Peoples, States and Insurgency in Africa

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

doi:10.33956/tensoesmundiais.v11i20.502

Abstract

The author discusses the African States’ inability to provide security and basic social services to the majority of the population. He argues that the “State of Berlin” created by the European conquest is still under the growing pressure of peoples or ‘nations’ that want to become independent. The world will have to deal with an African map in constant change based on independence movements that are not Islamic in essence.

Highlights

As we have already noted, Boko Haram, the islamist insurgent group based in north Nigeria, massacred 2000 people in Baga (The Guardian, London, 10 January 2015) during the course of two days
In Paris, France, over a 2-day stretch, during the same week, a French–based cell affiliated to some islamist caliphate brigade in the Mid East massacred 17 people including cartoonists of the satirical journal, Charlie Hebdo, and staff and shoppers at a Jewish supermarket
Boko Haram is ideologically allied to the global islamist causes and projects of the Mid East amalgam including al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula and the Islamic State, as well as the Taleban in Afghanistan and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in west/northwest Africa and al-Shabaab in Somalia

Summary

Introduction

As the world witnessed in those early days of January 2015, rarely have there been two dreadful massacres of peoples carried out almost simultaneously in two separate continents by two organisations surely operating autonomously but belonging to the same overarching religious political agency. As we have already noted, Boko Haram, the islamist insurgent group based in north Nigeria, massacred 2000 people in Baga (The Guardian, London, 10 January 2015) during the course of two days.

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