Slavery, Commerce and Production in the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa

African Studies Review;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Slavery, Commerce and Production in the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa...his major essays on slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest state in nineteenth-century...production, and development in the Sokoto Caliphate and central Sudan generally in the...

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......knowledge of the lives and experiences of Hausa women is Mary F. Smith's now classic documentation...research about the changing conditions of Hausa women has been conducted. For instance, studies...studies relate to various aspects of Hausa women's lives: economic activity and ...

THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE IN NIGERIA.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  November 1, 2000 ;     128 words ......the Islamic/political legacy of the nineteenth-century Sokoto Caliphate. The legacy of this Islamic state has dramatically influenced...subsequent events that stemmed from this activity. The Sokoto Caliphate a model of government in northern Nigeria was in fact problematic...

War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under...

Journal of World History;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British...chronicling the British conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria, Risto Marjomaa...dawn of the twentieth century, the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria was the largest...

Obituary: The Vizier of Sokoto

The Independent - London;  February 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ......books, recorders of the history of the Sokoto caliphate, authors of poems and literary prose-wor...Alhaji Junaidu. His subject was the Sokoto caliphate, a 19th- century Islamic reformist...much of his material into my book The Sokoto Caliphate (1967), that it too can be counted...

The politics of history: the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the Islamic/political legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate and the ways in which this legacy...show that while the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate was a constructive (though hotly debated...post-1966 era, the relevance of the Sokoto Caliphate to politics within Nigeria was increasingly...

State and Ethnicity in precolonial Northern Nigeria.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and the other Hausa states into the Sokoto Caliphate, and which has often been portrayed...ethnic identification in the area The Sokoto Caliphate was more politically fragmented than...particularly in the Hausa states and the Sokoto Caliphate. Consequently, I shall concentrate...

TYPOLOGIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE IN PRE-COLONIAL NIGERIA.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  November 1, 2000 ;     151 words ......great empires like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Oyo, Benin and the Sokoto Caliphate are notable milestones in African historiography. Fundamental...eventually emerged as Nigeria between 1900 and 1914. The Sokoto Caliphate, among others, provided goods and services through recognisable...

Nigerian president laments religious clashes

Xinhua News Agency;  June 20, 2004 ;     250 words ......Nigeria on Sunday the bicentenary of the Sokoto Caliphate, once the largest empire in Africa...cultural differences," he said. The Sokoto Caliphate was created by legendary Islamic scholar...of the nineteenth century, when the Sokoto Caliphate was at its greatest extent, it covered...

Wheel turns full circle as Syariah returns to Nigeria

New Straits Times;  May 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......recently. WHEN the British defeated the Sokoto Caliphate in July 1903 and reduced the Syariah...the other States. "After all, the Sokoto Caliphate is still a recent memory in the minds...also kept alive the memories of the Sokoto Caliphate and earlier Muslim kingdoms. Also...

NIGERIA-POLITICS: ABACHA WIELDS THE WHIP

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ......04-23-1996 LAGOS, Apr. 22 (IPS) -- The Sokoto caliphate has influenced Nigerian politics ever...new Fulani overlords centered on the Sokoto caliphate. The caliphate, the embodiment of...response to the tension between the Sokoto caliphate and Aso Rock, Nigeria's seat of government...

POWER, HONOUR AND SHAME: THE IDEOLOGY OF ROYAL SLAVERY IN THE SOKOTO...

Africa;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......between `slavery' and `honour' in the Sokoto Caliphate. Rather than assuming all slaves were...communities in the Hausa emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate after the jihad (holy war) of 1804-...who was free. In this regard, the Sokoto Caliphate and the states of the western Sudan...

The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization,...

Journal of World History;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......chronicling the British conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria, Risto Marjomaa...dawn of the twentieth century, the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria was the largest...Nigeria (1971), and Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate (1977) by Joseph P. Smaldone. What...

Sokoto Caliphate

Dynasties of the World;      178 words ...Sokoto Caliphate Dynasty of ʼUthmān 1804–1817 ʼUthmān b. Fūdī (shaykh...Bibliography Johnston, H. A. S. , The Fulani Empire of Sokoto (London, 1967). Last, D. M. , The Sokoto Caliphate (London, 1967).

Social work practice with childbirth-injured women in Nigeria. (Special...

Health and Social Work;  May 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......practices greatly affect the lives of these women. Hausa Women Married Muslim Hausa women live in seclusion (purdah), never leaving their...the household with their cowives. Although Hausa women do not have salaried employment, they generate...