Though I wish they'd go more into the role of identity into the stoopidity of it all. Wole Soyinka, in the Nigerian context, lays out how Islam's presence in Nigeria created some cleavages that remain damaging to the country's overall stability. I posted about it here very early on.
I still believe that Islam (slavery & religion) did more damage to the cultural identity & unity of Africans than was done by Christianity. Christianity, to my observation, permitted more access & flow & freedom between native traditions rooted in ancient African beliefs than Islam, which was more binding and stricter on its African adherents. It was harder to escape Islam than it was to get out of Christianity etc. Just my opinion.
LOL.. notice how easily and freely the term genocide was used in the Sudan context, and rightfullly so; yet it's almost taboo to use the term in the Israel Gaza context.
Even more laughable is the United States declaring that the RSFs actions in Sudan "amounts to a genocide". And now the US refuses to call what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide, and punishes & sanctions anyone - including Navi Pillay - who refers to it as one. Hypocrites!
At least Omar Hassan al-Bashir is at the ICC, I think. Good!
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