Assignment 2 (ALL 4
QUESTIONS COMPLETE
ANSWERS) Semester 1
2025
DUE 11 April 2025
, ACTIVITIES
Question 1 Discuss Linguistics, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Geography have enriched history
writing on Africa using Great Zimbabwe as an example. Question 2 Critically discuss how European
thinkers and colonialists used pseudo-scientific racism to justify slavery during the 19th century with
reference to the story of Sarah Baartman. Question 3 Explain how ideas of the Enlightenment in the
19th century led to the abolition of slavery with reference to the establishment of Sierra Leone and
Liberia by the British government. Question 4 The continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of
Congo may be attributed to European and American influence.