1884 Berlin Conference: How Europe Shared Africa Like a Piece of Cake

The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885: How Europe Shared Africa Like a Piece of Cake. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:47 The Berlin Conference: How it came to be
03:18 King Leopold of Belgium’s “Civilisation” Agenda
05:39 What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
09:16 The General Act
11:03 The Scramble for Africa
13:37 How did the Berlin Conference affect Africa?
15:34 What impact did the Berlin Conference have on Africa?
17:06 Next Video

[@10gallons]

Very well done. This video should be required viewing in secondary school classrooms in and outside Africa.

[@The-Protester]

The west know that their lies is now in the open and africa and Africans are watching and the payback will not be televised because the ancient ancestors are with us

[@kinguche9208]

Exactly

[@sacta]

We were actually taught this in my school. I actually vividly remember that cartoon of Bismarck cutting the 'Afrique' cake in a text book, as well as that image of a giant man standing with his legs apart one foot on each end of Africa. I always assumed it was sort of a universal curriculum everyone would be taught in pretty much any history class around the world. I was surprised to see my classes were the exception.

[@OneManArmy_ZA]

This video will never get to be played for learners in an African classroom

[@Prodigious1One]

Yeah, I learned about this in high school in the USA 2002 to 2003. I couldn't believe how deliberately the Europeans divided Africa. It was pretty bad.

[@energybasics]

How it's insane I never learned this in school. Very clear presentation! Thank you

[@sylviamawudoku1527]

No, you would NOT hear this in school, as the West wanted to keep it all hush hush!!

[@DJkitchenmixer]

Yes that was my first thought

[@ayubnjuguna1800]

We did this in History Form 2. Albeit a sanitized version

[@olaniyioladele9000]

They came uninvited, shared both human and natural resources... The Europeans have mind and gut... This should be taught in all schools in Africa. Then, time to translate all our books to our local dialect

[@elladapetrosyan9610]

This has been taught in African schools since a long time, I am going to teach it today. On which p!anet do you live?!

[@ep5019]

Ok well id like back all the railways and roads then.

[@FonsecaStatter]

Are you encouraging a further partition of Africa?...From within?!... Just asking.

[@paulasolomon8933]

Very well documented. Let's one see why there's soo much turmoil in the world amongst these same nations to this day. So sad!

[@ep5019]

There turmoil has nothing to do with us. That cope. It's the failure of the people themselves.

[@NoraUG123]

This kind of history they would not like to teach in school, like so many of our stories that they turn it into their history.

[@counsellor3474]

HEARTLESSNESS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.

[@megatronDelaMusa]

someday , Africa would tear down every border.

[@mxvega1097]

The amazing thing is that it happened so late, and then largely as a distraction to keep the smaller Europeans enticed and aspirational, while the major powers - UK, France, Germany, Russia - attempted to maintain the 1814 settlement, prevent another explosion of continental war, and take down the Ottoman Empire in a controlled demolition. The great majority of imperial wealth extraction was already stitched up in India and China, and Argentina, and a short time later in the Near East. Africa was much more difficult - myriad political divisions, languages, unclear resources, and malaria. It would be a mistake to suggest the colonial model for Africa started in 1884. It was long-established in South America, and in a different form in British India, and another variant in the USA, Canada and New Zealand. The 19thC state apparatus didn't reach that far down into colonial society - the law, tax collectors, surveyors, troops, post office were quite light compared with how modern societies interface with government. So here's a question: how did a rag-tag collection of largely incompetent colonial regimes destroy African culture, economy, polities, pride, and hope in just 75 years? And why, around 75 years from independence, has the recovery seemed so slow?

[@rudygoofysrh]

Thank you for sharing this important part of history. It needs to be shared.

[@heraldloshi1864]

Thank you for this historical nugget.

[@iamdawnmwilliams]

Its amazing how we Americans weren't taught this

[@hondasrdbest9614]

I should've been asleep with all my classmates in history class. I always felt like we weren't being told the truth.

