Africa Quiz For Exam
35 Questions
| Attempts: 469
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Questions and Answers
- 1.
Early african nations and groups are refered to as a tribe despite the number of them or scope which they exist - tribes were colonial inventions
- A.
Onwudaniwe
- B.
Reno
- C.
Davidson
- D.
Thiongo
Correct Answer
D. Thiongo -
- 2.
Believes in the one party system. He believes that the favouring of injustice over disorder in terms of division of tribal and ethnic groups during civil war is better then groups being separated under a multi-party democracy. It is better to be separated under authoritative regimes.Groups must come together to achieve political, economical and social process.
- A.
Nyerere
- B.
Zolberg
- C.
Jackson and Rosberg
- D.
Chabal
Correct Answer
B. Zolberg -
- 3.
Links corruption to political stability. He write that Mobutu bankrupted his country for personal gain. Before multi-party competition and elections can be beneficial, the political system must be institutionalized and turnovers are generally unheard of in Africa. The patron provides security for inferior (client) who is a patron over another client.
- A.
Goldsmith
- B.
Wrong
- C.
Herbst
- D.
Rice
Correct Answer
A. Goldsmith -
- 4.
Afro-pessimistIn the past there has been a move towards democratic regimes in Africa
- A.
Nzouankeu
- B.
Lumumba
- C.
Kasfir
- D.
Onwudiwe
Correct Answer
D. Onwudiwe -
- 5.
Talks about the origins of the hutu and the tutsi.. also talks about the migration hypothesis
- A.
Umetsi
- B.
Vincent
- C.
Acker
- D.
Mamdani
Correct Answer
D. Mamdani -
- 6.
Afro-pessimist. Beleives that Africa has been left behind by other regions and that AFrica needs to stop blaming colonialism for all their problems
- A.
Sandbrook
- B.
Rieff
- C.
Saul
- D.
Clapham
Correct Answer
B. Rieff -
- 7.
He sees a silver lining in South Africa, so much that could have gone wrong, there are things going right. They're able to have powerful elections, at least these things have gone wrong are up front on a continent that has struggled so much with democracy you have a transparent systemHe also believes that the very competitive nature of Europe forced European states to survive.
- A.
Nzouankeu
- B.
Makuchi
- C.
Herbst
- D.
Mandela
Correct Answer
C. Herbst -
- 8.
Writes about the LRA and outlines 5 causes of conflict:1. Domestic politics2. The militarization of society3. De-institutionalization of politics4. The North-South divide5. Social factors
- A.
Caplan
- B.
Acker
- C.
Reno
- D.
Wrong
Correct Answer
B. Acker -
- 9.
Talks about how African youth use style to oppose politics instead of violence
- A.
Wrong
- B.
Lumumba
- C.
Rice
- D.
Onwudiwe
Correct Answer
A. Wrong -
- 10.
He believes that there are problems with administration in Africa and believes that a one-party system will NOT work. He also writes that democracy needs to be seen by a universal standard, and not just a western standard
- A.
Nyerere
- B.
Nzouankeu
- C.
Posner
- D.
Lewis
Correct Answer
B. Nzouankeu -
- 11.
Talks about Mobutu and how he stole money because of his weakness to remain head of one of Africa's largest states. He also talks about the Office of Ill-Gotten Gains
- A.
Kiai
- B.
Herbst
- C.
Wrong
- D.
Makuchi
Correct Answer
C. Wrong -
- 12.
Talks about the idea of reforming apartheid as being extremely difficult for South Africa's white minority to contemplate because it wasn't just abolishing racial segregation like in the US but re-working the whole system
- A.
Saul
- B.
Nyerere
- C.
Sparks
- D.
Mandela
Correct Answer
C. Sparks -
- 13.
The more parties in Africa, the more ethnic conflict. If there were more parties it would highlight differences and it is dogmatic to have a permanently fixed division.
- A.
Nyerere
- B.
Rodney
- C.
Nzouankeu
- D.
Onishi
Correct Answer
A. Nyerere -
- 14.
Believes that there needs to be a link between women and civil society to advocate the needs of women because they aren't heard politically.
- A.
Kiai
- B.
Vincent
- C.
Jackson and Roseburg
- D.
Zolberg
Correct Answer
B. Vincent -
- 15.
Europe robbed Africa the ability to develop, and Colonialism should not be encouraged.
- A.
Makuchi
- B.
Rodney
- C.
Lumumba
- D.
Nyerere
Correct Answer
B. Rodney -
- 16.
He questions why there was so much unity in the struggle against apartheid and not much after. He says that the ANC government forgot their roots and abandoned its ideas.
- A.
Mandela
- B.
Sparks
- C.
Kasfir
- D.
Saul
Correct Answer
D. Saul -
- 17.
"Slow Poison" - a story about aids
- A.
