com AN ABSTRACT A critical investigation of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants, the paper discusses what the playwright himself calls the Aminian theme, that is, African leaders’ obsession with power, a seductive drive that breeds moral corruption, dictatorship, delusions, economic distortions and ruination, megalomania, perversion and desecration of all that is good in African traditions, and the evaporation of all the dreams of greatness, of nationalism, liberation from colonial thraldom, disease, ignorance
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of many dictatorships throughout the Third World in recent decades suggest that authoritarian regimes are often fragile in the short run, but stable in the long term. False CHAPTER2: 6- Prior to its wave of military take over in 1960's and 1970's Africa had enjoyed the Third World strongest democratic tradition.True 7-One of the prerquisites for democrtizaton of a society is a substatial size of lowerclass and poor.True 8-Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, has both
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About John Locke, he is a philosopher from the 1600s and had ideas about how humans are in their natural habitat. His theory was that people were born as a ball of clay and the job to mold that clay into something good was the job of the environment the baby is born in. The ball of clay would be molded by people or things in the environment. So if someone was in a bad environment like their parents or a very close friend are doing drugs or are in a gang, his theory would say that he would get involved
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COLONIALISM IN AFRICA How does the legacy of colonialism affect contemporary African international relations? If questioned today about Africa in general the first reactions I would have are poor governance, poverty, conflict, economic instability and hunger. These are the major characteristics that dominate most of the states within the continent as a whole. The question would be has it always been this way? Different debates and differences have been focused on the colonial legacy for
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a former gateway for slaves to slave ships. Slavery had long been practiced in Africa.[38][39] Between the 7th and 20th centuries, Arab slave trade (also known as slavery in the East) took 18 million slaves from Africa via trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean routes. Between the 15th and the 19th centuries (500 years), the Atlantic slave trade took an estimated 7–12 million slaves to the New World. In West Africa, the decline of the Atlantic slave trade in the 1820s caused dramatic economic shifts
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property rights, pressures for immediate consumption and autonomy of dictatorship. While there is an agreement that respecting property rights helps the economy, it is controversial which system is more efficient, concerning this problem. Pressures for immediate consumption are considered to be the main reason while democracy may hinders the growth. In opposite, there is a third argument – autonomy of dictatorship. Dictators do not have to handle with pressures made by different interest
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organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property. Among the warrior class in Tokugawa Japan, male samurai defended a patriarchal social order developing a code of chivalry, which is called bushido. In pre-colonial West Africa, the social order of the Ibo promoted patriarchy by excluding women from participating in meaningful production and they undermined the economic and political power of African women. In nineteenth-century Europe, both industrialization and the spread
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Introduction Understanding of the economic growth process and it connection to institutions is highly important for explaining why certain countries are less developed than the other ones. Economic growth is defined as “An increase in the capacity of an economy to produce goods and services, compared from one period of time to another. Economic growth can be measured in nominal terms, which include inflation, or in real terms, which are adjusted for inflation. For comparing one country's economic
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first year long dictatorship in real life, Antony was second in command, so they were pretty close. Just like in the play, Antony was very good with his words and the way he spoke. Historically speaking, after Caesar was killed, Octavian (Octavius in the play), was at first his rival. They fought each other before they became the second triumvirate with Lepidus. They all split up the land between each other in real-life, Octavian had the west, Antony had the east, and Lepidus had Africa. Antony then
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its land had been growing rapidly, stretching from Britain to northern Africa and surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Soon after the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire, Rome’s military and government could no longer control all of this land, and had to give up a large portion of it to Germanic barbarians. However, with time, Rome could not govern its innermost lands with efficiency. Before Rome became an empire, or dictatorship, it was a republic, or a form of government where the citizens elect
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