Nationalisms

Question 1

Central African Federation

Answer 1

-1953 established

Question 2

Central African Federation protests and emergency

Answer 2

• March 1959 state of emergency over Nyasaland
• Banda imprisoned
• 1300 detained without trial
• 51 Africans killed

Question 3

CAF emergency outcomes

Answer 3

• 1960 Monckton Commission severely criticised federation
• Constitution in Nyasaland in 1960
• Devlin report argued Nyasaland was a police state

Question 4

West Indies Federation

Answer 4

-1958-62

Question 5

Mau Mau insurgency

Answer 5

• 1952-60
• 1953 ‘Lari massacre’ (Mau Mau troops massacre home guard)
• 1057 capture of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi
• 1959 Hola camp massacre
• 1960 state of emergency lifted

Question 6

Outcomes of Mau Mau

Answer 6

• 1960 Corfield report, demonstrates british administrative weakness
• Independence in 1963

Question 7

Kenya independence

Answer 7

• 1960 UK accept African majority rule
• 1961 elections and Kenyatta relased
• 1963 elections KANU win and Kenyatta PM
• 1963 independence

Question 8

Malayan Emergency

Answer 8

• 1948-60
• over 6000 killed
• 1951 British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney killed

Question 9

Malayan emergency: counter-insurgency

Answer 9

• Hearts and minds
• Villagisation
• Establishment of ‘white areas’

Question 10

Malayan emergency: outcomes

Answer 10

• 1957 federation of Malaya

- 1963 independence of Malaysia

Question 11

Gold Coast governor

Answer 11

-Charles Arden-Clarke 1949-57

Question 12

Gold Coast background

Answer 12

• 1946 ‘Burns’ constitution created a legislative council with an elected African majority
• Nkrumah creates CPP in 1947

Question 13

Accra riots

Answer 13

• Feb to March 1948

- 29 killed 237 injured

Question 14

Accra riots outcome

Answer 14

• Watson Commission appointed in April 1948, concluded Burns constitution was ‘outmoded at birth’
• Nkrumah jailed in 1950 and released in 1951
• 1951 new constiution
• 1954 further constitutional change
• independence 1957