african conflict?

Question

HOW DID EUROPEAN COLONIZATION OF AFRICA LEAD TO SOME OF THE CONTINENTS MODERN DAY CONFLICTS?

Answer 1

It didn't

Answer 2

While the genocide of Rwanda is regarded as an ethnic conflict, this is not the case. Colonization - not enthicity - is one of the causes.

In Rwanda, colonization created an ethnic divide between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Both people are from the same ethnic branch, but differ re the social hierarchies. The Hutu are farmers, the Tutsi are into cattle. And cattle has been - almost everywhere in the world - more valuable then agriculture.

After World War One, Rwanda was given as a sort of protectorate to Belgium who implemented a colonization policy. One of the aspects was by dividing the population into Hutu, Tutsi and Twa based on physical appearance. According to the Belgians, Tutsi were slender and tall while the Hutu were round and chubbier.

Belgium introduced the identity cards, and everyone had to carry them. The problem was that the Tutsi - the minority - were given all kinds of privileges while the Hutu - majority - were in many cases not even allowed to go to school.

When Belgium in the late 1950's was forced to give up Rwanda - which happened almost overnight - the Hutu took revenge on the Tutsi. The result: thousands of casualties, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Answer 3

Some might call it partial-aculturation. Some aspects of modern western civilization are introduced, but now the tribal people groups are reverting to some of the old ways and conflicts.

Nigeria is a classic case. Largely incultured as part of the British Comwealth, but internally fragmented by tribal alliances, or frictions. They follow the basic form of law and government, but without the serious substance.

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) changed from being the breadbasket of Africa to just another impoverished African country. The head of state took the form of the government to take power, then essentially dissolved it--tribal politics and alliances has control.

Answer 4

The guys above me have a point but the European preference for boarders with neat straight lines that cut across tribal lands helped in no way. I spent some years in Africa and neighbouring tribes on the most part tend to hate each other, same problem the World over, really there is not a lot of hope for us is there?

Answer 5

You must take in consideration many different factors.

1. While Europeans start with slave business, Africa had a boom with this kind of product (Humans). many african nations suffer due the effort or other stronger african nations to subdue people and get more products. - Something like is happening in China vs Ecology;

2. During the colonization, governments arrives and desestabilize local government of few countries and creating new artificial borders. Fertile places were more likely an invasion were new production and protecionism to european farmers lead to some of natural revolt today.
Like an ecossystem, while new specie arrives, there is great propability that all around can becolme extinct. Europeans build new allieances with local people (GREED), created new puppet governments with more interest to produce to the europe than consolidate local region/people/ecosystem.
Natural discrepancies due religion and culture and no respect by that created natural conflicts (What Romans always knew how to manage it).

3. Invasions like what happened in Ethiopia in 1936, and fall of Juda's lion increased instability. With natural and local leaders killed, new disputes for power arrived. (Like what happened during the Fall of Tito in west Europe (Croatia, Bosnia, Moldavia, Macedony, etc);

4. Transition between colonization and cold war let its marks more deep in fragile government tissue. disputes start to put puppets within government (like happened in A.L. and Asia), which ones just start to handle control not by democracy but under ironhand, with support of international comunity.
Suppress natural leaders start to create an opposition stronger, somekind of hate that will grown within next generations.

Note:. Neo-liberal states and not so ethic procedures start to create new generation of fight for money and local power. While a government is not stabilized, its easier to deplet subsoil and natural resources. There is no society or local culture for a global nation.

Warning: Search in internet China and African Leaders; Check it out what and which are the arguments from East related to Approach from China into Local african governments.

Answer 6

Hmm I think maybe you have got that wrong. It was the REMOVAL of the civilising effect of European colonisation that led them to return to brutality and corruption.

Answer 7

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