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Shaka kaSezangakhona is one of the greatest warriors who ever lived on the African continent, a military genius, and the most powerful king who ruled in southern Africa. We Africans have no doubt at all and do not rely on eurocentric narratives. In our book of bravery, Shaka is our hero, the personification of greatness!
Exactly. They always like to vilify our great African leaders. Smh. How about the hundreds of Western leaders through out history till today who were far worse!
The Lion taught the hunter how to write walk up right and eat with a knife in fork not crawl on all fours from out of the Cacus mountains eating with their hands fingers and never even seen aA book
Exactly! They supported all their dictators. All the monarchies in Europe are dictators. They still exist. I agree that they sometimes need more power to mince their nose into interior politics. However, they are still powerful. The monarchy of Belgium in 1800's when they got their independence from the United Netherlands. None one elected King Leopold the First, nor was his cruel son Leopold II. Many others were in power the same way. Still in power now. The Europeans always praised them. Our African leaders are always the Vilain. It's all race-based. It's so sick. Even when they did the Berlin conference in 1885. They accommodated Oman; the Omanis were still practicing slavery then. The Omanis were Arabs or Persians, so they were slightly lighter; they must have had a bit of civilization, which they did. What's it, civilization. It's not a quantitative or qualitative concept that you could measure or judge. There is no objectivity to it. They used all the theory to screw us. Dive to conquer within and with others like the Arabs and Persians. You can read and observe what they say and what they do. But could you use your brain? Be alert, very alert. They are always trying to be convenient and deceiving. They always use their convenient truth to their advantage. They never use facts.
It never ceases the amaze me how history is always written by the conquerors and so it'll always be written in such a way that they look good, while those who they pillaged looks bad... The fact of the matter, Shaka Zulu was an African, right? Those White-skinned men were not... So simply by him being able to set up a kingdom that lasted over 50 years ON HIS OWN CONTINENT, without him having to go to the White-skinned man's continent, that alone is an everlasting testament to this place in AFRICAN history, and that's all that matters!!!
What if a war broke out between the literats and the illiterates? Who is most likely to write the history? If the war was a horrific savage bloody war of conquest. Then it seems logical that the conquerors will be the ones writing the majority of the history. As by then the conquered may have been reduced to a handfull or just a few. Clearly any history they may have to tell or write is not going to be the victors tail. Especially is surrounded by the opposition victors. Also, clearly if the war is a war about who is going to rule after. Then in some cases the oppostionleader is going to be dead or willhave surrendered to save his remants. So clearly the victorious party would then be the countrys ruling party and therefore be writing the histor and making the decisions. As the surviving few remants may then be a very limited minority party. Still bloodies and stuggling. Then they won't be writing the history of the majority as if the war's outcome was different. If they did then the majority would just over write them. I do not know why it never ceases to amaze you. As it seems logical.
if you name an African leader; there’s a high chance that ‘African Biographics’ have made a video on them (they’ve made full videos on all three that you mentioned)
We baganda, basoga (of uganda) a few tanzanians , zambians, zimbabwe, lesothoz zulus of south africa and malawi plus the rest of southern african countries have similar cultures and dialects. I never change my langauage when i go there i simply speak my language and life goes on!
I always understood that today's borders were drawn by the colonizers, so that the true differentiating factor for Africans is ethnicity, not nationality. And if that's the case, then how do Tanzanians, South Africans, Zimbabweans, etc develop a national identity?
I made a call from my VCU dormitory room to the United Nations in New York in 1979 and asked why it had not pressed to have Idi Amin deposed. A short time thereafter, I noticed while still at the Virginia Commonwealth University that Idi Amin fled into exile.
There are plenty of African leaders and dictators to make an episode on. Francisco Nguema, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa just to name a few.
Shaka Zulu was a true African warlord king and a hero! It's just so unfortunate that we didn't have more kings like him on the continent, because if that had been the case, I highly doubt that Africa would have been as easily conquered and colonized by Europeans as it was. But that's just my own opinion! 🤔
Interesting opinion but I disagree. Hannibal was a better African leader who’s tactics were better than Shaka’s and predated him by 2 thousand years - that still didn’t save him from the romans. Africa needed to industrialise, quick like the Japanese then they would have had a chance. Shaka was too insular, wanted personal power, that’s it.
@@hendrixisgod777 Hannibal wasn't a conquer like Shaka... Shaka given enough time and absent the presence of Europeans could've in my opinion, conquered the whole of the southern region of the continent and maybe more.
Nigeria use to teach history when I was in secondary school but today it's no more, they have stopped teaching history and I don't know why, May God help us all 🙏
Since and before independent same family and friends are ruling the country ,why won't they stop teaching history. Especally when the order is from the west.
It is perhaps a challenge to have African history courses that aren't adulterated by the west. The colonizers will always try to minimize their bad image. In the west, history is taught to give cultural value, but Africans already tend to have strong values given from their families. I notice Africans who migrate to the US tend to be more well educated than average Americans bc they educated themselves. So if we compare, there are many young in US who will be taught history, but be pretty apathetic and not remember much, compared to some Africans who were not taught, but curious enough to study for themselves, where their interest in the subject will lead to greater knowledge than the first group. Being the avid studier of history that I am, I'm not even sure how efficacious the study of it even is. You can read about thousands of years of death and destruction, yet even when leaders know this, they still wage war... The main point of history should be that war is destructive and harmful, yet that point somehow gets lost.
@@will.roman-ros The main point of history is historical record War and wars are part of that record But don't forget that most of the mass murders were not part of any war Stop revising
@@donneale7555 most of the mass murders were either part of a war, or the result of leadership after a civil war. Name me one example that was not. I'm curious what you meant, bc "murder" involves other people, and if these are massive numbers, then any resistance would lead to a war. Even a one sided war we call a "massacre" or a "genocide" is still a war, just that one side has very little in the way of resistance, and most combats aren't prolonged enough to be called battles. To suggest a war isn't a war bc one side isn't organized enough, bc perhaps their aggressors never allowed them the opportunity, is a bit of a cheap shot if you ask me. If a large group goes on a massive violent streak, most would say they are waging war. If the defenders can't properly fight fire with fire, then I still have trouble not seeing it as war, since at least one side has prepared for war and waged it. For example: Cortes went to war with the Aztecs, but it is not necessarily considered a conventional war. To me, it is a war: you had groups who gathered their warriors and fought. If there is not a single pocket of resistance, then i'd say there was no war, but we know that people don't just sit around waiting to be killed, at least not 100%.
