Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors
Ann O'Hear
This is the first study of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicised periphery of the Sokoto caliphate and of northern Nigeria. It shows the decline of slavery and the emergence of a small-scale peasantry at the end of the nineteenth century, and takes the story into the late-colonial and post-independence periods. Focusing on Ilorin, the city and emirate on the southern fringe of the caliphate, now in Nigeria, it shows how relations between the city elite and the ex-slaves and peasants they controlled have fluctuated during the long process of oppression and reaction.
Anno:
1997
Casa editrice:
University of Rochester Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
352
ISBN 10:
1878822861
ISBN 13:
9781878822864
Collana:
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 01
File:
PDF, 16.62 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997