Quite patronising, but I've read worse stuff about Africa (a good example is "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad). People forget that the continent has 55 states (or countries), a population in the hundreds of millions, a whole range of indigenous religions, not to mention the hundreds of languages and "peoples". Trying to squeeze the continent into one narrow frame does not work. Using outmoded and clearly biased sociological/anthropological reasoning to describe today's Africa is also insulting in itself.
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