An intriguing map of Africa, imaging how it might have looked had it not been colonised. This might be a good spur to class discussion, though one thing that should immediately be noted is that it’s not just that boundaries would have been in different places but that there may not have been boundaries at all, or at least not ones in our modern sense. Thanks to Nitasha Kaul for the link.
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See also Laura Mitchell’s comment at http://africasacountry.com/the-limits-of-alternative-africas/ though there are issues also of a false (Western?) dichotomy between polities constituted by people VS territory (a la Kopytoff) – compare Kreike’s recent insightful book Environmental Infrastructures