Chapter 1 Flashcards
(104 cards)
Hamitic theory was formulated by _____ in the year _____ in his book______
C.G. Seligman
1930
Races of Africa
The underdevelopment which Africa witnessed from the sixteenth century onward was the handiwork of
the Europeans.
Who wrote the book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” and what year?
Walter Rodney (1972)
What was the reason the Europeans saw Africans as sub-humans whose ancestors could not have built any meaningful civilization.
Trans-Atlantic slave trade
Literary sources of Nigerian history can be divided into three categories namely;
works by Arab scholars, geographers and historians;
early Arab writers who wrote about the people include;
Leo Africanus, Al-Bakri, Magrizi, In Khaldun and Al-Umari.
indigenous writers who also wrote about the people include
Ahmad Ibn Fartuwa and Al-Barnawi.
European literary, sources of Nigerian history may be divided into two categories -
primary sources and general literature.
The works of European writers have to be handled with great skepticism and criticism because _____ and
- we find clear falsifiers like Stanley, Carl Peters, etc
- scanty knowledge of geography, ethnography and other social sciences at that time often led them into grave errors and distortions.
Who mistook the Saan and the Khoi-Khoi for one and the same people.
John Van Riebeecks,
Who in the late eighteenth century wrote that he had ascertained that the Niger flows into the Nile.
Frederick Hornemann
In order to substantiate their claims of the early accomplishments of the Africans before and after the coming of Europeans, Africanist historians have had to depend on a number of sources such as
written records, archaeology, cultural history or ethnology, historical linguistics, physical anthropology and oral tradition
What are Archaeology sources?
This is a historical science and method whereby the past is reconstructed through analysis and interpretation of excavated natural objects.
What are Cultural history sources?
ithe method used by ethnologists in establishing the relationship between two cultures and the evolution they have experienced.
What are Historical linguistics sources?
the establishment of genetic links between languages and groups of people.
What are Physical Anthropology sources?
Physical anthropology contributed immensely to the study of the origin of man, and man’s gradual spread to different parts of the world.
Main features of ife culture include
iron-working and craft specialization.
The people of Ife developed a civilization which dates back to
about the 6th century B.C. and 100 A.
Ife art as it is known include
terracotta, brass, bronze, wood carving, and even potsherd pavement.
Benin main artwork include
bronze and brass heads and figures, stools and vessels.
Benin may have achieved greater international recognition for its art due to
earlier contact with European explorers
The main feature of Igbo ukwu culture include
Bronze, pottery decorated in highly ornamental style, vessels, beads and objects made of copper such as wristlets, bells, bracelets and earrings.
the Igbo ukwu culture flourished from about
1100 B.C. to about 850 A.D.
The believe that the Yoruba probably migrated from Egypt to their present location at about 2000-1000 B. C. was popularised by ____ in his book, History of the ____ in the year
- Rev. Samuel Johnson
- Yoruba
- 1950
