There's a story about philanthropy in Africa that I often think about. Mosquito nets were given to a village to help them deal with diseases borne by mosquitoes. But then the local fish population dropped rapidly. This was a huge problem, as fish was a large part of their diet.
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>"it's the lack of east-west rivers" What would they even do about that? Terraforming?? One thing they are right about is that modern borders drawn from colonial one put different ethnic groups in the same states, causing conflict. This isn't applied to the West, but whatever.
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I think a lot of this diversity comes from a lack of nationalism, leaving very tribal societies without a common language etc, but still, I don't think it's a coincidence that almost all of the world's most diverse countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level …
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