The Aftermath: Colonisation & Conflict in Africa
War In Africa
Colonisation. Conflict. Consequence.
The wars being fought across Africa — and against peoples of the Global South — did not begin with the first gunshot. They began with a map, drawn by men who had never set foot on the land they were dividing. Borders were carved through kingdoms, languages, and bloodlines. Resources were extracted. Governance was dismantled. What was left behind was not independence — it was a wound. This page exists to name that wound, to trace its shape, and to refuse silence.
The Conflicts
Each conflict below has its own dedicated page — with full historical context, current facts as of May 2026, and NZETE’s commitment to bearing witness. Click to read, to learn, and to refuse silence.
Sudan & Darfur
The War That the World Ignored →
150,000+ killed. 12 million+ displaced. The largest humanitarian crisis on earth.
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Bleeding Heart of Africa →
30 years of war. 7 million+ displaced. The minerals in your devices come from this land.
Ethiopia & the Tigray War
The Deadliest War You Never Heard Of →
300,000–500,000 killed. One of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Almost no coverage.
Somalia
The Country the World Armed and Abandoned →
No stable government since 1991. 3.8 million displaced. 6 million facing food insecurity.
The Sahel: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger
Rejecting the Chain →
Three coups. Three former French colonies. 3 million+ displaced. A continent reclaiming sovereignty.
Mozambique & Cabo Delgado
Gas, God & Guns →
$20 billion gas project. 1 million displaced. The colonial pattern, updated for the 21st century.
Cameroon: The Anglophone Crisis
A Border That Was Never Ours →
9 years of war. 6,000+ killed. 1 million displaced. A people divided by a colonial language.
Palestine
A People. A Land. A Struggle That Will Not End. →
77 years of dispossession. The Nakba. The West Bank. Gaza. 5.9 million refugees. The right to exist.
Gaza
The War the World Watched Live →
50,000+ killed. 2.3 million displaced. Livestreamed. Documented. And largely unanswered.
The Division Doctrine: How the World’s Wealth Is Stolen
A unified Africa is an Africa that can negotiate. A fragmented Africa — split into 54 states, dozens of currencies, competing trade blocs, and ethnic conflicts — is an Africa that cannot. The same elite networks that control global financial systems, arms trade, and commodity markets have a direct interest in keeping the Global South divided, indebted, and dependent. This is not conspiracy. It is documented policy — in IMF structural adjustment programs, in AGOA’s trade asymmetry, in AFRICOM’s footprint, in the veto power of five nations over the entire world’s security decisions.
Every leader who moved toward unity was removed. Nkrumah. Lumumba. Sankara. Gaddafi. The disruption of African unity is not a side effect. It is the policy.
We Are One Tree
NZETE means tree in Lingala. A tree does not fight itself. Its roots do not compete — they interlock, they share water, they hold the ground together. What was done to Africa — and to every people who has been told their lives matter less — was not a natural disaster. It was a deliberate severing. So that others could harvest what grew from our soil.
We are 1.4 billion people on the African continent alone. We are not a broken people — we are a people who have been systematically prevented from standing together. That is a different thing entirely. And it ends when we decide it ends.
To every African on the continent and in the diaspora — and to every people fighting to be seen as fully human: You are not alone. You are not the enemy. You are family. And the tree still stands.
Sources: UNHCR, ACLED, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, The Africa Center for Strategic Studies, IMF/World Bank public records, US Congressional Research Service, AFRICOM public disclosures, ICJ, ICC, UNRWA, UN OCHA, and peer-reviewed historical scholarship. Last reviewed: May 2026.