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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 241· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    El-Kanemi rose to prominence in Borno by

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  2. Question 242· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Mai Idris Alooma of Borno is remembered especially for

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  3. Question 243· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    The Banza Bakwai were

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  4. Question 244· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Muhammad Rumfa of Kano received advice on Islamic government from the scholar

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  5. Question 245· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    The Saifawa dynasty ruled

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  6. Question 246· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    The Kano Chronicle is a

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  7. Question 247· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Ngazargamu was the capital of

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  8. Question 248· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Zazzau was famous for raiding for

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  9. Question 249· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Kanem's main trade route ran north across the Sahara to

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  10. Question 250· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Mai Idris Alooma of Borno is remembered for

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  11. Question 251· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Kano's prosperity in the pre-colonial period came largely from

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  12. Question 252· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    The capital built by Mai Ali Gaji of Borno in the fifteenth century was

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  13. Question 253· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Kano became a great commercial centre partly because of

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  14. Question 254· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Katsina was famous as a centre of

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  15. Question 255· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    The Hausa Bakwai were

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  16. Question 256· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Queen Amina is associated with the Hausa state of

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  17. Question 257· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi defended Borno against

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  18. Question 258· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    The seven original Hausa states (Hausa Bakwai) include

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  19. Question 259· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· JAMB

    Kanem became Islamic under Mai

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  20. Question 260· Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states· WAEC

    Queen Amina is associated with

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