The Fulani Empire of Sokoto

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1967
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London: Oxford University Press,
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Hausaland and the Hausas; The Fulani in Shehu Usuman dan Fodiyo; The Start of the Jihad; The Jihad in Sokoto; The Jihad in Katsina, Kano, and Zazzau; The Jihad in Bornu; The Jihad in Adamawa and Bauchi; The Consolidation of the Empire; The Religious Controversy with- El-Kanemi and the Death of Shehu Sultan Bello—the First Ten Years Sultan Bello—the Second Ten Years; The Jihad in Nupc and Ilorin; The Middle Years; Trade and the Economy; The Machinery of Government Cracks in the Edifice; The Kebbi Wars; Gathering Clouds; The Royal Niger Company.

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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 they evolved.
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