[iwwr]

"a few of which will be well run?"

A few of which will serve as an example for the rest.

But this: "Merging Africa into a few gigantic balkanized states [...] or splitting it up" is part of the reason they're doing badly. Being a battleground for foreign intervention has not allowed much in the way of economic development.

[anamax]

> A few of which will serve as an example for the rest.

Africa has always had a few well run countries. Why will their example help more in the future than it has in the past?

[iwwr]

Speaking in the context of a city-state/small-state fragmentation of the larger African states.