Stafo Africa 2021 - Demography and Geography (Herbst: 4,5)

African countries took their national design as a

given from the colonialist because it has been well-developed and suits the country needs.

• True

• False

Geography, as destined, is the root cause of most African countries' contemporary issues and problems

• True

• False

In most African experience, the larger the territory is, there is a better utilisation for power projection

• True

• False

A country which challenged by the nature of population that is concentrated in its borderland, according to Herbst, is called ...

• Ujamaa

• Hinterland

• Rimland

• Borderland

According to Herbst, a country which is challenged by the concentration of population only in a small part of the country, particularly the capital city, while leaving most of its territory inhabited is called as ...

• Vastland

• Hinterland

• Rimland

• Grimland

There is a striking evidence that those countries most in need of road networks did not build them and those with the least problematic geographies built the most roads

• True

• False -- countries that are in need of infrastructure quickly build roads for transportation

Smaller countries always have a better management of power projection because their population and territorial are much more manageable

• True

• False

A country with difficult political geography tend to have land tenure issues that is stemmed from the precolonial agreement

• True

• False

In many sub-saharan Africa countries, states has been able to penetrate into the rural area but the rural areas have not been able to challenge the state on its own turf through conventional politics

• True

• False

Chiefs in francophone countries have fared relatively poorly compared to anglophone countries

• True

• False