@@will.roman-ros Pol Pol starved or had his gangs of teenagers beat intelectuals to death , 1/4 of the population of Cambodia to make them good communists Not a war
I disagree if you say polygamy was part of the Zulu people. The practice was actually followed by Abathembu a sub-group or tribe that formed part of the Zulu nation. This is why it is called "isiThembu" to confirm that it was associated with Abathembu people. Others borrowed from AbaThembu. Again, people from the defeated tribe were not killed instead they formed part of the victorious king. It is important to remember that wars were fought for clearly defined reasons Viz to create peace and forge unity and expand nations. If people remained small competing tribes it created more wars amongst competing tribes. In some instances leaders of different tribes sat down and agreed in peaceful joining hands and unity. This is how king Shaka brought in Mkhize, Sithole's, Cele and others. We must also bear in mind that when Shaka was made the overall joint king of both Mthethwa kingdom and Zulu tribe he inherited a much bigger and well established kingdom that king Dingiswayo had assembled. He later won a much bigger Ndwandwe kingdom assembled by king Zwide. He then controlled two biggest competing kingdoms in the region. This is why many people conveniently resorted to a sound logic that it means that more wars were used to build the kingdom why ignoring the facts that he merged two biggest kingdoms in the region.
Please do a piece on Mzilikazi. A roving warrior king who was mentored by Shaka. He went on an adventure conquering various tribes as he trailed through South Africa till he settled in what is now Zimbabwe. Great explorers and missionaries like William Cornwallis Harris, David Livingstone and Robert Moffat have written extensively about him.
It's funny to hear it described as an "adventure" as he murdered and raped his way through Southern Africa. The Shona suffered badly, and he wiped other tribes from the earth.
Just wondering what Africa with all its natural resources would have become if no misuse of power and natural resources had never occurred. Somehow someday this chain must be broken and all African and friends can enjoy descent lives.
Shaka Zulu is one of the greatest leaders to ever emerge from Africa or this world. And if they would have left him alone, the Zulu nation and Africa would be a major player in today’s world and today’s politics. He would have made sure that all of the resources that they are plundering from Africa would’ve stay home.😢
Lmfao, " if only people hadn't taught them about metal forging and basic building out of anything other than mud, they would have been just as advanced as an average European or Arabian or Asian or literally anyone else other than Africa and south American tribes" that's a good one, any day now they should shoot up to first world development." But we all know the existence of white people erased all evidence and knowledge and in less than 100 years they would have developed space travel and built wakanda, any day now.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Is there any chance you guys will do a video on Seretse Khama, the most underrated and amazing African leader, in many people's opinion? Seriously, how he led Botswana before and after colonialism, and ensured the country's bright future, is something that deserves great recognition😌👍
Let me correct you right there...we don't click, clicking is the sound that is produced by your tongue and teeth. Our sound is not clicking because we use our tongue and the upper part of the mouth (i don't know it's name"
@Zachary Hopkins we don't click, it's a pitty we can't do a voice note. Am against this thing of clicking, even Khoi and San people don't click. I can't explain sounds by typing but i don't blame i blame the people who don't want to explain our language. It has nothing to do with your genetics. Small small we are teaching white people and other rsces to stop saying we are clicking eg Marriam Makeba's song it's no longer called "the clicking song" No more accommodating you guys when it comes to our language sorry
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198 Bravo! They never get that these languages of Southern and East Africa simply have velar consonants. In addition, their misconception is based on the fact that x, q, c are inactive phonemes in their languages because really a Romance languagesnd truly they only exist in Germanic & Romance languages.
During the Mfecane , Manukosi(Soshangane) of the Ndwandwe tribe fled from Shaka s wrath with some warriors and settled in Mozambique. At the time Tsonga people(my tribe) were already occupying the North eastern parts of South Africa. And some Tsongas lived in Mozambique. When Ndwandwe arrived in Mozambique, he encountered the Mozambican Tsongas and married into them and produced Zulu/Tsonga hybrids who became known as Mashangane (the Shangaan people) named after Soshangane This brings clarity to the question... why do others call themselves Tsongas and some call themselves Shangaans in South Africa Some Tsongas as already mentioned were already in North eastern South Africa even before Soshangane fled to Mozambique. Those are pure Tsongas. On the other hand descendants of Soshangane (The Shangaans), the mixed tribe came to South Africa much later and occupied the South eastern Transvaal, they speak the Xitsonga language which borrows some words from the Zulus and thus different from the Xitsonga spoken by the pure Tsongas. Some of them even have Zulu surnames like Nxumalo, Mthethwa, Ndlovu, etc. But all in all the Shangaans(the hybrids) and the pure Tsongas are classified and identify as one tribe. But up to today it’s still debated as who qualifies as a king of this combined tribe, from the Tsonga side the Maluleke clan identifies as the kings of the rest of the tribe and from the Shangaan side The Nxumalo people identify themselves as the true kings The majority of this we learnt in Grade 5 in primary school history
Great documentary. But Shaka, Amin & Mugabe are all big personalities with their own following, so the it should be split into 3 separate documentaries.
I couldn't understand why my God Father was so adamantly against me going through with my Peace Corps assignment in South Africa. This breaks my heart. I wanted to learn more about the culture and land of my ancestors through service. Thank you for this report, I hadn't realized I was putting myself in grave danger. I understand now.
Great documentary, please refrain from referring to Spiritual Mediums (like a Shaman), Traditional Healers (equivalent to a Doctor)...my late Grandma was a Healer and uGobela. I honestly take offense when people call her a demon or witch doctor. She taught us about herbs, medicine, our culture and so much more and I learned to love myself and have respect for others cultures and traditions. I never needed to be initiated and be a healer, I simply love knowing that I am now a proud custodian of our family’s culture and traditions especially the food 😂. Otherwise I love these documentaries 🥰
They can't help themselves. They have no respect for Africans or African culture therefore they call their traditional healers priests, saints, augurs and call our healers "witch doctors"
Who was Shaka? Shaka was a Zulu chief (1816-28) and the founder of the Zulu empire in Southern Africa. He is credited with creating a fighting force that won many battles in the entire region.
