What if Africa Redraws its Borders?

The partitioning of Africa by European empires has had decades of devastating social, economic and political impacts, and millions of lives have been lost in post-independence Africa defending what are actually colonial borders. We are overdue for an African renaissance, completing the decolonisation process– which remains as unfinished business until boundaries are changed.

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. One recurring idea is to redraw its borders into smaller states on the basis of ethnicity or its proxies, like shared language.

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