Tropical fascism

Tropical fascism is a phrase sometimes used to describe post-colonial states which are either considered fascist or which are seen to have authoritarian tendencies, for example the regime of Gnassingbé Eyadéma, dictator of Togo and leader of the Rally of the Togolese People.[1] The term has been used to describe several historic regimes in Haiti, such as the presidency of Louis Borno[2] or the later government of François Duvalier.

The Coalition for the Defence of the Republic and larger Hutu Power movement, a Hutu ultranationalist and supremacist movement that organized and committed the Rwandan genocide aimed at exterminating the Tutsi people of Rwanda, has been described as an example of "tropical fascism" in Africa.[3]


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References

  1. African geopolitics , Issues 17-20. OR.IMA International, 2005. Pp. 104.
  2. Fatton, Robert (2007) The Roots of Haitian Despotism, L Rienner, p.164
  3. Pierre Hazan, Sarah De Stadelhofen. Judging war, judging history: behind truth and reconciliation.Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. 143.
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