Dude became an Africanologist just because a few people criticized his map

@nbewarwe

8 күн бұрын

Now that's a character arc.

@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV

3 күн бұрын

Is there any better reason to do anything?

@azathothog

Күн бұрын

he literrly got north africa so wrong....

@abrahamcollier

Күн бұрын

I saw this comment and thought, “What does this mean?”. Within 10 minutes, I understood, and am amazed. The intellectual flexibility of OP is genuinely remarkable. Thank you for bringing this to our attention 🙏

I grew up in Kenya and Tanzania, so I have a weird perspective of a foreigner who has spent their entire life in East Africa. One thing I'd like to point out about Tanzania is that one way the early government (especially under Nyerere) built cross-tribe connections was education. Despite the many, many, many shortcomings of Tanzanian education, they made secondary education mandatory (kind of) and free (kind of). But the key thing was that you didn't get to choose which school you went to, you were randomly (kind of) shuffled to any school in Tanzania. This meant that most people spent a large portion of their formative years in another tribe's area, which made Swahili more important as a lingua Franca, and lowered inter-tribe differences. For lots of people I know, they ended up settling where they were educated, and marrying someone they went to school with. So they might be ethnically Sukuma, and their spouse Maasai, but they live and work in Meru, and that's the only home their kids have ever known. You can also see this with how religion is distributed through Tanzania (and how there's significantly lower levels of religious tension in Tanzania compared to any other country so closely split between two religions), with a much lower coastal Muslim population that the rest of the East African coast, but also a Muslim population that extends father inland than the east of East Africa, and is fairly evenly distributed throughout the country. I think that education policy is one of the reasons that, no matter what people disliked about the ruling party (CCM), I never once heard opposition be drawn on religious or ethnic lines. For that matter, CCM, having ruled from independence, has internally managed ethnic and religious factors very well. The president alternates between a Muslim and Christian, and their Vice President alternates inversely. Even though TZ is effectively a one-party state, the President is limited to two terms (and the President that introduced that law did so in his second term, and retroactively applied it to himself, banning himself from running for office again). All that to say, Tanzania has lots of problems, but also has done wonders to make sure that religious and ethnic tensions are as close to non-existent as possible, which has allowed them to have reasonably fair distribution of government resources, relatively equal access to services and highways and the like, and relatively equal attention from the government. Obviously I'm not Tanzanian (or African) either, but I loved this video, and it lines up well with everything I've been taught/researched/etc. ❤ the video!

@ExtraInExile

8 күн бұрын

Ooooh that's a lot of stuff I didn't know before, thank you! I didn't say a lot about why Swahili became Tanzania's lingua franca, so this really helps with contextualizing that.

@StuffandThings_

8 күн бұрын

Huh, that kind of sounds like why a lot of the countries in the Americas don't really have much inter ethnic and inter religious conflict, because the colonization homogenized things a lot. There are still conflicts along political lines but ethnic and religious ties really never come into it as basically everyone has some sort of mixed ancestry. It does sound kind of sad that a lot of the regional ethnic identities will be eroded due to all this mixing, but I guess if it brings peace and prosperity then hey good for them.

@slantdwave

7 күн бұрын

And now you should read the Atlantic Magazine article, The Great Serngeti Land Grab: How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland By Stephanie McCrummen

@drezhb

6 күн бұрын

Sorry if too personal, but why wouldn't you be African if you grew up and live in Africa?

@hoppy5359

6 күн бұрын

@@drezhb Same way as if an American grew up in Germany and was raised in Germany. he's not German.

***sigh*** ... I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, Africa's borders are fine, actually

@ElectrostatiCrow

6 күн бұрын

We did it, bois. We bullied him into changing his opinion.

@weetbix4497

5 күн бұрын

​@@ElectrostatiCrowNow we will bully him into changing it back

@RealSavage7

5 күн бұрын

They arent for somalia

@mikpoiu6

3 күн бұрын

extra had a lapse i judgement what do you mean they are fine they just dont end everybody but they not good

welcome back exile. good thing your back from isolation. we all needed it.

@aliaksandrbushtser

8 күн бұрын

yeah

@PrivateWaffles

7 күн бұрын

He’s back from EXILE 💀 From Siberia

Two hours? You spoil us. No wonder this was so hyped up for so long.

