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by klaudius 1873 days ago
It's not culture. It's poverty + weak states.

If you don't live in an advanced organized country and you are poor you have to rely on your local group. How else are you going to survive?

If you educate those people, put them in an advanced country and make them well off, you will see individualism appear.

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Could also be biological. ie: the Hajnal Line theory.
Aside from being pretty thoroughly disproven, what does the Hajnal line have to do with Africa?