Winning the African Prize for Repression Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, Togo, and Equatorial Guinea are the leading repressive states in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of their neighbors may be poorly managed, corrupt, and barely democratic, but only those three bear comparison with the extreme kinds of nation-states that are the subjects of this book. None in sub-S...

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Published inWorst of the Worst p. 166
Main Author Robert I. Rotberg
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation 01.03.2008
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Subjects
Agricultural geography
Agricultural land
Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Agronomy
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Constituents
Countries
Crops
Democracy
Emotional defense mechanisms
Government
Human behavior
Human geography
Human rights
International relations
Jurisprudence
Law
Natural law
Natural rights
Nongovernmental organizations
Personality
Personality processes
Personality psychology
Philosophy of law
Political elections
Political geography
Political oppression & persecution
Political organizations
Political parties
Political processes
Political regimes
Political science
Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
Political systems
Politics
Psychology
Representative democracy
Repression
Social sciences
Torture
Violence
Voting
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Summary:Zimbabwe, Togo, and Equatorial Guinea are the leading repressive states in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of their neighbors may be poorly managed, corrupt, and barely democratic, but only those three bear comparison with the extreme kinds of nation-states that are the subjects of this book. None in sub-Saharan Africa is so odious. None treats its citizens and taxpayers so harshly. None governs with such massive deficiencies. In recent times, Zaire and Kenya might have qualified, or Malawi, the Central African Empire, and Uganda under an earlier set of potentates. Togo recently starred as Africa’s longest autocracy; Equatorial Guinea represents a classic
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