Evaluation: Group work carried out in class (20%)

1 Abril 2025, 18:00 • Vasco Martins

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Group work carried out in class: role-playing exercise with seven groups, each representing a faction disputing power in a fictional country mimicking some of the configurations of the African state.

3.1 Resilient authoritarian countries

25 Março 2025, 18:00 • Vasco Martins

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3.1 Resilient authoritarian countries 

Patriomonialism and neopatrimonial regimes. Differences in autocracies and personalised rule. 'Big Men' rule.

2.2 Political systems in Africa: a historical overview

18 Março 2025, 18:00 • Vasco Martins

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2.2 Political systems in Africa: a historical overview

State-building and post-colonial regimes: autocracies and democracies.

The notions of patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism.

2.1 The colonial state and the struggle for independence

11 Março 2025, 18:00 • Vasco Martins

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2.1 The colonial state and the struggle for independence  

 

Colonialism and the colonial state;

Fighting to end colonial rule: Pan-Africanism, nationalism and armed struggle. 

1.2 Africa's place in the global system: external interventions and institutions

18 Fevereiro 2025, 18:00 • Vasco Martins

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1.2 Africa's place in the global system: external interventions and institutions

  Narratives of hope and failure.

  Case-study: the genocide in Rwanda (1994) and its international implications.