The Impact of Colonial Ethinic Partitioning on Conflict and Nation-building in Africa

世纪后期将非洲划分为正式殖民地的欧洲列强当时对非洲大陆的种族布局知之甚少。这导致许多非洲族裔群体跨越几个国家的边界，以及在一个国家内聚集不同的族裔。这种分裂与邻国政治暴力、种族歧视和军事干预的增加有关。我提出了一个理论模型，它代表了非洲大陆的超图上的种族，与超图上的边缘表示的国家。我的目标是使用的种族超图的结构特性，研究如何种族分区可能会增加在现代非洲国家，如增加种族冲突和镇压的不良后果的患病率。

The European powers that divided Africa into formal colonies in the late nineteenth century had very little knowledge of the ethnic layout of the continent at the time. This resulted in the partitioning of many African ethnic groups across the borders of several countries, as well as the grouping of disparate ethncities within a single country. This partitioning has been empirically associated with increased political violence, ethnic discrimination, and military interventions from neighbouring countries. I propose a theoretical model which represents the ethnicities of the African continent on a hypergraph, with countries being represented as edges on the hypergraph. I aim to use the structural properties of the ethnic hypergraph to study how ethnic partitioning might increase the prevalence of poor outcomes in modern African states such as increased ethnic conflict and repression.