I'm in the mood for some entertainment. What are the most funny, hilarious, interesting or fascinating events to occur in the Sub-Saharan region of this particular landmass? This is not racist or anti-racist.
>>16882475Equatorial Guinea's 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days."Nguema was something else.
>>16882504Now that's what I'm talking about.
>>16882475The Zambian "Space Program"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TI9ixb-a5M
>>16882475I was going to mention the Christmas Eve Massacre but I already got beaten, so instead I'm just going to mention that time a few guys in a helicopter were able to project force over so much of Central Africa that they effectively became the warlord rulers of a stretch of land the size of Western Europe.
>>16884537Wait, what? Can you elaborate on that one?
>>16884529Too many funnies in one video, I'm dying.
Every year the Wodaabe people have a mating ritual called the Guerewol.https://youtu.be/XkrR2jy-9WU?si=Cd7CvzWllt1Fza8R
>>16882475The Ghanian SPARTAN-II Program.I think they're also working on a prototype Metal Gear.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgblbmr0F3g&t=148s
>>16882475Emperor Bokassa I founded the Central African Empire and emulated it off of Napoleon's Empire
>>16884598Drip
>>16882475When the Zulus started to trade with Europeans, they quickly began importing corn which made their population inflate rapidly. To cope with this they went on a spree of aggressive military expansion, rape and pillage of entire communities, regions, and ethnic groups, and territorial expansion. This event is known as the Mfecane, meaning “the scattering” or more accurately, mass genocide. Many tribes were displaced and massively reduced in number, and some tribes in Central-Southern Africa today are actually refugees who migrated countless hundreds of miles north to escape Zulu aggression and never came back. The destruction was so widespread that when the Boers trekked across the plains, they found vast swathes of it largely barren, with only occasional attacks. They made a deal with the Zulu fair and square, paying for a plot of land to settle on, only to be betrayed and ambushed where the Zulu massacred men, women, and children.
>>16884598You forgot the funniest parts!>he spent 1/4th of his nation's entire GDP on the ceremony>despite inviting dignitaries from every nation, not a single foreign leader attendedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbgooOthV-8
>>16882475>hilariousThey found an ancient airport - a massive leveled pieces of land and made some worthless black country airport (that they don't need) on top of it.>interesting and fascinatingProbably Eye of the Sahara? Pic related.
>>16882475I thought this was about Lithuania.. Even the colors
>>16882475>entertainmentwell if you like horror movies...http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=africa+addio
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>>16882504Didn't he also praise Hitler?
>>16885284That was idi amin
Bump.
The battle of salt river was pretty funny. Mostly the background and the entire reason the conflict went down, as well as the Portuguese losing. It's just a fucking stupid and petty situation.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salt_River
>>16882475>that time some autist in Zambia made his own space program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso
>>16882475There was a west African king who was a fat ass who bought a European styled breast plate but because he was so obese he died of heat stroke while conducting a siege
>>16887694Kek
>>16887694Is this him?
>>16884643Midget or child
>>16884529>afronauts
>>168824751. IIRC, When the king of Eswatini (don't deadname it as Swaziland, you raaaaycists) stands up from his throne, by tradition, all those in attendance must gasp ... presumably in admiration of his bvll-like majesticness. Actually quite a cute protocol. Imagine the boost to the self-esteem of men if every time they stood up, women would gasp in joyous surprise.2. Who was Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings? Battle of Britain hero? Nope, black leader of Ghana at one period.3. Who was conceived in East Africa only because his white mother became broody after seeing a little black baby? Me.
>>16889164Hi Obama
>>16882475The conquest of Mali by an army of exiled Spanish Muslims after the Reconquista. After their victory in the name of the Moroccan king, they settled in the area, bleached native African women and created the Arma tribe of Mali. "Arma" is Spanish for "weapon".
>>16882475Remember this name: Nongqawuse.
>>16886567>>16885284It was Macías Nguema. He called himself a Hitlerian Marxist. He said Hitler was the man who liberated Africa from oppression.
>>16882475look up Gunship Acesome wild stories from a former military contractor who fought for decades in sub-Saharan Africa
https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2023/08/exploring-african-music-the-return-of-chemirocha/Jimmie Rodgers, early country music superstar, became a part of Kenyan folklore, seen as a half man half beast fertility god. His recordings were widespread throughout the English speaking world and would have made their way to this British colony.