[@Masculinebehavior]

I learned this in 11th grade

[@yars3868]

This is a great video I never knew Africa was desecrated like that.

[@nana-go3sd]

How one discovered a place where there are people living

[@charlesnjoku1963]

Weldone, good historical research work.😅

[@tourismalumni4992]

Thanks

[@adeamujale]

Wipe your feet as you come into the lecture. Smash 💥 the thumbs up button.

[@HistoryVille]

Thanks, man.

[@adeamujale]

Teach!

[@jacquilinemakasa2784]

😮😮😮😮this history is wonderful

[@dezzyrocdezzyroc838]

Nice Job, i will suggest if it can also be in french language to enable wider spectrum.

[@hetty7891]

Men this is so sad frustrating heartbreaking. When will Africa get justice. ? We have suffered so much, treated like animals and unfortunately our African leaders still don’t learn😩.

[@chalimsupa6603]

the main message is that all Africans were once a family... there were no boundaries and we should love one another and be united

[@NKiani]

I agree ☝️ we need unity

[@elladapetrosyan9610]

This is not true at all. Like everywhere else, there were kingdoms and empires in Africa, with borders well defined and people fighting with each other, conquering each other. Many Africans who know their history well, hate this idiotic idea of unified Africa.

[@chalimsupa6603]

@@elladapetrosyan9610 why didn't they respect our borders? it was OK to have in fighting within OUR continent but having people who are alien coming in and partitioning our continent their own way and without the owners approval... that was tragic ... we must call it out for what it is....

[@elladapetrosyan9610]

@@chalimsupa6603 I don't get the sense of your comment and what exactly you are getting it. Regardless of who partitioned African kingdoms, majority of Africans will not accept the idea of unified Africa, Africa as one country. Some ethnicities have been historically and continue to be enemies or competitors. You can't bunch the whole of Africa into one country. What will be the official language? And the predominant culture? Will you include the 5 North African countries? This idea will lead to even more conflicts and fights. Imagine how many candidates would want to become the next President of unified Africa. The political conflicts will happen more often and they will be more violent. It's problematic, Utopist idea. You will plunge Africa into a mess, it will become unmanageable due to its size.

[@elladapetrosyan9610]

@@chalimsupa6603 It is like you never studied the history of Africa. Even before the arrival of the Europeans Africa was not just one united place. It consisted of many kingdoms, chiefdoms and empires. Some of them were conquering neighbours, some becoming vassals states of others. They were attacking each other, pillaging and burning down villages, killing or capturing the population (Choose are known for this). So your comment makes no sense. You can speak up against colonisation and slave trade every day from morning until evening, but you absolutely cannot unify all African states under ONE country, bcs Africa was NEVER that way - maybe at the time of ancient humans, who used stone tools. But I hope you will be wise and not suggest your brothers to regress in evolution and go back to Prehistoric times.

[@adeamujale]

HistoryVille ✊🏿🌟💥 🏆 🥇

[@FonsecaStatter]

«The discovery of the Congo river basin Henry Morton Stanley»?!... Over four centuries earlier than that, there was already a correspondence between Afonso I, King of Kongo, and Manuel I of Portugal...

[@zealsambou2992]

why haven't you included "The Gambia" when mentioning countries colonized by Britain?

[@90romak]

You stated that Italy later colonised a portion of Ethiopia. This is incorrect this country is Eritrea it was never part of Ethiopia. The British took it from the Italian then after occupying for 10yrs they gave it to Ethiopia which is when the 30yr war between Eritrea and Ethiopia began. Eritrea gained independence in 1991!

[@justinamusyoka4986]

Africa need to Unite,one language one people.

[@jonjeskie5234]

Why? They're not one nation, they're not one people, they don't have one ethnic background, they don't have one language, they don't have one region or one culture...

[@justinamusyoka4986]

@@jonjeskie5234 Watch the latest video by Ivie Anita "confessions on how they deliberately set Blacks..." from the horses mouth. Our divisions create the perfect ground for continued plunder from West,East ,North and South,and soon Black race will extinct if China succeed in occupying every country and eventually relocating half of her population to Africa.

