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