@RazorsharpLT

4 күн бұрын

All this has taught me that "if you ever blame Europeans for what's happening in Africa - just look at Ethiopia".

the exile has found its new extra

"I say we should draw the borders like the vic2 ethnic map" - Otto Von Bismark

I never really thought the map was meant to say African borders are terrible, but considering your answer to my comment, I guess you could've taken it this way; I'm sorry for it, great video regardless

@ExtraInExile

8 күн бұрын

Don't worry, I don't really remember any individual comments from that video besides the ones that came up a lot, like with the Adal/Oromia thing.

"I'm not here to justify the colonial Powers I hate this Straight lines They should be gay lines instead" -Extra in exile 2024

@brutusthebear9050

3 күн бұрын

June 2024*

thank you! Your content is in my opinion really important in the "scientifically-political niche" of KZread, where funnily enough actual scientific working is not that prevalent as one would like to think. I really enjoy your videos, because you don't just scream something out in the internet but actually try to back your points up, which are clearly your own opinion, this gives your points the authoritie they thusly deserve, while not acting as if you were an authority figure. This way of acting is highly important in a more and more polarizing world of social media. keep up the good work

@ExtraInExile

8 күн бұрын

Thank you, that's really nice to hear! I felt like my previous videos there were always some holes in my arguments because I didn't do my research properly, so I wanted to do that a bit more thoroughly this time. I think there are many other people in this niche who've done a better job at it than me though, 'cause I mostly copied them (Fredda for example).

The exile has found it's new extra.

Man did a deep-dive into the social sciences just because 5% of voters hard-disliked his most notable video. If that isn't a character arc, then I don't know what is.

It’s crazy how much people suggest ethnostates in Africa but treat it like fascism(which it kind of is) at home.

@rewarp4017

8 күн бұрын

The immigrants in Europe will return back eventually. They are guests at the hospitality of the Europeans. For the Americans, Australians, Canadians, etc,, do I believe that a single race should continue to dominate (Europeans) but the concept of ethnostate there should not exist.

@CountingStars333

7 күн бұрын

​@@rewarp4017I'd like a view inside your mind. Must be a scary place.😊

@slantdwave

7 күн бұрын

​@@rewarp4017the immigrants from Europe should return, yes

@brandonlyon730

6 күн бұрын

@@rewarp4017 The Irish that came to America especially during the potato famine in Ireland never returned back to Ireland even after the famine was long over.

@iwuedfh

6 күн бұрын

​@@rewarp4017 well unfortunately for you, americans, canadians, australians, new zealanders etc. will continue to be the way that they are, they are known for being multicultural societies for a reason, for example canada's population is 25% immigrants and will only be increasing, your dreams of white dominated nations ain't happening anytime soon pal

2 hours?! I got my phone as soon as I got the notification, even though it's 6 minutes past 12am here, but this one might have to wait until morning.

If all Africa needed was to have nation states then Somalia and South Sudan would be wonderful paradises.

@RK-cj4oc

8 күн бұрын

South Sudan is not a nation state at all.

@shafsteryellow

6 күн бұрын

Somalia is missing its land

@ludbamaha3406

3 күн бұрын

somalia is missing alot of land

@ugwuanyicollins6136

3 күн бұрын

There would be 3000+ COUNTRIES IN AFRICA

@AsiaMinor12

2 күн бұрын

​@@shafsteryellowIt won't ever get it back

This was a great video! Being half Ghanaian myself, I this video went over a lot of things that are completely accurate about Africa.

Even though ur clearly biased and even anti-european in some ways, its obvious this is the most comprehensive and neutral video on the issue. Good job.

@ugwuanyicollins6136

3 күн бұрын

Anti-evil*

@konstancemakjaveli

2 күн бұрын

@@ugwuanyicollins6136 thats racist lol

@cavebabybezerkers

2 күн бұрын

It will be 1 africa

@abrahamcollier

Күн бұрын

I think this is a very important comment. There is a great deal of effort from OP to preserve balance between colonialism and anti-colonialism. Belgium is a bit guilty, as we all know. He (she? doesn’t matter) acknowledges this. But I don’t think this content can be classified as “anti-european” in any measurable sense. Perhaps subjectively, you can identify some specific “anti-european” phrases? I would be happy to hear them. But otherwise, as an American and Westerner and cis-heterosexual white male, I would like to acknowledge the really admirable objectivity of this video, which doesn’t appear to be “anti-european” at all. Just tells the truth. Humans are complicated. Black. White. Everything in between. Woman. Man. Everything in between. Colonials. Colonized. Everything in between. We shall overcome.

