They were many. Not just rulers, but households, elders, children—lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name. So, to say “Africa is a country” is not a cartographic error. It is the residue of training—what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.
Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.
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Image: Map of the ethnic diversity of Africa, overlaid with country borders. Source: National Geographic.
