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Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. By Ann O'Hear. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. x, 338. $65.00.)

In this volume, the author critically examines patterns of resistance and accommodation among slaves and their successors in Ilorin, a Nigerian city now in Kwara State. Formerly a predominantly Yoruba town, Ilorin is now a multiethnic city, harboring, among others, Hausa and Fulani settlers from northern Nigeria. "The ...