But we as Zulus we don't have a problem with that because we are not God. We are not like white people who act as if they are innocent wile they have killed millions of people to Rob them their land and live stock. And you are out to give people the false information about their Legends so that will think badly about them and you hide whites cruelty killings and slavering black people. So please just talk about you history of how you brain washed black people about their cultures.
I liked it It had to be details based on the men ...their lives...the way africa wasnt always a free country...the outside worlds involvement etc...he forest whitaker movie! I like whitaker but the movie was just okay for me! so for me u did good i give it a 7.8 out of 10 but in reality the highest i ever give is a 9! Keep up the good work!
And who suggested Shaka Zulu was perhaps a homosexual, why must this even be mentioned when it was a time when such behaviour was strongly opposed in African society, is history being changed to include such acts!
As brutal as Idi Amin may have been, THAT WAS JUST A WALK IN THE PARK, compared to over 36 brutal and bloody years of the current DICTATOR YOWERI MUSEVENI! Time for a new documentary!
@@joycekweyama6383 Since 1886,contrary to his own famous speech, early on, that African leaders is once they get in power, they don't want to given it up, but he wasn't going to be like such. Over 36 years later, he's no different. This is all public knowledge.
Maybe because there was nothing victorious about it. However what is happening in South Africa today is worth mentioning 🤭🤭. # AFRICAFORAFRICANS 💚✊🏾🖤✊🏽❤️✊🏿💯💯💯💯🪑
Chaka was a complicated man and a magnificent warrior and thinker, and like many humans have good and bad qualities. It seems that people that have difficult and experience abusive childhood become abusive themselves. It is unfortunate that Chaka did not unite all the people against the European invaders rather than killing Africans the way he did over the course of his life. What it does show is that people of all kinds are cruel and commit atrocious acts are not limited to any one group or ethnicity/ "Race" of people. We can look at the Tutsi and the Hutu as yet another example of how people that are related in many ways can be vicious and deadly to each other. Yes, the Europeans exploited this aspect, however, that factor does not absolve any one or group of their responsibilities regarding their own conduct. Mugabe started out doing good things and then greatly abused his position as did Amin. Many people start out doing good and then wind up doing"WELL" for themselves, party, cronies and the like. KENNETH KAUNDA, JULIUS NYERERE, ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF are exemplary leaders that put their nation and people/peoples ahead of themselves and did not enrich themselves because of their position as heads of state.
Shaka Zulu was not going to conquer the English or Afrikaners becoz simply were using superior weapons and thy have adopt machines to power activities. For transportation they using horses. So they had so many advantages. Under the circumstances that Shaka Zulu was we can celebrate him that he build a nation that is still surviving today. But as citizens of different countries which were formed not by us but by Europeans, I think what we need to learn is what is leadership & what kind of leaders do we want to lead us. Leaders who will improve the quality of life of the citizens, reduce corruption, reduce the no. of pple who see hope in migrating to other countries for a better life, and good roads, create opportunity for employment for the youth.
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198We do we know Belgium murderous nature also their behaviour in the Congo. Belgium is indeed responsible for the Rwanda murders.
Now we can all admire the greatness of GW, for its against human nature to relinquish power. Even when the position as king was offer to GW at the end of his presidency, GW politely decline with gratitude n step down.
If a European has this wealth of knowledge about the African people, why not give the real McCoy African the opportunity to make such superb documentary. It will be mind blowing.
that opportunity already exists and so do the docs you speak of. many of them are more focused on ideological talking points and political narratives than academic pursuit/historical perspective. like europeans,asians, indians, south americans, north americans etc... some africans make terrible docs and some make really great ones. most are "skewed"at best.
Thank you so much for creating content on the rulers of countries within The Motherland. Thank you for taking care to be respectful of the pronunciation of people, places, and things. Thank you for creating content that makes your black subscribers feel proud. No shade, but all tea: there is more content besides European kings and queens.
Shaka Zulu was a leader of his time. Idi Amin was a mad lion created by the British and the Israelis a lion they can't control. Mugabe was a freedom fighter., he had a difficult task created by the British so call the land caster agreement. But all and all he is the only Leader that ended the colonial rule for 100 % in his country.
For most parts partially informative! Some details were omitted! For example little mention of sanctions and no mention of Cuban military in the Rhodesian conflict!
I listened to the last part, its unimaginable for the author to omit on the murder of Piet Retief and the murder of all the boer woman and children by Dinganes impis. The battle of bloodriver was a big event in zulu history
I am a Zimbabwean and on the issue of homosexual in Zimbabwe we are proud of Mugabe. If Britain wanted homesexual in its country they should do and no one will ask them so why do they want to impose it on us. Yes if we are in poverty because we Mugabe refused to bow to homosexualty its okay but we are living in a country that has values and ethics according to our culture and religion. The same religion that you brought to Africa is the same religion Mugabe used to deny homosexualty in his country. So on that as Zimbabwean we dont hate Mugabe for that.... Yes he might have done other things like staying in power for too long and fueling the corrupt gvt but he was an African leader and we can not put Mugabe in the same category with Idi Amin.....
Shaka the Zulu was the best African freedom fighters who butchered the British colonial forces to where they belong. Mr Mugabe denied land ownership to British refugees. Mr Amin hated the British neo- colonialism and cut relationships with the Queen.
Mugabe was a clown who forced millions of Zimbaweans leave their mother land, he single handedly destroyed an economy and plunged Zim into poverty that will last for many generations. How can you celebrate that just because he was a black person? Black folks can do so much better
@@augustochivangue7473 are Xhosa people Bantu? Do you even know the difference between Bantu and Nguni? A person can't be both. Nelson Mandela is of royalty and a person can't be Nguni and Bantu at the same time
The HYPOCRISY of the writer to say Shaka Zulu was ruthless to his people and a greedy land-grabber, while passing over the very SAME behavior of England. Even going as far as suggesting it was black on black crime and not the honorable defense against whites.
