Colonial administrators

Question 1

How much of the global diamond production did Rhodes own

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

When did Rhode’s British South Africa Company receive a royal charter

Answer 2

1889

Question 3

Between what years was Rhodes president of South Africa

Answer 3

1890 to 1896

Question 4

Which country did Rhodes turn into ‘Rhodesia’ in 1895

Answer 4

Zambesia

Question 5

What did Rhodes write in his confessions of Faith in 1877 about the British

Answer 5

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and the more we inhabit, the better it is for the human race

Question 6

Which company did Mackinnon found in Africa

Answer 6

the Imperial British East Africa Company

Question 7

When did the Imperial British East Africa Company receive a royal charter

Answer 7

1888

Question 8

Why did the British gov support the IBEAC

Answer 8

as it gave them a means to establish control in the reigon

Question 9

When and where did Goldie buy a palm oil business

Answer 9

in 1875 in the Niger Basin

Question 10

Why was palm oil so lucrative

Answer 10

as it served as an industrial lubricant and could be used as the main constituent in both candles and soap

Question 11

When did Goldie form the Central African Trading Company

Answer 11

1876

Question 12

When did Goldie actually visit West Africa for the first time and what does this show about attitudes of administrators

Answer 12

1877 and highlights that they weren’t primarily concerned about civilising natives and just wanted to exploit their resources for money

Question 13

What was United African Company an amalgamation of

Answer 13

amalgamation of all the British trading firms along the Niger River

Question 14

When did Goldie create the United African Company

Answer 14

1879

Question 15

How many trading posts did the United African Company control

Answer 15

30

Question 16

Why Goldie’s request for a royal charter rejected in 1881

Answer 16

due to competing French interests in the Niger region

Question 17

How did Goldie manage to win the trade war against France in the Niger region

Answer 17

He secured concessions from tribal chiefs- signed treaties saying that they would trade solely with the company’s agent in return for commitment to buy all local exportable product (shea butter and ivory)

Question 18

How did Goldie’s efforts in the Niger Region affect the British during the Berlin Conference in 1884

Answer 18

Due to Goldie’s efforts the British were able to successfully assert its right to proclaim a protectorate over both northern and southern Niger

Question 19

Who was the Viceroy of India between 1858-1862

Answer 19

Earl Canning

Question 20

Who was Sir Richard Burton

Answer 20

a linguistic scholar, explorer and adventurer

Question 21

When did Richard Burton undertake an expedition in Zanzibar

Answer 21

1857-8

Question 22

How many volumes of his explorations did Burton produce

Answer 22

43 volumes

Question 23

How many books about West Africa did Burton produce

Answer 23

5 books

Question 24

What did Burton write about in his books about West Africa

Answer 24

described the tribal rituals concerning birth, marriage, and deaths as well as fetishism, ritual murder, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices

Question 25

Who was John Hanning Speke

Answer 25

an explorer

Question 26

Which lake did Burton and Speke become the first Europeans to reach in 1858

Answer 26

Lake Tanganyika

Question 27

Which lack did Speke argue was the source of the Nile

Answer 27

the great lake- Lake ‘Victoria’ as he named it after the Queen

Question 28

What was the second nile source that Speke and Grant discovered in the 1860s

Answer 28

Lake Albert

Question 29

When did Evelyn Baring become Earl of Cromer

Answer 29

1901

Question 30

For what period was Baring the viceroy of India

Answer 30

1872-1876

Question 31

Who was the High Commissioner and Governor of Cape Colony in 1877

Answer 31

Bartle Frere