The Berlin Conference (1884 - 1885)

[@dreolwa7419]

Africa Has never recovered I still cry for my Mother land.

[@zamakama3723]

Impossible while the policy still exists and we do nothing about it

[@nealmaxwell790]

I’m the only white guy at my job, it really makes me sad how little Black American actually know about, not only events like European colonialism especially Belgium with the Congo, but also historical African figures like Hannibal, Masa Musa, and Shaka Zulu

[@joshuamoher9375]

@@nealmaxwell790Hannibal lol

[@cavemanhistory]

@@nealmaxwell790 hannibal is a greek Carthaginian. Don't try and act all smart lmao

[@ronaldgmaster5782]

Are you really blaming a conference from 150 years ago for Africa corruption today? Smh

[@nkosanadhlamini8313]

What I hate the most about all this is that today we are being fed the lie of being independent when all these colonizers still enforce their policies on our countries. The sanctions are one way of keeping us in line evertime we try to be truly independent.

[@mirzokhida7881]

💯👍🏻

[@elishatotolela3843]

So we blame them or blame our leaders who after election they continue eating with them?

[@ras-negusbloomfield8145]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Wow🤯I applaud your presentation👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I am an Jamaican born in America (Or "Black/African-American in this country🤫) Those last 3 mins really hit home! It clearly explains alot that still effects so many people in the world today. Everyone In the world needs to see this video and recieve this knowledge. I Thank you🙏🏽

[@sivad_official5158]

Bug up Yuh bloodclaaat self‼️👌🏾🇯🇲

[@Silkroads733]

@@sivad_official5158 why use such profanity? We are meant to respect and love each other no need for bad language. Blessed love and respect 👍🏿

[@taharqaheru145]

Spanish town man listening

[@robbymuleya3691]

@a@AAA

[@elishatotolela3843]

Why do people identify themselves with color that I am black American 😢

[@zeeb6330]

Very informative and well explained. Great video!

[@logicowl2617]

Thank you! Hopefully you'll consider subscribing for more videos like it?

[@richardkent2014]

It's not informative at all since the land was divided and nations where created from colonies in Africa like America in 1776 most of the stuff is agreed Upon that's why no mentions things like this

[@tzunami_143]

@@richardkent2014 Get your grammar correct and make your sentence readable before you criticize.

[@scrutchingsmusicpublishing7544]

Murderers and Thieves 😡😡😡😡

[@sincityquinn]

This and the Ottoman Empire is why African, specifically the Northern region, looks like it does today.

[@smallpotato3908]

Well done. People should know the history that how the European powers brutally conquered and divided Africa in late 19th century. In 1913, they basically completed the colonization of Africa. Then in 1914, the World War I began. God started punishing those European powers with two world wars. After WWII, the colonization of Africa and Asia began to end.

[@Qwerty-ly8qk]

It is poetic justice on paper, but in reality mostly only young men that had nothing to do with any of this died in those wars while the same elites kept in power.

[@NKiani]

@@Qwerty-ly8qk Africa lost you men, women and children too. In higher numbers

[@Qwerty-ly8qk]

@@NKiani Yes, but the actual men in power didn't get any real repercussions for their actions. They didn't care on which land people died, they were just cattle to them.

[@Komeshokakunanwene]

@smallpotato just curious. I always knew that scrambling for Africa has something to do with the world wars, I just don't know how and looking for info on internet proved futile. Pleeeease briefly explain how?

[@segar004]

Then came neocolonialism. AFRICOM

[@topdogger1]

thanks I really appreciate this, needed it for an upcoming final :)

[@michaeldean9338]

This video and presentation was very well research and put together. Thanks for much for your efforts and upload, Logic Owl. .

[@zante.c]

thanks a lot! I always watch these videos before my history finals.. it helps a lot

[@DocMatthews0311]

Thank you for this video. Very informative and enlightening.

[@sylviasworld9397]

I started to watch this but my blood is literally boiling with anger right now, so have to come back and watch the rest later. Please cover the practices within colonies. Chopped off hands and feet in Congo for example required by Leopald. He was actually subhuman

[@kylegebre6684]

When theirs no one to stop you. You tend to do atrocities. Leopold was subhuman not the slaves.

