African Politics Final

According to the syllabus, what native American nations are long-term residents of the land that UCI sits upon?

kizh and acjachemen

According to Binyavanga Wainaina, “[t]he biggest taboo in writing about Africa is to describe

or show dead or suffering..”:

white people

According to Binyavanga Wainaina, when writing about Africa “[a]lways end your book with (_________)

saying something about rainbows or renaissances.”

nelson mandela

According to Prof. Olufemi Taiwo, the status quo of referring to pre-colonial Africa divides

African history into how many parts?

3

According to Prof. Olufemi Taiwo, the status quo of referring to pre-colonial Africa excludes

which African countries because they were either never colonized or perpetrated their own

colonialism well before European colonialism?

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Liberia

According to Prof. Olufemi Taiwo, “[a]ll that came before is now ‘precolonial Benin’ ?

1897

According to Prof. Olufemi Taiwo, “Italy’s so-called colonisation of Ethiopia barely lasted”

how many years?

5

In the Global Dispatches interview between Mark Goldberg and Constantine Manda, what

is the percentage that is reported the President of Tanzania won in the October 29th, 2025

elections?

98%

According to the Paine et al (2023) reading, the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 divided Africa

between several European powers

false

In the Nunn (2010) reading, the main outcome being explained is:

Conversion to Christianity

According to Nunn (2010), the main outcome is explained by: (

Christian Missionary Exposure

Nunn (2010) argues that what matters for understanding transmission of Christian beliefs

across time are determined by one’s ethnicity rather than their contemporary location.

true

Nunn (2010) shows that looking at the main results only among non-Muslim weakens the

results.

flase

Nunn (2010) argues that Africans converted into Christianity because of the proliferation of

the “word of God” through the dispersions of Bibles translated in the local languages rather

than the provision of education, healthcare, and other public goods and services.

false

According to Nunn (2017), slavery in Africa REDUCED which of the following:

Economic development.

According to Nunn (2017), slavery in Africa INCREASED ethnic diversity. (

True

According to Nunn (2017), the transatlantic slave trade preferred more FEMALE slaves rela-

tive to MALE slaves compared to the Indian Ocean Slave trade which preferred more MALE

slaves relative to FEMALE slaves

false

According to Nunn (2017), how does slavery contribute to INCREASED HIV prevalence in

Africa today?

Polygamy, which develops due to REDUCED male to female ratios.

According to Nunn (2017), how does slavery INCREASE ethnic diversity?

By interrupting the political process of smaller polities being aggregated into

larger polities through state and empire formation processes.

Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) use which survey to measure individuals’ trust of others?

African Barometer

Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) identify the impact on trust of what two slave trades?

Transatlantic and Indian Ocean

According to Nunn and Wantchekon (2011), historic slavery reduced contemporary trust of

relatives, neighbors, local council, within-group (intra-group), and across-group (inter-group)

trust.

true

According to Nunn and Wantchekon (2011), proximity to the coast reduces one’s trust in their

local government council in BOTH Africa and Asia.

false

In the video, the British are assumed to have mostly used Direct rule while the French are

assumed to have mostly used Indirect rule. (

false

as per the video, the following countries are considered settler colonies in Africa: (

South Africa and Zimbabwe

According to the video, which two European countries had the most amount of colonies in

Africa?

Britain and France

According to the video, European colonial powers often assumed and sometimes deliberately

misinformed both Africans and non-Africans alike that Africa had no prior civilization, history,

or culture

true

Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2016)’s independent variable is: (

Ethnic partitioning by colonial-era borders

Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2016)’s dependent variable is conflict. (

true

According to Muller (2020), how much did French direct colonial rule shorten political dynas-

ties of Africa’s ancient states, relative to British direct colonial rule? (

Twice as much

According to Muller (2020), the British ruled directly whenever they faced politically complex

ancient African states and indirectly whenever they faced more acephalous ancient African

states. (

false

Which of the following is NOT a country mentioned as an example of the issues discussed by

Bates (2014)?

Burkina Faso

Bates (2014) argues that scarcity, artificially created by government intervention, best serves

rural residents relative to urban dwellers

false

Bates (2014) argues that scarcity, artificially created by government intervention, best serves

rural residents relative to urban dwellers

false

Bates (2014) argues that many post-independence policies of African governments that were

problematic could have been solved by either allowing one’s currency to depreciate or:

implementing import controls.

According to Bates (2014), what was the driving force behind these well-intentioned policies?

Initiate and increase industrialization.

According to Bates (2014), resource allocation thus went to the most capable individuals in

the economy. For instance, those who were most qualified often received employment over

those less qualified

false

According to Garcia-Ponce and Wantchekon (2023), what two strategies did Africa’s pro-

independence leaders select in their fight for independence?

