The Niger River explained in under 3 minutes

The #Niger #River in Western #Africa is one of the longest rivers in the world, with a 4200 kilometers or 2600 miles long course winding through the African savannah, Desert and Rainforest.
The fertile soil at parts of the river allowed for some of the earliest civilizations in the world to rise, and Saharan Trade brough immeasurable riches to the area. Learn about this and much more in this quick explainer about the Niger River. Subscribe and leave a like if you want to see more like it. Cheers.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:03 The Course of the Niger River
1:23 The Niger River in History
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[@steelmouth83]

it's 1am and was about to sleep but this seems important, I need the Niger river explained to me right now

[@ringgame]

😂😂😂

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Isn’t it amazing how this happens? Only 3 minutes, and I’ve learned quite a bit.

[@ringgame]

@@chasbodaniels1744 the tribes in nigeria are shaped around the river too. A perfect Y that splits the country and the 3 dominant tribes that were seperated by it for God knows how long, until now

[@chasbodaniels1744]

@ringgame thank you for that extra information!

[@shahzadeshtiak]

LoL

[@user-vf6nn6hx9x]

1:38 there are 2 species of rice, orya sativa from China and oryza glabirrema from West Africa, both species were domesticated thousands of years ago indepently of each other. During the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade era Europeans found vast fields of rice under cultivation in West Africa and took several strains and experienced growers to their colonies in the Americas. One African strain became known as Carolina Gold and was a major staple crop in the South and the majority rice type grown in the US for a couple centuries.

[@user-zi8wh3wv2q]

kinda off topic, professor

[@matonni7]

@@user-zi8wh3wv2q same off-topic as YT suggested me watching this video. Anyway, I enjoy this little of knowledge

[@user-vf6nn6hx9x]

Isn't off topic when it references something in the video at the time stamp but wss

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Cheers!

[@boxsterman77]

It’s wild how the river starts but a short distance from the sea, but it instead goes the long way around.

[@Astro-X]

fascinating!

[@rogerwilco2]

It happens in more places with coastal mountains.

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

It's because its springs aren't located on the side of the mountain facing the sea. It's a blessing for Africa this river.

[@boxsterman77]

@@valhalla-tupiniquim Yes. Obviously.

[@user-zi8wh3wv2q]

i keep getting emails from the prince of nigeria. i feel honored that he wants my help

[@jainilmodhiya6855]

I need $1000 this time😅

[@alexcoco304]

this channel NEEDS more views and subs, this is easily my fav series on yt.

[@user-zi8wh3wv2q]

everything about Africa needs something from the rest of the world

[@gogan3429]

Great video because it’s informative and to the point. 👍

[@treefarm3288]

Three minutes, good job! Thanks!

[@bradsillasen1972]

Great shortie. That is a very interesting river.

[@janjager2906]

Very enlightening, thank you 👍

[@jonwill]

Interesting; thank you for posting.

[@ScottRawdin]

Wonderful, thank you.

[@WilliamLi-nd4lz]

Its 1:11 and I have school early in the morning. Im watching a video about a river that is completely irrelevant to my existence, a river which exists several thousand miles away from me. This feels right.

[@itshvideos2829]

Please Make a Video of the Okavango Delta in Botswana

[@FactSpark]

Good Idea, will put it on the schedule :)

[@wilcoxdaniel9825]

There's lots if them try nat geo

[@carlsmith8815]

The cities mentioned were major centres for gold , ivory and above the slave trade both towards the coast. From the earliest times until early 20th century northwards towards the Middle East and between 1500 and the early 1800's towards the coast and European buyers.

[@johnh539]

I think it is an interesting idear that African American physical diversity reflects the physical diversity of this part of Africa, in Kenya where I lived on the east coast you can tell by a locals build if they are Masái or Kikuyu, both tribes being verry different. Masai are tall and skinny and the Kikuyu are a shorter verry macular build.

[@sandrajones8245]

😲 here I am someone with a keen interest in geography, particularly that of west Africa, not knowing about the Niger river until today! The knowledge of this river may cause me to alter the direction of the vast African canals I had planned.

[@user-zi8wh3wv2q]

ok God.

[@sandrajones8245]

@user-zi8wh3wv2q please don't blaspheme. I'm a human just like you, and just like you I want to put my talents to good use. Canals are nothing new or godly.

