SECTION A (20 marks) Answer all questions in this section. 1. For each of the items (i) - (x), choose the correct answer among the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number. (i) The following are components of a nation except A territory B people C government . D national flag E international recognition. (ii) A nuclear family consist of...
2006 HISTORY PAPER 1
1. Slave trade was useful for early capital accumulation but it was too rigid for industrial development of western world from the end of the first half of the 19thcentury.Explain
2. Examine thoroughly the cardinal factors that determined the division of the African continent among imperialist powers in the second half of the 19thcentury.
3. Trace how the development of monopoly capitalism in Europe was related to the colonization of Africa.
4. Discuss the assertion that colonial activities first centered around those parts of Africa which had poor involvement in intercontinental exchange.
5. Show, using examples, the changing roles of the colonial bureaucracy in Africa up to 1960.
6. Show precisely why and how Kenya became the hub of East African colonial economic system.
7. Determine the factors which influenced the pattern of providing social services in East Africa.
8. “Colonialism contributed much to the present Africa’s underdevelopment”. Substantiate this statement.
9. Show how the colonial state in Kenya advanced white settler interests and how such policies affected the African masses and their responses.
10. Examine the measures taken by the imperial powers to stabilize metropolitan crises ridden economies after the second world war.
11. Examine critically the contribution of external factors to the nationalist movement in Africa.
12. The major contradictions in the African colonial economies sharpened after 1945.Identify them and explain why they sharpened.
13. With concrete examples examine the historical factors causing refugees in the African continent since independence.
14. Examine critically, the tactics used by neo-colonial powers to extend their control over the African states today.
15. (a) what do you understand by the idea of widening gap between the North and the South?
(b) How are the third world countries trying to narrow this gap?
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