The Search for a Lasting Solution to the Perennial Border Conflicts in Africa
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2018-07
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KIULJ
Abstract
In Africa, there are no Berlin walls to separate one country from
another. The boundaries, artificial lines drawn by the Scramblers
for Africa, do not separate these countries in a physical sense. In
the great scramble, no thought was given to the African people as
the Europeans went to work on the 'sumptuous African cake'.
Their interest was in real estate and it did not matter that the
`knife' cutting the African soil was also separating families,
separating fathers from their children and setting a brother
against another. The negative impact of colonialism in political
terms was quite dramatic and devastating. African states lost
their powers, independence and meaning irrespective of whether
they were big empires or small entities. And what is more, most if
not all the African countries have not fully and truly recovered
from the attendant effects of colonialism that resulted from the
border crisis. In the light of the above, the article seeks to identify
the effects of border or boundary crisis in Africa. It also traces
some emerging issues and proffers solutions to the lingering
border problems on the continent.