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James M. Acheson writes that mercantile interests in them have often led to conflicts in which hundreds of traps are destroyed, boats sunk, and even docks and fish houses burnt," noting that "lobster wars lead to longstanding bitterness, violence, and court action." His reference was to lobsters hunters in Maine.

Comparatively speaking, territorial domination (over land, water, natural resources, etc.) and economic, and political and social, psychological and religious interests will always be sources of perennial conflicts in Africa. Take Rwanda, for example, which went through an avoidable bloothbath because human life and dignity was defined along ethnic lines. One was not allowed to be Janus-tribed-- both Tutsi or Tutu-- at the same time; consequence of being either was simple: death. At any rate, while these African tribes sheathed themselves up in gothic attires, the world never stopped to watch their drama.

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