[dwd1]

I wonder if they would have been better off if the less warlike and more intellectual tribes that were more into education and less into warfare would have made a difference... Truth is, the lack of unity has placed Africa way behind... I was speaking to a friend of mine from Kenya asking her if she could envision a United States of Africa (saw it in a Star Trek book)... She looked at me as if I had lost my mind...

If you think about why nations have survived and tribes have not, you have to remember that most great nations had been divided and came to be united.... This has never happened in Africa... It may have happened with Shaka Zulu but if before that, very tribes or leaders on the continent of Africa have had the will and means to unite the continent... You would have to go back to Hannibal... If you think about this, this has allowed Africa to be divided... Tribal loyalties have always taken precedence...

There has never been a Bismarck, Garibaldi, Washington, Red Cloud, Peter the Great, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Ghengis Khan that has been able to unite the people of Africa... If there had been, I doubt if you and I would be having this conversation... :-)

[cyborg]

very interesting

[neutrino]

Perhaps. But the Greek city-states had some notable accomplishments in art, mathematics, and literature. They weren't unified...