Why don't Africa re-draw its borders if they have so many ethnic conflicts?

Question

Those borders are the same borders that European drew. If they have so many ethnic conflicts, WHY NOT JUST ERASE THE EUROPEAN BORDERS AND RE-DRAW IT?

Answer 1

take uganda which has victoria falls---if you redrew the borders----uganda might lose victoria falls---that might force them to military up and take it back and lose 1/2 of their population in the process......where have they come out ahead due to changing borders......they lost family and friends....what a terrible price to get back what was taken from your country arbitrarily.........

Answer 2

At my humble opinion I do believe that Africa is object or it's facing the reality of ethnic conflicts because the borders which have to did really divide kingdoms and people. But I don't believe in re-drawing the boders because those divided kingdoms or peoples are no more share the same interests. To re-draw the boders will more complicate things cause we the implication of the westernan powers in such situation.

Answer 3

there'll continuously be ethnic conflicts there, notwithstanding if borders are drawn or not. regrettably, rampant ailments and starvation, a mortality fee interior the mid-30's to mid-40's 3 hundred and sixty 5 days variety, and political and non secular civil wars additionally compound issues there. international locations might desire to turn to South Africa as a variety of submit-Apartheid fulfillment and progression so a techniques as politics is in contact. There are nonetheless too many that're undesirable as undesirable might properly be imagined, with AIDS casualties and fees which will quickly ravish economies, yet SA, because of the fact Mandela's presidency, is going interior the the terrific option direction. there is not extra advantageous occasion of ways a rustic overcame ecu rule and systematic racism.

Answer 4

They were doing that before the Europeans came, and are doing it again now that the Europeans have left. This has been going on on every continent since about Day 1.

Answer 5

The trouble is that there is no one power 'Africa'. To redraw boundaries would require the agreement of every nation on the continent and, human nature being what it is, you would just never get that agreement. Anyway, is balkanisation into ethnic areas such a good thing?

Answer 6

some African leaders have agreed to take the political map as it is (from the last century super powers; UK , France , Portugal , Spain ,....) to stop further conflicts and go ahead in development.

Answer 7

Would you give a part of your country to one nation that doesn't want to live with others? It is never about homogeneus teritory and no state would give up of it's own teritory to make happy someone else who wants it's own independence ..