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2015, Komunikowanie w Afryce. Endo- i egzogeniczne aspekty: Polityka - Gospodarka - Społeczeństwo - Media (ed. Arkadiusz Żukowski)
In most Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East, modernization processes, and thus the spread of education, increasingly open economies, greater access to the mass media and the Internet, and even (in some cases) limited political liberalization have led to growing political and economic aspirations of the society, and the lack of them – to revolt. Djibouti – which was a French colony in the Horn of Africa in the past, although is not ethnically Arab country, it feels some cultural, religious, economic, and partly linguistic proximity to the Arab states. Not surprisingly, the protests in the Arab world soon gained a lot of interest in the Djiboutian society. At the root of the protests in Djibouti lie many years of authoritarian rule of Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, as well as huge social inequalities that make the majority of Djiboutians live in poverty, although the state has the highest GDP per capita in the region. The article is an attempt to analyze the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring in Djibouti, and at the same time provides at least partial answer to the question why the Arab Spring in Djibouti did not lead to major political changes.
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