What Africa might look like if it had never been colonized
The history of Africa starts with the appearance of archaic humans at least 200 thousand years ago in East Africa. It continues uninterrupted into the today as a patchwork of diverse and developing nation-states. The eldest known documented history began in the Kingdom of Kush, and next in Ancient Egypt, the Sahel, the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa.
Following the desertification of the Sahara, North African history became twisted with the Middle East and Southern Europe. At the same time, the Bantu extension cleared from modern-day Cameroonacross much of sub-Saharan Africa in waves between around 1000 BC and 0 AD, forming a linguistic homology over the central and Southern Africa.
Before the European colonialism, Africa had up to 10 thousand various states and societies with different languages.
What Africa might look like if it had never been colonized
