How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

Monday, 16 November 2020

WERE NKRUMAH AND NYERERE ALIVE WOULD BE WAILING

 

Looking at and considering what is currently ongoing in Ethiopia where the federal government is battling it out with the Tigray rebels, Africa is poised to fragment even more. It started with the secede of Eritrea. Thereafter, in the neighbouring Sudan, South Sudan followed. Instead of reducing the number of its feeble and fickle state the Berlin Conference cloned, Africa saw the swelling of the number. Since 2006, Somalia led the way to this political suttee by being fragmented into pieces. Currently, the English speaking Ambazonia in Cameroon is fighting for secession.  Coastal Kenya and Darfur, Kordofan and Nuba Mountain in Sudan would like to follow the suit shall opportune moment come. Considering such second division of Africa resulting from the first one in Berlin, it becomes difficult to predict how Africa will be in the near future shall this madness and silliness of session–––be they of secessionists and federalists or unionists–––being addressed timely and quickly.



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