Sub-Saharan Africa

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There are many factors that influence the political reshaping of Africa. The strength of their outcome varies from country to country, and is not linear. As we can see, different countries tend to focus on different factors as being the most crucial in democratization processes. As it is impossible to thoroughly analyze all of them, those that are most often seen as the crucial ones in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa will be discussed, which are Soc-economic development and Post Cold war protest. In the mid 1980s Africa was struck by a period of famines, desertification, refugees, human rights violations, mutually destructive violence, health problems and economic decline. “among the economic factors, severe balance of trade deficits caused by weak world commodity prices, fluctuating interest rates which cause national debts to swell to unbearable limits, and a severe drop in international aid investment combined to create frustratingly high levels of social-economic hardship.”(Quainoo 6) The issues Africa was facing brought a great deal of doubt to it’s people’s faith in authoritarianism, and eventually led to many protest demanding democratization. …show more content…

With the end of the war and Africa’s poor standard of living it motivated people to protest and revolt against their governments to reform it’s self, they could no longer be silenced. The James C. Davies theory of revolution explains the post war protest for a reformed government. According to this theory people who have been living in poor conditions for a long period of time eventually will revolt especially when a glimmer of hope for a better more stable continent is

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