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Different parts of the world have recurring social and political rivalries between their northern and southern peoples. But for Uganda, where the Catholic Church has pronounced saints of martyrs hailing from each of the divides, Jean-Marie Nsambu writes that they could be the bridge to plugging that split.
HATE sentiments are often exchanged between peoples of the south and those of the north, in different countries, to the extent that some have even drawn boundaries to check entry of people from either side. Obvious examples of these include the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North, and the Republic of South Korea, each of whose governments is sharply critique of the other, in both ideology and practice.
In Africa, neighbouring South Sudan becomes the latest state after sporadic fierce fights between the northern southern Sudan. In July 2011, South Sudan became autonomous. For Nigerians, whose country’s worst dictators have often been northern bred generals – from that predominantly Muslim region – animosities with the south remain of historical, political and religious realities. Ireland, is another world stage actor with apparent north-south divisions, except for it, the situation is more intricate with the northern peoples often in clashes over religious differences. The Republic of Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean as well as the US and Mexico, attitudes on discrimination of those from either part of the conceptual divisions in these countries are noticeable. Italy too, is known to have a split of its peoples in the south and north, even though it may not be as sharp as it seems in many other countries.
