Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "A new scramble for Africa" video.

Arabia be like: and I never left Going strong since 600 AD baby!
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@lif3andthings763 yeah no, the Arab/Ottoman colonies in Africa were likewise built upon slavery With the Zanzibari Sultanate not abolishing slavery until 1897 And the Ottomans didn't abolish slavery at all until the collapse of the empire in 1918 Curiously enough though, afterwards successor state of the ottomans, the Republic of Turkey, didn't explicitly ban slavery until the late 1960s, and the Omani Sultanate which had dominated Zanzibar for 200 years didn't abolish slavery until 1970
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@fren183 Turkey and Oman: "Yeah we're just gonna silently sneak away from the African colonizer table and hope no one notices us"
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@benjaminlamptey1867 yeah No to the first and No to the second Even today the Turkish government doesn't reach the international minimum standards for combating Human Trafficking and is both a source and transit destination for trafficking victims When the ottoman was empire collapsing, it still was incapable of and banishing the practice of slavery in the entirety of its holdings The Successor state, The republic of Turkey became a homogeneous ethno-state for Turks only. One that forcibly removed most of it's minorities, including any Afro-Turkish descendants of slaves. Now the Afro-Turkish are a minority of minorities, numbering less than 1,200 in the entirety of Turkey Meaning that there is no large community of slave descendants within Turkey to demand any form of compensation from the government Curiously enough though the Turkish government never passed any legislation to explicitly ban slavery until the late 1960s There's only one nation in the Arab world to have explicitly apologized for the Arab slave trade and ironically enough it was Libya, when Gaddafi formally apologized to the entirety of the continent
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@benjaminlamptey1867 sure be in denial all you want but yes both Omani and Ottoman slave trades were very inhumane The clove plantations in stone town alone are more than enough proof of this Also regardless if it was simply a castrated slave to guard the Ottoman Harem or a slave to become a tailor to the Ottoman royal family, the fact that it was still a slave should send alarm bells off in your head that THIS IS WRONG. Don't try to take the position of defending the practice of slavery because "well at least it wasn't as bad as _______" Arabia and it's slave trade went on longer than the West, and often the West had to step in with the point of a gun to force a change in slavery policy after the west abolished it's practices. Such examples bing as with King Kosoko, and Hammoud bin Mohammed Both of these leaders ALLOWED slavery and only stopped when forced to do so The Ethiopians were the ones that suffered the most from the Ottomans, the Kenyans and Somalis suffered from the Omani Sultanate And no the Omani Sultanate has never formally acknowledged the abuses of its 200 year reign over the Africans in Zanzibar, read the text of the 1970 royal decree by Qaboos bin Said Al-Said There virtually zero Africans in Oman fighting for recognition for historical crimes as it's still an absolute monarchy
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At least the infrastructure will be of higher quality than the Chinese led projects in Africa
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Europeans have been in Africa for millennia, though it was mostly in the north Africa in lands that border the Mediterranean
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@benjaminlamptey1867 also YES turkey is involved in Africa it's a NATO alliance member and it participated in the NATO-led coalition into Libya during the unlawful downfall of Gaddafi's government
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Oman: "Yes, also with a little bit of cloves spice please" 😉 "My slave plantations in Zanzibar should still be there"
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Or the Omani Zanzibar sultanate
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Omani Sultanate intensifies: "Did someone say African colonies?" Kenya and Zanzibar: "Why do I suddenly hear boss music?"
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@kasadam85 you can be in denial of you want but eventually every nation will have to face it's demons Don't matter if it's Turkey and their legacy of slavery as well as the Armenian Genocide Japan and unit 1071 Russia and it's Gulags Rwanda and it's genocide of Tutsi The US and it's Vietnam Mai Lai massacre Libya and it's warlord Khalifa Hafar Or Ethiopia and the Tigray rebels
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