European imperial powers in African nations state development

Examine the role of European imperial powers in African nations state development. Examining some of the main internal and external reasons why the African people were to develop into nation state later than most expert feel was normal. The boundaries of current African states usually have their origins in the Scramble for Africa, when the major European powers divided up the continent among themselves. Precolonial Africa was not organized into the nation-states we see today, with fixed boundaries and a nominal national identity.