Good point, and I appreciate the correction. In the West, we have a term "Balkanization." I had assumed that it's fairly old. [UPDATED TO ADD] In Africa, man

Good point, and I appreciate the correction. In the West, we have a term "Balkanization." I had assumed that it's fairly old. [UPDATED TO ADD] In Africa, many of the really vicious tribal wars, date from the colonial times. The colonial powers leveraged old tribal animosity. It was a way to keep their colonies from concentrating on them. Demagogues, conquerors, and dictators have always known how to leverage old resentments, and fan them into a conflaguration. Like I said, this behavior is very human, and we're seeing it on this side of the pond.