Image - lawinaction Much of the conflict that continues to ravage Africa revolves around a singularity known as ‘division’; along with its many cousins and incarnations, these divisions are exacerbated by a brutal scurry for resources and an often rather crude play for power. It doesn’t matter where; the conflicts are usually contended along similar colonial fault lines. The intensifying situation in Cameroon between Anglophone minority separatists and the majorly francophone government is a painfully precise example of this malaise that afflicts the very soul of the continent. Elsewhere it is Hutus against Tutsis, Amhara and Qimant, Luo, Kalenjin in opposition to Kukuyu, Tigray versus Ethiopia versus Eritrea, Somaliland entangled with Somalia, Farmers clashing with Herders, North versus South, Minorities versus the Majority, citizens and their ruling elite. Politics is contested along ethnic lines instead of ideological ones. Electoral cycles are quite literally lif...