For decades, Western media has painted Africa with a broad, inaccurate brush. Faloyin, a senior editor at VICE who was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos, and now lives in London, writes from a unique vantage point—an insider who understands the global gaze. The title itself is a political statement. As noted by one reviewer, "the book’s title highlights what many often overlook or conveniently fail to realize: Africa is not a country".
Faloyin meticulously details the 1884 Berlin Conference, where European powers drew arbitrary lines across a map of Africa. This section explains how diverse ethnic groups, languages, and cultures were forced together—or split apart—solely to satisfy imperial greed, laying the groundwork for modern geopolitical struggles. 2. Dismantling the "Monolith" Myth Africa Is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin EPUB