The British displaced Kenyans from our Highlands and designated these as White Highlands, where the Europeans could own up to 20,000 Hectares of land while Africans were pushed into native reserves. Those who dissented were put in concentration camps, like my grandparents. They also retained control of the Kenyan economy even after independence. There is a famous book called "Not Yet Uhuru" translated to "Not Yet Independent" written a few years after independence. Even the post-independence leaders were handpicked, so that they could be poster-children, and their corruption and dictatorship were overlooked by mother Britain. Africa was literally designed to fail.
@@LewisWanjia people like you simply cant be reasoned with if you think that africans bear absolutely no part in their own fates, and that their entire destiny is the result and product of europe, well then thats your decision
Guess you never heard of the Herero Rebellion in what was German Southwest Africa between 1904 and 1906. Thousands of Africans were slaughtered by German colonial forces.
Seems pretty true for the era of 1870-1945. Germany appears to have had the biggest urge at the time to show the other powers how tough they were. They tried to catch up to other empires by going further, reacting harder to pushbacks and generally cranking the empire game to 11. It backfired quite spectacularly, in particular when it was done so amateurishly after the Bismarck era. I hope new geopolitical powers won't repeat those mistakes.
Because they fought against the Roman Empire with amristus going behind enemy lines to be the definition of a double agent and that ideology that freed unfortunately went unchecked so you have only mental health disabled people going into the job of killing people = military.
@@prophetsspaceengineering2913 Because they fought against the Roman Empire with amristus going behind enemy lines to be the definition of a double agent and that ideology that freed unfortunately went unchecked so you have only mental health disabled people going into the job of killing people = military.
Yet most Europeans don't want to understand, accept, or know why the happenings of today world. Major part of today's problems are part of these European actions in the world. The current generation if Europeans needs to know this.
As an African I really find it hard to hear that Europeans in 1884 were thinking about Africa as a nation. No body built a colony for eventual independence, it was at best a land grab. Saying Africa was built to fail shouldn't be part of 1884 but leaders over time who have failed to build a nation state or allow factions go their separate ways
africa is not the responsibility of europeans if africans want a good life free from the influence of europe, they have to be like everyone else and work hard for what they want
@@Gravitatis If Europe and America will leave Africa alone and stop imposing their will on Africa and stop getting involved in the internal affairs of the countries of Africa then Africa can focus on its development. The world doesn't operate in a vacuum and Africa's problems are intrinsically linked to Europe and America's meddling. Now that the world is becoming multipolar and Europe and America are going through their own crisis and downfall, maybe then Africa can start to make advances which we are already seeing taking place in West Africa
The Berlin Conference made it "okay" and justifiable for these European nations to colonize all of Africa, so inevitably everyone wanted a fair share, Signed by United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the United States of America, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden-Norway, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire). The arbitrary drawing of borders during the Berlin Conference remains a source of political instability in Africa.
I wouldn't think the arbitrary drawing of borders would be the focus. That probably goes to the INVADING, and the STEALING. Really the borders would be way, way down...
Out of guilt because of the last catastrophe😂😂😂but it is ridiculous to keep blaming germany, not oncecdid they lose a fair fight, the cowards are laugging now
This is something that European leaders have to acknowledge and make peace with because most African people and governments distrust the European Union meddling in their business even if those European countries have good intentions to create great relationships with African countries that's why they're turning to China 🇨🇳.
@@GTA5Player1 Cooperate with those who are still willing. Otherwise, just wait and see really. Keep a light on and an open hand outstretched. China and much less Russia aren't going into this with the best of intentions either and they're already causing their own conflicts and grudges. More interest in the region is good though. It gives countries options and creates competition among investors. That's what growing independence looks like.
That's just the thing, Europe never has any good intention in any parts of the world unless its with their masters (The U.S.A). Thankfully, as you stated the European Union is losing influence in Africa to China and also Russia, as a multipolar world is firmly in place.
