The continent of Africa is made up of 54 sovereign states. However, only as recently as a few hours ago did global law firm DLA Piper recognise this...
Until it modified its website overnight following this post from US blog Above the Law, DLA had omitted to mention that its offices in the cities of Gaborone, Kampala, Kigali and Port Louis are in, respectively, Botswana, Uganda, Rwanda and Mauritius. Instead, the firm had opted to generically describe their country of location as "Africa" (see screenshot below of the DLA website before it was updated).
DLA's approach to detailing the location of its offices in other parts of the world has always been rather more precise.
Happily, though, everything is in order now.
This is a running joke amongst those of the African diaspora. Africa is not, and has never been a country.
Even the countries within Africa and not united in the sense that there are hundreds of ethnic groups and ethnic languages spoken within each country. These boundaries were drawn by the West and not by the African people themselves. The notable Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe had to write his books about the life and the history of Nigeria is ENGLISH, because that was the only language the African people had in common, so diverse and multifaceted are the ethnic groups within Africa. It is said that Africans are more diverse than the rest of the world combined.
I trust that DLA Piper won't make this mistake again.
*are not
*in English.