Revision checklist

For each of your six revision topics, do you have:

- A breakdown of its key themes? (E.g., some of the key themes for Christianity are: its nature as a 'world' religion, literacy, the 'civilising mission', African Independent Churches, etc.) Use these key themes to direct your revision, e.g., as headings on a spider diagram or note cards.

- A good idea of the change over time present in your topic? Can you contrast, if relevant, pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods for its key themes? Can you chart the change within these periods?

- A carefully-chosen selection (usually around three will be sufficient) of case-studies? Pick ones that can be well-contrasted, e.g., if you are looking at colonial rule, don't pick three examples of British indirect rule, but rather e.g. a British, a French, and a white-settler colony.

- Knowledge of the historiographic debate surrounding the topic? Can you can plot a a basic outline of how the study of the topic has developed, who its important authors are, and what they have argued?

- If necessary, an understanding of the theory of your topic? This does not apply to all topics, but there are some ideas (e.g. gender, identity, spirit possession, etc) for which knowledge of the ways in which they may be interpreted is important.