The Mahdiyya Movement in Sudan overthrew the ....
Italo-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s
Italo-Egyptian Regime in the early 1890s
Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s
Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1890s
Correct answer is C
Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s is the correct answer. In Sudan, the Mahdiyya Movement was the revolutionary movement that overthrew the Ottoman-Egyptian regime which conquered Sudan in 1820-1822.
Nationwide corruption by the politicians
Urge for sectional military representation in government
Issue of tribalism and nepotism
Use of the soldiers to quell civil unrests and riots
Correct answer is A
The correct answer is the nationwide corruption by the politicians. This gave the military coup plotters the leverage to overthrow the ruling government. N.B: The question tests your knowledge on what most importantly inspired the military disruption of the Nigerian growing democracy in the 1st Republic.
Methodists
Roman Catholics
Church Missionary Society
Anglican Church
Correct answer is C
The Church Missionary Society (CMS) is the correct answer. The CMS, an offshoot of the Anglican Church was the first to become firmly established mainly among the freed slave settlers from Britain, Nova, Scotia and other parts of the New World.
All the following except one led to the re-emergence of old trade patterns under Omani rule
Availability of capital from India
Increased demand for slaves
Attack on the Portuguese in the 1640s
Willingness of Africans in the interior to take slaves to the coast
Correct answer is C
Attack on the Portugese in the 1649s is the correct answer as this attack was carried as a revenge on the Portuguese who had sought to control their strategic position of the Straits of Hormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.
A Policy central to the Kanem-Borno Empire was that of
The British hegemony
Imperial expansion and firearms trading
Nomadic orientation of its people
State-led land reforms
Correct answer is B
Imperial expansion and firearms trading is the correct answer. Kanem-Borno Empire believed in the expansion of its imperial territories and in the same vein, traded in firearms and horses for the purpose of creating a sophisticated cavalry.