Chapter 8

What country is among the most urbanized in Sub-Saharan Africa and has the most developed urban hierarchy?

The largest mining and industrial center in Africa, and a city built on gold, is:

Which one of the following best describes the proportion of the population in sub-Saharan Africa which lives in cities?

Lagos in the 20th century and Accra in the 21st century began benefitting from a new source of international earnings that enriched each nation's economy. What industry was responsible for those new earnings?

Elite housing estates on the outskirts of many Africa cities are often built with foreign capital. In the case of Silverest Gardens on the outskirts of Lusaka, that capital came from a company based in:

It grew into the "island metropolis of Eastern Africa" as the center of a mercantile empire whose tentacles stretched to the Congo. It later was refashioned by the Portuguese and then became a British colonial capital. To what city-state do these facts apply?

In Nairobi during the colonial era, what group took up residence in the center of the city, becoming shop owners and merchants?

Which one of the following sub-Saharan Africa countries has been identified as one of the BRICS?

The first city in Africa to become the capital of a newly independent nation after World War II was:

In terms of morphology, cities in sub-Saharan Africa are trending toward the:

The first European settlements along the coast of sub‑Saharan Africa included St. Louis, Luanda, and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo). From what country did the settlers come?

Nairobi:

The historical centers of urbanization in Southeast Africa include cities on which one of the following lists?

Of the following cities, which one had the smallest number of European settlers and therefore is the most deserving of being called "a bona fide African city"?

In urban Africa, all of the following forces have driven the trend toward ever more people engaging in multiple economic activities except:

Some cities such as Dakar, with nearby Gorée Island, and Elmina, with its castle, are witnessing the growth of a tourism industry built on:

The township of Roma is now inhabited by Lusaka's professional class. Under the British, it was inhabited exclusively by privileged whites. In both cases, Roma's maids and gardeners come from the informal settlement to the northwest. This is an example of:

Much of what comprises Kinshasa in both physical and economic terms is undocumented, giving rise to discussion of it as:

Kinshasa is often used as an example of relocalization. What is relocalization?

In the late 20th century, Ghana began to follow the World Bank's recommendations for economic reform. As a result, Accra:

The slums of former French-colonial cities in Africa are known as:

Which one of the following is not true of the waste management problem in most large sub-Saharan African cities?

Pretoria came to be governed as part of a metropolitan municipality called Tshwane. Port Elizabeth came to be part of the Nelson Mandela municipality. What event led to this era of political reorganization and place re-naming in South Africa?

Which one of the following has been proposed to curb migration into Dakar?

The oldest region of urban settlement in sub-Saharan Africa was:

All of the following are major problems in most sub-Saharan African cities except:

Beginning in the 9th century, cities on Africa's Indian Ocean coast developed economically, culturally, and politically as a result of trade with:

Only two of the largest cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are megacities. They are:

Before 1956, Dakar served as the capital of the Federation of French West Africa. After 1956 it had been reduced to serving only as the capital of:

Trading posts (and eventually cities) developed on the Atlantic coast of Africa as a result of contact with European nations. What nation was the first to sail south along Africa's coast?