Burenkov V. Evolution of political systems of the countries of Sub-Saharian Africa in the post-colonial period

The thesis presents the analysis of scientific works of foreign and national researchers concerning political sciences of the African countries. The author also presents generalized picture of political history of states of Sub-Saharian Africa during the time of independence, discloses its sources, factors of evolution, moving forces, problems and achievements, westernized and socio-cultural dimensions. The thesis defines essential characteristics, structural, systematic, narrow-civilizational and euro-creative formats of development of African political systems, reveals their laws and levels of their formation and development, mechanisms of functioning, degrees of social effectiveness. In the result of the carried out work, the author identified essential characteristics of the new phenomenon - original hybrid variety of political systems of the countries of the region that started to isolate itself from the circle of the authoritarian regimes, mainly, since 1980-ies and that demonstrated the most successful indexes of social stability, state-political efficiency, socio-cultural legitimacy, power support by people masses. The research discloses contemporary state of the process of evolution of political space of the African countries with its three system-forming currents: democratization, restoration-authoritarian and oriented at the reconstitution of hybrid political systems. The work also elaborated the prognoses of development of general political situation on the continent in perspective.