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Industrialization in Africa; during colonial era, there was little development of  industries in African continent. The industries established in Africa to the large extent were extractive and processing industries. The main objectives of those industries were to reduce the bulkiness so as to make the exportation of raw materials easy. Example of those colonial industries where: Copper refineries in Zambia and Zaire, The decortications industry in Tanganyika, The tobacco processing industry in Malawi, Spinning mills and cotton ginneries in Nigeria, Mozambique and Uganda, Groundnuts processing industry in Senegal. But after the Second World War import substitution industries were set up to replace goods which imported from the metropolis, example soap, cigarattes, shoe polish, biscuits, bread etc. The following are why there was little industrialization in Africa;            African specialized in the production of raw materials, Eu...

TOPIC ONE SOURSES AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY ·        Meaning of history ·        Importance of history ·        Sources of history History; is the study of the past events collected by historians based by verifiable facts. OR History; is the study of man and his activities in different periods. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY: 1. To understand how societies were formed and developed. 2. Help in understanding and appreciation of culture, political, economic and technological development. 3. To learn how people depended to each other. 4. To learn when and where important events took place. 5. To understand the level of development at different stages of human development. Discussion questions; Qn1. why do we study history? QN2. What is history? Qn3. Mention five importance of history, SOURCES OF HISTORY:      1.   Oral tradition ...

The scramble for colonies in Africa was the intense competition or struggle for the control of African territories, which took place among the European capitalist nations in the 1880s and 1890s. Before the 1880s   European countries were not much interested to establish colonialism in African continent, while they had only trade relationship with Africans and to spread Christianity religion. Also before the 19 th century European had no idea if African continent had other things to offer rather than forestry materials and slaves. During the scramble for and partition of Africa some areas experienced more scramble than others; this was due to the following factors: 1. Some areas were potential for agriculture; the objective of controlling African continent was for the exploitation of agriculture raw materials. European countries occupied areas with soil fertility and enough rainfall. Example of areas which were potential for agricultural raw materials includes Niger b...