The root cause of the conflict is the ethnic tensions between the people in Angola. In Angola, ethnic divisions existed even before colonialism. The pre-colonial state formation was carried out mainly along ethnic lines. When Angola was discovered, it was not one homogenous state but instead many different ethnolinguistic groups varying in levels of development and sizes. Some were small tribes while others were larger nations.
Portugese’s colonial presence forcibly included different ethnolinguistic groups with different political aspirations and histories within Angola, and this caused tension amongst the different ethnic groups, as they have different histories and political aspirations, and hence may not be able to empathise and work well …show more content…
There was correlation between the competition to control natural resources, massive corruption, and civil wars.
Foreign investment and war, researchers observe that governments in Angola that have large resource bases tend to do a poor job of building efficient state institutions. This is because governments that gain most of their revenues from sales of minerals are freed from the immediate pressure of levying taxes among citizens. Foreign investors played a major role in the conflict by pumping in revenue to bolster a besieged government helping it to master the fiscal performance that will attract loans from creditors.
Paul Collier recognises that poor states that are very dependent on natural resource exports are the most vulnerable to civil wars as applicable to Angola’s war. Diamonds had made UNITA so rich that nothing that donors could offer would matter while renewed predation offered massive rewards. The remedies Collier proposes focus on long term efforts to remove countries from economic dependence on natural resource exploitation. In Angola, US interests are shaped by the presence of oil and the general fear of state collapse in Africa. Both make US policy makers sensitive to issues concerning stability and order in Angola. US assistance to Angola’s government and the role plays in MPLA war strategies is not easily captured in conventional state-to-state measures of
Portugese’s colonial presence forcibly included different ethnolinguistic groups with different political aspirations and histories within Angola, and this caused tension amongst the different ethnic groups, as they have different histories and political aspirations, and hence may not be able to empathise and work well …show more content…
There was correlation between the competition to control natural resources, massive corruption, and civil wars.
Foreign investment and war, researchers observe that governments in Angola that have large resource bases tend to do a poor job of building efficient state institutions. This is because governments that gain most of their revenues from sales of minerals are freed from the immediate pressure of levying taxes among citizens. Foreign investors played a major role in the conflict by pumping in revenue to bolster a besieged government helping it to master the fiscal performance that will attract loans from creditors.
Paul Collier recognises that poor states that are very dependent on natural resource exports are the most vulnerable to civil wars as applicable to Angola’s war. Diamonds had made UNITA so rich that nothing that donors could offer would matter while renewed predation offered massive rewards. The remedies Collier proposes focus on long term efforts to remove countries from economic dependence on natural resource exploitation. In Angola, US interests are shaped by the presence of oil and the general fear of state collapse in Africa. Both make US policy makers sensitive to issues concerning stability and order in Angola. US assistance to Angola’s government and the role plays in MPLA war strategies is not easily captured in conventional state-to-state measures of