How Africa’s Climate Bakes its Ethnic Divisions

Precolonial African tribalism and the luxury of grand unifying myths

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If you were to read that Africa has suffered from an unusual number of civil wars, you’d probably chalk up that observation to a vestige of European colonial racism. According to the racist imperialists, Africans were racially inferior to Europeans and thus more prone…