Uneb uce english paper two 2016

Uneb uce english paper two 2016

Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows
One of the major problems facing independent African states as well as national liberation movements is
tribalism. It is a singular obstacle slowing the progress towards the building of the nation. As Kwame Nkrumah
rightly points out in his book, Class struggle in Africa, before conquests, there was tribe but no tribalism. But
just as imperialism used religion to divide a people who were otherwise culturally one and living as an entity
in a nation, so too, tribalism has been used for this same purpose. Africa before conquest by capitalism and
later by imperialism was moving towards a stage where tribes were in the process of uniting to form an embryo
‘the nation state’. But one of the effects of imperialism was to break up the growing bonds of unity between
the various tribes. Thus tribes which were coming together to face the European conqueror and aggressor were
separated from each other and in many cases turned against each other.

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