Which of the following factors was most important in preventing the fulfillment of the political dreams described in the passage?

(A) A lack of common ethnicity, language, or religion (B) The spread of communism throughout the continent (C) Armed intervention on the part of the Cold War superpowers (D) Africa’s shortage of natural resourcesExplanation: (A) This question, related to the previous one, touches on the same skills, but also focuses about causation. Even more so than Nasser’s pan-Arab aspirations, pan-Africanism proved limited in potential. The factors described in answers B and C had some bearing on this, but D most certainly did not—Africa is incredibly rich in natural resources, which include gold, diamonds, oil, and uranium. Unfortunately for Nkrumah, Africa is so diverse in terms of ethnicity, language, and culture than pan-Africanists have few if any unifying factors on which to base their movment.