Anything to push the blame from colonialism. 😅 All countries across the world went through this. Conquering and losing land, you had your allies and you had your enemies, such was life
There’s such a difference between saying that the borders were semi-organic to showing how the nation-state as an idea emerged and was implemented after the Berlin conference. I am glad the paper is positing the idea of an African agency in the colonial endeavor but I wonder how easy it will be to have this normalize the massive failures of the nation-state after these borders were drawn and the colonial legacy of those failures.
Anything to push the blame from colonialism. 😅 All countries across the world went through this. Conquering and losing land, you had your allies and you had your enemies, such was life
There’s such a difference between saying that the borders were semi-organic to showing how the nation-state as an idea emerged and was implemented after the Berlin conference. I am glad the paper is positing the idea of an African agency in the colonial endeavor but I wonder how easy it will be to have this normalize the massive failures of the nation-state after these borders were drawn and the colonial legacy of those failures.