DP History Questionbank

Description

This section deals with the new challenges and new problems that came with independence in Africa. It provides an opportunity to explore the ways and reasons why the countries of the region attempted to solve their problems of disease, illiteracy, poverty and economic development. It includes case studies of the reasons for, and the impact of, ethnic conflict, civil war and military intervention in African politics.

All six bullet points should be covered by a case study approach using any two African countries. The chosen countries should be identified in the introduction to the examination answers.

• Ethnic conflict and civil war

• Military intervention and rule

• Social and economic challenges: disease, illiteracy, poverty, famine, economic development, changing social and cultural values

• Corruption and neocolonialism in Africa: origin, causes and impact

• Reasons for the establishment of one-party states

• Return to multiparty democracy in the 1980s and 1990s

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.22:

  Discuss the reasons why one-party states were established in any two African countries.

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.21:

  Evaluate the political impact of ethnic conflict in any two African countries.