Best reparations would be for the EU to alleviate the sufferings that cause so many to leave their homes. Undeniably a historical wrong, looked at through our eyes today.140 years ago is a different matter. It is the nature of man - man's inhumanity to man. We must learn from the past and put a stop to these wars
They didn’t have the colonists still hanging on to old assets. Most were of the SE Asian and central Asian countries either got full independence or some sort of government oversight by the west. Africa has only just started (by comparison of time) to boot out the western countries and their business assets. Plus Africa actually has massive natural resources that are used by first world countries. Or the west. 😮💨 😂
“Understand” is a weird word to use here. It almost suggests that Germany is an innocent victim just trying to understand why Africa is mad. You’d think the direct perpetrator of a crime would clearly understand what they have done. But nope, the denial is deep.
The author forgets to mention that the reason why the large diversity of linguistic groups in present day Nigeria isn’t only about intent to destabilize its foundations, it’s a tactic that the British deployed. People forget that slavery in Nigeria, mainly the SW part, was the main landmass of the Slave Coast, that majorly contributed to the large diversity of linguistic differences and “tribes” Slave Coast bordered Delta in the easternmost of the Coast to Volta river in westernmost point (present day Ghana) with mostly France & Portugal having holdings in the middle
The Berlin Conference established the legal claim by Europeans that all of Africa could be occupied by whomever could take it. It also established a process for Europeans to cooperate rather than fight with each other. This cooperation played a huge role in the division and conquest of Africa.
without the berlin conference, africa would have been the cause of wars between european powers competing over colonies in africa the berlin conference really had less to do with africa and more about maintaining peace in europe
@@LewisWanjia oh boy, let me grab the world's smallest violin places all around the world were colonized by europe, but most of those places are doing much better than africa is
@@Gravitatis While we are at it, you can tell me where else post independence leaders were assasinated by their colonial powers. I can name 7 for you in Africa, which was meant as a warning to others. Or better yet, you can tell me where else post independence leaders were overthrown by Western backed puppets, who turned out to be dictatorial, corrupt, and very friendly with the West, and even owned mansions in Europe. Or better yet, you can tell me where else the colonial powers maintained ownership of mineral resources even after pretending to give the natives their independence, I can name you a few in Africa. Or better yet, you can tell me where else the colonialists forced Africans to buy back their rightful land with loans from the same countries, leaving freshly independent nations with humongous debts. Kenya from example was loaned 50,000,000 British Pounds to buy back land from the British, haha, the irony. Or better yet, tell me which other continent was prevented from industrializing and processing its minerals on its own, and to only extract raw materials to be processed and manufactured in other continents. Do you need other examples?
African leaders must become less corrupt, they were selling their own people to slavery 300 years ago, and now they are stealing the funds from their own people...
We blame Germany on many things but as former coloniser to Rwanda I was not that bad as they had very big development projects. It was bad that Germany lost and Rwanda was given to evil Belgium. Belgium is the master of all evils considering how many Congolese killed by King Leopard and division,hate, discrimination, that resulted in Genocide,wars,civil unrest in African great lakes (DR Congo,Rwanda and Burundi) shame to Belgium!
Germany has a long and “bloody” history in Africa and it needs to own its past accordingly. Africa is an incredible and diverse continent that deserves respect and dignity! Let’s be an example for the rest and own our past here and move on. We owe to the people of Africa!
Could you please tell me how "long" germany's history in Africa was?🤔 I was under the impression that it only started after Bismarck and ended with WW1. That would make it last shorter than a high-quality car.
For African leaders this conversation is not fair. Will let people understand that the borders were drawn with no reason and will increase the secessionism.
Isn't it strange that the African countries themselves that had and still have these straight borders 50+ years later after independence, still have not rectified the ethnic/tribal divisions and still have these straight dividing lines. So maybe it is in the interest of these African countries to have straight borders. Nor those large African countries with many ethnic groups have allowed their 'allo-ethnic' parts of their territories to secede / become countries of their own right; especially not peacefully. So again it is the African countries that have been seeing a benefit in keeping these. I don't buy into the presenter's argument about these.
