True Continental Divide

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QUESTION:What would the map of Africa look like if its internal boundaries were redrawn along major tribal lines?

AFRICA, three times the size of Europe and, after Asia, the second most populated continent on the planet with just over 758 million people, is home to the largest collection of languages of any continent - about 1,300.

Modern Africa, created along artificial boundaries drawn up by Europeans without regard for indigenous people at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, contains very few states that are ethnically homogeneous.

Few African nations have a strong sense of national identity and this has been the cause of much unrest and numerous civil wars. In the Saharan nations of north Africa the dominant groups are Arabs, Berbers and Tuaregs.South of the Sahara is the …