Introduction
My venture here is to debunk afro-pessimism that seems to have infor-med the literature on Africa conflicts and policy analysis in the western. It has become an almost truism that Africa is a dark continent riddled with poverty corruption and conflict, a metaphor for instability and economic deprivation. Reminiscent of Chinua Achebe's things fall apart the center cannot hold; al-beit the fact that the end of Cold War was supposed to reduce tension, and pay out a "peace dividend" amidst the third wave of democratisation, hence insi-nuating Fukuyama's end of history. Consequently, Africa is perceived as a market for weapons, AIDS drugs, crazy youths, untamed social forces and kleptocrats.1 As such, Africa is a place that the civilise world must shown ex-cept with regards to its natural resources and the war against terrorism.
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