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Sokoto

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

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

Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps
Proper Names
Notes on Rare and Unpublished Sources
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

1. Hausaland and the Hausas
2. The Fulani
3. Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo
4. The Start of the Jihad
5. The Jihad in Sokoto
6. The Jihad in Katsina, Kano, and Zazzau
7. The Jihad in Bornu
8. The Jihad in Adamawa and Bauchi
9. The Consolidation of the Empire
10. The Religious Controversy with El-Kanemi and the Death of Shehu
11. Sultan Bello — the First Ten Years
12. Sultan Bello — the Second Ten Years
13. The Jihad in Nupe and Ilorin
14. The Middle Years
15. Trade and the Economy
16. The Machinery of Government
17. Cracks in the Edifice
18. The Kebbi Wars
19. Gathering Clouds
20. The Royal Niger Company
21. Sultan Abdu
22. A Year of Disasters
23. 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.