Human traffickers conducting a lucrative business in Mauritania | DW Documentary

In the footsteps of the traffickers in Mauritania who profit from poverty. They organize crossings to take west Africans to Europe. Are they helping these people on a dangerous journey or are they the heirs of the slave traders of the 16th century, at the time of the transatlantic slave trade?
In the 16th century, slave trade decimated much of West Africa, causing long-lasting devastation and disruption. 21st century migration out of Africa seems to be following a similar path. At the center of both are the people who benefit financially - slave catchers of old and fixers nowadays. Abdourahmane is a Mauritanian fixer. He takes us to the inside of his business as he organizes a boat to take group of youth across the Atlantic to Europe. The boat will be navigated by his namesake, Abdourahmane, who is an experienced captain. He is aware of the risks to his own life on a small boat that will cross the ocean. The film draws parallels, highlighting similarities and differences and asking the questions: Why is this taking place today? Are the experiences and results the same? On the one hand is the involuntary migration of slaves in shackles being forced to Western countries. Today, voluntary migration to Western countries leads to exploitation as cheap labor. Still, despite the dangers, warnings, authorities, and the reality of not being welcomed with open arms, many migrants spend a fortune and risk their lives to get to Europe by irregular means, crossing the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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  • @reinerbraun9995
    @reinerbraun9995 Жыл бұрын

    I am from Mauritania and I want to say that I am satisfied even if the conditions of living are difficult, but the only thing that I cannot accept is the feeling that my dreams and hopes are shattered day after day. How naive I was since childhood to think that even someone like me could dream, but still I am happy because I live in a time when I can communicate with wonderful people from all over the world and witness how beautiful humanity is to unites us together. I hope that we will progress together and do our best to make the world a better place in which any children regardless of their location on the globe, can dream (Sorry if I made some grammar mistakes)

  • @samanthav8728

    @samanthav8728

    Жыл бұрын

    This was touching to read. I speak blessing over you and yours that your days will be filled with joy, good health, and prosperity.

  • @Punicia

    @Punicia

    Жыл бұрын

    I am Mauritanian living in the West (college student) but you are definitely right about the dreaming. I dream every day, every hour. If not about this life then something ethereal. Our leaders are consumed by greed and nepotism, but it is the West that wants them this way. Unfortunately, Arabs and North Africans in general can be some of the most ignorant people on earth. If things do change, it may not be for another century.

  • @jendrixjohn4974

    @jendrixjohn4974

    Жыл бұрын

    Your comment was so touching and also heartbreaking to me, i wish i could knew more about

  • @robiulhossain8046

    @robiulhossain8046

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s really touching ❤ You never stop dreaming. May allah be with you!

  • @robiulhossain8046

    @robiulhossain8046

    Жыл бұрын

    I would like to visit Mauritania one day in sha Allah. But i Don't know anyone over there! Maybe you can tell me more about your country

  • @waitaminute2015
    @waitaminute2015 Жыл бұрын

    This is so sad. Poverty is the worst kind of abuse.

  • @pietrojenkins6901

    @pietrojenkins6901

    Жыл бұрын

    Poverty is one's own choice.

  • @wangcyang89

    @wangcyang89

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pietrojenkins6901 wtf is this dumb comment, you wouldn't last one day in their shoes

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    If you have enough to eat and good water and air not necessarily. Perhaps you are materialistic.

  • @DJJonPattrsn22

    @DJJonPattrsn22

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pietrojenkins6901 without any qualifiers that is a preposterous claim that is simply false, and even somewhat offensive. There are many factors that contribute to poverty and some of them are beyond an individual's control or influence. Depending on the time & place of one's birth and the family they are born into, it may be virtually impossible, and certainly not feasible for a great portion of the world's population to change their socio-economic status. For most people born in industrialized nations if they live in lovey it is likely the result of choices they've made. Absolutely! But I also would not call it an abuse! That's absurd and silly!

  • @DJJonPattrsn22

    @DJJonPattrsn22

    Жыл бұрын

    @T How can poverty possibly be an abuse?! That doesn't even make any sense at all! Who is the abuser?

  • @somerandomfella
    @somerandomfella Жыл бұрын

    Times have changed. They don't use chains anymore. They use contracts and loans.

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    FACTS

  • @nyakadot.esq.2746

    @nyakadot.esq.2746

    Жыл бұрын

    True like here in The gulf you sign a three year contract and they confiscated your passport

  • @Ahumaan

    @Ahumaan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nyakadot.esq.2746 and they still use chains to keep them there

  • @ecsamuels4142

    @ecsamuels4142

    Жыл бұрын

    We Forgive Them🤍🇳🇬

  • @Ahumaan

    @Ahumaan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ecsamuels4142 what?

