Lunamaria said
To address your fourth concern, which is that my nation's culture lacks enough african traits, I would happily change my nation's culture so it does have african traits. However, I am not knowledgeable of what African-traits are. So if you could, could you list some things I could add into my nation's culture so it looks more african?
The easiest thing to do would be to simply find somewhere else to be. Because trying to explain Africa is like trying to explain the color of a rainbow. You have many millions of cultures, many of which had significant civilizations of their own, and a few of which may have been comparable to European Civilization. You have vodun in the west (worship of many different spirits), oriental Christianity/Tewodros Church in the west alongside Islam, and a number of diverse tribal faiths.
And then influences all over, or self-developed artistic styles. From the Arabic or Byzantine styles in Nubia and in Axum. Asiatic style in Madagascar. On an on.
The easiest may be to rip into western stereotype and succumb to primitive tribal sorts living nomadic in a region that may or may not include a matriarchy either in politics or in religion (in the case of vodun). Or a fetish for bright colors which is a definitive thing in east-Africa. But even then, you got such a high diversity of cultures and lingual groups that live in such small areas you can't really ever explain the "culture" of a region.
Africa pre-19th century isn't as homogeneous as Europe or Asia was.
