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[citation needed] The article you linked claims that Hutu and Tsuti are little more than social constructs. There's a certain class of Marxist-influenced acade

[citation needed] The article you linked claims that Hutu and Tsuti are little more than social constructs. There's a certain class of Marxist-influenced academics who like to blame everything on social constructs and ruling classes. However, the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Tutsi_and_Hutu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Tutsi_and_Hutu , though it discusses the Western influence on conceptions of race in Rwanda, presents arguments that Hutus and Tutsis are of different genotypes. In short, it takes more than the hearsay of this French guy I haven't heard of to convince me that an ongoing French "conspiracy" (which the article you linked made no mention of, by the way) is responsible for turmoil in several parts of Africa. As if there wouldn't be any violence in those places if those meddling French would just stop conspiring. Please post something to support you view, if you have anything.

cwan 17y ago
Other starting points for you to read: - http://www.afrol.com/articles/16082 http://www.afrol.com/articles/16082 - http://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/509/No-Title http://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/509/No... - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mitterrand-legacy-under-heavy-scrutiny/story-e6frg6to-1111117156815 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mitterrand-legacy-under... - http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_genocide.jsp?nid=6815 http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_... Perhaps "conspiracy theory" was a poor choice of words since they're not so much theories. The approach of divide and conquer had long been used in Africa to manage populations within colonies. Further, the identity cards that marked large "H" and "T"'s to denote Hutu's and Tutsi's were both used and encouraged despite intermarriage between the two groups being "frequent" as documented by the UNHCR (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2d0c2,3df4bea50,0.html http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2d0c2,3df4...) I note further that it is no secret that French colonies have significantly lower economic growth than their British counterparts: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Robin.M.Grier-1/religion.pdf http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Robin.M.Grier-1/religion.pdf (pdf). Africa in general has faced a number of difficulties - but even within Africa there are some much better examples of governance than others and in almost each (if not all) of those cases, those examples were not French colonies (there's a TED presentation by Hans Rosling if I recall, that speaks to economic growth/poverty in Africa)

cwan 17y ago

Other starting points for you to read: - http://www.afrol.com/articles/16082 http://www.afrol.com/articles/16082 - http://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/509/No-Title http://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/509/No... - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mitterrand-legacy-under-heavy-scrutiny/story-e6frg6to-1111117156815 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mitterrand-legacy-under... - http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_genocide.jsp?nid=6815 http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_... Perhaps "conspiracy theory" was a poor choice of words since they're not so much theories. The approach of divide and conquer had long been used in Africa to manage populations within colonies. Further, the identity cards that marked large "H" and "T"'s to denote Hutu's and Tutsi's were both used and encouraged despite intermarriage between the two groups being "frequent" as documented by the UNHCR (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2d0c2,3df4bea50,0.html http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2d0c2,3df4...) I note further that it is no secret that French colonies have significantly lower economic growth than their British counterparts: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Robin.M.Grier-1/religion.pdf http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Robin.M.Grier-1/religion.pdf (pdf). Africa in general has faced a number of difficulties - but even within Africa there are some much better examples of governance than others and in almost each (if not all) of those cases, those examples were not French colonies (there's a TED presentation by Hans Rosling if I recall, that speaks to economic growth/poverty in Africa)