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JAMB and WAEC History questions: Eastern and southern Africa

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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 21· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Mzilikazi led the Ndebele to settle in present-day

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  2. Question 22· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Kilwa was an important East African

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  3. Question 23· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Maji Maji rising of 1905–1907 was against

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  4. Question 24· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The ANC was banned in South Africa in 1960 after the

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  5. Question 25· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mfecane refers to

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  6. Question 26· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Shaka was the leader of the

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  7. Question 27· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

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

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  8. Question 28· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

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

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  9. Question 29· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Cecil Rhodes is associated with

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  10. Question 30· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

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

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  11. Question 31· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

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

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  12. Question 32· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Moshoeshoe I is remembered as the founder of the kingdom of

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  13. Question 33· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Maji Maji rising of 1905–07 was against

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  14. Question 34· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Soweto uprising of 1976 was a protest by

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  15. Question 35· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mfecane was a period of

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