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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 20Colonial administration in Nigeria · 18Decolonisation and African unity · 21Early centres of civilisation · 19Eastern and southern Africa · 18External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 20Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 21Nationalism and independence · 20Nigeria since independence · 26Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 23Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 17Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 18The colonial economy · 19The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 19The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 20West Africa in the nineteenth century · 19

  1. Question 81· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Mfecane in southern Africa is associated mainly with the rise of the Zulu under

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  2. Question 82· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Moshoeshoe founded the kingdom of the

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  3. Question 83· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    In the nineteenth century Zanzibar was a major centre of the trade in

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  4. Question 84· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Mahdist state was established in

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  5. Question 85· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe are evidence of

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  6. Question 86· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Battle of Omdurman in 1898 was fought in

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  7. Question 87· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Ndebele kingdom was founded by

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  8. Question 88· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Zulu defeated a British army in 1879 at the Battle of

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  9. Question 89· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Mzilikazi led the Ndebele to settle in present-day

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  10. Question 90· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Kilwa was an important East African

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  11. Question 91· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Shaka was the leader of the

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  12. Question 92· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) was fought between

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  13. Question 93· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Ethiopian emperor defeated by a British force at Magdala in 1868 was

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  14. Question 94· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Cecil Rhodes is associated with

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  15. Question 95· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia defeated an Italian army in 1896 at the battle of

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  16. Question 96· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Soweto uprising of 1976 was a protest by

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  17. Question 97· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The fort of Elmina on the Gold Coast was built in 1482 by the

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  18. Question 98· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Henry Venn of the CMS promoted

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  19. Question 99· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Mary Slessor is remembered for

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  20. Question 100· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    An effect of European missionary activity in Nigeria was

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