Rice
- B.
Sandbrook
- C.
Makuchi
- D.
Saul
Correct Answer
C. Makuchi -
- 18.
Talks about apartheid in prison
- A.
Mandela
- B.
Reno
- C.
Davidson
- D.
Lumumba
Correct Answer
A. Mandela -
- 19.
Made a speech in 2008 about the conflict in Kenya. He said that we must look beyond the forms and facades of democracy. Means more than having the pictures of judges hanging on walls and holding elections, it needs to be more about what happens between elections
- A.
Caplan
- B.
Kiai
- C.
Posner
- D.
Umutesi
Correct Answer
B. Kiai -
- 20.
He tells a story about the Tutsi rebels seeking out Hutus and how they flipped back and forth.
- A.
Mamdani
- B.
Acker
- C.
Rice
- D.
Umutesi
Correct Answer
D. Umutesi -
- 21.
Believes that the emergence of a properly institutionalized civil society led by a political independent citizens separate from government structures is only possible where there is a strong and strongly differentiated state.
- A.
Chapal
- B.
Sandbrook
- C.
Kasfir
- D.
Reno
Correct Answer
A. Chapal -
- 22.
Shadow state - relationship between economic and political oranizations
- A.
Onishi
- B.
Reno
- C.
Wrong
- D.
Mamdani
Correct Answer
B. Reno -
- 23.
History looks over the policies of the IMF and the World Bank like the SAPs that rigid fundamentalist policies did so much damage to African economies. They are not responding to their mistakes
- A.
Posner
- B.
De Sardan
- C.
Lewis
- D.
Chabal
Correct Answer
C. Lewis -
- 24.
Talks about how other countries are going into starving African countries and growing food for their own country.
- A.
Rice
- B.
Onishi
- C.
Jackson and Rosberg
- D.
Caplan
Correct Answer
A. Rice -
- 25.
6 theories on the corruption in Africa1. Corruption as deviating from tradition - western point of view2. Common routine element of functioning - everyone in Africa has a routine experience with dealing with corruption as a part of the social landscape3. Corruption culture4. Stigmentation in the practice of corruption5. Different types of corruptions are associated with different regimes 6. Relativism can be looked at from 2 perspectives.
- A.
Chabal
- B.
Vincent
- C.
Sandbrook
- D.
De Sardan
Correct Answer
D. De Sardan -
- 26.
Talks about how western oil companies find themselves in a position where they need to play the role of government - do this to stop discontent making it impossible to pump oil
- A.
Clapham
- B.
Herbst
- C.
Onishi
- D.
Thiongo
Correct Answer
C. Onishi -
- 27.
Personal rule and clientelismPersonal rule is an elitist system of privileged and powerful few in which the many are usually unmobilized.
- A.
Jackson and Rosberg
- B.
Goldsmith
- C.
Kasfir
- D.
Wrong
Correct Answer
A. Jackson and Rosberg -
- 28.
Pseudo-democracy - A multiparty democracy with authoritarianism
- A.
Kasfir
- B.
Sandbrook
- C.
Kaiai
- D.
Saul
Correct Answer
B. Sandbrook -
- 29.
Cannot build states when there is peace, only when there is war
- A.
Mamdani
- B.
Reno
- C.
Herbst
- D.
Saul
Correct Answer
C. Herbst -
- 30.
Says all this being manipulated in the state itself, not saying SAPs are evil, states need reform and political leaders want to survive. He;s saying the conditions are sugar coated to make them more attractive.
- A.
Lumumba
- B.
Clapham
- C.
Lewis
- D.
Makuchi
Correct Answer
B. Clapham -
- 31.
Refuse to align themselves with any particular European ideology because it means abandoning Africa's personality. He was a Congolese liberation leader and their first PM
- A.
Mandela
- B.
Kiai
- C.
Acker
- D.
Lumumba
Correct Answer
D. Lumumba -
- 32.
Africa is sometimes seen as not having a history of its own - served s a justification for European colonial domination of the continent
- A.
Herbst
- B.
Caplan
- C.
Davidson
- D.
Reiff
Correct Answer
C. Davidson -
- 33.
Outlines different ways that WEstern policies are to the Decrement of Africa.
- A.
Posner
- B.
Onwudiwe
- C.
Zolberg
- D.
Caplan
Correct Answer
D. Caplan -
- 34.
Uganda is democratic with a one party system because they have relatively free press and little human violation outside of conflict zones
- A.
Kasfir
- B.
Nyerere
- C.
Caplan
- D.
Thiongo
Correct Answer
A. Kasfir -
- 35.
Talks about how they had to bring the number of languages down to 4 in Zimbabwe which changed ethnic groups.
- A.
Davidson
- B.
Umetsi
- C.
Reiff
- D.
Posner
Correct Answer
D. Posner -
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