Can Africa be a one hour project?

I love all your work, your long form work most of all. But if “Why African states are so dysfunctional” is impractically long production-wise, why not make it a country by country series? I’m guessing it would make each video easier to produce, and would like allow broader and deeper coverage than would otherwise be possible. I’d also love to see some sort of comparison between more functional and more dysfunctional African states. Thanks for all your work, Kraut! :)

Hell Kraut, make it a three hour project. I can wait as I know I'll rewatch it half a dozen times. The monthly payments are there so you can distill as much info as humanly possible.

Weedyboi

Now that you’re charging on a monthly basis, please go ahead and make an hour long video! This is what the monthly Patreon fees are for; it’s here to provide you a consistent stream of income that allows you to be more flexible with your projects and gives you more creative freedom.

Yes, please. Your documentary on the "The Mexican American Border" was incredibly helpful to me. We ('Muricans) are never taught anything like this in school or college, unless you take specific classes. As long as you have the motivation/interest in the topic, make your content as long as you feel is necessary. Your vids are a great complement to my Economist & Foreign Affairs subscriptions.

As amazing as that would be, I think the reason why he isn’t doing that again this time is because he can only put out 3-4 videos a year if they are that long. Maybe when he has a full team behind him we’ll get that.

I love your long videos!! I have been rewatching some and they are gold! Well... the shorter ones also, usually love everything you do

If you want to make a 30 minute video, but Africa needs 2 hours, why not make a 4 video series on Africa and release them over the next few months? I think, for this, you can definitely have your cake and eat it too.

Give us 3 video that add up to the 2 hours. It will be less stress on you, less financial burden, and we can interact more with you on the large project

RedFist

Yeah sure , i mean Im surprised that you tried to compress African history into a short form . It’s such a huge continent with hundreds of ethnic groups it would probably Fit a university course rather than a 5 min video , there’s just so much to cover and im glad you are doing this job

I'm in favor of letting videos be however long they need to be, however, I do remember how much you agonized over the Turkey and Mexico projects because of the amount of time they eventually took to finish. Perhaps, the long-form Africa project could be done in tandem with shorter videos that will be faster to produce. That way, you won't end up yoyoing between feeling like you're either taking too long to produce something or not taking long enough.

Alex Edwards

How about you make the videos as long as they need to be and switch to monthly payments?

Just make it a 3 part 2h each project. This should be enough time.

When you have time you should do a video about how the middle class came from Germany to the US

Bob Luchetta-Stendel