Process of decolonization: JAMB Government Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Process of decolonization

Our summary: Nationalism, the movements, leaders and parties that pushed for independence, and the outside ideas and events that helped them.

• Nationalism (Meaning, Types.)
• Nationalist Movements (Emergence, goals, strategies.)
• Nationalist Leaders (Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Ladipo Solanke, Aminu Kano, J. S. Tarka, Tafawa Balewa and others.)
• Emergence of Nationalist Parties
• Influence of external factors

Objectives

• evaluate the process of decolonization;
• assess the roles of nationalist leaders and parties;
• assess the impact of external forces and ideas (Pan-Africanism, Back-to-Africa Movements, Second World War etc.).

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