Timon Hume
New Africa Nation State Boundaries
In the division of the African continent into smaller Nation States, there is much to be considered. The citizens and their traits or customs being divided are those that make up each nation state, and are essential to the power and balance of a government. A prominent feature of Africa in particular to other continents is that there exist many distinct small tribes and differences in customs even though they may be similar overall. This is why my group drew the new nation states of Africa as smaller countries. The widespread wealth of recourses in Africa also can support small countries financially.
These national boundaries support cultural cohesiveness because they divide up the Muslim, Christian, and traditional religions around their borders. These are even further broken down to how strongly the people in each area support their religion. These national boundaries also encourage stability within and between individual countries because they run along language family barriers and have national images. Cutting country boarders between sects that have been past rivals, and focusing them into one creates national pride and endurance. Creating boundaries around language families allows the economies of each nation state the ability to establish better trade within each country with no interference of language barriers.
When creating these national boundaries the most important pieces of map information are water sources, conflict, ethnicity, and language. The least important are agriculture and vegetation, because societies can grow crops if they have a water source and can gain wealth by the selling of commodities other than food. To keep a country together and be supported, it must have a stable economy and government, and these factors can be achieved by a cohesive religion, language, and ethnicity.
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