JAMB UTME - History - 2008

By 1700, the Portuguese had been expelled from all their coastal strongholds in East Africa by the

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Arab traders from all the East African coastal states came together to expel the Portuguese who had become weak at that time.

The women who wielded political influence in Borno were

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The last European power to join the race for colonies in Africa was

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Which of the following was referred to as 'Province of Freedom' in the 19th century?

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Which of the following were former British colonies?

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The women who wielded political influence in Borno were

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The other options are the effects of the selected answer.

Nationalist’s resistance to colonialism in Africa was influenced by

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Leaders of Nationalist movements were educated elite who were charismatic and did not compromise their antagonism to colonialism.

The power that emerged after the First World War was

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Russia that was part of the Allied forces withdrew in 1917 while the USA joined the war that same year running the tide against Germany.

The principal anti-apartheid party in South Africa was the

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Northern Rhodesia, on becoming a Crown Colony, was administered by the

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The emergence of states in Hausaland was mainly attributed to

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The dissatisfaction of the Boer with British reforms at the Cape Colony made them to

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The principal target of the Aba Women demonstrators of 1929 were the

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The major reason for Nigeria’s interest in the Liberian Civil War was to save herself from

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Nigeria was of the opinion that many of those displayed by the civil strife would stream to Nigeria as refuges and eventually overstretch her economy.

The most significant act of statesmanship associated with
Abdulsalami regime was

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The Egba welcomed the British missionaries in the 19th century because 

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The most powerful states that emerged after the fall of the Old Oyo were

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The other options are the effects of the selected answer.

A factor responsible for the growth of large towns among the Yoruba was the

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One of the early Nigerian leaders who collaborated with British and later resisted was

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In 1805, Muhammad Ali became the Pasha of Egypt as a result of

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A major cause of depopulation in Nigeria in the 18th century was

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The Trans-Saharan Trade which had been on for many centuries included several articles of trade of which slaves were later added; human sacrifice was only carried on a very small scale; interethnic warfare took place majorly in the nineteenth century.

One of the factors that attracted the Europeans to East Africa was the desire

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The main cause of the decline of the Benin Kingdom in the 19th century was the

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Civil strife broke out among rival claimants to the Benin throne thus weakening her central authority.

Which of the following areas did Malam Alimi incorporate into the Sokoto Caliphate?

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The area later referred to as Cameroon was mandated toFrance and Britain

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A small strip of land in the North and West was given to Britain while the larger part was handed over the France.

Which of the following pionnered Christian missionary activities in Calabar?

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Freeman pioneered Methodist missionary activity in Yorubaland; Baikie led the 1857 missionary expedition to the North; Skessor worked together to abolish some negative traditional practices in Calabar.

Transportation network in colonial Nigeria was established to

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Politics in Nigeria’s First republic was characterized by

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In colonial Nigeria, export crop production was dominated by

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Indigenous middlemen purchased the crops from the peasant farmers and sold them to European merchants.

The reign of Sayyid said in East Africa was marked by

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The Royal Niger Company was renamed

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The early missionaries abandoned their work in Benin mainly because of

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The earliest missionaries to come to Benin were the catholics and as a result of shift opposition from the people, they left.

Which of the following groups belongs to the Jos Plateau?

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The Idoma and Tiv can be found in the Benue area, the Nupe in present Niger state and the Juleun in present Taraba State.

In the Ekine society of the Niger Delta, promotion was based on

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Sabon Gari settlement in most parts of colonial Nigeria harboured mostly

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Strangers whether muslims or otherwise in each settlement were settle in quarters called Sabon Gari.

Islam was introduced in Kano during the reign of

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The rise of Shaka the Zulu was a result
of the

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The major feature of the War against Indiscipline were

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The nationalist leaders who played prominent roles during Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence were

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Banda led his country Malawi to independence, Neto was at the forefront of Angola’s nationalism, Nujoma in Namibia; Muzorewa and Sithole and were protégés of the Colonial Administration in Zimbabwe.

The Native Authority system in Northern Nigerian was established to

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The British policy of indirect rule sought to 

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The Richards Constitution of 1946 brought about

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It created three regions – the West, East and North.

The collapse of Kanem under Dunama Debalemi was attributed to

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The Mahdiyya Movement in the sudan was principally a reaction against

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Khedwe Ismail of Egypt had attempted to suppress slave trade in Egypt and that would deal a devastating blow to the economy of the Sudan.

Anti-colonial movements in Nigeria before the World War II involved

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Those protests were mainly against the marginalization of the educated elite from participating in the colonial government.

In the 18th century, Zaria was under the influence of

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The policy of separation of the races in South Africa was first adopted in the Cape by the

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The Boer – led government introduced the policy of apartheid- a policy of racial segregation.

French delay in occupying Algeria was attributed to

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Britain also had vested interest to protect in Algeria and was likely not to welcome the French invasion.

The British government took over the control of the Colony of Sierra Leone in 1807 in order to use it as a

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