There are 54 countries and and about 1.11 billion people in Africa. Many factors influence the reason there are so many languages. As in other parts of the world, different countries speak different languages. Many people came to Africa to colonise it, bringing new languages. There are many tribes in Africa, many having their own languages or dialects of languages. For these and many other reasons, many languages have developed in Africa.
They are based on the arbitrary borders of old European empires
True!
They wanted independence before WWII, but after the war, many European powers were weak and flooded in debt. African colonies used this to their advantage and many broke free from foreign control.
Ethiopia and Liberia remained independence from European control in 1914.
China rapidly industrialized in hopes of competing with European rivals.
European languages became official in some West African nations due to colonialism. During the colonial period, European powers such as France, Britain, and Portugal established control over these regions and imposed their languages as the administrative and educational languages. This led to the continued use of European languages even after these countries gained independence.
Ethiopia
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The new African nations tended to create governments based on European models.
cheap manpower
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The new African nations tended to create governments based on European models.
The new African nations tended to create governments based on European models.
Well after the African Moors made slaves of the Europeans.
there is no one single African lanuage, Africa is a continent of 54 independant nations with well over 2,000 languages and dialects
French is an offcial language in all of the European organisations (EU council, EU commission and parliament), one of the official languages in the United Nations and its agencies, and (at least I think so) in the African Union Organisation.
Most of the countries south of the Sahara