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Sokoto


H.A.S. Johnston.
The Fulani Empire of Sokoto

London. Ibadan. Nairobi: Oxford University Press. 1967. 312 p.


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Fulani with their cattle in the dry season.
The granite inselberg in the background is Kotorkoshi Rock. The pagan villages round its base were the objective
of the campaign of Sultan Aliyu Babba in 1853, while the battle of 1903 between Lugard's Mounted Infantry
and the Kano forces under the Waziri Ahmadu took place a few miles to the west.

cattleHerders