Shaka Zulu was a leader of his time, never had a encounter with Europeans power. Idi Amin was a mad lion created by the British and Israel but they can't control this lion. Mugabe was a great a freedom fighter but had a difficult task created by the agreement of land caster. But all and all he really ended the colonial rule for 100% in his country.
I was told that long ago our men (central southern Ugandans) used to go for wars with southerners in africa and they would come back with cattle winen and food 😅 funny piece of history from an old aged man. Long funny story
I am a descendent of Harald Fairhair and Ragnar Lothbrok, and Vladimir the Great, all Viking lines. This is accurate history when compared to actual geogrophy classes and history of North Americans... who were Gaelic people, Picts.
I would like to learn more about Thomas sankara former president of Burkina Faso. He seems like a better person than Nelson Mandela. Please do a documentary about him. Thank you.
@@charliegoodrick9973 there is some truth but if you really want to learn about Shaka Zulu come to KZN you'll even know where the name Shaka comes from and what it means cause these stories are passed through oral story telling, praises and poems including songs
Every time when Europeans tell about African history they will distorte everything, why can thier tell us about thier stories and funny that when they tell thier stories everything is smooth on their side mxm to say Shaka was homesexual yesss that bull.
uganda was not a Nice country" at the time and EVERYBODY who wasnt part of his regime feared him. watch the doc again. you think those were a bunch of "white bosses" being thrown in the trunks of those cars and dissappearing by the thousand? uganda was not a Nice country" at the time and wasnt for long after and EVERYBODY who wasnt part of his regime feared him...asians, ugandandans, people from surrounding areas.
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Shaka kaSezangakhona is one of the greatest warriors who ever lived on the African continent, a military genius, and the most powerful king who ruled in southern Africa. We Africans have no doubt at all and do not rely on eurocentric narratives. In our book of bravery, Shaka is our hero, the personification of greatness!
The only problem we don't see that we have bigger enemy outside Africa. We flex our muscles to each other.
SOUNDIATA KEITA is one of the greatest warriors who ever lived,, the LION KING of MANDENG
I remember the shaka Zulu movie
It was good
Shaka is not only in Africa but one among the whole world!
Thank you!
"Until the lion learns how to write, the hunt will always glorify the hunter" -- Chinua Achebe
Yeah...this video was
such evil propoganda!
Exactly. They always like to vilify our great African leaders. Smh. How about the hundreds of Western leaders through out history till today who were far worse!
The Lion taught the hunter how to write walk up right and eat with a knife in fork not crawl on all fours from out of the Cacus mountains eating with their hands fingers and never even seen aA book
Yes!!!! Well said and So true!!!!!
Exactly! They supported all their dictators. All the monarchies in Europe are dictators. They still exist. I agree that they sometimes need more power to mince their nose into interior politics. However, they are still powerful. The monarchy of Belgium in 1800's when they got their independence from the United Netherlands. None one elected King Leopold the First, nor was his cruel son Leopold II. Many others were in power the same way. Still in power now. The Europeans always praised them. Our African leaders are always the Vilain. It's all race-based. It's so sick. Even when they did the Berlin conference in 1885. They accommodated Oman; the Omanis were still practicing slavery then. The Omanis were Arabs or Persians, so they were slightly lighter; they must have had a bit of civilization, which they did. What's it, civilization. It's not a quantitative or qualitative concept that you could measure or judge. There is no objectivity to it. They used all the theory to screw us. Dive to conquer within and with others like the Arabs and Persians. You can read and observe what they say and what they do. But could you use your brain? Be alert, very alert. They are always trying to be convenient and deceiving. They always use their convenient truth to their advantage. They never use facts.
It never ceases the amaze me how history is always written by the conquerors and so it'll always be written in such a way that they look good, while those who they pillaged looks bad...
The fact of the matter, Shaka Zulu was an African, right?
Those White-skinned men were not...
So simply by him being able to set up a kingdom that lasted over 50 years ON HIS OWN CONTINENT, without him having to go to the White-skinned man's continent, that alone is an everlasting testament to this place in AFRICAN history, and that's all that matters!!!
Your people are free to write their history. Hopefully, it will be truthful about their failures and bad behavior.
Purely eurocentric views. How many Africans did they kill?
Also matters: Shaka’s mass murders & enslavements & brutal conquests
What if a war broke out between the literats and the illiterates? Who is most likely to write the history? If the war was a horrific savage bloody war of conquest. Then it seems logical that the conquerors will be the ones writing the majority of the history. As by then the conquered may have been reduced to a handfull or just a few. Clearly any history they may have to tell or write is not going to be the victors tail. Especially is surrounded by the opposition victors. Also, clearly if the war is a war about who is going to rule after. Then in some cases the oppostionleader is going to be dead or willhave surrendered to save his remants. So clearly the victorious party would then be the countrys ruling party and therefore be writing the histor and making the decisions.
As the surviving few remants may then be a very limited minority party. Still bloodies and stuggling. Then they won't be writing the history of the majority as if the war's outcome was different. If they did then the majority would just over write them.
I do not know why it never ceases to amaze you. As it seems logical.
African Leaders Part Two: Kwame Nkrumah, King Lobengula and Thomas Sankara......
Something positive for a breath of freshness.....
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Would love to see a Part 3 to this series ... maybe Sankara, Sirleaf, and Lumumba? Lesser known people whose effect on history was still profound.
if you name an African leader; there’s a high chance that ‘African Biographics’ have made a video on them (they’ve made full videos on all three that you mentioned)
We baganda, basoga (of uganda) a few tanzanians , zambians, zimbabwe, lesothoz zulus of south africa and malawi plus the rest of southern african countries have similar cultures and dialects. I never change my langauage when i go there i simply speak my language and life goes on!
You’re so right! It might be even deeper than we know
I always understood that today's borders were drawn by the colonizers, so that the true differentiating factor for Africans is ethnicity, not nationality. And if that's the case, then how do Tanzanians, South Africans, Zimbabweans, etc develop a national identity?
