The Problem With Africa s Borders

Much of Africa s modern history has been defined by conflict. How much of this is because of the arbitrary borders left over by European colonialism? Why are these borders so bad to begin with? Are there any better borders that could be adopted? Today I hope to answer these questions and more! *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. Support me Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro 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