Summary APC1502 -The Politics Of Contemporary Africa ASSIGNMENT TWO 2022.

APC1502 -The Politics Of Contemporary Africa ASSIGNMENT TWO 2022. NEGRITUDE The negritude movement was founded by Léopold senghor, Aime Cease and Leon-Gontras Damas. It was an ideological movement led by French speaking Africans who confidently believed in distinctive African identity that was defined by the colonial myth and strategies about Africa. Negritude is an important aspect to the rejection of colonialism. It has made an impact on how the colonised vied themselves, it also sparked and fed off subsequent literary movement that were responding to global politics. The aim of the negritude movement was to raise and cultivate black consciousness across Africa and it diaspora Negritude was born from a shared experience of discrimination and oppression and an attempt to dispel stereotypes and create a new black consciousness SINGLE-PARTY RULE One party rule is a type of state in which one political part has the right to form the government usually based on the existing constitution, and forming of other political parties is forbidden, in the case of opposition parties against the dominant ruling party is allowed but have no real chance of gaining power. They control the government, have a stable base of mass popular support and create internal mechanism for controlling, funding, information and nomination. The one party system did not benefit the African masses (only the leaders who plundered the state resources). This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :45:54 GMT -06:00 MILITARY RULE It is a dictatorship where in the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority and dictator is often a high rank military officer. The rise of military rule in African countries rose to prominence after the independence and dominated the continents politics for more than three decades. The most popular method to take over power was by a coup (a sudden and illegal overthrow of an existing government by a portion of the states armed forces). Military intervention has been on integral features of the politics of Africa after independence and became popular method of effecting change. Military coups occurred without much difficulty in Africa, country was asleep. The most common reason for a military to take over is mismanagement of the country and corruption by the public whose standard of living deteriorate because of civilian leaders mismanaged the economy. ETHNICITY Focuses on the origin and descents rather than a geographical consideration. Ethnic groups are a community of people who have the conviction that they have a common identity and a common fate based on issues of origin Ethnic groups are important to the political scientists and Africanist in terms on how the y relate to one another within the state. Ethnic groups may be divided into subgroups identities and loyalties. Subgroups on kinship are referred to as clans.