Have you gotten your DNA done?

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Originally Posted by centaur532

A quick hijack-there were no tribes in Africa until the colonial period where Europeans came in and screwed everything up. I have probably blown your mind with this information.

I'm curious what you mean by that. Tribes as in the sense of organized tribal political groups with extremely distinct identities and memberships? Or tribes in the sense of different cultures with different practices and systems of power?

I believe the first but not the second. There has always been cultural and ethnic variation in Africa.