From: The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Carved Up a Continent
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Look at a modern map of Africa and imagine those borders didn't exist — how might the countries be different if ethnic groups had stayed together?

The borders drawn in the 1880s and 1890s still shape who lives where, who votes with whom, and where conflicts flare up. Sitting with that fact changes how you see the news from the continent today.

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Find a map of pre-colonial African kingdoms or ethnic regions and compare it side by side with today's borders

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The Berlin Conference of 1884 was where European nations met to set the rules for dividing Africa...
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Arbitrary colonial borders split ethnic groups apart, and those divided groups later experienced ...
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In 1870, only about 10 percent of Africa was controlled by European countries; by 1914, roughly 9...
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