Africa & Global Power

  INTRODUCTION Cote d’Ivoire also known as Ivory Coast during colonialism and officially the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, is a country on the Southern Coast of West Africa. The country had its own fair share of colonialism. Before the coming of the Europeans, Ivory Coast was home to several states, including Gyaaman, the Kong Empire, and Baoulé. The Muslim Kong Empire who have said to have been established by the Dyula in the early 18 th century in the north-central region inhabited by the Sénoufo, who had fled Islamisation under the Mali Empire. The Abron Kingdom of Gyaaman was established in the 17 th century by an Akan group, the Abron who had fled the developing Ashanti confederation of Asante man in what is present-day Ghana. The Baoulé, like the Ashanti, developed a highly centralized political administrative structure under three successive rulers. It finally split into smaller chiefdoms. Despite the breakup of their kingdom, the Baoulé strongly resisted French subjugation...

    SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY The social contract theory is not only the most ancient but also the most famous of the theories regarding the origin of the state. The substance of this theory is that state is the result of an agreement entered into by men who originally had no governmental organisation. In the first period there was no government and no law. The people lived in a state of nature. After some time, they decided to set up a state. That they did by means of a contract. The social contract theory described the original condition of men as the 'state of nature'. To escape from the condition of the state of nature man made a social contract. To some writers the contract was pre-social and to others it was pre-political. Writers on this theory are agreed on the point that the state of nature preceded the establishment of government there was no organised life in the state of nature. Each lived according to his own wish and fancies. No man made laws were there to control...

  INTRODUCTION For many, Nigeria is a failed country in all ramifications. Quite contradictory to a country richly blessed with huge human and natural resources. Those placed at the helm of affairs; whose duty it is to pilot the government has dragged the giant of Africa to the mud. Since after her independence, two forms of government have been tasted vis; civilian to military, military civilian, yet none has advanced the living condition of the citizenry. Significantly, Nigeria is one of the countries in the world that is richly blessed with huge natural and human resources. Nigeria has existed for sixty-four years with little or no record of socio-political and economic development. This ugly trend is not unconnected with poor leadership. It is logically unbelievable and appalling that despite the long years of independence, Nigeria the so called “giant” of Africa is still battling with the problem of good leadership, hence wallowing in poverty. The caliber of leaders that hav...

  INTRODUCTION The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies. Progressive reformers were alarmed by the spread of slums, poverty, and the exploitation of labor. Multiple overlapping progressive movements fought perceived social, political, and economic ills by advancing democracy, scientific methods, and professionalism; regulating business; protecting the natural environment; and improving working and living conditions of the urban poor. Philosophical questions: Why was it called the Progressive Era? It was called Progressive movement  because there was political and social-reform movement that brought major changes to the United States during...