  • @ksidnfurnekaoajdbdjfkn
    @ksidnfurnekaoajdbdjfkn10 ай бұрын

    This powerful documentary sheds light on the haunting similarities between historic slave trade and modern-day migration.The film urges us to reflect on our collective responsibility to address the root causes of migration and to strive for a more compassionate and just world.

  • @nhlaks_forexzar4523
    @nhlaks_forexzar4523 Жыл бұрын

    Our problem is the constant failing of our African leaders who continuous enrich themselves, living most African vulnerable and with no choice but to risk their lives in a Boat for greener pasture 💔

  • @janedoe3915

    @janedoe3915

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree but the way to solve that problem is to get enough of the population to rise up and overthrow the government, not abuse the immigration, refugee, or asylum laws in the West. Leaving never makes the government a better society for all of the population and it (daily migration as well as mass migration events) have been putting a strain on the West. The West is struggling w/their own populations who r struggling and suffering from the higher income and wealth inequality worldwide. Bad governments create all kinds of problems for the West aside from just the cost of migration. I’m not against immigration but it should be based on what the government needs for their societies, for example, ppl w/certain skills, not based on whenever and whatever skills, or lack of skills, a migrant decides. I’m in the US, massive amounts of migrants who simply want a better life abuse our asylum system everyday which is creating a big problem for my country. Russia and China use the issue to claim Dems and some gop r trying to replace the white race. It’s nonsense but the color of the population is changing bc the white race isn’t reproducing enough to maintain itself mostly bc of infertility, both parents needing to work, and not being able to afford the cost of children in the US. However, Russia and China r spreading disinformation, propaganda, etc trying to get far-right politicians, who r working for Russia and China’s interests and trying to make the US a corrupt dictatorship and the #1 reason voters r falling for this is bc of migration. If the US/West falls, all democracies fall and we will all have bad governments like Africa, Russia, Iran, China, etc. The solution is not bringing the rest of the world down with u but to rise up and fix ur own government. The West, especially the US aren’t the wealthy countries many think they r. A small group have a massive amount of money, they drive up the cost of living while the M&L classes r earning the same wages or less from 1980. Please stop coming to the West and make ur own countries better so that the West can fix their own countries!

  • @davidfrimpong1531

    @davidfrimpong1531

    Жыл бұрын

    The leaders you're complaining about are a product of their respective societies. Perhaps, a bit of a societal introspection may be required to examine, and if possible, remedy its apparent inabilty to produce quality leadership that is in short supply on the African Continent

  • @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    Жыл бұрын

    Is Mauretania and Mauritania 2 different places? ah it's like region, like Europe for example constisting of many countries, didn't actual know this thing existed. Heard of Maghreb before... The title of the video is confusing tbh.

  • @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    Жыл бұрын

    The grass is never greener on the otherside, it's a myth/pipedream.

  • @TherealRTZ973

    @TherealRTZ973

    Жыл бұрын

    Ya all those billionaire African leaders that are enriching themselves. You mean like fucking Elon Musk? Like the white guy with colonial emerald mines? No you're insane to think any of the money that's extracted from these economies is staying in Africa.

  • @mphatsophiri-yg6xn
    @mphatsophiri-yg6xn Жыл бұрын

    African leaders must see these things. Africa needs to provide jobs to her sons and daughters.

  • @mistywinn7398

    @mistywinn7398

    Жыл бұрын

    Money rules all. Only a small percent actually what to help their people sadly .

  • @natgenesis5038

    @natgenesis5038

    Жыл бұрын

    Did U.S. government started Walmart?

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    @@natgenesis5038 No it is China 🇨🇳. US is bad too.

  • @levelzyung7454

    @levelzyung7454

    Жыл бұрын

    Government is the people

  • @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    Жыл бұрын

    Africa has Rulers, not leaders. Otherwise African continent would be democratic and warlords would roam around the continent and hundreds of militia groups..

  • @kenosabi
    @kenosabi Жыл бұрын

    Corruption destroys all.

  • @jazztheglass6139
    @jazztheglass6139 Жыл бұрын

    An estimated 10% to 20% of Mauritania’s 3.4 million people are enslaved - in “real slavery,” according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. If that’s not unbelievable enough, consider that Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. That happened in 1981

  • @TherealRTZ973

    @TherealRTZ973

    Жыл бұрын

    Slavery is still legal in the US under the 13th amendment. That's why private prisons make so much money. You're understanding of reality is mindbogglingly wrong.

  • @joywambui5431

    @joywambui5431

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@liamrode1 doesn't matter what is legal in the US....that's still besides the fuckn point. The stats say 10% of a certain group of citizens somewhere are SLAVES.....where exactly is your grip on this reality.

  • @ousmanesowofficiel8

    @ousmanesowofficiel8

    Жыл бұрын

    Many black people are still enslaved in Mauritania t this day

  • @deboral.devaughn2285

    @deboral.devaughn2285

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TherealRTZ973 That was rude!

