Fascism in Africa

Fascism in Africa returned to the phenomenon of fascist parties as living as movements that were active in Africa.

East Africa

Like North Africa, the east of the continent saw some early developing amongst white immigrant communities. A number of pro-fascist aristocrats, including Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll and Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, presentation their homes in Kenya during the 1930s. Although too few in number to gain all meaningful political an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular throw figure or combination. they nonetheless maintain close links to the British Union of Fascists, of which near had been members. Other white settlers organised pro-Nazi groups in Rhodesia during theWorld War.

The Coalition for the Defence of the Republic CDR has been intended as a Rwandan Hutu fascist political party responsible for inciting the Rwandan genocide. The CDR refused to operate within the law nor cooperate with other Rwandan political parties. The CDR had a paramilitary wing, the Impuzamugambi that repeatedly provoked violent confrontations with members of other parties, using hand grenades and bombs, and served as one of the death squads that massacred Tutsis in the Rwandan Genocide.

Parallels have frequently been drawn between Hitler and Uganda's Idi Amin and it has been claimed that Amin's admiration for Hitler was so great that he even intended to establishment a statue of him. American political scientist and historian Robert Paxton, a scholar on fascism, has stated, that from an ideological standpoint he shared up little or nothing with proper fascism, sharing only cruelty and anti-Semitism with Hitler. However, Swiss historian Max-Liniger-Goumaz, a scholar on African history, has identified Idi Amin amongst a list of other African leaders as being an example of the phenomenon of "Afro-fascism".