Unit 10: Paper 3 — History of Africa and the Middle East (HL)
Topic 10.8: Colonialism in Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda (1890–1980) Questions
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In Kenya's White Highlands, from the early 1900s, which group was evicted or restricted onto smaller reserves to make way for white settler farmers?
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Which region of Kenya did thousands of British settlers occupy from the early 1900s, gaining the most fertile land?
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In Senegal's Four Communes, which African individual was elected as Senegal's deputy to the French parliament in 1914, becoming the classic example of assimilation policy in practice?
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The Aba Women's War of 1929 in south-eastern Nigeria was primarily a protest against which feature of British colonial administration?
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Which forced-labour system did Portugal impose in Mozambique to compel Africans to work on plantations and infrastructure for little or no pay?
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Which piece of legislation gave the colonial state in Kenya the power to seize "unoccupied" land and lease it to European settlers for up to 999 years?
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In Senegal's Four Communes, which African deputy was elected to the French parliament in 1914?
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What event in 1929 saw Igbo women in south-eastern Nigeria mount a mass protest linked to warrant chiefs and feared new taxation?
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Evaluate the claim that African labour in colonial Kenya before 1930 was, in practice, never truly voluntary.
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Roughly how many Kikuyu did British colonial authorities detain in camps during the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising?
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Which treaty formalised British indirect rule in Uganda by granting the Kingdom of Buganda's rulers and chiefs private land ownership and real local power in exchange for cooperation?
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Until the Swynnerton Plan of 1954, African farmers in Kenya were legally barred from growing which cash crop?
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The Kikuyu-led Watu wa Mungu (Akurinu) movement, an example of an African-led independent church, emerged from which decade?
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From what year did every African man in Kenya have to carry a kipande, an identity pass recording his employer?
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Evaluate the claim that colonial rule in Kenya created new, more rigid ethnic identities rather than simply administering identities that already existed.
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To what extent do you agree that the rise of African-led independent churches such as Watu wa Mungu should be seen as a form of resistance to colonial rule?
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The Uganda Railway, built between 1896 and 1901, ran between which two points?
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In south-eastern Nigeria, what were the British-appointed local authorities imposed on the Igbo, who traditionally governed by consensus rather than chiefs, commonly known as?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that land alienation, rather than taxation or the pass system, was the single most damaging economic policy imposed on Africans in colonial Kenya?
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Discuss the view that the Uganda Railway and the growth of cash-crop farming brought genuine economic development to colonial Kenya.
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