{UAH} Oxford Dictionary has released the Dictionary of African Politics

With African politics being one of the world's interest areas, Oxford Dictionary has released the Dictionary of African Politics that provides a rich data of African politics.

Put together by two doctoral candidates and Professor Nic Cheeseman from the University of Birmingham, the new dictionary gives detailed overviews of selected political personalities, events and occasions in African politics, explains theoretical terms specific to Africa and several countries in the continent and also provides information on Africa's contribution to global and modern politics.

Speaking the team explains that it put together the long overdue Dictionary by the simple use of social media and crowdsourcing information through suggestions for the most relevant and insightful terms.

Aside from the use of social media, the process also involved collecting and sifting through suggestions from people in Africa upon request.

A few popular terminologies that feature in the dictionary are Watermelon Politics from Zambia referring to an individual that professes to support one political party but in reality, belongs to another. The term comes from the fact that the leading political parties have green and red as their party colors.

Another popular term in the Oxford dictionary of African Politics is the Ghanaian term "skirt-and-blouse voting" which means to vote for different parties for presidential and legislative elections.

The dictionary does not play bias to Anglophone Africa and features Francophone Africa and various terms from indigenous languages that have become universal covering as much as possible from the continent.

Eloïse Bertrand, one of the PhD candidates that worked on the dictionary announced its release on Twitter and it has since received some reactions from Africans on the app.

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