Well go back to South Africa you are on Cushitic lands of Tutsi
Wow, you actually made the throat “click” for the Nguni language pronunciation of Gqokli Hill! 9:39
It's not the throat it's the tongue.
@@coolexio kahle nje!
I've always told people we don't click, clicking is the sound that is produced by your tongue
This presentation deserves clicks, as your mastery of Bantu "clicks" is amazing.
As a Ugandan, i can now see why we are so connected with South Africa (Bantu & Zulu)
Good for your parliament, made international news. One. A long lost brother.
We speak the same languages
ya you were the slaves right! Bantu and zula f'd your people up and made them slaves, then sold your asses. right!
most bantu languages sounds and or are related to each other.@@lazyscorpion3889
I made a call from my VCU dormitory room to the United Nations in New York in 1979 and asked why it had not pressed to have Idi Amin deposed. A short time thereafter, I noticed while still at the Virginia Commonwealth University that Idi Amin fled into exile.
There are plenty of African leaders and dictators to make an episode on.
Francisco Nguema, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa just to name a few.
all murderers and slaver scum. every single one. dictators huh! lmao.
You forgot the worst one m7
Shaka Zulu was a true African warlord king and a hero! It's just so unfortunate that we didn't have more kings like him on the continent, because if that had been the case, I highly doubt that Africa would have been as easily conquered and colonized by Europeans as it was. But that's just my own opinion! 🤔
I think you are right. Just one correction to your post, not Europeans, West Europeans. Russians never occupied Africa
Amen!!
@@dkostic2400 they were busy occupying their neighbouring countries. Africa was too far.
Interesting opinion but I disagree. Hannibal was a better African leader who’s tactics were better than Shaka’s and predated him by 2 thousand years - that still didn’t save him from the romans. Africa needed to industrialise, quick like the Japanese then they would have had a chance. Shaka was too insular, wanted personal power, that’s it.
@@hendrixisgod777 Hannibal wasn't a conquer like Shaka... Shaka given enough time and absent the presence of Europeans could've in my opinion, conquered the whole of the southern region of the continent and maybe more.
CHAKA IS AN AFRICAN HERO...... THE EQUIVALENCE OF JULIUS CAESER IN OLD ROME!!!!
Nigeria use to teach history when I was in secondary school but today it's no more, they have stopped teaching history and I don't know why, May God help us all 🙏
Since and before independent same family and friends are ruling the country ,why won't they stop teaching history. Especally when the order is from the west.
It is perhaps a challenge to have African history courses that aren't adulterated by the west. The colonizers will always try to minimize their bad image.
In the west, history is taught to give cultural value, but Africans already tend to have strong values given from their families. I notice Africans who migrate to the US tend to be more well educated than average Americans bc they educated themselves.
So if we compare, there are many young in US who will be taught history, but be pretty apathetic and not remember much, compared to some Africans who were not taught, but curious enough to study for themselves, where their interest in the subject will lead to greater knowledge than the first group.
Being the avid studier of history that I am, I'm not even sure how efficacious the study of it even is. You can read about thousands of years of death and destruction, yet even when leaders know this, they still wage war... The main point of history should be that war is destructive and harmful, yet that point somehow gets lost.
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The main point of history is historical record
War and wars are part of that record
But don't forget that most of the mass murders were not part of any war
Stop revising
@@donneale7555 most of the mass murders were either part of a war, or the result of leadership after a civil war. Name me one example that was not.
I'm curious what you meant, bc "murder" involves other people, and if these are massive numbers, then any resistance would lead to a war. Even a one sided war we call a "massacre" or a "genocide" is still a war, just that one side has very little in the way of resistance, and most combats aren't prolonged enough to be called battles. To suggest a war isn't a war bc one side isn't organized enough, bc perhaps their aggressors never allowed them the opportunity, is a bit of a cheap shot if you ask me. If a large group goes on a massive violent streak, most would say they are waging war. If the defenders can't properly fight fire with fire, then I still have trouble not seeing it as war, since at least one side has prepared for war and waged it. For example: Cortes went to war with the Aztecs, but it is not necessarily considered a conventional war. To me, it is a war: you had groups who gathered their warriors and fought. If there is not a single pocket of resistance, then i'd say there was no war, but we know that people don't just sit around waiting to be killed, at least not 100%.
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Pol Pol starved or had his gangs of teenagers beat intelectuals to death , 1/4 of the population of Cambodia to make them good communists
Not a war
I disagree if you say polygamy was part of the Zulu people. The practice was actually followed by Abathembu a sub-group or tribe that formed part of the Zulu nation.
This is why it is called "isiThembu" to confirm that it was associated with Abathembu people. Others borrowed from AbaThembu.
Again, people from the defeated tribe were not killed instead they formed part of the victorious king. It is important to remember that wars were fought for clearly defined reasons Viz to create peace and forge unity and expand nations.
If people remained small competing tribes it created more wars amongst competing tribes.
In some instances leaders of different tribes sat down and agreed in peaceful joining hands and unity. This is how king Shaka brought in Mkhize, Sithole's, Cele and others.
We must also bear in mind that when Shaka was made the overall joint king of both Mthethwa kingdom and Zulu tribe he inherited a much bigger and well established kingdom that king Dingiswayo had assembled.
He later won a much bigger Ndwandwe kingdom assembled by king Zwide.
He then controlled two biggest competing kingdoms in the region. This is why many people conveniently resorted to a sound logic that it means that more wars were used to build the kingdom why ignoring the facts that he merged two biggest kingdoms in the region.
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Please do a piece on Mzilikazi. A roving warrior king who was mentored by Shaka. He went on an adventure conquering various tribes as he trailed through South Africa till he settled in what is now Zimbabwe. Great explorers and missionaries like William Cornwallis Harris, David Livingstone and Robert Moffat have written extensively about him.
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Its time for us Africans to start telling our own stories, don't you think??
What I found amazing is the ability of the British fingers everywhere in the world 👿👀👀👀
It's funny to hear it described as an "adventure" as he murdered and raped his way through Southern Africa. The Shona suffered badly, and he wiped other tribes from the earth.
