Evaluate the factors that contributed to the creation of the Central African Federation.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the factors that contributed to the creation of the Central African Federation, weighing up the importance or otherwise of each. Candidates may provide context by briefly outlining the nature and membership of the federation. They may discuss social factors, such of the role of settler populations in Southern Rhodesia who wished to advance their interests at the expense of the local population. Economic factors may include the need to more effectively mobilise African labour and exploit raw materials such as copper. Candidates may also address political issues such as the desire of the colonial power to limit the growth of nationalism in the territory. They may argue that the establishment of the federation was opposed by most Africans, and its creation led to a surge of nationalist sentiment across the region.