  • @abby-a

    @abby-a

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@TherealRTZ973 exactly 💯

  • @Hellnback303
    @Hellnback303 Жыл бұрын

    This is so painful to watch.

  • @abdimajidmohamed1463
    @abdimajidmohamed1463 Жыл бұрын

    In life , one should have a purpose. That man teaching children about history of slavery has a great purpose in life. He could be poor but has a better purpose than a rich man with no purpose

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    300 years ago when it’s still happening today. Is that a good purpose?

  • @97VIRTUESHEART

    @97VIRTUESHEART

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SeeLasSee Happening where?

  • @jainutkarsh94
    @jainutkarsh94 Жыл бұрын

    This documentary is so well made it should be screened at top tier film festivals all over the world

  • @OUMZDABBZ
    @OUMZDABBZ Жыл бұрын

    This Documentary is so well Done. and my respect to the Narrators/ interpreters job well done wow 😮

  • @zai5562

    @zai5562

    Жыл бұрын

    Great documentary but the translations were terrible!

  • @mistywinn7398
    @mistywinn7398 Жыл бұрын

    7:30. This father is so humble and the way he was with his kids wass amazing. Praying for your family. Even more sad is all these African countries are filled with minerals. Which are worth 💵💴💷💰. These people shouldn't have to live like this . But then again money is the root of evil

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    True. Yes money is the root of all evil. It’s very sad.💔

  • @bohobabie5987

    @bohobabie5987

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CMoore8539 it is not money that is evil, it is the love of money that is evil. Money is neutral, having the wrong relationship with money is what sometimes make people do evil things

  • @emancipatedlionm9215

    @emancipatedlionm9215

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@CMoore8539 The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Money answereth ALLLLL things.

  • @purplespaceship2417

    @purplespaceship2417

    Жыл бұрын

    Congo is the worst of all. It should be one of the richest countries with all of its natural resources. It has the most biodiversity in the world next to the Amazon rainforest. Instead the people still live in extreme poverty, their land is being destroyed with all its biodiversity and they get basically nothing from it. All so we can have smart phones and EV's. They've had nothing been misery since they were introduced to Europeans.

  • @pietrojenkins6901

    @pietrojenkins6901

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bohobabie5987 that''s true, it is wrongly said that money changes people .Reality is money just unmasks people for who they are.

  • @1fredricka
    @1fredricka Жыл бұрын

    I hope the teacher teaches the real threat. The human traffickers living in the area!

  • @mugwimidenis1887
    @mugwimidenis1887 Жыл бұрын

    nice documentary...the teacher with the kids enlightened the history and story More

  • @GladysAlicea

    @GladysAlicea

    Жыл бұрын

    Sadly, they likely will remember this history lesson when they grow older and tragically, nothing has changed. Heartbreaking.

  • @plootow1622
    @plootow162210 ай бұрын

    The moral of the story is that the teacher talks about the slavery in Africa 400 years ago to the group of children. At the same time, the smugglers plan the illegal trip to bring Africans to Europe. It is so irony is that back in slavery time an umbrella was worth 40 slaves. But today an illegal trip to Europe costing an African men and $760 EURO. A well-done documentary film.

  • @akilimali_ndag
    @akilimali_ndag Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this sophisticated Documentary DW.

  • @joschkahurst
    @joschkahurst Жыл бұрын

    Why human beings are so wicked to each other ???

  • @definitlynotbenlente7671

    @definitlynotbenlente7671

    Жыл бұрын

    Greed and hate

  • @sameo-
    @sameo- Жыл бұрын

    wonderful insight thank you 👍👍

  • @shahnozaravshanova2006
    @shahnozaravshanova2006 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for information

  • @godblessacountrygirl5324
    @godblessacountrygirl5324 Жыл бұрын

    Another great documentary,thank you!!

  • @dearlife7771
    @dearlife77719 ай бұрын

    Translator lie at the first, where he say how he started fishing not asking for boat to Europe

  • @yubrajadhikari3715
    @yubrajadhikari3715 Жыл бұрын

    amazing documentary.waiting for follow up Episode... Thanks to entire team. I'm yubraj all the way from nepal.🇳🇵

  • @vivavasquez
    @vivavasquez Жыл бұрын

    i wish we had journalism this good in the U S A .

  • @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    @Microphunktv-jb3kj

    Жыл бұрын

    It's good because if im not mistaken, DW orga is financed by Germany tax payer money, so there's no obligations to some corporate sponsor, to push certain narratives or placed Ads via "news" objects.

  • @neidringhaus1915

    @neidringhaus1915

    Жыл бұрын

    We do, it's PBS

  • @terra7066

    @terra7066

    Жыл бұрын

    You have. DW didn't translate what they were really saying and just followed it's own narrative.

