Word: secessionism
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In the end, it was difficult if not impossible for an impartial observer to support either side without reservation. Those who rejected Biafra's secession as a perilous example for the rest of Africa were nonetheless appalled by the widespread misery and starvation inflicted on its people. Those who...
At its present stage of development, Black Africa is gripped by primeval tribal loyalties that stand in the way of nation building. Had the Ibo secession worked, some of Africa's 6,000 other tribal groups would undoubtedly have been encouraged to seek independence, setting back the process of...
The most extreme proponents of secession argue that the present African states are creatures of colonialism and should be dissolved. New nations, based on tribal boundaries, they insist, would be truly legitimate political entities. Such countries, so the argument goes, would be free of the civil strife and rivalries that...
But they would also be extremely weak-which may be one reason why South Africa, concerned about Nigeria's potential strength, supported Biafra. Secession, moreover, would lead to the further balkanization of Black Africa, where many of the countries such as Gabon (pop. 480,000) and Swaziland (pop. 395...
One immediate effect of the failure of the Biafran secession was that when representatives of ten French-speaking countries of West and Central Africa met last week in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroun, they promptly patched up their differences. They had fallen out after Gabon's President Albert-Bernard...