Tropical fascism

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

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