ch 14 Flashcards
In the Union of South Africa’s colonial era, voting was
usually only available to whites, except in Cape Colony where mixed race persons could also vote.
Political organizations demanding rights for Africans first began
after World War I.
The sometimes violent Mau Mau movement was centered in
British Kenya.
The French colony which experienced widespread violence in the 1950s and which achieved independence in 1962 was
Algeria.
The Pan-African belief in a distinctive “African personality” included all except
the belief that all persons of African heritage should return to their motherland.
Most newly independent African states
relied on the export of a single crop or natural resource.
The author of Tanzania’s Arusha Declaration of 1967 was
Julius Nyerere.
African socialism failed in Tanzania for all of the following reasons except
lack of economic aid from foreign countries.
The two leaders who finally ended the apartheid regime without major bloodshed in South Africa were
F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
The Millennium Declaration seeks to
reduce poverty and illiteracy worldwide by 2015.
All of the following are correct about African women except
they achieved full political, social, and economic equality after independence.
In African literature in recent years,
Wole Soyinka received the Nobel Prize for literature, and the topical thrust in novels turned from attacks on imperialists to the questioning of African leaders and the exploration of personal problems.
T/F The evidence of the successful transition to pluralistic governments in many African countries is that since 1957 very few leaders have been overthrown with violence.
False
T/F African countries have mostly avoided disputes between Muslim and Christian sects because African tribal traditions have a deep respect for different religions.
False
T/F Because of widespread political corruption and economic failure, African women have mainly benefited if they remained in rural and tribally-run areas and away from urban locales.
False
