Africa: Timeline of National Flags: 1600 - 2020

The history of Africa and it's flags from 1600 to 2020. This passes through the pre colonial period, the scramble for Africa, the world wars, and decolonization.

Music:
Drums of the Deep
Crossing the Chasm
Volatile Reaction

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Sources:

Other YouTube history channels

The map used in this video comes from the blank atlas.

Other main sources: Wikipedia, FOTW, and other various websites.

#flags #history #africa

[Miteevegee]

Africa: *Exists*


UK and France: “It’s free real estate”

[RedoStone]

6:47
USA: Iraq is the 51st state, nothing wrong over here.

[RacingGuy]

6:17 Libya be like: *Aight, imma copy Egypt's flag.*

[Latyambre]

Ottoman:lets go to Atlantic.
Morroco: *hello*

[cormacohara]

6:04
* “France Lost Connection” *

* “Mauritania, Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Tunisia and Madagascar joined the chat” *





* “Server unavailable due to high rates of decolonisation”*

[NETHERITE_STAIRS_PHOTOCRAFT]

Modern History of Morocco 🇲🇦
0:04 Caliphate of Al Zad 1600-1659
1:02 Tafilalt 1631-1666
1:09 Sultanate of Morocco 1666-1911
5:14 French Morocco 🇫🇷 1911-1956
6:00 Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦 1956-1981
6:25 Moroccan Empire 🇲🇦 1981-1994
6:38 Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦 1994-Present

[JaceLampkin]

Britain after 1960: *ok* *guys* *lets* *give* *africa* *their* *freedom*

[jononpaper]

Africa: *exists*
Britain: is this England

[lucaslima]

1960: Ok, it's time to decolonize

[pedrobotelho]

Portugal: the one who entered Africa before it was cool.

[ladofthedamned]

Can we appreciate on how this has literally no ads

[mavz]

You don't know how much I love the timelapses with flags. I don't know if you could make a video with the Americas. Thank you so much. 👍👍👍

[Windows__]

djibouti : can we get indpendance like my neighbors?
france until 1977 : *N O*

[MisterCVC]

No one :
Absolutely No one :
Not even Other African Countries :
Libya 1977 : G R E E N

[mike.mentzers_top_guy]

European countries in 1900's: *It's free real estate*

[macrecchia]

Libya 1977-2011: Were ballin green!
Libya when it’s 2011: Might as well make a change to our flag while Sudan is splitting in half.

[danialamin]

1900's: You can walk from Egypt to Cape Town without stepping out of British territory

[مناجلنهضةالمغرب]

شكرا بزاف حتاش درتي خريطة مغرب بصحراء يعني كدعمنا شكرا ⁦❤️⁩⁦❤️⁩⁦❤️⁩

[rayanegaming]

Abysiniya and morocco be like in the start of the 20 century :
We are the lone survivors

[chakepaul]

Before: Africa is Europe
Now: Europe is Africa