Four African Political Systems

Groningen African Political Philosophy , 1860 - 1995

South African Economic Woes: Poor Political Leadership and Rating Downgrades Hampers Growth and Development

Purpose:  The paper aims to focus on South Africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. It attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the National Dev...

Four million years of African herbivory.

The vast African continent is an ecological stage with ever-changing scenery and casts of characters that included human ancestors. The mammals that came and went upon this stage have been enlisted to help answer a compelling question relevant to our own evolutionary story: How do land animals respond to long-term environmental change? The paper by Cerling et al. (1) is a milestone in this ques...

Development and Resources Distribution Structure in Political Systems

Distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. This finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. Because the resource structure is strongly influenc...

Cliophysics: Socio-Political Reliability Theory, Polity Duration and African Political (In)stabilities

Quantification of historical sociological processes have recently gained attention among theoreticians in the effort of providing a solid theoretical understanding of the behaviors and regularities present in socio-political dynamics. Here we present a reliability theory of polity processes with emphases on individual political dynamics of African countries. We found that the structural propert...