Q 01/05

What is the capital of Guinea, whose name is often added to tell the country from other Guineas?

A) Freetown

B) Bissau

C) Conakry

D) Bamako

Answer · why

C) Conakry

Conakry gives the country its informal name, Guinea-Conakry, because Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea also take their names from the historic Guine...

Q 02/05

Which French leader did Sékou Touré defy to his face in 1958?

A) Mitterrand

B) Pompidou

C) Chirac

D) De Gaulle

Answer · why

D) De Gaulle

De Gaulle heard Touré declare, in a speech in Guinea's capital, that his people preferred poverty in freedom to riches in slavery, and took it badly: ...

Q 03/05

In the 1958 French referendum, Guinea was the only African colony to do what?

A) Boycott the vote entirely

B) Vote to become a French department

C) Vote for immediate independence

D) Vote to join Ghana

Answer · why

C) Vote for immediate independence

Guinea alone chose to vote for immediate independence, with more than 95% saying no to the new French constitution; France answered by ordering its ci...

Q 04/05

Which African leader, overthrown in a 1966 coup, spent the rest of his life in exile in Guinea?

A) Kwame Nkrumah

B) Patrice Lumumba

C) Haile Selassie

D) Milton Obote

Answer · why

A) Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's founding president, was given asylum by his ally Sékou Touré, who named him honorary co-president of Guinea and threatened to s...

Q 05/05

Which exiled singer settled in Guinea with her new husband, a leader of America's Black Power movement?

A) Nina Simone

B) Miriam Makeba

C) Aretha Franklin

D) Cesária Évora

Answer · why

B) Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba, already barred from her native South Africa, saw her American career falter after the marriage, so she moved to Guinea and kept recordi...