- (a) Describe the migration and settlement of the Western bantu into east Africa between AD 1000 and 1400.
(b) What were the effects of their settlement? -
(a) Why were Arabs intereste in the East African Coast btn AD 1000 abd 1500?
(b) What were the effects of their settlement at the coast? - What role did the following play in the history of the interlacustrine region?
(a) The Tembuzi,
(b) The Chwezi. -
(a) What were the origins of the Buganda Kingdom?
(b) Explain the factors which led to the growth of the Buganda kingdom during the 18th Century. - (a) Why were the portuguese interested in controlling the East African Coast during the 18th century?
(b) What problems did they face at the coast? -
Explain the importance of the following to the history of Unyamwezi during the early 19th Century
(a) Mirambo,
(b) Nyungu ya Mawe. -
(a) Why did slave trade in East Africa increase during the mid 19th Century?
(b) What were the steps taken to abolish this trade? - (a) Describe the British system of administration in Uganda before 1900.
(b) What problems did the British face during their administration in Uganda? -
(a) how was the 1905-07 Maji-maji resistance organised?
(b) Why did this resistance fail? -
Explain the contribution of the following to the history of Kenya:
(a) Lord Delamere.
(b) Sir Charle Eliot. - (a) Why was east Africa involved in World War 1?
(b) How did this war affect the people of East Africa? -
(a) Explain the factors which contributed to the growth of nationalism in kenya between 1939 and 1952.
(b) What problems did the nationalists face?
- (a) What factors were responsible for the rise of Songhay empire?
(b) Why did the empire decline? -
(a) Describe the origins of the Oyo empire/
(b) How was this empire organised during the 18th Century? - (a) What factors led to the development of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
(b) How did this trade affect the people of West Africa? -
(a) Explain the causes of the 1898 Hut Tax war in Sierra Leone.
(b) What were the effects of this war on the people of Sierra Leone? - (a) Describe the role of Al-Hajji umar in the Futa Jallon jihad.
(b) Why was this jihad successful? -
(a) Why did Christian missionaries come to West Africa?
(b) What was their contribution to West Africa? - (a) Explain the causes of the war between the British and the Asante during the 19th Century.
(b) How did these wars affect the Asante? -
Describe the role of the following in the struggle for indepence in their countries:
(a) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.
9b) Felix Housphouet Boigay.
- (a) Why did the Khoisan people migrate to South Africa?
(b) Describe the way of the life of the khoisan people by AD 1000. -
(a) Why did the british occupy the Cape Colony in 1806?
(b) How did the Boers respond to this occupation? - (a) Explain the causes of the great Trek.
(b) What were the effects of the Trek on the people of South Africa? -
(a) Describe the organisation of the Swazi State during the 19th Century.
(b) Why was the Swazi nation able to survive up to 1870? - Explain the effects of the discovery of minerals in South Africabetween 1867 and 1910 on the:
(a) Africans,
(b) Whites. -
(a) Why was the Union of South Africa formed?
(b) What were the effects of this union to the Africans in South Africa? - (a) Explain the causes of the 1880-81 "War of the Guns".
(b) How did this war affect the Basuto? -
(a) Why was the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) established in South Africa in 1919?
(b) What were its achievements by 1930?