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My final post! Conclusions

Welcome to my final blog post! This being my final post on my blog on water and politics in Africa I wanted to outline my concluding thoughts on my blogging experience. Exploring a topic as broad as water and politics is  made more complex when examining the world's second-largest continent . Whilst I was initially drawn to water and politics to delve into the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), I found myself being pulled in multiple directions toward many topics, not all of which were able to be covered in the time I had to write this blog.  Figure one: Africa, the mother continent. Setting out, I believed I had a good understanding of the GERD when in reality I  was oblivious to the vast extent to which pre and post-colonial tensions have influenced the relationships between riparian countries and molded the course of actions in the Nile basin. This is why I have dedicated a post to the dichotomy of collaboration and conflict which is so naively accepting of these neo-colo

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