Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their SuccessorsThis is the first study of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicised periphery of the Sokoto caliphate and of northern Nigeria. It shows the decline of slavery and the emergence of a small-scale peasantry at the end of the nineteenth century, and takes the story into the late-colonial and post-independence periods. Focusing on Ilorin, the city and emirate on the southern fringe of the caliphate, now in Nigeria, it shows how relations between the city elite and the ex-slaves and peasants they controlled have fluctuated during the long process of oppression and reaction.ANN O'HEAR is Co-ordinator of Intercultural Studies at Niagara University, New York. |
Contents
Slavery in NineteenthCentury Ilorin | 21 |
Resistance and Accommodation | 46 |
Population | 90 |
Accommodation | 121 |
TABLES | 137 |
The Metropolitan Districts the Ilorin Talaka | 143 |
The Metropolitan Districts and the Political | 174 |
MAPS | 175 |
Ilorin Emirate c 1930 xiii | 252 |
Local Government Areas 1976 xiv | 303 |
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