Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fulani and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Africa: Stories from the Central African Republic

So your ethnic cleansing rhetoric has now gone trans- regional, and continental. The moderator will have
much to account for should he allow you to simplify a complicated Central African situation into a genocidal rant.

We have made the point that at the heart of the conflict is desertification,
and the  perennial problem between sedentary farming and nomadic
pastoralism. You must have followed the conflict in Darfur. There are many similarities. I didn't think the Janjaweed were Fulanis.
Such cases usually take a turn for the worst when opportunistic politicians and haters such as Sudan's Bashir and yourself, use rhetoric and opportunism to heighten a crisis rather than to resolve it. The moderator will have himself to blame if he posted
vitriolic hate speech, that undermines the Pan Africanism that martyrs like Thomas Sankara died for.


GE

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net;  vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished  Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fulani and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Africa: Stories from the Central African Republic

 

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I tried to post on the USAAfrica Dialogues Google group some weeks ago a detailed narration and analysis of what the writer described as the unfolding in Nigeria of a war initiated by Fulani imperialists similar to the carnage he says they unleashed in the Central African Republic.

The moderator did not approve my post, most likely because he saw it as incendiary, a form of extreme ethnic profiling.

How accurate, if at all, was that report I tried to post?

Motivated by the report, in trying to better understand the rationale for the collaboration in Nigeria between the Fulani elite led Miyetti Allah, Nigeria's Fulani led fed govt and terrorism by  Fulani herdsmen, I am exploring the role of Fulani in the ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic.

The conflict in CAR seems quite complex but at its core may there not be seen a struggle between pastoralists, often Muslims,  and non-pastoralists, often Christians, comparable to the divide in Nigeria?

I am still trying to understand.

A number of parallels between the CAR civil war and the unfolding Nigerian situation are not difficult to observe. They seem to fit very well the pattern of escalating chaos ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo warned could emerge if Nigeria's President Buhari does not respond to what many in Nigeria see as a colonization plan by such elite Fulani as himself.

A selection of Google hits from searching "Fulani Civil War Central African Republic"

1. The Central African Republic's Hidden Conflict [ International Crisis Group 2014]

2. Rebels Targeted Ethnic Fulanis in Central African Republic Town [Reuters 2016] 

3. Displaced and Without their cows: the Fulani in CAR [ Al-Jazeera 2017] 

4. Militia Kills Dozens in Central African Republic Despite Peace Deal, UN says [ France 24]

5. Passing the Torch: Fulani Warlords in the Central African Republic [ Abberfoyle International Security] 

Overview : Central African Republic Civil War ( 2012 to Present)  [ Wikipedia]

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