Question
The “Not Too Young to Run” movement lowered electoral age limits in this country, whose neopatrimonial ethnic clientelism inspired the theory of prebendalism. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that transitioned to democracy with its Fourth Republic in 1999. The main parties in this federal republic’s bicameral National Assembly are the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress.
ANSWER: Nigeria [or Federal Republic of Nigeria; or Fourth Nigerian Republic; or Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìniira Àpapọ̀ Nàìjíríà; or Ọ̀ hàńjíkọ̀ Ọ̀ hànézè Naìjíríyà; or Jamhuriyar Tarayyar Najeriya]
[10h] Nigeria’s PDP began this practice of alternating presidential nominees between the north and south. Like the federal character principle, it aims to achieve regional balance.
ANSWER: zoning [or presidential zoning; or word forms of zone]
[10e] Legal systems in Nigeria’s northern zones combine customary law, sharī‘a, and this body of law, which tends to weigh past cases over statutes. It is derived from English courts.
ANSWER: common law
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 13.75 | 96% | 42% | 0% |
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| Cornell B | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Arizona State | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Duke | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman State | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |