What are you kidding me? "Lack of racial feeling is
irrelevant to Mali's civil war?" Wrong. It's the root
cause of the "Arab" north vs African south encounter.
That's basic and elementary. What? Some Euro
imposed political boundaries erase the on the
ground facts of centuries of indigenous African
happenings.
People are tired of Tuareg doing what they please and
endangering their family members and using their
country as a base for foreign Arab/radical Islamic intrigues.
Yes tired of that and a head of government who won't give
them the weaponry to deal with it.
We know there are various separate Kwa sub-ethnies.
They are all still Kwa with very close if not nearly
identical culture because they come from common
source. They do not consider themselves entirely
different races.
Ignoring the fact of centuries of cultural language
and racial differences leading the "berbers" and
Arabs to perpetrate the worst indignities on whom
they call the blacks is past simplistic. It shows a
total lack of understanding what's behind the strife
and conflict in the sahel where the two confront
each other and really don't give a damn about
Euro imposed national boundaries.
But don't take my word for it. Go to Mauritania
and convince the Maurs they're all one nation
with the Kewri and the Haritani are not meant
to be slaves by nature because they are black
or go to Mali and tell the non-AfroAsians that
Kel raiding for slaves killing and looting mean
nothing because we're all one big happy state
because Euros made us so.
Ethnic tension is one thing but this racial animosity
of Afrisans raping killing looting and enslaving
whimsically and at random is not something that's
going to be forgotten and its aftermath settled in
parliament.
It is their very culture to be aggressive killers.
For centuries they have lived as "protection"
racketeers using violence as the measure
of true manhood including amongst themselves.
To me you really sound like all the prejudiced
people who believe Africans are just immature
children incapable of peacefully governing
themselves as if other continents histories
are free of "gross violence" in settling matters
like mature adult European governments.
The things Africans fight over are just as "salient"
to them as any thing chareacterisizing any of the
Euro tribal wars they call WWI and WWII or for
that matter the French or American revolutions
and let's not even bring up the Balkan Wars and
the ethnic cleansings in eastern Europe.
"... many african countries they’ve
yet to be able to deal with ethnic tensions without it blowing up into gross violence."
How condescendig and chauvinistic.
Not to say Africa does not have severe problems
to overcome but the crippling effect of foreign
interference and influence is like nothing any
other continentals have faced.
Asians have strived and overcome Japan the
primary example but then there's India too
still struggling internally but not hamstrung
by so-called neo-colonialism like Africa and
its selfserving ruling class since external
contact with Arabs and European "gangsters."
South America, well the indigenees have no
nations of their own.
Africa must rethink its internal borders and
disolve them in some instances while it
erects new ones in other instances.
Sudan has led the way recognizing the
reality that maintaining Euro imposed
borders is just not real and only makes
for continued gross violence between
people who are not of the same self
determined race and would abuse
and not think of the black race as
human.
For sure South Sudan is no happily
ever after fairytale and has many
issues yet to resolve and internal
conflict to deal with but in my opinion
it was the first way to go.