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The newly independent states of Africa were largely European inventions, assembled from peoples who had not previously shared a state.

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  1. Oliver Kim

    Development economist and economic historian who writes…

    The relative absence of pre-colonial states meant that the newly independent African states were largely European inventions; modern Kenya, for instance, inherits the boundaries of British East Africa, which was created by pulling together the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, and Kamba ethnic groups.

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