Can someone enlighten me a bit on politics in the East African digo culture?
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Check out a website like this ones: http://www.csuchico.edu/soci/tanzania/index.shtml,\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=DIG
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It is a rebel group wih serious issues where Kony the leader thinks he sees visions and wants Uganda to be ruled by the Ten Commendments. HIs group has been linked to massacres, child soldiering and a whole lot of war crimes. He continues to kill nad maime people but the African Union, The UN, the internation community are simply not doing anything. In fact he frequently holds talks with the SPLM/A. that is the government of the newly formed South Sudan. And to think our leaders were protecting us from the axis of evil.
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It's a sad fact that many African countries that start off as democracies revert to tribalism. Zimbabwe is a extreme example but you'll find Mugabe has his defenders here on Answers. Most of these 'defenders' have of course never been to Zimbabwe and are just spouting someones  propaganda. I hope the RSA doesn't follow this path but of course corruption is rife throughout the country and this often leads to one party states which are the end of democracy.
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That question, presumably a first year college question in politics, is seriously flawed ... 'To what extent' implies a causual relationship and that would certainly be a contentious proposition. \n\nSecondly, what arrangements are you talking about, and what developments? It could be said, for arguments sake, that last month's elections is the only development in the last 20 years that could logically be ascribed the colonial era - after all, the Britons invented democracy and gave it away to its colonies. \n\nMuseveni being a dictator is a result of Museveni being a dictator and not colonial administration ...
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Patriotism!\n\nYou obviously need to be taken away for questioning.\n\n(Do you see anything at all ironic in appellations like "democratically elected Life President"?\nWho did you prefer: Haile Selassie, Idi Amin, Mobutu, Hastings Banda or Jean-Marie Bokassa?)\n\nThe serious answer is that to build a democracy requires an independent government, judiciary, police and army. This stuff only happens as a result of a long-instilled culture of democracy. Which takes centuries to nurture. Army coups, corruption, radical nationalists, racial discrimination etc. are always ready to step into the void. It also must be said that the rest of the world is eternally poking in affairs in the developing world, and due to the wealth discrepancy it only takes a little bit of interference to disrupt a lot.
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Try to find something about corruption in politics, I think you`ll find some interesting news. :)) OR Government structure and agreement beetwen political parties - they`ve got troubles with understand eachother. Anyway, Could you specify what kind of revolution are you looking for? The biggest and known recent scandal is "Rywin Gate".
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check out \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo
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talk about the colonization, and particularly, what happened when they left. When they left, because the africans wanted freedom, they took all of the educated people with them. They basically left (through various means) the africans with no experience in running their own country, no education, no recourses, no help, etc. Corruption quickly sprang up, lots of civil wars and discontent ensued. Good luck with the essay! Hope that helped a bit!
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O siyo-I am Tsalagi- eastern band- long hair clan\nhere are a few web sites for you- have fun and wado for your interest
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It was pretty much an ethnic conflict. The Tutsi's were pretty much running the country from the 17th century through around the mid 20th.  The Hutus began to get more and more power in the 60's and many Tutsis left for Uganda. A fairly significant group of Tutsi refugees began demanding return and coming into the country, and there was an actual military incursion by Tutsis from Uganda around 1990.\n\n The government began a big campaign via radio and word of mouth to resist the Tutsi invasion. Some Hutu governement officials began unofficially training militias. Some peace accords were signed around 1993, and the Hutus kept stirring ethnic tensions by publicizing events carried out during the conflict and attributing them to Tutsis, though it is questionable as to whether some were manufactured by the Hutus to generate the tension.  \n\nThe Hutu president died when his plane was brought down in April 1994.  Some suspect dissatisfied members of the Hutu government, worried about losing power were responsible.  Regardless, this spark ignited the tinderbox that had been built and a massive rampage took place in which 500k-1M Tutsis and moderate Hutus were butchered over a 3 month period.\n\nIf you look at the whole history, both groups were beastly to the other at various times.  Tutsis came out on the short end 10 years ago. Pretty typical kind of long lived ethnic conflict.\n\nIt stands out because the UN was on the ground at the time, and essentially refused to become involved, so the genocide occurred on the world stage with the United Nation's tacit approval.