@konstancemakjaveli

Күн бұрын

@@abrahamcollier im not gonna rewatch 2 hours of content to show you specific points where he lets his bias slip. Simply put, he makes some remarks about "european way of doing things" which strike very biased, if not anti-european. And you want to id-pol this shit? Well im a Latvian transwoman. I bet you dont even know such a country.

Babe, wake up, Extra is back and he's more extra than ever

I love that last section! Research is intimidated, so I love hearing someone share the joy in it and share their readings!

Great video! I started learning more about Africa's history and trying to understand geopolitics, and so I found your video to be extremely interesting! Honestrly there are movies that couldn't hold me as glued to my screen as your video lol

Oh my God, two damn hours, this definitely makes up for the last 10 months

This is my first video of yours I have watched and and blown away by how well researched and written it is. I have always had an interest in learning about Africa both in its history and how its has been developing in modern times and am let down by how often the continent is ignored or has very surface level research/writing done in media. I very much appreciate the materialist/scientific approach you take in the video to explain Africas conditions but also how you are able to show the point of view of the nations, groups, and tribes throughout. I'm rambling at this point but to sum up: Amazing video and hope to see more long form content from you in the future, kudos!

The exile has found its new extra

Welcome back, I wasn't expecting this today, but I'm sure here for it.

Hey this is an awesome work! You did a really good job studing the countries and even suggesting solutions, i bet it could even be an academic paper with couple of changes!!

As someone who's been subscribed since the first video on african borders I can confidently say that this is your best video yet!

This video legitimately changed my life extra, thank you for making this masterpiece.

Love to see your content growing bigger in scale. Nice personality

This is a really delayed April fools

I didn't think about a 2 hour long video , but still that amazing

Amazons Video, watched every second of it! Keep up the good work, not many youtubers can make a 2 hour video this entertaining!

Honestly I don't subscribe to the idea that if borders in Africa or the middle east were better drawn everyone would just get along, and that it's Europeans fault that everyone hates each other. It just feels like one is just trying to find an easy and anti-colonial excuse for it. Yeah they were poorly drawn, but you'd be kidding yourself if you think they wouldn't all hate each other. My guess as to why these places are in such a mess would be that by the time colonialism ended, these countries were thrown into a global market that they were not at all ready for, no education, no industry no institutions. Just raw resources that everyone wanted to buy, which in turn made the most effective way to make a living to just try and take control over as many of these resources, sell them off and not develop anything beyond what's necessary to secure the raw resources.

@georgethompson913

Күн бұрын

What about the countires that wete fairly successful post colonialism and the Zimbabwe tier states.

2 hours well spent, have not seen a video in a while where almost every point is backed up by thorough research and I actually feel like I've learned a lot.

Woah a two hour long extra in exile video? My day just got ten times better!

First channel I ever subbed to, and it was absolutely worth it!

South Africa isn't as linguistically diverse as it pretends to be. The real number of languages is around 6. Cause a lot of them are similar enough to be the same language. Zimbabwe is shockingly not majority shona. It's just the language favoured for communication among locals. But some of the languages like Ndebele are similar to languages like Zulu.

Good job, in this research video. In fact, this is a rare countryball youtuber, let alone history/political/social youtuber in general that cites actual research papers and books and make a longer video. And it's even rarer for a countryball youtuber to site more than 2 to 5 sources, and you use multiple sources to build your argument instead of just using one source as the main source through the whole video, with a few other sources to make a small rebuttal and support to supplement their main source, like most uni students who just want to finish their research essays to get a decent grade.

great video exile!! i really loved it ❤️

He isn’t back from exile, but he’s back from his hard work.

I just want to write this as a European, who isn't knowledgable in Africa at all. You in my eyes made a hell of a good job. This is basically on the level of an academic paper and I feel overjoyed, that I have access to this for free.

This was an interesting documentary to watch, through. Well done. As yet an other European, this helps me to understand Africa abit more, since I nevere really got in touch with Africa or what so ever. Thank you so much.

