Imagine how this story has been erased. Thank you so much for bringing it to us. This is the first time I am even hearing of such an event in Togo. Oh Africa 😓
This history has never been erased. The records are there, have always been there. It's no one's fault that you have not been researching and reading African history.
@@kanyegang2810 No, it wasn't. If the person had simply said, "I didn't know of this piece of African history", then your claim that my response was mean would have merit. However, the person chose to first tell a lie, insinuating a cover-up of the story! She began by saying in her very first sentence, "Imagine how this story has been erased", which is NOT true. That is why I had to be that blunt in my response.
Yes! You finally made a video about our beloved president Sylvanus Olympio. A visionary leader with revolutionary ideas. Thank you for making this video so that millions of young Africans can know more about him and be inspired. Again, thank you! From a proud Togolese.
My beloved country Togo is and will always be proud of its first president Sylvanus Olympio. There were mistakes that were made at that time but the ultimate goal of a free and truly independent country is undeniable. We brought the first sorrow to Africa's independence, and we will bring the first unification of the continent, our motherland. Mark my words. United for the same good deeds, the fight will continue, and we shall overcome.
Ifeco Dimkpa: Africans should learn their history; and take pride in who they are, and move towards self reliance. Africans should learn to do things for themselves.
@@AFRISTORYNETWORK I already do that. You don't accept monetary support? You're putting too much work to make these videos our support is just our appreciation to you.
Hello afrihistory I very much enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them, could you put the audio of these videos on apple podcast so I can listen to them on my way to work more easily? Thank you very much
Thanx so much for this history.I have been waiting and looking for it for a long time.All the people I asked new not much.THANKS SO MUCH! NOW I KNOW.GOD BLESS U! AKPE LOOOOO.
Just confirming from this well informing documentary.That ,governing in Africa requires a heavy dose of delicate balancing. That begs the question. Did we really attain our independence? And how do we get out of this invisible shackles, that are turning out to be more lethal than direct colonisation?
Africans do not realise when an hidden hand is playing behind our backs to make brother kill his brother. This kind of independence was faked on paper.
We can do it only by taking responsibility for our own failures, and by learning from other countries, especially Asia. Just look what Japan and Singapore have achieved with no natural resources and bad geography. But it will take a huge cultural shift on our part to do them same.
@@chendaforest maybe it's the lack of natural resources that saved them. Africa is the richest continent, that's why we have and those problems, even Asians are in Africa now, to get a piece of the cake. Hopefully new generations that have had the chance to go to the sake schools as westerners will take over and do a better job than the like of Houphouet Boigny, Paul Biya, Omar Bongo, all those greedy presidents that worked for westerners.
This is a great Video and it tells us that Africa has never really had Political Independence because the Western World especially The UK and France have always disturbed the normal make up of African Nations. This Political situation has led to some assasination Attempts and Problems. God bless Africa and God lead our Leaders Forward.
You do know its those very leaders are the reasons why Africa is in the place its in. Kleptocrats overthrowing kleptocrats since 1960 and using the UK and France (colonialism as a whole) as an excuse to divert the attention away from the fact they are funnelling the taxpayer's money into their swiss bank accounts
I only met an African brother from Togo just yesterday who educated me of Olympio in Berlin during an Africa forum . We have a very bad history to tell our children which require alot of wisdom to do that inoder not to also instill hatred into our children aswell.. God help Africa.
Thank you very much for this wonderful documentary, it's very informative. By the way, you sound like the Ugandan analyst called Fazir Mayanja, are you the one?
The downfall of Togo is not because of Nkrumah, but rather France. If all francophone countries don't breakaway from the French they will never progress
sure france was to blame but that Nkrumah wasnt innocent in that after all none of the modern european colonial meddling is done with their hands but with middlemen
How can you watch a video without listening? "Togo couldn't afford it". Sylvanus OLYMPIO was a great economist, that's the reason why he wanted to negotiate a defense agreement with ex colonial power.
I doubt if it would have made any difference,had he integrated the former French soldiers. Their loyalty would belong to France,and not Togo.Mutinies would be the order of the day.Had he been your typical politician,he would have given them false hopes of integration.While slowly identifying, those ones whom he could work with,and appoint them to less threatening military commissions.It would act as a perfect divide and rule approach, in order to sustain the fragile peace in the country.
@@jibrinebang He could have switched loyalty to say America, and thus have one power watching his back.That way,he would have ended up building a new security infrastructure, under bilateral arrangements, that could easily mitigate,against possible French interference, or manipulation.
I think about this quite often. How did British Togoland "vote"? Democracy doesn't exist today, I don't believe it existed then. Kwame Nkrumah wanted all of Togo.
This resembles the Haitian situation and all the situations where post independent countries weren't supposed to rival their former masters and they were so supposed to continue the interests of the former master, where that fails, they use strategy, debt, war, force, coups etc to assassinate or kidnap that country's leaders such s Jean Betrande Aristide. I talk about this on my Podcast The NeoLiberal Round and in my new books Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance" and the upcoming new book Neoliberal Globalization reconsidered, Neo-Capitalism and the death of nations. I will teach a colleges class on Caribbean thought and will sure share this video with my students.
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Brother you're wrong about nkruma remember nkruma was trying to unite the whole of Africa he his not interested in taking lands that was why he was even overthrown
My dear he is right... We aren't here to blindly support our country icons but we are here to follow the truth and that was the Truth... I'm a togolese who knows properly my true history not the fake one taught to you people maybe
Nkrumah stated that Togo is an apendice that must be intagrated to Ghana... Both of them wanted to reunite Africa, but not the same way. Olympio was part of the Monrovia group (panafricanist political movment) and Nkrumah was part of the Casablanca group. Monrovia group in wich Aïle Selassie was, wanted progressive approach based on economical & structural convergence criterias. While the Casablanca group wanted immediat union and Nkrumah planed to proclaim himself president of the United States of Africa. Thats the reason why Olympio called Nkrumah a black imperialist and also called the members of Casablanca group "gangsters". It seems that you still have a lot to learn about History.
@@dooldahpractor-one7605 here's one of nkruma's quote, a man trying to unite the continent does not have time for a peace of land ok! Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand [...] The great millions of Africa, and of Asia, have grown impatient of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and are rebelling against the false belief that providence created some to be menials of others. Hence the twentieth century has become the century of colonial emancipation, the century of continuing revolution which must finally witness the total liberation of Africa from colonial rule and imperialist exploitation
E. Gnassingbé était juste un soldat, mais au solde des intérêt français (Indochine, Algerie). Quand Fanon aidait les Algeriens pour l'indépendence, en face de lui il y'avait E. Gnassingbé. Pas de sens Nationaliste, aucune vision politique à long terme. Il remplissait toutes les cases pour être adoubé par franceafrique dont il a été le serviteur.