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21 January 2025

Oliver W. KimKorrents 21 Jan 2025

From one piece No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The newly independent states of Africa were largely European inventions, assembled from peoples who had not previously shared a state.

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The relative absence of pre-colonial states meant that the newly independent African states were largely European inventions; modern Kenya, for instance, inherits the boundaries of British East Africa, which was created by pulling together the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, and Kamba ethnic groups.

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Japanese colonial rule built a far deeper state in Korea than European rule ever built in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The Japanese empire reached far deeper into its colonies than any European empire ever did in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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