The issue is the ensuing civil wars that would emerge and the migrations from the wars that would hit not just North Africa but Europe would be catastrophic. Africa's population has grown since the colonial era. And trying to redefine borders is not easy, look at the Middle East for that. People have made homes in their current locations with all that entails.
We understand that the borders were tactfully designed to be easier to cause civil wars whenever the west wanted to. They made sure to join previous mortal enemies into one country and divide same groups into different countries with different colonizers.
@ the point is that there have been several decades during which such countries have been independent and yet their own and often celebrated leaders did not rectify what you claim to be this grave misjustice.
How about the other influences in Africa? Is the British and Frensh influence not more prominent, and should it not be considered? Why focus on the German influence?
Germany is where the conference was held. They pretty much say it in the interview. But all of the European and western countries that had stakes in Africa have either lost that control or have willingly withdrawn from those territories. So I figured there was no reason to bring it up.
Don't forget German colonial criminals massacred millions of Namibians without any apology or compensation yet they're forcing Africa to support them to defend American useless democracy in Ukraine Absolutely nonsense😡
Yeah this is an important issue, so is the war in Ukraine. Defending democracy is just as important as remembering what happened in Africa during colonialism.
How was islam spread in Africa? Was it europeans? Why not to blame arab countries? The guy talked about borders and ethnic groups. Does he mean ethnic groups are enemies? Why to blame Europe and not the ethnic groups who could make new borders?
God, who is the maker of everything, is merciful. Galatians 3:28 says,'We are all one in Christ Jesus'. 1884, it wasn't before Jesus Christ. Therefore, they were supposed to have heard the Good News Matthew 20:28 says Jedus came to serve not to be served'. They have heard about it, too. We can consider that it is the past. That man can make mistakes. But when nowadays, in the framework of cooperation between the nations of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific and the European Union (ACP/EU). A framework where the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, together have a chief negotiator and the European Union has a chief negotiator, when the chief negotiator for countries of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, is a representative of a 60-year-old dynastic tyranny in West Africa, it is simply a tragedy. Haiti is a nation of the Caribbean. What lesson of pity, self-restraint, humility, or fear of God do a decades old dynastic tyranny inculcate to Haiti?
Let`s not forget about the huge german legacy that was left behind back in latin America on early 1820`s.. yeah fellas, 19th century and still Germany don`t want to take part of it and don`t help them how they deserve, only if there will be reasons to explore the Germans Latins then yeah, of course they will be interest to "help" them
Halo @dw , where do you get to make a statement that says "and none of the African leaders were invited". Where do you think a coloniser will invite a colonised to hear how they will be controlled.
i mean in the 1880s i really doubt any of the african "nations" were even capable of engaging in diplomacy with any of the european powers did the african "nations" even have diplomats capable of travelling to europe?
"No Africa leader was there", wait a minute 😂is this guy serious? Does Murderers and thieves call you to attend to hear what they are going to do to you? 😅this is news reporting on another dumb level.
Rememberance around Europe and colonialism is too one-sided. I am happy to teach my kids about history and crimes during colonial rule. But then I wil also teach them things like the Haber-Bosch process, fertilizers and machinery, which have allowed africa's and the world's population to explode. If you teach history one-sided, people in africa and similar will somehow get the impression that we owe them something.
Well of course. Africans didn't invent the gun or gun powder so there's that. But it's doing alright. You gotta remember the population of Africa was still rather small in it's interior
Sounds like a skill issue to me. The Europeans wouldn't have colonized Africa if the Europeans weren't already ahead. Sub-Saharan Africa didn't even have the wheel before it got colonized.
Does the skill issue apply in the same way when one European country invades another European country similar to what’s going on there at this very moment?
I'm British and when i was a child we skipped of much of this when studying history at school.
no one cares
The British displaced Kenyans from our Highlands and designated these as White Highlands, where the Europeans could own up to 20,000 Hectares of land while Africans were pushed into native reserves. Those who dissented were put in concentration camps, like my grandparents.
