SAMPLE QUESTIONS ON AFRICAN STUDIES @2024

1. Briefly explain the concept of the African family to a basic school pupil. Cite relevant examples to support your explanation
2. As an African visiting one of the countries in the diaspora for the first time, state and explain four characteristics each of the two major forms of the African family to your brothers and sisters living over there. 
3. Globalization has allowed Western culture to be predominant over the African culture in diverse ways. With practical examples, discus five effects leading to the change or distortion in the African cultural system.
4. Differentiate between the concept of slavery and slave trade. 
5. Explain any four ways the Trans-Atlantic slave trade contributed to the under-development of the African continent. Indicate relevant examples to support your explanation.
6. You are a royal from one of the African kingdoms. With your rich knowledge, explain to a team of visiting European students, five characteristics of African music and dance. Cite relevant examples to support your explanation.
7. Explain the term 'Values'.
8. Citing practical examples, discuss four workplace values that will ensure high productivity in Africa.
9. The earliest Europeans and Islamic scholars who came into contact with African Traditional Religion used several terminologies to belittle it. Explain with an example, any four of such terminologies used to describe the African Traditional Religion (ATR).
10. Examine any three points that qualifies a person to become ancestor in an African society.
11. President Nana Akuffo Addo in a speech said, "we must not be spectators but citizens."
12. As a student of African Studies, examine five (5) positive attitudes and values he expects us to exhibit as citizens to develop Ghana. 
13. With practical examples, examine five (5) features of the African Traditional Religion.
14. Define kinship 
15. Discuss the three (3) types of kinship 
16. State two (2) forms of values. 
17. With practical examples, discuss five (5) negative effects of globalization on the people of Africa. 
18. Explain FIVE contributions of African Traditional Religion (ATR) to the Ghanaian society.
19. Explain the term colonialism.
20. Discuss FOUR negative impacts of colonialism on African continent.
21. Discuss FOUR ways by which the Slave Trade affected African countries negatively.
22. Examine any FIVE positive attitudes and values needed to promote African development in the global economy.
23. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade set Africa more than a century backward. Explain five (5) reasons to substantiate this assertion.
24. Discuss five (5) relevance of African Traditional Religion to the African Society. 
25. Explain five (5) cultural dimensions of development. 
26. Define chieftaincy?
27. With practical examples, discuss four (4) roles of chiefs towards Ghana's development
28. Explain FIVE contributions of African Traditional Religion (ATR) to the Ghanaian society.
29. Explain the term colonialism
30. Discuss FOUR negative impacts of colonialism on African continent
31. Discuss FOUR ways by which the Slave Trade affected African countries
32. Examine any FIVE positive attitudes and values needed to promote African development in the global economy.

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