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Colonialism by Proxy : Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria /

Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagine...

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Autor principal: Ochonu, Moses E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.