DP History Questionbank

Description

This section deals with the responses of communities and states in Eastern and Central Africa to their loss of independence. Students are expected to study in depth a variety of responses and compare and contrast the reasons for, and results of, resistance and collaboration in a very diverse region in which economic, political, social and religious factors made varying contributions to the nature of the responses.

• Resistance and collaboration: Buganda under Kabaka Mwanga and Apolo Kagwa (1884‑1900)

• Ethiopian resistance under Menelik II: reasons for success

• Nandi resistance under Koitalel arap Samoei (1895‑1906): causes, nature and effects

• Resistance to German rule: causes, course and effects of Maji Maji Rising (1905)

• Lewanika and Lobengula: relations with the British

• Ndebele–Shona rising: causes, course and effects of the first Chimurenga War (1896‑7)

• John Chilembwe’s rising in Malawi (1915): causes, course and effects

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.8:

  To what extent do you agree that economic factors were a significant cause of John Chilembwe’s rising in 1915?

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.7:

  “Economic factors were the main cause of the Maji Maji Rising (1905).” Discuss.