Nigeria: A Country StudyHelen Chapin Metz |
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... wealthy cattle owners whose clients and dependents provided DAHOMEY Sokoto Gwandu Niger River lorin YORUBALAND Gulf of Guinea 19 Historical Setting THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: REVOLUTION RADICAL ADJUSTMENT Usman dan Fodio and the Sokoto ...
... wealthy cattle owners whose clients and dependents provided DAHOMEY Sokoto Gwandu Niger River lorin YORUBALAND Gulf of Guinea 19 Historical Setting THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: REVOLUTION RADICAL ADJUSTMENT Usman dan Fodio and the Sokoto ...
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... Sokoto Caliphate 0 50 100 200 Kilometers T 0 50 100 200 Miles Figure 4. The Sokoto Caliphate , Mid - Nineteenth Century most of the troops in the jihad that began in Gobir in 1804. Not all mallams were Fulani , however . The cleric ...
... Sokoto Caliphate 0 50 100 200 Kilometers T 0 50 100 200 Miles Figure 4. The Sokoto Caliphate , Mid - Nineteenth Century most of the troops in the jihad that began in Gobir in 1804. Not all mallams were Fulani , however . The cleric ...
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... Sokoto Caliphate , named after his capital at Sokoto , founded in 1809. The caliphate was a loose confederation of emirates that recognized the suzerainty of the commander of the faithful , the sultan . When Usman dan Fodio died in 1817 ...
... Sokoto Caliphate , named after his capital at Sokoto , founded in 1809. The caliphate was a loose confederation of emirates that recognized the suzerainty of the commander of the faithful , the sultan . When Usman dan Fodio died in 1817 ...
Contents
EARLY HISTORY | 4 |
Yorubaland Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries | 8 |
Principal TransSaharan Trade Routes Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries | 12 |
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Abuja Action Group African agricultural air force armed forces army Awolowo Babangida Bank Bauchi became Benin Benue Benue rivers Borno Britain British Buhari Cameroon capital census century Chad chief cities civil colonial Command constitution Council coup Decree Number defense dominated Eastern economic ECOWAS elections emirates established ethnic groups export federal government foreign Fulani Gowon Hausa Ibadan Igbo included increased Islam Kaduna Kano Kanuri Katsina kilometers labor Lagos Lake Chad late leaders major ment middle belt military million missions Murtala Muhammad Muslim naval navy NCNC Niger Niger River northern Nigeria Northern Region Obasanjo officers organized parties percent petroleum political population Port Harcourt production regime religious result River Royal Niger Company savanna schools Second Republic sector slave trade social Sokoto Caliphate southern staff tion Union United urban West Africa Western Region World Yoruba