PARTITIONING AND CONSEQUENCES

leopold’s greed was the artist of this gargantuan anomaly, a canvas of enormous proportions; an unmanageable state of 2,345,410 square kilometres. It possesses enormously rich resources, which automatically make the present rulers opposed to any suggestion of separation; the same greed as the ‘Scramblers’ before. It also composes very diverse peoples and languages and is constantly engaged in civil wars, still raging to this day.

Separatism is active in Namibia now (independent from South Africa in 1990). The horrors of Biafra, 1967-1970, remain fresh in memory, trying to leave Nigeria, which had become independent in 1960. The worst example was also the first; the heist of and nonsensical demarcation of the Congo