>>15526062Do you want a serious answer? Nationalism is required step in centralising a country. For example Kagame in Rwanda eliminated most of the tribal languages in his country and made everyone speak Kinyarwanda. The reality of tribal ethnicity in Africa is that there a hundreds of languages; an African may know their local language, the language of their country, and then a regional language like Swahili to communicate with people from other countries around them. This is how tribalism in Africa very easily leads to factions within in country that can devolve into violence. Since the government wants to maintain its grip on power as its number one priority it will promote ideas that erase tribal divides and promote a new identity that is inline with the governments views; one language and one people.
Populism and idealism has always been a way to unite Africans from regions in order to mobilise against other Africans even if they are not different and in fact share tribal ancestry; think UNITA vs MPLA. Europe went through this as well although a lot earlier.
