Godfrey
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See, because Europeans came and purposely divided the African countries.
You know, you have to have a passport to go to the neighboring country.
But in Europe, you could take a train to Italy, to France.
Because I took a train from Amsterdam to Spain.
But they came, the Europeans came when they were colonizing and taking all the resources.
They literally purposely bordered off African countries so Africans couldn't meet each other.
That's where the division comes from colonization.
So when on TV, you know, I was born in America.
My sister was born in Nigeria.
Me and my brother were born in America, grew up in Chicago, born in Nebraska.
My father was in school in Nebraska.
So on TV, we would watch Africa and it would be poor people, flies and Tarzan.