They also retained control of the Kenyan economy even after independence. There is a famous book called "Not Yet Uhuru" translated to "Not Yet Independent" written a few years after independence.
Even the post-independence leaders were handpicked, so that they could be poster-children, and their corruption and dictatorship were overlooked by mother Britain. Africa was literally designed to fail.
@@LewisWanjia well we definitely didn't cover that in my schools history lessons.
@@LewisWanjia
people like you simply cant be reasoned with
if you think that africans bear absolutely no part in their own fates, and that their entire destiny is the result and product of europe, well then thats your decision
@@matthewbaynham6286
well you must have not gone to a very good school, because dumb little stories get posted like that all the time
It was a conference of thieves and criminals who gathered to steal our land. We shall never forget.
Zimbabwe lol
200+ years later and a few people in Africa are now just finding out about the conference! Typical
it sounds like germany is always at the centre of all historic wrongs
A founding member state of the Three Wise Monkeys colonial alliance.
Guess you never heard of the Herero Rebellion in what was German Southwest Africa between 1904 and 1906. Thousands of Africans were slaughtered by German colonial forces.
Seems pretty true for the era of 1870-1945. Germany appears to have had the biggest urge at the time to show the other powers how tough they were. They tried to catch up to other empires by going further, reacting harder to pushbacks and generally cranking the empire game to 11. It backfired quite spectacularly, in particular when it was done so amateurishly after the Bismarck era. I hope new geopolitical powers won't repeat those mistakes.
Because they fought against the Roman Empire with amristus going behind enemy lines to be the definition of a double agent and that ideology that freed unfortunately went unchecked so you have only mental health disabled people going into the job of killing people = military.
@@prophetsspaceengineering2913 Because they fought against the Roman Empire with amristus going behind enemy lines to be the definition of a double agent and that ideology that freed unfortunately went unchecked so you have only mental health disabled people going into the job of killing people = military.
Yet most Europeans don't want to understand, accept, or know why the happenings of today world. Major part of today's problems are part of these European actions in the world. The current generation if Europeans needs to know this.
Please also remember the Namibian genocide.
Also the Rwanda genocide
Rep of Congo as well
As an African I really find it hard to hear that Europeans in 1884 were thinking about Africa as a nation. No body built a colony for eventual independence, it was at best a land grab. Saying Africa was built to fail shouldn't be part of 1884 but leaders over time who have failed to build a nation state or allow factions go their separate ways
africa is not the responsibility of europeans
if africans want a good life free from the influence of europe, they have to be like everyone else and work hard for what they want
@@Gravitatis If Europe and America will leave Africa alone and stop imposing their will on Africa and stop getting involved in the internal affairs of the countries of Africa then Africa can focus on its development. The world doesn't operate in a vacuum and Africa's problems are intrinsically linked to Europe and America's meddling. Now that the world is becoming multipolar and Europe and America are going through their own crisis and downfall, maybe then Africa can start to make advances which we are already seeing taking place in West Africa
@@impy3077
most of africa is in either china's, russia's, or america's back pocket
@@Gravitatisin who's pocket are you.
@@fredrikr6280
schopenhauer's
The Berlin Conference made it "okay" and justifiable for these European nations to colonize all of Africa, so inevitably everyone wanted a fair share, Signed by United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the United States of America, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden-Norway, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire). The arbitrary drawing of borders during the Berlin Conference remains a source of political instability in Africa.
Yay someone has read a book or two. Some of these other comments show the lack of knowledge of history in western countries.
Russia & Turkey didn't participate.
You are foolish ., Russia never been part of such human crime!!!
I wouldn't think the arbitrary drawing of borders would be the focus. That probably goes to the INVADING, and the STEALING. Really the borders would be way, way down...
Russia and turkey didn't participate in that evil gathering.
Never mind the Berlin Conference...we have the German government actively complicit in yet another historic catastrophes right now!
