You know, I often sit & think... who first decided that it is a good idea to rule over a nation that is not theirs? We come across many examples in history, there were the Persians, Greeks, Phoenicians & Romans in antiquity. What the ancient empire rulers did was that they virtually became as the locals & learnt the local languages, they then collected taxes being careful not to ask too much taxes from the locals lest the locals rebel against the empire. In Africa, this never happened. Not only were the majority of Africans under rule by people who were not even the same race i. e. skin colour but the foreign powers came & disregarded local borders & languages, then drew borders according to what they (the foreigners) needed. Just adding insult to injury. This caused a lot of confusion because new Eurocentric states now popped up & divided precolonial states & precolonial nations. Now, the solution here sounds simple enough; simply redraw borders along preco...