  • @tijanjeng6683

    @tijanjeng6683

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@terra7066 I saw that too. Nothing the locals were saying had nothing to do with his documentary

  • @amosegesa2676
    @amosegesa2676 Жыл бұрын

    This documentary is so well put. immediately after teaching the kids about the point of no return, we see our brothers setting off from the similar point except this time not in physical chains.

  • @dev-pj9vi
    @dev-pj9vi Жыл бұрын

    An awesome story. Fascinating to see this thing I see the fallout of all the time from the source. I hope these guys are all good.

  • @mobah7018
    @mobah7018 Жыл бұрын

    We need part 2 please

  • @yaizudamashii

    @yaizudamashii

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes I want to know the fate of the people in the boat!

  • @DJJonPattrsn22
    @DJJonPattrsn22 Жыл бұрын

    @8:25 Feeding the goats/sheep torn up cardboard! This is common in many countries suffering from extreme poverty. Goats in particular are infamous for eating "anything", they can be very valuable resources for farmers if used wisely. But it is inconceivable that this dirty cardboard with all kinds of residual processing chemicals the ink printed on them does much more than merely fill the animals stomachs without providing calories or nutrients!

  • @gregorysmith1134
    @gregorysmith1134 Жыл бұрын

    The fixer tells the skipper he will reach the Spanish coast in two days of sailing. How can a rickety, overloaded fishing boat cover 1400 miles in that short time? Smugglers are of the lowest vane of humanity. This boat will never reach the Spanish coast.

  • @roberthaakell-xl6ln

    @roberthaakell-xl6ln

    9 ай бұрын

    There just dumping them in the ocean

  • @lucasjames7524
    @lucasjames7524 Жыл бұрын

    What an extraordinary documentary. DW is superb. Love, respect, and praise! ❤🖤💚

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! We're glad you liked the documentary. Subscribe to our channel for the latest uploads.

  • @ImperialMJG

    @ImperialMJG

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DWDocumentary You gotta be joking. This is absolutely horrible "documentary". Its obviously actors all of them. And extremely bad actors also

  • @julianholman7379
    @julianholman7379 Жыл бұрын

    Mauritania only banned slavery a few decades ago, but, apparently, it remains an institution: people are plentiful; everything else is scarce

  • @lucienmossad8947
    @lucienmossad8947 Жыл бұрын

    mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery in 1982........1 third of the population still live in slavery.....

  • @dontcare32123
    @dontcare32123 Жыл бұрын

    Such a shame the documentary totally failed to discuss who was actually selling the people as slaves and for how long this had been happening.

  • @louise7347

    @louise7347

    Жыл бұрын

    And for how geographically extensive the trade was.

  • @rosebrown6128

    @rosebrown6128

    Жыл бұрын

    The point is that the kids are taught that slavery was a black and white thing. They don’t want to teach them that black Africans sold their brothers to the slavers. In this way young men have been indoctrinated that they are poor because of the west and that Europe owes them rather than pointing the finger at their own corrupt governments.

  • @TheStevelfc

    @TheStevelfc

    Жыл бұрын

    Wasnt it hugely facilitated by Africans? Especially our African chiefs?

  • @theowlfromduolingo7982

    @theowlfromduolingo7982

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to forget Arabs who also had their own slave trafficking business

  • @danielkelleher7246

    @danielkelleher7246

    Жыл бұрын

    Who should they have mentioned? Like exact names or something?

  • @davidamarteifio
    @davidamarteifio Жыл бұрын

    So sad ..but must say brilliant documentary by all stands 👌🏾

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching! Make sure to check out our channel for similiar content :)

  • @righteousbyfaithinChrist
    @righteousbyfaithinChrist Жыл бұрын

    I cannot abide ignorance. These human traffickers are the vilest of actors! What is worse? Those that tolerate this due to their moral decay...

  • @okpenkedimeemmanuel1020
    @okpenkedimeemmanuel1020 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome documentary, thanks for sharing

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your comment!

  • @fanny3942
    @fanny3942 Жыл бұрын

    I have seen documentaries on European-African immigration, but this video is so informative, thank you.

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Be sure to check out our channel for more content.

  • @caver38
    @caver383 ай бұрын

    The UN , and Eu governments should be doing something about traffickers , and also about the NGOs who are encouraging unauthorised migration

  • @cherylk.2474
    @cherylk.247411 ай бұрын

    How horrid that the forefathers sold people, irrespective of the price.

