ISBN : 9782296568877
INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL APPROCH TO DEVELOPMENT : RETHINKING AFRICAN STATES CONFLIT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
Abossede Babatunde
Even though conflict and instability is inherent in the very structure of human society, the African situation is such that gives cause for serious concern. The socio-political cankerworm which has often culminated into civil strife, social tensions, fratricidal civil wars and economic stagnation has become very endemic in all the nooks and crannies of the African continent. Over the past few decades, Africa has probably suffered more from armed conflict than any other continent. Between 1960 and 1998, there were about 32 wars in Africa in which seven million lives were lost and over nine million people became refugees, returnees or displaced....