From Slavery to Aid
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From Slavery to Aid

Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000

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From Slavery to Aid

Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000

About this book

From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. Benedetta Rossi traces the historical transformations that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of 'aid'. Over an impressive sweep of time - from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present - this study explores the problem that has remained the central conundrum throughout Ader's history: how workers could meet subsistence needs and employers fulfil recruitment requirements in an area where natural resources are constantly exposed to the climatic hazards characteristic of the edge of the Sahara.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Dedication
  4. Series information
  5. Title page
  6. Copyright information
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of Maps
  9. List of Figures
  10. Preface and Acknowledgements
  11. Note on Language, Names, and Anonymisation
  12. Currency Conversion Rates
  13. Lis of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  14. Glossary
  15. 1 At the Desert's Edge
  16. 2 Between Sokoto and Agadez: Inter-Ethnic Hierarchy in the Nineteenth Century
  17. 3 Entangled Histories of Colonial Occupation, 1899-1917
  18. 4 Governing Labour - Slave, Forced, and Migrant, 1918-1945
  19. 5 The Development of ‘Development’, 1946-1983
  20. 6 Fighting Against the Desert, 1984-2000
  21. 7 Between Development and Dependence
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index