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A critical evaluation of thirty years of state-civil society relations in Zambia, 1991 - 2021 对赞比亚国家-民间社会关系三十年(1991 - 2021)的批判性评价

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI: 10.5897/ajpsir2021.1350

Jonathan Simuziya Nsama

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Perspectives on state funding of political parties and the consolidation of constitutional democracy in Ghana, Africa 国家对政党的资助与非洲加纳宪政民主的巩固

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2021.1352

S. Marfo, H. Musah, Festus Owiredu-Amankwah

{"title":"Perspectives on state funding of political parties and the consolidation of constitutional democracy in Ghana, Africa","authors":"S. Marfo, H. Musah, Festus Owiredu-Amankwah","doi":"10.5897/AJPSIR2021.1352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2021.1352","url":null,"abstract":"Across Africa, as in Ghana, state funding of political parties continues to generate debates across academic and policy circles. Against this background, three constituencies in the Upper West Region of Ghana were selected purposely to interrogate views of the public on this development. A combined 78 participants were selected in a mixed study design through purposive and quota sampling techniques. Primary data were gathered through focus group discussions and interviews revealed that 72.2% of the respondents favoured direct state funding of political parties indicating this will make multi-party democracy vibrant and competitive. 44.2% favoured full-state funding, whilst 32.7% proposed state-private partnership funding. 27.8% however, disapproved with state funding of political parties arguing that Ghana is already burdened with poor health systems, lack of quality education and unemployment. The study further revealed that the political parties’ programmes and activities proposed to be financed by the state principally include training of party agents, candidates and leaders (42.3%). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Political parties, democracy, state funding, constitution, consolidation.","PeriodicalId":120632,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Political Science and International Relations","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128537756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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East is Red (Ink): China aid and debt diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa 东方是红色(墨水):中国在撒哈拉以南非洲的援助和债务外交

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1256

Paul James Greenbaum

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Fiscal federalism, sub-national revolts and internal colonialism in Nigeria 尼日利亚的财政联邦制、地方叛乱和内部殖民主义

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1290

Egobueze, Anthony, U. O. Callistus, Ikuinyi Owaji-Ibani

{"title":"Fiscal federalism, sub-national revolts and internal colonialism in Nigeria","authors":"Egobueze, Anthony, U. O. Callistus, Ikuinyi Owaji-Ibani","doi":"10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1290","url":null,"abstract":"One subject that has remained contentious since the introduction of federalism in Nigeria has been how the revenue accruing to the nation will be shared between the federating units, namely, the federal, state and local government and among the states and the local government councils. The over centralization of power and resources in the first tier of government, has weakened other levels of governments, and undermined their capacity to fulfill the raison d’etre for their establishment. The principle of independence and co-ordinate jurisdiction of different tiers of government that is a prerequisite of federalism has substantially been eroded, thus, exacerbating various forms of revolts. This paper reviews fiscal federalism, sub-national political revolt and internal colonialism in Nigeria. It utilized secondary data and content analysis as its methodology. The paper observed the structural imbalance in Nigeria’s federal system occasioned by colonial experience amongst others as the causes of sub-national revolts and recommends restructuring of the Nigeria as the panacea for the survival of federalism in the country. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Corruption, federalism, fiscal federalism, sub-national, internal colonialism, Niger Delta, Revolt.","PeriodicalId":120632,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Political Science and International Relations","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127104278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Political opportunism, impunity and the perpetuation of Victors Justice: A case of the Rwandan Genocide 政治机会主义、有罪不罚和维持胜利者的正义:卢旺达种族灭绝案

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1312

Mwansa Ancietos

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Attitudes of the Sudanese people towards the performance of new transitional government: An exploratory study 苏丹人民对新过渡政府表现的态度:一项探索性研究

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2021.1332

A. Mansour, A. Yousif

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Electoral institutions and management of elections in Nigeria and Ghana: A comparative assessment 尼日利亚和加纳的选举机构和选举管理:比较评估

