Africa: Ethnic Poverty – Dividing and Excluding People Keeps Them Poor

Sub-Saharan African countries are the most ethnically diverse in the world. Within each African country there are more ethnic groups than there are in most of the world’s countries.

In fact, the world’s 20 most ethnically diverse countries are all African.

An ethnic group is a social group that shares a common and distinctive history, culture, region, religion or language.

The reason for this diversity in sub-Saharan African countries is chiefly that almost all of them were carved into colonial…

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