The similarities between Americans and Africans in the early centuries was that both America and Africa became the first areas of the world to encounter important outcomes from European expansion. They were similar to the fact that Europeans wanted to extract the natural resources from both the countries.
They were different from each other in a way that colonialism affected Africa and transformed America.
A candidate from a split party typically doesn’t win the presidency and a contested convention doesn’t create momentum that a candidate needs to oppose the other party
