Politics and Dynamics of Personality Cult in Africa

A personality cult is a circumstance where an open figure is purposely introducedto the individuals of a nation as an extraordinary individual who ought to beappreciated and adored. It is relevant to comprehend that distinctive Africannations had early fathers from the religious to secular world who contributedcolossally to the disclosure and systematization of country states. Thesepersonalities are expected to be adored as trailblazers of nationhood but havebeen subverted with present-day characters whose belief systems and perspectivesare very unusual to the nations. The thrust of this paper is on a personality cult,religion and politics in Africa. Data were collected using the documentary methodand analyzed via the content analysis method. The study was anchored on thetheory of charismatic leadership propounded by Robert Tucker (1968). Thestudy discovered that cults were part of a larger universe of symbolic politicsthat played a vital role in disseminating party goals and social hierarchies andthat they served to centre emotions and loyalties in a particular symbol. However,a pure instrumentalist view fails to account for the cults’ numerous popularmanifestations, particularly in local contexts. The examination in this wayprescribes, among others, that authority and non-formally attributed implicationsought to be paid attention to in state-society connections to encourage and continuepioneer cliques