JAMB Recommended Textbooks for History

The Joint Admission Matriculation Body JAMB have prepared essential textbooks to help students prepare for the Examination. This article shows the JAMB Recommended Textbooks for History .

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s has recommended Textbooks for Aspirants that wish to take this subject in the upcoming exams. The books listed below are the recommended textbooks for JAMB UTME Examination as it contains likely topics where the board are to set their examination questions.

LIST OF JAMB RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS FOR HISTORY (UTME)

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 Vol2., 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): African 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.

Crowther, M.West Africa:An introduction to its History, Longman,1977.

Crowther, M. Nigeria: An introduction to its History, London:Longman,1979.

Dike, K. O. (1956): Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, London: Oxford University Press.

Ekeh, P. P and Ashiwaju, G. (eds) (1989): Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years: Culture, Vol. VII, Ibadan: Heinemann

Falola, T. et. al (1989): History of Nigeria Vol. I, Lagos: Longman.

Falola T. et. al (1989): History of Nigeria Vol. 2 and 3, Lagos: Longman.

Gboyega, A., Abubakar, Y and Aliyu Y. (eds) (1989): Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years Public Administration, Vol. III, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Hallet, R. (1975): Africa since 1875, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Hopkins, A. G. (1973): An Economic History of West Africa, Longman.

Ikime, O and Osoba, S. O. (eds) Tarikh: Independence Movement in Africa (Part I), Vol. 3, No. 4 London: Longman.

Ikime, O and Osoba, S. O. (eds) Tarikh: Government in Pre-Colonial Africa, Vol. 4, No. 2 London, Longman.

Ikime, O and Osoba, S. O. (eds) (undated): Peoples and Kingdoms of West Africa in the Pre-colonial Period, Vol. 5, No. 1 London: Longman.

Ikime, O and Osoba, S. O. (eds) (undated) Tarikh: Europeans Conquest and African Resistance (Part 2), Vol. 4, London: Longman.

Ikime, O (1977) The Fall of Nigeria: The British Conquest, London: Heinemann.

Ik. (ed) (1974) Leadership in 19th Century Africa: Essays from Tarikh, London: Longman

Ikime, O. (1968) Merchant Price of the Niger Delta, London: Heinemann.

IK.O Ground work of Nigerian History, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Iseihei, E. (1983) A History of Nigeria, London: Longman.

Jorre, J. D. (1972) The Nigeria Civil War, London: Hordder and Stoughton.

Kani, A. M. and Gandi, K. (1990) A State and Society in the Sokoto Caliphate, Series I, Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto.

Mahdi, A., Kwanashei, G. A and Yakubu M. (eds) (1994) Nigeria: The state of the Nation and the Way Forward, Kaduna: Arewa House.

Martin, P. M and Omera, P. (1995) (eds) Africa (Third Edition), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Mohammed, B. (1982) Africa and Non-alignment: A study in the Foreign Relations of New Nations, Kano: Triumph Publishers.

Mohammed A. S. and Adamu, S.(eds) (2005) Nigeria and the Reform of the United Nations, Zaria: Hanwa.

Nzula, A. T., Potekhin and Zusmanovich (1979) Forced Labour in Colonial Africa, London: Zed Press.

Offiong, D. A. (1980) Imperialism and Dependency: Obstacles to Development, Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.

Ojigbo, O. (1982) Shehu Shagari: The Biography of NigeriaÂ’s First Executive President, Yugoslavia MlandiskaKnjiga.

Okafor, I. (1989) History for Senior Secondary Schools, Onitsha, Jet Publishers.

Oliver, T. and Afmore, A. (1996) Africa since 1880 (Fourth Edition) New York: Cambridge University Press.

Olusanya G. O. (1973) The Second World War and Politics in Nigeria, 1939 – 1953, Ibadan: Evans.

Omar O. (1966) The Zulu Aftermath: A Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Bantu Africa, London: Longman.

Omolewa, M. (1986) Certificate History of Nigeria, Lagos: Longman.

Onoja, I. (1998) Peace-keeping and International Security in a Changing World, Jos: Mono Expressions.

Onwubiko, K. (1983) School Certificate History of West Africa, Onitsha: African – First Publishers.

Tamuno, T. N. and Atanda A. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years. Vol. III, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Tamuno, T. N. and Atanda J. A. M. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years. (Government and Public Policy), Vol. IV, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Tamuno, T. N. and Ukpabi, S. C. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years (The Civil War years). Vol. IV, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Thompson, L. A. (2000) History of South Africa, Yale: Yale University Press.

Usman Y. B. (ed) (1979) Studies in the History of Sokoto Caliphate, New York: Third Press International.

Usman Y. B. (ed) (1981) The Transformation of Katsina, 1400 – 1883, Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press.

Usman Y. B. (ed) and Alkali M. N. (1983) Studies in the History of Pre-Colonial Borno, Zaria: NNPC.

Usman Y. B. and Kwanashei, G. A. (eds) Inside Nigeria History 1950-1970: Events: Issues and Sources (Presidential Panel on Nigeria: Since Independence), University of Ibadan.

Usman Y. B. (ed) (1989): Nigeria since Independence: The First 25 Years: The Society Vol.I, Ibadan: Heinemann.

Usman Y. B. (2002) Election Violence in Nigeria: The Terrible Experience, 1952 – 2002, Zaria: Abdullahi Smith Centre for Historical Research.

Webster, J. B. and Ikime, O. (eds) Tarikh: Early African Christianity, Vol. 2. No. 1. London: Longman.

Wilmot, P. F. (1980): Apartheid and African Liberation: The Grief and the Hope, Ife: University of Ife Press.

Yakubu, A. M., Jumare, I and Saeed, A. G. (eds) (2005) Northern Nigeria: A century of Transformation, 1903 – 2003, Kaduna: Arewa House.

Yakubu A. M. (2006) Emirs and Politicians: Reform, Reactions and Recrimination in Northern Nigeria, 1950 – 1966, Kaduna: Baraka Publishers.

The above list shows the JAMB Recommended Textbooks for History

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