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African authoritarianism  

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  • Authoritarianism is a form of political governance in which a ruler exercises absolute control over a state or group of people with the ultimate goal being preservation of power. In Africa, in addition to the elected presidents who have usurped power and turned themselves into presidents for life, military dictators are another category of authoritarians. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Authoritarianism, African]

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