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Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by YorubaSamurai: 4:05pm On May 02, 2023 |
I always wonder why the rest continents are not as diversed as Africa... infact, Africa is more diverse than all other continents put together, and Nigeria alone is more diversed than Europe.. me think Africa diversity is the reason the continent is not developing as other continents, because the time we should use to develop, we spend it fighting tribal wars.. check all Africa Civil Wars, it is as a result of tribalism... even the Sudan war going on now even if we are to split and create new African countries strictly on homogeneity (ask the case of Europe) we will end up with nothing less than 1000 countries abi na for Africa God for curse the people building the Tower of Babel to start speaking different languages? 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 4:13pm On May 02, 2023 |
Europe solved this problem by dividing along ethnic lines to the smallest countries like Monaco, Luxembourg, Malta, Croatia, Macedonia etc. Here, we believe division is a bad thing. That's why people hate biafrans because they say they wanna break up Nigeria when infact Nigeria is too diverse to succeed. Remember when God wanted to destroy the tower of Babel in the Bible, he introduced many languages and they became confused and couldn't work together. Nigeria is not designed to succeed unless we kill tribalism which is extremely hard! 8 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by gift2xl: 4:17pm On May 02, 2023 |
Africa is blessed, but their greed won't let them develop. |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 4:19pm On May 02, 2023 |
Africa is not blessed. Their greed is part of them so you cant separate it gift2xl: |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by N3TRAL: 4:19pm On May 02, 2023 |
It is not because we have many tribes and languages that we are divided. It is because we were divided that we have many tribes and languages. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by YorubaSamurai: 4:20pm On May 02, 2023 |
DMerciful:that is what I am saying... if we are to divide and create new countries in Africa according to tribal lines, we will have nothing less than 1000 African countries |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by YorubaSamurai: 4:21pm On May 02, 2023 |
N3TRAL: |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by ivolt: 4:22pm On May 02, 2023 |
DMerciful:Cure yourself of ignorance. No European country is a single tribe none. At no time did European sit down together and divided themselves along ethnic line. If diversity is the bane of development, America, a diversified country from birth should be worse off than Somalia which has a majority ethnic group. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by Christistruth02: 4:24pm On May 02, 2023 |
There used to be many tribes in Europe too they assimilated with Each other For example the English came from the Angles, Saxons, Vikings,French, Romans that arrived In England at different times and met the Celtic welsh there |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 4:43pm On May 02, 2023 |
You're the ignorant one! They don't necessarily needs to sit and divide themselves but in the course of history, through wars achieved this. UK just pulled out of EU, why did they do that? Go and read the Yugoslavia breakup and see if its not along major ethnic lines. Ofcourse, there would be few minorities but too small to cause trouble just like in Russia. The US is a country of immigrants, same as Canada so there's no major ethnic group thats more than 500yrs old there except the aboriginals and native Americans who are less than 3% of the population and as such super minority. An immigrant ethnic group that is disperse all over the new world cannot have that critical mass in one location to cause trouble ivolt: 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 4:44pm On May 02, 2023 |
Creating countries is not by minor ethnic groups but major ethnic groups. Minorities do not have the capacity to cause trouble YorubaSamurai: 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 4:49pm On May 02, 2023 |
You don't even know your history. We were living as individual tribes for 1000s of years and doing well until the white man came and joined us together so they could exploit us easily N3TRAL: 5 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by derealj(m): 5:13pm On May 02, 2023 |
OP you don't know what you are saying, Asia has more languages than Africa, yet they are developing while Africa is moving backwards. Africa is cursed............ 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by justtoodark: 5:14pm On May 02, 2023 |
go read history....europe had many tribes too.... they wiped each other out.... dont admire white people.... their culture is full of blood shed.... 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by ednut1(m): 5:20pm On May 02, 2023 |
DMerciful:false the stronger tribes annexed the smaller and less powerful ones in their spaces. In france alone there are different tribes. This is like what we have in northern nigeria where hausa fulani dominate. But you have other tribes that you will mistake for Hausa 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by mrvitalis(m): 5:31pm On May 02, 2023 |
