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Nigeria · West Africa 🇳🇬WAEC WASSCE — English Language, Mathematics and 16 elective subjects, each with its own Beginner–Advanced track.
📏 WAEC grades A1–F9. A credit (C6 or better) in five subjects — including English Language and Mathematics — is the standard university entry requirement.
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Beginner
Beginner skill
No prior knowledge assumed — the pre-colonial societies and early external contact that begin the History syllabus.
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🔒 After lessonsPre-Colonial Nigerian Societies
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StartCentralized States: The Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba (Oyo, Benin) Political Systems
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Decentralized Societies: The Igbo Political System
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🔒 After lessonsTrade and Early External Contact
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Trans-Saharan Trade
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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🔒 After lessonsEuropean Exploration and Contact
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European Exploration of the Niger Area
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Legitimate Trade and the Decline of the Slave Trade
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Intermediate
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Colonial conquest and administration — how Nigeria came under, and was ruled by, British colonial rule.
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🔒 After lessonsColonial Conquest and Amalgamation
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British Conquest and the Scramble for Africa
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The 1914 Amalgamation of Nigeria
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🔒 After lessonsColonial Administration
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Indirect Rule in Northern Nigeria
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Direct Rule and Administration in the South
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Nationalism, independence and post-independence Nigeria — the applied, scenario-based content tested at the highest level.
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumThe Nigerian Civil War
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- Land and peoples of the Nigeria area (geographical zones, migration and settlement)Practise →
- Early centres of civilisation (Nok, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Benin)Decentralized Societies: The Igbo Political System →
- Origin and formation of states in the Nigeria area (Kanem-Borno, Hausa states, Oyo, Benin, Igbo, Nupe, Jukun, Niger Delta states)Centralized States: The Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba (Oyo, Benin) Political Systems →Decentralized Societies: The Igbo Political System →
- Economic activities and growth of states (agriculture, crafts, trade, trans-Saharan trade)Trans-Saharan Trade →The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade →
- External influences up to 1800 (Islam, Europeans, Atlantic slave trade)The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade →Legitimate Trade and the Decline of the Slave Trade →
- The Sokoto Jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate (causes, course, consequences)Course and Consequences of the Civil War →
- Kanem-Borno in the 19th century (El-Kanemi and the Shehus)Practise →
- Yorubaland in the 19th century (collapse of Old Oyo, Yoruba wars, Ibadan, Ijaye)Centralized States: The Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba (Oyo, Benin) Political Systems →
- Benin, Nupe, Igbo and Efik in the 19th centuryDecentralized Societies: The Igbo Political System →
- European penetration and impact (abolition of the slave trade, legitimate trade, explorers, Christian missions)The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade →European Exploration of the Niger Area →
- British conquest of the Nigeria area (resistance of Jaja, Nana, Ovonramwen, Sokoto, Ijebu)British Conquest and the Scramble for Africa →Indirect Rule in Northern Nigeria →
- Establishment of colonial rule up to 1914 (Royal Niger Company, protectorates, indirect rule)European Exploration of the Niger Area →Indirect Rule in Northern Nigeria →
- The Amalgamation of 1914 and colonial administration after amalgamationThe 1914 Amalgamation of Nigeria →Direct Rule and Administration in the South →
- The colonial economy (cash crops, mining, infrastructure, currency, taxation)Colonial Economic Policy: Cash Crops and Taxation →
- Social development under colonial rule (education, health, urbanisation)Practise →
- Nationalism, constitutional developments and independence (1922–1960)Rise of Nationalism and Political Parties →The Road to Independence: Constitutional Conferences →
- Politics of the First Republic and military intervention (1960–1966)Military Rule and Political Instability →
- The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)Causes of the Nigerian Civil War →Course and Consequences of the Civil War →
- The Gowon regimePractise →
- The Murtala/Obasanjo regimePractise →
- The Second Republic (1979–1983)Practise →
- The Buhari regimePractise →
- The Babangida regime and the Interim National GovernmentPractise →
- The Abacha regime and transition to civil rule (1999)Practise →
- Nigeria in international organisations (UN, OAU/AU, ECOWAS, Commonwealth, OPEC)Nigeria's Role in Regional and International Affairs →
- Islamic reform movements and state building in West Africa (Seku Ahmadu, Al-Hajj Umar, Samori Toure)Practise →
- Sierra Leone, Liberia and Christian missionary activities in West AfricaChristian Missionary Activities and Western Education →
- Egypt under Mohammed Ali and Khedive IsmailPractise →
- The Mahdi and the Mahdiyya movement in the SudanPractise →
- The Omani empire in East AfricaPractise →
- Ethiopia in the 19th century (Tewodros II, Yohannes IV, Menelik II)Practise →
- The MfecanePractise →
- The Great TrekPractise →
- The new imperialism and European occupation of Africa (Berlin Conference, partition)British Conquest and the Scramble for Africa →
- Patterns of colonial rule in Africa (indirect rule, assimilation, association, paternalism)Indirect Rule in Northern Nigeria →
- The politics of decolonisation in AfricaPractise →
- Apartheid in South AfricaDirect Rule and Administration in the South →
- Problems of nation-building in AfricaPractise →
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