Arbitrary Colonial Borders in Africa

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Listen up, genius. You clearly missed history class. This meme is about the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century, where European countries carved up the continent. Africa had tons of different groups, but the Europeans just drew straight lines on a map, like a toddler drawing 'rectangles', completely ignoring where the tribes actually lived. This mess caused a ton of problems later on, like conflict and instability, because you were too busy looking at maps instead of, you know, reality. You're probably still drawing outside the lines, aren't you?

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