JAMB History Recommended Textbooks 2023 – Candidates writing the 2024 JAMB UTME are hereby informed that the recommended textbooks for History are now online. In this article, we have made available all the textbooks recommended to aid one pass the exam successfully. See them below.

CSN Team is committed to providing readers, especially candidates that would participate in the 2023 UTME, with information that will propel them to have excellent grades. See details of the recommended textbooks below.

Do well to read a brief history about the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) before you check out the History textbooks.

By 1974, there were seven (7) Federal Universities in the country. Every one of these existing universities conducted its own concessional examination and admitted its students.

However, this system of admission revealed serious limitations and quite often, a waste of resources in the process of administering the concessional examination especially on the part of the candidates.

The general untidiness in the uncoordinated system of admissions into universities and the attendant problems were sufficient causes for concern to the committee of vice-chancellors.

However, these problems had assumed a new dimension when by 1976, the then federal military government, under the leadership of General Olusegun Obasanjo, established six (6) additional universities.

Consequently, the government set up a national committee on university entrance under the chairmanship of Mr M. S. Angulu.

The Committee was specifically requested to consider the possibility of setting up a Joint Matriculation Board. The Committee recommended the setting up of two (2) bodies, the Central Admissions Board and the Joint Matriculation Board.

However, the legal instrument establishing the Board was promulgated by the act (no. 2 of 1978) of the Federal Military Government on 13th February 1978.

By August 1988, the Federal Executive Council amended decree No. 2 of 1978 to empower the Board to conduct matriculation examinations for entry into all polytechnics and colleges of education in the country and to place suitably qualified candidates in the available places in these institutions.

The amendments have since been codified into decree No. 33 of 1989, which took effect from 7th December 1989.

1. Abba, A (2006): The Politics of Mallam Aminu Kano, Kaduna Vanguard and Publishers.

2. Ayandele, A. E. et al (1986): The Making of Modern Africa, The Twentieth Century Vol 2., Longman.

3. Ajayi and Cowther (1971): History of West Africa Vol. I, London, Longman.

4. Ajayi and Crowther (1974): History of West Africa Vol. II, London, Longman

5. Akinloye, S. A. (1976): Emergent African States: Topics in Twentieth-Century African History, Longman.

6. 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.

7. Anene J. C. and Brown, G (1966): African in the 19th and 20th centuries, Ibadan: University Press.

8. Anene J. C. (1966): Southern Nigeria in Transition, 1885 – 1906, Cambridge: University Press.

9. 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.

10. Ashiwaju A. I., Croder, M and Denzer, I. R. (eds) Tariki 25, Grassroots Leadership in Colonial West Africa, Vol. 7, London: Longman.

11. Atanda, J. A. Ashiwaju, G and Abubakar, Y. (eds) (1989) Nigeria since Independence: The First Years: Religion Vol. i., Ibadan Heinemann.

12. Barkindo, B. et al (1989): Africa and the Wider World, Vol. 1. Lagos: Longman.

13. Barkindo, B. et al (1996): African and the Wider World, Vols. 2 and 3, Lagos: Longman

14. Boahen, A (1969) The Revolutionary years: Africa since 1800 Longman publishers.

15. Boahen, A (1969): The Revolutionary years: West Africa since 1800, Longman Publishers

16. Sokoto Caliphate: History and Legacies, 1804 – 2004, vols. I and II, Kaduna: Arewa House.

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17. Celeman, J. S. (1986) Nigeria: Background to Nationalism, Benin: Broburg and Wistrom.

18. Clerk, T. A. (1991): Right Honourable Gentleman: The Life and Times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Zaria: Hudahuda Publishing Company.

19. Cohen, D. I. and Daniel, J. (eds) (1981): Political Economy of Africa: Selected Readings, London, Longman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31. 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.

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

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

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

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

36. Ikime, O. (ed) (1980) Ground work of Nigerian History, Ibadan: Heinemann.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. Ojigbo, O. (1982) Shehu Shagari: The Biography of Nigeria’s First Executive President, Yugoslavia Mlandiska Knjiga.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

56. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

62. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

69. Wisdomline Pass at Once JAMB.

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