Why do the African countries share straight border lines?
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Many of the African countries were divided by the European countries when they scrambled for Africa. They divided it ignoring the local people, as their respective colonies. And they did it with straight lines as boundaries.
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In the case of Africa, some of its countries' borders have straight-line because they colonized by European powers. Most of these colonies obtained independence during the 1900s. European powers divided up regions between themselves and drew borders dividing mainly to avoid a dispute with other powers.
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