Colonialism by proxy [electronic resource] : Hausa imperial agents and Middle Belt consciousness in Nigeria / Moses E. Ochonu.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780253011657
- 0253011655
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration
- Middle Belt (Nigeria) -- Politics and government
- Middle Belt (Nigeria) -- Ethnic relations
- Middle Belt (Nigeria) -- Colonial influence
- Fula (African people) -- Politics and government
- Hausa (African people) -- Politics and government
- Muslims -- Political activity -- Nigeria -- Middle Belt
- 966.903 23
- DT515.9.M49 O25 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: understanding "native alien" subcolonialism and its legacies -- The Hausa-caliphate imaginary and ideological foundations of proxy colonialism -- Zazzau and southern Kaduna in precolonial and colonial times -- Emirate maneuvers and "pagan" resistance in the Plateau-Nasarawa basin -- Hausa colonial agency in the Benue Valley -- Fulani expansion and subcolonial rule in early colonial Adamawa Province -- Non-Muslim revolt against Fulani rule in Adamawa -- Middle Belt self-determination and caliphate political resurgence in the transition to national independence -- Conclusion: subcolonialism, ethnicity, and memory.
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