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The author sustains that colonization has been a principal factor for the creation of ethnic identity as a weapon of segregation or disintegration within a system in which the cultural fissures or fusions were, according to the principles of coexistence within the African pre-colonial political systems,the healthiest form for ethnic living. Ethnicity was used as a mechanism of colonial domination. In no part of Africa, states the author, have the colonial or post-colonial methods, or "tribalism", "ethnicity" and "political interration" proven effective to create unity around the imported concept of nation.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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