[@SMiki55]

… you're involved in planning West African canals without being aware of the largest river in West Africa?

[@sandrajones8245]

@SMiki55 I'm an architect, and although designing canals is up there, it's about 5th maybe lower in infrastructure, and in Africa even lower still.

[@rooftile883]

I wish all videos were so short and informative.

[@abuhadrami9332]

I took a deep long breath before I click on the video.

[@Miamcoline]

How can Djenne being founded 2200 years ago be one of the oldest urbanised centres in human history? Every other single part of the world had cities by then. Even the deepest deserts of Libya and Chile or the Eurasian Steppe.

[@juanbarbosasiguenza5883]

He means still populated. There is also older cities in west africa, as koumbi saleh, but they are ruins today.

[@stanleydouge2803]

@@juanbarbosasiguenza5883 and oualata

[@contourlinescorp4549]

Make a video about the Rio Dulce and its tributaries from highlands of Guatemala, through Lake Izabal, largest freshwater lake in C. America, and I to the Caribbean.

[@detaaditya6237]

It's amazing how Niger River flows inward instead of just going west directly into the sea

[@aloysiushettiarachchi4523]

Well, how the soil in the region of Nigeria is enriched by a phenomenon called harmatan is yet another fascinating natural process.

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

The incredible river.

[@boataxe4605]

The most important thing when reporting on the Niger River is to not spell it with two g’s.

[@einsam_aber_frei]

2:40 Are you sure? There are recent research showing that before the desertification of Sahara, there were rivers running from west to east that joins the river Nile.

[@pieterjan29]

The N river.

[@judasthepious1499]

Nayjer please..

[@JapanSpr94]

@@judasthepious1499Demons

[@user-zi8wh3wv2q]

that's the Mississippi river

[@chandlerarlen7215]

more on the ecology of river delta

[@arailway8809]

There is click bait and there is good stuff. This one is good stuff. Thanks.

[@mohamedswaray470]

Guinea we should be able to supplies electricity to our neighbouring countries because we have so many rivers head (waterfalls)from Guinea. Unfortunately 90% of the country is in darkness.

[@santusanturohit4832]

Cant you divert some water of Niger towards desert of North?

[@ba65007]

Thank you for the information about Niger River 👍

[@julianbashir8277]

Is the river black?

[@JapanSpr94]

Google.

[@blackkennedy3966]

Yup! The river stole my bike just the other day!

[@arundheenan]

Life is a circle. Definitely the descendants of those glorious Empires will shine again in their lifetime.

[@dan8910100]

nope

[@Machiavelli21st]

Here at 5 am wondering why River Niger refused to take the easy way out

[@darksaurian6410]

The Guinean Highlands should dig a canal to get the water to the Atlantic more efficiently.

[@charvaka9526]

Strangely, in English, the river is pronounced N eye dger (emphasis on 1st syllable) while the country is NeeZHER with a emphasis on the zher as in french. Thus, Nigerians are people of NIgeria and not of NeeZHER who are neezherians.

[@ayomideoyeleke5318]

People from Nigeria are Nigerians, while people from Nigér are Nigériens. The spelling is also different

[@charvaka9526]

@@ayomideoyeleke5318 Thanks

[@yaaobenewaah1697]

It's actually two rivers that merged

[@P-Mouse]

Nigerien and Nigerian... are those the Dutch and Danish of Africa? seem like fertile ground for hilarious misunderstandings.

[@Mrgunsngear]

🇺🇸😊

[@Atonix99]

Funny to think how nature finds its way.... if the river has formed westwards, it would end in the atlantic ocean in abiut 200 kilometers. However it decided to go eastwards and the rest is history

[@mikerilling6515]

SPOILER ALERT IT TOOK A EUROPEAN TO FIGURE IT OUT 😂

[@JapanSpr94]

Thanks for sharing. Amazing geography and history. This video is History that the fascist don’t want to teach.

