APC1502

Cards (86)

  • TRUE or FALSE: The vanguard parties in Africa were invariably Negritude.
    False
  • TRUE or FALSE: African humanism was promoted by Frantz Fanon who was the ambassador of Zambia.
    False, it was promoted by the former president of Zambia, Kuanda.
  • Which major two groups which led to the breakdown of ethnic compacts?
    ethnic opposition groups and guerrilla insurgencies
  • TRUE or FALSE: Ideology can be regarded as a more or less coherent set of ideas.
    True
  • Which ideological movement is Leopold Senghor associated with?
    Negritude
  • TRUE or FALSE: Pan-Africanism is the ideology that was advocated by Julius Nyerere.
    False
  • TRUE or FALSE: Frantz Fanon is one of the founding members of Negritude.
    False
  • A basic definition of an ethnic group is a?
    Community of people who have the conviction that they have the common identity.
  • Which philosopher coined the term ideology in 1796?
    Destutt de Tracy
  • TRUE or FALSE: In Africa, there are no different school of thought in relation to class as a phenomenon.
    False
  • Ideology can be regarded as?
    a more or less coherent set of ideas
  • TRUE or FALSE: There is competition among ethnic groups by way of staking a claim to modernity.
    True, because they advance their own position for the benefits of modernity.
  • Which ideological movement is Julius Nyerere associated with?
    African socialism
  • TRUE or FALSE: Kuanda's African humanism was utopian as well as prescriptive in nature.
    True
  • African leaders who were committed to seeking ___ compacts, attempted to find ethnic balances in their government structures by applying proportional ___.
    Ethnic, principles
  • TRUE or FALSE: Ideology is a very easy concept to define in politics.
    False
  • TRUE or FALSE: Ethnic intermediaries operated in all forms of political regimes.
    True, because they continued to exist whether the regime was democratic or not.
  • TRUE or FALSE: It is highly likely for class to be a huge source of conflict.
    False
  • Nkrumah was influenced by ___, and he worked hard to attained ___ unity.
    Pan-Africanism; pan-African
  • The "foreign bourgeoisie" includes ____ and ____, leaders, particularly of the former colonial powers, who maintain ____ relationships with their former colonies.
    Political; business; economic
  • What models are some of the features of civil-military relations?
    Watchdog, balance wheel, direct rule
  • Ethnicity focuses on ____ and ____ rather than on ____ considerations.
    Origin; descent; geographical
  • Political ____ were formed to compete for ____ with the ____ they receive from citizens
    parties; power; support
  • Force with unyielding pressure from two fronts ____ and ____ the leaders were left with no alternative but to start thinking of reforming their ____ systems.
    Internal; external; political
  • The threats issued by the Western countries and international ____ agencies occurred at almost the same time as the protest in Eastern ____ and worsening ____ internal protest in Africa
    Lending; Europe; internal
  • Institutional ____ and constitutional ____ are perhaps the most fundamental challenges confronting African governments and leaders in the third ____.
    Remolding; redrafting; millenium
  • The loci cadre law stated broad ____ to be implemented by ____, thus bypassing the normal ____ procedure.
    Directives; decree; legislative
  • In ____ in the year ____, majority ____ group unleashed a reign of terror against the Tutsi minority, resulting in the death of almost half a million people.
    Rwanda, 1994, Hutu
  • Traditional leaders include ____, ____, ____, ____, and ____?

    Clan heads; chiefs; paramount chiefs; emirs; monarchs
  • Strong ____ developed in ____ Africa and dominated the party political dispensation before____.
    Political parties; French; independence
  • In Africa, " civil society" is associated with ____ because civil society was unwittingly sucked into politics when it joined the political ____ during the struggle for ____.
    Politics; arena; independence
  • The term ____ denoted how social ____ are " layered", that is which groups are higher and which ones are lower in the ____hierarchy.
    Stratification; strata; social
  • African humanism was to be a ____ social security ____ rooted in the extended family and demonstrating social ____.
    Noninstitutionalized; system; solidarity
  • ____, ____ and ____ are the countries where events led to protest for democracy.
    Zambia; Kenya; Benin
  • In ____, more than one third of the independent countries in Africa were either one-party states, ____, or ____.
    1984; military governments; hereditary monarchs
  • Strong____ developed in ____ Africa and dominated the party-political dispensation before____.
    Political parties; French; independence
  • Patrimonial rule refers to the political ____ of an individual, which the state and the ____ of state are the personal ____ of the ruler.
    Authority; affairs; interest
  • True or false: Leopold Senghor is one of the founding members of pan-Africanism
    False
  • Ideologies in the African continent have largely been?
    Utopian
  • What is not the meaning of ideology as outlined by Heywood?
    The ideas on how to take over political power