GST 122 Flashcards
To know the GST 122 course
What major empires emerged in the pre-colonial history of Nigeria?
Oyo, Benin and Igbo States
Who formulated the Hamitic Hypothesis?
C.G Seligman
Who authored the book “Races of Africa”?
C.G Seligman
The racist view of Africa was propagated by the early _____
Europeans
Who authored the book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”?
Walter Rodney
The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade started in which century?
Sixteenth
Name the sources Africans have to turn to to debunk the Hamitic hypothesis.
- Literary Sources
- Archaeology
- Cultural History or Ethnology
- Historical Linguistics
- Physical Anthropology
- Oral Tradition
Literary sources of Nigerian history can be divided into how many categories?
Three
Literary works by Arab scholars, geographers and historians help us to get insight into the history of early peoples of West Africa most especially from which century up to which century?
eighth up to fifteenth
What was used to reconstruct the history of Ghana, Mali, Bornu empires and Hausa states?
Literary sources
Name the Arab writers who wrote about the people of West Africa.
- Leo Africanus
- Al-Barki
- Al-Umari
- Ibn Khaldun
- Magrizi
Name the two indigenous African writers who wrote about the people of West Africa
- Ahmad Ibn Fartuwa
2. Al-Barnawi
Who are the people who wrote about Sokoto and the Sokoto Jihad?
- Usman Dan Fodio
- Al Said
- Abdulahi
- Mohammed Bello
European literary sources of Nigerian history may be divided into how many categories?
Two
Name the two European Literary Sources Nigerian history may be divided into
Primary sources and general literature
Name two Europeans who were clear falsifiers of Africa’s history.
Stanley and Carl Peters
Who mistook the Saan and the Khoi-Khoi for one and the same people?
John Van Riebeecks
Who wrongly ascertained that the Niger flows into the Nile?
Frederick Horneman
Name the three categories in which literary source of Nigerian history can be divided into
- Works by Arab scholars, geographers and historians
- Indigenous Africans who had acquired knowledge of Arabic writing
- European writers (e.g. explorers and colonial masters) and Africans who had acquired knowledge of English writing
List seven European writers who wrote about Nigeria.
- Pachero
- Periera
- Dappa
- De Barros
- Hubbard
- Nyendeal
- Ruy de Pina
List seven European writers who wrote about Benin in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
- Pachero
- Periera
- Dappa
- De Barros
- Hubbard
- Nyendeal
- Ruy de Pina
List six explorers who wrote about Nigeria
- John and Richard Lander (Lander brothers)
- Clapperton
- Henry Bath
- Mary Kingsley
- Frederick Horneman
- Richard Deham
Name three early Nigerians in the book “Nigerian Peoples and Culture” who had acquired knowledge of English writing.
- Samuel Johnson
- Jacob Egharevba
- Olaudah Equiano
What is archaeology?
Archaeology is the historical science which attempts to reconstruct the past the analysis and interpretation of excavated natural objects.