[@robotnikkkk001]

...WELL , THIS RIVER DEFINITELY NEED ANOTHER *_G_* TO IT'S NAME ......HEHEHEHEHEHE

[@Grievous_Nix]

Ay yes, the Gniger river

[@robotnikkkk001]

@@Grievous_Nix ....WELL U KNOW *WHERE* IT HAS TO BE BUT YT CONSIDERING THIS AS A HATE CRIME........ ......BUT DEFINITELY *EVERYONE* UNDERSTANDS, HEHE

[@arljohn3510]

Lure the invaders to your rainforest and decimate them there

[@dom8286]

The What river??? 😲😲

[@becharac]

Settlements? "Most powerful empires"? Nice one lol

[@lelandunruh7896]

Seldom does an editor sweat over spelling as much as when making a video about Niger or the Niger River.

[@fredericlecomte2184]

mungo park

[@Elongated_Muskrat]

Soft R river

[@acovidsurvivorof2020]

Nehir means river in Arabic. Nigeria name comes frm this Arabic word.

[@lifeinlife24]

Nigeria was named by the British Queen

[@acovidsurvivorof2020]

@@lifeinlife24 And the etymological root of the name?

[@jameso]

​@acovidsurvivorof2020 From Latin I think. I think it means black.

[@acovidsurvivorof2020]

@@jameso sounds "nigger" but it may not be related rather than arabic word "nehr" ..

[@bagavondo2477]

maybe they should change the name of the river. just so not to offend tze americans

[@julijanmagda7855]

Noubady newer listen the Gadary zo make a many watter chanels for make better end larger food region plus elektricity on weels truu chanels.,tharpt will ruin depend ofvfood prosper the life end rise UP the united Afrika in more lewels UP.,.its still not to late...by Gadafy poan the 50 % of Afrika can be reformed in mutch more green better end safe plase for all....

[@user-rn8kc3wl4v]

인구가 대책없이 증가하면 강이 죽어 식수가 사라질라.

[@kelvinmbugua907]

-$2000000

[@gidmanone]

That name is suspicious my boy. you can try to pronounce it anyway you want but we know what it really is. the question is who gave the river that derogatory name? the locals themselves or the foreigners?

[@nunyabiznes33]

Someone in the comment was claiming the river's name came from Arabic

[@gidmanone]

@@nunyabiznes33 that's just nonsense

[@k.c1126]

There are some amazingly daft comments on this video.

[@gidmanone]

@@k.c1126 don't be scared. don't speak in parables. speak your mind.

[@k.c1126]

@@gidmanone My mind has spoken. Have a nice day.

[@richardthomas5362]

Another reason that Africa's geography sucks. This river is largely unnavigatable for much of the year unlike other river systems in Europe, Asia, and North America.

[@theviniso]

It's a deceptively mountainous continent.

[@jameso]

The only river in the world that gets racially profiled 😂

[@azeemkhan3642]

I find the title of this video offensive. you should have called it "The African-American River explained in under 3 minutes" I am reporting this video for racism.

[@sewrajawmee874]

• Matthew 24 .6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

[@michaellawson6533]

You forgot to mention that the Niger and Amazon were once the same river.

[@omodingmoses1374]

Russia should build a nuclear plant for people of Niger so the material is available in plenty they should have electricity

[@theresaadams7143]

I agree and it should also the needs of Mali and Burkina Faso.

[@user-si7ig6ul7l]

Ever heard of chernobyl? What could possibly go wrong 🤣

[@larryjohnson5092]

Without a doubt the people need electricity throughout throughout Africa but nuclear power and radiation is eternal radioactive waste in Africa is already a dumping ground for too much nuclear waste that will never decompose. We need to use the sun it's not going anywhere

[@aaronlohr8477]

Russia has the technical ability to build you a fire.

[@thebeautifulones5436]

Africans running a nuclear power station. No thank you.

[@slimpickens01]

All they had to do was ask the locals about the river and they would have told them where it begins and ends. However silly Europeans feel the need to be the first of their kind to do anything especially when another group is already there.

[@odogkar]

Did you see the map 2:47 ??? They ask a lot to draw it all away to Timbuktu, but it is the desert further..... no one knows what is in there..... they send an expedition to find out..... the silly europeans rediscovered all the world you live in..... human.

[@slimpickens01]

@@odogkar exactly the silly Europeans 'rediscovered' a world that was already inhabited and explored. These are the same people who were crawling out of the caves sometime between 4000-6000 bc yet the melanin rich people been here for hundreds of thousands of years, globally.