The Africa You Won't See on National Geographic

[japcp2000]

seychelle island, where is the villa off the coast located? ...We would love to visit.

[A1986Ge1995]

Is the music from Yanni??

[A1986Ge1995]

Why so much anger just enjoy the buetiful images and the music

[Eristhenes]

The music, the music! Please share the sources! I especially like the first piece. I love the photo essay, but I was distracted and enthralled by the music.

[24Monira]

yes this is the hidden beauty we are proud of it and sing oye if you agree, i bet few caucasian thought this exists . wheoever put this video God bless

[24Monira]

yes this is the hidden beauty we are proud of it and sing oye if you agree, i bet few caucasian thought this exists

[supermike2164]

@24Monira I'm more concerned about our own people all over the world that are made to belive that Africa is a mudball with 95% starvation and ethnic massacares every year.

caucasians want to take the the whole continent

[fineguh]

Show these idiots the other side of africa! Fools

[rikua]

I liked this just for the music used.

[rainbowtreefrog]

I hope that the fact that Africa is not just poverty does not come as a shock to anyone. Nat. Geo shows a pretty accurate picture of what's going on Geographically (hence the name) in Africa.

[9m9ify]

its celebrating colonialism. Africans need to study and apply what is appropriate for Africa, not just adopt things from other countries, yes we need to be modern, but lets do it on our own terms, considerate of this continent we call home, for there is none other like it.

[MrDariusantonius]

@9m9ify

The black African countries' borders have to be redrawn along ethnic tribal lines and language groups. The present borders were abitrarily drawn by the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgians and God-knows-who-else. And their type of government should be what they had before colonialism, with changes and adjustments that suit the people. Africa can be such a superior place.

[Hellonagol]

fake

[MultiAbdelrahim]

@Hellonagol yea yea fake for you idiot!!!!!!!!!!

[labellecongolaise]

@Hellonagol why would this b fake? I'm from Africa don't let television lie to you. they don't want people find out about the real Africa so if u get a chance to go go visit and c for yourself. The first time I saw a lion was in America and not in Africa so there's not just animals and villages we do have buildings and houses you can't even compare with houses here made with bricks and not woods.

[InconspiciousIdiot]

Africa would be a kickass place to go.

[Jimmyretired]

these people are backward, they need to wear jeans and dress normal, when the english was in africa they became modern but these days they have gone to their old way of live i.e. living with nature instead of using cookers

[m100p]

@Jimmyretired Whats wrong with nature? If it wasn't for nature you wouldn't be here .

[Ga5524]

@Jimmyretired You're such an idiot.

[riffiazina]

@Jimmyretired Shut your piehole you dipshit what kind of remark is that? Why do you seem to believe that your way of living is the only right way of living? Respect other races if they see their way of living as fit and as right then respect that... You don't see them giving comments such as oh using cookers is plain weird and not right. Do you? What an idiot did someone drop you on the head when you were born?? Asshole

[rainbowtreefrog]

@Jimmyretired When "the english" was in Africa? You mean when the British were in Africa? Africans lived peacefully before the British came and divided up thier tribal land into countries, forcing people who had different languages, customs and cultures to live together. Thanks to the British, Africans with completly different belief and governing systems have to govern lands with such a diverse group of people that not everone can be pleased causing uprisings and political unrest.

[lovergal1984]

Africa is the prize for everyone. Pure and natural resources also mineral rich. That's why blacks are the most hated. They want what the creator has given us so they steal it against our will. I bow my head to my African people.

[cherosagefoot2]

@lovergal1984 So truthful and well said.

[milootis10]

What's the name of the song in this video?

[GagnezTV]

Beautiful! I love it!!

-G

[biggsleezy]

don't forget Abuja,Nigeria

[unpolitical]

Quite possibly the best video I've seen on Youtube..

[tans40]

Why is everyone so aggressive about this video, It's just a video!! show casing one of the most spectacular places in the world. (and YES I have been to Africa many times). Get a grip guys. Why shouldn't the creator of this video have the right to show this beautiful country, just like any other country in the world. Africa is a very diverse and wealthy place, but all people hear about is the doom and gloom. Doom and gloom is in every part of the world. Unfortunately that is just life.

