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

  1. Question 81· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Zulu kingdom rose to power under

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  2. Question 82· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Great Zimbabwe is famous for its

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  3. Question 83· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Great Trek was the movement of

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  4. Question 84· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Maji Maji rising of 1905–1907 was against

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  5. Question 85· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The ANC was banned in South Africa in 1960 after the

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  6. Question 86· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mfecane refers to

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  7. Question 87· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Boers who took part in the Great Trek were also known as

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  8. Question 88· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Moshoeshoe I is remembered as the founder of the kingdom of

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  9. Question 89· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Maji Maji rising of 1905–07 was against

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  10. Question 90· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mfecane was a period of

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  11. Question 91· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    Christian missionaries contributed to Nigeria by

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  12. Question 92· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The trans-Saharan trade brought to West Africa

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  13. Question 93· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The Portuguese first reached Benin in the late

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  14. Question 94· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    An effect of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa was

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  15. Question 95· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    Christian missionaries in Nigeria contributed mainly by

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  16. Question 96· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The main item imported into West Africa through the trans-Saharan trade was

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

    The first Europeans to reach the coast of West Africa by sea were the

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

    The main commodity carried south across the Sahara to West Africa was

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

    The Church Missionary Society (CMS) first established itself in Nigeria at

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

    The first Europeans to reach the coast of Nigeria were the

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