S4 History of East Africa Holiday Work – March/April

This is a History of East Africa holiday assignment for Senior Four learners, given for the March/April holiday. It is set out as Week One and Week Two, and each week has structured two-part essay questions. Topics include coastal trade by 1500, Arab settlement, Portuguese rule at the coast, the migrations of the Plain Nilotes and the Luo, the rise and growth of Buganda, the slave trade, and the Ngoni invasion. Later questions cover the scramble between Britain and Germany, the 1900 Buganda Agreement, missionaries, German rule in Tanganyika, the Hehe resistance, the Uganda Railway and the Kikuyu conflict in Kenya. Learners can use it for revision and essay practice.