[antwainmarcy]

@tans40 true

[Marco50ty]

dey don even know wat dey doin! dey all losing their mind here! de money dey getting 4rm welfare ain't shit cus 8 can't even feed dem 4 a week, n dey tlking bout africa! u deal wit ur own problems first! Y'all know wit out africa or african n other ppl 4rm other part of de wrld y'all can't survive! y'all can't feed urself, den y'all tlking shit about africa! u think everybody like 2 listen 2 dat ur western bullshit! don kno y y'all haters just don like de truth

[Marco50ty]

I'm so proud 2 be African, cus i don care wat pepo have 2 say, 8 can't discourage me cus dey don shit about africa! 2 all de haters on africa, just shut de fuck up n learn instead of hating! Do know hw many ppl in western countries homeless, sum no jobs, most of dem r retarded! sum taking in drugs, killing each other 4 drugs on de streets n 8 getting out of control! dey can't control 8! everyday things prices going up + taxes, sum ppl can't even feed dem self! sum of dem on fuckin welfare

[bobandfredpuppet]

Fancy buildings don't feed starving children. This is 1% of Africa.

[macfilips]

@bobandfredpuppet Like their are no starving, homeless people in your country. Why do they even exist?

[bobandfredpuppet]

@macfilips Was that seriously your reply?

[macfilips]

@bobandfredpuppet Was that seriously your comment? "1% of Africa"? "Fancy buildings don't feed starving children"?

[Da1uLyK]

@bobandfredpuppet yeah but if your only knowledge of africa was what you see in the news and all those charity events (like so many peoples), you'd think EVERYONE was skin,bones and starving to death. Also, 1% of Africans having decent lives is so not true otherwise the continent should've died out by now!

[bobandfredpuppet]

@Da1uLyK But according to the christian national charity fund we'd need everybody in America to donate $10 a day every month for three months just to feed all the starving people in Africa! I feel sorry for the these people because it is sad and Angela Jolie needs to adopt more babies!

[sikvenum82]

Seriously? They have better looking buildings than we do. Why the fuck do we still give them money?!?!

[macfilips]

@sikvenum82 Hey Sarah Palin, Africa is not a country.

[sikvenum82]

@macfilips No shit sherlock. When did I say that? I'm just saying its a bit deceiving for commercials to always portray all African countries as poor shit hole places and how we always need to give them money. Yeah theres still screwed up places in Africa but the modernized cities they do have look much more modernized than the average American city.

[cillantro]

Beneath all that glass,metal & concrete lie huge slums and tribal violence.Look at what happened in Kenya last year after elections! I am not demeaning black people,but just look at how good many( Bahamas,Antigua and Barbados,Trinidad & Tobago etc) countries with black majority are doing! They have a good per capita despite low natural resources(except Trini)! Why?

Because they have been seperated from the tribal backward baggage africa carries.All the oil in Eqatorial guinea can't save africa.

[macfilips]

@cillantro To paraphrase your drivel. Tribal affiliations is responsible for bad leadership that has ravaged Africa.

[cillantro]

@macfilips WOW! it took you two weeks to paraphrase that ""drivel"" eh genius?! And yeah, learn to use punctuations better the next time you come out with a shining revelation such as this!

[macfilips]

@cillantro I don't sit around the computer, waiting for idiots like you to make comments. You clearly have nothing else going on in your life than to make racist comments anonymously.

[standbyacct]

@macfilips Frankly that ""paraphrasing"" you did was super lame even if you did it two minutes before posting.I also don't understand how comparing people from two different countries of the same race can be racist?! But I do understand that losers like yourself use the race card when they lose arguments.Have the common decency of not blocking a person if you are going to reply to them,coward!You need to get a life and a brain transplant!

advice for you-Sticks and stones buddy,sticks & stones!

[macfilips]

@standbyacct You are racist, because you obviously are not Black, or know nothing about Africa, yet you and idiots like you think their flawed opinions are Gospel. Take your stupidity elsewhere.

[Deefe1254]

Beautiful....and Thank YOu!

