The Problem With Africa's Borders

This is by far too large of a topic to fit entirely within one video, but here's an overview.

Madagascar has an entirely separate geography, history, and overall identity from mainland Africa. It's for this reason that I left it out of the discussion.

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Some links to check out to learn more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa#/media/File:Map_of_African_languages.svg

http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2019/06/GPI-2019-web003.pdf

https://www.zaragoza.es/contenidos/medioambiente/onu/340-eng.pdf

http://worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap/

https://voxeu.org/article/long-run-effects-scramble-africa

https://www.quora.com/What-should-Africas-map-look-like-I%E2%80%99ve-read-that-a-lot-of-Africa%E2%80%99s-borders-are-a-result-of-arbitrary-divisions-by-Europeans-What-would-the-African-map-otherwise-look-like-in-a-way-that-made-it-less-arbitrary

https://tools.lgm.cl/ColorHighlighter/?url=https://i.redd.it/7mkan2wpujf01.png

https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-9-63

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/the-dividing-of-a-continent-africas-separatist-problem/262171/

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-colonization-of-africa.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6WO5XabD-s

https://med.virginia.edu/family-medicine/wp-content/uploads/sites/285/2018/12/Azobou_South-Sudan-Refugee-Crisis-112018.pdf

https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/africa/south-sudan/south-sudan-refugees

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