[ Ethnicité et conflit identitaire au Congo-Kinshasa: Regard analytique sur les facteurs explicatifs du conflit Ekonda-Eswe ]
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 450–459
Gilbert Etambahele Ohidi1
1 Chef de Travaux et Doctorant en Sciences Politiques et Administratives, Université de Kinshasa, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sankuru is one of the new provinces of DR Congo which is to count among the areas most marked by the recurrence of violence. As a result, its political space is reconfigured by interethnic or identity conflicts Ekonda-Eswe which have a colonial origin and overlapped in the minds of the elites. Nowadays, the persistence of these conflicts is better explained by the pluralistic electoral deadlines the differentiated development and the weakness of the authority of the State.
Author Keywords: Ethnicity, ethnic group, tribe, identity conflict, Ekonda-Eswe, political actor, debauchery, state authority.
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 450–459
Gilbert Etambahele Ohidi1
1 Chef de Travaux et Doctorant en Sciences Politiques et Administratives, Université de Kinshasa, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Sankuru is one of the new provinces of DR Congo which is to count among the areas most marked by the recurrence of violence. As a result, its political space is reconfigured by interethnic or identity conflicts Ekonda-Eswe which have a colonial origin and overlapped in the minds of the elites. Nowadays, the persistence of these conflicts is better explained by the pluralistic electoral deadlines the differentiated development and the weakness of the authority of the State.
Author Keywords: Ethnicity, ethnic group, tribe, identity conflict, Ekonda-Eswe, political actor, debauchery, state authority.
Abstract: (french)
Sankuru est l'une des nouvelles Provinces de la RD Congo qui est à compter parmi les espaces les plus marqués par la récurrence de la violence. De ce fait, son espace politique est reconfiguré par les conflits interethniques ou identitaires « Ekonda-Eswe » qui ont une origine coloniale et se sont superposés dans les consciences des élites. De nos jours, la persistance de ces conflits est mieux expliquée par les échéances électorales pluralistes, le développement différencié et la faiblesse de l’autorité de l’Etat.
Author Keywords: Ethnicité, ethnie, tribu, conflit identitaire, Ekonda-Eswe, acteur politique, débauchage, autorité de l’Etat.
How to Cite this Article
Gilbert Etambahele Ohidi, “Ethnicity and identity conflict in Congo-Kinshasa: an analytical look at the explanatory factors of the Ekonda-Eswe conflict,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 450–459, July 2020.
