Fragmentation of African Political Map: Contemporary Secessionist Movements

The aim of bachelor's thesis Fragmentation of political map of Africa: current separatist movements is to show african separatist movements which are active at the moment. In the first part of the thesis there are the explanations of the main terms - separatist and secessionist movements, separatism, secession and self-determination of nations. In the next part there is a chart of currently active separatist and secessionist movements and an overview of ongoing conflicts in Africa with emphasis on separatist ones. Next part is concerned with the theory of Jeffery Herbst about connection between emergence and evolution of these movements and conflicts and geographical conditions of african countries. The last part of thesis is composed of case studies of four african separatist movements that are currently active and that led to the outbreak of conflicts in these four countries, of Mai Mai Kata Katanga in Democratic republic of Congo, Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army-North in Sudan, Oromia Liberation Front in Ethiopia and Boko Haram in Nigeria. There is aim to show the goals, acts and potential succes of these movements and of the opposing central goverments of these states and to confirm Jeffrey Herbst's theory on these examples