| dc.contributor.author | Adekunle, Julius Olufemi. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1993 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN93619 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55372 | |
| dc.description | This study analyzes the history of Nigerian Borgu between c.1500-1900, tracing the origin of the people, the emergence and development of the state system and the economic activities of the Muslim Wangara merchants. It further considers the central importance of the Kisra legend to the overall history of the Borgu kingdoms. Given the ethnic differentiation of Borgu in the early period of its existence, this study establishes that the Kisra ideology--anti-Islamic and pro-Traditionalist--assisted in forging unity. Despite the pressure from the Muslim communities within and Islamic states outside the kingdoms, Borgu persisted in resisting the spread of Islam until the twentieth century. Special attention has been focused on the southern satellite chiefdoms to Nikki which previous writers have ignored. In Borgu there exists a consensus that the kingdoms had never been conquered. However by utilizing sources external to the society combined with hints in the early traditions of the southern chiefdoms, this work has been able to throw some light on the "dead middle" period c.1500 to 1700 as one of foreign rule by Nupe and the Oyo Empire. Overall Nigerian Borgu emerges as a politically and linguistically segmented people who think and feel as one unified society. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1993. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | History, African. | en_US |
| dc.title | Nigerian Borgu c.1500-1900: An analysis of a segmentary society. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
