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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
Re. the colonial period. The main impact this has had is to impose the Western state structure on the continent (look at those nice straight 'drawn with a ruler' borders on the map) - tribal loyalties still dominate in most of Africa and thus development of the state is something of an alien idea to many people.
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Would you consider Ethiopia a successful African state? It has never been colonized after all (unless you count a very brief period under the Italians during the Second World War).