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HISTORY AND
POLITICAL EDUCATION
Paper 1
2024
2 hours: 15 Minutes
SHAPTA JOINT ASSESSMENT BOARD 2024
Uganda Certificate of Education
HISTORY AND POLITICAL EDUCATION
Paper 1
2 HOURS: 15 MINUTES
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
This paper consists of sections A and B. It has four examination Items.
Section A is Compulsory.
Answer One item from section B
Answer three examination items in all.
Any additional item answered will not be scored.
All answers must be written in the answer booklet(s) provided.
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SECTION A
Answer all items in this section
Item 1
A group of young people left their homeland and settled in various regions. While they were
there, they married local people and embraced the new ways of life and culture. However,
after fifty years, their grandchildren moved to different communities in Uganda to search for
their origins but they have been unable to trace their origins.
TASK
What would be done by the above group of people to address their Situation?
Item 2
‘’What I can tell you is that I will not give up unless am down by all means I will fight until
the end. So that at least once we have gone, whenever we shall go, things will be better for
the people left behind “said the concerned citizen” in Uganda’’. He stated that the struggle is
not about him but Liberation of his country. Therefore he came up with a mission of
Ugandans to bring about a stable country.
TASK
Explain the issues that have made Ugandans to continuously fight for fairness and liberty
since acquiring independence in 1962.
SECTION B
Answer one item in this section.
Item 3
The republican constitution adopted in 1967 in Uganda abolished monarchies and assigned
ultimate political power to an elected president. The president was to be aided by a
ministerial cabinet drawn from among the members of the national assembly later on the
NRM government established a government where the supreme power is rested on top
through directly and indirectly through elected representatives.
TASK
Describe the nature of the government.
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Item 4
After independence, the East African countries found in different to sustain themselves and
become self-reliant. As a result, they resorted form internal and external borrowing from
commercial banks, foreign government and international financial institutions. However
these loans carry high interest rates and sometimes the funds borrowed are misallocated to
unproductive ventures which has increased the external debt burden.
TASK.
Explain how this situation has affected debt burden and how your government can do
better.
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