POLS 3000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 70 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3000
• Professor: Ian Spears

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The voter: his short story tells us a lot about politics in the region soon after independence, divided between two parties, pap and pop, winner is based on who can best buy the vote. Birdsong: her story provides insights into the life of a relatively privileged woman in nigeria, published in the new yorker. Africa: basil davidson, africa without history, europeans did not think that africa had a history. Quiz: 2-4 questions, at least one of them from the short stories, one from bruce gilly and zoldberg, who does ruf vote for both. If it had(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ee(cid:374) for (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373) afri(cid:272)a would prosper. It has (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g to do with afri(cid:272)a"s leaders, it has to do with (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373) Perspectives on africa: the liberal tradition, the critical tradition, two broad perspectives on africa that involve many different view points, you can have liberals who do not agree, vast majority of african states got their independence around 1960/1961.