GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: African Socialism, Kwame Nkrumah, Boko Haram
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Geog 1700 - lecture 14 - part 6. Several major ethnic groups with sophisticated economic, administrative, and military systems. Contemporary african culture is a mix of indigenous and foreign practices. English and french (both are losing ground, e. g. to wolof in senegal) Christianity (especially evangelical) appears to be the fastest growing faith. Uganda is culturally diverse, with its british imposed boundaries including a number of different groups. Individual countries often have several large ethnic groups. Some have argued that democracy is very difficult in africa because parties develop along ethnic lines, rather than on the ideology and class lines typically in the west. C te d"ivoire (cid:894)ivory coast(cid:895) had a civil war that resulted from cultural conflict between its northern and southern populations. Its recent election has a strong electoral geography based on ethnicity, as did the fighting that followed. The nigerian ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s also follo(cid:449)ed that (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try"s eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) geography.
