HSY2602 Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 1 2024

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the HSY2602 Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 1 2024. For assistance call or us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4........ Study Unit 1: The construction of African history 1. Oral tradition is the only means of reconstructing precolonial African history’. Do you agree or are there other methods? Use examples to illustrate your answer. HSY2602 Study Guide, Pages: 39(42)–61 OR Study Unit 2: Islamic Africa 2. Discuss the spread of Islam across North and sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting its encounters with various African societies. What were the effects of these interactions? Provide examples to substantiate your answer. HSY2602 Study Guide, Pages: 63–81 3 OR Study Unit 3: Africa and the Slave Trade 3. ‘The transatlantic slave trade was built on existing forms of slavery.’ Do you agree? Mentions forms of “unfree” labour that existed in Africa. HSY2602 Study Guide, Pages: 119–177 OR Study Unit 4: The Scramble for Africa 4. Evaluate the motives for the Scramble for Africa by using three examples. 5. HSY2602 Study Guide, Pages: 215–251 OR Study Unit 5: Africa under colonial rule 6. ‘Acculturation was the only response by Africans to imperial domination.’ Do you agree with this statement? Substantiate your answer with examples drawn from various territories in Africa that came under European rule. HSY2602 Study Guide, Pages: 253–297