india is one country, why shouldn't west africa be one country?
India is already borderline ungovernable and that's after the mass expulsion of Muslims and a fairly successful adoption of a shared identity after it was forced on them externally.West Africa is even more ethnically and culturally diverse and does not have a shared identity. That isn't even touching on the constant military coups in the region or the extremely prevalent terrorist cells. ECOWAS is far short of a unified state and even it is falling apart.
Too manymuslims
>>16892772West Africa wasn't owned by a single colonial power and besides a vague sense of "pan-Africanism" there's really nothing to unite the people there.
>>16892772Muslims would immediately start acting apes and ruin it
>>16892772Because India shouldn’t be one country. Also, it’s not. It’s 5. The Indo-Aryans and Dravidians, who we would collectively refer to as “South Asians” or “natives of the Indian Subcontinent”, with few exceptions, span across Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Even as 5 countries, it’s still not stable. The borders need to be reworked in certain areas, and new states created. The subcontinent would do better as an EU-like confederacy of even as an ethnic federation than in its current state. Or just a few completely separate countries. It shouldn’t be based solely on religion either
>>16892772Divided or united it will always be a shithole
>>16892962Yup, any mega West African state is doomed to Christian/Muslim in fighting.
Always felt French West Africa had kino borders. It makes me feel like a version of the real Mali-Mali empire .
>>16892772The caste system in India creates a specialised hierarchy that allows a nation as diverse as India to function without the multiple different caste subgroups killing each other over tribal inanity.No such thing exists in Africa, which was why the colonial powers had to split it up with arbitrary borders because in one big West African nation, the Wolofs and the Yoruba would start duking it out for control, and then whoever wins would go Hotel Rwanda on literally every other Bantu one gene slightly removed from the main group.
>>16893063Well there were technically various moments in history where most of the whole land area was united under one hegemonic power so it's not totally unreasonable to think it would work. West Africa is considerably different because it was never a united entity and is even religiously split between Christian and Muslim.
>>16893799>colonial powers had to split it up with arbitrary borders Never happened. The borders of Africa were defined based on who was already there and simultaneously who could militarily control it. Since colonization began as deals with local tribes ,Blacks indirectly had some input in the borders, too, although not deliberately.
>>16893423Nigeria already has this, Sudan had it too until they finally broke in two along religious lines
>>16892772tell them to unite and see what happens, lmao
>>16892962Literally this./thread
>>16892962>>16892973Islam is much older in the region, Christcuckery only spread with colonialism