Don't forget the Nama and Herero Genocide and Holocaust in Namibia
Your right We must Help Israel we will Not be remembered Like Chamberlain
Those people they repeat everything that was done by their ancestors
Out of guilt because of the last catastrophe😂😂😂but it is ridiculous to keep blaming germany, not oncecdid they lose a fair fight, the cowards are laugging now
@@MusehanaH No? Lol.
This is something that European leaders have to acknowledge and make peace with because most African people and governments distrust the European Union meddling in their business even if those European countries have good intentions to create great relationships with African countries that's why they're turning to China 🇨🇳.
The thing about "acknowledging" is the question of what's next? What are you gonna do about it?
"Good intentions" 😂
@@GTA5Player1 Cooperate with those who are still willing. Otherwise, just wait and see really. Keep a light on and an open hand outstretched. China and much less Russia aren't going into this with the best of intentions either and they're already causing their own conflicts and grudges. More interest in the region is good though. It gives countries options and creates competition among investors. That's what growing independence looks like.
That's just the thing, Europe never has any good intention in any parts of the world unless its with their masters (The U.S.A). Thankfully, as you stated the European Union is losing influence in Africa to China and also Russia, as a multipolar world is firmly in place.
I am from the Kongo tribe and the kingdom was divided into 4 country territories to weaken us... Pure evil
Best reparations would be for the EU to alleviate the sufferings that cause so many to leave their homes. Undeniably a historical wrong, looked at through our eyes today.140 years ago is a different matter. It is the nature of man - man's inhumanity to man. We must learn from the past and put a stop to these wars
In my observations this is what these scholars are doing but we all need to invest deeper in overcoming our challenges.
what does your comment even mean my dude? you wrote an entire paragraph without saying anything
Africa's efforts to understand its misery..
Yeah, and the content of that Misery is the sun dodging cave derived nonsense from Europe.
Why did SE Asian nations managed their post independence far better than African and Arab nations ?
Because you didn't enslaved them for 400 years you did to Africans.,
No western sponsored coups, no minerals no origins of mankind 😊
They didn’t have the colonists still hanging on to old assets. Most were of the SE Asian and central Asian countries either got full independence or some sort of government oversight by the west. Africa has only just started (by comparison of time) to boot out the western countries and their business assets. Plus Africa actually has massive natural resources that are used by first world countries. Or the west.
😮💨 😂
Democracy
They did not enslaved by.... for 400 years.
What we Africans need now is looking forward and revisionist political dogma will not yield us a better outcome.
“Understand” is a weird word to use here. It almost suggests that Germany is an innocent victim just trying to understand why Africa is mad. You’d think the direct perpetrator of a crime would clearly understand what they have done. But nope, the denial is deep.
The author forgets to mention that the reason why the large diversity of linguistic groups in present day Nigeria isn’t only about intent to destabilize its foundations, it’s a tactic that the British deployed. People forget that slavery in Nigeria, mainly the SW part, was the main landmass of the Slave Coast, that majorly contributed to the large diversity of linguistic differences and “tribes”
Slave Coast bordered Delta in the easternmost of the Coast to Volta river in westernmost point (present day Ghana) with mostly France & Portugal having holdings in the middle
The Berlin Conference established the legal claim by Europeans that all of Africa could be occupied by whomever could take it. It also established a process for Europeans to cooperate rather than fight with each other. This cooperation played a huge role in the division and conquest of Africa.
without the berlin conference, africa would have been the cause of wars between european powers competing over colonies in africa
the berlin conference really had less to do with africa and more about maintaining peace in europe
"Legal" lol
Don't forget slavery, it was one of the worse impact on both the slave captives and the communities from which they were taken from.
Places being called Bismarckplatz shows how Germany views this issue. Double Standardism!
So nice to see German reporters employed by a German news channel.
Nice to see another NCEL commenting irrelevancy. classy NCL
Very interesting!
"We are poor victims, our failure is all your fault"
How did people live in Africa 400 years ago?
