Ethnicity and tribalism: are these the root causes of the Sudanese civil conflicts?
http://www.africaeconomicanalysis.org/articles/66/1/Ethnicity-and-tribalism-are-these-the-root-causes-of-the-Sudanese-civil-conflicts/Page1.html
By Pamela Paglia
Published on 04/12/2008
Recent civil conflicts in Sudan, including in Darfur, have commonly been explained as clashes between competing ethnic groups. Pamela Paglia argues that this concentration on ethnicity as the primary cause for conflicts in Africa underestimates the complexity of African societies and politics.