After reading trough indicated material in the learning resources, choose one among the following questions and write your answer in a one-page essay. Paste your answer in the provided space
- • Were African leader justified in centralizing states and imposing one party rule?
- • How democratic were the more open parliamentary elections found in states such as Kenya and Tanzania?
- • Why did local government and independent judiciaries not prosper in Africa’s centralized states?
- • Was African personal rule an efficient form of government?
- • To what extent did clientelism legitimate personal rule in post-colonial Africa?
- • Why had the post-colonial African state reached a point of crisis by the 1980s?
- • How successful was civil society in countering the power of the vampire state?
- • To what extent have African states collapsed over the last two decades?
- • Who prospered most in the 1980s and 1990s, state elites or members of civil society?
- • Assess the performance of the state’s own survival strategies.
- • Did African states benefit from the international political environment of the Cold War?
- • To what extent have external patrons differed in their policies towards African states?
- • Would you describe the ‘New World Order’ as a positive development for Africa?
- • Has the intervention of external interests merely served to underwrite the power of the African state in the post-colonial period?
- • Are external interests ever justified in violating a state’s sovereignty?
- • To what extent has the international economy hindered Africa’s post-colonial economic development?
- • How did African states become so indebted to the West?
- • What are the key reforms associated with SAP?
- • Has SAP produced economic growth on the African continent?
- • What has been the political and social impact of SAP and debt relief?