APC2601
Assignment 1
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ANSWERS)
Semester 1
2025
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APC2601 Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025
Course
Political Change in Contemporary Africa (APC2601)
Institution
University Of South Africa (Unisa)
Book
An Introduction to African Politics
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Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025.
. Coloniality had a severe impact on Africa’s economic and political
development. Write an essay in which you discuss how and why the 1884-5
Berlin consensus and scramble and conquest of Africa resulted in the
dismemberment and fragmentation of Africa. In your essay select an African
state and explain its consequential political-economic development
trajectory caused by coloniality.
or Write an essay in which you discuss economic bilateral relations between
two African states. In your essay discuss the economic relations between any
two African states, identify the economic, social and political benefits for
each state involved in the bilateral relation(s) and critique the importance of
economic bilateral relations between states.
or Coloniality has affected how markets operate. Write an essay in which
you discuss how the current “coloniality of markets and new scramble for
Africa” deeply manifests and is embedded in how multinational corporations
drive the economy of African states. In your essay select a multinational
corporation as an example operating in an African state and critique it’s
relevance within the selected state.