[thephilosopherkartik]

Amazing! I'm Indian and have always wanted to visit Africa for its pristine natural beauty; now it seems it also has much more to offer!

[Bracerjack]

Now WHY Doesn't the media show Africa this way ?

It's beautiful !

[Chuckacola7]

WTF NO CASABLANCA, MARRAKECH, OR TANGEIR!!!! WHAT IS THIS!

[evilyakko]

ive been to south africa a couple of times and its an awesome place but still.. they dont have enough electricity and often have to go without for hours on end..

[marquette93]

Really cool video. It's good to see that there is hope on the continent. but you can't be fooled as alot of those are just illusions of what lies deep in the country. Just because there is tall buildings and green grass doesn't mean it is not a failed state. Just look at Pyongyang N Korea. Also there is pictures of zimbabwe which i think (don't take my word on it) is the poorest country in the world, but if you look at the picture you would never know. Again great video, i wasnt trying to insult

[Alara0625]

That photo of the Tepee in the cut on the Seychelles Island is some fly shit. I would love to have one or two of those

[Quiteness]

Unfortunately what this video does show is that african schemes of urbanization have all been lost. They have taken a European character, regardless of whether the builders are africans or not. Many of the cities in Nigeria were completely destroyed by the British. Lagos and Benin are examples, so the cities you see today are not the cities that africans built. Rising out of the jungles like the great cities of the Mayans. Great African cities were destroyed so african achievement was forgotten

[peasah2005]

Africa is the greatest continent that has changed so much and I so honoured to come from a big world in my life.

Africa has so much to offer and we shouldn't be afraid but always know Africa is our continent and nowhere else.

My favourite African capital cities are Accra, Cairo and Addis Ababa.

[carljohnson25]

Some day, when democracy and capitalism is spread thoughout the entire world, we will all be first nations. And our problems will be gone. Racism will be gone and we would all start to respect eachother. Since the industrial revolution in Europe and then the invention of absolute liberty in America, those countries have been the richest on earth. Not because of the race, but because of the free system and international trade. Adam Smith's idea will become reality and already is!

[eksit35one]

everybody knows that south africa is rich country

[GerudoUK]

The buildings were built by whites or asians.

[macfilips]

@GerudoUK ...on the orders of a Black man.

[Alara0625]

@macfilips

Don't give these clowns attention cause that is all they want. Beautiful video

[curvaciousakos]

@GerudoUK

dumbass, keep lying to yourself.

[Trixocater]

@GerudoUK not true I lived there (Gaborone, Botswana) for 18 years, the buildings are built by blacks for blacks.

[Calliers]

@GerudoUK I lived there about 20 years, they were built by Africans, for Africans.

[rage4energy]

@GerudoUK when a bastard like say shit like that have asked your dumb ass where all this white criminals stole the money from bicth , guess what? AFRICA

[Voltius]

@GerudoUK The buildings were built by Black construction workers. Are you that racist that you want to take anything that blacks do and discredit them for it? The Ghetto "niggas" that live in your neighborhood and Black culture are two different things. Open your mind a little more. It's almost like you WANT Africans to acomplish nothing just so you and your racist friends can sit around and talk about how worthless they are.

I am white. And I'd rather live around Africans than whites.

[shatara55]

@GerudoUK OMG! Get over yourself! Africa had cities, great cities (and I'm not only speaking about Egypt, I mean south Africa) BEFORE white men came there AND PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYED THEM. Don't make it seem like the Africans weren't capable of doing this themselves.

[DaBlackX]

First of all, to all the butt-hurt whites who are mad because their stupid pre-conceived notions about Africa have been proven wrong, I suggest you accept the fact that you are wrong and move on. Second of all to MacFlips, you HAVE tell me, who sings the 2nd song in this video!

[macfilips]

@DaBlackX The artist; E.S. Posthumus, Track; Antissa.

[DaBlackX]

@macfilips

E.S. Posthumus has FINALLY made a song that I can honestly admit to liking.

[M5IAN]

Stupid video. Fancy buldings doesn't mean that a country is developed. Those buildings are owned by the VERY few rich, while the other 99% of the country starves to death.

