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by blacksmith_tb 29 days ago
Africa isn't a country? There are 54 countries in Africa, and it has almost twice the area of all of North America, not just the USA [1]

1: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/continent-size-comparison/no...
2 comments
yieldcrv 29 days ago
Sovereignty in Africa is a joke, the nation state concept shouldn’t have been applied there and the colonial work on imposing that is vestigial at best

And that’s the 99th percentile answer on that side of the bell curve

When people want to refer to a country on that continent, they do. There is little reason to refer to most countries on that continent because they are basically not separate administrative districts

Just fiefdoms that have nothing to do with the borders drawn and lots of area in between

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kevin_thibedeau 29 days ago
They are not a uniform monolithic people, regardless of outside interference.
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yieldcrv 29 days ago
understood, I think there are some unique challenges on that continent to make referring to it amorphously to be rational and not merely ignorant

And the ways its being addressed domestically involve cross border supernational unions and economic blocs hoping to get the basic infrastructure of a single market, single defense framework

essentially the ground work to becoming exactly what everyone keeps saying

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andsoitis 27 days ago
> they are basically not separate administrative districts

what are you talking about?

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ladberg 29 days ago
Where did the parent commenter imply Africa is a country?

EDIT: I can't read, sorry all!

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jayGlow 29 days ago
right here "But then there's a reason why a country with more than 3x the number of people in the US".
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