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September 11, 2012

Africa's Separatist Problem

Max Fisher, The Atlantic

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Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans bunched into countries that don't represent their heritage, a contradiction that still troubles them today.

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TAGGED: Africa, Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon

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