HISTORY FORM I---IV TOPICS / SUB--TOPICS

History  Form 1
1.1.0 Sources and importance of history
1.1.1 Meaning and importance
1.1.2 Sources of history
1.2.0 Evolution of man, technology and environment
1.2.1 Evolution of man
1.2.2 Early Stone Age
1.2.3 Middle Stone Age
1.2.4 Late Stone Age
1.2.5 Iron Age
1.3.0 Development of economic activities and their impact
1.3.1 Agriculture
1.3.2 Handicrafts, industries and mining in pre-colonial Africa
1.3.3 Trade in pre-colonial Africa
1.4.0 Development of social and political systems
1.4.1 Kinship or clan organization
1.4.2 Age-set system
1.4.3 Ntemiship
1.4.4 State organization

Form 2
2.1.0 Interactions among the people of Africa
2.1.1 Social and economic factors for interactions
2.1.2 The coming of the Ngoni
2.2.0 Social-economic development and production in pre-colonial Africa
2.2.1 Social organization and production
2.2.2 Types of social organizations and production
2.2.2.1 Communalism
2.2.2.2 Slavery
2.2.2.3 Feudalism
2.3.0 Africa and the external world
2.3.1 Early contact with the Middle East and Far East
2.3.2 Contacts with Europe
2.3.2.1 The Portuguese
2.3.2.2 The Dutch settlement at the Cape
2.3.2.3 Slave trade in the Indian Ocean and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
2.4.0 Industrial capitalism
2.4.1 Demands of industrial capitalism
2.4.2 Agents of industrial capitalism
2.4.3 Abolition of the slave trade
2.4.4 British occupation of South African via the Cape.

Form 3
3.1.0 Establishment of colonialism
3.1.1 Scramble for and partition of Africa
3.1.2 The Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
3.1.3 Establishment of colonial rule
3.1.4 African reactions to colonial rule
3.2.0 Colonial administrative systems
3.2.1 Direct rule, indirect rule, assimilation and association
3.2.2 Colonial military and legal institutions
3.3.0 Colonial economy
3.3.1 Establishment of the colonial economy
3.3.2 Sectors of the colonial economy
3.3.3 Colonial labour
3.4.0 Colonial social services
3.4.1 Colonial education
3.4.2 Colonial health services
3.4.3 Provision of water and housing services during the colonial era
Form 4
 
4.1.0 Crises in the capitalist system
4.1.1 The First World War
4.1.2 The Great Depression
4.1.3 The Second World War
4.2.0 Nationalism and decolonization
4.2.1 Nationalism in Africa
4.2.2 The rise of social and welfare associations
4.2.3 The rise of protest and religious movements
4.2.4 The rise of mass nationalism and political parties in Africa
4.2.5 Decolonization through constitutional means
4.2.6 Decolonization through armed struggle
4.2.7 Decolonization through revolution
4.3.0 Changes in political, social and economic policies in Africa after independence
4.3.1 Changes in political, ideological and administrative systems
4.3.2 Changes in economic development policies and strategies
4.3.3 Provision of education in Africa after independence
4.3.4 Changes in the provision of health services
4.3.5 Changes in the provision of water services
4.3.6 Changes in the provision of housing
4.3.7 Establishment of national military and national legal institutions
4.3.8 Problems hindering development in Africa after independence
4.4.0 Africa in international affairs
4.4.1 Continental cooperation
4.4.2 African regional cooperation
4.4.3 Africa in International affairs