank you for your efforts making these videos, thank you for sharing your incredibly VAST knowledge with us geography nerds. Your channel is literally what I binge on back to back every weekend. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you 🤩🥳
My left ear really -like- likes this video
Haha same lol
YOU SAVED MY HEADPHONES FROM TRASH
+katten elvis same
+katten elvis likes*
+Solaxe S ok
this is really cool since none really talks about Congo that much
Except me.
Thank you so much for this! I'm Congolese!
This video is probably the funniest, yet the most informative, description of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that I've ever come across！
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please watch my video about DR Congo through my channel
Im from Wales and I can't even say the name of that train station haha great job
Congo peeps?
RIGHT HERE , I live in Kinshasa , can we be friends?
EthaLDN I am
EthaLDN sorry british empire split us from africa and now were in Caribbean
Meeee🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Love to dr congo from italy
Am I the only one who loves the background music as well as the informative geography video.
"Do not let Banana fool you"
- Barby, 2016
I was born in the nineties but only know it as Congo 😂
+something random - Nah, I knew it as Zaire. ;-)
***** - Ooh. I see!
I remember it as Zaire too. Sounds better
JP B n
You probably didn’t pay attention in class lool
Samba is from the Congo too
Ok, I think Peadar took the same drug as Cyriak xD
XD
Haha
Agreed!
+SpektralJo gad I wasn't the only one thinking that.
Peadar is the creator of the animation at 0:43
Whoever's in charge of audio should step up their work.
It could be worse just go watch the Afghanistan episode
+eoin joyce it's true but this isn't even a hard fix, they just didn't pan the audio correctly after they realised they recorded in stereo
hi Democratic republic of conglo love you from India
*Congo
Love DR Congo from your brothers Far East ; Somalia :)
I'm from Bakongo tribe from Angola, I really love Congolese culture, food, dance. I wish I can visit it one day.
My gf was from angola, I couldn't agree more with you
Well, then if you don't mind I'm going to inform you that "bakongo" is a plural. So you, a single person can't be "bakongo", you're if anything mukongo.
Watching this in 2020. So informative! Couldn't find any good sources on this topic. Thanks!
Without Congo the electronic and phone should’t work because they own coltan and without it no electronic should work 🙏💪
10:27 you're soooo right!! My history class is sooo eurocentered
I love my country 🇨🇩 one day this country will be great, and we are working on it. We need to alway bring awareness on what is going.
You need to pray for it ! Only God can help us!
@@byamungusamuelnguma5577
We need to pray yes, but we also need action, business etc. We have a long way to go but i am confident that we will get there someday. DRC will become a tourist destination in the future 💚👍🏾
-Why won't anyone learn dutch?
/Because every time we talk in Dutch to you, you respond in English.
So very true. We instantly hear through your accent what your native language is and try to speak that.
Blood of those who fought for the freedom
Bloodshed of those who fought for the country
Blood of the ancestors who fought for the country
Same thing.
90's kid remembering Zaire makes you feel old!! I remember people talking about "Belgium Congo"!
🤣🤣
I know you said you wouldn't get into many details about the conflicts, but no mention of Patrice Lumumba? Really? Come on now, just showing a his face for a second with no mention to an audience you know knows little about the DRC's history, makes this video fall short
Da Kumite thank you! Long Live Lumumba!! 🇨🇩
We need to do away with this notion of personality cult, it breeds dictators. There is no reason to put "liberation leaders"on a pedestal. I am South African and we say all the time that Nelson Mandela should not be treated as a God, he was 1 member of a big grassroot movement, many people suffered more, lost more but remain unsung. To steal words from Ernesto Che Guavara "Liberators do not exist, people liberate themselves
you'll need 10 episodes for russian federation :p
We thought the same for China :)
Gℓʋѵɩćħツ no he won't. China was only 20 minutes. Russia will probably not be 20 minutes.
how about indonesia bro.
I am from the future and i assure it will be 20min.
It is 30 minutes.
12:00 You really see Tanzania as Africa's uncle XD
you have also mentioned it before as uncle
It's so cute ^^
0:44
I was not ready !
I really hope the Situation in the DR Congo improves immediately. .
this has to be the best video I found on my country. man you rock
My left ear seemed to enjoy the video more than my right ear.
+MetaKnight64 the right ear enjoyed the music
My left ear took all the music away from my right.
Congo: Our best friend is the other Congo
Angola: Am I a joke to you?
Tanzania & Zimbabwe: you gotta be kidding me, we sent soldiers to fight you wars.
@@RK7LifeLine Who ask you?
I'm Congolese and I'm glad someone made an informative video of my country❤
Funny story... I recently bought a large world map to teach my kids geography and was like, “wait, where the hell is Zaire?” Now I know...
What are you doing, Step Congo? 3:12
This is my favorite UA-cam video so far
it was almost a year ago since you did Bandiaterra for April Fools Day, and now one year later still on the Cs! So are we going to get to Zimbabwe by 2040?
+glennaldosf I feel the same
going to Congo in September and came to see this video as preparation :D
How was it?
The DRC definitely has everything to be one of the top 3 richest countries on earth.
Ah yes, Leopold II was notoriously hands off when it came to colonialism.
+meanmanturbo I see what you did there ;)
i feel bad for laughing
Zaire is a cooler name than DRC tho
though*
+DetroitBall who cares ?xd
+Nebula Mirage It Is Correct
DetroitBall My bad, in Spanish it's República Democrática del Congo instead of Democratic Republic of Congo, so I'm used to write it the other way around
Nebula Mirage Well, since it wasn't an error of grammar but one of translation I guess he isn't a grammar nazi. More like a language nazi