[@RadicalforGod]

I tried to post the history of king Leopold on Facebook and i got put in Facebook jail. Why do the facts hurt these people?

[@stars8792]

Well thanks for helping me in my homework

[@wMovHD]

thank you it helped me a lot in my class assignments

[@emmanuelvincentisraelletse5192]

I am fuming with anger when I listen to this, to think a discussion over the division of Africa, not even a single African present....ironically 1884 was the year that King Cetshwayo ka Mpande died allegedly, poisoned (the last independent Zulu King who crushed over 1700 British battalions during 1879)

[@phenomenal8196]

Africans wouldn’t even be able to read

[@alveeeee]

- The Berlin conference formalized the Scramble for Africa, a period where European powers explored, divided, and conquered Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. - The conference lasted from November 15th, 1884 to February 26th, 1885 and involved 13 European nations and the United States. - By the end of the conference, the powers had decided how to divide the unclaimed African territory, producing established boundaries between colonies. - The 1885 general act declared the neutrality of the Congo River Basin, forbade the slave trade, and rejected Portugal's claims to the Congo River estuary. - Prior to the Scramble, Europe mainly claimed coastal colonies along the Mediterranean and African deep south. - Africa was largely ignored until King Leopold's II of Belgium funded an expedition to explore the Congo in 1876, leading to the founding of the Congo Free State. - Various European powers raced to claim more land, eliminating local rulers who could disrupt European agendas. - The Berlin conference legitimized the concept of Africa being a mere playground for outside forces, with little consideration for the welfare of native people. The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 formalized the Scramble for Africa, a period during which several European powers explored, divided and conquered the continent of Africa. The conference was a series of negotiations between 13 European nations and the United States, in which they decided how they would pursue the division of unclaimed African territory. By the end of the conference, these powers decided how they would divide Africa amongst themselves, producing the 1885 General Act, which declared the neutrality of the Congo River Basin, guaranteed freedom for trade and shipping for all states in the basin, forbade the slave trade, and rejected Portugal's claims to the Congo River estuary, making possible the founding of the independent Congo Free State by Belgium. Prior to the Scramble, Europe had been slow to realize the benefits of claiming African land until the 1870s, when they began to claim coastal colonies primarily along the Mediterranean and the African deep south. The Scramble was triggered by King Leopold II of Belgium, whose plan to fund an expedition to explore the Congo was followed through by sending Sir Henry Morton Stanley there. As the Scramble intensified, various European powers raced to claim more land and eliminate any minor local rulers with the potential of disrupting European agendas. The Berlin Conference legitimized the concept of Africa being a mere playground for outside forces, essentially free for foreign powers to seize without any consideration for the native people living on the continent. Bullet Summary: - The Berlin Conference formalized the Scramble for Africa - The conference was a series of negotiations between 13 European nations and the United States - By the end of the conference, these powers decided how they would divide Africa amongst themselves, producing the 1885 General Act - Prior to the Scramble, Europe had been slow to realize the benefits of claiming African land until the 1870s - The Scramble was triggered by King Leopold II of Belgium, whose plan to fund an expedition to explore the Congo was followed through by sending Sir Henry Morton Stanley there - The Berlin Conference legitimized the concept of Africa being a mere playground for outside forces, essentially free for foreign powers to seize without any consideration for the native people living on the continent

[@SwiftSmoothvZ]

how can this video alone make 80 % of all your views man you have the potential make this just be 1% of your views i believe in you

[@shakazaiyah]

U did a great job...

[@willu1604]

I read that on al Jazeera

[@kikingubelanga3237]

"unclaimed territory"? Like there was no people already living there 💔

[@geminimoon6295]

I’m sorry this happened to y’all 😢Now take this same situation and apply it to the Black American people. Stripped of us our Indigenous identity, simultaneously replacing us with immigrants and reeducating our children by telling them we came from Africa in slave ships. To justify “unclaimed territory”. They removed our culture, and squatted on our homelands.

