After the independent of African countries and the assembly of African leader in Addis Ababa is 1963, the leaders of African countries went back with the idea of making for themselves the system of government that they want. In this post we will be listing African countries and their system of government
African Union (AU) member states have various forms of government. The Constitutive Act of the African Union makes no provision for what type of government a member state may or must have, but Article 30 states:
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Governments which shall come to power through unconstitutional means shall not be allowed to participate in the activities of the Union.
This clause has only been applied to Mauritania after its 2005 coup d’état, to Madagascar as a result of the 2009 Malagasy political crisis and to Togo during its political crisis in April 2005.
Several political systems of governance are represented in the AU, including stable, competitive democracies (Botswana, Cape Verde), systems dominated by single parties, and even a failed state that exists in a de jure capacity (Somalia) and a government in exile (Western Sahara’s Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.)
Listed by form of government
| Countries | System of Government |
| Algeria | parliamentary unitary republic |
| Angola | presidential unitary republic |
| Benin | presidential unitary republic |
| Botswana | parliamentary unitary republic |
| Burkina Faso | presidential unitary republic |
| Burundi | presidential unitary republic |
| Cameroon | presidential unitary republic |
| Cape Verde | parliamentary unitary republic |
| Central African Republic | presidential unitary republic |
| Chad | presidential unitary republic |
| Comoros | presidential federal republic |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Republic of the Congo | presidential unitary republic |
| Ivory Coast | presidential unitary republic |
| Djibouti | presidential unitary republic |
| Egypt | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Equatorial Guinea | presidential unitary republic |
| Eritrea | presidential unitary republic |
| Eswatini (Swaziland) | unitary absolute monarchy |
| Ethiopia | semi-presidential federal republic |
| Gabon | presidential unitary republic |
| Gambia | presidential unitary republic |
| Ghana | presidential unitary republic |
| Guinea | presidential unitary republic |
| Guinea-Bissau | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Kenya | presidential unitary republic |
| Lesotho | parliamentary unitary constitutional monarchy |
| Liberia | presidential unitary republic |
| Libya | parliamentary republic |
| Madagascar | semi-presidential devolved republic |
| Malawi | presidential unitary republic |
| Mali | presidential unitary republic |
| Mauritania | presidential republic |
| Mauritius | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Morocco | parliamentary unitary constitutional monarchy |
| Mozambique | presidential unitary republic |
| Namibia | presidential unitary republic |
| Niger | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Nigeria. | presidential unitary federation |
| Rwanda | presidential unitary republic |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Senegal | presidential unitary republic |
| Seychelles | presidential unitary republic |
| Sierra Leone | presidential unitary republic |
| Somalia | semi-presidential federal republic |
| South Africa | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| South Sudan | presidential federal republic |
| Sudan | presidential federal republic |
| Tanzania | presidential federacy republic |
| Togo | presidential unitary republic |
| Tunisia | presidential unitary republic |
| Uganda | presidential unitary republic |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | semi-presidential unitary republic |
| Zambia | presidential unitary republic |
| Zimbabwe | presidential unitary republic |