Formation

The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation

Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi

• Publisher: CASSAVA REPUBLIC
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781913175092
• eBook ISBN: 9781913175108
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

What do you get when dare-devil jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash?

Nigeria.

Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria's formation begins much earlier, in 1804 when the jihadists launched their attack on countries along the Niger river. What unfolds is a story of conquests and slavery, betrayals and bravery, rivers and riots, victors and vanquished, all of which are central to understanding modern Black struggles.

Formation runs, like the rivers Niger and Benue, through the rise and fall of empires. It explores Dan Fodio's revolutionary jihad and the spread of Islam, the fall of the Oyo Empire, the influence of the returnee freed slaves, the growing infl uence of Christianity, and the palm oil politics in the Niger Delta in the territory that would come to be known as Nigeria. Inextricably linked to this is the story of the ascendency of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution.

Influential figures of Nigeria's historic past, like the founder of the Sokoto caliphate, Usman Dan Fodio; Yoruba linguist Samuel Ajayi Crowther; powerful slave trader, Madam Tinubu; British colonial administrator, Frederick Lugard; and suffragette and mother to Fela Kuti, Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti are re-examined, moving them from myth to reality. Fagbule and Fawehinmi challenge the orthodox understanding of Nigeria's past as merely a product of colonial interference, revealing an incredibly complicated portrait of a nation with a tangled history and self-determination.

INDEX

A Labyrinth of Kingdoms, 5, 206

A Lady’s Interview with a Captive Chief, 240, 241

A Tropical Mandate, 309

Aare Kurunmi, 281, 283, 284

Aare Ona Kakanfo, 279, 281, 289

of Oyo, 281, 289

Abadie, George, 259, 266

Abahama, Sulaymanu dan, 41

Abayomi, Oyinkan, 318

Abbass, Muhammadu, 60, 269

Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, 23

Abd al-Qadir, Ali ibn, 273

Abdullahi, Aliyu Dan-Maje Karofi, 59, 267

Abdullahi, Yusuf, 58

Abdur, Somba, 31

Abdur, Umar, 31

Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU), 82

Abeokuta, 89

under CMS Protection, 89

Aberdare, Baron, 157, 158

Aberdeen Act of 1845, 92

Abubakar Atiku na Rabih, 57

Abubakar, Abdurahman dan, 57, 264

as Danyen Kasko, 264

Achebe, Chinua, 181, 289

Adeleye, R. A., 297

Adjacent River Roads, 10

Adversity to the Stars, 141

Afonja, 72, 77, 202, 204, 226

Africa Association, 105, 106

African Association, 153

and Miller Brothers, 193

African Lakes Company, 143

Africanus, Joseph, 175, 176, 177, 219, 268

Afro-Brazillian, 98, 99

Agbeyin, 78

Age of Discovery, 105

Agent-General Flint, 216

Agoji or Mino (‘Our Mothers’), 92

Agura, 78

Ahmad, Muhammad, 238

Ajasa, Kitoye, 163, 311

Ajikobi, 220

Ake, 78

Akwette, 186

Alaafin of Oyo, 281

Alake Gbadebo, 307

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• A River Runs Through It
• Son of the Jurist
• The Caliphate in Session
• Sunrise within the Tropics
• Mad Men and Missionaries
• Exit the Bible, Enter the Gun
• The Glorious Incompetents
• Game of Thrones in the Niger Heartland
• Frederick Lugard, The King in the North
• Conquest and Discontent
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments: Feyi Fawehinmi
• Acknowledgments: Fola Fagbule
• Index
• Support Formation
• Supporters