ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bismarck Archipelago, Economic Globalization, Lund University
10 Dec 2020
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Papua new guinea is a country in the western pacific that comprises the eastern part of the large island of new guinea, the bismark archipelago, and the island of bougainville. Part of it was colonized by the germans at the end of the 19th century, and subsequently by the. Colonization has not only affected individual groups located within former states, but it has also created new countries by amalgamating different ethnic groups and cultural groups into one geopolitical entity. Think, for instance, of the countries of west africa, such as ivory coast, nigeria, the congo, Rwanda, ethiopia, the sudan, etc. , which were created by the briitish, the belgians and the. French, and are now, after independence, fraught with ethnic tensions. Again, the political crises that are shaking the melanesian countries of papua new guinea, the solomon islands, vanuatu and fiji, are cases in point.
