JAMB History Quiz & Test

Practise the full JAMB History syllabus one topic at a time, or take a complete subject test. Every question is original, written to the JAMB UTME standard, and comes with a worked explanation so you learn why each answer is correct.

Practise History by topic

• Land and Peoples of the Nigeria Area
• Early Centres of Civilization
• Origins and Formation of States in the Nigeria Area
• Economic Activities and Growth of States
• External Influences
• The Sokoto Caliphate
• Kanem-Borno
• Yorubaland
• Benin
• Nupe
• Igbo
• Efik
• European Penetration and Impact
• British Conquest of the Nigeria Area
• The Establishment of Colonial Rule up to 1914
• The Amalgamation of 1914
• Colonial Administration After the Amalgamation
• Social Development under Colonial Rule
• Constitutional Developments and Nationalism
• The Politics of the First Republic
• The Nigerian Civil War
• The Gowon Regime
• Murtala/Obasanjo Regime
• The Second Republic
• The Buhari Regime (1984-85)
• The Babangida Regime
• The Interim National Government (ING)
• The Abacha Regime
• Transition to the Fourth Republic
• Nigeria in International Organizations
• Islamic Reform Movements and State Formation
• Sierra Leone, Liberia and Christian Influence
• Egypt under Mohammed Ali and the Khedives
• Ethiopia in the 19th Century
• The Mfecane
• The Great Trek
• The New Imperialism and the European Scramble for Africa
• Patterns of Colonial Rule in Africa
• The Politics of Decolonization
• Apartheid in South Africa
• Problems of Nation-building in Africa