The Only Place on Earth Where Four Nations' Borders Meet
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2021
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The colonization of Africa has created many seemingly arbitrary (and sometimes problematic) borders. One of these African borders is so complicated that it is the only one of its kind in the world. Driaan takes a closer look at how the world's only quadripoint was drawn onto the map, and how its future affects Africans, travelers, and anyone using a smartphone.
Thanks to Richard Kok for the drone footage of Mosi-Oa-Tunya
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I like how you consistently referred to the falls as Mosi-oa-Tunya 🇿🇲
I'll also stop calling it the Vic Falls..😅
Apa it's Mosi-oah-Tunya
"THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS"!! ....it never gets old.
victoria is not African name, so he has my support 100%
Does it mean blowing smoke? I mean since we are bantu speaking nations and I'm a Motswana it really sounds like it means a blowing smoke or blown smoke and i like that.. Not vic falls 😏
He loves Africa and it's history
As a Zambian, I can say it's an amazing place, especially since a new bridge was commissioned
As a fellow Zambian, I agree. Thinking of relocating to Kazungula just because of the bridge.
@@jacobstone4354 lol I wouldn't say move theirs just because of the bridge,but at least it gives you the opportunity to enjoy both countries instead of the mess that was the pontoon
As a Zambian, I'd like to say hi 👋
@@mwikakalima24 👋🏿Good day to you too
It's a nice bridge but with all the truck traffic, shouldn't be a double 2 or 3 lane bridge? Have to think for the future, bridge lasts long.
As a Ugandan I have heard of Mosi oa tunya but while learning social studies teachers always referred to it as Victoria falls but am glad you insisted on calling it by its real name. You have helped in preserving Zambian culture
Very good to hear you call it by it's real name. "Mosi o tunya" -the smoke that thunders. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
As an Australian, the first sight of that smoke and I immediately thought "Bushfire" . Then going down the side of the falls on the Zambian side blew my mind. Feeling the soaking ' thunder' throbbing through the soul so loud it blocks out everything but sheer exhilaration. From the Zimbabwe side looking down at the falls with the circular rainbows and majesty that is Africa. And further up the Batoka Gorge perched high above the mighty Zambezi, the stuff of legend.
I feel so privileged to have been to this incredible part of our amazing world.
@@triarb5790 It's truly magnificent. A very surreal experience.
Kuda nyahoja: Such a beautiful, poetic name as well!
Its called Victoria Falls
The smoke that thunders, what a pretty intimidating name lol
It is 😅
Let's just call it Vicky Falls 😂😂😂
@@kumbeetjirimuje4193 I mean let's not? You can call it that and I can call it something else.
And I'm not going to argue with the people that live next to it whatever they choose to call it.
@@Jay-ho9io it was a joke 😅... I'm all for decolonisation. Just added the laughing emojii's.
@@kumbeetjirimuje4193 like seriously bro 1 step forward and 10 steps backwards?
Amazing place, one of the friendliest borders as well, I live here.
Amazing!
Otus is my father's company still operating. He just died
I'm trying put things together
Can you check for me please. I'll pay you😢
I consider Zambia as my second country after India. Lived in Lusaka for 10 wonderful years - 1985-95. Namibia got independance during that period. Zimbabwe too was in better conditions in that period. Nice people. Mosi O Tuniya is just too good.
I also consider Zambia as my second country after the Netherlands.... Did marry a Zambian woman, everytime I'm going I feel so welcome in the country (rich or poor). Will be in Zambia again next week. Going to Livingstone but never went to this four countries border. Who knows I will go there
Love from Zimbabwe🇿🇼
He does sound Zimbo baba
As a Namibian History youtuber, Thanks for this lesson..
However it's a lie that David Livingstone was the first to lay eyes on this beautiful place hahahaha these colonizers. Some history is scam
@@blessingmafuka7987 I think he said David Livingstone was the 1st European to have seen it
hmmm! balance me quick then. Who are the caprivian people of caprivi then?
