FINAL Flashcards
ESSAY QUESTION 1:
the benefits and deficits of China’s
presence in Africa and its competition with the West in and over the continent?
What are the 3 main points in my INTRO?
1) Infrastructure built with Chinese Investment
2) Chinese private firms and African security
3) Enviromental and Human Rights Abuses
ESSAY QUESTION 1:
What are the 4 main points in BODY 1?
1) China has poured billions of dollars into Africa’s infrastructure:
“The Belt Road initiative”
*started in 2013; it is China’s global infrastructure development strategy; spans 3 continents
*Seeks to revive trade routes along China’s ancient Silk road linking China to East Africa; ports , pipelines, railways, and power plants funded by China
*Kenya-built big railway project Nairobi-Mambasa (SGR)
2) PROS of SGR (Kenya)
*Created 30,000 new jobs
*Transported millions of passengers and shipments
3) CONS of SGR (Kenya)
* jobs do not pay well
Kenya in order to pay for the project has left loans = to $4.7 bil.
4) US argues debt-trap diplomacy
ESSAY QUESTION 1:
What are the 4 main points in BODY 3?
1) cobalt mines owned by Chinese companies used for technology
-according to data in 2021, 15 out of 19 industrial mines in congo owned by China
-child labor
2) environmental degradation and pollution caused by mining projects
3) to view Africa with no agency dangerous to say
ESSAY QUESTION 1:
What are the 3 main points in BODY 2?
1) Digital Silk Road; apart of BRI
*includes e-commerce, medicine, and internet finance
2) Rwanda & Huawei (private firm) world leader in technology
*Collaborates with rwandan government to use technology and education in 1500 homes (Smart Education Project)
3) US claims Huawei threatens national security, claims technology is spying
*claims it has violated sanctions
*vague Chinese intelligence laws in which data could be handed over to government
ESSAY QUESTION 2:
What are some points and the 3 main points in INTRO?
-Daesh-JIhadist group with presence spread in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso have seen increasing presence
-Al-Qaida, Islamic militant group led by Sunni Muslims
*UN calls it “global epicentre of terrorism”-half of people killed because of terrorism in 2022 were killed in Sub-Saharan Africa
1) Poor governance
2) Economic instability
3) media
ESSAY QUESTION 2:
What are the 4 main points in BODY 1 (Mali’s poor governance)?
1) Tuareg rebels declare independence despite disagreements
2) Mali War-since 2012 due to multiple insurgent groups which led to coup of President Toure
*rise in weaponry after Libyan civil war, compels them to demand more for their independence
3) 3 largest northern mali cities overtaken by rebels
*Thousands have been displaced
4) Mali now has military government
ESSAY QUESTION 2:
What are the 3 main points in BODY 2 (Economic Instability)?
1) World bank classifies it as a low-income economy
2) Youth recruitment to armed rebels, lack of jobs to the economy
3)Lack of poor governance, livelihoods not ensured
What is the wrong statement about ethnicity and ethnic politics in Africa?
multi-culturalism, which is a feature of much of Africa, can be seen as the anti-thesis
to democracy and development
ESSAY QUESTION: BODY 3
What are the 3 main points in BODY 3?
(The media)
1) Killings and abductions of journalists,
2) End of protective laws
3) Disinformation spread in support of the terrorism
the development crisis in post-colonial Africa is solely rooted in the corrupt nature of the African state-T or F
False
What is not an immediate consequence of the end of the Cold War
(and the rise of a ‘new world order’)?
the intensification of proxy wars
the general condition of underdevelopment was partly responsible for the crisis of the nation-state in post- colonial
Africa? T or f
true
The effects of the Structural Adjustment Programs can be seen in terms of?
wage freezes, massive layoffs, and widening social inequality
The African state used strategies to survive when it was faced with the crisis of
legitimacy. What is not one of them?
organizing insurgency movements
The rolling back of the state is often presented as a condition for aid and loans-T or F
True
