POL121

1. What is popularly known as

the ”Mandela option”

suggests

2. According to Nkrumah

(1976:9), the name

Rhodesia was coined from

Cecil Rhodes, the founder

of the ……………….

3. Hellen Sirleaf Johnson of

……………. was the first

African woman to be

elected President

4. The attacks by the

……………… against the

evils of colonialism also

aided the decolonization

process in Africa

5. South Africa and a group of

countries in that region are

called

6. The first Nigeria's generally

acclaimed 'free and fair'

election was won by Chief

7. Scholars regard the post￾independence relationship

between African countries

and their former imperial

powers as

8. Most post-independence

African leaders embraced

one-party system in line

with their belief in concept

of African

9. One of these former military

rulers in Nigeria was

‘nominated’ as sole

presidential candidate by

the five registered political

parties in 1998

10. One of these African

countries did not practice

One Party System in the

1960s

11. In Sierra-Leone, the

colonial policy distinguished

between the Aborigines and

the ……………….

12. One of these African

leaders is not guilty of

tenacity of office

13. The first black African

colony to attain political

independence was

14. The two groups that formed

the OAU belonged to two

different ideological divides:

Conservative and

15. According to Peter Ekeh, “

to problems demand

context and sometimes

models"

16. President

got U.S. Congress approval

for Arican Growth and

Opportunity Act (AGOA)

17. The title "Mwalimu" used by

a Tanzanian President

means The Great

18. Prior to the World War II,

Togoland and Cameroon

were colonies of

…………………..

19. The eight point Millennium

Development Goals

(MDGS) was launched by

the

in year 2000

20. In a democracy, the Fourth

Estate of the realm is

21. The first African country to

experience military coup is

22. Ghana achieved

………………….. from

Britain in 1957

23. The ………………………

movement provided training

grounds for new African

political leadership in the

post-independece era

24. One of the followings was

not a traditional African

nationalist

25. One of the factors that

affected the spread of

western education in the

Northern part of Nigeria

was the restriction on

…………………………..

activities

26. One of these nationalists

was a member of the

Patriotic Front who worked

with Robert Mugabe to

secure independence for

Zimbabwe in 1980

27. Regional integration by

African countries is difficult

because of

28. United Nation was

established in the year

29. The popular saying "seek

first the kingdom of politics,

every ohters shall be added

ujnto it" is credited to a pan￾Africanist called

30. The meaning of the popular

title "Osagyefo" given to

Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

means

31. Under the bi-polar global

system, the 'cold war' was

between the United States

of America and the defunct

Union of

_Socialist Republics

32. The Arab Spring that led to

the overthrow some sit-tight

North African leaders

started in

33. In Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah

was popularly called

34. In the Nigeria’s First

Republic (1960-1966), the

system of government

practiced was

35. The Ghanaian popular

military revolution in the late

70s was led by John James

_Rawlings

36. The acronyms (A.P.R.M)

means African

Review Mecanism

37. One of the two major blocs

that led to the formation of

the Organization of African

Unity (now AU), was the

_groups

38. The Beijing Declaration on

Gender Equality, popularly

known as the

Action was proclaimed in

China in 1995

39. The first epoch of African

encounter with the

Europeans was the period

of

_Trade

According to Bade
Onimode (1981:96), the
dual economic system
created by colonial masters
were essentially to serve
subsistent needs of the
local paople and

41. Fredrick de Klerk was

President up to the year

1989

42. The Acronym CIA means

Central

Agency

43. Legitimate Trade is an

offshoot of

44. The major policy of colonial

rule could be summarized

as …………...

45. The idea of One Party

System was promoted in

Africa in the immediate

post-independence era for

the following reasons,

except

46. The book written by Walter

Rotney is titled “How

Europe Underdeveloped

_

47. In 1965, TANU was

legalized as the sole

political party in

48. Standardized taxation was

introduced in Africa by

colonial masters to replace

…………… hitherto

collected by African

Traditional Rulers

49. The campaign for the

extension of the tenure of

President Olusegun

Obasanjo of Nigeria was

killed by the

50. The followings but one, are

the features of African

politics