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1288

Lukman Olalekan Aliyu, A. Ambali

{"title":"Electoral institutions and management of elections in Nigeria and Ghana: A comparative assessment","authors":"Lukman Olalekan Aliyu, A. Ambali","doi":"10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1288","url":null,"abstract":"Since the arrival of new democratic train in West Africa, elections have been characterized with naked violence and irregularities which have negatively manifested in economic underdevelopment and political instability. To this end, understanding the dominant nature and character of the electoral management bodies of Nigeria and Ghana to identify a body that is substantially functioning well is central to this paper. This study found a more stronger INEC in terms of electoral management comparing the previous elections with 2015 general elections, yet issues such as non-permanent position of her experienced principal officers, nature of funding, ineffective working relation with other stakeholders are still challenges. This paper discovered that a substantial level of autonomy, permanency in membership of Ghanaian Electoral Commission (EC), proper funding and a doctrine of Inter Party Advisory Committee significantly contributed to its electoral success; by extension democratic consolidation. This study was of the view that Nigeria stands to distinguish itself, if it meticulously adopts and adapts Ghana’s viable electoral model. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Democracy, election, electoral system, electoral management.","PeriodicalId":120632,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Political Science and International Relations","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116662354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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India and China in Africa: Rivalry or catching up? 印度和中国在非洲:竞争还是追赶?

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-01-31 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1313

Lucien Nola Nouck

{"title":"India and China in Africa: Rivalry or catching up?","authors":"Lucien Nola Nouck","doi":"10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1313","url":null,"abstract":"The South-South cooperation has been experiencing a second youth with the deepening of Sino-Africa and Indo-Africa relations. In order to secure an important part of the Black continent’s enormous natural resources, China and India have pledged to build mutual beneficial partnerships with Africa. In the process, both Asian growing economies are infusing the continent with capital, infrastructure and jobs. If the two Asian drivers’ safaris in Africa mark the resurgence of Africa in international affairs after more than a decade of negligence by its traditional Western partners, the emerging South-South partnership being forged by both countries brand themselves as ‘win-win’ as compared to Western countries relationship with Africa. More, the Indian version, while refuting the idea of being engaged in a strategic rivalry with Beijing, stresses even more to distance itself from the Chinese type that is accused to be solely replicating the old colonial paradigm of the scramble of Africa’s raw material resources. This paper assesses the veracity of this assumption by confronting the Indian’s project main features to their Chinese counterpart through a cross-examination of key dimensions of both countries’ African project and highlights significant similarities as well as notable differences between these two approaches. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Rivalry, competition strategic partnership, south-south cooperation, China-Africa, India- Africa.","PeriodicalId":120632,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Political Science and International Relations","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125023794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Globalisation and COVID-2019 pandemic: The nexus and impact on development in Africa 全球化与2019冠状病毒病大流行:对非洲发展的联系和影响

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-01-31 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1306

Monday Dickson

{"title":"Globalisation and COVID-2019 pandemic: The nexus and impact on development in Africa","authors":"Monday Dickson","doi":"10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1306","url":null,"abstract":"Since the dawn of the 21st century, which coincides with the renewed forces of globalisation, the world has witnessed outbreak of major pandemics with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the most recent. This study therefore, examines the relationship between globalisation and COVID-19 pandemic as well as impact on development in Africa. The paper adopts the descriptive and analytical methods while purposive sampling technique, with twenty (20) countries (with the highest population growth) representing one third of African states were selected for the study. Five countries, one each from the five sub-regions of the continent with high incidences of coronavirus were analysed using the narrative analysis technique. Findings from the study revealed that: The spread of the pandemic has been very unusual as it takes the advantage of forces of contemporary globalisation. Consequently, several measures adopted by national governments to contain the transmission of the disease have created major economic shocks resulting to retardation in key economic sectors in many African countries. This has had far reaching consequences on Africa’s growth as a dependent economy. While countries across the globe hasten to reinforce measures to contain the ailment, new measures for stimulating African economies and discouraging its reliance on external support must be adopted. Moreover, critical sectors of the economy must be reinvigorated. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Globalisation, global pandemics, Covid-19, lockdown, Africa, development.","PeriodicalId":120632,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Political Science and International Relations","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131243972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Manifest destiny and foreign relations: Examining the Nigeria-South Africa contradiction 天定命运与对外关系:审视尼日利亚-南非矛盾

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Pub Date : 2021-01-31 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2020.1289

Olumuyiwa Adebayo Adetunji, E. Adewumi

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