URP3001 – Module 10 Quiz

Which of the following statements is not true about sub-Saharan African 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?

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?

"Desert ports on a network of caravan routes that crisscross the Sahara": Which one of the following historical cities would be included under this heading?

Which one of the following programs could be instituted to reduce the push factors behind rural-to-urban migration in cities such as Dakar?

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

Apartheid in South Africa:

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

Nairobi:

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