2025 JAMB HISTORY is Out: Get Ready to Excel in UTME
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OBJECTIVES OF HISTORY JAMB SYLLABUS
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Abba, A (2006) The Politics of Mallam Aminu Kano, Kaduna Vanguard and Publishers.
Ayandele, A. E. et al (1986) The Making of Modern Africa, The Twentieth Century Vol 2., Longman.
Ajayi and Crowther (1971) History of West Africa Vol. I, London, Longman.
Ajayi and Crowther (1974) History of West Africa Vol. II, London, Longman
Akinloye, S. A. (1976) Emergent African States: Topics in Twentieth Century African History, Longman.
Akinyemi, A. B., Agbi, S. O. and Otunbanjo, A. O. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First 25
years. (International Relations) Vol x, Heinemann. Ibadan.
Anene J. C. and Brown, G (1966) African in the 19th and 20th centuries, Ibadan: University Press.
Anene J. C. (1966) Southern Nigeria in Transition, 1885 – 1906, Cambridge: University Press.
Anene, J. C and Brown, G (eds) (1972) African in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Handbook for
Teachers and Students, Ibadan: University Press and Nelson.
Ashiwaju A. I., Croder, M and Denzer, I. R. (eds) Tariki 25, Grassroots Leadership in Colonial West Africa,
Vol. 7, London: Longman.
Atanda, J. A.
Ashiwaju, G and Abubakar, Y. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First Years:
Religion Vol. i., Ibadan Heinemann.
Barkindo, B. et al (1989) Africa and the Wider World, Vol. 1. Lagos: Longman.
Barkindo, B. et al (1996) Africa and the Wider World, Vols. 2 and 3, Lagos: Longman
Boahen, A (1969) The Revolutionary years: Africa since 1800 Longman publishers.
Boahen, A (1969) The Revolutionary years: West Africa since 1800, Longman Publishers
Sokoto Caliphate: History and Legacies, 1804 – 2004, vols. I and II, Kaduna: Arewa House.
Celeman, J. S. (1986) Nigeria: Background to Nationalism, Benin: Broburg and Wistrom.
Clerk, T. A. (1991) Right Honourable Gentleman: The Life and Times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa, Zaria: Hudahuda Publishing Company.
Cohen, D. I. and Daniel, J. (eds) (1981) Political Economy of Africa: Selected Readings, London,
Longman
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DETAILED 2025/2026 HISTORY JAMB SYLLABUS
TOPICS:
SECTION A: THE NIGERIA AREA UP TO 1800
b. The people’s relationship with the
environment
c. Relations and integration among the
peoples of different zones.
2. Early Centres of Civilization:
a. Nok, Daima, Ife, Benin, Igbo Ukwu and
Iwo Eleru
3. Origin and formation of States in the
Nigeria Area
a. Central Sudan –Kanuri and Hausa,
states.
b. Niger-Benue Valley – Nupe, Jukun,
Igala, Idoma, Tiv and Ebira
c. Eastern Forest Belt – Igbo and Ibibio
d. Western Forest Belt – Yoruba and Edo
e. Coastal and Niger–Delta – Efik, Ijo,
Itsekiri and Urhobo
i. Factors influencing their origin
and migration
ii. Social and political
organizations
iii. Inter-State relations, religion
war and peace.
4. Economic Activities and Growth of States:
a. Agriculture – hunting, farming, fishing,
animal husbandry and horticulture.
b. Industries – pottery, salt-making, ironsmelting, blacksmithing, leather-working,
wood-carving, cloth-making, dyeing and
food processing.
c. Trade and trade routes:- local, regional, long
distance, including trans-Sahara trade.
d. Expansion of states.
5. External Influences:
a. North Africans/Arabs
i. introduction, spread and impact
of Islam;
ii. trans-Saharan trade.
b. Europeans:
i. early European trade with the
coastal states.
ii. the trans-Atlantic slave trade
(origin, organization and
impact)
SECTION B: THE NIGERIA AREA 1800 – 1900
1. The Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Jihad – (causes, courses and
consequence)
a. The causes and the process of the jihad
b. The establishment and administration of
the caliphate and relations with
neighbours
c. The achievements and impact of the
caliphate.
d. The collapse of the caliphate.
2. Kanem-Borno
a. The collapse of the Saifawa dynasty
b. Borno under the Shehus
c. Borno under Rabeh
3. Yorubaland:
a. The fall of the Old Oyo Empire
b. The Yoruba wars and their impact
c. The peace treaty of 1886 and its
aftermath
4. Benin
a. Internal political development
b. Relations with neighbours
c. Relations with the Europeans
5. Nupe
a. Internal political development
b. Relations with neighbours.
6. Igbo
a. Internal political development
b. Relations with neigbhours.
7. Efik
a. Internal political development
b. Relations with neigbhours.
8. European Penetration and Impact:
a. European exploration of the interior.
b. The suppression of the trans-Atlantic
slave trade.
c. The development of commodity trade
and rise of consular authority.
d. Christian missionary activities.
e. The activities of the trading companies.
f. Impact of European activities on the
coast and the hinterland.
