DP History Questionbank

Description

This section focuses on the establishment of colonial administrative systems in Eastern, Central and West Africa between 1890 and the establishment of independence. It requires an in-depth comparative study of British, French, German and Portuguese systems of administration, their impact and the economic and social developments during the colonial period. Students should study how political developments were affected by the presence of colonial settlers in Kenya, Angola and Mozambique.

• British rule in Kenya: colonial administration; settler pressure; economic and social development to 1963

• Tanganyika under German and British rule to 1961

• Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia under British rule; economic and social development to 1964

• Angola/Mozambique under Portuguese rule; economic and social development to 1975

• Nigeria: indirect rule; direct rule; factors that promoted choice of administrative system in Nigeria, advantages and disadvantages; impact to 1960

• Gold Coast: colonial administration; economic, social and political development to 1957

• Senegal: French colonial administration; economic, social and political development to 1960

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.14:

  “The administrative systems used by the British in Nigeria were a success.” Discuss.

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.13:

  With reference to social and economic developments in Kenya up to 1963, to what extent was British rule more of a success than a failure?