psci0202— Fall 2019 African Politics
Professor Nadia R. Horning
Mid-Term Exam Review Sheet
- The mid-term exam is an in-class exam that will be given on Tuesday, October 29 in Warner 202 from 1:30 to 2:20 PM (note: our usual class time is 1:30-2:45). The exam will last 50 minutes.
- It will be an honor code exam, which means that I will be not be present in the room during the time you take it. No materials will be permitted (notes, books, handouts, etc.).
- Tips: Study with your syllabus handy and be sure to browse the course web site (all class presentations are posted there).
- There will be two distinct parts to this exam. Time yourself accordingly.
- The first part (which counts for 25% of the grade) will be on Africa’s political geography (map) and cultures (languages and ethnic groups).
- The second part (75%) will consist of 2 short essays that will connect two terms/names/concepts from the list below:
Rwandan Genocide Tutsi
Personal Rule King Leopold II
Civil Society Single Party Rule
Afrocracy African socialism
Laurent Gbagbo Félix Houphouët-Boigny
African Nationalism Decolonization
Independence Big man rule
Paul Kagame MPLA (Angola)
FNLA (Angola) Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Authoritarianism Nation-State
Chinua Achebe Alphonse Muambi
Stedman and Lyons Neo-patrimonialism
Colonialism Multi-ethnic nations
Concentration of state power Biafra War
Aba Women’s War Philibert Tsiranana
Atlantic Slave Trade Crisis of the African State
Colonial borders African Big Men
Kenya’s post-electoral crisis (2007-2008)Bernard Lugan
Hutu African conflicts
Fantu Cheru Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
Neo-colonialism Indirect rule
Constitution of the Mali Empire Liberal Democracy
Kwame Nkrumah Ivoirité
Nationalism Tenets of Liberal Democracy
Julius Nyerere Alassane Ouattara
PanAfricanism NAACP 1945
Aimé Césaire Donorization