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Title Colonialism and ethnic conflicts in post - colonial africa
Full text http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/24553
Date 2015
Author(s) Mwele, Daniel
Contributor(s) Bodil, Fredriksen
Abstract Abstract: African ethnic groups have lived together in harmony in continent. However, this harmonious coexistence was interrupted as a result of the colonization of the African continent. The objective of this project is to analyze how colonialism has created ethnic conflicts in postcolonial Rwanda. The theories of colonialism and colonial legacy have been explored as the perspectives for the analysis. The research focuses on three periods of precolonial, colonial and postcolonial. The analysis finds that in the precolonial period, the Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa lived in harmony. During the colonial period the colinizers divided the Rwandans into tribal classes. This created suspicions among communities and tribal animosity and divisions started to emerge. In the postcolonial Rwanda, the ruling elites led by the Hutu tribe leadership carried on with the old administrative ways; where the Hutu were favored in top positions in government. This led to the Tutsi seeing that they are being marginalized on tribal background. When tribal suspicions piled up, the Tutsi decided to revenge and this led to genocide and other conflicts we are even currently witnessing in Rwanda
Subject(s) Ethnicity; Colonialism
Language en
Type of publication Thesis; Samfundsvidenskabelig international basisuddannelse (SIB) / International Basic Studies in Social Sciences
Repository Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
Added to C-A: 2015-09-08;09:15:52