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Sokoto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sokoto , city (1987 est. pop. 164,000), NW Nigeria, on the Sokoto River. It is the commercial center for a wide region...pottery, and leather tanning and dyeing industries. Sokoto was founded in 1809 by Usuman dan Fodio, the Fulani...
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Sokoto Caliphate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sokoto Caliphate see Usuman dan Fodio .
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Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Bello received his education first at the Sokoto Provincial School, then at Katsina Teacher...after teaching several years in the Sokoto Middle School, he entered the emirate...unsuccessful claim to the office of sultan of Sokoto. The new sultan immediately conferred...
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Hugh Clapperton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Clapperton continued, visiting Kano and then Sokoto, where the Fulani Sultan Muhammed Bello...Boussa and reached Kano by July 1826. At Sokoto, Clapperton found that Sultan Bello had...him. He died on April 13, 1827, near Sokoto. Clapperton's belief that the Niger...
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Fulani
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...controlled Timbuktu; the other, centered at Sokoto , included the Hausa States and parts of Bornu and W Cameroon. The Fulani emir of Sokoto continued to rule over part of N Nigeria...S. Johnston, The Fulani Empire of Sokoto (1967).
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Indirect Rule
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Frederick Lugard (1858 – 1945), incorporated the local Sokoto caliphate into his new regime. Both Lugard and later historians...British India, were far larger and more powerful than even the Sokoto caliphate, unique in tropical Africa for its degree of bureaucratic...
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Nigeria
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...the extreme ne lies the Lake Chad basin. In the nw lies the Sokoto plains. The Adamawa Highlands extend along the se border with...century, the Fulani captured many of the Hausa city-states. Sokoto retained its independence. The sw began a protracted civil...
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Al-Hajj Omar ibn Said Tal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...return journey between 1835 and 1838 Omar visited Bornu and Sokoto, married into the royal families of both states, and learned the tactics of the jihad, or holy war. After leaving Sokoto in 1837, he traveled to Macina, where he was given a less...
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Clapperton, Hugh
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the middle Niger region. Clapperton alone visited Kano and Sokoto in the newly created Fulani empire of Uthman dan Fodio and his...the colonial secretary asked him immediately to go back to Sokoto to make treaties. With Lander , he penetrated from the Guinea...
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Uthman don Fodio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Reading Extensive information on Uthman don Fodio is in H. A. S. Johnston, The Fulani Empire of Sokoto (1967), and in Murray Last, The Sokoto Caliphate (1967). Michael Crowder, The Story of Nigeria (1962; rev. ed. 1966), contains...
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