Otobong3374:

BSsniffer: The major (modern) problem with africa started with the Berlin conference and the map drawing by europeans, ethnic groups were separated and joined with other ethnic groups that share no common language or ideology with them...

From the English to the Germans, every ethnic group in Europe has their representing nation and no group is forced into nationhood with another group, why then should a Yoruba man like me share a nation with an Igbo or a fulani or vice versa.....it honestly cannot and won't work for anyone, sub Saharan Africa will not progress untill every ethnic nation is recognized and given the right to their future. It's either we restructure as a nation or have a referendum and each ethnic group stays on their own. The hausa/fulani wil succeed as if they have their own nation of theirs, same as the yorubas, igbos, Benin kingdom, ijaws, efiks and other groups.

Keep Blaming The West, Okay? Don't Tell Your Useless Leaders To Rule You Perfectly, Okay?

Napata77:


Mr Bodyguard for 'the west', use your head instead of being a stupid slave.

You can never address this issue WITHOUT the nefarious role played by the west, and ways of checkmating it, forming a huge part of your discussion.

Ofodirinwa:



every african country's plan is to not divide. this is where all their energy goes towards. Take away that issue by allowing them to divide and they will move on to the next phase.

Watcharena:
There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Germany, but they are still living together

Napata77:


That's ridiculous. You'd have nearly 4,000 countries in Africa with that arrangement.

This tendency to SMALLNESS is what led to African vulnerability to slavery and colonisation, as these states were too small on their own to resist powerful western invaders, who simply used divide and rule tactics to entrench their dominance. So returning to those small, unviable ethnic based systems is not the solution. Africans need to learnt to live in multi-ethnic nations like their ancient forbears did, from Nubia to Egypt to the Mali and Ghana empires.

BSsniffer:
The major (modern) problem with africa started with the Berlin conference and the map drawing by europeans, ethnic groups were separated and joined with other ethnic groups that share no common language or ideology with them...

From the English to the Germans, every ethnic group in Europe has their representing nation and no group is forced into nationhood with another group, why then should a Yoruba man like me share a nation with an Igbo or a fulani or vice versa.....it honestly cannot and won't work for anyone, sub Saharan Africa will not progress untill every ethnic nation is recognized and given the right to their future. It's either we restructure as a nation or have a referendum and each ethnic group stays on their own. The hausa/fulani wil succeed as if they have their own nation of theirs, same as the yorubas, igbos, Benin kingdom, ijaws, efiks and other groups.

The current structures in Africa isn't currently paying anyone and that's because they're largely colonial structures not meant to pay us but pay the westerners....if you disagree with my points kindly state a better solution.
Thanks