  • @marden888
    @marden888 Жыл бұрын

    awesome docu. 👍🏼

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

    A truthful, informative documentary coverage about human trafficking from African countries involving ( Mauritania 🇲🇷)...to approaches European shorelines for illegal migrating purposes .... African youths are living in hopeless circumstances....good doing by an excellent (DW )documentary channel

  • @GehanAdel
    @GehanAdel Жыл бұрын

    This was heartbreaking for me this perilous journey not to have a luxurious life but to have an ordinary one their country has a tremendous amount of wealth but it has been exploited away from them let them be a slave under these circumstances. Thanks a lot for this prolific documentary 🌹🙏

  • @Punicia

    @Punicia

    Жыл бұрын

    France and England playing divide and conquer against North Africa is what did this. Make the Moroccans think they're superior to Algerians who think they're superior to Egyptians who think they're superior to etc. etc. In reality we all waste our life doing what the slave driver wants us to do (Europe)

  • @goccha-xm2yv
    @goccha-xm2yv4 ай бұрын

    I love it so much. I've been in both Nouakchott and nouadhibu for 5years❤

  • @khadijah3519
    @khadijah3519 Жыл бұрын

    It is shameful that EVERYONE under 40..REFUSES to tell the TRUTH of how the whiteman was able to just take people away like that! God Bless Africans🌺

  • @Clos93

    @Clos93

    11 ай бұрын

    The Europeans just took over the Arab's slave racket in the 18th and 19th century since the ottoman empire was declining and the Europeans were thriving. How people don't ever mention it was the Arab's who started the African slave trade in the first place is baffling. The fact of the matter is every race has been enslaved. The word "slave" come from the latin word "slav" which is still an ethnicity in eastern Europe, who were enslaved by the Romans. People in Iceland and the British isles were sold into slavery by vikings in Arab slave markets since white slaves were desirable as wives. Barbary pirates from North Africa raided southern Europe for slaves for the ottoman slave market. Jannisarries were Christian children of Slavic aristocracy in the Balkans who were hostages to the Ottomans, who then were made into obedient Muslim soldiers. Coolies were indian and Chinese indentured servants who were worked in the Caribbean on plantations and as railroad workers after slavery was abolished, but weren't treated any better than slaves due to asian racism. And everyone seems to forget the Spanish and Portuguese used the indigenous peoples of the Americas as slaves as well. Slavery affects any vulnerable people group.

  • @Clos93

    @Clos93

    11 ай бұрын

    Look up "indentured servitude in Dubai", people from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines are tricked into working for workforce contractors in Dubai on the promise of good pay, who then have their visas and passports confiscated under the guise of "contractual terms", and then force them to pay the travel fee back to get back their passport. Dubai has the most foreign workers per Capita in the world.

  • @taurus8263

    @taurus8263

    2 ай бұрын

    Slave trade existed long before white people started to trade slaves. In fact Arabs traded slaves long before that. Also, please remember that slaves were sold by Africans to white people. So literally Africans were selling their own people for the goods exchange.

  • @sophiemarlen
    @sophiemarlen Жыл бұрын

    Great documentary! ❤

  • @Nataleena

    @Nataleena

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't agree more.

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching us!

  • @KennyNationZ
    @KennyNationZ Жыл бұрын

    No one to blame but this African Leaders AKA Rulers

  • @taurus8263
    @taurus82632 ай бұрын

    It's sad to see people having hardly anything to eat, feeding sheep with cardboard. Yet, fertility rate in Mauritania is over 4 children. I will never understand this. If you have nothing to eat, you don't bring children into these conditions.

  • @shauncameron8390

    @shauncameron8390

    15 күн бұрын

    Children = social safety net.

  • @smileycoast5331
    @smileycoast5331 Жыл бұрын

    Touching, thank you brother for sharing its important to know about history

  • @AnaPaulinacom
    @AnaPaulinacom Жыл бұрын

    Instead of helping mankind, they destroy them.

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    @BROODJE KAAS Absolutely right.

  • @dekev7503
    @dekev7503 Жыл бұрын

    Slavery was already practiced long before Europeans came and it was still practiced long after they left.

  • @flightographist

    @flightographist

    Жыл бұрын

    The first sentence from the narrator indicates they were SOLD into slavery, the indication of who the slavers were/are is explicit. The issue has been fully deconstructed, the Africans and their slave trade has been ongoing for 1300 years.

  • @MyHolidayArchive

    @MyHolidayArchive

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes you’re right, and Africans even enslaved Europeans in North Africa at one time, which is rarely spoken about. Anything is only ever condemned now if white people are to blame. Look at the Trans-Saharan Arab slave trade, which enslaved just as many Africans, but since when has any Arab country been called out on it? Non. In fact the Arabs are still enslaving people to this day, and there’s silence.

  • @Iconoclasher
    @Iconoclasher Жыл бұрын

    The Old Proverb is true. "......the more things change the more they stay the same" 🙄

  • @TheStockwell

    @TheStockwell

    Жыл бұрын

    The French writer, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, wrote that - in 1849. He was right.

  • @Iconoclasher

    @Iconoclasher

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheStockwell I knew it had French origins but wasn't sure who it was. Thx for the FYI 👍

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s not a proverb. It’s thought provoking though.