Human rights?
Development?
Are europeans guilty for anything bad, even coups and wars?
how do people live in africa in the present day?
@@Gravitatis With the effects of European colonization
@@LewisWanjia
oh boy, let me grab the world's smallest violin
places all around the world were colonized by europe, but most of those places are doing much better than africa is
@@Gravitatis While we are at it, you can tell me where else post independence leaders were assasinated by their colonial powers. I can name 7 for you in Africa, which was meant as a warning to others.
Or better yet, you can tell me where else post independence leaders were overthrown by Western backed puppets, who turned out to be dictatorial, corrupt, and very friendly with the West, and even owned mansions in Europe.
Or better yet, you can tell me where else the colonial powers maintained ownership of mineral resources even after pretending to give the natives their independence, I can name you a few in Africa.
Or better yet, you can tell me where else the colonialists forced Africans to buy back their rightful land with loans from the same countries, leaving freshly independent nations with humongous debts. Kenya from example was loaned 50,000,000 British Pounds to buy back land from the British, haha, the irony.
Or better yet, tell me which other continent was prevented from industrializing and processing its minerals on its own, and to only extract raw materials to be processed and manufactured in other continents.
Do you need other examples?
@@Gravitatistell me the places doing better now ?. The middle east ?, India ?, Malaysia ? . All this poor countries
and I quote from the comment, 'it sounds like germany is always at the centre of all historic wrongs.'
How can we move on when these racist colonial rules and laws are still in place, how can we move on???
African leaders must become less corrupt, they were selling their own people to slavery 300 years ago, and now they are stealing the funds from their own people...
african nations create their own laws
Just befriend russia
Given the problems we were left by the colonisers, as Africans, we have done a good job to maintain stability and order.
We blame Germany on many things but as former coloniser to Rwanda I was not that bad as they had very big development projects. It was bad that Germany lost and Rwanda was given to evil Belgium. Belgium is the master of all evils considering how many Congolese killed by King Leopard and division,hate, discrimination, that resulted in Genocide,wars,civil unrest in African great lakes (DR Congo,Rwanda and Burundi) shame to Belgium!
Thanks for sharing, Germany
I mean @imvanotv106*
Germany has a long and “bloody” history in Africa and it needs to own its past accordingly.
Africa is an incredible and diverse continent that deserves respect and dignity!
Let’s be an example for the rest and own our past here and move on.
We owe to the people of Africa!
Nonsense we owe them nothing they started it with carthige
@ there’s the Whataboutism I’ve been waiting for !!
Could you please tell me how "long" germany's history in Africa was?🤔
I was under the impression that it only started after Bismarck and ended with WW1. That would make it last shorter than a high-quality car.
@@johnfenechdoe3148Don't wait on useless comments by bots.
They are designed to give ridiculous answers.
@@johnfenechdoe3148No it isnt whataboutism where are my my reperations for what they did to Portugal and Spain for 800 years?
The agonizing legacy of the Berlin conference still live in Africa each day and until and unless there's reparative justice there can never be peace
For African leaders this conversation is not fair. Will let people understand that the borders were drawn with no reason and will increase the secessionism.
HAILE selassie i is God .. the world should know...
"WE APPLAUD THE SERPENT OF COLONIALISM IN BREATHING ITS LAST BREATH" HAILE SELASSIE I
African country govern themselves the way they were governed. That is the colonial heritage. How to revert that is the question.
Will they blame the Roman Empire, the Babylon, Geighis Khan?
This is not something from the past, Europe continues to behave like colonialists.
They divided the continent so haphazardly in total disregard to diverse nationhood existing in the continent.
The alternative was tribal homelands
@gibson2675
And there was nothing wrong with tribal homelands.
In SA the apartheid regime tried to impose these tribal homelands on us and we rejected it
No. What becomes of Africa is upon the African leaders. We do not yet have them really committed to the development of their countries.
