African Modern History

Do you know the most important events and figures in the modern history of Africa?
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1. At which conference held in 1884 was it agreed that the imperial powers could claim African colonies?
Munich Conference
Marseilles Conference
Paris Conference
Berlin Conference
2. The Maji Maji Rebellion, was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against whose rule in East Africa?
French
Dutch
British
German
3. Beside Liberia what was the only country in Africa that remained free of European colonisation by 1914?
Algeria
Ethiopia
Angola
Sudan
4. Haile Selassie I was the Emperor of which African country from 1930 to 1974?
Ethiopia
Uganda
Morocco
Algeria
5. Apartheid is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white and the nonwhite people in which country?
Egypt
South Africa
Rwanda
Angola
6. Who was the leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956?
Hosni Mubarak
Anwar Sadat
Muhammed Naguib
Gamal Abdel Nasser
7. Who played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony into an independent republic?
Robert Mugabe
Nelson Mandela
Idi Amin
Patrice Lumumba
8. Since 1960 Democratic Republic of the Congo was colony of which country?
Belgium
Germany
France
Spain
9. Which African political was imprisoned on Robben island for 18 years?
Idi Amin
Muammar Gaddafi
Patrice Lumumba
Nelson Mandela
10. Which African country was known as unrecognized state of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
Zambia
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Namibia
11. Muammar Gaddafi was a revolutionary and dictator of which country from 1969 until 2011?
Algeria
Cuba
Egypt
Libya
12. Idi Amin was infamous dictator of which African country?
Uganda
Rwanda
Angola
Zimbabwe
13. Which African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997?
Cameroon
D.R. Congo
Angola
Niger
14. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders until his assassination in 1973. Where was he from?
Guinea-Bissau
Senegal
Ethiopia
Namibia
15. Which African country was known as Dahomey until 1975?
Benin
Senegal
Ivory Coast
Cameroon
16. Who was dictator of Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017 and who ruled until age 93?
Nelson Mandela
Idi Amin
Robert Mugabe
Patrice Lumumba
17. Which African leader was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo in 1981?
Habib Bourguiba
Idi Amin
Anwar Sadat
Muammar al-Gaddafi
18. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?
Mauritania
Chad
Burkina Faso
Sudan
19. Which country accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed in 1988?
Algeria
Libya
Tunisia
Somalia
20. Before its independence in 1990, what was the name of Namibia?
British South-West Africa
Belgian South-West Africa
French South-West Africa
German South-West Africa
21. Where did Black Hawk Down incident occur in 1993?
Somalia
South Sudan
Tunisia
Ethiopia
22. In which African country did the genocide of the Tutsi people take place in 1994?
Kenya
South Africa
Uganda
Rwanda
23. Kofi Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006. Where was he from?
South Africa
Senegal
Ghana
Cameroon
24. The US embassies in which two African countries were bombed in 1998?
Kenya and Tanzania
Algeria and Tunisia
Egypt and Libya
Namibia and Botswana
25. In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?
Egypt
Tunisia
Yemen
Libya
26. What was the name of a series of anti-government protests that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s?
Arab Winter
Arab Spring
Arab Fall
Arab Summer
27. What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?
Hosni Mubarak
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Anwar Sadat
28. In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?
Guinea
Morocco
Ethiopia
Tanzania
29. Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?
George Weah
Abedi Pele
Roger Milla
Didier Drogba
30. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?
Benin
Guinea
Lesotho
Swaziland
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