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Hi! I'm Gina. I'm an undergraduate anthropology student at UCF. I haven't decided yet where to focus in anthropology but I'm leaning towards forensic anthropology or medical anthropology. Right now, I'm just enjoying learning all about anthropology. I have chosen warfare in Africa as my topic for this wiki as it is the only topic that was the most intriguing to me as I haven't heard much news about African warfare while all history and anthropology classes have covered the other topics many times over. I hope that people who read my wiki learn about African warfare and it inspires them to learn more about not only their own history but international history.

Below is an image, from Jeffrey Gettleman, which is talked about in the warfare depiction discussion thread:



First sentence of Bruce G. Trigger's Kerma: The Rise of An African Civilization The floodplains along the Nile constitute an important but as yet little utilized series of laboratories for the comparative study of the origins and interaction of ancient civilizations.

Here is an article that can shed light on the warfare in Africa:[]. Reno, William. The evolution of warfare in Africa. 2008. Reno provides sufficient information about the detailed history of warfare in Africa focusing on the political measures taken by organizations such as the United Nations and non-government organizations to try to eradicate the violence. He focuses on global interconnections that are directly tied to warfare like the Guinea-Bissau conflict which involved a coup attempt by the U.N. due to drug trafficking. He brings up the public secret about powerful organizations being behind armed forces even ones from universities. Reno uses the Cold War as an example of how the global connections feed the warfare with their guns and soldiers. He shows that global power and internal power play a key role in the exploitation of warfare in Africa.

Another article that provides unique insight into warfare in Africa: []. Jackson, Ashley. War, Violence, and Peace in Africa. //Journal of Southern African Studies, 34// (4), 2008. Jackson opens her argument by stating how Western civilization is fascinated with the tormoil of Africa and how the U.S. wants to help Africa with a "Security Sector Reform, Demobilization, Disarment, and Reintegration programs, and homilies on civil society and good governance". Yet, the U.S. is lacking in actual knowledge about the true state of Africa which is actually equally violent as any other civilization. She talks about the main justifications behind the warfare like poverty and social injustice. She explains the importance of history being a major factor in the present warfare using the Cold War as an example since it weakened certain groups and strengthened others at times. Then September 11th was seen as another crucial event as the U.S. turned its' attention to national security and how other countries can affect it like Africa with its' immigrants, its' drug trafficking, and migrants committing crimes in our region. She provides many more examples of how Africa has a right to be the way it is and how the U.S. doesn't see the situitation for what it truly is. =Welcome to Your New Wiki!=

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