The conflicts are not just of race between the whites and blacks. The great Zulu (Shaka) tribes and their black on black violence, brought a major depopulation of the interior regions. This black on black violence was the image that suited the white minority separatists and the ideologies of South African very well. This grew to what we now call Apartheid and was enforced by the Afrikaners (Dutch-German) and Anglo-Saxon elitists who claimed to have brought civilization to the interior of Africa. A New era of Africas history brought by the discovery of Diamonds in 1880s awakened imperial dreams increased labor requirement and polarized racist attitudes for these elite white Afrikaners. (Part 7) Europes nations scrambled to claim territory in Africa, started after Leopold II of Belgium claimed Sovereignty over the Congo where rubber brought immense wealth to Leopold and Belgium. There is no question, that black leaders (tribal-Kings) of Africa, shared the European aptitude for diplomatic nullity where appropriate, however, some did manage to reach a deal with the Europeans that gained for the blacks of Africa or themselves no more than scrap of benefit. Since their rise of power grew no stronger, they held no significant World leadership role in Africa until well in to the Twentieth Century. When Colonial boundaries for Africa were drawn up in Europe with no input or consideration for (at least 177 ethnic Black) cultural areas and having separate pre-existing financial, social units, and with this redesign they (Europeans) altered the development of whole regions. Black oppression and uprisings were long held in check by the small groups of White elite, with their police and military, which was fortified by the invention of the machinegun. Civil unrest and rebellion in South Africa and other areas within the continent has had a long history and lingers today. The continuation of disease, drought, ...
