Few individuals, especially the so-called experts, really understand Africa. This is partly because there is not a single comprehensible thing called Africa. Africa, and the countries that comprise it, is a colonial invention.
Africa is an immensely vast continent, historically and culturally complex. Africa is larger than the United States, China and Europe put together. Africa is about the same size as South America, Australia and India put together. Africa is truly confounding.
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