SECTION C: NIGERIA 1900 – 1960
1. The Establishment of Colonial Rule up to
1914:
a. Administration of the protectorates
2. The Amalgamation of 1914:
a. Reasons
b. Effects
3. Colonial Administration After the
Amalgamation:
a. Central Administration:- Legislative
and Executive Councils
b. Indirect Rule – reasons, working and
effects
c. Local administrative institutions, Native
Authorities, Native Courts and Native
Treasuries.
d. Resistance to colonial rule – Ekumeku
Movement in Asaba hinterland 1898 –
1911, the Satiru uprising 1906, Egba and
the Anti-tax Agitation 1918, and the Aba
Women Movement in 1929
4. iv. The Colonial Economy:
a. currency, taxation and forced labour
b. Infrastructure (transportation, post and
telecommunication)
c. Agriculture
d. Mining
e. Industry
f. Commerce
g. Banking.
5. Social Development under Colonial Rule:
a. Western education
b. Urbanization/social integration
c. Improvement unions
d. Health institutions
6. Nationalism, Constitutional Developments
and Independence:
a. The rise of nationalist movements;
b. The 1922 Clifford Constitution and the
rise of Nigeria’s first political party.
c. World War II and the agitation for
independence
d. The Richards Constitution of 1946
e. The Macpherson Constitution of 1951.
f. Party politics – regionalism, federalism
and minorities agitations
g. Lyttleton Constitution of 1954.
h. constitutional conferences in Lagos in
1957 and London in 1958
i. The general elections of 1959 and
independence in 1960.
SECTION D: NIGERIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
1. The politics of the First Republic and
Military intervention
a. Struggle for the control of the centre;
b. Issue of revenue allocation
c. Minority question
d. The 1962/63 census controversies
e. The Action Group crisis and the General
Elections of 1964/65.
f. The coup d’etat of January 1966 and the
Ironsi Regime.
2. The Civil War:
Cause and effects
a. Causes
b. Course
c. Effects
3. The Gowon Regime.
4. Murtala/Obasanjo Regime
5. The Second Republic
6. The Buhari Regime
7. The Babangida Regime
8. The Interim National Government (ING)
9. The Abacha Regime
0. Nigeria in International Organizations;
a. Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS),
b. African Union (AU)
c. Commonwealth of Nations
d. Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)
e. United Nations Organization
f. The role of Nigeria in Conflict
Resolution
PART II: AFRICA AND THE WIDER WORLD SINCE 1800
SECTION A: WEST AND NORTH AFRICA
1. Islamic Reform Movements and State
Building in West Africa:
a. Relationship between Sokoto and other
Jihads.
b. The Jihads of Seku Ahmadu and Al-Hajj
Umar
2. Sierra Leone, Liberia and Christian
Missionary Activities in West Africa
a. The foundation of Sierra Leone and
Liberia and the spread of Christianity
b. The activities and impact of Christian
missionaries.
3. Egypt under Mohammed Ali and Khedive
Ismail:
a. The rise of Mohammad Ali and his
reforms
b. Mohammad Ali’s relations with the
Europeans
c. Ismail’s fiscal policies
d. The British occupation of Egypt
4. The Mahdi and Mahdiyya Movement in
the Sudan
a. Causes
b. Course
c. Consequences
SECTION B: EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
1. The Omani Empire
a. The rise of the Omani Empire
b. The empire’s commercial and political
relations with the coast and the hinterland.
c. The Empire’s relations with the Europeans
2. Ethiopia in the 19th century
a. The rise of Theodore II and his attempt at
the unification of Ethiopia
3. The Mfecane:
a. The rise of the Zulu Nation
b. Causes, Course and consequences of the
Mfecane
4. The Great Trek
a. The frontier wars
b. British intervention in the Boer African
relations
c. The Great Trek and its consequences.
SECTION C: IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM AND PROBLEMS OF NATIONBUILDING IN AFRICA
1. The New Imperialism and European
Occupation of Africa
a. The New Imperialism in Africa
b. European scramble for Africa
c. The Berlin Conference
d. The occupation and resistance by Africans.
2. Patterns of Colonial Rule in Africa:
a. The British
b. The French
c. The Portuguese
d. The Belgians
3. The Politics of Decolonization
a. Colonial policies and African discontent
b. The impact of the two world wars
c. Nationalist activities and the emergence of
political parties and associations
d. Strategies for attaining independence
4. Apartheid in South Africa
a. The origin of apartheid
b. Rise of Afrikaner nationalism
c. Enactment of apartheid laws
d. Internal reaction and the suppression of
African nationalist movements
e. External reaction to apartheid, the
Frontline States, the Commonwealth of
Nations, OAU and the UN.
f. The dismantling of apartheid
g. Post-apartheid development
5. Problems of Nation-building in Africa
a. Political and economic challenges and
constraints
b. Physical and environmental challenges
c. Ethnic and religious pluralism
d. Military intervention and political
instability.
e. Neo-colonialism and under -development.
f. Boundary disputes and threat to African
unity
g. Civil wars and the refugee problem.
Conclusion
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