Compare and contrast the colonial administrations of Senegal and the Gold Coast.

The question requires that candidates give an account of the similarities and differences between the colonial administrations of Senegal and the Gold Coast, referring to both throughout. Candidates may refer to the fact that Britain and France each promoted, with varying degrees of success, the economic development of their colonies, with a stress on cash crop production. They may also look at how each permitted some measure of constitutional reform leading to self-government, and how both identified nationalist leaders with whom they could work (Senghor and Nkrumah). On the other hand, the two colonies followed contrasting administrative models, with Britain exercising political power through the traditional chiefs and France ruling more directly, while Senegal was administered as part of French West Africa and the Gold Coast as a single colony. Both similarities and differences must be clearly indicated but there does not need to be an equal number of each.