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Lecture 7 to the end Flashcards

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1
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What is mining?

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

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Africa produces?

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

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Colonial mining activities begun in

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South Africa in the 1850s

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

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Copper deposits

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What raised the profile of colonial mining in South Africa?

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Diamonds and gold

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

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30,000

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

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South West Uganda

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

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Uganda having 6.5 billion barrels of crude oil reserves.

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

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1952 to 1963

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countries with high population in east Africa are

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Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda

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countries with low population in east Africa are

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Eritrea, Djibouti, Comoros, Seychelles

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

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80%

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What are the three main races recognized in east Africa?

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Africans, Asians and Europeans

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what percentage makes up the African population in east Africa?

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98%

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

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Bantu, Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Cushitic speaking people

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What are the oldest forms of transport in east Africa?

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Head porterage and walking

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All countries of east Africa have railway lines, except

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The islands of Zanzibar

18
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aa in what year was the Mombasa-Uganda railway line started?

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In 1896

19
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The port of Tanga in northern Tanzania was linked by rail in what year?

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1911

20
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The line was extended to Arusha in what year and why?

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

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Which country is the Miombo Woodlands?

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Tanzania

22
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The defunct East African Airways was established as public corporation in what year?

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1945

23
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What is a political system?

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

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Democracy is…

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government by the people through elected representatives

25
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Totalitarian/autocratic refers to…

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individual rule or one party rule with no opposition

26
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Political system in pre-colonial EA was dominated by…

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several kingdoms

27
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Why was the east African community set up and in what year was it set up?

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

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

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1961

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What was the aim of the east African community organization?

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to promote regional cooperation and integration among member states.

30
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Uganda is a landlocked country which depends on transportation network of which country for access to the Indian ocean to transact international trade?

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Kenya

31
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in what year did Idi Amin’s ouster happen ?

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1979

32
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leaders of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania agreed again in what year to explore future possibilities for corporation?

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1984

33
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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

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2000

34
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in what year was the east African community reestablished?

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

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