[@kamalope8458]

They are not one Asia is not one

[@justinamusyoka4986]

@@kamalope8458 I agree,Black people are not One but the outside see them as Blacks and so the unity must come for our protection,the rest will fall into place...

[@Valentino016]

Well no all Africans have different backgrounds. Were technically very foreign from eachother. Even today Africans with different backgrounds are very prejudice to other Africans with different Backgrounds. Africa is very big. Same with Asia very diverse. But we should unit.

[@goldensteel8110]

We were stupid

[@qadarsaeed]

Sad story

[@andrewcampbell1129]

Why was Liberia not colonized by Europeans? Was it because it was colonized by Americans?? (Rubber companies?)

[@Ethel-Wobo]

Nice presentation. This should be taught in our schools. Our history is becoming extinct

[@charlesmorrison3582]

How can people be so evil. Damn😢

[@adoghofasa9723]

Video too short post more 😭😭😭

[@Chandankumar-qw6hb]

😮

[@abdallahmuhammad5066]

Before the Berlin Conference much of Afrika located in Asia making Afrika the largest continent. What about the Syke Picot Accord.

[@Tom-ed7qb]

The same way they shared America like a piece of cake. " Period "

[@tyowuasamuel4115]

Shared America? Between who and who?

[@smithyman33]

Rhodesia, not Zimbabwe.

[@zakariabaffa222]

They really did more harm than good to Africans. please read a book '' How Europe underdeveloped Africa'' by Walter Rodney

[@FonsecaStatter]

Unfortunately Walter Rodney was right on the end result (the maldevelopment in most of Africa), but wrong in his premises...

[@ayubnjuguna1800]

I hate victim mentality. Most nations have their past determined by others. From the Far East to South America. Why can't Africa chart its prosperity, use its resourses to develop itself TODAY?? Not keep whinning about slavery, colonization etc yet it still has the world richest chest of natural resources and young manpower????

[@LadyCeCeFromThaDirty]

😂

[@mkhululinxumalo2713]

Why we allowed this and we are still allowing it? Rise Africa rise...!

[@prankoverlord3520]

I miss the initial Narrator's voice😑 prefer that one

[@judyzee7215]

They're all doing a great analysis

[@crittercam267]

yeah, the current voice has some weird pronounciations

[@amaziahisrael8848]

Devils

[@MrTorlob]

Very childish presentation, made by not so childish people.

[@ep5019]

And subsequently took the place out of the stone age into semi modernity

[@jbabylove2]

The Cacus Mountains is where all Europeans came from, which means your ancestry is from cave dwellers. There is nothing in Europe that has been modernized without the wealth and knowledge of Africa. Your ancestors are rapist, thieves, and murderers, and you call that modernization...

[@flintsrevenge]

"We wuz kangs" lololol Long live imperialism

[@user-um7tw6kx4r6]

You should worry about the future of Europe my friend, instead of posting snide remarks

[@sterlingferguson1704]

Africa was so weak and tribal and had no technology to defend themselves. Ethiopia was the only country with a government and she was able to stop Italy in 1896 in a big battle. When talking about history, the cause and effect should be talked about. African chiefs and kings, did nothing , but sell their people for peanuts for four hundred years to the Arabs and Europeans.

[@danettemclean1269]

There are too many wrong information on this video … you Need to get all your facts well

[@Olisaeh]

Can you be more specific please 😅

[@ikennagibson3933]

What is the wrong information?

[@Koloviv48i]

@ Danette McLean, can you specify what is wrong with this narrative, unless you never read or know what is history.

[@emmagreen2459]

​@@Koloviv48i he is a white man, he is hit by the truth and don't want to believe his ancestors were thieves and criminals

[@bodeagunbiade9592]

Which information?

[@peterparkr]

The white man is amazing

[@thesoulbrother8636]

Yes, they are. They are amazing thieves.😂 Cheers🍸

[@YJ_TGOC]

Barbaric more like! And thieves the white man. Cunning and cruel I call.