| Tribal Nationalism (AFR) SupportiveArgument0 #10008 Some of the negative aspects of tribalism on the continent have evolved, through political parties whose foundations are based on tribalism, into a forms of fluid tribal nationalism - with all the threats and insecurity. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] The new African Union (AU) chairman, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, has said that multi-party democracy in Africa leads to bloodshed.
Author: BBC World News
Publication info: February 4, 2009
Cited by: Earl Burrowes, Sr. 2:34 AM 6 February 2009 GMT
Citerank: (1) 11018Establish Multinational Political PartiesAfrica's politicians and political parties must begin to think more continental, and less tribal/national, if Africa and its people are ever going to realize their value and the true value of its resources to their benefit and advancement.109FDEF6
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| Excerpt / Summary At the final press conference of the summit on Wednesday, Col Gaddafi sought to back up his argument by citing other countries like Kenya, where elections in December 2007 were followed by ethnic killings, and war-torn Somalia.
"We don't have any political structures [in Africa], our structures are social," Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.
"Our parties are tribal parties - that is what has led to bloodshed."
The Libyan leader's remarks could prove controversial in a continent where people have struggled for decades to have more open systems of government, says our correspondent. |