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African History Questions and Answers

What effects did the slave trade have on Africa?

What challenges did Africans face when they gained independence from colonial rule?

What are some of the negative and positive effects of the slave trade on Africa and its people?

How did the Berlin Conference of 1884 affect Africa?

In Abyssinia, what was the Wal Wal Incident?

What was the influence and impact of colonialism on Africa in terms of culture, religion, politics, economy, education, and theater? 

What are the problems facing Uganda today?

What were the consequences of slave trading on Africa and America?

What were the main consequences of the policy of apartheid in South Africa?

How did the slave trade affect Africa's political structures?

Why was Nelson Mandela imprisoned?

What happened during apartheid in South Africa, and how?

What is a "culture of impunity" and how does it relate to the "rule of law" ? Rwanda genocide of 1994.

Why was the Segregate Amenities Act passed?

How did African culture influence American culture?  

What was the historical significance of the "Scramble for Africa"?

What are the positive and negative effects of imperialism in Africa during World War I?

Analyze the effects of the Age of Exploration on Africa and on the Americas. Include specific effects of the Atlantic slave trade. In what ways were the effects similar or different on these continents? What was the motivation of the European colonizers? Clearly develop and organize your ideas and support your answer with evidence from the course. How can I put this into a three-paragraph essay?

How did African countries reach independence? Differences, please!

How did the slave trade affect Africa?

How did the African slave trade affect West African societies? I would especially like to know the effects the slave trade had on West Africa.

How did the Group Areas Act of 1950 affect people's lives, and how did they respond to this?

Who are the major trading partners of modern African nations?

What is the Fresh Revival Fire Ministries in Uganda?

Is Cambodia in Africa?

What were the effects of the Berlin Conference on Nigeria?

What common experiences united the African diaspora? What events in Africa inspired Pan-Africanism? What were the goals of the First Pan-African Congress? What did Pan-Africans do to change opinions and to aid Africa?

Why did trading empires develop in ancient West Africa?

Describe the process through which apartheid was dismantled in South Africa. Why was the process relatively nonviolent?

What are the major issues affecting Africa? What is holding Africa back from achieving its potential? Where will Africa be in 25 years?

After examining the influence of the Bantu migration on African history, what concepts did the Bantu pass on to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa?  My text for this is Traditions & Encounters, by Bentley and Ziegler.

What accounts for the rather late emergence of African countries as independent nation-states? Is there something peculiar about Africa that delayed its drive for independence?

How does the development of civilization in eastern Africa and southern Africa compare and contrast?

Without the help of Africans, would the European explorers have survived in Africa? Pre-Colonial Africa

Why was South Africa the last British colony in Africa to be  granted independence in 1994?

The 17th and 18th century slave trade had the greatest impact on which part of africa? A. the Sinai B.West africa C.Sub-Saharan Africa D.South Africa E.East africa

How were interactions with Europe different in Eastern Africa than in Western Africa?

What is the cultural geography of the Subsaharan Africa and North Africa/Southwest Asia?