Who cares about Mzilikazi?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Shaka was a great leader. He did what he had to do to build a nation and secure the nation's sovereignty. I love Shaka Zulu.
Yet he killed thousands of his people when his mother died. Great leader? Africa has better ones.
Shaka should have taught his people to read and write while learning to use modern weapons as the gun and canons.
African HISTORY has always been overlooked in schools it has so much more rich history besides the ruthless leadership
At school I learnt both South African and Southern Rhodesian history
Agreed 👍 in my country 🇧🇸 nothing!! about the history of Africa when I was in school 😞
Just wondering what Africa with all its natural resources would have become if no misuse of power and natural resources had never occurred. Somehow someday this chain must be broken and all African and friends can enjoy descent lives.
Shaka Zulu is one of the greatest leaders to ever emerge from Africa or this world. And if they would have left him alone, the Zulu nation and Africa would be a major player in today’s world and today’s politics. He would have made sure that all of the resources that they are plundering from Africa would’ve stay home.😢
Lmfao, " if only people hadn't taught them about metal forging and basic building out of anything other than mud, they would have been just as advanced as an average European or Arabian or Asian or literally anyone else other than Africa and south American tribes" that's a good one, any day now they should shoot up to first world development." But we all know the existence of white people erased all evidence and knowledge and in less than 100 years they would have developed space travel and built wakanda, any day now.
Murdered by his own family, why ??
Baba Shaka Zulu, a great African warrior leader and hero.
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Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
''Was he a vicious warlord have built his power through conquering his fellow bantu people.''
Literally freaking yes.
Is there any chance you guys will do a video on Seretse Khama, the most underrated and amazing African leader, in many people's opinion? Seriously, how he led Botswana before and after colonialism, and ensured the country's bright future, is something that deserves great recognition😌👍
Also, a video on Liberia and Ethiopia being the only two countries to not have been colonized. That's truly amazing
@@mbirdmann1866 Oh, those would be very nice to see👍👍
Europeans don't like portraying African men as great or courageous. I hate white men telling Black stories.
Underrated comment. Khama is so overlooked and underappreciated.
Africa biographics contain that
Shaka may have been extreme, however he was a brilliant warrior leader.
I don't consider indiscriminate killers to be warrior leaders.
Wow,the respect for the language with the 'clicks' threw me for a loop. Much respect!💯
Let me correct you right there...we don't click, clicking is the sound that is produced by your tongue and teeth. Our sound is not clicking because we use our tongue and the upper part of the mouth (i don't know it's name"
I was pleasantly surprised.
@Zachary Hopkins we don't click, it's a pitty we can't do a voice note. Am against this thing of clicking, even Khoi and San people don't click. I can't explain sounds by typing but i don't blame i blame the people who don't want to explain our language. It has nothing to do with your genetics. Small small we are teaching white people and other rsces to stop saying we are clicking eg Marriam Makeba's song it's no longer called "the clicking song"
No more accommodating you guys when it comes to our language sorry
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198 Bravo! They never get that these languages of Southern and East Africa simply have velar consonants. In addition, their misconception is based on the fact that x, q, c are inactive phonemes in their languages because really a Romance languagesnd truly they only exist in Germanic & Romance languages.
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198 oral acoustic verbalizations?
I hope the European and American rulers are held by the same standards
During the Mfecane , Manukosi(Soshangane) of the Ndwandwe tribe fled from Shaka s wrath with some warriors and settled in Mozambique. At the time Tsonga people(my tribe) were already occupying the North eastern parts of South Africa. And some Tsongas lived in Mozambique. When Ndwandwe arrived in Mozambique, he encountered the Mozambican Tsongas and married into them and produced Zulu/Tsonga hybrids who became known as Mashangane (the Shangaan people) named after Soshangane
This brings clarity to the question... why do others call themselves Tsongas and some call themselves Shangaans in South Africa
Some Tsongas as already mentioned were already in North eastern South Africa even before Soshangane fled to Mozambique. Those are pure Tsongas. On the other hand descendants of Soshangane (The Shangaans), the mixed tribe came to South Africa much later and occupied the South eastern Transvaal, they speak the Xitsonga language which borrows some words from the Zulus and thus different from the Xitsonga spoken by the pure Tsongas. Some of them even have Zulu surnames like Nxumalo, Mthethwa, Ndlovu, etc.
But all in all the Shangaans(the hybrids) and the pure Tsongas are classified and identify as one tribe.
But up to today it’s still debated as who qualifies as a king of this combined tribe, from the Tsonga side the Maluleke clan identifies as the kings of the rest of the tribe and from the Shangaan side The Nxumalo people identify themselves as the true kings
The majority of this we learnt in Grade 5 in primary school history
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@@yamnkosi6813 it's the truth
Thank you for having a wide swath of people profiled.
These r so good. Thank u for a much better narrator!
Easier on the ears :)
A lot is not mentioned about King Shaka but yes he was a strong ruler history must be corrected indeed he was out Zulu King
Great documentary. But Shaka, Amin & Mugabe are all big personalities with their own following, so the it should be split into 3 separate documentaries.
Your ability to roll some of these words/clicks off your tongue is truly impressive.
He probably speaks the language. Probably from South Africa. You remember apartheid, yes?
Africans need to watch these so-called documentaries with our third eye wide open.
I couldn't understand why my God Father was so adamantly against me going through with my Peace Corps assignment in South Africa.
This breaks my heart. I wanted to learn more about the culture and land of my ancestors through service.
Thank you for this report, I hadn't realized I was putting myself in grave danger.
I understand now.
Great documentary, please refrain from referring to Spiritual Mediums (like a Shaman), Traditional Healers (equivalent to a Doctor)...my late Grandma was a Healer and uGobela. I honestly take offense when people call her a demon or witch doctor. She taught us about herbs, medicine, our culture and so much more and I learned to love myself and have respect for others cultures and traditions. I never needed to be initiated and be a healer, I simply love knowing that I am now a proud custodian of our family’s culture and traditions especially the food 😂. Otherwise I love these documentaries 🥰
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They can't help themselves. They have no respect for Africans or African culture therefore they call their traditional healers priests, saints, augurs and call our healers "witch doctors"
Who was Shaka? Shaka was a Zulu chief (1816-28) and the founder of the Zulu empire in Southern Africa. He is credited with creating a fighting force that won many battles in the entire region.
