Abstract:
The continent of Africa in the post-cold war period has been ravaged by horrendous destruction of lives and property following its
prevalent conflicts. Almost all the countries on the continent have been engulfed by unabated and intermittent conflict and or war of
attrition. This heart-rending continental woe has undoubtedly imposed some obvious and immediate human and economic costs
such as, loss of lives, including workforce, wounding, disabilities and displacements on the continent. These corollaries of violent
conflicts create losses that are transmitted across whole economies of these war-ravaging countries, because the unwarranted
conflicts constitute significant threat to all factorial elements of productivity, which automatically undermine the potential growth of
the economies of these countries. In order to appropriately comprehend the stand point of this stujiy. these factorial elements of
productivity were examined in relation to how the conflicts are threatening their functionalities, thereby hindering the economic gravth
of the war-torn countries. Some appropriate recommendations on how these ugly situations could be arrested were also highlighted
in the study.
