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For participants at the recent meeting of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative on Africa, the topic of ‘Citizenship and Identity’ turned out to be challenging in unforeseen ways. Most people arrived with the intention of having a discussion about the practical problems Africans face in asserting their chosen identities and citizen’s rights.
A standard but cruel joke in Africa is that for every African civil war there are a hundred peace negotiations. In Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi, for example, peace negotiations have typically been as protracted and serial as the civil wars.
En Afrique, une plaisanterie courante mais cruelle prétend que pour chaque guerre civile africaine il y a des centaines de négociations de paix. En Somalie, au Soudan, au Liberia, en Angola, en République démocratique du Congo et au Burundi, par exemple, les pourparlers de paix ont en général été aussi prolongés et avec autant d’épisodes que les guerres civiles.