How would one categorize Africa, culturally and ethnically? There

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>>1641945
well europe hegemon is essentially
prime - celtic
secondary - teut
third gothslavshitetcfromtheeast

the east coast of africa has been mixed in (Especially north east cape) with australoid & dravidan & arab/forlackofabetterwordeugenicislam
the west side is essentially torn out slave basket so whatevers left over after 5000 years of exporting good genes
the north is a mix of medi/mamelukes an sheeeet

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>>1641945
I'd put them in the "never invented the wheel" category
Btw, this is now a "Why didnt Sub-Saharan Africa develop?" thread

>>1641945
I figure africans, at least subsaharan africans, identify with their tribes rather than larger groups. West africans aren't west africans or even regional ethnicities but local tribes, something like that. Would explain why nothing there works, they don't feel loyalty for abstract communities or institutions.

Derailing this shit thread before everyone starts regurgitating the same old tired bullshit

Go to this pinterest album about African artefacts

https://uk.pinterest.com/claudiacooper79/african-knives-swords-weapons/

Find the stupidest looking weapon you can and post it here

>>1641945
Like Europe ~500 years ago. Ei. a clusterfuck of small kingdoms who might or might not support their super-king.
Sure, Africa was substandard even before Europeans came along but fucking over the entire continent hard and thorough ever since sure isn't helping.

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>>1642220
Fucking Madcatz

>>1641945
>How would one categorize Africa, culturally and ethnically?
North Africa, Sahara/Sahel, Guniea/West Africa, East Africa and the Horn, Central + Southern Africa are the main cultural and historical regions.

Ethno-linguistically you can divide them into the various language families but that doesn't directly correlate to cultural regions etc. Religion is a big factor.

>>1642215
>I figure africans, at least subsaharan africans, identify with their tribes rather than larger groups.
You'd be wrong. Africans often identify with region, religion,etc. and there are plenty of Pan-African movements, as well as more specialise pan-whatever, we wuz everyone movements. East Africans and West Africans are well aware of the differences between them for example. Their local identities don't do much to stop them identifying with each other. Just as Serbs and Croats can hate each other and recognise they are both Balkanites, Hausa and Igbo can hate each other and recognise they are both Nigerians and West Africans with shared culture etc.

People are often thrown off by the word "tribe" as well. It can stretch in meaning from ethnicity all the way down to a familial group. I would say tribalism is actually a bigger problem in North Africa than in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-saharan conflicts are usually based on ethnic lines rather than tribal, whereas arab countries are tribal as fuck.

>>1642258
If you like you can further divide these regions for example you could split east Africa into the Horn, the Great Lakes region and the Swahili coast. Africa is very diverse culturally.