@ExtraInExile thanks for making this video. You hit the nail on the head and even brought up things I didn't think of before such as using native language in educatuon. I hope this means a lot coming from a Nigerian! P.S.1:48:10 ...that was a very *brave* move putting this is an Africa video. (just laugh at that joke please)

Its a happy day when Extra-Exile upload

48:56 Kenyan students UNDERSTAND what their teacher is saying, they speak the same language (English), there is progress on better schools, and they want to learn! My 5th grade teacher taught there on trips sometimes!

Please make a deep dive video on ASEAN/Southeast Asia just like with Africa :)).

specifically citing when things are your own thoughts is awesome

The legend is back!!!!

Pan Africanists real quiet after this dropped.

@ugwuanyicollins6136

3 күн бұрын

Am here

Might be a mistake but the vid is only available to up to 480p

@paisleepunk

8 күн бұрын

this is still true

@Jahommmmmmtirrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

7 күн бұрын

i think its because (unless chosen otherwise) when uploading a video it first uploads in 480 and then begins uploading higher resolutions which take way longer it happens to me

@Fjiere

7 күн бұрын

@@Jahommmmmmtirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmakes sense since this video is almost 2 HOURS LONG

@ElectrostatiCrow

6 күн бұрын

Looks pretty good for 480p.

He's back baby!

FInaly, Extra in Exile is back! This video was probably your best yet, it was really informative, you did a lot of research, it was awesome! I enjoyed every second of your new movie! (Vexillology volumes and lore drop when?)

BOTSWANA MENTIONED

@ElectrostatiCrow

6 күн бұрын

Rahhh

Banger video, you got a new subscriber :)

1:41 yaasss gurl we need gay lines rn! 🌈 Happy pride month! And also celebrate that in this year, three different countries chose to legalize same-sex marriage and further LGBTQIA+ rights. Those are Greece, Nepal, and Thailand.

@RK-cj4oc

8 күн бұрын

Gay

@winterbliss4459

7 күн бұрын

@@RK-cj4ocyeah, and?

@CountingStars333

7 күн бұрын

​​@@winterbliss4459fake

@tankfarter

5 күн бұрын

​@@winterbliss4459lesbian

This was supposed to come out at the beginning of my trip, glad it came out at the end.

Another goated video from the legend

Holy shit 2 hours. This is gonna be good

I repeat he is back

Incredible video! Loved the performance at 1:38:01 ! Best part of this video!

He is finally back

man for the effort u put into this u deserve more views

This is such an incredibly good video omg

This man disappeared for 6 months and dropped an extensive and comprehensive explanation on the entire continent of Africa

He’s back!!!

I can't wait to watch a new video from this channel 🙏

splendid return

After a good half year or spoilers, it’s finally here!

come on they're gonna send me in exile too! dangit

what a great 30 minute video!

Really good video. Don't be too hard on yourself man!!!

HOLY- 2 HOURS OF VIDEO????

crazy how people who watched this when it was posted so far didnt even finish it yet

New extra video let's gooooo

just give all of Africa to Nauru smh

@ugwuanyicollins6136

3 күн бұрын

Not today Satan

he has returned

Thanks for playing super mario galaxy music in the background

I like EMB… Also I recognize different scenes from the community posts

He came back with an entire movie

36:39 As a Somali, this frankly comes off as extremely insensitive, uninformed and tone deaf. Kenya has a vested interest in keeping the country unstable and has been the perpetrator of numerous massacres to prevent any form of dissent in its north eastern province without seeking any form of reconciliation. 37:16 I have no idea where you exactly got this from but the vast majority of the people in the organization still support unification, the thing is that they’re opting to call for an interim state that would exist until the civil war was over to properly unify. 37:54 The problem is that the Ethiopian constitution inherently allows for the self determination of its states but in practice whoever calls for a referendum ultimately gets arrested (like with what happened in the late 2010s in the Somali region), the current president is also Oromo and has sided with Oromia on pretty much every single border dispute. 42:22 I don’t get your instinct on framing the Eritrean and Somali relations on the same level as the other 2? The president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud literally visited the country to discuss about Ethiopias growing need for a port the other day and the two countries have had very cordial relations for the most part.

