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Post Colonialism In Africa

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The regionalisation of Africa has been a hotly contested debate over many years. Opinions in this regard have varied from Pan-Africanism to a functionalist’s approach to leaving the continent as it now stands.
The boundaries that currently exist between states are as a result of colonialism. Post-colonisation , the Pan-African Movement, amongst other things, created an underlying feeling of rivalry and suspicions that were not resolved easily thus colonial borders remained (Abdul-Raheem, 1996)
Since colonialism ended in Africa, while there was immense celebration and, for a short period of time, the economy of Africa was good, the culture was revived across the country and the continent as a whole has an optimistic social view, the issues …show more content…

It is arguable that, within the new Governing body, there may be some patriotic bias towards certain regions based on the leadership. Assuming this Governing body does contain representatives from each current state and of the new regions, without over complicating and including everybody and everything excessively, this would be the ideal situation with the hope that this body does not become corrupt. The body needs to be well planned (Cheeseman, 2015) in order to avoid an …show more content…

Regionalism will not work and will fail if it does not have the support of the citizens. It has been seen in the past where citizen’s revolt and fight the Governing body if they feel they are not being heard or do not agree with their actions (Cheeseman,2015) should the government be too greedy or too indecisive by attempting to please everybody and being excessively inclusive.
The issue of a country’s solidarity and independence will always be an issue. Whether they obtained independence recently or a while ago, most countries will be reluctant to sacrifice this privilege. The same applies to a country’s solidarity. It will be an issue that some of their decisions that they were allowed to make, have been revoked, but there is no greater gain without sacrifice
Dividing the regions such that they are larger and there are fewer regions as well as ensuring that none of the regions are land locked, while not all regions will have fair use of the harbour and other transportation methods, will make the transport of commercial goods and services within Africa and trading out of Africa a lot easier (Abdul-Raheem). Ensuring that each demarcation has an adequate resource availability and the right amount of population will ensure that, while not every region can have equal quantities of everything (geographically not possible) it would ensure that one region is not substantially more disadvantaged than the others.

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