  • @richardadzimah1087
    @richardadzimah1087 Жыл бұрын

    I thought only Ghanaian fishermen sing as they pull their net.

  • @KandaEzana
    @KandaEzana Жыл бұрын

    The Islamic slave trade needs to be discussed more

  • @sophia4christ
    @sophia4christ Жыл бұрын

    So they find money to pay the smugglers, but can't invest in a business in their homeland? How sad. Smh

  • @aFreeAmazighPerson

    @aFreeAmazighPerson

    8 ай бұрын

    You don't live there you don't understand, any successful project gets stolen by the ruler his friends and their families

  • @shauncameron8390

    @shauncameron8390

    25 күн бұрын

    Because their country's economy is restricted if not centrally planned.

  • @Emblba
    @Emblba Жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace ☮️

  • @helenaranaantezana6867
    @helenaranaantezana68673 ай бұрын

    What else do we need to suffer to understand that the glory remains in our countries of origin, we need to fight against ignorance, we need more education!

  • @Journeyjunckies
    @Journeyjunckies Жыл бұрын

    Everything will be okay ❤️

  • @fatoujamba9522
    @fatoujamba9522 Жыл бұрын

    May Allah grant them very sad and heartbroken O

  • @yugihoe4111
    @yugihoe4111 Жыл бұрын

    Feeding the sheep cardboard..oof

  • @lewisc6539

    @lewisc6539

    Жыл бұрын

    Terrible people! 🤦‍♂️

  • @briopalumpus8676

    @briopalumpus8676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lewisc6539 they cant find grass.

  • @briopalumpus8676

    @briopalumpus8676

    Жыл бұрын

    they are probaly drinking posioned goat milk as well.

  • @lesliewarnell5172
    @lesliewarnell5172 Жыл бұрын

    There’s no point in the authorities telling the people how dangerous the journey is. They know the risks. It’s more dangerous to stay. That’s the entire point of seeking a better life elsewhere. Godspeed to them all. 🦋

  • @taurus8263

    @taurus8263

    2 ай бұрын

    True and very sad. However still Mauritania has fertility rates over 4 kids per family. If you know how bad your living conditions are, you don't bring child into this world. At least this is what I did ( or rather didn't do).

  • @videosponder
    @videosponder Жыл бұрын

    Sad sad story.

  • @africanprinceKAYIHURAII
    @africanprinceKAYIHURAII Жыл бұрын

    Dear DW, how do you manage to document??

  • @dontecooper6479
    @dontecooper6479 Жыл бұрын

    They got umbrellas in exchange for slaves? Interesting.

  • @Krishnanand2008
    @Krishnanand2008 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you DW team for bringing us such an eye opening documentary from the ground. I will never forget the words of the skipper saying to migrants that the boat does not have a toilet & eat light food such as biscuits. Local governments totally failed to take care of their population & forced them to take such horrendous journeys.

  • @donnabeuth3193

    @donnabeuth3193

    Жыл бұрын

    People need to challenge things to make things better for themselves. We can all look back at history.Better to look forward hearing the future imo. Maybe start by not having so many children that you can't afford to feed? Maybe that's a part of alleviating poverty?

  • @funfacts4704
    @funfacts4704 Жыл бұрын

    16th century to 1870 is not 400 years of slavery

  • @bwwm7914

    @bwwm7914

    9 ай бұрын

    Pls, Google

  • @funfacts4704

    @funfacts4704

    9 ай бұрын

    the video says slavery from 16th century to 1870 and then says its 400 years.@@bwwm7914 Pls, watch full

  • @ldsane1958
    @ldsane1958 Жыл бұрын

    Wow 😢

  • @12vshady
    @12vshady Жыл бұрын

    Okay so in regards the "lesson on slavery" at the beginning of video. Wondering who these young people are taught to hate more. Their ancestors who they r told traded their people for guns or the people with the guns trading for slaves ? I doubt they hate both equally

  • @cherylk.2474

    @cherylk.2474

    Жыл бұрын

    Are the children in the class American children or are they local children?

  • @tailoring3856

    @tailoring3856

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no hate. They are taught to learn their history, so they don't make the same mistakes from the past. Teaching history is not about who to hate but learning so you don't fall into the same pit the people before them did.

  • @12vshady

    @12vshady

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cherylk.2474 local to that country from what I gather

  • @briopalumpus8676

    @briopalumpus8676

    Жыл бұрын

    @margaret exactly

  • @tailoring3856

    @tailoring3856

    Жыл бұрын

    @margaret Is there any place in this video where that teacher told the students that your supposed fancy country is the best place to live in and not Africa or you just imagining things here?

  • @Bebedollie
    @Bebedollie Жыл бұрын

    🙏💔

  • @owenmark5806
    @owenmark58064 ай бұрын

    I remember the guide from tayo aina video 😅

  • @danielblue4460
    @danielblue4460 Жыл бұрын

    The children's guide teaching slavery omitted a certain information: Who chased those soon-to-be-slaves in them villages?

