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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 38Colonial administration in Nigeria · 36Decolonisation and African unity · 40Early centres of civilisation · 37Eastern and southern Africa · 35External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 38Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 41Nationalism and independence · 40Nigeria since independence · 44Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 44Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 34Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 36The colonial economy · 37The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 36The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 38West Africa in the nineteenth century · 36

  1. Question 181· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

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

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  2. Question 182· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

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

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  3. Question 183· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Moshoeshoe I is remembered as the founder of the kingdom of

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  4. Question 184· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Maji Maji rising of 1905–07 was against

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  5. Question 185· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Soweto uprising of 1976 was a protest by

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  6. Question 186· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mfecane was a period of

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  7. Question 187· 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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  8. Question 188· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    Christian missionaries contributed to Nigeria by

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  9. Question 189· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Henry Venn of the CMS promoted

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  10. Question 190· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Mary Slessor is remembered for

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  11. Question 191· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    An effect of European missionary activity in Nigeria was

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  12. Question 192· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The trans-Saharan trade brought to West Africa

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  13. Question 193· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The Portuguese first reached Benin in the late

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  14. Question 194· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    An effect of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa was

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  15. Question 195· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Church Missionary Society established a station at Abeokuta in

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  16. Question 196· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    Christian missionaries in Nigeria contributed mainly by

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  17. Question 197· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

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

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  18. Question 198· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Islam became the religion of the royal court of Kanem in the eleventh century under Mai

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  19. Question 199· 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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  20. Question 200· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

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

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