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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.
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