History 1 2024 NECTA Question with Answers
Answer five questions, question one is compulsory:
1. Suggest six ways which can be used to eradicate challenges facing the industrial sector in Tanzania.
- Improve Infrastructure
- Education: Implement vocational training programs aligned with industry needs to produce skilled workforce.
- Promote Renewable Energy. Invest in solar, wind, and geothermal power generation to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and lower energy costs.
- Foster Innovation: Establish research and development centers to promote technological advancements.
- Good government policy in industrial sector
- Invest in agriculture so as to get raw materials.
2. In six points, explain how pre-colonial education benefited its recipients.
- It installed the custom, traditions and history of a particular society.
- It promoted peace and respect for the members of society.
- It prepared the youths as the future well mannered leaders and knowledgeable citizens.
- It taught the children the language of that society for proper communication to people of different age.
- It promoted economic development in agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors (production).
- It made the members of the society recognize their respective positions, roles and responsibilities.
3. Why did the development gap between Africa and Europe increse after the 15th Century? Explain by giving six reasons.
- Mercantilism
During this period, the Europeans exploited the continent of Africa, through unequal exchange and slave trade. It is in this period, our natural resources were taken to Europe and left our continent poor.
- Colonialism
Colonialism destroyed Africans economy because they took Africans resources to Europe. Also, during colonialism, Africans worked in plantations and settler farms for the benefit of whites. For these reasons Africa failed to stand alone, hence dependence economy.
- Neo-colonialism
Neo-colonialism maintains unbalanced terms in trade and exploit Africa by price fixing in world market. Also European countries plant puppet regimes which support them in exploiting African resources like gold, diamond, etc.
- Globalization
Globalization has led Africans to be left behind in development. The world has become like a small village due to globalization.
European countries use technology to spy on Africa's affair and set barriers to development.
Also, globalization has ruined our cultures, and young people who are able to build Africa, are now using drugs.
Globalization also, has led to the spread of many rebel groups and terrorist that have weakened many African governments such as Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, Rwanda. Because of globalization, these groups have been receiving various weapons from developed countries.
- Corruption
African leaders have been using public resources for their own personal benefit. Also, they have been robbing money in their own countries and going to put in the European bank which is increasingly benefiting the European countries and leaving Africans as poor.
- Diseases
Diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Malaria and many other diseases, make Africa even more poor because of the loss of human labor that dies every year.
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4. In six points, analyse the economic strategies which were used by the colonial state to establish colonial economy in Africa between 1880s and 1914.
5. Analyse six factors which determined the distribution of social services during colonial time in Africa.
6. Describe six characteristics of the colonial migrant labourers in Africa.
7. In six points, show the contributions of the Capitalist Bloc to the natinalist struggles and African independence.
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