Africa Governments

Government run only by a few people. Sometimes a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The citizen has a very limited role. 

• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Republic

Government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. 

• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

What is the main DIFFERENCE between a presidential democracy and a parliamentary democracy?

• A President controls a country and a Prime Minister controls a state.

• A Prime Minister does not belong to a political party while a President always does.

• A Prime Minister has more power than a President.

• A President is elected directly by the citizens, while a Prime Minister is elected by the Legislature.

How are a democracy, oligarchy, and autocracy DIFFERENT?

• the sharing of power between the different levels of government

• the election of the three branches of government

• the role of the citizen

• the law making process

South Africa has a president that is elected by the National Assembly, its legislature. Citizens 18 and older can vote, and it has a two-house legislature. The executive and legislative branches are combined into one. What type of democracy is this?

• federal

• direct

• parliamentary

• presidential

The government of South Africa has a national government and 9 provincial governments, each with some reserved powers and shared powers.  What type of government would South Africa be classified

• unitary
• federal
• oligarchy
• confederation

Sudan is led by a totalitarian regime led by Omar Al Bashir who has ruled the country since he came to power in a coup de ’tat in 1989. South Africa has however enjoyed a stable democracy since 1994.
Which compares an autocratic to a democratic government?

• Citizens can participate more in democratic governments.
• The government has less power in autocratic governments.
• Citizens can participate more in autocratic governments.
• Autocratic and democratic governments are the same.

In Kenya most of the important national decisions are taken by the central government. Distributing power this way would mean Kenya has what form of government?

• Confederation
• Federal
• Democracy
• Unitary

In Nigeria, the constitutional arrangement requires political power to be evenly distributed between the central government and the various regional authorities. The president of Nigeria is elected every four years in a nationwide poll. Based on this information, the government of Nigeria is MOST LIKELY…?

• Confederation
• Unitary
• Federal
• Oligarchy

This is a type of government in which a group of individual states are united under a strong, central government where power is somewhat evenly distributed.

• Federation(Federal))
• Confederation
• Autocratic
• Parliamentary Democracy