  • @ebierekoroye2327

    @ebierekoroye2327

    Жыл бұрын

    They were captured, mainly by the coastal peoples that were supplied superior weapons. . .

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    Africans and Arabs. Anyhow, the world has more present day slaves than ever before.

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ebierekoroye2327 Europeans joined the party late. Centuries after being raided by the barber tribes themselves.

  • @rodongo5221
    @rodongo5221 Жыл бұрын

    DW is great at making documentaries. But I couldn't connect the dots between illegal migration and slavery (the topic being explained to the kids). I somehow missed this. Or does it means that an illegal migrant is a slave?

  • @spikefivefivefive

    @spikefivefivefive

    Жыл бұрын

    It means that the white man is somehow responsible for everything bad in the world.

  • @GladysAlicea

    @GladysAlicea

    Жыл бұрын

    A free Black child will grow up, in many cases, to become an illegal migrant slave, for nothing will sadly change when the children are adults. Beautifully made; such a tragic story. Africa's full of riches the white men took. Now, it's full of riches the Black politicians take. How can they do this knowing the history of their continent's people? I'll never understand this greed, when there's enough for all to live comfortably, if done the right way.

  • @mnkwazi

    @mnkwazi

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GladysAlicea There are a lot of heartless people in the world.

  • @rhitaakhardid5792

    @rhitaakhardid5792

    Жыл бұрын

    The act of human trafficking is a form of slavery. People who get trafficked are forced through the poverty they live in often spending money that is the representation of the entire extended family’s savings with no guarantee to what the journey will turn out to be. Many drown or get captured and returned back. Often the traffickers take advantage of them and in the extreme cases of what the fisherman described as murder as he refused to throw some people of the boat as though they are no more than ballast.

  • @nanabujukwame4908

    @nanabujukwame4908

    Жыл бұрын

    Previously, the white bought Africans as slaves, and now economic hardship created by bad leaders and traffickers are selling Africans into slavery.

  • @ILOVEBACONBOY2018
    @ILOVEBACONBOY2018 Жыл бұрын

    great content

  • @cornastoga2633
    @cornastoga2633 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating and mind opening documentary. It’s sad our leaders know our story as a race and continent but they’ve done little to transform our continent thereby making our people make treacherous journeys to Europe for greener pastures. Someday, our continent will be liberated from this wickedness!

  • @DWDocumentary

    @DWDocumentary

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.

  • @SeeLasSee

    @SeeLasSee

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you just talking or are you living in Africa improving things?

  • @donziongh9588

    @donziongh9588

    Жыл бұрын

    Just forget about it. Our continent will never be okay. Lets prepare for more suffering

  • @clarkporter1340

    @clarkporter1340

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@SeeLasSeeare you trying to be a simp or are you sitting in privilege of wealth stolen from Africans

  • @sTraYa249

    @sTraYa249

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@clarkporter1340the fact that the majority of Mauritanians are enslaved in their own country by the minority Arabs that are left from those that subjugated them eons ago & still to this day have slaves for themselves is outrageous. It was outlawed in 1981, but is taboo to talk of it. All this is because of matters to do with it being permissible to a rich group of people & yet they get away with it. It happens in Saudi & many of the Persian Gulf states. Utter hypocrisy from those that are meant to be so righteous😢

  • @muhammed3763
    @muhammed3763 Жыл бұрын

    The translations are extremely off, that aside, the rest of the documentary is well produced.

  • @lunakorme
    @lunakorme Жыл бұрын

    This was sad to watch my god bless Africa

  • @boxinghogg2843
    @boxinghogg28434 ай бұрын

    Damn as a African from Nigeria 8:51 I don't feed my goat paper/cardboard

  • @faceofdead
    @faceofdead5 ай бұрын

    Make Africa great again

  • @delanym
    @delanym Жыл бұрын

    what music is playing in the credits?

  • @payitforwardpower9910
    @payitforwardpower991011 ай бұрын

    Cardboard for the sheep’s? That’s wild

  • @jalijali8448
    @jalijali8448 Жыл бұрын

    The only continent with an enormous increase in population

  • @MyHolidayArchive

    @MyHolidayArchive

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah that’s right, Africa’s population will double in size by 2050. Niger has the youngest median age (15) of any country in the world, with the average mother having 7 children. Niger is the poorest country in the world too.

  • @spikefivefivefive

    @spikefivefivefive

    Жыл бұрын

    They can't feed'em yet they keep on breeding'em.

  • @knowz2367

    @knowz2367

    Жыл бұрын

    Doesn't Asia have a population four times that of Africa?

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    @@knowz2367 No they are having the same problem with population counts. No one seems to be having children anymore. It’s just a difficult time for the whole globe.

