Everyone has been in turmoil always, Africa is not a special case of political disputes. "Putting the lid on the pressure cooker" is the white hand causing problems in Africa that I am talking about.
ordinarily i would suspect that you were being deliberately obtuse, but i now recognize that you prefer to grasp a preconception and hold it like a pit bull with a preschooler in his jaws.
much like AC, no amount of evidence will get you to let that poor tattered child go.
Protip: serfs are not volunteers, despite the coincidental facts that they are also not chattel, nor are they teakettles.
Bonus Protip: when somebody says "Meso America" they are discussing the precolumbian civilizations of central AND south america, despite the literal meaning of "Meso America" being "Central America", which coincidentally, though AC refuses to accept it, also includes mexico.
Super Bonus Protip: the Ayur Vedas (always plural) includes the Rig Veda, the Atharva Veda as well as several others which are DISTINCT works, though often compiled together in a single volume despite having been penned in several different centuries.
Giga Bonus Protip: Africa is not the cradle of civilization, the Fertile Crescent is.