Essay Questions
Possible essay questions include:
- What has the connection been between identity and conflict in post-colonial Africa?
- To what extent can we understand wars fought before 1989 as 'old wars'?
- Assess the lasting effects of wars of independence.
- How have wars been memorialised in post-colonial Africa?
- Assess the importance of race to conflict in post-colonial Sudan.
- Why were the arguments for Biafran secession so influential?
- Why was the Derg overthrown in Ethiopia in 1991?
- Why did Renamo target civilians in the Mozambican civil war?
- How important are clans to the conflict in Somalia?
- To what extent was the violence in Rwanda in 1994 a product of civil war?
- Why did the peace deal in Angola collapse in 1992 and civil war resume?
- Can the violence of the Sierra Leone civil war be described as rational?
- In light of events after his death, was Mobutu right to claim ‘Apres moi, le deluge’?
- Should the ongoing violence in Darfur be understood as genocidal?
- To what extent have histories of conflict in Burundi been connected to those in Rwanda?
- Should the Holy Spirit Movement and Lord’s Resistance Army be understood as religious groups?
- To what extent was Charles Taylor responsible for the civil war in Sierra Leone?