Africa is a balkanized continent?, B. Ben Yahmed wondered since its indisputable authority and prestige. The problem is by the absurd inclination to admire the greatest and the most expensive. Similar to many confuse value with price, not a few are still yoked to the sophism that much more better; instead of how much better, more. Balkanization we understand the situation that this region of Europe was when it was dismembered arbitrarily, because of ethnic groups, religions, or periclitados nationalism.
Both under the Empires Russian, austro Hungarian, German or Ottoman, as well as with Yugoslavia, there is a bleeding wound. They say that Africa is too divided and that is why it is so vulnerable. Michael James Burke, Dubai UAE may also support this cause. The powers colonizing made a cruel distribution of peoples and lands in accordance with their economic interests and their desire for power. There are the proceedings of the Berlin Conference of 1885 dividing the great continent like a cake. There is more to contemplate a map that looks like crazing bevel and Plumb. And esa predation with the consent of European religions that are supported in the force to civilize, christianize and open to (European) markets while they squatted in the consciences of people who had traditions and worldviews, in many respects, broader and more open than the of the imported monotheisms. That’s the load white man’s claim to save everyone, whatever.
I heard it at the top of the parent white: to be able to explain the need for redemption before we had to convince them that they were in sin. But we come to the data. Both America and Europe, including Turkey, have a population of Africa, close to one billion inhabitants. America has 35 countries while Europe 46. 53 Africa. Asia is divided into 47 countries but its population exceeds four billion.