  • @mnkwazi

    @mnkwazi

    Жыл бұрын

    @@knowz2367 It currently has a much bigger population than Africa but not for long!

  • @baxbeat5059
    @baxbeat50594 ай бұрын

    Human traffic or modern slavery !!!! wich one is that? its so sad to see it happening still...

  • @shebanadam7569
    @shebanadam7569 Жыл бұрын

    some wrongs just can never be righted....and trying makes it even worse.

  • @CMoore8539

    @CMoore8539

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. There doesn’t seem to be any Justice anymore anywhere. Just greed.

  • @oskarkawulicz3956
    @oskarkawulicz39569 ай бұрын

    interesting

  • @saimandebbarma
    @saimandebbarma Жыл бұрын

    😔🙏

  • @valleyesogwa5058
    @valleyesogwa50583 ай бұрын

    Some are born with privileges,some have to strive hard to become privileged,but in the end,I pray God blesses all our effort to become better and kudos to the skippers family that live in joy and harmony,God bless all the dreamers

  • @lwscijunkie
    @lwscijunkie Жыл бұрын

    What do they think they'll be doing in Spain?

  • @evelynjenkins1
    @evelynjenkins1 Жыл бұрын

    I'm so sorry 😞 but the first 25 seconds is hilarious. The way he started out had me thinking he wasn't gonna say something positive. But he got straight to the point it's not funny tho 😕

  • @Jonas_Bro

    @Jonas_Bro

    Жыл бұрын

    The man forgot to add that it was African leaders who were selling people to the Europeans in the first place. And the local chiefs accepting such "payments" for their own people does not tell anything good about them.

  • @evelynjenkins1

    @evelynjenkins1

    Жыл бұрын

    @Dragonji14 your absolutely correct 👏 👌

  • @KnowThyself47

    @KnowThyself47

    Жыл бұрын

    Why Dont Black Africans every speak on the fact that Islam ENSLAVED,TORTURED&MADE EUNUCHS of black people 900yrs before the Trans Atlantic slave trade and its still going on today ESPECIALLY in Africa ➡️ In 2017, African slaves were freed from captivity in Libya, where their Arab masters not only raped and starved them, but forced them to drink from toilets. Groups like CAIR, which pretend to be concerned with "human rights," never lifted a finger to help them.➡️ Sahih Muslim 3901 - Muhammad trades away two African slaves for one Muslim slave. Sahih Bukhari 8:73:182 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his chauffeur. Sahih Bukhari 9:91:368 - Muhammad had an African slave acting as his butler. Sahih Bukari 4:53:344 - Aisha learns that Muhammad has acquired slave girls as "booty" and asks for one as a maid. Sahih Bukhari 7:65:344 - Muhammad kept as slave to act as his tailor. Sahih Bukhari 2:15:103 - "I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."➡️ The Indian and Persian people suffered greatly as well - as did Africans. At least 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were brought out of Africa by Islamic traders - far more than the 11 million that were taken by the Europeans. However, these were only the survivors. As many as 85 million other Africans are thought to have died en route. Most telling, perhaps, is that slavery is still practiced in the Sudan, Niger, Mauritania and a few other corners of the Muslim world - and you won't see any of those Muslim apologists (who shamelessly repeat the lie that Islam abolished slavery) doing or saying anything about it!

  • @giorgimeqvabishvili8210
    @giorgimeqvabishvili8210 Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the song?

  • @123works
    @123works Жыл бұрын

    Livestock chewing card board. smh

  • @MrCityprince75
    @MrCityprince75 Жыл бұрын

    Whats the name of the school ?

  • @melissascott5490
    @melissascott549024 күн бұрын

    I want to contact the tour guide

  • @andryiad9467
    @andryiad94678 ай бұрын

    Does anyone know if they made it?

  • @AmarNarine-zs6wp
    @AmarNarine-zs6wp4 ай бұрын

    😮😮😢

  • @divulgatrice
    @divulgatrice Жыл бұрын

    28:38 can t he take the glass by himself?

  • @tmaniac92
    @tmaniac92 Жыл бұрын

    Please correct your title spelling. Mauretania was a ship. Mauritania is a country.

  • @BenDaeHo
    @BenDaeHo Жыл бұрын

    Dang thought dude say only 5 passengers. That was more like 15 smh.

  • @lindatonui
    @lindatonui4 ай бұрын

    Did they make it across?

  • @obamielyseechrist7103
    @obamielyseechrist7103 Жыл бұрын

    what was inside the slave attenuation well ?? so sad

  • @cassert24
    @cassert2410 ай бұрын

    It's a prime example of a too-complex-to-solve problem. I can't come up with any valuable remarks. Just feeling for everyone.

  • @King__Tone
    @King__Tone Жыл бұрын

    12 million my ass. More like 87,000 the rest were already here