Isn't it strange that the African countries themselves that had and still have these straight borders 50+ years later after independence, still have not rectified the ethnic/tribal divisions and still have these straight dividing lines. So maybe it is in the interest of these African countries to have straight borders. Nor those large African countries with many ethnic groups have allowed their 'allo-ethnic' parts of their territories to secede / become countries of their own right; especially not peacefully. So again it is the African countries that have been seeing a benefit in keeping these. I don't buy into the presenter's argument about these.
The issue is the ensuing civil wars that would emerge and the migrations from the wars that would hit not just North Africa but Europe would be catastrophic. Africa's population has grown since the colonial era. And trying to redefine borders is not easy, look at the Middle East for that. People have made homes in their current locations with all that entails.
We understand that the borders were tactfully designed to be easier to cause civil wars whenever the west wanted to. They made sure to join previous mortal enemies into one country and divide same groups into different countries with different colonizers.
@ the point is that there have been several decades during which such countries have been independent and yet their own and often celebrated leaders did not rectify what you claim to be this grave misjustice.
They always make sure Africa is always behind even now.
Namibia or European history is wicked cant reflect my history one love
How about the other influences in Africa? Is the British and Frensh influence not more prominent, and should it not be considered? Why focus on the German influence?
Isn’t this literally a German news channel? Probably why they’re focusing on Germany
.. and, do I have to fear, that my house will be raided, as of my post here?
Germany is where the conference was held. They pretty much say it in the interview. But all of the European and western countries that had stakes in Africa have either lost that control or have willingly withdrawn from those territories. So I figured there was no reason to bring it up.
Don't plan another Berlin conference and you won't be raided. Lmao
@@neilnelson7603What do you mean "raided"?
If someone tries to raid us, he will get hurt.
Don't forget German colonial criminals massacred millions of Namibians without any apology or compensation yet they're forcing Africa to support them to defend American useless democracy in Ukraine Absolutely nonsense😡
Yeah this is an important issue, so is the war in Ukraine. Defending democracy is just as important as remembering what happened in Africa during colonialism.
They still own the land they stole
Not in Zimbabwe. We have all the land lol
How was islam spread in Africa?
Was it europeans?
Why not to blame arab countries?
The guy talked about borders and ethnic groups.
Does he mean ethnic groups are enemies?
Why to blame Europe and not the ethnic groups who could make new borders?
There's nothing to understand, except reperations for Namibians.
The scramble for Africa, China and Samoa. Economic profit-seeking business as usual.
Boxer rebellion
God, who is the maker of everything, is merciful. Galatians 3:28 says,'We are all one in Christ Jesus'. 1884, it wasn't before Jesus Christ. Therefore, they were supposed to have heard the Good News Matthew 20:28 says Jedus came to serve not to be served'. They have heard about it, too.
We can consider that it is the past. That man can make mistakes. But when nowadays, in the framework of cooperation between the nations of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific and the European Union (ACP/EU).
A framework where the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, together have a chief negotiator and the European Union has a chief negotiator, when the chief negotiator for countries of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, is a representative of a 60-year-old dynastic tyranny in West Africa, it is simply a tragedy.
Haiti is a nation of the Caribbean. What lesson of pity, self-restraint, humility, or fear of God do a decades old dynastic tyranny inculcate to Haiti?
It is all about igbo biafrans! In easten part of so called Nigeria, and there brother the congolaise, or should i said, the bantus
Namibia be waiting.
Let`s not forget about the huge german legacy that was left behind back in latin America on early 1820`s.. yeah fellas, 19th century and still Germany don`t want to take part of it and don`t help them how they deserve, only if there will be reasons to explore the Germans Latins then yeah, of course they will be interest to "help" them
I have seen too many unhistorical claims in this comment section...
When was Germany united?💁🏻♂️
Shame
😢Sellout...😢REPARATIONS ...✊🏿❤
Reparations now, but fair banking yes let unseen nations have opportunities to help their citizens
Is good to remind African viewers the German genocide in Namibia and the continuos occupation of the nativ lands in Namibia
Halo @dw , where do you get to make a statement that says "and none of the African leaders were invited". Where do you think a coloniser will invite a colonised to hear how they will be controlled.
