> And what if Europeans hadn’t colonized the country? <
That is an excellent poInt. When the European powers colonized Africa, they drew up national boundaries with no regard to tribal boundaries. That is the source of much of the misfortune in Africa today.
It would be as if in the 1800s Germany, Poland, and Hungary had been forced into one country. German officials would be favoring German citizens at the expense of the Poles and Hungarians. Etc. There would be lots of “tribal” cronyism.
It would be difficult to form a working country under those conditions.
Ever hear of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
There are thousands of tribes in Africa but nobody to date has been able tabulated exactly how many. Tanzania alone has more that a hundred counted tribes.
And they were killing and enslaving one another long before the Europeans arrive in sub-Saharan Africa. That's what Africa would still look like today. In fact tribal warfare continues even today...recall Rwanda?