Unit 21: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Africa & the Middle East
Topic 21.10: Africa under colonialism (1890–1980) Questions
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Evaluate the reasons why Kenya became a settler colony while Tanganyika did not.
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Discuss the impact of indirect rule on Tanganyika under the British Mandate.
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To what extent was land the main grievance of Africans against British rule in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia?
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Examine the reasons why decolonisation occurred earlier in Tanganyika than in Kenya.
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Compare and contrast the systems of colonial rule established by Britain in Nigeria and by France in Senegal.
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Analyse the reasons why Nigeria's constitutional development between 1946 and 1960 was shaped by regional rather than national unity.
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Examine the causes of the Aba Women's War of 1929 in Southern Nigeria.
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Evaluate the impact of Frederick Lugard's system of indirect rule on Northern Nigeria.
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Discuss the reasons why the Gold Coast became the first Sub-Saharan African colony to achieve independence.
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To what extent was Kwame Nkrumah responsible for the Gold Coast's achievement of independence in 1957?
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Examine the role of economic factors in the growth of nationalism in two African colonies you have studied.
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Evaluate the significance of Léopold Sédar Senghor to the nationalist movement in Senegal.
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Discuss the view that violent unrest, rather than negotiated political reform, was the main driver of change in colonial Africa in the period you have studied.
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Compare and contrast the roles played by Kwame Nkrumah in the Gold Coast and Léopold Sédar Senghor in Senegal in achieving independence for their respective colonies.
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Compare and contrast the colonial economies of Kenya and Northern Rhodesia.
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Analyse the reasons for the creation of the Central African Federation in 1953.
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Discuss the significance of Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) for Southern Rhodesia.
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To what extent did British colonial administration in Africa depend on cooperation with local African elites?
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Evaluate the reasons for the collapse of the Central African Federation in 1963.
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Examine the methods used by Britain to control land and labour in colonial Kenya.
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