And a maniacal genocidally-murderer ...
But we as Zulus we don't have a problem with that because we are not God. We are not like white people who act as if they are innocent wile they have killed millions of people to Rob them their land and live stock.
And you are out to give people the false information about their Legends so that will think badly about them and you hide whites cruelty killings and slavering black people. So please just talk about you history of how you brain washed black people about their cultures.
Homie died at 12 tho...
I liked it It had to be details based on the men ...their lives...the way africa wasnt always a free country...the outside worlds involvement etc...he forest whitaker movie! I like whitaker but the movie was just okay for me! so for me u did good i give it a 7.8 out of 10 but in reality the highest i ever give is a 9! Keep up the good work!
Africa is not a country
Brother you have a wonderful voice I didn’t know you sing. May the lord give u more anointing
And who suggested Shaka Zulu was perhaps a homosexual, why must this even be mentioned when it was a time when such behaviour was strongly opposed in African society, is history being changed to include such acts!
As brutal as Idi Amin may have been, THAT WAS JUST A WALK IN THE PARK, compared to over 36 brutal and bloody years of the current DICTATOR YOWERI MUSEVENI! Time for a new documentary!
How long has Yoweri Museveni been in power ???
@@joycekweyama6383 Since 1886,contrary to his own famous speech, early on, that African leaders is once they get in power, they don't want to given it up, but he wasn't going to be like such. Over 36 years later, he's no different. This is all public knowledge.
I like African tell their Story Dispora America
You never mentioned the battle of blood river with the Boer victory.
Maybe because there was nothing victorious about it. However what is happening in South Africa today is worth mentioning 🤭🤭. # AFRICAFORAFRICANS 💚✊🏾🖤✊🏽❤️✊🏿💯💯💯💯🪑
Excellent 👌 and educational content...... keep up with the good work.
I just hate it when a Afrikan Jamaican Black man don't tell our story 😒 😑 😤 🧐🤔🥺🙁
Chaka was a complicated man and a magnificent warrior and thinker, and like many humans have good and bad qualities. It seems that people that have difficult and experience abusive childhood become abusive themselves. It is unfortunate that Chaka did not unite all the people against the European invaders rather than killing Africans the way he did over the course of his life.
What it does show is that people of all kinds are cruel and commit atrocious acts are not limited to any one group or ethnicity/ "Race" of people.
We can look at the Tutsi and the Hutu as yet another example of how people that are related in many ways can be vicious and deadly to each other.
Yes, the Europeans exploited this aspect, however, that factor does not absolve any one or group of their responsibilities regarding their own conduct.
Mugabe started out doing good things and then greatly abused his position as did Amin.
Many people start out doing good and then wind up doing"WELL" for themselves, party, cronies and the like.
KENNETH KAUNDA, JULIUS NYERERE, ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF are exemplary leaders that put their nation and people/peoples ahead of themselves and did not enrich themselves because of their position as heads of state.
Blame Belgium for what happened in Rwanda
Shaka Zulu was not going to conquer the English or Afrikaners becoz simply were using superior weapons and thy have adopt machines to power activities. For transportation they using horses. So they had so many advantages. Under the circumstances that Shaka Zulu was we can celebrate him that he build a nation that is still surviving today. But as citizens of different countries which were formed not by us but by Europeans, I think what we need to learn is what is leadership & what kind of leaders do we want to lead us. Leaders who will improve the quality of life of the citizens, reduce corruption, reduce the no. of pple who see hope in migrating to other countries for a better life, and good roads, create opportunity for employment for the youth.
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198We do we know Belgium murderous nature also their behaviour in the Congo. Belgium is indeed responsible for the Rwanda murders.
No liberation without Father Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Mafukufuku Nkomo.
Now we can all admire the greatness of GW, for its against human nature to relinquish power. Even when the position as king was offer to GW at the end of his presidency, GW politely decline with gratitude n step down.
If a European has this wealth of knowledge about the African people, why not give the real McCoy African the opportunity to make such superb documentary. It will be mind blowing.
Yes indeed....
that opportunity already exists and so do the docs you speak of. many of them are more focused on ideological talking points and political narratives than academic pursuit/historical perspective. like europeans,asians, indians, south americans, north americans etc... some africans make terrible docs and some make really great ones. most are "skewed"at best.
Opportunity is there. What's your point?
@@robertbentley3589 You might be half baked if you do not get my point. Read between the lines.
Who’s supposed to give that opportunity?
Most informative & clearly understood about African king's thanks for sharing 👍🏻
how deep is your reading of the entire Zulu history or you only watched a single video and magically knew him?
I wish our history can be told by the Africans
Nothing to stop them. It's not can. It's would. I would think it is.
The man in the middle on the cover picture is Henry Cele, an actor who played Shaka I'm a television series on the 80's. Please change the picture.
Thank you for this education and sharing.
Thank you so much for creating content on the rulers of countries within The Motherland. Thank you for taking care to be respectful of the pronunciation of people, places, and things. Thank you for creating content that makes your black subscribers feel proud. No shade, but all tea: there is more content besides European kings and queens.
You should do soundiata Keith from Mali
Shaka Zulu was a leader of his time.
Idi Amin was a mad lion created by the British and the Israelis a lion they can't control.
Mugabe was a freedom fighter., he had a difficult task created by the British so call the land caster agreement.
But all and all he is the only Leader that ended the colonial rule for 100 % in his country.
"But mom they started it" - Shaka Zulu
For most parts partially informative! Some details were omitted! For example little mention of sanctions and no mention of Cuban military in the Rhodesian conflict!
Good observation,
Superb
SHAKAZULU WAS A CHAMPION.
I found the part about Shaka well researched and accurate, I really enjoyed it. Brilliant but scary man....
I listened to the last part, its unimaginable for the author to omit on the murder of Piet Retief and the murder of all the boer woman and children by Dinganes impis. The battle of bloodriver was a big event in zulu history
Thank you.
