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APC2601 Exam pack 2025(Political Change in Contemporary Africa)
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APC2601 Exam pack 2025(Political Change in Contemporary Africa)
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APC2601 EXAM PACK2024
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APC2601
OCT/NOV 2024
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
OCT/NOV 2024
APC2601
Political Change in Contemporary Africa
Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
This paper consists of two (10) pages.
Instructions:
1. You are given a maximum of (3 hours) to write this examination starting from the 12 NOV 2024 08:00 - 12
NOV 2024 11:00.
2. If you fail to upload your final examination script, you will be registered as ‘absent from examination’.
3. This examination paper consists of forty (40) True or False/Multiple Choice Questions and one short question
which must be answered.
4. Each question in section A is worth 2 marks – and the short question in Section B is worth 20 marks.
5. Please answer the examination questions in a separate document and upload on the Moodle platform.
6. Do not encrypt any answer files with a security code.
7. Scanned documents must be converted and saved in PDF format, only. Scanned documents must be
saved as a single file.
8. Please check that you have uploaded the correct file/document.
9. Please ensure that you submit the examination script on the scheduled date and time.
This is not an open-book examination, and there is no need to use sources.
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Instruction: Please ANSWER all the questions in Section A and B
SECTION A
QUESTION 1
Participation refers to the notion that elections must be held regularly.
A. True
B. False
QUESTION 2
The involvement of the military in politics may be considered democratic when the military is by
extension the government.
A. True
B. False
QUESTION 3
In the context of military coups, the contagion effect does not refer to a situation where if a coup is
successful in one country other military formations will attempt to launch coups in their own
countries.
A. True
B. False
QUESTION 4
Parliamentary fragmentation takes place when a large number of parties are registered.
A. True
B. False
QUESTION 5
Military coups are often a form of change that is not change because.
A. Citizens are likely to give directives to the military government.
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B. Citizens are likely to find themselves in a situation that they were still in before the coup took
place.
C. Citizens are likely to not fully participate in the governance the coup has taken place.
QUESTION 6
International gatherings have been organized to find common approaches to problems (such as
poverty, drug trafficking and the environment) faced by nations of the world.
A. Because powerful states are forcing less powerful states that are not willing to commit to
solving these problems.
B. Because these issues transcend the boundaries of individual states and affect the wider
world which of states are part.
C. Because affected states are forming alliances to resolve these challenges.
QUESTION 7
African scholars argue (in the APC2601 study guide) that globalization poses a danger to Africa’s
democracies …………
A. And it might jeopardize their chances of actively forming part of the global community.
B. And it might jeopardize their chances of consolidation.
C. And it might jeopardize their chances of becoming an influencing force in global politics.
QUESTION 8
Liberal democracy pays particular attention to the distribution of class power.
A. True
B. False
QUESTION 9
……………are the most important entity in politics and it is on their endorsement that any regime can
gain legitimacy.
A. States
B. Citizens
C. Democratic institutions
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