Given the
South Sudanese independence vote, the
NYTimes has the following infographic on African borders,
A Continent Carved Up, Ignoring Who Lives Where...
Thanks to Emeka Okafor of
Africa Unchained fame for
spotting this. Of course, it gets even more tricky on a fine-grain basis. Consider the complexities of
Rwanda or the internal migrations of
Nigeria or the Americo-returnee vs native tensions in
Liberia or the northern vs southern dynamic in
Côte d'Ivoire, and so forth. And
Sudan, an enormous country the size of Western Europe, has its own ethnic patchwork, as this
BBC infographic shows...
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