I do think *stopping* the lazy habit of referring to Africa as an undifferentiated whole is a good *first* step in de-colonizing the European mind.
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> > Travis:
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> > Is Africa a country?
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> > [WS:] Of course, not. But there is a concept of "African socialism,"
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> > in several African countries, which was fundamentally a local variant of
> > populism that I was referring to in my post. And it basically ended up
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> > kleptocracy, pogroms, wars and genocide.
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> Yah and there was Eastern European socialism too. So the question came up
> because you referred to Russia and Yugoslavia separately but Africa as
> whole. As you well know Eastern European socialism would be a rather
> obscure moniker. And incidentally I do not think Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt,
> Ghana or Tanzania fits nicely, nor Ethiopia for that matter which is still
> socialist to this day. This is not to say that I can't think of several
> African countries which conform somewhat with your broad stroke (and
> certainly Ethiopia during the DERG) but there are large differences and
> exceptions.
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> I do think the lazy habit of referring to Africa as an undifferentiated
> whole is a good step in de-colonizing the European mind.
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