Clear parallels with India.
"There were tribes in Africa before imperialist penetration, but no "tribalism" in the modern sense.
Tribalism arose from colonialism, which exploited feudal and tribal survivals to combat the growth of national liberation movements."
-Kwame Nkrumah
"There were tribes in Africa before imperialist penetration, but no "tribalism" in the modern sense.
Tribalism arose from colonialism, which exploited feudal and tribal survivals to combat the growth of national liberation movements."
-Kwame Nkrumah
https://twitter.com/NkrumahQuotes/status/1397097433604136965
"In the era of neocolonialism, tribalism is exploited by the bourgeois ruling classes as an instrument of power politics, and as a useful outlet for the discontent of the masses."
"Many of the so-called tribal conflicts in modern Africa are in reality class forces brought into conflict by the transition from colonialism to neocolonialism. Tribalism is the result, not the cause, of underdevelopment."
"In the majority of "tribal" conflicts, the source is the exploiting bourgeois or feudal minority in co-operation with imperialists and neocolonialists seeking to promote their joint class interests."
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