Topic: If Africa wasn't colonised, how would things be different?
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 hour ago#134,106
Apparently it's bad because they joined a lot of mini fiefdoms together which caused lots of infighting. So Africa might have 500 countries instead of about 40. Would that be a good or bad thing?
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 46 minutes ago, 39 minutes later[^][v]#1,428,679
Redundancy is inefficient, and barriers to movement (people, goods, ideas) means slower progress. Security is easier when you can use resources from areas at peace and move them to the border that's under threat.