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Contents

 

List of Illustrations and Maps

Proper Names

Notes on Rare and Unpublished Sources

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

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  I.Hausaland and the Hausas

  II.The Fulani

 III.Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo

 IV.The Start of the Jihad

  V.The Jihad in Sokoto

 VI.The Jihad in Katsina, Kano, and Zazzau

VII.The Jihad in Bornu

VIII.The Jihad in Adamawa and Bauchi

 IX.The Consolidation of the Empire

 X.The Religious Controversy with El-Kanemi and the Death of Shehu

 XI.Sultan Bello — the First Ten Years

XII.Sultan Bello — the Second Ten Years

XIII.The Jihad in Nupe and Ilorin

XIV.The Middle Years

XV.Trade and the Economy

XVI.The Machinery of Government

XVII.Cracks in the Edifice

XVIII.The Kebbi Wars

XIX.Gathering Clouds

XX.The Royal Niger Company

XXI.Sultan Abdu

XXII.A Year of Disasters

XXIII.The Fall of Sokoto

 

Epilogue

 

    Appendix I. Miscellaneous Notes on:

        Date of The Kano Chronicle

        Date of Bornu's Suzerainty over Hausaland

        Leo Africanus and the Songhai Invasion of Hausaland

        Amina of Zazzau

        The Empire of Muhammadu Kanta

        Date of the Expulsion of the Gobirawa from Air

        Nomenclature of the Fulani

        The Fulani and their Language

        The Tuaregs

        Abdullahi's Spiritual Crisis

        Bello and the Sack of Yandoto

        Origins of the Kanuri

        Cowry Shells as a Currency

        Katsina as a Trading Centre

        Hausa Participation in the Yihad in Hausaland

        The Fulani States of the Upper Niger

        The Fulani Drive to the Sea

    Appendix II: Genealogical Tables

    Appendix III: Sir Frederick Lugard and the Kano-Sokoto Expedition of 1903

 

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

 

The Fulani Empire of Sokoto was the last of the five great empires that rose and fell in the Sudan between the eighth and twentieth centuries. It was founded by three men of the same family, probably the most  remarkable triumvirate that Africa has yet  produced, and it developed a society which, in its heyday, was

perhaps better governed and more highly civilized than any other that Africans had until then evolved. The late author, who for over twenty years was an Administrative Officer in Northern Nigeria, the core of the Sokoto Empire, was an accomplished Hausa scholar who also published a volume of translations. He was therefore able to supplement the established English and Arabic authorities by introducing new information gathered from Fulani and Hausa sources, much of which he collected himself in the course of his service. More important still, every chapter of his history is illuminated by an intimate knowledge of the country and genuine sympathy with its people.

 

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