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Open this link http://www.southafrica.co.za/about_sa_26.html and scroll down to any of these categories you may need:\nAgriculture\nArts and Culture\nCities of South Africa\nComing to SA\nCommunications\nEconomy\nGeneral Information\nHistory\nI am an African...\nSafety Security & Defence\nThe Good News\nTourism\nTransport
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I know nothing about the culture, but encountered these articles which seem to be comprehensive.  Thought I'd share them with you:
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I don't think that this is necessarily an African problem.  I think that in order to successfully cultivate a democracy that the people have to have a deep inner desire for that democracy.  They have to want it to work.  In a lot of countries we're trying to do some nation-building, and in such we're trying to help other countries become democracies, but that only worked for us because we wanted it.  We can't force it on people as we're finding out all over the world.  If there are people against a democratic form of government (and if the people who are for it aren't for it strongly enough), then there are too many ways they can muck it up for everyone else.
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hi, here is a pretty good biography from a nigerian paper:\nhttp://www.independentng.com/sunday/swjan290601.htm\n\nwikipedia has a decent article:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf\n\nand here is another good article:\nhttp://www.worldpress.org/Africa/2222.cfm\n\ncheers!\nalso i'd like to add that i think it's great that a nation in africa has elected a female head of state.  particularly one with her qualifications.  and even more so given that it's such a remarkable turnaround from that thieving despot, charles taylor.  yay liberia!
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These sites might help:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Moldova\nhttp://www.projecttransitionaldemocracy.org/region_doc.php?regionid=12\nhttp://politicom.moldova.org/articole/eng/657/\nhttp://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bell/soviet/2005/00000021/00000001/art00004
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I am more concerned about the ethnic tensions in America right now. Sorry. I don't have any info on Uganda.
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O.K.  good thing you clarified that!  So, taking in consideration your basis for the question, and although I have never been there, from what I have heard and read, you are probably right - at least about the fact that the parts of Africa under 'white rule' do seem to be quite a bit more progressive than those we see under 'black rule'.\n\nI do not believe, however, that this has anything to do with intellect.  I'm quite sure that it has much more to do with the wealth, which almost always accompanies power and control that surely came into Africa with the white people who now inhabit parts of the region.  \n\nAnd, I barely understand the politics of this country, much less know anything about what REALLY goes on in and around the Whitehouse, that is not told to us by the media. However, I have a hunch that pretty much everything that happens is a result of bribery,  blackmail, extortion, propaganda, and at the bottom of it all, who has the most money/power.  All around the world, the rich and powerful tend to get what they want, and anything that may or may not be left over goes to the rest of us common people - of any color in any land.\n\nAs I say, I don't know this for sure or anything, but are you so sure that Angola and Zimbabwe are really completely run by their own people?  Or maybe it just is made to appear that way.  I'm fairly sure that if there are resources there, and if the leaders of those countries are the true leaders (not "puppets", put in place by wealthy and powerful while people), then they would surely have taken advantage of them. Unless, they are being prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond their control.\n\nAnd just FYI, I'm not trying to stick up for or stand against any particular race.  I'm white, born in America - for better or worse.  I'm just writing from the perspective with which I see things.\n\nI dont' think that the present Iraqi "government" is really in control of Iraq.  I don't mean that they are having trouble with the civil war there that was not there before the US invasion, but that even if there weren't a civil war, that government is just an extention of George Bush, Rumsfeld, et al.  I only brought up Iraq to try to illustrate a concept that things aren't always the way they appear. And just because it appears that certain African countries are under 'black rule', that in reality, they probably aren't.  They probably answer to outsiders, and probably not by choice either.  Just like the Iraqi's.\n\nJust what I suspect, no proof....just my 2 cents.  Hope it helps?