Africa: Is the Crimea Referendum a Good Model for Africa?

18 March 2014
analysis

What would happen if African peoples where given the chance to vote in referenda to decide which country they wanted to be part of or if they wanted their own?

The referendum in Crimea is a dangerous precedent reminiscent of the Austrian Anschluss and the other uprisings in eastern Europe to join Germany in the 1930s. I used to think that Europe's states had grown naturally, organically - in contrast to Africa's imposed borders. That I thought was a major reason for Africa's weak states and small local wars.

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