Darfur: Ethnic Cleansing as Primary Accumulation

The famine in Darfur and other such parts of Africa has two important aspects to it. One is the ethnicised conflict over resources between communities and, two, the breakdown of older forms of redistributive reciprocity and its replacement by individualised access to resources with market-based exchange relationships. What this means is that there are no easy solutions to the problems of famine in Africa today.