Niger: The Imminent Disintegration of Artificial Geopolitical Entities

In the wake of the era of colonialism and foreign mandates in the second half of the 20th century, the French and the British left overseas colonies that became independent, self-standing states after they departed. However, when examining these states’ realities, it becomes evident that they are artificial geopolitical entities that have risen in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, driven only by Western colonial empires’ geopolitical, economic, and strategic interests. Colonial powers annexed incompatible territories inhabited by incompatible ethnicities, clashing religions, irreconcilable sects, and enemy tribes forcibly joined and coercively organized into geopolitical entities, regardless of the interests and objectives of these nations, ethnicities, denominations, and beliefs, and ignoring their opinions and desire to merge into one country and live together in one geopolitical entity.