Fun fact: if you put your palm upside down with your thumb stick out it’s namibia map 😄👍🏻
They should make another bridge between Namibia and Zimbabwe and have them cross each other with a roundabout. Make both bridges and a roundabout into a no-mans-land, and put immigration booths after coming off the bridge in any of the four countries.
I'm Zambian and have known about this quadru point for some time now but I didn't know the story behind it. Thanks Bright Trip, amazing video.
Thank you for embracing our history by calling it MosiaTunya, as well as stating David Livingstone is the first European to encounter the MosiaTunya, because some states that he discovered MosiaTunya as if they were no people living in that area
"Britain wanted to claim a stupid big piece of land" 😂😂
I Love how educational this is 👏🏾 . Zambian over here 🇿🇲
Haha, thanks 🙌
Zambia my country, a beautiful place to be.
Love this piece! Love from Zambia. 🇿🇲
Chabwino
I want to come visit Zambia
Zambia a land of peace, tranquility and friendly.
As a Zambian myself I've enjoyed this video.
Greetings from Sudan..Africa is a continent rich in charming landscapes..I have visited Zambia and Zimbabwe..but I did not visit these borders. I wish to visit Botswana and Malawi..Are there friends from there who make it easier for me to visit?
Hi
When you next in Zim I'll take you there
As Zimbabwean, i loved that little piece of knowledge, gonna share that with my mom. She will love this, thank you.
Aww, thanks 😊
In the southern African minority rule era, the ferry was the only overland way to travel from Black to White Africa. I used it to cross from Zambia to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) via Botswana in 1977. Experiences during my month in the country as the war of independence accelerated moved me so much that a year later I returned from Canada to live through the transition 1978-80 as a journalist. The little spot in the Zambezi river remains close to my heart.
Just found this channel today. Really enjoyed this video, it was critical and informative. I, myself, (as a child) travelled the Zambezi river with my mother. Some of the most formative memories I have came from the region. Very happy to stumble upon this channel !
Thank you for this history, just came back from zim and took my British born teenagers to visit and they were so amazed and they had lots of questions. I'll share this with them
Hi form zambia just wanted to say the video was amazing and educational great video mate.
Great video about about one of the more interesting aspects of our borders with Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana ☺️
Lol Funny how you trying to leave Zambia out cause the last time I checked Zimbabwe doesn't really share borders with Namibia
Great and fascinating explanation of a complicated history of border issues. Thank you!
You my friend know our feelings, your content is sensitive empathetic to our thoughts you have won a new subscriber here.
I might travel there in October, thanks for this video 🙂
Have fun!
This was a very good use of my time.... Thanks for making such a great video
Great vid! Thanks Dri!
I learned something new today. Thanx a mill. BTW Im glad I accidentally bumped onto this video👏🤗
Wow. That was incredibly informative. You presented the history so seloquently. Thank you!!!
Wow, thanks!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 more of these type of videos please!
You got it!
I really enjoyed this, thank youo.
This is a lovely narrative, well done and I love it 100%
Very informative!! Big thanks👍
Very well presented. Good research as well. 5 stars!
Great video ! Thank you!🙏
Love seeing my fellow Zambians here 🇿🇲
Also, thanks for calling our fall by its real name
You belong 🎉to Africa 🌍. Your heart is at the right 👍😊place. Blessings 💞🙏 to you
Thanks for the great explanation. I'd always wondered about this border, and now I'm enlightened.
Thanks for Sharing 💐
What a beautiful simple analogy of history.
I'm definitely subscribing to you channel, love ur work
Yay, welcome 🙌
Keep it up nice work
Nice work on the video, very informative.
Thanks 😊
This may be the first time I have seen a white person speak without bias about Africa and her colonisation.
Well done👏
A story well told. I have learnt a lot. Thank you.
You earned my "thumbs up". I hand these out very sparingly and grudgingly. Congrats 👏.
