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Once upon a geological heartbeat, the world was a single, unbroken idea. Pangea, no passports, no flags, no immigration queues, just land drifting lazily on molten ambition.

Then time that the most relentless bureaucrat went to work. Continents cracked apart like old porcelain, oceans seeped into the seams, and geography slowly hardened into destiny.

Africa emerged whole and vast, a continent with its own internal logic: rivers, trade routes, languages, kingdoms, boundaries drawn by nature and negotiated by people who lived there.

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