Colonial rule

1. Discuss the importance of the environment in the development of Old Ghana Kingdom.
2. Describe the role of Islam in the political and socio-economic transformation of West Africa prior to the
   imposition of European colonial rule.
3. Why do writers often refer to the camel as “the ship of the desert” in reference to the pre-colonial TransSaharan trade?
4. Discuss the relationship between globalisation and the European Voyages of Discovery of the 15th
   -19thCentury.
5. What were the main factors that lead to European-led African Slave Trade? Why was it abolished in the
   19thCentury?

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