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Americans have ”Freedom” most other countries and continents of people do except Africans. To start off conflicts in Africa are caused by the “fight 's” for their rights to independence and rule over their own countries. Independence was not known of until 1994 in Africa. This was the start of Europeans coming over to take African countries to expand their own countries. Violent conflict is unavoidable in Africa and this is because the African countries fight over power, since Africa has proven that conflict is unavoidable. However, countries only fight over power because they have seen and heard of wars where people have fought for power and so they want power just as much as anyone else. Such as WWI (Germans), WWII (Adolf Hitler), and the Civil Wars (African americans wanted freedom.) Nevertheless life in Africa was and is full of conflict because societies wanted power over countries in Africa. Such as Tutsis and Hutus when they fought for control over Rwanda or when they fought because they believed that the dominating race (Tutsis) wanted power because they had long skinny noses and the Hutus had big thick noses and they believed they were overpowering. …show more content…

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