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POL121
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1. The idea of “Democratic
Centralism” was
popularized by one of these
first generation African
political leaders
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2. The major policy of colonial
rule could be summarized
as …………...
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3. The followings but one, are
the features of African
politics
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4. The Traditional elites were
initiated into politics by the
British when
were created each in both
the Northern and Western
Regions of Nigeria
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5. The chater establishing the
ECOMOG gave it the
mandate only for
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6. One of the factors that
affected the spread of
western education in the
Northern part of Nigeria
was the restriction on
…………………………..
activities
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7. One of these former military
rulers in Nigeria was
‘nominated’ as sole
presidential candidate by
the five registered political
parties in 1998
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8. The concept of Ujaama
(familihood) was
propounded by one of the
following African political
leaders
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9. The West African Pilot was
a popular anti-colonial
newspaper in
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10. The vestiges of 'sit-tight
syndrom' is more prevailent
in …………………….
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11. One of the followings was
not a traditional African
nationalist
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12. The three fundamental
doctrines of imerialism:
Exploitation; Trusteeship;
and Assimilation, which
were espoused in a book
titled "Toward Colonial
Freedom (1947)" and was
written by ……...
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13. Some measures taken by
African leaders to eradicate
the vestiges of colonialism
from African continent is
known as
Process
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14. In 1979, Nigeria
nationalized the assests of
Petroleum to prevent
Nigerian oil from getting to
the apartheid regime
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15. Evangelism and
imperialism were
precursors to
__in Africa
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16. The first political party in
Nigeria was formed in
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17. Under Gen. Murtala Ramat
Mohammed's
administration,
became the centre-piece of
Nigeria's foreign policy
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18. The attacks by the
……………… against the
evils of colonialism also
aided the decolonization
process in Africa
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19. The title "Mwalimu" used by
a Tanzanian President
means The Great
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20. Nigeria belonged to the
group, which joined with the
radical bloc to form the
OAU in 1963
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21. The book written by Walter
Rotney is titled “How
Europe Underdeveloped
_
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22. Due to arbitrary
partitionning of Africa, the
Yoruba and Hausa were
divided between
………………………. and
British territories
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23. Esprit de corps' is a
palance commonly used by
the
and security agencies
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24. In consistent with the
dictataes of colonialism,
………………………….
policy was introduced in
many African colonies
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25. The ………………………
movement provided training
grounds for new African
political leadership in the
post-independece era
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26. The acronyms (A.P.R.M)
means African
Review Mecanism
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27. Most post-independence
African leaders embraced
one-party system in line
with their belief in concept
of African
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28. What is popularly known as
the ”Mandela option”
suggests
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29. Scholars regard the postindependence relationship
between African countries
and their former imperial
powers as
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30. 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
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31. Stability, rapid economic
development and unity, are
some of the reasons
advanced by some African
leaders to justify
Party system
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32. The second bombardment
of Lagos in 1861, leading to
the annexation that
changed Lagos territory to
become
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33. The British first got African
Traditional Rulers involved
in administration through
the policy of
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34. South Africa and a group of
countries in that region are
called
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35. Nigeria was not a Republic
until
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36. The Gambia Independence
Act of
_, was an Act of Parliament
of the United Kingdom
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37. The two groups that formed
the OAU belonged to two
different ideological divides:
Conservative and
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38. The followings but one of
the African countries were
independent by the eve of
World War II
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39. One of these nationalists
was a member of the
Patriotic Front who worked
with Robert Mugabe to
secure independence for
Zimbabwe in 1980
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40. President
got U.S. Congress approval
for Arican Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA)
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41. According to Nkrumah
(1976:9), the name
Rhodesia was coined from
Cecil Rhodes, the founder
of the ……………….
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42. The first agitation against
imposition of taxes during
the colonial period in
Western Nigeria was
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43. The military outfit known as
ECOMOG was established
as the military wing of
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44. The major palyer in the
ECOMOG activities is
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45. Standardized taxation was
introduced in Africa by
colonial masters to replace
…………… hitherto
collected by African
Traditional Rulers
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46. Hellen Sirleaf Johnson of
……………. was the first
African woman to be
elected President
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47. The first post-apartheid
South African President
was
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48. The colonial history of Libya
could be linked to
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49. African definition and
conceptualization of
democracy are based on
Western
_and orientation
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50. In most African countries,
the process of imperialism
and colonialism started with
slave trade and missionary
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