YorubaSamurai:What's wrong with having 5000 countries if that would bring peace Nd prosperity 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by Emperormartin(m): 5:31pm On May 02, 2023 |
Most people don't know that the balkanization of former Yugoslavia nation was because of ethnic differences. What intrigues people here is they were answering homogeneous names but still divided along ethnic lines. Imagine a Mitrovic from Serbia, Rakitic from Croatia, Pjanic from Bosnia and Herzegovina all fighting to death because of ethnic differences. But in the eyes of Europe and the rest of the world they were bearing homogeneous names. Now juxtapose it with Nigeria that don't even bear homogeneous names... There is no way ovieteme, yunusa, bolaji, okereke are linked together yet they're yoked together in "one country" What happened in Yugoslavia in the 80's will be a child's play to what will hit Nigeria when we'll reach at our boiling point. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by mrvitalis(m): 5:35pm On May 02, 2023 |
ivolt:Might not be ethnic tribe but one ethnic nationalities ....make up 90% of several countries From Croatia to Serbia, Slovakia Slovenia, Bulgaria, Germany Even the ones that are not ethnic nations have regions self governing along ethnic lines America USA settlers country....if native Americans made up 60% of USA they won't be peaceful same with Canada Australia...can't you see Mexico ? Can't you see how India is structured ? 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by stonemasonn: 5:45pm On May 02, 2023 |
Isolation was the reason. |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by sucemt(m): 6:29pm On May 02, 2023 |
DMerciful: You are good... u know history 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by sucemt(m): 6:31pm On May 02, 2023 |
derealj: Sorry you are not correct... Africa is not cursed... the postcolonial system was made to hold us together at gunpoint to keep fighting one another while they suck both our human and natural resources 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by sucemt(m): 6:37pm On May 02, 2023 |
mrvitalis: The problem is land expropriation law, which the Europeans imposed on different African countries... check most of the developed nations on earth... they have private property/land rights unlike in Africa where the colonially imposed govt claims ownership of all lands in order to supply resources to Europe instead of allowing the real owners develop industries with them 1 Like |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by babyfaceafrica: 6:49pm On May 02, 2023 |
mrvitalis: There is no giarwthere will be peace even with 5000 countries |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by mrvitalis(m): 6:54pm On May 02, 2023 |
babyfaceafrica:But its better to try and fail than not try at all |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by derealj(m): 6:54pm On May 02, 2023 |
sucemt: What happened before the colonial era, why couldn't we develop to compete with them instead of waiting to be enslaved? Like I said we are cursed and never meant to be great..... |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by Fortruth: 7:08pm On May 02, 2023 |
YorubaSamurai: Some people dont know they are stupid but are indirectly crying out for help… Like another poster said…. Europeans are more tribal and hostile than Africans. That has worked for them…. All those tribal wars in Africa were also manipulated by Europeans that wanted places like the Nigger Area they created to never be a real country, as it was created as a company to steal resources in perpetuity…. If there was Biafra, Arewa, and Oduduwa , even in World Cup we would defeat Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DMerciful(m): 8:52pm On May 02, 2023 |
Thats enough, provided its one dominant tribe, there would be progress. But to have over 3 dominant tribes, recipe for very slow growth ednut1: |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DaddyJapan(m): 9:12pm On May 02, 2023 |
YorubaSamurai: When are we going to stop using offensive and dated terms like "tribe"? You will never see Europeans, Indians or the Chinese using the colonial vestige. Yet every second post on Nairaland draws attention to it. Because this word can be offensive, it is better to only use it if you are sure that the group of people is correctly referred to as a tribe. You can use the words community or people instead.Source: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tribe
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Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by AwkaFinest: 9:15pm On May 02, 2023 |
That's to tell you that Africa is the origin of mankind. |
Re: Why Are There So Many Tribes In Africa? by DaddyJapan(m): 9:16pm On May 02, 2023 |
For the record, some official sources suggest there about 3,000 ethnic groups in Africa while there are about 2,000 ethnic groups in India and 1,300 ethnic groups in Indonesia. China has 56. |
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