Part 5: Conflict Over Resources & Power
Oct 27 (M) - Civil Conflict I: Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa
- Explain why Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa all refrained from expropriating land from the whites
- Explain how Kenya handled the land issue at independence
- Explain how Kenya’s land redistribution strategy relates to recent conflicts
- Explain how Zimbabwe expected to handle the land issue, and why it didn’t play out that way
- Explain how Zimbabwe’s land is currently being “redistributed”
- Explain how South Africa has handled the land issue thus far, differentiating it from Kenya’s approach
- Explain why it has been difficult for black African farmers to succeed in South Africa
Oct 29 (W) - Civil Conflict II: Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, and African Reconciliation
- Describe the environmental, ethnic and religious divide within Cote d’Ivoire
- Describe how the colonial economic system created economic, political and social stratification across these divides
- Explain how post-independence land policy increased competition for resources, and why that competition had an ethnic component
- Explain why, nearly 50 years later, that competition has reached the level of civil war
- Clarify how Ivoirité hides the economic and political conflict under the specter of ethnic conflict
- Describe the two options available to countries following a civil war on how to deal with war crimes
- Explain the concerns that people have for both options