Everyone tries to squeeze money out of Germany
Stop being on the wrong side.
How much did they squeeze from Africa?
De-Population programs like war and slavery are effective tactics. History is important.
😢🤨✊🏿💔
There’s understanding and not forgetting and then there is being revisionist and misappropriating…
the three Cs
Only if Africans spend half of the time thinking about their past....
Not that every single british documentary isnt about their great days during WWII. It seems that nothing happened in that country since...
@@gaborrajnai6213 every country has their: "back in the day we were great" pile of ... , some maybe more :))
Correction, NOT the “so called”, it was a real scramble for Africa 😢
i mean in the 1880s i really doubt any of the african "nations" were even capable of engaging in diplomacy with any of the european powers
did the african "nations" even have diplomats capable of travelling to europe?
We will never know, will we.
@@bhekimzamo1505it’s called a book read one. Africa does have a history that’s not steeped in racisist ignorance.
Yes Africa has had delegates and royalty visit the European royalty. And embassy’s. And royal Europeans also visited Africas royalty and leaders.
@@clintonwashington8609I don't need a book, I'm an African who lives in Africa.
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for every sovereign tribe in africa?
"No Africa leader was there", wait a minute 😂is this guy serious? Does Murderers and thieves call you to attend to hear what they are going to do to you? 😅this is news reporting on another dumb level.
The scramble for Palestine, Ukraine and Taiwan. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
A traumatic Continent😮
mmmh open discussion
Yeah, cause they never stopped and are still doing now.. reference to the new cities there building
Let me guess: reparationsss
Dipo - i like your name be > > Faluyen . All 5 vowels in it . . . . . .
Western came as theive but converted as stolers 😂
legacy??? is genocie a legacy? please study your history well.
yes it is a legacy, a terrible one, but a legacy all the same...
I'm surprised dw allowed this topic
There is a reluctance to discuss this sort of thing because no one on the planet wants to be blamed for things they did not do.
Rememberance around Europe and colonialism is too one-sided.
I am happy to teach my kids about history and crimes during colonial rule. But then I wil also teach them things like the Haber-Bosch process, fertilizers and machinery, which have allowed africa's and the world's population to explode.
If you teach history one-sided, people in africa and similar will somehow get the impression that we owe them something.
More left this nonsense. support your own culture and your own country. Why are you making Germany do it?
Africans had an over 100,000-year head start on civilization and still got conquered; maybe a better question would be why is that.
Well of course. Africans didn't invent the gun or gun powder so there's that. But it's doing alright. You gotta remember the population of Africa was still rather small in it's interior
Gun
Imaginary head start. Even if that’s true empires rise and fall. Europeans were also once in the dark ages
Why did Genghis Khan conquer China, or most of Europe?
That's one way to approach ethics...
RUSSIA 🇷🇺 NEVER ATTENDED THE BERLIN CONFERENCE. THATS WHY THEY WILL WIN 🏆 IN UKRAINE 🇺🇦 😊
Yes exactly! The Russians are innocent angels protecting freedom, equality and equal rights as we all know.
And they still asked why African come here 😅😅,, or why we allied with Russia or China..
Failure
And now we're almost where the bittercup is passed over...and ye drink will they drink and swallow
Sounds like a skill issue to me. The Europeans wouldn't have colonized Africa if the Europeans weren't already ahead. Sub-Saharan Africa didn't even have the wheel before it got colonized.
Does the skill issue apply in the same way when one European country invades another European country similar to what’s going on there at this very moment?
@@davidmitchell3020of course
who cares about Africa? lmao
China for sure.
Who cares about you
China and Russia care about Africa. You will soon care about Africa as a person, watch and see.
Europe who colonized for Centuries.
where do you think the minerals EV batteries will be mined?
Well, back then they were eating each other.
Africa was like Mars 😂😂😂