Oh wow, thanks! 🙌
Love how you explained everything ✨
Glad you liked it!!
Thanks. Great Video. I love Namibia
Very cool video, informative and enough comedy. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love how you explained the whole thing. You make a wonderful geographical history teacher lol
Great video!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 this video was sooo good. Very interesting stuff!!
Thanks Christina!
Thanks so much!!
Great video.
Amazing place, Kazungula.
Great video man!
Thanks!
That was quite informative. Thank you
You're welcome 🙌
This video showed in my recommended. Cool content. Subscribed
loved this. thanks for the informative video.
Yay!
This is educational. Deluded men needing intervention to prevent them from killing each other over something that belongs to some other pple.
Great video
Nice one dude👍
Thanks!
Damn. This video was so good. Never knew the caprivi strip was a dud deal 😅
Thanks!
Britan say SIKE!
Your history telling is excellent 🇿🇼, thank you
Thanks!
This is so beautiful thank you so much kind sir with love from Namibia 🇳🇦 ❤️
As a Zambian, I'm happy you kept on calling the falls 'Mosi oa Tunya' its original name. Great content.
Thanks 😊
@Maytte there are around 73 languages in Zambia (a lot!) but I think the language you're thinking about could be Lozi? I know it sounds very similar to Sotho
@Maytte Yes it's Lozi. That's the language very close to Sotho
@Maytte actually some of the Lozi women actually look like South African women...
I'm Zambian, Thank you for this video
Excellent.
Nice video, though like you said in it--it's not actually a quadripoint technically--and that technicality is big because it is what allowed the bridge to be built in the first place, as it curves in the river to only cross one border line between two countries.
I have been looking at that point on the map many times, and been frustrated by the few hundred meters missing from making it a true quad-point.
I was hoping that with the new bridge, the 4 countries would get together and make minor adjustments to their borders, so that they would get the point in the middle of the bridge.
Would have made it a truly unique place on earth. :O)
But it isn't too late, so Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia, you know what you have to do. ;O)
Thanks so much for that info, heading that way next year.
Have fun!
Awesome video
Wow, more visually understood... Thanx am a Namibian 🇳🇦 and u just went in depth with that info.... Thanx again ...
Interesting narrative... Keep it up!!!
Thanks a lot!
Did you know that the Original name for the falls by the Tokaleya on whose land it's on is Shungu-Namtitima?
Very informative piece
Glad you think so!
Educative video 👍
We're glad 🙌
My brother continues the good works for future Youths to understand the World at large 🙌👌👍🙏
Nice Video Brav 🇿🇲
Well illustrated. 10/10, All five ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Really good vid.
Great video. Just earned a sub
Such a good video, subscribed 🇿🇲
Welcome!!
Interesting, thank you
Thank you for your well researched video. Very informative. Thank you for calling the mighty Mosi O Tunya by it's correct name
Very much satisfied with the content
This video is amazing wow😊😊😊
I plan on returning back to Zambia one day MOST HIGH willing. Hopefully plant myself in the Kazungula area too
This very Jonny Harris style, keep up the great work
I loved this🔥
Proud Motswana over here.
Very informative
Thanks!
Lekker, Driaan. Funny it's not 'the thunder that smokes'...
Great video I am Zambian and I knew nothing about this really educative Thanks....👏👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
Great video factually balanced with regards to history. I also love that beat/sound at the end of the video. How I can find the longer original version of it? Thanks.
This was cool! Well done
Thanks 🙌
The smoke that thunders, Mosi wa thunya 👌❤
Loved this
Yay!
awsome vid
It was an amazing experience to work on the borderposts that are being build on either side of the river a few years ago, as an architectural professional. Was very excited when the bridge finally opened.
man i really enjoyed listening to you.
Thanks for listening!
Nice video & thanks for some of the info which I did not know.
You're welcome 😊
Thanx so informative known little abt the Caprivi strip