[@swarnasai9358]

Good information bro

[@mrbabyears]

Excellent

[@jesusistheonlywaytoheavenj7880]

Well said.. Great video . from an African. Well said.

[@MrIrons-og3rg]

The evil continues

[@chafrica4061]

Very objective...thanks for sharing our truth.

[@DericAndaiAyumba]

This Has LED TO DIVISION OF HUMANITY IN AFRICA 🌍 👏 😳 😕 😐 🙌 🌍

[@katrinayakizz]

Thanks for the great video!

[@Fire_Storm78]

More tragic than great.

[@bisimedia]

God bless you

[@kaxachianged5869]

Watching this made me cry😭 The Europeans have cheated us. They have destroyed our lives.

[@aethelstanking6036]

your history ignores important chunks of evidence to force a ideologic view

[@Arriyad1]

The video mentions “Belgium” several times where it should say Leopold. Belgium had nothing to do with the management of the Congo Free State and refused to materially support Leopold’s plan. Leopold received Congo with restrictions: he was not allowed to tax or restrict trade, but obliged to develop and police the country. It must have been clear to all that Leopold was heading for bankruptcy - possibly France, Portugal and Great Britain expected it, so that one of them could take over. It almost happened, but, when Leopold was almost bust, there was a sudden rise in demand for rubber. Leopold started filling his pockets.

[@BohemothWatts-vz1lc]

We must beware of Russia. Russia was a participant in The Berlin Conference in 1854 to 1855 The Berlin Conference began on 15 November 1884; the countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and the United States of America. It was called by the German chancellor Otto Von Bismark, at the request of Portugal, although Bismark was quite happy to play a role in settling who controlled the vast continent... 🎉 from Wikipedia

[@edgarperez806]

That help a lot g

[@phiziix333]

english

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

I did not know about the sultan of zanaibar.

[@alb7844]

Very informative piece but i suggest the author stop trying to sanitize these crimes by using words like "INADVERTENTLY, PARTIALLY, CONVINCED Italy to join", Italy didn't need inadvertent convincing all they needed was opportunity. Or "Bismarck's plan were interrupted FORCING Germany to get involved", they weren't forced they were simply greedy and vile, no arms were twisted. And lastly "the INITIATIVE taken by Portugal", they didn't take the initiative, they took land, lives and resources. See how words, if told by the oppressor class can be manipulated or in this case sanitized as opposed to demonized.

[@gameragamera656]

...are you just reading wikipedia?

[@emmanueldamour1521]

Most evil meeting of all time

[@michaelgarybell2010]

I misread this as "... as Most evil meetings went at the time"

[@cartmann94]

The Wannsee Conference would beg to differ.

[@marvelouslukpata5345]

No most evil ppl of all time

[@Henry_der_hesse_HENRYISM]

@@marvelouslukpata5345🧢

[@MyCity-fp9nl]

It’s still going on till today, specially in my country DRC, they need or minerals, specially now with these electronic cars and batteries and the cell phones we are using. And the local people starve while they get rich. These peoples are such angels 😉

[@velvetchackel5808]

And who said reparation is not a valid Question and a righteous indignation, we want total surrender, confession, and also repentance from the thieves, if forgiveness are in order reparation must be paid, it must be made no question asked period this is serious judgment. Ok.

[@velvetchackel5808]

@candy svp really? was it a competition when they stole it butchering people, no....!! It was stolen by thieves backed up by many other attrosity, and the gold they're giving you in Athletic competition is not genuinely pure I'm sure.

[@velvetchackel5808]

@candy svp and you probably right young sister, but it's their rights to do what they want with, nobody question it when they were snatching us/them up taken away without their approval, extended the other crimes and attrosity committed and furnishes without reservations, unsupervised and recklessly mistreated a brutal blunders of uncivilize treatment to compare with preditive animals from a wild beast,The cannibals runs of the gauntlet and a disease caucuses of dried bones of memory to released. Evidently speaking. It is theirs to do as pleased, regardless whose resentment bitter, complain stinks, or offended blue. Velvet.

