POL121

1. In 1965, TANU was

legalized as the sole

political party in

2. The type of democracy that

was practiced in Pre￾colonial Africa was called

3. The title "Mwalimu" used by

a Tanzanian President

means The Great

4. By 1922, a political party

was formed in the British

Nigeria but no political party

was formed in any French

colonies until ………..

5. The first military coup took

place in Nigeria on

6. Most post-independence

African leaders embraced

one-party system in line

with their belief in concept

of African

7. Nigeria belonged to the

group, which joined with the

radical bloc to form the

OAU in 1963

One of these African
countries has not witnessed
a military coup

9. The meeting to reconcile

Ojukwu and Gowon before

the outbreak of civil war in

Nigeria took place in------

Ghana

10. Standardized taxation was

introduced in Africa by

colonial masters to replace

…………… hitherto

collected by African

Traditional Rulers

11. Sir James Wilson

_(15th June, 1955 - 16th

November, 1960) was the

last Nigeria's colonial

Governor-General

12. One of the internal factors

that ignited the spirit of

nationalism in Africa was

13. In a democracy, the Fourth

Estate of the realm is

14. Stability, rapid economic

development and unity, are

some of the reasons

advanced by some African

leaders to justify

Party system

15. According to Richard

Joseph (2006),

……………………… is a

situtation where an

individual seeks a patron

and leans on him/her in

order to benefit from the

privileges of the upper class

16. Gamal Abdul-Nasir was the

post-independe

17. The attacks by the

……………… against the

evils of colonialism also

aided the decolonization

process in Africa

18. Loans, monetary aids or

technical assistance, are

some of

_instruments to control

African economies

19. "Democratic Centralism"

was a version of African

Socialism promoted by

former President

Toure of Guinea

20. The idea of “Democratic

Centralism” was

popularized by one of these

first generation African

political leaders

21. Some measures taken by

African leaders to eradicate

the vestiges of colonialism

from African continent is

known as

Process

22. The firstpolitical party to be

formed in Nigeria

was………………….

23. The civil war in one of these

African countries was

accompanied by genocide

in 1994

24. Legitimate Trade is an

offshoot of

25. A political system in which

a country is binded to

another powerful foreign

country with the primary

objective of promoting the

economic interest of the

metropole is called …..

26. The ………………………

movement provided training

grounds for new African

political leadership in the

post-independece era

27. One of these political

parties secured

independence for Gold

Coast, later renamed

Ghana in 1957

28. The Traditional elites were

initiated into politics by the

British when

were created each in both

the Northern and Western

Regions of Nigeria

29. Nigeria became a

_State, in recognition of her

role against colonialism and

apartheid regime in the

Southern Africa

30. A country is

_only if there is no any form

of foreign interference in

her domestic affairs

31. The eight point Millennium

Development Goals

(MDGS) was launched by

the

in year 2000

32. The Ghanaian popular

military revolution in the late

70s was led by John James

_Rawlings

33. The first black African

colony to attain political

independence was

34. One of these former military

rulers in Nigeria was

‘nominated’ as sole

presidential candidate by

the five registered political

parties in 1998

35. The first African country to

have elected female

President is

36. Scholars regard the post￾independence relationship

between African countries

and their former imperial

powers as

37. Fredrick de Klerk was

President up to the year

1989

38. Until October 1, 1960,

Nigeria was one of the

colonial territories of

……………….

39. In Ghana, the ruling party

under Kwameh Nkruma

was

(CPP)

40. The 'West African Pilot' was

founded by…………….. as

an instrument against

colonialism

41. The 1995 Beijing

Declaration demanded for

_percent women

representation in

government

42. One of these African

leaders is not guilty of

tenacity of office

43. The policies of Association

and Assimilation were used

in Africa by

…………………………..

and …………………………

respectively

44. Nigeria joined the United

Nations as 99th member on

October 7,

45. Rober Mitchel's theory of

Iron Law of Oligarchy better

explains the dominance of

………… in African politics

46. One of the factors that

affected the spread of

western education in the

Northern part of Nigeria

was the restriction on

…………………………..

activities

47. One of these African

countries did not practice

One Party System in the

1960s

48. One of the features of

African politics is

………………

49. The Gambia Independence

Act of

_, was an Act of Parliament

of the United Kingdom

50. One of the followings was

not a traditional African

nationalist