Lecture 7 to the end

Question 1

What is mining?

Answer 1

It is the extraction of precious materials, or other useful materials from the earth’s surface through open cast or deep shaft methods

Question 2

Africa produces?

Answer 2

70% of the worlds platinum, 54% cobalt, 16% bauxite

Question 3

Colonial mining activities begun in

Answer 3

South Africa in the 1850s

Question 4

what type of minerals were mined in 1850s in South Africa?

Answer 4

Copper deposits

Question 5

What raised the profile of colonial mining in South Africa?

Answer 5

Diamonds and gold

Question 6

about how many individual prospectors arrived in South Africa due to the availability of diamonds and gold?

Answer 6

30,000

Question 7

Beryl is mined on a small scale in what part of east Africa?

Answer 7

South West Uganda

Question 8

large deposits of oil have been discovered, in what part of east Africa

Answer 8

Uganda having 6.5 billion barrels of crude oil reserves.

Question 9

colonial administration introduced for species of tilapia to the lake between which years ?

Answer 9

1952 to 1963

Question 10

countries with high population in east Africa are

Answer 10

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda

Question 11

countries with low population in east Africa are

Answer 11

Eritrea, Djibouti, Comoros, Seychelles

Question 12

children and youth, in east Africa, constitute about ….. percentage of the region’s total population in 2010.

Answer 12

80%

Question 13

What are the three main races recognized in east Africa?

Answer 13

Africans, Asians and Europeans

Question 14

what percentage makes up the African population in east Africa?

Answer 14

98%

Question 15

what are the main stocks through which the African population comes from?

Answer 15

Bantu, Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Cushitic speaking people

Question 16

What are the oldest forms of transport in east Africa?

Answer 16

Head porterage and walking

Question 17

All countries of east Africa have railway lines, except

Answer 17

The islands of Zanzibar

Question 18

aa in what year was the Mombasa-Uganda railway line started?

Answer 18

In 1896

Question 19

The port of Tanga in northern Tanzania was linked by rail in what year?

Answer 19

1911

Question 20

The line was extended to Arusha in what year and why?

Answer 20

in 1929 to serve important Sisal growing areas and coffee, producing regions of Mount Kilimanjaro and Meru

Question 21

Which country is the Miombo Woodlands?

Answer 21

Tanzania

Question 22

The defunct East African Airways was established as public corporation in what year?

Answer 22

1945

Question 23

What is a political system?

Answer 23

The government or administration set-up in a country or community

Question 24

Democracy is…

Answer 24

government by the people through elected representatives

Question 25

Totalitarian/autocratic refers to…

Answer 25

individual rule or one party rule with no opposition

Question 26

Political system in pre-colonial EA was dominated by…

Answer 26

several kingdoms

Question 27

Why was the east African community set up and in what year was it set up?

Answer 27

In 1948 and it was to operate common services in transporting communication administration, education, banking in currency systems

Question 28

in what year was the east African community recognized and cold east African community organization?

Answer 28

1961

Question 29

What was the aim of the east African community organization?

Answer 29

to promote regional cooperation and integration among member states.

Question 30

Uganda is a landlocked country which depends on transportation network of which country for access to the Indian ocean to transact international trade?

Answer 30

Kenya

Question 31

in what year did Idi Amin’s ouster happen ?

Answer 31

1979

Question 32

leaders of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania agreed again in what year to explore future possibilities for corporation?

Answer 32

1984

Question 33

A treaty was signed in the year….. to reestablish the EAC and this was formally reconstituted in the year …..when the treats he went into force

Answer 33

2000

Question 34

in what year was the east African community reestablished?

Answer 34

it was officially revised on seventh of July 2000 in Arusha, Tanzania