The History of Southern Africa: Every Year

See the history of Southern Africa every year from the first city-states and kingdoms to the present day!

SOURCES:
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400 - 1800 by John Thorton
D.K. Atlas of World History
Previous works
R. de Salaz (various maps)
Swanston Map Archive
Wikipedia
World Statesmen

[beknown]

2:00
And the sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now
“That’s just where he lives”

[orangedude]

Ah, finally someone has produced a visual documentation of this region. This region is really under-represented in the historical-mapping community and just in the history scene on YouTube in general. Obviously due to lack of information, but it's great that someone has finally taken a stab at showing what information we do have. :)

Great work Tigerstar! :)

[a_can_of_soda]

For those who don't know what the abbreviations stand for:
1. "BCA" stands for "British Central Africa"
2. "OFS" stands for "Orange Free State"
3. "TCL" stands for "Tati Concessions Land"

[Petsuchan]

South African fan here. Swell stuff.

Still lotsa archeology, research and anthropology to be done on our home front. The map will surely get more detailed as the years roll by.

I guess I could point out some things that might be slightly off but to be honest the literature on the subject matter is really scattered all over the show and not quite easy to acquire all in one place. Though the areas of and around the "Kongo Kingdom" are easier to illustrate due to that area being mapped as soon as the 16th century started. Everything in the interior before the 19th century still needs lotsa work.

Can't wait for West Africa. That is gonna be real fun to see :)

[totalwartimelapses]

A dislike in less than 20 seconds? Some people really do subscribe to a channel just to dislike all its videos

[TheFiresloth]

What made Ndongo special enough to have it's own colour while other, bigger kingdom existed near it ?

[leoseguin]

“Oman, go home, you’re drunk. You ended up in the wrong subregion again.”

[deadchannel]

Madagascar be like:
aM i A jOkE tO yOu?!

[Zakatak-mfiq]

@1:42
*Netherlands has entered the chat*
@2:29
*The UK has entered the chat*
*Netherlands has left the chat*

Map the Finno-Korean Hyperwar next please.

[muscovymapping]

Man, and I thought the history of the HRE was complex.

[QuizmasterLaw]

I HEAR THERE IS A PARTY GOIN ON IN BERLIN

[rampantmutt]

It's cool how the Portuguese Mozambique colony followed the rivers until the Berlin Conference.

[Hannodb]

South African here. I looked at this critically, trying to catch you out on some detail. But I have to say, you really did your homework. Not only did I not find any obvious errors, you included details which I've never seen any awareness from a foreigner. Well done! This truly is a master piece which you can be very proud of!

[JYT]

bruh I zoned out at 2:30 and then my brain suddenly noticed the entire map freaking out
it was like "woAH WOAH WOah wTF goin on" "oh yeah scramble for africa lol"

[kaickf.r.goncalves]

It's always nice to see a spotlight shining on one of the world's most underappreciated regions!

[ozkul_arda]

"Portugal, I think it's time to abandon your colonies.."
Portugal: *OVERSEAS TERRITORIES

[swordchucks]

2:55 - 3:00

That escalated quickly.

[Colddirector]

I find that a lot of these videos have sudden spurts where developments are happening way too fast to actually take in without pausing the video. Could you consider perhaps slowing down the year progression when a lot of stuff is happening? It's kind of a drag to keep pausing the video just to see everything happen.

[sonnydog]

3:21 This is the idea Zimbabwean state.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.