I find that Leopold ll of Belgium to be even more scary and dangerous
Glad I follow this account
The idea that Shaka may have been homosexual is Fucking ridiculous!!!!!
Not really. But then again the people making these videos may be gay. Really don't care myself. Definitely not important to the story.
The way this documentary keep showing the picture of shaka looking so fierce and angry to make him out to be some mad man lol 😂😂😂😂
I am a Zimbabwean and on the issue of homosexual in Zimbabwe we are proud of Mugabe. If Britain wanted homesexual in its country they should do and no one will ask them so why do they want to impose it on us. Yes if we are in poverty because we Mugabe refused to bow to homosexualty its okay but we are living in a country that has values and ethics according to our culture and religion. The same religion that you brought to Africa is the same religion Mugabe used to deny homosexualty in his country. So on that as Zimbabwean we dont hate Mugabe for that....
Yes he might have done other things like staying in power for too long and fueling the corrupt gvt but he was an African leader and we can not put Mugabe in the same category with Idi Amin.....
Shaka the Zulu was the best African freedom fighters who butchered the British colonial forces to where they belong. Mr Mugabe denied land ownership to British refugees. Mr Amin hated the British neo- colonialism and cut relationships with the Queen.
Please do some documentaries about the Boer Commanders and the Anglo Boer War heroes
Thank you regarding this documentary. Please do one on Hendrik Verwoed and Wouter Basson
That painting of Shaka is some what disturbing! I definitely would not want the likes of him bearing down on me!
That's not Shaka. It's a painting of Henry Cele, the man who played Shaka in the old Shaka Zulu series.
Mugabe was good when he started,he just lost his way because of greed😢
Mugabe was a clown who forced millions of Zimbaweans leave their mother land, he single handedly destroyed an economy and plunged Zim into poverty that will last for many generations. How can you celebrate that just because he was a black person? Black folks can do so much better
I'm an old fat guy and I've already hiked 30 kms in one day in Spain with a fully loaded backpack!
I wish the narrator would narrate it as the truth of what it was! It’s not conquest, call it for what it is, they came for slaves! 🙄
Conspirators were the Europeans and still are then and now
When THEY tell our story ...
By watching this brilliant documentary I still haven't found out if Nelson Mandela was bantu
He was nguni
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198 and ngunis are bantu!
@@augustochivangue7473 are Xhosa people Bantu? Do you even know the difference between Bantu and Nguni? A person can't be both. Nelson Mandela is of royalty and a person can't be Nguni and Bantu at the same time
The HYPOCRISY of the writer to say Shaka Zulu was ruthless to his people and a greedy land-grabber, while passing over the very SAME behavior of England. Even going as far as suggesting it was black on black crime and not the honorable defense against whites.
Very interesting........refreshes my memory.
❤❤❤ that's truly Amazing and respected for all.God love and unity of trust and respect.
@15:36 Covering 80kms in a single day is NOT implausible. Comrades Marathon is 89km and can be run on a single day.
Shaka Zulu was a leader of his time, never had a encounter with Europeans power.
Idi Amin was a mad lion created by the British and Israel but they can't control this lion.
Mugabe was a great a freedom fighter but had a difficult task created by the agreement of land caster.
But all and all he really ended the colonial rule for 100% in his country.
I was told that long ago our men (central southern Ugandans) used to go for wars with southerners in africa and they would come back with cattle winen and food 😅 funny piece of history from an old aged man.
Long funny story
Why must a British voice tell me about Africa? Could no one find a qualified African to do the voice over? Can I trust the perspective?
I am a descendent of Harald Fairhair and Ragnar Lothbrok, and Vladimir the Great, all Viking lines. This is accurate history when compared to actual geogrophy classes and history of North Americans... who were Gaelic people, Picts.
I would like to learn more about Thomas sankara former president of Burkina Faso. He seems like a better person than Nelson Mandela. Please do a documentary about him.
Thank you.
This why Mali kicked out France out of they land
Shaka was a great man!✊
If he was so great he would have spared all the people he killed to help him against colonialism
He was great for himself
@@dellpayton8102 He was Great for Africa!!!!
Will there be a part 2 or more
He was a bit of both one thing is sure the invaders would not have been able to beat the Zulu without Guns .
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Chaka was so great! I name our Gun Club Zulu Shooters Club here in America
While I don't believe dictatorships are ideal, I feel like young countries, much like young children, need a firm hand to guide them.
Your version, black ppl should tell their history themselves.
Don't like the truth I guess.
but they wont, they just interested in looting😂
@@charliegoodrick9973 there is some truth but if you really want to learn about Shaka Zulu come to KZN you'll even know where the name Shaka comes from and what it means cause these stories are passed through oral story telling, praises and poems including songs
In the thumbnail the middle guy looks a bit like Willem Dafoe in blackface.
Racism.These were great leaders, lovng their peoples and protecting thel, and not bloody killers...you describe...especially as to Mugabe and Amin....
Keep crying. Everyone knows they were killers just like most dictators.
@@amandaharris5055I trust these African leaders more than any scumbag Western politician and the rest of the imperialist West! God bless Africa!.🇲🇼🌍
Every time when Europeans tell about African history they will distorte everything, why can thier tell us about thier stories and funny that when they tell thier stories everything is smooth on their side mxm to say Shaka was homesexual yesss that bull.
Uganda is a nice country…white bosses were so scared of Amin…he shock them up and made them dance and sleep with one eye open.
uganda was not a Nice country" at the time and EVERYBODY who wasnt part of his regime feared him. watch the doc again. you think those were a bunch of "white bosses" being thrown in the trunks of those cars and dissappearing by the thousand? uganda was not a Nice country" at the time and wasnt for long after and EVERYBODY who wasnt part of his regime feared him...asians, ugandandans, people from surrounding areas.
And the Black bosses were not?
Truly ugandans are the best east africans
the author did not do their homework. way to many inaccuracies. too bad publishers can't do their diligence. a pitiful shame.
Please look for the podcasts of Buzetsheni Mdletshe. Unfortunately it is in the Zulu language. There are no subtitles.
The imagery is in accurate!!
So...there was no such thing as the Zulu Kingdom before iLembe. Also, the pic used is that of an actor, Henry Cele.