China in the early to mid 20th century was a divided shithole of poverty, corruption, and warlordism, like Africa today, it's why they were such easy pickings for the Japanese. However, the Communist Party was able to use ideology and military strength to forcefully unify all the disparate regions, peoples, and languages across a vast area to create a true national identity and implement a single common language. After some missteps by Mao, the strong central authority under Deng was key to implementing the policies allowing for industrialization and the economic miracle.
Bearing all that in mind, would it be possible for this same path to development and world relevance to be followed by Africa as well, that is, unification under a single powerful dictatorial bureaucracy and state capitalism?
Caucasians at the North and blacks below sahara desert. It cant be unified, blacks have their rivalries
Aaron Gray
20th century China has literally nothing in in common with china politically or geographically. China has been going through cycles of unification and division for millennia, while Africa has never been united , and there is currently no reason or ability for them to unite. Why would a Tunisian Muslim join with a christian in Kenya?
Thomas Thompson
In the most "stable" African country Nigeria, there is at least 120 major tribes alone. The only way to unite them will be through religion.
Logan Morris
China at the beginning of the People's Republic Manchus and Mongolians in the north and northeast, Tibetans in the southwest, Turks in the northwest, and the people in the South didn't even speak Mandarin but instead a mishmash of languages from Cantonese to Shanghainese to Teochew. They still made it work, however brutal they had to get.
Maybe just Sub-Saharan Africa, then, if North Africa is too distinct.
Chase Richardson
>while Africa has never been united , and there is currently no reason or ability for them to unite. There is no real reason for the borders of the African countries to be what they are now either, they're just arbitrary lines drawn as an artifact of colonial administration.
Nolan Anderson
would be like trying to unite asia
Chase Cruz
Well then they need a conqueror to conquer all of SSA and united the blacks under 1 flag
