Causes Of The Nigerian And Cameroon Conflict

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Conflict is an aspect of war that is very often avoided for the fear of loss, but however, it is part of our human existence. It has been known to bring about all manner of outcomes from food shortages to prosperity, economic recession to gender equality among others. Civil conflict has been known to leave people with little or no time to practice farming hence causing food shortages. The Nigerian/Cameroon dispute can be regarded as an international conflict that history will always remember. The dispute over the Bakassi peninsula was not only the product of redefinition of boundaries by the colonial powers but much more than that. It involved issues of resources allocation, clash of traditional beliefs and modernity in which the pre-colonial history of the ancient Calabar kingdom was one of the causes of the boundary clash.1 Among many factors that contributed to the conflict was the legacy of both the imperialist colonial rule and the neo-colonial regimes in Africa at that time. The then colonial masters like Portugal, Germany, France and Britain were responsible in drafting economic and political strategies and had some miscalculations in the process, which was a primary factor for …show more content…
Various reasons can be said to have caused the conflict, such as:
a) Resource Control: It is a known fact that the yearning to control resources locally or internationally has been a major factor that causes conflicts in the international community. The manner at which resources are administered also has been another source of conflict in Nigeria and the world at large. Resource control remains a highly controversial issue in the Nigerian politics, especially in answering the constitutional questions of what true federalism means in the Nigerian

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