British Colonization of Africa | Animated History

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  1. For you africans and black people,did you know that in liberia black people slaved other black people,did you know otoman empire murdered and killed a lot of people on the balkans ,did you know africans empires killed and murdered each other,for you colonialism and imperialism is just bad when it comes from white people

  2. I'd like to thank you for acknowledging the conflicts between the Ashanti empire and the British. I just love the history of the Ashanti empire and their resistance against colonial powers like the British empire!

  3. As a Brit, I never learnt anything about British colonialism in school. I can't stand that some countries (including my own) won't acknowledge the bad parts of their past and only teaches the "good parts". This is one of the reasons I respect the German school system so much…. That being that they actually admit they did messed up stuff

  4. Describing the Ashanti as "natives" is a bit much. It is as if you'd fight Poles in the French Mediterranean coast and call the Poles natives.
    The Ashanti moved into this area not too long before the British arrived. So both parties were new to the terrain, and neither of them were native to it

  5. "150 British soldiers held off 4,000 native braves". The sentence is a bit funny, methinks brave would be more deserved by the 150 there.

  6. Don’t bother with this video, it has too much of a horrible histories vibe to it, just read/listen to ‘Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning’ (2023) by Nigel Biggar.

  7. RULE BRITTANIA!BRITTANIA RULE THE WORLD!!!
    The ashanti really deserved it tho.Cant get away after you have killed 3 british guys when they haven't do any significant damage to you.

  8. My impression of colonial apologists, "Colonialism was good right? We enslaved you and you built a bridge for yourself." Anyways appreciated this video didn't sugar coat anything.

  9. Europeans are truly amazing 👏 😍 as a black man we all have to admire the ferocity amd ambition they had
    No doubt also the technological advances which my people didnt have to compete with European encroachment. Its sadly part of the world but it happens . I have no hatred towards the brits just admiration

  10. 1:55 See the DOORKNOB at on the left side? Doorknobs in Europe? DOORKNOBS NO HAVE! Only DOORHANDLES! Case in point: This happened here i Thailand where American SCHLAGE DOORKNOBS were introduced in 1970/80s. American interior design imperialism! One of these damned DOORKNOBS made me once loose my whole Sunday breakfast. On a tray: Coffee, eggs, bacon, carrot juice landed on the Persian carpet! OK. Now, try to visualize. A DOORHANDLE I could have easily opened the door with my elbow! Our house in Bangkok. Here we have replaced all the Doorknobs, including the fancy ones with wood inlay. ‘The Armchair Historian’ – Keep Up the Good Work! I sure like you content and I have subscribed. Do you have a PODCAST? Johnny BikeSanooK! From sunny tropical Thailand.

  11. It’s forever popular to highlight the egregious acts of the white Europeans and North Americans. A lot of these historians go out of his or her way to make sure their is awareness of how horrible the whites have been. All the white their guys are using a person’s skull as a mug! In his defense he did make mention of that twice. I am sure both sides were equally evil, anyone who is willing to go to war and to create that kind of desperation has a trace of pure evil in them.

    I think it is essential as the story or facts themselves are, to discuss the goings on of white imperialism. Doesn’t it seem like there is this bit of extra “see what we did, see how bad we are/once were as a people?” I just have this suspicion that onto those whom we behaved reprehensibly, they to had a hand in the aiding of these unspeakable acts. For example, black Africans helped bring their fellow blacks to port in order to be shipped off the continent into slavery. We (white dudes) we not the only ones behaving badly, however it has become fashionable it seems in these academic circles in the past decade to blame only ourselves.

    This post is about to get too long. I think I am disturbed by this historical-fashion-of-the-mind trend, since it gives ammunition to those who write about his or her enslaved ancestors of 160 years ago in this country that the whole darn thing was “our” fault. I heard an author on NPR who wrote about this very topic, that she and others African-Americans have had their families destroyed from slavery that occurred back when Lincoln was still upright. It has affected her emotionally that her great-great-great grandmother got sold off to a new master and lost her child and husband. While this is tragic and time alone does not make this right. It will forever be a sadness in the story of our country. The thing that frosts my flakes is that she did not once mention that her own people (speaking more globally, as she is a direct descendant of a black African family), played a part in the capture and transportation of this most heinous act. It was 100% the fault of whites. Connecting that with what is happening in these videos is that it seems like no one wants to talk about the whole truth. Just the parts that suit them. If we are attempting to use history to educate and learn from its stories, so that future persons understand how to improve our manmade racial impediments then is it not better to discuss the whole truth?

    The more we freely shame the white Europeans and North Americans for our insensitive behavior towards other groups of people of the world, the further we get away from the true narrative of how things came to pass. Then history is not useful at all other than replacing a magazine article while on the toilet. If history is to be used as a resource to improve let us be more sensible about belittling the group of people who made the Western world what it is today.

  12. I would like to see Africa restored to it's cultural Glory. Hopefully it will become more united and quit giving it's sovereignty away to the Chinese, Russians and other foreign entity's. Give the land back to it's people like Zimbabwe did.

  13. Now tell us all about American exploitation and genocide in Africa I look forward to that One,and there genocide in the middle east also ,the Philippines ????
    Drone strikes anyone ??

  14. Disappointed by the coverage of the Boer Wars, which fails to appreciate the moral greys of the situation, and to a degree some other instances of bias and misinformation. The British intervention to stop the slave trade in Dahomey was overlooked, for example of bias.
    As for misinformation, the Spanish used camps in Cuba prior to the Second Boer War, albeit on a smaller scale once Lord Kitchener's ruthless anti-insurgency tactics were employed, which caused the dangerous ballooning of camp populations in order to (incompetently) protect the displaced civilians.

    Incompetence is the key word here. The British were not out to eradicate the Boers, nor did they use them as slave labour to my knowledge, they were simply ruthless in their strategy to defeat the insurgents (who frequently used farmhouses as military staging posts), vastly underestimated the humanitarian effort required to implement Kitchener's plan without loss of life and were too slow in response once the situation became apparent. 'Squalor equals disease' should have been foreseen, as should the catalysation of disease caused by poor nutrition.
    The higher rate of native African loss of life is obviously down to racism by the British resulting in lower priority for amenities once reforms began to be instituted to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, however. That, specifically, is where attributions of 'deliberate neglect' should lie.