[@kevinwells6115]

The Torture Is A Casual Minimized Afterthought

[@drpops66]

This is so sickening!!!

[@scrutchingsmusicpublishing7544]

Always taking and destroying life

[@marvelouslukpata5345]

Exactly

[@alb7844]

We gotta stop being surprised when white men act white currently or historically.

[@felixicon]

well done

[@leogrogan1923]

Good job.

[@edgarperez806]

Thank g

[@phiziix333]

lol this is issak why u commenting

[@phiziix333]

@Jaylen Springer HAHAHAHHAHAHHAH LOLOLOLOLL

[@AT-gu8by]

So Africa once called Aeothpia was the largest country in world as well as a continent; before Europeans came.

[@pheoniabelle537]

Why do they still serve these people.

[@velvetchackel5808]

They did something to us Agriculturally, Environmentally, and through liquid necessity. We're being slowly Poisoned, slowly made Docile, and slowly Depopulated. PDD. The Crisis of Israel. Velvet.

[@juststop9379]

Very good question As an African American I have no clue.

[@annaross1362]

@@melokulelekankumalo3402 I thought of Kwame Nkuruma.

[@melokulelekankumalo3402]

@@annaross1362 Exactly! I'm certain that they were behind Thomas Sankara's assassination as well.

[@cavecrusherisdead]

Afcfta says never again to this disgusting system. The beginning of the end of this sick system.

[@ReginaAtegba-mt2ft]

So where was the Berlin conference held?

[@bernardwanjohi7201]

Its called Berlin conference FFS,doesn't that tell you where it was held.

[@dennisvanoord3278]

Are you stupid?

[@willjohnson158]

thievery

[@lolexplosions4214]

This is the reason why ww1 happened and why the world is mess up.

[@johnmbongenizondi9912]

Thank you for educating me about "the devilish plan" of partitioning Africa by the European and American people of origin.

[@frane5173]

Portugal: We came first, so Africa is ours! Leopold I: I want... well, nothing much honestly... Wisconsin, Texas, Portugal, Pennsylvania etc. After the Conference: Belgium gets Congo Leopold II: Forget the nation! I want it as my personal property!

[@ancientman8077]

The only place that is yours is the cave

[@frane5173]

@@ancientman8077 what is it that triggered you?

[@thedislikebutton3425]

What the fuck is this reply section and comment

[@bernardwanjohi7201]

2024;Russia,China,EU,USA,Saudi Arabia,UAE, all want a piece of Africa.

[@suguleadan1592]

The scramble for Africa.

[@coronaklledmebot4856]

only 611 subs?

[@thegoldencamelfromegypt6865]

Damn european countries were so egoistic and nationalistic

[@NKiani]

Still are

[@zangified0117]

This was frustrating to watch

[@jorgenoya3320]

Why?

[@marvelouslukpata5345]

I am telling you

[@california816]

Damn, that's a lot of blue and pink territory. 😮

[@TroyBurns-k3x]

Portugal is coming in for no reason, saying africa is there after 500 years ago because the pope drew a line

[@GodsgiftTv123]

The evil continue Even harsher than before

[@Landrew0]

Troy Soren narrating.

[@brandonimbithie3565]

How can you encourage the word 'unclaimed' arent africans humans...wish you would use lesser harshful words ..ur viewers are from all over..even africa bro

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

I think he means no disrespect to any African people group, and meant that that it wasn’t claimed by any European power, of course the areas were claimed by small african kingdoms

[@dinis8271]

That’s not the point.

[@RichardBushell-xc1wm]

What,goes, around,, comes, around,, Europeans,,will,,soon,find,,out,,AMEN

[@N0n0b0dy]

The based conference

[@juststop9379]

You are so weird for this comment

[@N0n0b0dy]

@@juststop9379 go cry

[@juststop9379]

@@N0n0b0dy weird response

[@Joe_mommas]

Ik this a old comment but 100% all these “history” channels are like that on KZbin. You really don’t know who’s information is legit

[@N0n0b0dy]

@@Joe_mommas most aren’t legit or they get deleted by KZbin

[@l.f.c9973]

Him 7 european powers Me as britain in victoria 2 NO

[@mintymartino]

Such evil!

