WI the border of African countries followed cultural lines and not the colonial ones.
The problem is, "cultural lines" and such wouldn't really work in Africa. The problem wasn't necessarily that borders weren't drawn on ethnic lines, the problem was that Europeans tried to draw along ethnic lines. Western-style Nationalism was imposed upon these places.
Why not? What is the African type of Nationalism? Is it based on religion or what?The problem is, "cultural lines" and such wouldn't really work in Africa.
The problem wasn't necessarily that borders weren't drawn on ethnic lines, the problem was that Europeans tried to draw along ethnic lines.
Western-style Nationalism was imposed upon these places.
Why not? What is the African type of Nationalism? Is it based on religion or what?
This would have been a stupid move, the Europeans would have rather tried the classical "divide and rule", but I´m not an expert.
Nationalism was imposed? Why would the 19th or 20th century Europeans impose their type nationalism on natives? You could say that the African elite studied in Western school and so they were influenced by Western culture and mentality, but saying that the Europeans imposed it without reason is quite strange.