Conflicted Africa: Ethnic and Religious or Power and Resource
In the run up to the end of 2013, the continent of Africa saw a significant rise in the number of conflicts claiming lives, displacing thousands of people and destroying property. Most if not all of these clashes were identified as having been founded on either ethnic or religious tensions. At least in the theme the world media has been propagating, this might seem to be the paradigm. Yet for those like me who tend to conscientiously follow the happenings of the African continent and the world at large, there seems to be another dimension that is going unnoticed or deliberately underreported. From Central Republic of Africa, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan all we hear is how tribalism or religion is causing a rift between people within the same borders: people who for centuries lived side by side in peace, might I add. The former colonialists with their own economic and social failures are ever ready to play the role of saviours and none more daring than the French, the...
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