Mid-Term Study Sheet

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.
  1. The first part (which counts for 25% of the grade) will be on Africa’s political geography (map) and cultures (languages and ethnic groups).
  1. 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

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