Exam Questions

EXAM QUESTIONS

Emerging African Independence

British and French colonial empires and their models of domination

British and French were the two European countries which had a lot of domination in the colonial Africa . They had colonial countries distributed all over Africa with French taking much of West African countries while Britain took much of northern , eastern and southern Africa . While France pursued policy of assimilation in the colonies Britain emphasized on educating the natives with elementary skills British colonies were controlled as an empire from Britain and there were governors

who run them on behalf of the monarch

Economies of emerging African independent nations

Emerging African independent countries have been faced by several problems as far as their economies are concerned . Most of their economies were agrarian and can be aid to be in the initial phase of industrialization . Most of the economies lacks diversification and are prone to various environmental effects . But slowly some of the countries like South Africa are diversifying their economies although there is still a heavy reliance on natural resource rather that technology

OAU and its goals

Upon realizing independence , African countries came together and formed the Organization of African Unity . This was a body that was aimed at spearheading most of the problems that the African countries were facing . In particular it was aimed at resolving crisis which were facing most African countries when they were given independence . OAU was formed by pan-africanists who had been spearheading the granting of independence to these countries . It main goal was to bring all heads of African state together and to spearhead independence of African countries which were still under colonial rule including Zimbabwe , South Africa and others

African problem of poverty , illiteracy , population growth and economic inequality

There are many problems facing African countries which seem not to let go in the near future . African countries have been fighting the problems of poverty , illiteracy , population growth and economic inequality and the problem have persisted fro along time now . Poverty is one of the most challenging problems in the continent . It is estimated that more than half of the residents in the continent live on less than one dollar a day which is the UN measures to poverty line . Therefore is means most of the population lives below poverty line . There is still high level of illiteracy in the continent as more and more children drop out of school in to help their parents look for basic needs due to abject poverty . The systems of education in the continent provide low quality of education and most of those who are educated cannot get employment Apparently all these problems have been compounded by high rate of population growth with most of the countries recording fertility rate of more than 5 . Despite these above problems there is high rate of economic inequality in the continent and a common site is a large sprawling slum in neighborhood with upper class estate . There are those who live in lavish life...