We have decided to provide a couple of guiding questions to this paper / subject. It is my hope that these questions will ease the subject for both teachers and students. For the students, they just need to master all these questions examined over the past years and enable them to surmount all other questions to come during internal and external exams. The questions have been picked from the entire papers right from the start up to the end of the syllabus.

2."The existence of the 19^th Century African States much depended on their political power". Discuss this statement with specific examples from either East or West Africa.

3.Examine the organization of the Ndebele nation in the second half of the 19^th Century.

4.How were law and order maintained in the pre-colonial African societies?

5.Compare the Political, Social and Economic organization of the pre-colonial states and stateless societies.

6.Assess the role of the army in the formation and maintenance of any pre-colonial state you know.

7.'The difference between segmentary and centralized societies is more of a myth than a reality". Discuss the statement with vivid examples.

8.Compare the political features of either Dahomey or Buganda and Zulu or Ndebele.

9.Describe the main features of any of the following societies. (a) Yao (b) Nyamwezi (c)Ngoni                

10.   Account for the disintegration of Zulu state by the end of the 19^th Century.

11.   "Lack of centralized political system or authority among segmentary societies did not mean the absence of law and order". Discuss the statement with reference to the Ibo of Nigeria or Kikuyu by the end of the 19^th  Century.

12.   Assess the role of the army in the formation and maintenance of one of the following states.

    (a) Nyamwezi

    (b) Ndebele

    (c) Lozi d) Bunyoro

13.   Discuss the main features of the political social and economic system of the kingdom of the Fon

14.   Discuss the main features of the political system of the kingdom of the Fon or the empire of Benin by 1855.

15.   Discuss the main features of the Ibo or Igbo political system or of the Kikuyu by the mid 19^th Century.