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February 2006 - Do You
Know Your History?
This month - and the next, I will be featuring
excerpts from a little history booklet that I discovered badly mutilated
- with no cover or author/publisher or copyright information pages
- in a pile of disposed belongings about two years ago.
The booklet was obviously some sort of publication
in which short historical summaries of the lives and achievement of famous
African and Foreign personalities was chronicled. Despite elaborate efforts,
I have been unable to find out the originator/author or the publication
or indeed its source.
As happened with the book "The Science
of Getting Rich" which was sent to Vic Johnson by an anonymous
person, who being unable to trace the copyright owner/author decided to
make it available free at http:/www.asamanthinketh.com,
I am offering any interested persons an electronic copy of what is left
of this booklet FREE.
Disclaimer: I offer this ebook for information purposes
only, and CANNOT guarantee (nor will I accept responsibility for) the
accuracy of the information contained in it. You may therefore use it
with the understanding that you do so at your own risk.
Below is a reproduction of the summary done for
Usman Dan Fodio. I have also added one set for a non-African
- Florence Nightingale - click here.
A similar summary is available in the original
booklet for over 40 different historical figures listed
at the bottom of this page.
| Usman Dan Fodio - Short Bio |
| SN |
Historical Detail |
1 |
Usman Dan Fodio, Fulani, was born at
Degel village in Sokoto Province of Nigeria in 1744. |
2 |
When he was young, he studied Islam
and later became a great Muslim teacher and leader. |
3 |
Many Muslims used to come from far places
to listen to his teachings written according to the law of God
as set down in the Holy Quran. |
4 |
In 1804, he waged war against the pagans
of the North and defeated them. |
5 |
He later appointed fourteen commanders
to preach in different places. He gave them 14 flags. |
6 |
The fourteen flag-bearers later became
the fulani emirs of the North. e.g. Emir of Ilorin, Emir of
Kano etc |
7 |
In 1809, he built walls around Sokoto
and made Sokoto his capital. |
8 |
He then became the first Sultan of Sokoto. |
9 |
He died in 1817. |
| Usman Dan Fodio - Short Quiz |
| SN |
Questions |
1 |
Usman Dan Fodio, Fulani,
was born in............ |
| (a) Bornu |
(b) Sokoto |
(c) Minna |
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2 |
He became a great ............
teacher and leader. |
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(a) Christian |
(b) Muslim |
(c) African |
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3 |
He waged war against the
pagans of the .............in 1804 and defeated them. |
|
(a) West |
(b) South |
(c) North |
(d) East |
4 |
...................became
the First Sultan of Sokoto. |
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(a) Akintoye |
(b) Afonja |
(c) Usman Dan Fodio |
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5 |
Dan Fodio died in.................... |
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(a) 1812 |
(b) 1816 |
(c) 1817 |
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6 |
He appointed fourteen........................... |
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(a) Tale-bearers |
(b) Cattle-rearers |
(c) Flag-bearers |
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7 |
The flag-bearers later became
the ........... |
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(a) Sultans |
(b) Obas |
(c) Emirs |
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(a) 1812 |
(b) 1816 |
(c) 1817 |
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The booklet contains summaries
of the lives and achievements of the following personalities, which
you may find useful for teaching(and/or light "testing"
of) your children(or students/pupils).
| Africans |
Non-Africans |
| 1. Queen Amina of Zaria
2. Samuel Ajayi Crowther
3. Afonja of Ilorin
4. Henry Carr
5. Herbert Macaulay
6. King Jaja of Opobo
7. Oba Overami of Benin
8. Revd. Samuel Johnson
9. Revd. I.O. Ransome Kuti
10. James Aggrey
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11. Vasco Da Gama
12. Mungo Park
13. Lander Brothers
14. David Livingstone
15. H.M Stanley
16. Cecil Rhodes
17. William Wilberforce
18. Socrates
19. Jesus Christ
20. Ronald Ross
21. Dr. Edward Jenner
22. Prophet Mohammed
23. Archimedes
24. Gregory - The Great
25. St. Francis of Assisi
26. Martin Luther
27. Moses
28. Paul
29. Stephen - First Christian Martyr
30. John Beecroft
31. Booker T. Washington
32. Lord Lugard
33. George Stephenson
34. Ferdinand Magellan
35. Florence Nightingale
36. John Brown
37. Abraham Lincoln
38. Galileo
39. Sir Isaac Newton
40. James Watt
41. Michael Faraday
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In the March
2006 page, I feature an
additional African - James Aggrey of Ghana, and then provide
a file
mailing form with which you can quickly email the Acrobat
PDF Ebook containing all the three(3) stories/quizzes
so far featured between Feb/Mar 2006 to yourself.
By the time I have converted all
the other summaries into ebook format, they will be made available
on this mini-site for download by any interested persons at NO cost.
Click HERE
to view a historical summary for another African personality.
| Florence Nightingale - Short
Bio |
| SN |
Historical Detail |
1 |
Florence Nigthingale was born in Italy
in 1820. Her parents were English. |
2 |
Her parents were very rich and she was
unhappy about this because there were many poor and sick people. |
3 |
She always visited them. |
4 |
Later she made up her mind to become
a nurse but her parents did not like the poor job. |
5 |
She went on to study nursing in France,
Egypt and Germany, because there was no nursing school in England. |
6 |
She came back to take up a job as a
matron of a small hospital. |
7 |
Florence with 38 other nurses went to
Crimea to look after the sick and wounded British soldiers during
the war between Russia and Turkey against England and France. |
8 |
At Crimea, she used to hold a lamp to
walk between the beds totalk to and cheer up the wounded soldiers
at night. This was why she was called the "Lady with the
Lamp". |
9 |
When Florence returned from the war,
she was given a large sum of money as a gift which she used
to build a nursing training school at St Thomas' Hospital in
London. |
10 |
She also helped to start the Red Cross
Society. |
11 |
She died in 1910. |
| Florence Nightingale
- Short Quiz |
| SN |
Questions |
1 |
Where was Florence Nigthingale
born ? |
| (a) England |
(b) Scotland |
(c) Italy |
(d) Japan |
2 |
Her parents were ............. |
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(a) English |
(b) Scottish |
(c) Italian |
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3 |
Her parents were very.................. |
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(a) Rich |
(b) Poor |
(c) Unhappy |
(d) Bad |
4 |
Florence loved the poor
people and alo went to visit the....... |
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(a) Sickness |
(b) Sick |
(c) Rich |
(d) Babies |
5 |
What work did she like? |
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(a) Doctor |
(b) Nurse |
(c) Trading |
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6 |
Where did she and 38 nurses
go during the war? |
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(a) Crimea |
(b) Russia |
(c) Turkey |
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7 |
She used to hold...........to
walk between the beds to talk to and cheer up the wounded Soldiers. |
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(a) Fire |
(b) Lamp |
(c) Radio |
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8 |
Soon, she was called the
.... |
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(a) Lady with the radio |
(b) Lady with the fire |
(c) Lady with the lamp |
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9 |
She was given a large sum
of...........................a s a gidft when she returned from
the war. |
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(a) Money |
(b) Clothes |
(c) Foods |
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10 |
What did she use the money
for? |
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(a) To build a nurse training school |
(b) To buy a motor car |
(c) To build a house |
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11 |
She also helped to start...........Society |
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(a) Boy's Brigade |
(b) Girls Guide |
(c) Red Cross |
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12 |
When did she die? |
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(a) 1910 |
(b) 1912 |
(c) 1914 |
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