[macfilips]

@M5IAN You are foolish. The intention of the video is not about whether a country is developed or not. The video shows a side of Africa, that is most probably not known by people outside the continent.

[M5IAN]

@macfilips You're childish aren't you. FYI Nat Geo doesn't just focus on Africa. They have better things to do other than focus on some war ravaged diseased continent where people just blame racism for everything wrong in their lives.

[macfilips]

@M5IAN Like I said earlier, you are foolish.

No one said that Nat Geo should only focus on Africa, hence; a video of this kind.

How many African's have you met that blame racism for 'everything wrong with their lives'? Racism by who against who? Racism for what problem?

I suggest you cancel your account, reopen a new one, and use "IDIOT" as your new username.

[FYIULALALA]

@M5IAN im african and i think what you said was stupid. im african myself and i have a lot of african friends and i have never once heard them blame racism on ANYTHING except for specific racist situations that have happened to them that made them feel uncomfortable but they moved on

[jASPERTALISO]

NAMIBIA! I used to live there actually. I can actually almost see my former school Holy Cross Convent. Would've been going to Delta right now. How come Zambia isn't there. Livingstone is absolutely GORGEOUS, as is Lusaka. And seriously not a single picture of Victoria Falls? No Morocco either? Great video but you're missing quite a bit. I especially love the night pictures though.

[genesisb28]

great video, just beautiful

also to Betawarrior60x after your comment I wanted to see what you were saying and checked and all I saw was 1 image repeated, and that image is in Nigeria not Gabon(check Lagos, Nigeria The Africa you don't see on T.V. part 1 & 2 and you'll see it there) but I think it is simple mistake not a pack of lies. Plus I don't think anybody would have noticed that, for you to notice that, that means you were trying to find something negative about the video.

[betawarrior60x]

Hmm, happy to know that there is a good aspect to africa.....however, seems that this video is somewhat filled with lies.... I mean, hasn't anyone noticed that Lagos in nigeria (3:30) and Libreville in Gabon ( 4:44) have the same image??? =S

[macfilips]

@betawarrior60x One editing error does not quite pass for "filled with lies..." Take your silly hyperbole somewhere else.

[riker17]

I like knowing that Africa is civilized.

[curvaciousakos]

@riker17 dumbass being civilized doesnt mean u have buildings.

[DonZaloog88]

epic vid :) (thanks a million for sharing!!) 5/5

but uhh, what song is this? o.o

[ThePreacher12]

Are you high ? where is Morocco ? Morocco is a country in africa, despite all the beauty of these countries in africa, you purposely forgot mentioning Morocco .

[macfilips]

@ThePreacher12 Don't be silly. You are more worried about Morocco that is not shown? You wrote "Morocco" as a proper noun, but not "Africa"? Is Morocco the only country not shown?

[ThePreacher12]

@macfilips HI!! This is not about writing it as proper name, it is about mentioning Africa with all its countries . Not just what you like .

[solonly02]

beautiful nigeria is left out by night !!! bush people

[Calliers]

@GGLebo23 Gaborone, Botswana. Small city, about the size of Saskatoon in Canada, but better roads, cars etc, extremely low crime, good people, its really the best place to live in Africa, lived there 10 years.

[TheMikana101]

@GGLebo23 the best would be lagos,nigeria

[gullunge66]

lol south africa sucks. Ever been there? not a safe place all.

Btw egypt whilst being in the african continent isnt exactly run by africans but rather arabs.

[macfilips]

@gullunge66 Safety is relative, so your point is moot. See this as a form of enlightenment. People from the African continent are Africans.

[caesardimxes]

@gullunge66 Goes to show that you are dumb. Bet you will like Egypt to not be in Africa, so that you can support your silly statement of them not being Africans, even though they are the oldest African state and Civilized State in the world.

[kdorg79]

Thanks for the pictures.

It's good to see another side of Africa besides the usual images of devastation and civil war strife.

[Gutsyndicate]

It's good if they could stop the Western nonsese and starting dealing with China.

[IMFLORIDA305]

Nice video shame it doesnt have more views, but dont let that discourage you keep them coming nice work.

[toucheme83]

Beautiful