What factors have undermined racial harmony in post-colonial Africa?
soon after independence most African elites undermined the
interests of the minority groups making them to feel sidelined
against hence a need to reassert their position through wars as in
the case of the Hutus and Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
In Zimbabwe ,the Gukurahundi attrocities was a result of the
need of the Mugabe regime to silence minority Ndebele people in
their bid for eqaul power sharing.Former ZAPU cadres were against
Mugabe's assuming of power in favour of Nkomo despite his defeat in
the presidencial elections hence they began acts of 'banditry'
refusing to put down their guns and to recognise the existing
government in a bid to force Mugabe from office.
Wealth amassing by African elites at the expense of poor
Africans also led to civil wars as in the case of the Banyamulenge
in the DRC.Dictatorial tendences of the African elite also led to
wars with others wanting power transfer.African elites hold onto
power for too long and in the process ruin their national
economy.