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The best way to study for your exam and earn a high mark is to follow the JAMB syllabus.
History of Africa and the World Since 1800 JAMB Syllabus
The nineteenth-century Ethiopia
Great Trek
A Mfecane
Apartheid under the Omani Empire in South Africa
African Colonial Rule Patterns
African nation-building issues
African Occupation by Europe and New Imperialism
The Politics of Decolonization in West Africa and Islamic Reform Movements in Egypt Under Mohammed Ali and Khedive Ismail
Christian missionary work in West Africa in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other countries
The Sudanese and Nigerian Mahdi and Mahdiyya Movement, 1900–1960
Colonial Administration Following the Amalgamation Nationalism, Constitutional Developments, and Independence The Amalgamation of 1914
Colonial Rule’s Impact on Social Development
Colonial Economic System
Up to 1914, colonial rule was established.
Since Independence, Nigeria
era of Murtala and Obasanjo
Nigeria’s participation in global organizations
The Abacha Government
The regime of Babangida
The Buhari Government
A Civil War
The Gowon Government
The National Interim Government (Ing)
Military Intervention and First Republic Politics
Following Republic
Nigerian Region 1800–1900
British Conquest of the Nigerian Region in Benin
Igbo Kanem-Borno Nupe’s Penetration & Impact in Europe under Efik
Yorubaland, The Sokoto Caliphate
Nigerian Region Early Centers of Civilization: Economic Activity and State Growth, Up to 1800
Outside Influences
People and Land in the Nigerian Region
Origin and State Formation in the Nigerian Region
Abba, A. (2006): The Politics of Mallam Aminu Kano, Kaduna Vanguard & Publishers. JAMB Recommended Textbooks for History
The Making of Modern Africa, The Twentieth Century Vol. 2, Longman, 1986, Ayandele, A. E. et al
History of West Africa, Vol. I, Ajayi and Crowther, London, Longman, 1971.
History of West Africa Vol. II by Ajayi and Crowther, London: Longman, 1974
Emergent African States: Topics in Twentieth Century African History, Longman, 1976, S. A. Akinloye
Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years, edited by Akinyemi, A. B., Agbi, and Otunbanjo, 1989. Vol. X of (International Relations) Ibadan, Heinemann.
African in the 19th and 20th centuries, Anene J. C. and Brown, G. Ibadan: University Press, 1966.
Southern Nigeria in Transition, 1885–1906, Cambridge: University Press, Anene J. C. 1966.
African in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Handbook for Teachers and Students, edited by J. C. Anene and G. Brown, Ibadan: University Press and Nelson, 1972.
A. I. Ashiwaju, M. Croder, and I. R. Denzer (eds) London: Longman, Tariki 25, Grassroots Leadership in Colonial West Africa, Vol. 7.
(Eds.) J. A. Atanda, G. Ashiwaju, and Y. Abubakar (1989) Religion in Nigeria since Independence: The First Years, Vol. Ibadan Heinemann.
1989’s Africa and the Wider World, Vol. 1 by B. Barkindo et al. Longman, Lagos.
African and the Wider World, Vols. 2 and 3, Lagos: Longman, 1996. Barkindo, B. et al.
The Revolutionary Years: Africa Since 1800, by A. Boahen, Longman Publishers, 1969.
The Revolutionary Years: West Africa Since 1800, by A. Boahen, Longman Publishers, 1969.
Volumes I and II of Sokoto Caliphate: History and Legacies, 1804–2004, Kaduna: Arewa House.
Nigeria: Background to Nationalism, Benin: Broburg and Wistrom, 1986, J. S. Celeman
Right Honorable Gentleman: The Life and Times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, by T. A. Clerk, Zaria: Hudahuda Publishing Company, 1991.
Political Economy of Africa: Selected Readings, London, Longman, Cohen, D. I. and Daniel, J.
West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Longman, 1977, M. Crowther
Nigeria: An Introduction to Its History, by M. Crowther, published by Longman in 1979.
Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta by K. O. Dike, Oxford University Press, London, 1956
Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years: Culture, edited by P. P. Ekeh and G. Ashiwaju, Ibadan: Heinemann, 1989.
History of Nigeria, Vol. I, Lagos: Longman, 1989, T. Falola et al.
History of Nigeria, Vols. 2 and 3, Lagos: Longman, 1989, Falola T. et al
Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years Public Administration, Vol. III, Ibadan: Heinemann, Gboyega, A., Abubakar, Y., and Aliyu, Y. (1989).
Africa since 1875, by R. Hallet, Ibadan: Heinemann, 1975.
An Economic History of West Africa, Longman, 1973, Hopkins, A. G.
Ikime, O. and S. Osoba (eds) Tarikh, Vol. 3, No. 4, “Independence Movement in Africa (Part I)” Longman, London.