[@whiskeybrown262]

Reparations for Africa

[@mauliddaudi6164]

Download

[@BelgianCongo]

Full of wrong information.

[@karlkarlsson1109]

Dude, the Europeans have been in Africa since 1497

[@danielpapa1642]

that's is lie , the African was in their land at this so call time1497, the black moors educated them before the came out , learn your history .

[@redone9199]

@@danielpapa1642 yeah Caucasian people lived in caves before the Moors went to Europe . They are the living proof of middle stone age period and evolution

[@johnh.mcsaxx3637]

@@redone9199 Romans, Etruscans and Greeks lived before the Moors. Those three built large scale kingdoms. Nobody lived in caves during the stone age. They lived like Native Americans, living in camps with tents made from animal hides and bones. Only those living in what is now Israel lived in caves.

[@redone9199]

@@johnh.mcsaxx3637 go and Google moor vs wild beast

[@redone9199]

@@johnh.mcsaxx3637 go and Google moor vs wild beast to see if they didnt leave in caves ... But I won't deny Roman and Greek legacy

[@eyenamaste1910]

Where the white people 👀 at?

[@levyy_012]

Lol, I wonder what were churches doing

[@moteague]

The churches were are also plundering Africa. They introduced homosexual to the Africans.

[@juststop9379]

@@moteague probably introduced homosexuality to keep men from reproducing Trying to make Africans go extinct

[@alb7844]

Enslaving and handing out Bibles.

[@user-bs5qr5ie4s]

The churches were given the africans bible whilst stealing thier gold in return lol

[@Seoul.A]

😾😾😾😾

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

Glory to Spain. Only having a grudge with the moors and leaving all sub-saharians alone. GLORY TO SPAIN, THE CHOSEN ONE.

[@mypiebecamepizza9503]

They did to south America what others did to Africa

[@DaDoM123]

Those where the day's

[@uioongbion2074]

Acutually your wrong british and belgian colonies were one of the best colonies in the world.

[@rickyrunnels4030]

No such thing as a good colony.

[@johnh.mcsaxx3637]

They killed more than Nazis, Communists and Capitalists combined.

[@sylviasworld9397]

Best from whose point of view.

[@Infoglobe1]

u wan mey thunder fie you

[@AT-gu8by]

Really? The Belgian Army cutting off children’s hands and limbs if they or their parents Did produce enough rubber? You’re a sick evil white supremacist, probably a pedo too! You know Belgians raped the children?

[@sandi1410]

The detached tone with which White people have while discussing their ancestors' committing genocide vs Africans is disturbing.

[@Qwerty-ly8qk]

The vast majority of white people have no ancestors that partook in any of it. Over 80% of Europeans were peasants living in miserable conditions when colonization begun. Even if you were to generalize whole nations by their leaders' actions, more than half of Europe would still have no relations to these events. The American way to categorize people by skin color does not work globally, as the world is not so black and white.

[@devinnichols1514]

You can acknowledge the atrocities committed by others/your forbearers without imparting their depravity on to yourself, or current generation. They should feel detached. They had no part in what took place.

[@atacama1000]

@@devinnichols1514 but they 100% benefit from what their ancestors did

[@devinnichols1514]

@@atacama1000 My statement stands. Your sins are yours alone.. Not your sons or daughters. Nor your sons sons, or your daughters daughters. It stops with you. Who does or doesn't benefit from those sins is another matter entirely. I can assure you, you won't be standing before God's judgment seat answering for the depravity of others. When you go before a judge is it not your actions that are being weighed? Or the actions of others? Would it make any sense at all for the judge to consider the actions of others when assessing the wrongdoing of an individual?

[@virgilcaine3291]

So you think you are different? I say lack of opportunity.

[@suguleadan1592]

The scramble for Africa.

[@joshuamoher9375]

Great comment bro