Did the European countries care about maintaining African societies?

"No" is the correct response.

Explanation:

Europeans don't always emigrate to Africa throughout substantial populations, so individuals essentially shouldn't have to feel empathy for how Africans perceive others. That was because, like the one throughout the paragraph, "Artificial boundary lines had all been stretched without any kind of particular regard for Africa's institutional boundary lines but rather social structures".

It would lie on (1, -1)