The idea that Africa is naturally divided into countries, which black
Africans are supposed to live and die in, is a colonial illusion.
According to Aviva Chomsky, daughter of famous American intellectual
Noam Chomsky, the idea that people should be divided by citizenship or
into different political categories with differential rights exists to
maintain islands of prosperity and privilege. Obviously, people who
reside in these islands have an interest in preserving them and in
rationalizing their own access to them.
