Africa is a vast, layered, and deeply diverse continent, partitioned by colonial borders and segmented by language, yet bound together by shared history, cultures, and identities. For decades, artificial divisions have shaped how Africans see each other and how power is organized across the continent. In some ways, these divisions have brought Africans together, but in other ways, they have slowed integration, complicated collaboration, and delayed Africa’s full participation in successive industrial revolutions. But something is shifting.
