Africa Governments

By the early 1900's who colonized most of Africa

• China

• Europeans

• Indonesians

• Spanish

What group of people had little say in the type of governments that were established by European colonist in Africa

• Europeans

• Indonesians

• Colonist

• The African People

Approximately how many independent countries are located in Africa today?

• More than a hundred

• about a dozen

• 32

• More than 50

In this type of government, one person possesses unlimited power, and citizens have a limited role in government?

• autocracy

• democracy

• parliamentary

• republic

What type of government is this?

Supreme power is vested in the citizens and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation involving free elections.

• autocracy

• federalism

• democracy

• monarchy

What type of government is described.

Citizens elect members of parliament and then the members of parliament select the leader?

• Democratic

• Parliamentary

• Autocratic

• Presidential

In this system of government, the leader is constitutionally independent of the legislature; citizens directly elect the leader.

• autocracy

• presidential

• parliamentary

• monarchy

This country became independent from Great Britain in 1963

• Libia

• South Africa

• Nigeria

• Kenya

What type of legislature body is described: any lawmaking body of government that consists of two separate houses or chambers

• unicameral

• bicameral

• parliamentary

• tricameral

What did Kenya recently do for women's rights?

• allow women to vote and work outside the home

• having female representation from each of its 47 counties in the legislative branch

• give women equal pay and status as men

• secure the position of prime minister and continue with a parliamentary type of governmnet