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| Title: | The establishment of Fulbe authority in the Upper Benue Basin, 1809-1847 |
| Author: | Abubakar, S. |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Periodical: | Savanna: A Journal of the Environmental and Social Sciences |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 67-80 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Fulani ethnicity political change history 1800-1849 |
| Abstract: | The peoples of the upper Benue basin lacked a single central authority. The Fulbe, pastoral nomads, started entering the region in the 18th century. Initially they had to acknowledge non-Fulbe authority. In the 19th century they declared jihad and succeeded in overthrowing the non-Fulbe overlordship by 1847. The settlement of the Fulbe led to to intermarriage, and the spread of the Fulfulde language and Islam. Notes, maps. |