African Modern History

1. At which conference held in 1884 was it agreed that the imperial powers could claim African colonies?

3. Beside Liberia what was the only country in Africa that remained free of European colonisation by 1914?

4. Haile Selassie I was the Emperor of which African country from 1930 to 1974?

5. Apartheid is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white and the nonwhite people in which country?

6. Who was the leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956?

7. Who played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony into an independent republic?

8. Since 1960 Democratic Republic of the Congo was colony of which country?

9. Which African political was imprisoned on Robben island for 18 years?

10. Which African country was known as unrecognized state of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?

11. Muammar Gaddafi was a revolutionary and dictator of which country from 1969 until 2011?

12. Idi Amin was infamous dictator of which African country?

13. Which African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997?

14. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders until his assassination in 1973. Where was he from?

15. Which African country was known as Dahomey until 1975?

16. Who was dictator of Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017 and who ruled until age 93?

17. Which African leader was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo in 1981?

18. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?

19. Which country accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed in 1988?

20. Before its independence in 1990, what was the name of Namibia?

21. Where did Black Hawk Down incident occur in 1993?

22. In which African country did the genocide of the Tutsi people take place in 1994?

23. Kofi Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006. Where was he from?

24. The US embassies in which two African countries were bombed in 1998?

25. In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?

26. What was the name of a series of anti-government protests that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s?

27. What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?

28. In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?

29. Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?

30. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?