Question

These factors caused ethnic conflict during the colonial period
-political borders that ignored cultural groupings
-unite and conquer policies
-favoritism toward an ethnic group
-multiparty government systems
-divide and rule policies

Answer 1

the answer would be favoritism toward an ethnic group Well I think it was mostly due to favoritism, divide and conquer policies and undemocratic governments. [ Favoritism made certain ethnic groups feel left out and hindered so they rose up in rebellion sometimes and divide and conquer in that colonizers would stir rivalries between tribes in the hope that they would be too busy fighting each
other in order to fight the colonizers and boot them out. Unite and conquer has its affects too, such as the Masai are pretty much a under class in Kenya now they're united with other peoples. Undemocratic governments such as the apartheid one in South Africa have an important part to play as well, they ensured ethnic tensions would remain and wouldn't settle down, so sowing the seeds for unrest. As for political boundaries, well there's nothing anyone can really do about it, if you look at a ethnic map of parts of Africa the peoples are mixed in a lot of areas just as in the Balkans (mixed as in their territories mixed up) so giving each ethnic group a country wouldn't work and there'd be war like what happened in the former Yugoslavia. ]

Answer 2

and divide and rule policies