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@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 You are wrong on a few points. "Tribal wars" is a racist stereotype used primarily to describe non-white people. White conflicts are rarely, if ever, called "tribal wars." Also, there are ample examples of Africans creating alliances, collaborating, assimilating foreigners, etc.
@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 Also important to note that African political systems were not exclusively tribal. Africans developed large, complex states and empires when Europeans were still "tribal." You say the "being African means nothing." This is also misleading.
@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 Yes, like anywhere else on the planet, there is acrimony and conflict. But organizing around our Africanness was a key source of resistance to slavery and colonialism.
@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 This idea of African commonality was especially important on slave ships wherein different ethnic groups had to survive collectively under horrific conditions.
@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 There are other examples such as Négritude, Pan Africanism, and Afrocentricity. Kwame Ture believed that there was gradual progression to a Pan African unifying principle that was interrupted by Europeans.
@xingmi4life @BlackSoulFood @ameyaw112 Lastly, yes "Africa is a continent" is an important corrective to the racist tendency to homogenize African people. But if Kwame Nkrumah had not been undermined by US and UK, Africa might have been organized as a federation. This still the vision of Pan Africans like me.
