Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "5 Countries that will Collapse by 2040." video.

  1. I am surprised Nigeria isn't here. It too will face climate change issues. Which would hit the North disproportionately. Has actually seen population growth increase in the Northern part of the country, causing a disproportionate growth in Population that would change it from a abt 50/50 to 70/30 Muslim-Christian country disrupting the unofficial power balance. The Muslim Population being mainly North means this population pressure adds with the previous climate issues. Migration and radicalization. Wars in the surrounding countries and Sahel are pushing groups to migrate from Nigeria and while there is some from Cameroon that from the Sahel is the main issue as it will mean groups as far as Mali and the Sudan and that been involved in Islamic radicalism are migrating in. For example, the Fulani have been implicated as one of the main ethnicities involved in Jihadist attacks in Mali and Niger and they being nomadic and Nigeria having a huge Fulani population to accept them migrating in at unpresidented levels. Economic growth and Per capita are not expected to be able to keep up with this Population growth. The country has already suffered two massive recessions in the last 8 years while the population isn't slowing down. Poverty rate has already increased to the extent that it has both the highest proportion and absolute number of people in extreme poverty, over India in the later, which is impress given India is like 7 times more populous than Nigeria. Increasing crime has made all subdivisions of the country so dangerous that most first world countries advice extreme caution if visiting and this will not only hurt the economy, but increased destatisfaction and martialness of the population. And the government has blamed much of this crime on the collapse of Libya and migration of Jihadists and Bandits from the Sahel, of who Fulani from other countries do not make an insignificant amount so extra ethnic flaire. And we are already seeing symptoms like the flight of wealth as the wealthiest Nigerians have ramped up their overseas securities in forms of overseas investments and buying citizenship. Another symptom is that attacks of Northerner Herders against Middle-belt farmers have increased as climatic, wealth hording and population pressures have reduced the land available per capita to the Herders. This is probably in part a symptom of Northern Muslims migrating South which since pre-colonial history has been the source of later inter communual violence in most of all the major areas they migrated to without conquering. (which there are other evidences for this migration like trucks of extremely poor Northerns being transported south during Covid). Also animosity between ethnicties which while decreasing to some extent is giving way to a more general North - South divide driven by the civil war and more recently attacks by Northern Herders on Southern farmers that is mostly ignored by the Northern lead government. This plus the general perception that the North runs things as a new colonizer type entity is making them more and more dispised. But all in all I agree that something like 40 years might be what it takes than 20 years.
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  2. Also what if. Portugal succeeded in destroying the Kabba with Abyssianian aid. (More a prestige thing than conquest). What if Portugal conquered Egypt. What if the Crusaders and Mongols/Ilkhanate were able to do a competent joint assault on Egypt. What if Viking expansion opened up ocean trade routes from West Africa to Europe. What if the Ashanti Empire industrialized. What if Biafra secession succeeded.
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  3. Also, do more alternative ideology videos like you did in "what if communism never existed". Like what if America went Objectivist or Technocrat. What if Liberation Theology was a big thing in Latin America. What if Pan-Africanism was an actual significant political force in Afro-descended world and Africa.
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  4. GLORIOUS
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  5.  @legchairhistorian5496  most of the borders aren't staright lines and are somewhat geographical in nature. And where they are straight lines they are mostly desert and other land that few people give a shit about.
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  6.  @smrtfasizmu7242  yeah but African states are organized along the lines of nation states without even resembling nation states at all. For one nation states at the very least have either a single dominant ethnicity or a single dominant identity that over arches easily over the ethnic identity of most. They have to either not be organized like nation states or be territorially reorganized to resemble nation states.
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  7.  @stantorren4400  YES
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  8. What is that Orange in the map at 18:11
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  9. Both
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  10.  @historical_idiot  "The Neolithic Agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Human race"
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  11.  @ToastytheG  she's a keeper
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  12. Also, What if Whatifalthist successfully conquered Egypt and easily oppressed it.
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  13.  @WhatifAltHist  remake?
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  14. Quick break down of why you think so
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  15.  Egyptian Eagle88  um, okay
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  16. Because he is both racist and anti-racist
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  17. Look at were are "rectangle" and then overlay where are desert. They straight lines are through useless desert land
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  18. I get he over states it and that many borders kind make sense (Chad is entirely Chad Basin and South Africa is bordered by Rivers and highlands) but you would still see alot of ethnicities that were split and would prefer to be back together like Yoruba along Nigeria and Benin or Hausa along Nigeria and Niger. Again, alot if the borders kinda make sense geographically but less so ethnically and don't have much legitimacy. And I think that example with Ghana is more the ethnicities splitting slowly due to the border than it making sense in the first place.
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  19. It is literarily impossible for any part of the world to go back to the Stone age except some proto-planet sized asteroid hits. (Not even then)
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