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Originally Posted by ThePits
Hmm so its all the "whites" fault?
The "whites" created tribes in Africa?
I really have to hear how the British created the Hutu and Tutsi tribes and got them to kill each other
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda
my mistake, it is not the British it was the Belgians, and for this confusion I am truly sorry, but none-the-less, whoever the foreign influence was, the arguement is that the genocide in Rwanda has European origins, which is true...
YES! EXACTLY! There were no tribes in africa before Eurocentric definitions of what tribes are was applied to africans through European colonial adminstration and beaurcracy (ie, calling a person in Rwanda a 'Hutu' on a piece of paper and then perpeuating this identity as if it were engraved in stone)...
African identity before European intervention was one of transition and constant adaptation. There were few solid "national" or "ethnic" groups with strictly defined separations between other "nation" or "ethnic" groups. Europeans in many circumstances created these divisions in a divide and conquer philisophy.