Caprivi Strip: Germany's Colonial Legacy in Namibia
Caprivi Strip: Germany's Colonial Legacy in Namibia
Stretching towards the Zambezi River, you’ll find the Caprivi Strip, which also sometimes is called Itenge or the Okavango Panhandle. Today it is part of Namibia and divided administratively between the Kavango East and Zambezi regions. Its largest settlement is Katima Mulilo, located at the point where the Zambezi reaches the Strip. Most of…
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All this would not have happened if…………
Caprivi strip obviously belongs to Estonia.
Know about the Germans wanting River access, did not know about the falls
Subscribed my guy. Loved The Gambia video
It's more interesting as a swamp
It’s actually called the Zambezi Strip now…it was renamed in the 2013 timeframe when the Kavango region was split.
Thanks for the great video! Ialways wondered abuot the strip since being a kid and looking at maps.
To much waffle, 4m+ before u get to the nub
Si do I understand this correctly. If you hold a UK passport, live in Gib. You are not able to cross La Frontera since un reserva de hotel? 😠😠😠😤😤😤
Absolutely loved the concise conclusion right at the end to sum up all these fascinating details. Great work.
The UK really should have taken back Heligoland after WW2.
Former German colony of German Southwest Africa. Known for Diamond Mines. Cut from German Empire after WWI settlement.
Poor Africa.
Well done
A huge missing piece of
The puzzle is the former DDR
You can't just excise an area from the planet, it is not like a map, it is REAL. I has existed since the formation of the earth, and it will be there at the end too.
'promo sm' 😘
Germany found that all the good countries had slready been colonised by othe countries. The United States is what Germany has instead of a colony.
@Tobi-In9xr• game on, I am pleased you raised that.
Because the British lied to the Germans is the shortest most out of context yet accurate response you can give to someone asking about the caprivi region
I'll definitely be using that
As well as Wakhan koridor
There are a lot of forgotten tales in colonial history pertaining to German states: Brandenburg owning Arguin or Trinidad, Austrian colonial ambitions in Western Sahara or Bengal, Kurland in Gambia. Also stuff like while Switzerland never owned a colony as a state, the fact that there's a buckload of settlements and colonies by Swiss people which existed from the US & Brazil to Crimea and an obscure & short-lived factory-town in Algeria.
It was some trade between Germany and England as far I know.
RIP herero and namaqua
Hey first time watching your videos, it's cool to see someone talk about lesser known countries. If you want a recommendation I think Salzburg would be an interesting nation to cover, it was closely aligned with Austria before annexation by the Austrian Empire after it's defeat against Napoleon.
Dont forget the Irish in Jamaica
Thank you watching from Windhoek Namibia
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Is this where the Africa Queen was fired as by the German Gunboat?
Prior to the damming of the Columbia River , locks and canals were made to bypass rapids and waterfalls .
I'm going to go ahead and assume it exists to access a lake and/or river
I'd say one waterfall didn't make a river unusable for transportation. There were many rivers that had navigable stretches interrupted by cataracts, like the Nile or Congo. You had to figure out how to transport goods between the navigable stretches, for instance by building a railroad. The Zambezi was probably a very challenging case and the German colonies were not nearly valuable enough to build this infrastructure.
My home town ❤
Very interesting clip. Thank you!
They certainly have a pretty flag. I would even venture to say it is one of the prettiest in the world.
Its in the Northeast of Namibia, which used to be called Southwest Africa. So basically it should be called Northeast Southwest Africa
Could you also make a video about the Herero and Namaqua or Maji-Maji genocide? Those were very important colonial wars which shaped the population and historical understanding of the population in that region till today.
Namibia is one of a few former German colonies in which the German influence is still very visible. I guess it has something to do with the fact that German settlers were allowed to stay after the end of WW1.