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Periodical article |
| Title: | Background to government and politics in Africa |
| Author: | Andoh, A.S.Y. |
| Year: | 1970 |
| Periodical: | Présence africaine |
| Issue: | 74 |
| Pages: | 29-45 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | politics public law |
| Abstract: | Sub-title of this article: The nature of government and politics in the 'natural' African environment of poverty and tribalism. The author isolates and discusses the effects of two of the basic conditions of life in Africa - poverty and tribalism - on the government and politics of the new States which have emerged on the continent in recent years, or since the end of the Second World War. Notes, French summary. |