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Title: | A Reconsideration of Hausa History before the Jihad |
Author: | Fugelstad, Finn |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 319-339 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | history Hausa polities 1400-1499 Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181947 |
Abstract: | Reexamination of the history of Hausaland and the changing nature of the principal Bauxa polities prior to the Fulani jihad of 1804. The author argues it is misleading to apply the term 'dynastic change' to events in Katsina in 1492/3. What actually did happen was that people of alien descent, the leaders of a 'new' comunity originally founded by the Wengarewa, imposed (or tried to impose) a new institution - that of kingship - on the local population. This led ultimately to the emergence of an institutional structure defined as 'dual or 'contrapuntal paramountcy'. The evolutionary process which took place in the region of Kataina was paralleled by similar processes in Yauri, Kano, and Gobir, and possibly also Zaria. Map, notes, sum. |