@ExtraInExile

8 күн бұрын

I'm sorry if I came off that way! I agree that Kenya definitely had economic and political interests in Southern Somalia, but what I meant was that Kenya was defending its border for the most part and avoided killing civilians, though some did die during the operation.

@theoneblock7107

8 күн бұрын

@@ExtraInExile I’d still argue that it would’ve been better to include its lack of regard of handling its troops (who frequently loot Somalis at both of the border, something that has already plenty of articles covering it) further straining tensions between Somalis and by extension Somalias perception of the state’s intervention

@rewarp4017

8 күн бұрын

@@theoneblock7107I genuinely hope we get good leaders in the future. HSM is not fit to lead. Hopefully in 2026 will we get somebody to turn the state of affairs around. Inshallah

@kurobeard9467

Күн бұрын

@@ExtraInExile Kenya was taken to the ICJ for attempting to annex some of Somalia's maritime territory. Furthermore, many Kenyans see Jubaland (the most southernly state) as originally being part of Kenya because it was part of British East Africa. Furthermore, Somalia and Kenya did go to war in the 60s during the shifta wars which made Ethiopia and Kenya sign a defense pact against Somalia. Just as Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006, Kenya also invaded in 2011 and they are now the defacto authority in JL. In other words, they have never been peaceful.

@divinechariot5542

Күн бұрын

​​@@kurobeard9467I think you are giving Kenya too much flak. Their 2011 invasion was based on legitimate security concerns with Al Shabab and overall, their operation did nowhere as much damage as Ethiopia's 2006 invasion. I've also never heard of any Kenyan claiming Jubaland is theirs

He’s back!

2 hour long video by a youtuber i havent watched in half a year? dont mind if i do

That's pretty cool. I didn't know you could force captions on your video.

The king is back!

So thorough i rewatched multiple times to retain every detail of a very forgotten country. (joke please read How to write about Africa article) Greetings from a latam fan, kinda wish there were something like this for "Mexico"

I disagree with the statement that there has been progress made. Maybe there has been progress in other countries, but there's none in mine. There is still ethnic tensions, that wouldn't exist if things were going well.

What a nice video, although I probably needed a repeat viewing in order to fully understand the video...can't wait to see how you cover the fireworks factory explosion that is the 2024 Eurovision... P/s:1:48:33, Btw, do you like to read manga...?

Good god, Extra! Are you okay? Do you still have feeling in your arms? This is such a long video!

I disagree, I think the borders are stupid, however I still appreciate you for making such a huge and high quality video!

The whole Morocco-Western Sahara situation almost reminds me of the Israel-Palestine conflict, funny how that works huh......

@shafsteryellow

6 күн бұрын

Not remotely comparable

THIS VIDEO IS 2 HOURS LONG WHAT

"im not African myself" and calls himself a goober, an African word

@ExtraInExile

8 күн бұрын

Woah I never bothered to look it up, but yeah goober does come from Kikongo. I thought it was just a sillier way of saying "fool" which is why I used it.

@DigitizedZombie

8 күн бұрын

@@ExtraInExile lmao you're good I thought it was just funny, the word is used all the time in media even though it originally meant peanut it's used a lot for generally small things and absolutely as an alternative for fool so you can't be blamed for the confusion. I only know about it's origins because of Spiderman into the spiderverse and wanted to check it wasn't just gibberish lol

@DigitizedZombie

8 күн бұрын

@@Comrade_Mac Remember the Congo Free State?

@NapoleanBlown-aparte

7 күн бұрын

​@@Comrade_Mac *GREAT REPLACEMENT DOGWHISTLE*

@NapoleanBlown-aparte

7 күн бұрын

@@Comrade_Mac no it ain't 💀💀💀

welcome back Extra!

This must take lotsa Work. Great work. What program do u use 4 animation?

Great video!

yeaaaa he is back yeaaaaaaa

HE IS BACK!

i immediately clicked on notification and only after 4:54 have i understood that this video is 2 HOURS LONG?

Exile is back from exile

I would say this isnt Africa's borders being fine so much as it is, 'Messing with the borders is more trouble than its worth at this point' but i'd also argue that was exactly what was decided on at the Organisation of African Unity conference of 1964 anyway so we already knew that.

Holy shit man two hours nice