Urban protests or rural insurgencies.

According to Garcia-Ponce and Wantchekon (2023), what factors constrain strategies em-

ployed by these pro-independence leaders?

Geography, demography, and ideology.

According to Garcia-Ponce and Wantchekon (2023), Africa’s democratization was never inter-

rupted by foreign intrusion, for example, the Cold War.

false

According to Garcia-Ponce and Wantchekon (2023), despite having similar Maoist ideologies,

Guinea-Bissau chose urban protests relative to Cape Verde’s rural insurgencies.

false

According to Qian (2015), the list of aid recipients has remained stable for decades suggesting

the same recipients across time

false

. According to Qian (2015), foreign aid to countries is never used in the donor country but just

the recipient country.

false

According to Qian (2015), there is evidence that foreign aid sometimes increases conflict and

lowers political accountability in the recipient country.

true

According to Qian (2015), US food aid to Africa is more a function of food surpluses among

subsidized-US food producers rather than demand from recipient countries

true

According to Bentzen, Hariri, and Robinson (2019), democracy across the world is an invention

of Europeans and its extent is thus imposition by Europeans

false

According to Bentzen, Hariri, and Robinson (2019), Ghana’s Ashanti and Uganda’s Baganda,

as hegemonic ethnic groups, influenced the trajectory of democracy in their respective coun-

tries in the following direction:

Ghana’s pro-democracy and Uganda’s anti-democracy

according to Bentzen, Hariri, and Robinson (2019), which area of the world do their indigenous

proto-democratic institutions have the lowest effect on democracy?

Africa

According to Bentzen, Hariri, and Robinson (2019), which proto-democratic institution do

they use as their treatment/explanatory/independent variable that explains contemporary

democracy?

Selection of local headman by election or communal consensus.

Which country does Stasavage (2005) focus on? (

Uganda

Stasavage (2005), the president of the country of focus of the paper is named: (

Museveni

Among the mechanisms that relate policy-orientation of voters and the provision of public

goods and services under non-democratic contexts, Stasavage (2005) identifies the following

two mechanisms

Observability AND the Salience of the public good/service

Wantchekon (2003) is set in Benin and the author is Beninese. (

true

According to Michalopoulos (2012), ethnic diversity increases with more varied land quality

and terrain ruggedness

true

Michalopoulos (2012) discusses the empirical finding that diversity among both flora (plant-

life) and fauna (animal-life) is also positively correlated with ethnic diversity. If animal and

plant diversity makes knowledge of both much more specialized then this may be one expla-

nation of the relatively more limited mobility of human populations across Africa throughout

human history, relative to Asia and Europe, for instance.

true

What cities and countries does Miguel (2004) compare?

Meatu, Tanzania and Busia, Kenya

According to Miguel (2004), Tanzania has more ethnic politics than Kenya.

false

According to Miguel (2004), the difference in the extent to which Tanzania and Kenya have

ethnic politics is attributable to the personalities and philosophies of the respective indepen-

dence leaders, Tanzania’s Julius K. Nyerere and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta. (

true

What country does Goetz (2002) base its analysis and discussion on? (

uganda

As reported in Goetz (2002), Uganda’s ruling party, the NRM stands for: (

National Resistance Movement

According to Goetz (2002), among other reasons, the NRM has failed to recruit women into

influential political participation in their party because as the only political party allowed in

the country, at the time, there is little incentives to recruit any members, let alone women

members.

true

The President of Uganda during the time that Goetz (2002) is writing this article is Colonel

Kiiza Besigye

false

In the article by Goetz (2002), the acronym CA stands for

constituent assembly

According to the VoA (2023) article, what countries in Africa have NOT experienced a coup

in the last three (3) years? (

kenya

According to the VoA (2023) article, of the 492 coups attempted (successful or not) across the

world since 1950 approximately what percentage occurred in Africa?

45%

According to the VoA (2023) article, out of Africa’s 54 countries, how many have experienced

at least one (1) coup attempt (successful or not) since 1950? (

45

According to the VoA (2023) article, which region of Africa has experienced the largest fre-

quency lately of coups?

The Sahel Region

According to the VoA (2023) article, which country in Africa has the single largest number of

coups attempted (successful or not) since 1950?

sudan

According to Roessler (2011), which of the following is the "modal regime type in postcolonial

Africa"

inclusive power sharing

According to Roessler (2011), which of the following regime types experience the smallest

probability of onsets of civil wars?

Inclusive power sharing

Roessler (2011) uses data that excludes small countries whose "population...[is NOT]...at least

one million and ...[does NOT have]...a surface area of at least half a million square kilometers",

but also excludes countries

where ethnicity is not politically relevant.