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1

(a) What is National Interest?

(b) Outline four objectives of your country’s foreign policy

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2

(a) Outline three aims and objectives of Peoples Party (NNP)

(b) Highlight two sources of finance of NNP.

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3

Outline five positive effects of colonialism on West Africa. 

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4

a. Mention three former French colonies in West Africa.

b. Identify four qualifications for assimilation of indigenous African into French citizenship.

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5

Highlight any five features of the Igbo traditional societies.

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6

Identify any five roles performed by the mass media in nation building

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7

Highlight any five roles of minority parties in a multiparty democracy.

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8

State five factors that can limit the independence of the judiciary

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9

Outline five processes by which a bill becomes law in a presidential system of government. 

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10

(a) What is fascism? 

(b) Highlight any four features of fascism

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11

Which of the following countries was not instrumental to the formation of the United Nations Organization (UNO)?

  • A. United States of America
  • B. Britain
  • C. Germany
  • D. USSR
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12

The Commonwealth of Nations was originally made up of

  • A. former Portuguese colonies in Africa
  • B. former Spanish colonies in Africa
  • C. independent nations formerly under British Empire
  • D. France and her former colonies in West Africa
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13

Foreign policy is the

  • A. general principles that guide foreigners in a country
  • B. policy made by a country during war
  • C. policy made by a country in peace time
  • D. general principles of a country in the conduct of international relations
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14

One criticism levelled against the pre-independence political parties in West Africa was that some of them

  • A. did not possess credible programmes
  • B. did not contribute to political development
  • C. were not national in outlook
  • D. were instruments of the colonial administration
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15

Military regimes in West Africa have often made use of civilians because

  • A. only civilians can make decrees
  • B. the soldiers are democratic
  • C. civilians are part of the armed forces
  • D. they need the experience of civilians in government
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16

The following are features of military regimes except

  • A. respect for human rights
  • B. suspension of the constitution
  • C. rules by decrees and edicts
  • D. curtailment of human rights
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17

The desire for constitutional development in British West African Colonies was as a result of the

  • A. rigidity of the constitution
  • B. desire of the British to review the constitution
  • C. power of traditional rulers in British West Africa
  • D. growing agitation of the people for political independence
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18

The appointment and deposition of chiefs by their people was a demand of the

  • A. Pan African Movements
  • B. National Congress of British West Africa
  • C. West African Students' Union
  • D. West African Youth League
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19

Which of the following policies was replaced by the French Policy of Association?

  • A. Apartheid
  • B. Assimilation
  • C. Indirect rule
  • D. Frenchification
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20

One of the measures introduced by indirect rule was

  • A. collection and keeping of taxes by the chiefs only
  • B. not recognizing traditional institutions
  • C. fixing and collection of taxes by British officials themselves
  • D. exclusion of the educated elite from the colonial administration
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21

Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of

  • A. powerful traditional rulers
  • B. age grades
  • C. religious institutions
  • D. checks and balances
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