Sociopolitics

      Created by: Annie Anderson

Welcome to the socio-political page of East Africa! Socio-politics, in short, is the relationship between society and politics. Socio-politics explains how society works with the government to better improve a country. An example of this would be protesting for better infrastructure or the government trying to pass laws in order to better education. Socio-politics is extremely important to everyday life because the laws enacted will affect society so it's important for society to be involved in the government and vice versa. If socio-politics did not exist and the government failed to connect with society, nothing would change and issues that must be addressed, like equality in general, in the governing body may never get addressed if society doesn't bring them up. On this page, there will be three artifacts delving into gender equality, leadership and national information, and migration in Eastern Africa.

Infographic on Women in East Africa

The infographic shown to the right, which was created using Canva, which is linked at the bottom, represents just a few of the aspects of gender equality in East Africa. It goes over topics such as the literacy rate of women compared to men, FGM rates, which stands for Female Genital Mutilation, and the pay gaps present in some of the countries spanning throughout the region. This infographic is supposed to shed some light on the treatment of women and hopefully make readers seek improvement. The pay gap scores are measured from zero to one for reference. Gender equality is a sociopolitical topic because of how it connects to both society and politics which is why it's showcased in this section. 

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Annotated Map on National Information of East Africa


The image to the left is a picture of the interactive physical annotative map created as another artifact. The center of the poster shows a hand-drawn image of the map of East Africa and the countries within it. In each country, the name of the country and the capital is listed. For countries too small to write in, there is an arrow with the information pointing to the country. The interactive part of the map is the flags. Each flag can be flipped up to reveal what the flag symbolizes and who the political leaders in power are currently in the questioned country.  This artifact connects to socio-politics because of the government and national aspects of the map which are important aspects of sociopolitics and show how culture can be connected to politics through symbols such as flags. 

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Migration in Eastern Africa 

The video shown to the right is embedded into the website and should be playable just by clicking on it. This video talks about how migration within Eastern Africa is affecting the region and holding it back from developing. Furthermore, it talks about the need for more cooperation on topics such as human rights and climate change, not just from the countries within the region, but also international countries helping to relieve pressure within Eastern Africa. This connects back to the sociopolitical page because this video educates and talks about how the government needs to help its societies in order to develop and better the region. Moreover, it talks about the need for political cooperation on sociopolitical issues such as human rights and forced migration due to violence and/or persecution.

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