Africa is large, complex, and diverse. It encompasses an area more than 11,7000,000 square miles. The United States, Europe, and India could fit easily into it. The sheer size is and indication of the continent’s great variety in geography, terrain, climate, flora, fauna, peoples, languages and cultures. Much of contemporary Africa has been shaped by European colonial rule, industrialization, urbanization, and the demands of a world economic system. For more than seventy years, large regions of Africa were ruled by Great Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain. African peoples from various ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds were brought together to form colonial states.

For decades, Africans struggled to gain their independence. It was not until after World War II that the colonial te

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