If Africa's borders looked like ethnic groups, it would look like this

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[GodinDaFlesh]

If Africans weren't so separated, cacs would never have dominated the continent.

 

[yeyeye]

we need black unity brehs , fukk tribalism

 

[010101]

the root of all ills*

 

[010101]

If Africans weren't so separated, cacs would never have dominated the continent.

they wouldn't even exist*

 

[Cadillac]

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Personally, Africa would do better economically if it had larger territorial entities governing parts of it.

However, I support the right for ethnic groups to democratically secede from states.

 

[Absalom's Thought]

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[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

The Upper Guinean region doesn't look accurate.

Anyway, despite the challenges that multi-ethnic societies present, ethnostates in the strictest sense of the word are no longer viable.

Why don't you think it's accurate?

 

[Absalom's Thought]

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[Remote]

Interesting.
The colonial powers that divided up Africa and the Middle East (against the advice of TE Lawrence) are largely to blame for the mess they left behind.

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

If Africans weren't so separated, cacs would never have dominated the continent.

nah the cacs had guns. Nothing Africa could do at the time they were just destined to lose that battle. Maybe could have made it more of a fight though, taken those cacs to hell in larger numbers.

 

[BocaRear]

The borders and nations are artificial in Africa - it's the reason why all the governments are so corrupt and why the continent has its resources plundered.
It's classical divide and conquer where one ethnic group is pitted against another so as the colonial masters retain supremacy.

The same thing happened in The Middle East.

Honestly, you can trace practically all the worlds geo-political issues in the 21st century to colonialism.

 

[69 others]

nah the cacs had guns. Nothing Africa could do at the time they were just destined to lose that battle. Maybe could have made it more of a fight though, taken those cacs to hell in larger numbers.

the japanese didn't and they kept them out. organization is key, guns back then were not that better than swords and spears.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

As it pertains to Upper Guinea it's but a rough outline. On second look it's not as bad as it seemed at first, though I can't vouch on the accuracy of the borders. I assume they just delineated the main groups (largest population), because a detailed map would be far more fragmented. I realize now that the map was created in 1959; there has since been significant migrations in the coastal areas.

Yeah. It's impossible to visually capture all of Africa's ethno-linguistic groups. Colonialists tried though