Ikime, O. and S. Osoba (eds) Tarikh, Vol. 4, No. 2 London, Longman, “Government in Pre-Colonial Africa.”
Peoples and Kingdoms of West Africa in the Pre-colonial Period, Vol. 5, No. 1, edited by O. Ikime and S. Osoba (undated). Longman, London.
Ikime, O. and S. Osoba (eds) (undated) African Resistance and European Conquest (Part 2), Tarikh, Vol. Longman, London.
The Fall of Nigeria: The British Conquest, O. Ikime, London: Heinemann, 1977
O. Ikime, editor (1974) Tarikh’s essays, Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Africa, London: Longman
O. Ikime (1968) Niger Delta Merchant Price, London: Heinemann.
Groundwork of Nigerian History, edited by O. Ikime, Ibadan: Heinemann, 1980.
Merchant Price of the Niger Delta, by O. Ikime, London: Heinemann, 1968
Groundwork of Nigerian History, edited by O. Ikime, Ibadan: Heinemann, 1980.
A History of Nigeria, by E. Iseihei, London: Longman, 1983.
John D. Jorre (1972) Hordder and Stoughton in London published The Nigerian Civil War.
A. M. Kani and K. Gandi (1990) Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, “A State and Society in the Sokoto Caliphate,” Series I.
Kwanashei, G. A., Yakubu, and Mahdi (eds) (1994) Niger:
Africa (Third Edition), edited by P. M. Martin and P. Omera, was published in 1995 by Indiana University Press in Bloomington.
Africa and Non-alignment: A Study in the Foreign Relations of New Nations, Mohammed, B. 1982 Triumph Publishers, Kano.
Adamu, S., and Mohammed A. S. (eds) (2005) Nigeria and the United Nations Reform, Hanwa in Zaria.
Forced Labor in Colonial Africa, A. T. Nzula, Potekhin, and Zusmanovich, London: Zed Press, 1979.
Imperialism and Dependency: Barriers to Development, Fourth Dimension Publishers, Enugu, 1980. Offiong, D. A.
O. Ojigbo (1982) Yugoslavia MlandiskaKnjiga, the first executive president of Nigeria, is profiled in Shehu Shagari.
1989’s History for Senior Secondary Schools by I. Okafor By Jet Publishers in Onitsha.
Africa since 1880 by Oliver, T. and Afmore, 1996 (Fourth Edition) Cambridge University Press, New York.
The Second World War and Politics in Nigeria, 1939–1953, Ibadan: Evans, Olusanya G. O. 1973
Omar O. (1966) The Zulu Aftermath: A Bantu African Revolution of the Nineteenth Century, London: Longman.
Certificate History of Nigeria, Lagos: Longman, Omolewa, M. 1986.
I. Onoja (1998) International Security and Peacekeeping in a Changing World, Jos:
Mono Expressions
K. Onwubiko (1983) West African School Certificate History, Onitsha: African-First Publishers.
editors: T. N. Tamuno and A. Atanda (1989) The first 25 years of Nigerian independence. Heinemann, Ibadan, Vol. III.
Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years (Government and Public Policy), Vol. IV, Ibadan: Heinemann, 1989, edited by T. N. Tamuno and J. A. M. Atanda.
editors: Tamuno, T. N., and Ukpabi, S. C. (1989) Nigeria’s First 25 Years after Independence (The Civil War years). Heinemann, Ibadan, Vol. IV.
L. A. Thompson (2000) South African history, Yale: Yale University Press.
(Ed.) Usman Y. B. (1979) Third Press International, Studies in the History of the Sokoto Caliphate, New York.
(Ed.) Usman Y. B. (1981) Ahmadu Bello University Press, The Transformation of Katsina, 1400–1883 in Zaria.
Studies in the History of Pre-Colonial Borno, edited by Usman Y. B. and M. N. Alkali, Zaria: NNPC, 1983
Kwanashei, G. A., and Usman, Y. B. (eds) The University of Ibadan’s Presidential Panel on Nigeria: Since Independence, Inside Nigeria History 1950–1970: Events, Issues, and Sources
Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years: The Society, Usman Y. B. (ed), Ibadan: Heinemann (1989).
Usman Y. B., The Terrible Experience of Election Violence in Nigeria, 1952–2002, Zaria: Abdullahi Smith Centre for Historical Research.
J. B. Webster and O. Ikime (eds) Early African Christianity, Volume 2, Number 1, London: Longman. Tarikh
Apartheid and African Liberation: The Grief and the Hope, Ife: University of Ife Press, 1980. Wilmot, P. F.
(Eds.) Yakubu, A. M., Jumare, and Saeed (2005) Kaduna: Arewa House, Northern Nigeria: A Century of Transformation, 1903–2003
Emirs and Politicians: Reform, Reactions, and Recrimination in Northern Nigeria, 1950–1966, Yakubu A. M., Kaduna: Baraka Publishers, 2006.
